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EXHIBIT 4.1
NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC.
as Primary Obligor
NEW PLAN REALTY TRUST
as Guarantor
AND
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of February 3, 1999
Senior Securities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL
APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions................................................................................................ 1
Acquired Indebtedness................................................................................................... 2
Act..................................................................................................................... 2
Additional Amounts...................................................................................................... 2
Affiliate............................................................................................................... 2
Authenticating Agent.................................................................................................... 2
Authorized Newspaper.................................................................................................... 2
Bankruptcy Law.......................................................................................................... 3
Bearer Security......................................................................................................... 3
Board of Directors...................................................................................................... 3
Board Resolution........................................................................................................ 3
Business Day............................................................................................................ 3
Cedelbank............................................................................................................... 3
Commission.............................................................................................................. 3
Common Depository....................................................................................................... 3
Common Shares........................................................................................................... 3
Company................................................................................................................. 4
Company Request......................................................................................................... 4
Company Order........................................................................................................... 4
Consolidated Income Available for Debt Service.......................................................................... 4
Consolidated Net Income................................................................................................. 4
Conversion Event........................................................................................................ 4
Corporate Trust Office.................................................................................................. 4
corporation............................................................................................................. 4
coupon.................................................................................................................. 5
currency................................................................................................................ 5
Custodian............................................................................................................... 5
Debt.................................................................................................................... 5
Defaulted Interest...................................................................................................... 5
Dollar.................................................................................................................. 5
"$"..................................................................................................................... 5
Euroclear............................................................................................................... 5
Event of Default........................................................................................................ 6
Foreign Currency........................................................................................................ 6
GAAP.................................................................................................................... 6
Government Obligations.................................................................................................. 6
Guarantee............................................................................................................... 6
Guarantor............................................................................................................... 6
Holder.................................................................................................................. 6
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Indenture............................................................................................................... 6
Indexed Security........................................................................................................ 7
interest................................................................................................................ 7
Interest Payment Date................................................................................................... 7
Make-Whole Amount....................................................................................................... 7
Maturity................................................................................................................ 7
Maximum Annual Service Charge........................................................................................... 8
NPRT.................................................................................................................... 8
Officers' Certificate................................................................................................... 8
Opinion of Counsel...................................................................................................... 8
Original Issue Discount Security........................................................................................ 8
Outstanding............................................................................................................. 8
Paying Agent............................................................................................................ 9
Person.................................................................................................................. 9
Place of Payment........................................................................................................ 10
Predecessor Security.................................................................................................... 10
Preferred Shares........................................................................................................ 10
Recourse Indebtedness................................................................................................... 10
Redemption Date......................................................................................................... 10
Redemption Price........................................................................................................ 10
Registered Security..................................................................................................... 10
Regular Record Date..................................................................................................... 10
Reinvestment Rate....................................................................................................... 10
Repayment Date.......................................................................................................... 11
Repayment Price......................................................................................................... 11
Responsible Officer..................................................................................................... 11
Secured Debt............................................................................................................ 11
Security................................................................................................................ 11
Security Register....................................................................................................... 12
Security Registrar...................................................................................................... 12
Significant Subsidiary.................................................................................................. 12
Special Record Date..................................................................................................... 12
Stated Maturity......................................................................................................... 12
Statistical Release..................................................................................................... 12
Subsidiary.............................................................................................................. 12
Total Assets............................................................................................................ 12
Trust Indenture Act..................................................................................................... 12
TIA..................................................................................................................... 12
Trustee................................................................................................................. 13
Undepreciated Real Estate Assets........................................................................................ 13
Unencumbered Total Asset Value.......................................................................................... ▇▇
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Yield to Maturity....................................................................................................... 13
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions...................................................................... 13
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SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.................................................................... 14
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders........................................................................................... 14
SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company..................................................................... 16
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver................................................................................. 17
SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.................................................................. 18
SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns.................................................................................... 18
SECTION 109. Separability Clause....................................................................................... 18
SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture..................................................................................... 18
SECTION 111. Governing Law............................................................................................. 18
SECTION 112. Legal Holidays............................................................................................ 18
SECTION 113. Judgment Currency......................................................................................... 19
ARTICLE TWO SECURITIES FORMS
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication........................................................... 20
SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form........................................................................ 20
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series...................................................................... 21
SECTION 302. Denominations............................................................................................. 25
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating............................................................ 25
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities...................................................................................... 27
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange....................................................... 30
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.......................................................... 33
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved............................................................ 34
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners..................................................................................... 36
SECTION 309. Cancellation.............................................................................................. 37
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest................................................................................... 37
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................................................................... 38
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Funds................................................................................ 39
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default......................................................................................... 39
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment........................................................ 42
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee............................................................................................................... 43
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.......................................................................... 44
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities or Coupons................................................................................................. 44
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected............................................................................ 45
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits....................................................................................... 45
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts...................................................................... 46
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies........................................................................ 46
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SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative............................................................................ 46
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.............................................................................. 46
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities.......................................................................... 47
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults................................................................................... 47
SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws................................................................... 47
SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs..................................................................................... 48
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults........................................................................................ 48
SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee................................................................................. 48
SECTION 603. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.................................................... 50
SECTION 604. May Hold Securities....................................................................................... 50
SECTION 605. Money Held in Trust....................................................................................... 50
SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement............................................................................ 50
SECTION 607. Eligibility of Trustee; Conflicting Interests............................................................. 51
SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor......................................................... 51
SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.................................................................... 53
SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business............................................... 54
SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent....................................................................... 54
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.............................................................. 56
SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee........................................................................................ 56
SECTION 703. Reports by Company and Guarantors......................................................................... 56
SECTION 704. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders............................................................................................................... 57
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. Consolidation or Merger of Company and Sale, Lease or
Conveyance Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions.................................................................... 57
SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation................................................................ 58
SECTION 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.............................................................. 58
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders........................................................ 59
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders........................................................... 60
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures...................................................................... 61
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures......................................................................... 61
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act....................................................................... 62
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures........................................................ 62
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and
Additional Amounts.................................................................................................... 62
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SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.......................................................................... 62
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust........................................................ 64
SECTION 1004. Limitations on Incurrence of Debt........................................................................ 65
SECTION 1005. Existence................................................................................................ 67
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties................................................................................ 67
SECTION 1007. Insurance................................................................................................ 67
SECTION 1008. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims........................................................................ 67
SECTION 1009. Provision of Financial Information....................................................................... 68
SECTION 1010. Statement as to Compliance............................................................................... 68
SECTION 1011. Additional Amounts....................................................................................... 68
SECTION 1012. Waiver of Certain Covenants.............................................................................. 69
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article................................................................................. 70
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.................................................................... 70
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed........................................................ 70
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption..................................................................................... 70
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.............................................................................. 72
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.................................................................... 72
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.............................................................................. 73
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article................................................................................. 73
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.................................................... 74
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund................................................................ 74
ARTICLE THIRTEEN REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article................................................................................. 75
SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities.................................................................................. 75
SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option....................................................................................... 75
SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and
Payable............................................................................................................... 76
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part................................................................................ 77
ARTICLE FOURTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance..................................................................................... 77
SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge................................................................................. 77
SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance...................................................................................... 78
SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.......................................................... 78
SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held
in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.............................................................................. 80
ARTICLE FIFTEEN MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called................................................................ 81
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SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings....................................................................... 81
SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings..................................................................... 82
SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action........................................................................................... 82
SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment
of Meetings........................................................................................................... 83
SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.......................................................... 84
ARTICLE SIXTEEN GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1601. Guarantee................................................................................................ 85
SECTION 1602. Future Guarantors........................................................................................ 88
SECTION 1603. Delivery of Guarantee.................................................................................... 88
SECTION 1604. No Liability of Shareholders, Trustees or Officers of NPRT............................................... 88
TESTIMONIUM
SIGNATURES AND SEALS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EXHIBIT A - FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
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INDENTURE, dated as of February 3, 1999, among NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY
TRUST, INC., a Maryland corporation, as primary obligor (hereinafter called the
"Company"), NEW PLAN REALTY TRUST, a Massachusetts business trust, as guarantor
(hereinafter called "NPRT"), each of the Company and NPRT having its principal
office at 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036, STATE STREET
BANK AND TRUST, a Massachusetts trust company, as trustee (hereinafter called
the "Trustee"), having its Corporate Trust ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
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hereunder.
RECITALS
The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful
purposes senior debt securities (hereinafter called the "Securities") evidencing
its unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time
to time of the Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear interest at
the rates or formulas, to mature at such times and to have such other provisions
as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended, that are deemed to be incorporated into this Indenture and
shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company and each Guarantor, if any, in accordance with its terms, have been
done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them
in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the TIA, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein,
and the terms "cash transaction"
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and "self-liquidating paper", as used in TIA Section 311, shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the rules of the Commission adopted under the TIA;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Acquired Indebtedness" means Debt of a Person (i) existing at the time
the Person becomes a Subsidiary or (ii) assumed in connection with the
acquisition of assets from the Person, in each case, other than Debt incurred in
connection with, or in contemplation of, the Person becoming a Subsidiary or
that acquisition. Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to be incurred on the
date of the related acquisition of assets from any Person or the date the
acquired Person becomes a Subsidiary.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.
"Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are required by a
Security or by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under circumstances specified
therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on
certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders.
"Adjusted Total Assets" has the meaning specified in Section 1004(a).
"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 authenticating agent appointed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 611.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, printed in the English language
or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily published
on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or
holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which the
term is used or in the financial community of each such place. Whenever
successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the
successive publications may be made in the same or in different Authorized
Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case
on any Business Day.
"Bankruptcy Law" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
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"Bearer Security" means any Security established pursuant to Section 201
which is payable to bearer.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or a
Guarantor, as applicable, or other body with analogous authority with respect to
the Company or a Guarantor, the executive committee of that board or body or any
committee of that board or body duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or a Guarantor, as
applicable, to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors thereof and to
be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to
the Trustee.
"Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities,
means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 301, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or other day
on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or particular location
are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares
(including preferred shares), interests, participations or other equity
ownership interests (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in the
Person and any rights (other than debt securities convertible into or
exchangeable for corporate Capital Stock), warrants or options to purchase any
thereof.
"Cedelbank" means Cedelbank or its successor.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or, if
at any time after 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.
"Common Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 304(b).
"Common Shares" means, with respect to any Person, capital stock or
shares of beneficial interest issued by such Person other than Preferred Shares.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph
of this Indenture until a successor shall have become the primary obligor of the
Securities pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board,
the President or a Vice
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President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Income Available for Debt Service" for any period means
Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its Subsidiaries plus amounts which
have been deducted for (a) interest on Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries,
(b) provision for taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries based on income, (c)
amortization of debt discount, (d) property depreciation and amortization, (e)
the effect of any noncash charge resulting from a change in accounting
principles in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, (f)
provisions for losses from sales or joint ventures, (g) increases in deferred
taxes and other non-cash items and (h) charges for early extinguishment of debt,
and less amounts which have been added in determining Consolidated Net Income
for such period for (i) provisions for gains from sales or joint ventures and
(ii) decreases in deferred taxes and other non-cash items.
"Consolidated Net Income" for any period means the amount of net income
(or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign Currency
other than the Euro both by the government of the country that issued such
currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other
public institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii) the
Euro both within the member states of the European Union that have adopted the
single currency in accordance with the treaty establishing the European
Community as amended by the treaty of the European Union and for the settlement
of transactions by public institutions of or within the European Union or (iii)
any currency for the purposes for which it was established.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which, at any
particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered,
which office at the date hereof (and for the purposes of the Place of Payment
provisions of Section 1002) is located at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
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"corporation" includes corporations, limited partnerships, limited
liability companies, companies, real estate investment trusts and business
trusts.
"coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security.
"currency" means any currency, currency unit or composite currency,
including, without limitation, the Euro, issued by the government of one or more
countries or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"Custodian" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Debt" of the Company or any Subsidiary means any indebtedness of the
Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed
money evidenced by bonds,
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notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by any
mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on
property owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, (iii) reimbursement
obligations, contingent or otherwise, in connection with any letters of credit
or amounts representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of
any property except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or
trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by the Company or any Subsidiary as
lessee which is reflected on the Company's consolidated balance sheet as a
capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of indebtedness
under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than
reimbursement obligations in connection with letters of credit) would appear as
a liability on the Company's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP,
and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by the
Company or any Subsidiary to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or
otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of
business), indebtedness of another Person that would appear as a liability on
such Person's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP (other than the
Company or any Subsidiary) (it being understood that "Debt" shall be deemed to
be incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis whenever
the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis create, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become liable in respect thereof; Debt of a Subsidiary of
the Company existing prior to the time it becomes a Subsidiary of the Company
shall be deemed to be incurred upon such Subsidiary's becoming a Subsidiary of
the Company; and Debt of a Person existing prior to a merger or consolidation of
such Person with the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in which such
Person is the successor of the Company or such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be
incurred upon the consummation of such merger or consolidation).
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or
currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts.
"Euroclear" means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government of one or
more countries other than the United States or by any recognized confederation
or association of such governments.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles, as in effect from
time to time, as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis,
provided that, solely for purposes of any calculation required by the financial
covenants contained herein, "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting
principles, as in effect on the date hereof, as used in the United States
applied on a consistent basis.
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"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States or the government or governments that issued
the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of a particular
series are payable, for the payment of which its full faith and credit is
pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting
as an agency or instrumentality of the United States or such government or
governments that issued the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which the
Securities of such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally
guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States or such
other government or governments, which, in either case, are not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company 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 a 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.
"Guarantee" has the meaning set forth in Article Sixteen hereof.
"Guarantor" means any Person that is liable under a Guarantee under
Article Sixteen hereof.
"Holder" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose
name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of a
Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, when used with respect to any coupon,
shall mean the bearer thereof.
"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 particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time more than
one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, "Indenture" shall mean,
with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is
Trustee, 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
the or those particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee
established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any
provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which
such Person is Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were
adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or
more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had
become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide that the
principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the
principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
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"interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, shall mean interest
payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security which provides
for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1011, includes such
Additional Amounts.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Make-Whole Amount" means, in connection with any optional redemption or
accelerated payment of any Securities, the excess, if any, of: (i) the aggregate
present value as of the date of such redemption or accelerated payment of each
dollar of principal being redeemed or paid and the amount of interest (exclusive
of interest accrued to the date of redemption or accelerated payment) that would
have been payable in respect of each such dollar if such redemption or
accelerated payment had not been made, determined by discounting such principal
and interest at the Reinvestment Rate (determined on the third Business Day
preceding the date notice of such redemption is given) from the respective dates
on which such principal and interest would have been payable if such redemption
or accelerated payment had not been made to the date of redemption or
accelerated payment; over (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
being redeemed or paid.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption, notice of option to elect
repayment or otherwise.
"Maximum Annual Service Charge" as of any date means the maximum amount
which may become payable in any period of 12 consecutive calendar months from
such date for interest on, and required amortization of, Debt. The amount
payable for amortization shall include the amount of any sinking fund or other
analogous fund for the retirement of Debt and the amount payable on account of
principal on any such Debt which matures serially other than at the final
maturity date of such Debt.
"NPRT" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this
Indenture.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or a
Guarantor, as applicable, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company or a Guarantor or who may be an employee of or other
counsel for the Company or a Guarantor and who shall be reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee.
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"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 502.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, 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, or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption or
repayment at the option of the Holder money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the
Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto, provided that, if such Securities are to
be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 1402 and
1403, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant
defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect
of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it
that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such
Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and
(v) Securities converted into Common Shares or Preferred Shares
pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the terms of such Securities
provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 301;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at
a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the
calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) the principal amount of an
Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or
shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such
determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of any Security denominated
in a Foreign Currency or Currencies that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined pursuant to Section
301 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Company, of the
principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the
Dollar equivalent as
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of such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause
(i) above) of such Security, (iii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security
that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall
be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face
amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided
with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 301, and (iv) Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the
Trustee 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 of such
other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities or coupons on
behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of or within
any series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on such Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by
Sections 301 and 1002.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
the Security to which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains.
"Preferred Shares" means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital
stock or of beneficial interest issued by such Person that are entitled to a
preference or priority over any other shares of capital stock or beneficial
interest issued by such Person upon any distribution of such Person's assets,
whether by dividend or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.
"Recourse Indebtedness" means Debt, other than Secured Debt as to which
Secured Debt the liability of the obligor thereon is limited to its interest in
the collateral securing such Secured Debt, provided that no such Secured Debt
shall constitute Recourse Indebtedness by reason of provisions therein for
imposition of full recourse liability on the obligor for certain wrongful acts,
environmental liabilities, or other customary exclusions from the so-called
"non-recourse" provisions.
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"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to
this Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" shall mean any Security which is registered in the
Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301, whether or not a
Business Day.
"Reinvestment Rate" means a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) .25%
plus (ii) the arithmetic mean of the yields under the heading "Week Ending"
published in the most recent Statistical Release under the caption "Treasury
Constant Maturities" for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month)
corresponding to the remaining life to maturity, as of the payment date of the
principal being redeemed or paid. If no maturity exactly corresponds to such
maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to
such maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence
and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields
on a straight-line basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the
nearest month. For the purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most
recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the
Make-Whole Amount shall be used. If the format or content of the Statistical
Release changes in a manner that precludes determination of the Treasury yield
in the above manner, then the Treasury yield shall be determined in the manner
that most closely approximates the above manner, as reasonably determined by the
Company. If the format or content of the Statistical Release changes in a manner
that precludes determination of the Treasury Yield in the above manner, then the
Treasury Yield shall be determined in the manner that most closely approximates
the above manner, as reasonably determined by the Company.
"Repayment Date" means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Repayment Price" means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
senior vice president, vice president (whether or not designated by a number or
a word or words added before or after the title "vice president"), or assistant
vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, or any other officer
working in its Corporate Trust Department and 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 such officer's knowledge and familiarity
with the particular subject.
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"Secured Debt" means, without duplication, Debt that is secured by a
mortgage, trust deed, deed of trust, deed to secure Debt, security agreement,
pledge, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, capitalized lease,
or other like agreement granting or conveying security title to or a security
interest in real property or other tangible asset(s). Secured Debt shall be
deemed to be incurred (i) on the date the obligor thereon creates, assumes,
guarantees or otherwise becomes liable in respect thereof if it is secured in
the manner described in the preceding sentence on such date or (ii) on the date
the obligor thereon first secures such Debt in the manner described in the
preceding sentence if such Debt was not so secured on the date it was incurred.
"Security" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture
and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is
more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, "Securities" with
respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee shall have the
meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall more
particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such Person is not
Trustee.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 305.
"Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary which is a "significant
subsidiary" (as defined in Article I, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933) of the Company.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 307.
"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 or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"Statistical Release" means the statistical release designated
"H.15(519)" or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which reports yields on actively
traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities, or,
if such statistical release is not published at the time of any determination
under the Indenture, then such other reasonably comparable index which shall be
designated by the Company.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to the Company or a Guarantor, a
corporation or general partnership a majority of the outstanding voting stock of
which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or the
Guarantor, as applicable, or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company or
the Guarantor. For the purposes of this definition, "voting
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stock" means having voting power for the election of directors, general
partners, trustees, managing members or Persons performing similar functions,
whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of securities has such
voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Total Assets" means as of any date the sum of (i) Undepreciated Real
Estate Assets and (ii) all other assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding
accounts receivable and intangibles).
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed,
except as provided in Section 905.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph
of this Indenture 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; provided, however, that
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean only the Trustee with respect
to Securities of that series.
"Undepreciated Real Estate Assets" means as of any date the cost (i.e.,
original cost plus cost of capital improvements) of real estate assets of the
Company and its Subsidiaries on such date, before depreciation and amortization,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Unencumbered Total Asset Value" means as of any date the sum of the
Total Assets which are unencumbered by any mortgage, lien, charge, pledge or
security interest.
"United States" means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (including the
states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other
areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States person" means, unless otherwise specified with respect to
any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who is a citizen or
resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or an estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation
regardless of its source.
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity, computed at the time of
issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of
interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance with
generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates 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, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
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complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture (including certificates delivered
pursuant to Section 1010) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant has been
complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified
or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion as 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 an Opinion of Counsel, or a
certificate or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion, certificate or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate or
representations 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 as to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations as 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.
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SECTION 104. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one
or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or
more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person
or by agents duly appointed in writing. If Securities of a series are issuable
as Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and
evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series voting in favor
thereof, either in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any
meeting of Holders of Securities of such series duly called and held in
accordance with the provisions of Article Fifteen, or a combination of such
instruments and any such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record
or both are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required,
to the Company. Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to
as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting
at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall
be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and 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. The record of any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1506.
Without limiting the generality of this Section 104, unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a U.S. depository
that is a Holder of a global Security, may make, give or take, by a proxy or
proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a U.S. depository that
is a Holder of a global Security may provide its proxy or proxies to the
beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security through such U.S.
depository's standing instructions and customary practices.
The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining the
Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any permanent global Security
held by a U.S. depository entitled under the procedures of such U.S. depository
to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by
Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Persons who are beneficial owners
of interests on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and
only such Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, whether or not
such Persons remain beneficial owners after such record date.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution
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thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other reasonable manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(d) The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the production of
such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust
company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at
the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or
exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be
proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer
Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be
reasonably satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such
ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (1) another certificate or
affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is
produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other
Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered
Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of
Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other reasonable manner which the
Trustee deems sufficient.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered
Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders
entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.
Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date
specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not
earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders
generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such solicitation
is completed. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given
before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of
business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding
Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date;
provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such
record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant
to the provisions of this Indenture not later than eleven months after the
record date.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
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Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
SECTION 105. 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,
(1) 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, Attention: Corporate Trust
Department, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and 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
Indenture, Attention: General Counsel, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides for
notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Company or the
Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each such Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where
notice to Holders of Registered Securities 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
of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer
Securities given as provided herein. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner
herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such
Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.
If by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail
service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such
notice by mail, then such notification to Holders of Registered Securities as
shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
notification to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, where this Indenture provides
for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New
York and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities on
a Business Day, such publication to be not later than the latest date, and not
earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. Any
such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date of such publication
or, if published more than once, on the date of the first such publication.
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If by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper
or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided
above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given
with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in
any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice to Holders
of Registered Securities given as provided herein.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language,
except that any published notice may be in an official language of the country
of publication.
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, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 107. 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 108. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture by the Company or a Guarantor shall bind their respective successors
and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 109. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture
or in any Security or coupon 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 110. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Securities or coupons, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than
the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating
Agent and their successors hereunder and the Holders any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 111. Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities and coupons
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of
New York applicable to agreements made or instruments entered into and performed
in said state. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA that are
required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be
governed by such provisions.
SECTION 112. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security or
coupon other than a provision in the
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Securities of any series which specifically states that such provision shall
apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or any Additional Amounts or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date, Repayment Date or sinking fund payment date, or at the Stated
Maturity or Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so
payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption
Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as
the case may be.
SECTION 113. Judgment Currency. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is
necessary to convert the amount due in respect of the principal of, or premium
or interest, if any, on, or Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities
of any series from the currency in which it is due (the "Required Currency")
into a currency in which the judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment
Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance
with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New
York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking
Day preceding the day on which such judgment is given, and (b) the Company's
obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency
shall, despite any judgment in the Judgment Currency, be discharged by a payment
on account thereof in the Judgment Currency only to the extent that, on the New
York Banking Day following receipt of such payment in the Judgment Currency, the
Trustee may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase in The City
of New York the Required Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency so
paid; and if the amount of the Required Currency that may be so purchased is
less than the amount originally due in the Required Currency, the Company shall
have a separate and independent obligation, despite any such payment or
judgment, to indemnify the payee against such deficiency. For purposes of the
foregoing, "New York Banking Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday,
legal holiday or other day on which banking institutions in The City of New York
are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms of Securities. The Registered Securities, if any, of
each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, of each series and related
coupons shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in one or
more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or pursuant
to a Board Resolution in accordance with Section 301, shall have such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto,
and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or
designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Company may
deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or
regulation made
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pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which
the Securities may be listed, or to conform to usage.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer
Securities shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by
their execution of such Securities or coupons.
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. Subject to
Section 611, the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
By
----------------------------------
Authorized Signatory
SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form. If Securities of or
within a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated by
Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 301 and the provisions
of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding
Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it
shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series
from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased
or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form
to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee (or pursuant to its
direction) in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons
as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or 304. Subject to the provisions of Section 303
and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any
Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by
the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a
Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is,
delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or
delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need
not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any
Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in global form together with written instructions
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(which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of
Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated
by the last sentence of Section 303.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of and any premium and
interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or
Persons specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as provided in
the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of
Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the
case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such
permanent global Security in registered form or (ii) in the case of a permanent
global Security in bearer form held by Euroclear (or a depository on its
behalf), Euroclear, or, in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer
form held by Cedelbank (or a depository on its behalf), Cedelbank.
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by
one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established
in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of
Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of
which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (15) below), if
so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with respect to
unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time):
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish
the Securities of such series from all other series of Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
the series that 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 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1305);
(3) the date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be
determined, on which the principal of the Securities of the series shall be
payable;
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(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined,
the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the method by which
such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such
interest will be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest
payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date, or the method
by which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest shall
be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;
(5) the place or places, if any, other than or in addition to the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, where the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, Securities of
the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, Securities of the series may be
surrendered for exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or upon the
Company in respect of Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served;
(6) the period or periods within which, or the date or dates on which,
the price or prices at which, the currency in which, and other terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in
part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have the option;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision or
at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which or the
date or dates on which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies
in which, and 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;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the series
shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the
denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of the series shall
be issuable;
(9) if other than the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar
and/or Paying Agent;
(10) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or,
if applicable, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series
that is convertible in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, or the
method by which such portion shall be determined;
(11) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional
Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable or in which
the Securities of the series shall be denominated;
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(12) whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined with
reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method
may be based, without limitation, on one or more currencies, commodities, equity
indices or other indices), and the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
(13) whether the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be payable,
at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies
other than that in which such Securities are payable in the absence of the
making of such an election, the period or periods within which or the date or
dates on which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be
made, and the time and manner of, and identity of the exchange rate agent with
responsibility for, determining the exchange rate between the currency or
currencies in which such Securities are payable in the absence of the making of
such an election and the currency or currencies in which such Securities are to
be payable upon the making of such an election;
(14) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of
Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;
(15) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of
Default or covenants of the Company with respect to Securities of the series,
whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the
Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;
(16) whether Securities of the series are to be issuable as Registered
Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without coupons) or both, any
restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of Bearer Securities and
the terms upon which Bearer Securities of the series may be exchanged for
Registered Securities of the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable
laws and regulations), whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable
initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of the series are
to be issuable in permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so,
whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may
exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such
exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 305, and,
if Registered Securities of the series are to be issuable as a global Security,
the identity of the depositary for such series;
(17) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any
temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of the series
shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security
of the series to be issued;
(18) the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the
series shall be payable, if other than 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, the manner in which, or the Person
to whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the series shall be payable, if
otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the coupons appertaining
thereto as they severally mature, and the extent to which, or the manner in
which, any interest payable on
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a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other
than in the manner provided in Section 304;
(19) the applicability, if any, of Sections 1402 and/or 1403 to the
Securities of the series and any provisions in modification of, in addition to
or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article Fourteen;
(20) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive
form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of
such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or
satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and/or terms of such
certificates, documents or conditions;
(21) if the Securities of the series are to be issued upon the exercise
of warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated
and delivered;
(22) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay Additional
Amounts as contemplated by Section 1011 on the Securities of the series to any
Holder who is not a United States person (including any modification to the
definition of such term) in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental
charge and, if so, whether the Company will have the option to redeem such
Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such
option);
(23) the obligation, if any, of the Company to permit the conversion of
the Securities of such series into the Company's Common Shares or Preferred
Shares, as the case may be, and the terms and conditions upon which such
conversion shall be effected (including, without limitation, the initial
conversion price or rate, the conversion period, any adjustment of the
applicable conversion price and any requirements relative to the reservation of
such shares for purposes of conversion);
(24) if convertible, in connection with the preservation of the Company's
status as a real estate investment trust under the applicable provisions of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, any applicable limitations on the
ownership or transferability of the Common Shares or Preferred Shares into which
such series of Securities is convertible;
(25) whether and to what extent the Securities of such series will be
guaranteed by a Guarantor and the identity of such Guarantor; and
(26) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except, in the
case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be
provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 303) and
set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time
and,
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unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of the
Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by
action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions, a copy of an appropriate
record of such action(s) 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 Securities
of such series.
SECTION 302. Denominations. The Securities of each series shall be
issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section
301. With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the
absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the
Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities issued in
global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and the Bearer
Securities of such series, other than Bearer Securities issued in global form
(which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of
$5,000.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of
the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon, and attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities and coupons may be manual or facsimile signatures of
the present or any future such authorized officer and may be imprinted or
otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Securities or coupons 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 or coupons.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with
any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that,
in connection with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or
otherwise delivered to any location in the United States; and provided further
that, unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with
its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer
Security shall have furnished a certificate to Euroclear or Cedelbank, as the
case may be, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture or such
other certificate as may be specified with respect to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the earlier of
the date on which such Bearer Security is delivered and the date on which any
temporary Security first becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in
accordance with the terms of
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such temporary Security and this Indenture. If any Security shall be represented
by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for purposes of this Section and
Section 304, the notation of a beneficial owner's interest therein upon original
issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global
Security shall be deemed to be delivery in connection with its original issuance
of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. Except as
permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any
Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have
been detached and canceled.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and
if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series shall
so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee
for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular
Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity date,
redemption or repayment provisions, currency of denomination and payment, date
of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue. In authenticating such
Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture
in relation to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, the Trustee
shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d))
shall be fully protected in relying upon,
(i) an Opinion of Counsel stating that
(a) the form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, 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 and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and to
general equitable principles, and will entitle the Holders thereof to the
benefits of this Indenture and any related Guarantee issued pursuant hereto; and
(ii) an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of the Securities have
been complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such
certificate, no Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall
have occurred and be continuing.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect
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the Trustee's own rights, duties, obligations or immunities under the Securities
and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the second preceding
paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time,
it shall not be necessary to deliver an Officers' Certificate otherwise required
pursuant to Section 301 or a Company Order, or an Opinion of Counsel or an
Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to the second preceding
paragraph at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but such
order, opinion and certificates, with appropriate modifications to cover such
future issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the
first Security of such series. After any such first delivery, any separate
request by the Company that the Trustee authenticate Securities of such series
for original issue will be deemed to be a certification by the Company that all
conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to authentication
and delivery of such Securities continue to have been complied with.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated
by Section 301.
No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or any related Guarantee or be valid or obligatory for any purpose
unless there appears on such Security or Security to which such coupon
appertains a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized
signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and any
related Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have
been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the
Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which
need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the
Company, the Trustee shall be fully justified in relying thereon and in
cancelling such Security and for all purposes of this Indenture such Security
shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and
shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and any related
Guarantee.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities. (a) 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
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities
in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form, or, if authorized, in
bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by
their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of any series,
such temporary Securities may be in global form.
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Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be
exchanged in accordance with Section 304(b) or as otherwise provided in or
pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are
issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the
temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a
Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender
for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series
(accompanied by any non-matured coupons appertaining thereto), 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; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be
delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided further
that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303.
Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities
of such series.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, this
Section 304(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in
global form other than through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company
("DTC"). If any such temporary Security is issued in global form, then such
temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered
to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the "Common
Depositary"), for the benefit of Euroclear and Cedelbank, for credit to the
respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global
Security (the "Exchange Date"), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal
amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after
the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the
Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities
without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (subject to the
Trustee's receipt of sufficient delivery instructions from, or provided by or on
behalf of, the Common Depositary), in exchange for each portion of such
temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as
the portion of such temporary global Security to be exchanged. The definitive
Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary global Security
shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent global bearer form or
permanent global registered form, or any combination thereof, as specified as
contemplated by Section 301, and, if any combination thereof is so specified, as
requested by the beneficial owner thereof (as identified or provided to the
Trustee by the Common Depositary, or by Euroclear or Cedelbank, as applicable);
provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global
Security, upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global
Security shall be accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a
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subsequent date and signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary
global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate
dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Cedelbank as to the
portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be
exchanged, each in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in
such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301; and provided
further that definitive Bearer Securities shall be delivered in exchange for a
portion of a temporary global Security only in compliance with the requirements
of Section 303.
Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the
interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of
like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs
Euroclear or Cedelbank, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his
behalf and delivers to Euroclear or Cedelbank, as the case may be, a certificate
in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as
may be established pursuant to Section 301), dated no earlier than 15 days prior
to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the
offices of Euroclear and Cedelbank, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent
appointed for such series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made
free of charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security,
except that a Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of
insurance, postage, transportation and the like unless such Person takes
delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or
Cedelbank. Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for
any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the
United States.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities
of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor
authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global Security
on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the
applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear and Cedelbank on such
Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and Cedelbank to the Trustee of
a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this
Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section
301), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date
to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such
temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each
delivered to Euroclear or Cedelbank, as the case may be, a certificate dated no
earlier than 15 days prior to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such
Exchange Date in the form set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such
other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 301). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to
this paragraph shall satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two
paragraphs of this Section 304(b) and of the third paragraph of Section 303 of
this Indenture (in each case, without delivery of a certificate in the form of
Exhibit A-1) and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of
the temporary global Security with respect to which such certification was made
will be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor
on the Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the
Exchange Date, without
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further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as otherwise provided in
this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing with respect to a
beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be made unless and until
such interest in such temporary global Security shall have been exchanged for an
interest in a definitive Security. Any interest so received by Euroclear and
Cedelbank and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to the Trustee prior
to the expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order to be
repaid to the Company (subject, however, to any abandoned property laws that may
be applicable).
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The
Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or
in any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment a register for each
series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office or in any such
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
referred to collectively as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities.
The Security Register shall be in written form or any other form capable of
being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee, at its
Corporate Trust Office, is hereby initially appointed "Security Registrar" for
the purpose of registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered
Securities on such Security Register as herein provided. In the event that the
Trustee shall cease to be Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine
the Security Register at all reasonable times.
Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any office
or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and
containing identical terms and provisions.
Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, at the option of the
Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical
terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any such Registered Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive. Unless otherwise specified with
respect to any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer
Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution and
(subject to Section 303) set forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate, or
in any indenture supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by Section 301,
at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged
for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and
of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer
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Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured
coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder
of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons
or matured coupon or coupons in default, any such permitted exchange may be
effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable
to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any
such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided,
however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at any such office or agency in a permitted exchange for a
Registered Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of
business at such office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment
Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such
office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest,
such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security,
but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture. 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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable
only as provided in this paragraph. If the depositary for any permanent global
Security is DTC, then, unless the terms of such global Security expressly permit
such global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive
Securities, a global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only
to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor to DTC for
such global Security selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such
successor to DTC. If at any time DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as depositary for the applicable global Security or
Securities or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 if so required by applicable law or
regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to
such global Security or Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such
global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days
after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness,
inability or ineligibility, (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the beneficial owners representing a majority in principal amount
of the applicable series of Securities represented by such global Security or
Securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary for such global Security or
Securities or (z) the Company, in its sole discretion, determines at any time
that all Outstanding Securities (but not less than all) of any
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series issued or issuable in the form of one or more global Securities shall no
longer be represented by such global Security or Securities, then the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver definitive
Securities of like series, rank, tenor and terms in definitive form in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security
or Securities. If any beneficial owner of an interest in a permanent global
Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such
series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and
denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301 and provided that any
applicable notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been
given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
earliest date on which such interest may be so exchanged, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (subject to receipt of
adequate instructions as to such beneficial ownership from DTC or the Company)
definitive Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal
amount of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. On
or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such
permanent global Security shall be surrendered for exchange by DTC or such other
depositary as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to
the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose; provided, however, that no
such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the
relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be
among those selected for redemption; and provided further that no Bearer
Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security
shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. If
a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent
global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such
exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest
or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of
such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom
interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of 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 registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or
the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized
in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or
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exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107
or 1305 not involving any transfer.
The Company or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be required (i) to
issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security if such Security may be
among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be redeemed under Section
1103 and ending at the close of business on (A) if such Securities are issuable
only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of
redemption and (B) if such Securities are issuable as Bearer Securities, the day
of the first publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if such
Securities are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no
publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Registered Security
to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed, or (iii) to
exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption except that such a
Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and
like tenor, provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously
surrendered for redemption, or (iv) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange any Security which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of
the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any
mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it is
surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, together with, in proper cases, such
security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save
each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and
provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons
corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
or coupon, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be reasonably required by
them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has
been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not
destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal
amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security
to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead
of issuing a new Security, with coupons
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corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or
stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains, pay such Security or coupon; provided, however, that payment
of principal of (and premium, if any), any interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to, Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided
in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency located outside the
United States and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
any interest on Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
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 of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, or
in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture and any related Guarantees equally and proportionately with any and
all other Securities of that series and their coupons, if any, 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 or coupons.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Except as
otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with
the provisions of Section 301, interest on any Registered Security that 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 at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each
installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Company's option
be paid by (i) mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written
order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 308, to the address of
such Person as it appears on the Security Register or (ii) transfer to an
account maintained by the payee located inside the United States.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the case of a
Bearer Security and at the Company's option, by transfer to an account
maintained by the payee with a bank located outside the United States.
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Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, every permanent
global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any Interest
Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear and/or Cedelbank, as the case may
be, with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its
account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for the
purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in
respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial
owners thereof.
In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in exchange for a
Registered Security of such series after the close of business (at an office or
agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular Record Date and
before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the
coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable
on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of
such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in
accordance with the provisions of Section 301, any interest on any Registered
Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided
in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (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 Registered
Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be
less than 20 days after such notice is received by the Trustee), and at the same
time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money in the
currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable
(except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of
such series) 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 on or 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 Registered Securities of such series at his address as it
appears in the Security 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
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at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment, but such
publications 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 Registered
Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no
longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2). In case a Bearer
Security of any series is surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of
Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such series
after the close of business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date
and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related
proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such proposed date of payment and
Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security,
but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to
this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a
Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, any Guarantor,
the Trustee and any agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner of
such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium,
if any), and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, such Registered
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall
pass by delivery. The Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer
Security and the Holder of any coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or
coupon for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and
for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be
overdue, and neither the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee nor any agent of
the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
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None of the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the
Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of
the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee, or any
agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee, from giving effect to any
written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any depositary,
as a Holder, with respect to such global Security or impair, as between such
depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such global Security, the
operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such
depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.
SECTION 309. Cancellation. All Securities and coupons surrendered for
payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee,
and any such Securities and coupons and Securities and coupons 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 may deliver to the Trustee (or
to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold,
and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If
the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition
shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness
represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the
Trustee for cancellation. 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. Canceled Securities and coupons held by
the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver a
certificate of such destruction to the Company, unless by a Company Order the
Company directs their return to it.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 with respect to Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any
series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such
series herein expressly provided for, any right to receive Additional Amounts,
as provided in Section 1011, and any right to convert Securities in
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accordance with their terms), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order,
and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series
when
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and
delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i)
coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for
Registered Securities and maturing after such exchange, whose surrender
is not required or has been waived as provided in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, (▇▇)
Securities and coupons of such series which have been mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, (▇▇▇) coupons appertaining to Securities called
for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date, whose
surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106, and (iv)
Securities and coupons of such series 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 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii)
below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be
called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory
to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee
in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
the 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 and such coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and any
Additional Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the
case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity
or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
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(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee 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 as to
such series have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under
Section 606, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under
Section 611 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the
Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the provisions of the
last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities, the coupons 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 any interest and Additional Amounts
for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee,
but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default. "Event of Default", wherever used herein
with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one of the
following events with respect to such series of Securities (whatever the reason
for such Event of Default and whether or not 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), it being understood that an Event of
Default with respect to a particular series of Securities does not automatically
constitute an Event of Default with respect to any other series of Securities:
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon or any Additional Amounts
payable in respect of any Security of that series or of any coupon appertaining
thereto, when such interest, Additional Amounts or coupon becomes due and
payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on)
any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due
by the terms of any Security of that series; or
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(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of
the Company or a Guarantor in this Indenture with respect to any Security of
that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or
whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and
continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company and each Guarantor
by the Trustee or to the Company, each Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series
a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) default under any evidence of Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or
a Guarantor (or of any Subsidiary, the repayment of which the Company or
Guarantor has guaranteed or for which the Company or Guarantor is directly
responsible or liable as obligor or guarantor), or any mortgage, indenture or
other instrument of the Company or a Guarantor (including a default with respect
to Securities of any series other than that series) under which there may be
issued or by which there may be secured any Recourse Indebtedness of the Company
or Guarantor (or of any Subsidiary, the repayment of which the Company or
Guarantor has guaranteed or for which the Company or Guarantor is directly
responsible or liable as obligor or guarantor), whether such Recourse
Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default shall
constitute a failure to pay an aggregate principal amount exceeding $5,000,000
of such Recourse Indebtedness when due and payable after the expiration of any
applicable notice and grace periods with respect thereto and shall have resulted
in such Recourse Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount exceeding
$5,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which
it would otherwise have become due and payable, without such Recourse
Indebtedness having been discharged or such acceleration having been rescinded
or annulled, within a period of 30 days after there shall have been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company and Guarantor by the Trustee or to
the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice
specifying such default and requiring the Company or Guarantor to cause such
Recourse Indebtedness to be discharged or cause such acceleration to be
rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(6) the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor pursuant to or
within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(A) commences a voluntary case or files a petition, answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief,
(B) consents to the entry of a decree or an order for relief against
it in an involuntary case or to the commencement of any such case against
it,
(C) consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a
Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or
(D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
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(7) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any
Bankruptcy Law that:
(A) is for relief against the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or
a Guarantor in an involuntary case,
(B) adjudges the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor
to be insolvent or approves a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of any of the foregoing,
(C) appoints a Custodian of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary
or a Guarantor, or for all or substantially all of its property, or
(D) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company, any
Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor, and the order or decree remains
unstayed and in effect for 60 days, or
(8) default in the conversion of the Securities of that series, and
continuance of such default for a period of 15 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company
and the Trustee by a Holder of Securities of that series a written notice
specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(9) a Guarantee, if issued, ceases to be, or is asserted in writing by
the Company or any Guarantor not to be, in full force or effect or enforceable
in accordance with its terms with respect to Securities of that series, or
(10) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of
that series.
As used in this Section 501, the term "Bankruptcy Law" means title 11,
U.S. Code or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors and the
term "Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or other
similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding other than an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of
Section 501 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 (or, if any Securities are
Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the
principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities of
that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become immediately
due and payable.
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If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 501
occurs, all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding
Securities of that series (or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the
Securities of such series) shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and
payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder of any Security of that series.
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, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient
to pay in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are
payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the
Securities of such series):
(A) all overdue installments of interest on and any Additional
Amounts payable in respect of all Outstanding Securities of that series
and any related coupons,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates
borne by or provided for in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue installments of interest and any Additional Amounts at the
rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security of any series and any related coupon
when such interest or
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Additional Amount becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity,
then the Company will, upon demand by the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series and coupons, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amount, with interest upon any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest
or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in
such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel.
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 such Securities of such series and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
of such series, 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
and any related coupons 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 504. 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, a Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or the
property of the Company, a Guarantor or such other obligor or their creditors,
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, Guarantor or obligor for the payment of overdue principal, 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, or such lesser amount
as may be provided for in the Securities of such series, of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts, if any, owing and unpaid
in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
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(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed
in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder of Securities of such series and coupons to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to
it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee and any predecessor Trustee, their agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 606.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a Security
or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or coupon in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
or Coupons. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or any of the
Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and
coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the
date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest and any
Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or coupons, or both, as
the case may be, 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 606;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the
Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and any
Additional Amounts payable, 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 aggregate amounts due and payable on such
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Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any), interest and
Additional Amounts, respectively; and
THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security of any series
or any related coupon shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial
or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series 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;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and
offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) 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 that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts. Notwithstanding any other
provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security or coupon shall have the
right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any
Additional Amounts in respect of, such Security or payment of such coupon on the
respective due dates expressed in such Security or coupon (or, in the case of
redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or for the enforcement of
any applicable conversion right in the Securities, and such rights shall not be
impaired without the consent of such Holder.
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SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Holder of a Security or coupon 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, any Guarantor, the
Trustee and the Holders of Securities and coupons 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 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Securities or coupons in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of
Securities or coupons 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 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or coupon 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 of Securities or coupons, as the
case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities. The Holders of not less
than 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 exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series,
provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with
this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in
personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such
series not joining therein.
SECTION 513. 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 and any related
coupons waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its
consequences, except a default
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(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
on or Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of such
series or any related coupons,
(2) in the conversion of the Securities in accordance with their terms,
or
(3) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine
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 Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. Each of the Company
and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and each Guarantor
hereby expressly waives (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) 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.
SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to
have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this 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 any undertaking to pay the costs of such suit,
and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit having due
regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the 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, 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 or repayment, on or after the Redemption
Date or the Repayment Date) or for the enforcement of any applicable conversion
right in the Securities.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of
any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c),
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
or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of such series, or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities
and coupons of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default
or breach of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to the
Securities and coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given
until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this
Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of such series.
SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of TIA
Section 315(a) through 315(d):
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
coupon or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than
delivery of any Security, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, to the
Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303 which shall be
sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of
Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(3) 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;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel 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;
(5) 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 of Securities of any series or any related coupons pursuant
to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;
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(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, coupon or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may
make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may
see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises
of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(7) 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;
(8) the Trustee shall have no liability for the actions or omissions of
any Paying Agent so long as the Trustee has acted in good faith and with due
care with respect to a matter;
(9) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or
omitted 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;
(10) subject to clause (11) below, the Trustee shall not be charged with
notice or knowledge of any matter except to the extent reasonably known to a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee or set forth in a written notice received at
the Corporate Trust Office and making express reference to the Indenture, the
Company or the Securities; and
(11) unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly provided herein,
the Trustee shall be under no duty to review or evaluate the contents of any
reports or other documents filed with it pursuant to Section 703 or Section 1009
hereof, except to make them available for inspection at reasonable times by
Holders of Securities.
The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee
undertakes to perform 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.
SECTION 603. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, and in any coupons shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture,
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authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and that the
statements made by it in any Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied to
the Company are true and accurate. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating
Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 604. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security
Registrar, Authenticating Agent or any other agent of the Company, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and coupons and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may otherwise deal with
the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying
Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such other agent.
SECTION 605. 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 606. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation 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);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each of
the Trustee and any predecessor 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 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
(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on its own part, arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the
costs and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys' fees and
costs) 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 in connection with
an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or Section 501(7), the expenses
(including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under
this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all
property and funds held or collected by
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the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on particular Securities or any coupons.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture (and shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee pursuant
to Section 608).
SECTION 607. Eligibility of Trustee; Conflicting Interests. There shall
at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee
under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000. If such Trustee publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of Federal, State, Territorial or
District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Trustee 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.
SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 609.
(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.
(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:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section
310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months,
or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall
fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of
a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or
of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation,
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then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may
remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, or (ii) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with
respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with
respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any
such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any particular 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
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 to any successor Trustee appointed by the Company with respect to
such Securities, the successor Trustee so appointed by the Holders shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to 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 in the manner
provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in Section 106. 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 609. 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 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; but, on request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges and other due
but unpaid amounts owing to it hereunder, 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
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property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless
to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 606.
(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,
pursuant to Article Nine hereof, wherein each successor Trustee shall accept
such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each
successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is
not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue
to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate
the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon
the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, 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 such 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 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any entity succeeding to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall
be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such entity 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 or coupons shall have been authenticated, but not
delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
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conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities or coupons so authenticated with the
same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such
Securities or coupons. In case any Securities or coupons shall not have been
authenticated by such predecessor Trustee, any such successor Trustee may
authenticate and deliver such Securities or coupons, in either its own name or
that of its predecessor Trustee, with the full force and effect which this
Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee.
SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any of
the Securities remain Outstanding, 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 exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption or
repayment 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. Any such appointment shall be
evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company.
Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery
of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication,
such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf
of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times
be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in
good standing under the laws of the United States or of any State 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 authorities. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or the requirements of the aforesaid 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. In case 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 entity into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party,
or any entity succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of
an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided
such entity shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the
execution or filing of any paper or further act on the part of the Trustee or
the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at any time
resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series
and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
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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 for such series may appoint a
successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and
shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series
with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set
forth in Section 106. 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 herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses for
its services under this Section.
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 or in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternate certificate of authentication substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
By:
-----------------------------------,
as Authenticating Agent
By:
-----------------------------------
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders. Every Holder
of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Security Registrar shall be
held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names
and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section 312,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant
to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).
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SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15 of each year
commencing with the first May 15 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant
to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities as provided in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such May
15 if required by TIA Section 313(a).
SECTION 703. Reports by Company and Guarantors. The Company and each
Guarantor will:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after being required to file
the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the
information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of
the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations
prescribe) which the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, may be required to
file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company or a Guarantor is not
required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such
Sections, then the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, will file with
the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and
periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to
Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security
listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed
from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules
and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by it with the
conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time
by such rules and regulations; and
(3) transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities, within 30 days after
the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in
TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents and reports
required to be filed by it pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as
may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission.
SECTION 704. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, with respect to each series of Securities, a list, in
such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of
the applicable date, 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,
provided, however, that, so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. Consolidation or Merger of Company and Sale, Lease or
Conveyance Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions. The Company may consolidate
with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or
merge with or into, any other corporation, provided that, in any such case (i)
either the Company shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor
corporation shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
United States or a State thereof and such successor corporation shall expressly
assume all of the obligations of the Company on all of the Securities, according
to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of
the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company by
supplemental indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the
Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such corporation, and (ii)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any
indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary as a
result thereof as having been incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary at the
time of such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice
or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have
occurred and be continuing.
SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation. In case of any
such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance and upon any such
assumption by the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall
succeed to and be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had
been named herein as the party of the first part, and the predecessor
corporation, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further
obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. A successor corporation to
the Company 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, and any Securities which such
successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Trustee for that purpose. 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, lease or conveyance,
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
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SECTION 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel. Any
consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance permitted under Section 801 is
also subject to the condition that the Trustee receive an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that any such consolidation, merger,
sale, lease or conveyance, and the assumption by any successor corporation,
complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without
the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the Company, when
authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, any Guarantor 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:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in
the Securities contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders
of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the
benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are
expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender
any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default are to
be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series); provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of
Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace
after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the
case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such
default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default or
may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of that or those series of Securities to which such additional Events of Default
apply to waive such default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to change or
eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or any premium or
interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in
exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in
exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or
facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; or
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(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when
there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of
such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision;
or
(6) to secure the Securities or provide a Guarantee of the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any
related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, including the provisions
and procedures relating to Securities convertible into Common Shares or
Preferred Shares, as the case may be; or
(8) 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; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under
this Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities and any related coupons in any material respect; or
(10) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent
as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of
any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 401, 1402 and 1403; provided that
any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of such series and any related coupons or any other series of
Securities in any material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all
Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, any Guarantor of such Securities, 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 and any related coupons under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce
the principal amount thereof or the rate (or calculation of the rate) or amount
of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any
premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the
Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1011 (except as
contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the
amount of the
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principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable
upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504, or
adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of the Holder of any
Security, or change any Place of Payment where, or the currency or currencies in
which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after
the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the
option of the Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as
the case may be) or for the enforcement of any applicable conversion right in
any Security, or
(2) 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 with respect to such series (or compliance with certain provisions of
this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided
for in this Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1504 for quorum or
voting, or
(3) modify or effect in any manner adverse to the Holders the terms and
conditions of the obligations of any Guarantor of Securities contained herein or
in the related Guarantees, or release any Guarantor of such Security from its
Guarantee, or
(4) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section
1012, except to increase the required percentage to effect such action or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
A 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.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of
such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.
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SECTION 904. 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 and any coupon appertaining
thereto shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of
the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series 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 Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and
Additional Amounts. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the
Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts
payable in respect of the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms
of such series of Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any series of Securities, any interest due on and any Additional
Amounts payable in respect of Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other
than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section 1011 in respect
of principal of (or premium, if any, on) such a Security, shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of the several coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. Unless otherwise
specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section 301, at
the option of the Company, all payments of principal may be paid by check to the
Holder of the Registered Security or other person entitled thereto against
surrender of such Security.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency. If Securities of a series
are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Company shall maintain in each
Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or
conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If
Securities of a series
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are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain: (A) in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where any Registered
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or
conversion, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served and where Bearer
Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented or surrendered
for payment or conversion in the circumstances described in the following
paragraph (and not otherwise); (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable
thereto in a Place of Payment for that series which is located outside the
United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series and related
coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any
Additional Amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant to Section
1011) or conversion; provided, however, that if the Securities of that series
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located
outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company
will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in Luxembourg or
any other required city located outside the United States, as the case may be,
so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such exchange; and (C) if
the Securities of such series are or may also be issued in part as, or may be
converted to, Registered Securities, subject to any laws or regulations
applicable thereto in a Place of Payment for that series located outside the
United States, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that
series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that
series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may
be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency. If at
any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required 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, except that Bearer Securities of that
series and the related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment
(including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Bearer Securities of
that series pursuant to Section 1011) or conversion at the offices specified in
the Security, in London, England, and the Company hereby appoints the same as
its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. Nothing herein shall oblige
the Trustee to maintain any such office or agency on behalf of the Company in
any such Place of Payment, other than the Corporate Trust Office.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 301, no payment of principal, premium or interest on or Additional
Amounts in respect of Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of
the Company in the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United
States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United
States; provided, however, that, if amounts owing with respect to any Bearer
Securities of a series are payable in Dollars, payment of principal of and any
premium and interest on any Bearer Security (including any Additional Amounts
payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1011) shall be made at
the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full
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amount of such principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts, as the case
may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the
purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture, is illegal or
effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices or
agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind
any such designation; 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 accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of
any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location
of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to
any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities,
the Company hereby designates as a Place of Payment for each series of
Securities the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, and initially appoints State Street Bank and Trust Company,
N.A. at ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ as Paying Agent in such city and
as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated
in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long
as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Company
will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required,
at least one exchange rate agent.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust. If the
Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series
of any Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before each due date
of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts
in respect of, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or
currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series)
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional
Amounts 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 action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series
of Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts in
respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in
the currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to
pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, so
becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest or Additional Amounts and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
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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
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company or a Guarantor
(or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest; and
(3) 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 by 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 any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such sums.
Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series (and subject
to any abandoned property laws that may be applicable), any money deposited with
the Trustee in trust or with 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,
or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any),
interest or Additional Amounts has become due and payable shall be paid to the
Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company and any Guarantor(s) for
payment of such principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any
Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such money,
and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required
to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be
published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains
unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Limitations on Incurrence of Debt. (a) The Company will
not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, incur any Debt other than
intercompany Debt (representing Debt to which the only parties are the Company
and any of the Subsidiaries, but only so long as such Debt is held solely by the
Company or any Subsidiary and provided that, in the case of Debt
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owed to Subsidiaries, such Debt is subordinate in right of payment to the
Securities) if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such
additional Debt and the application of the proceeds thereof, the aggregate
principal amount of all outstanding Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries on
a consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP is greater than 65% of
the sum of (i) Total Assets as of the end of the fiscal quarter covered in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as the
case may be, most recently filed with the Commission (or, if such filing is not
permitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with the Trustee) prior to
the incurrence of such additional Debt and (ii) the increase in Total Assets
from the end of such quarter, including, without limitation, any increase in
Total Assets resulting from the incurrence of such additional Debt (such
increase, together with Total Assets, being referred to herein as "Adjusted
Total Assets").
(b) The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, incur
any Debt other than intercompany Debt (representing Debt to which the only
parties are the Company and any of the Subsidiaries, but only so long as such
Debt is held solely by the Company or any Subsidiary and provided that, in the
case of Debt owed to Subsidiaries, such Debt is subordinate in right of payment
to the Securities) if Consolidated Income Available for Debt Service for any 12
consecutive calendar months within the 15 calendar months immediately preceding
the date on which such additional Debt is to be incurred shall have been less
than 1.5 times the Maximum Annual Service Charge on the Debt of the Company and
all Subsidiaries on a pro forma basis immediately after the incurrence of such
additional Debt and the application of the proceeds therefrom, and calculated on
the assumption that (i) such Debt, and any other Debt incurred by the Company or
its Subsidiaries since the first day of such 12-month period which was
outstanding at the end of such period, had been incurred at the beginning of
such period and continued to be outstanding throughout such period, and the
application of the proceeds of such Debt, including to refinance other Debt, had
occurred at the beginning of such period, (ii) the repayment or retirement of
any other Debt by the Company or its Subsidiaries since the first day of such
12-month period had been repaid or retired at the beginning of such period
(except that, in determining the amount of Debt so repaid or retired, the amount
of Debt under any revolving credit facility shall be computed based upon the
average daily balance of such Debt during such period), (iii) in the case of
Acquired Indebtedness or Debt incurred in connection with any acquisition since
the first day of the 12-month period, the related acquisition had occurred as of
the first day of the period with the appropriate adjustments with respect to the
acquisition being included in the pro forma calculation, and (iv) in the case of
any increase or decrease in Total Assets, or any other acquisition or
disposition by the Company or any Subsidiary of any asset or group of assets,
since the first day of such 12-month period, including, without limitation, by
merger, stock purchase or sale, or asset purchase or sale, such increase,
decrease, or other acquisition or disposition or any related repayment of Debt
had occurred as of the first day of such period with the appropriate adjustments
to revenues, expenses and Debt levels with respect to such increase, decrease or
other acquisition or disposition being included in such pro forma calculation.
(c) The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, incur
any Secured Debt if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such
additional Secured Debt and the application of the proceeds thereof, the
aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Secured
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Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis is greater than
40% of Adjusted Total Assets.
(d) The Company will at all times maintain an Unencumbered Total Asset
Value in an amount not less than 100% of the aggregate principal amount of all
outstanding Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries that is not Secured Debt.
SECTION 1005. Existence. Subject to Article Eight, the Company and each
Guarantor will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep
in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory)
and franchises; provided, however, that the Company and each Guarantor shall not
be required to preserve any right or franchise if its Board of Directors shall
determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of
business and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material
respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties. The Company will, and will cause
each of its Subsidiaries to, cause all of its material properties used or useful
in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be
maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied
with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs,
renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the
judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company or any
Subsidiary from discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any such
properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company or the
Subsidiary, desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in
any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1007. Insurance. The Company will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, keep all of its insurable properties adequately insured against
loss or damage with insurers of recognized responsibility in commercially
reasonable amounts and types.
SECTION 1008. 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, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied
or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of
the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all material lawful claims for labor,
materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the
property of the Company or any Subsidiary unless such lien would not have a
material adverse effect upon such property; 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 (i) whose amount, applicability or
validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) for
which the Company has set apart and maintains an adequate reserve.
SECTION 1009. Provision of Financial Information. If the Company or a
Guarantor is required to file annual and quarterly reports and other documents
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the Company or such Guarantor will (i) file such reports and
documents with the Commission on or prior to the respective dates
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by which the Company or Guarantor is required to file such documents, (ii)
within 15 days after being required to file the same with the Commission,
deliver such reports and documents with the Trustee, and (iii) within 15 days
after being required to file the same with the Commission, transmit a copy of
each such annual and quarterly report (exclusive of exhibits) by mail to all
Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, without
cost to such Holders. If the Company or a Guarantor is not required to file
annual and quarterly reports and other documents with the Commission pursuant to
either of such provisions, the Company or such Guarantor will, within 15 days of
the date by which the Company or Guarantor would have been required to file the
same with the Commission if it were so required, (i) deliver to the Trustee a
document containing substantially the same kind of information as the Company
would have been required to include in each annual and quarterly report filed
with the Commission if it were so required and (ii) transmit a copy of each
document required to be delivered to the Trustee (exclusive of exhibits) by mail
to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register,
without cost to such Holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company or a
Guarantor is not required to file annual or quarterly reports and other
documents with the Commission because information about the Company or the
Guarantor is contained in the annual and quarterly reports and other documents
filed by another entity with the Commission, the delivery to the Trustee of the
annual and quarterly reports and other documents filed by such entity with the
Commission and the transmittal by mail to all Holders of each annual and
quarterly report filed with the Comission by such entity within the time periods
set forth in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to satisfy the obligations
of the Company or the Guarantor to provide financial information under this
Section 1009.
SECTION 1010. Statement as to Compliance. The Company and each Guarantor
will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year,
a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of its
compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture and, in the
event of any noncompliance, specifying such noncompliance and the nature and
status thereof. For purposes of this Section 1010, such compliance shall be
determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under
this Indenture.
SECTION 1011. Additional Amounts. If any Securities of a series provide
for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any
Security of such series or any coupon appertaining thereto Additional Amounts as
may be specified as contemplated by Section 301. Whenever in this Indenture
there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of Section 502(1), the
payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any
Security of any series or payment of any related coupon or the net proceeds
received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention
shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided
by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301 to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of
Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made.
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Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, if the
Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least
10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of
Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to
Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is
made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and any
premium or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set
forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the Company will furnish the
Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than
the Trustee, with an Officers' Certificate instructing the Trustee and such
Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of and any
premium or interest on the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of
Securities of that series or any related coupons who are not United States
persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other
governmental charge described in the Securities of the series. If any such
withholding shall be required, then such Officers' Certificate shall specify by
country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such
Holders of Securities of that series or related coupons and the Company will pay
to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms
of such Securities. In the event that the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the
case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned certificate, then the
Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled (i) to assume that no such
withholding or deduction is required with respect to any payment of principal,
premium, if any, or interest with respect to any Securities of a series or
related coupons until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise
and (ii) to make all payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest with
respect to the Securities of a series or related coupons without withholding or
deductions until otherwise advised. The Company covenants to indemnify the
Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on
their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any
of them or in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this
Section or in reliance on the Company's not furnishing such an Officers'
Certificate.
SECTION 1012. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in any
particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in
Sections 1004 to 1011, inclusive, if before or after the time for such
compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all
outstanding Securities of such series, 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 and the duties of the Trustee
in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force
and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article. Securities of any series which
are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance
with their terms and (except as
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otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series)
in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. 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 of less
than all of the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 15 days
prior to the giving of the notice of redemption in Section 1104 (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee, for purposes of the
Trustee's administrative convenience), notify the Trustee in writing of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such 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 or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If less
than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day with the same terms
are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date with the same terms
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that
series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities
of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar
(if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and,
in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, 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.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be given
in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 30 days nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified by the
terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301, to each Holder of
Securities to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner herein
provided to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or
in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the
validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other such Security or
portion thereof.
Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered Securities in the
manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given,
whether or not the Holder receives the notice.
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All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption Date
payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any,
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
principal amount) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed,
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice
which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption
Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will receive, without a
charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the
principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and accrued
interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any,
will become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to
be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on
and after said date,
(6) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities, together in
the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if any,
maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, or for conversion,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case,
(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities
of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied by all
coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for redemption or the amount of
any such missing coupon or coupons will be deducted from the Redemption Price,
unless security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee
for such series and any Paying Agent is furnished,
(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any
Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such Bearer
Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject to redemption
on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as
determined by the Company, on which such exchanges may be made,
(10) the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and
(11) if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to convert
Securities for redemption must satisfy the requirements for conversion contained
in such Securities, the then existing conversion price or rate, and the date and
time when the option to convert shall expire.
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Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by the
Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price. At least one Business Day
prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with
a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it
may not do in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the
currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable
(except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of
such series) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of,
and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 or in the Securities of such series)
accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be
redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of redemption
having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the
Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein
specified in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series
are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the
Securities of such series) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the
Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default
in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities
shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the coupons
for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed,
except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all
coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that
installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency
located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002)
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon
presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest; and provided further
that, except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
Registered Securities of a series, installments of interest on Registered
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be
furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security
shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in
respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price,
such Holder shall be entitled to
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receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by
coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United
States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender
of those coupons.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, and, to the extent
legally enforceable, interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original
Issue Discount Securities) on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security on the Redemption
Date.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part. Any Registered Security which
is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of
Article Twelve) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if
the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge a new Security or Securities of
the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a
series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the
terms of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. The
Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to the Securities of a series, (1) deliver Outstanding
Securities of such series (other than any previously called for redemption)
together in the case of any Bearer Securities of such series with all unmatured
coupons appertaining thereto and (2) apply as a credit Securities of such series
which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the
terms of such
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Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund
payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, as provided for by the terms
of such Securities, or which have otherwise been acquired by the Company;
provided that such Securities so delivered or applied as a credit have not been
previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such
purpose by the Trustee at the applicable Redemption Price specified in such
Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount
of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than 60
days prior to each sinking fund payment date for Securities of any series, the
Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the
amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series) and the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series
pursuant to Section 1202, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash
to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited. If such Officers'
Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next
ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated
to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days before each such
sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 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 1104. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article. Repayment of Securities of any
series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be
made in accordance with the terms of such Securities, if any, and (except as
otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section
301) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities. Securities of any series subject
to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will,
unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price
equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon
accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such
Securities. The Company covenants that at least one Business Day prior to the
Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or currencies in
which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
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otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series)
sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the
Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, and (except if the
Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 301 or in the Securities of such series) accrued interest
on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on
such date.
SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option. Securities of any series subject to
repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an "Option to Elect
Repayment" form on the reverse of such Securities. In order for any Security to
be repaid at the option of the Holder, the Trustee must receive at the Place of
Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place
or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of
such Securities) not earlier than 60 days nor later than 30 days prior to the
Repayment Date (1) the Security so providing for such repayment together with
the "Option to Elect Repayment" form on the reverse thereof duly completed by
the Holder (or by the Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing) or (2) a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member of a national
securities exchange, or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
("NASD"), or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States setting
forth the name of the Holder of the Security, the principal amount of the
Security, the principal amount of the Security to be repaid, the CUSIP number,
if any, or a description of the tenor and terms of the Security, a statement
that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee
that the Security to be repaid, together with the duly completed form entitled
"Option to Elect Repayment" on the reverse of the Security, will be received by
the Trustee not later than the fifth Business Day after the date of such
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter; provided, however, that such
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter shall only be effective if
such Security and form duly completed are received by the Trustee by such fifth
Business Day. If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be
repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of
such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for
Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security
or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount
of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified. The
principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the
Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the
unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum
authorized denomination of Securities of the series of which such Security to be
repaid is a part. Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any
Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof, exercise
of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the
Company.
SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and
Payable. If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of
the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this Article and
as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or
the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and
payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein
specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such
Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and
the coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to
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be repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of
any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together
with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment
Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the
Company, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date;
provided, however, that coupons whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Repayment Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the
United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, only upon presentation and
surrender of such coupons; and provided further that, in the case of Registered
Securities (except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or
the Registered Securities of a series), installments of interest, if any, whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but
without interest thereon, unless the Company shall default in the payment
thereof) to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be accompanied
by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Repayment Date, such Security may
be paid after deducting from the amount payable therefor as provided in Section
1302 an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the
surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the
Trustee if there shall be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they
may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter
the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent
any such missing coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made as
provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the
amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by coupons
shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
(except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those
coupons.
If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall
not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (and, to the
extent legally enforceable, the interest, if any, thereon accrued to such
Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the
rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) borne by such Security on the Repayment Date.
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part. Upon surrender of any Registered
Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without
service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new Registered Security or
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the
Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered which is not to be
repaid.
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If, pursuant to Section 301, provision is
made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of or within a
series under Section 1402 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or
within a series under Section 1403, then the provisions of such Section or
Sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article
(with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section 301
with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto, and the Company may at its option by Board
Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 1402 (if applicable) or Section 1403
(if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this
Article.
SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise of
the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or
within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto on the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 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 Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "Outstanding" only
for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other Sections of this Indenture
referred to in clauses (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all of its other
obligations under such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto are
concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of
Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1404 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto when such payments are due, (B) the Company's obligations with respect
to such Securities under Sections 305, 306, 1002 and 1003 and with respect to
the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by
Section 1011, and under or with respect to Section 606 hereof, (C) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (D) the rights
of Holders to convert Securities, if any, in accordance with their terms, and
(E) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company
may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the prior exercise of
its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto.
SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or
within a series, the Company shall be released from its obligations under
Sections 1004 to 1010, inclusive, and, if specified
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pursuant to Section 301, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect
to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on and after
the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter,
"covenant defeasance"), and such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto
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 Sections 1004 to 1010,
inclusive, 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 Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, 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 default or an Event of Default under Section 501(4) or 501(10) or
otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of
this Indenture and such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be
unaffected thereby.
SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to application of Section 1402 or Section 1403
to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series and any coupons appertaining
thereto:
(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 607 who shall agree in writing with the Company and the Trustee, an
executed copy of which shall be provided to the Trustee, to comply with the
provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it (any such other trustee
being referred to herein, and in Section 1405, as an "Other Qualifying Trustee")
as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments,
specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, (1) an
amount in such currency or currencies in which such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity, or (2)
Government Obligations applicable to such Securities and coupons appertaining
thereto (determined on the basis of the currency or currencies in which such
Securities and coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at
Stated Maturity) which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest
in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than
one day before the due date of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto,
money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount,
sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and
interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or
Other Qualifying Trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or
installment of principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund
payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto on the day on which such payments are due and
payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture
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and of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto. The Trustee shall
have no liability for the actions or omissions of any Other Qualifying Trustee.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach
or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other
material agreement or instrument to which the Company or a Guarantor is a party
or by which it is bound.
(c) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or
both would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and be continuing on the date
of such deposit or, insofar as Sections 501(6) and 501(7) are concerned, at any
time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it
being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the
expiration of such period).
(d) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating 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
Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such
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 defeasance
had not occurred.
(e) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of
such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto 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.
(f) 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 1402 or the covenant defeasance under
Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that either (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to
subsection (a) above and the related exercise of the Company's option under
Section 1402 or Section 1403 (as the case may be), registration is not required
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Company, with
respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such
trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act have been
effected.
(g) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, 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 pursuant to Section 301.
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SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions. Subject to the provisions of the last
paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Government Obligations (or other
property as may be provided pursuant to Section 301) (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or Other Qualifying Trustee) pursuant to
Section 1404 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee
(or such Other Qualifying Trustee, as applicable), in accordance with the
provisions of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto 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 (or such
Other Qualifying Trustee, as applicable) may determine, to the Holders of such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become
due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to
Section 301, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 1404(a) has been made,
(a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is
entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 301 or the terms of such
Security to receive payment in a currency other than that in which the deposit
pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a
Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency in which the deposit pursuant
to Section 1404(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security
and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and will be,
fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any), and interest, if any, on such Security as the same becomes due
out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below
in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in
respect of such Security into the currency in which such Security becomes
payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on the applicable
market exchange rate for such currency in effect on the second Business Day
prior to each payment date, except, with respect to a Conversion Event, for such
currency in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 1404 or the principal and interest received in respect
thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the
account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, subject to
Section 606, the Trustee (or such Other Qualifying Trustee, as applicable) shall
deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money
or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by
it as provided in Section 1404 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which
would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant
defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article.
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. A meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and from time to
time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series.
SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. (a) The Trustee may at
any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series for any purpose
specified in Section 1501, to be held at such time and at such place in Boston,
Massachusetts, or in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in
London as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting
and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be
given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 180
days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of
Securities of such series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, by written
request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at
the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the
notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not
thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the
Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount above
specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in Boston,
Massachusetts, or in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in
London for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving
notice thereof as provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. To be entitled to
vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall be
(1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series, or (2) a
Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of
one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders. The
only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at
such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its
counsel and any representatives of the Company or a Guarantor and their counsel.
SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action. The Persons entitled to vote a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a
quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series; provided, however,
that if any action is to be taken at such
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meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly
provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled
to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting
shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be
dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned
meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not
less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any
adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1502(a), except that
such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on
which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of
any adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above,
of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series which shall
constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution presented
to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present
as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided,
however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution
with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides may be made,
given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a
majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be
adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a
quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such
specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related coupons,
whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1504, if any
action is to be taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series with
respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given
or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount of all
Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and
one or more additional series:
(i) there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such meeting; and
(ii) the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
that vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action shall be taken into account in determining
whether such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action has been made, given or taken under this Indenture.
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SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may
make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Securities of a series in regard to proof of the holding of
Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other
matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding
of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the
appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104
or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy witnessed or
guaranteed by any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to
certify to the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed
valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(b), in which
case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting,
as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A
permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by
vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy
shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided,
however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any
Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting
to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote,
except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called
pursuant to Section 1502 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time
to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting, and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings. The vote
upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures
of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy
and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities of
such series held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting
shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the
meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all
votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings
of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any Series shall be
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prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said
record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot
taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the
fact, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said
notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and, if applicable, Section 1504.
Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent
chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to
the Company and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the
latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so
signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1601. Guarantee. (1) Each Person designated as a "Guarantor" in
the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers' Certificate
establishing a series of Securities that also establishes itself as a Guarantor
of such Securities by Board Resolution or pursuant to authority granted by one
or more Board Resolutions and set forth, or determined in the manner provided,
in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, with respect to each series of Securities to which this
Article Sixteen is made applicable, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees
(the "Guarantee") to each Holder of a Security of such series authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns,
irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the
Securities of such series or the obligations of the Company under this Indenture
or the Securities of such series, that: (i) the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on, or any Additional Amount in respect of, the Securities of
such series will be paid in full when due, whether at the Stated Maturity or
Interest Payment Date, by acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise; (ii)
all other obligations of the Company to the Holders of such series or the
Trustee under this Indenture or the Securities of such series will be promptly
paid in full, all in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the
Securities of such series; and (iii) in case of any extension of time of payment
or renewal of any Securities of such series or any of such other obligations
thereunder, they will be paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of
the extension or renewal, whether at the Stated Maturity or Interest Payment
Date, by acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise. Failing payment when
due of any amount so guaranteed for whatever reason, each Guarantor shall be
obligated to pay the same before failure so to pay becomes an Event of Default
with respect to Securities of any series. If the Company defaults in the payment
of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on, or any Additional Amount
in respect of, the Securities of a series so guaranteed when and as the same
shall become due, whether at the Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Date, by
acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise, without the necessity of action
by the Trustee or any Holder, each Guarantor with respect to such series shall
be required to promptly make such payment in full. The obligations of all
Guarantors under this Article Sixteen shall be joint and several.
(2) Each Guarantor agrees with respect to Securities of any series that
its obligations with regard to this Guarantee shall be as principal and not
merely as surety and shall
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be full, irrevocable and unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity
or enforceability of the Securities of such series or this Indenture, the
absence of any action to enforce the same, any delays in obtaining or realizing
upon or failures to obtain or realize upon collateral, the recovery of any
judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other
circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or
defense of a surety or a guarantor. Each Guarantor with respect to Securities of
any series hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of
claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any
right to require a proceeding first against the Company or right to require the
prior disposition of the assets of the Company to meet its obligations, protest,
notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that this Guarantee will not be
discharged except by complete performance of all obligations contained in the
Securities of such series and this Indenture as it relates to such series of
Securities.
(3) If any Holder of Securities of a series or the Trustee is required by
any court or otherwise to return to any of the Company or a Guarantor with
respect to Securities of that series, or any Custodian, trustee, or similar
official acting in relation to any of the Company or a Guarantor, any amount
paid by any of the Company or a Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder with
respect to Securities of that series, the Guarantee with respect to Securities
of that series, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in
full force and effect. Each Guarantor agrees that it will not be entitled to any
right of subrogation in relation to the Holders of Securities of a series in
respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all
obligations of Securities of such series. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as
between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the
other hand, (i) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be
accelerated as provided in Section 502 for the purposes of a Guarantee,
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such
acceleration as to the Company of the obligations so guaranteed, and (ii) in the
event of any declaration of acceleration of those obligations as provided in
Section 502, those obligations (whether or not due and payable) will forthwith
become due and payable by the Guarantors with respect to Securities of a series
for purposes of the Guarantee.
(4) Each Guarantor and by its acceptance of a Security issued hereunder
each Holder hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that
the Guarantee by each Guarantor set forth in Section 1601(1) not constitute a
fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purpose of any Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform
Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar
Federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders and all
Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each of the
Guarantors under the Guarantee set forth in Section 1601(1) shall be limited to
the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and
fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, and after giving effect to any collections
from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the
obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to the next
succeeding sentence, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under such
Guarantee not constituting such a fraudulent transfer or conveyance. Each
Guarantor that makes any payment or distribution under Section 1601(1) shall be
entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor equal to its Pro Rata
Portion of such payment or distribution. For purposes of the
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foregoing, the "Pro Rata Portion" of any Guarantor means the percentage of net
assets of all Guarantors held by such Guarantor, determined in accordance with
GAAP.
(5) It is the intention of the parties that the obligations of the
Guarantors shall be in, but not in excess of, the maximum amount permitted by
applicable law. Accordingly, if the obligations in respect of the Guarantee
would be annulled, avoided or subordinated to the creditors of any Guarantor by
a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding actually pending before such
court as a result of a determination both that such Guarantee was made without
fair consideration and, immediately after giving effect thereto, such Guarantor
was insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they mature or left with an
unreasonably small capital, then the obligations of such Guarantor under such
Guarantee shall be reduced by such court if and to the extent such reduction
would result in the avoidance of such annulment, avoidance or subordination;
provided, however, that any reduction pursuant to this paragraph shall be made
in the smallest amount as is strictly necessary to reach such result. For
purposes of this paragraph, "fair consideration," "insolvency," "unable to pay
its debts as they mature," "unreasonably small capital" and the effective times
of reductions, if any, required by this paragraph shall be determined in
accordance with applicable law.
(6) If the obligations of any Guarantor are reduced pursuant to Section
1601(4) or 1601(5) above, such reduction shall be applied proportionately with
respect to all Securities (of whatever series) guaranteed under Section 1601, in
accordance with the respective outstanding principal amount of such Securities
so guaranteed (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, the
accreted value of such Securities) and being then due upon the acceleration of
the payment of such Securities.
(7) A Guarantor may consolidate with, sell, lease or convey all or
substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into, the Company, a
Subsidiary of the Company or another Guarantor at any time without limitation,
provided that, if the successor entity or entity acquiring the assets is a
Subsidiary of the Company or is another Guarantor, the successor entity
expressly or by operation of law assumes all of the obligations of the Guarantor
under this Indenture in connection with the transaction. In any such case,
the Guarantor shall be released from all obligations under this Indenture.
(8) In addition to the transactions permitted by Section 1601(7), a
Guarantor may consolidate with, sell, lease or convey all or substantially all
of its assets to, or merge with or into, any other corporation, provided that,
in any such case, the Guarantor shall be the continuing corporation or the
successor corporation or corporation acquiring the assets shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a State thereof
and such successor corporation shall expressly assume all of the obligations of
the Guarantor under this Indenture by supplemental indenture complying with
Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the
Trustee by such corporation. In any such case, the Guarantor shall be released
from all obligations under this Indenture. Any such consolidation, sale, lease,
conveyance or merger is also subject to the condition that the Trustee receive
an Officers' Certificate of the Guarantor and an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the transaction, and the assumption by any successor corporation,
complies with the provisions of this Section 1601(8) and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with.
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(9) Upon a sale, transfer or other disposition of Capital Stock of a
Subsidiary Guarantor by the Company to a Person other than the Company, which
disposition (i) is not subject to Section 1601(7), Section 1601(8) or Article
Eight, (ii) causes such Guarantor to no longer be a Subsidiary of the Company,
(iii) is for consideration at least equal to the fair value of the Capital Stock
disposed of (in the good faith determination of the Board of Directors of the
Company) and (iv) is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture,
such Guarantor shall be released from all obligations under this Indenture. Upon
the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and, if
requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
transaction or series of related transactions giving rise to the release of such
obligations was made in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the
release of such Guarantor from its obligations. Any Guarantor not so released
remains liable for the full amount of principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities as
provided in this Article Sixteen.
SECTION 1602. Future Guarantors. Each Person providing a guarantee of
Securities of the series that is not a party to this Indenture shall execute and
deliver a supplemental indenture making such Person a party to this Indenture
for the purpose of becoming a Guarantor.
SECTION 1603. Delivery of Guarantee. The delivery of any Security of a
series by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall
constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in Section 1601 on behalf of
each Guarantor for that series.
SECTION 1604. No Liability of Shareholders, Trustees or Officers of NPRT.
This Indenture and all documents, agreements, understandings and arrangements
relating to any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby have been executed or
entered into by an officer of NPRT as Guarantor in his/her capacity as an
officer of NPRT, which has been formed as a Massachusetts business trust
pursuant to its Declaration of Trust, and not individually, and the trustees,
officers and shareholders of NPRT shall not be bound or have any personal
liability hereunder or thereunder. Resort shall be had solely to the assets of
NPRT for satisfaction of any liability of NPRT in respect of this Indenture and
all documents, agreements, understandings and arrangements relating to any
transaction contemplated hereby or thereby and no recourse shall be sought or
action commenced against any of the trustees, officers or shareholders of NPRT
or any of their personal assets for the performance or payment of any obligation
hereunder or thereunder. The foregoing shall also apply to any future documents,
agreements, understandings, arrangements and transactions entered into by NPRT
pursuant to this Indenture.
* * * * *
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same Indenture.
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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.
NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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[SEAL] Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Attest:
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Title: Senior Vice President
NEW PLAN REALTY TRUST
as Guarantor
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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[SEAL] Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Attest:
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Title: Senior Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Vice President
Attest:
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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) ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the 2nd day of February 1999, before me personally came ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is Senior Vice President of NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC., one of
the entities described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that
he/she knows the seal of said entity; that the seal affixed to said instrument
is such entity's seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like
authority.
[Notarial Seal]
/s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
COMMISSION EXPIRES
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the 2nd day of February 1999, before me personally came ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is Senior Vice President of NEW PLAN REALTY TRUST, one of the entities
described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he/she knows the
seal of said entity; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such entity's
seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Trustees of said
entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like authority.
[Notarial Seal]
/s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
COMMISSION EXPIRES
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS )
) ss:
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK )
On the 3 day of February 1999, before me personally came ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
is Vice President of STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, one of the entities
described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he/she knows the
seal of said entity; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such entity's
seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like authority.
[Notarial Seal]
/s/ Rose ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
COMMISSION EXPIRES
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EXHIBIT A
FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED
TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST
PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
To: [Euroclear] [Cedelbank]
From: [Beneficial Holder]
This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as set forth
below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i) are owned
by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic
partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income of which
is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source
("United States person(s)"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are
(a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial
institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section
2.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions") purchasing
for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired
the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions
and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on
the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States
financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent,
that you may advise New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. (the "Company") or its
agent that such financial institution will comply with the requirements of
Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United
States or foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the
restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section
1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, in addition, if the owner is a United States or
foreign financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not
also described in clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such
financial institution has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale
directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the
United States or its possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of America
(including the States and the District of Columbia); and its "possessions"
include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island
and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the
date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to the
above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with your
Operating Procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such
date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this
certification applies as of such date.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S.$] ___________ of
such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect of which we are not
able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange for an interest in a
Permanent Global Security or an exchange for and delivery of definitive
Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be made until we
do so certify.
We understand that this certificate may be required in connection with
certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative or legal
proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
This certificate may be relied upon by you and each of the Company, State
Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee under the Indenture dated as of
February 3, 1999 between State Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee,
and the Company (the "Indenture") and any Paying Agent (as defined in the
Indenture).
Dated: ___________________, 19__
[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior to (i) the Exchange Date or (ii)
the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as
applicable]
[Name of Person Making
Certification]
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(Authorized Signator)
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CEDELBANK IN
CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY
GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE
EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
To: State Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee") under
the Indenture dated as of February 3, 1999 by and between the Company (as
defined below) and the Trustee.
From: [Euroclear] [Cedelbank]
This is to certify that, based solely on written certifications that we
have received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from
each of the persons appearing in our records as persons entitled to a portion of
the principal amount set forth below (our "Member Organizations") substantially
in the form attached hereto, as of the date hereof, [U.S.$] principal amount of
the above-captioned Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens
or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations
or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal
income taxation regardless of its source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) is
owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States
financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. Treasury
Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial
institutions") purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United
States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United
States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United
States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b),
each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its
agent, that we may advise New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. (the "Company") or
its agent that such financial institution will comply with the requirements of
Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) is owned by United States or
foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted
period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section
1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, to the further effect, that financial institutions
described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or
(ii)) have certified that they have not acquired the Securities for purposes of
resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within
the United States or its possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of America
(including the States and the District of Columbia); and its "possessions"
include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island
and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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We further certify that (i) we are not making available herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion of the
temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities excepted
in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations and (ii) as of the
date hereof we have not received any notification from any of our Member
Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member
Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and
cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
We understand that this certification is required in connection with
certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative or legal
proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
This certificate may be relied upon by you and by the Company.
Dated:_____________, 19__
[To be dated no earlier than the Exchange Date or the relevant Interest Payment
Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]
[_______________________,] as
Operator of the Euroclear System
[Cedelbank]
By:
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