PAINEWEBBER/GEODYNE INSTITUTIONAL/PENSION
ENERGY INCOME LIMITED PARTNERSHIP P-4
AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT
OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of
November 20, 1989, among Geodyne Properties, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as
General Partner, and Geodyne Institutional Depositary Company, a Delaware
corporation, the Depositary.
WHEREAS, PaineWebber/Geodyne Institutional/Pension Energy Income P-4
Limited Partnership has heretofore been formed as a limited partnership under
the Oklahoma Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act pursuant to an Certificate
of Limited Partnership dated as of May 10, 1989, and filed for recordation in
the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Oklahoma on June 30, 1989;
and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Agreement of Limited
Partnership of the Limited Partnership and to restate said Agreement in its
entirety;
Now, therefore, in consideration of the mutual promises and agreements
made herein, the parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Defined Terms
The defined terms used in this Agreement shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, have the meanings specified in this Article One. The
singular shall include the plural and the masculine gender shall include the
feminine, the neuter and vice versa, as the context requires. Any terms used in
this Agreement which are defined in the NPI Partnership Agreement and are not
otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the NPI
Partnership Agreement.
"Accountants" shall mean ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & Company or such other nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants as shall be engaged
from time to time by the General Partner for the Limited Partnership.
"Act" shall mean the Oklahoma Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as
amended from time to time.
"Activation" or "Activated" shall mean the date on which (i) with respect
to the Limited Partnership, the Depositary, on behalf of the Unit Holders, shall
have contributed the Unit Holders' Subscriptions to the Limited Partnership and
(ii) with respect to the NPI Partnership, the Limited Partnership shall have
made its capital contribution to the NPI Partnership.
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"Affiliate" shall mean, when used with reference to a specified Person:
(a) any Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling, or holding with power
to vote 10% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the specified
Person; (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting securities are
directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held with power to vote by the
specified Person; (c) any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled
by, or under common control with, the specified Person; (d) any Person who is an
officer, director, partner or trustee of, or serves in a similar capacity with
respect to, the specified Person or of which the specified Person is an officer,
director, partner or trustee, or with respect to which the specified Person
serves in a similar capacity; and (e) any relative or spouse of the specified
Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Person shall be deemed to be an
Affiliate solely by reason of its ownership of Depositary Units or limited
partnership interests in a limited partnership.
"Affiliated Program" shall mean a drilling or income program (whether in
the form of a limited partnership, general partnership, joint venture or
otherwise) interests in which were offered (but not necessarily exclusively) to
persons or entities not engaged in a trade or business within the oil and gas
industry (other than by virtue of their participation in an Affiliated Program)
and of which the General Partner or Affiliate serves as general partner,
venturer, sponsor or manager.
"Agreement" shall mean this Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited
Partnership as originally executed and as amended from time to time.
"Capital Account" shall mean, as to any Partner or Unit Holder, an
account maintained on the books of the Limited Partnership in accordance with
the provisions of Section 5.3D) below.
"Capital Contribution" shall mean the cash contribution of a Partner to
the Limited Partnership.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any
corresponding provisions of succeeding law).
"Commissions" shall mean the cash fees payable to the Dealer Manager and
the Selected Dealers in connection with their participation in the offering of
Depositary Units.
"Consent" shall mean the consent of a Person, given as provided in
Section 12.1, to do the act or thing for which the consent is solicited, or the
act of granting such consent, as the context may require.
"Dealer Manager" shall mean PaineWebber Incorporated, a Delaware
corporation.
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"Depositary" shall mean Geodyne Institutional Depositary Company, a
Delaware corporation and the Limited Partner or any Person who at the time of
reference thereto has been admitted to the Limited Partnership with the consent
of the General Partner as a successor to the Interest of Geodyne Institutional
Depositary Company in the Limited Partnership.
"Depositary Receipt" shall mean a certificate issued in registered form
by the Depositary evidencing the ownership of one or more Depositary Units.
"Depositary Unit" shall mean an increment of the attributes of the
Interest of the Depositary as a Limited Partner that is assigned to a Unit
Holder.
"Direct Administrative Costs" shall mean the actual and necessary direct
costs attributable to services provided to the Limited Partnership by parties
other than the General Partner or its Affiliates, whether incurred by the
Limited Partnership directly or incurred by the General Partner or its
Affiliates, including the annual audit fees, legal fees and expenses, the cost
of reviewing tax returns and reports, the cost of evaluations prepared by
independent petroleum engineers pursuant to Section 10.4C of this Agreement and
all other such costs directly incurred by or for the benefit of the Limited
Partnership.
"Distributable Cash" shall mean, with respect to the Limited
Partnership's operations at any time, the amount of cash assets on hand at such
time less amounts required to be retained out of such cash assets, in the sole
judgment of the General Partner, to pay costs, expenses or other obligations
whether then accrued or anticipated to accrue in the future.
"Eligible Investor" shall mean a Person who is an "independent producer"
for purposes of the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 and who qualifies
for the lower rate of tax on Tier 1 and Tier 2 oil. As of the date hereof, the
term "independent producer" means any Person other than a Person who either (i)
sells petroleum products, directly or through "related" Persons, through retail
outlets, if gross sales of petroleum products exceed $5,000,000 in any calendar
year or (ii) refines, in conjunction with "related" Persons, more than 50,000
barrels of crude oil on any day during a calendar year. A "related" Person
includes any Person in which a Person has a significant ownership interest (5%
or more), or which has such an interest in the Person, or in which a third
Person having such an interest in the Person also has an interest.
"Fiscal Year" shall mean the calendar year.
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"General and Administrative Costs" shall mean all customary and routine
legal, accounting, data processing, depreciation (other than depreciation
relating to real property), geological, engineering, travel, office rent,
telephone, secretarial, employee compensation and benefits, and other items of a
general and administrative nature, whether like or unlike the foregoing, and any
other incidental expenses reasonably necessary to the conduct of the Limited
Partnership's business, and generated by the General Partner or any Affiliate
(including the Depositary) other than an Affiliated Program computed on a cost
basis, determined by the General Partner in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles and subject to review by an independent public accountant
or certified public accountant in connection with the annual audit of the
Limited Partnership and its Affiliates. General and Administrative Costs shall
not include any Direct Administrative Costs or costs of the NPI Partnership.
"General Partner" shall mean Geodyne Properties, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, acting in such capacity, and any other Person admitted as an
additional or substituted General Partner pursuant to the provisions of Article
Six of this Agreement.
"Geodyne Properties" shall mean Geodyne Properties, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
"Hydrocarbons" shall mean crude oil, natural gas, condensate, natural gas
liquids and other liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons.
"Incapacity" or "Incapacitated" shall mean the adjudication of bankruptcy
(except that, in the case of the General Partner, the term "bankruptcy" shall
mean only being subject to Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of
1978), of interdiction, of incompetence, or of insanity, or the death,
dissolution or termination (other than by merger or consolidation under which
the surviving entity agrees to assume all of the obligations and
responsibilities of the merged or consolidated Person set forth in this
Agreement), as the case may be, of any Person.
"Income" shall mean the gross income of the Limited Partnership or the
NPI Partnership (as the context may require) as determined for Federal income
tax purposes, including all capital or Code Section 1231 gains (but not losses).
"Income Program" shall mean any program whose investment objective is to
directly acquire, hold, operate, and/or dispose of producing oil and gas
properties. An Income Program may acquire any type of ownership interest in a
producing property, including but not limited to working interests, royalties,
or production payments. A program which spends at last 90% of capital
contributions and funds borrowed (excluding offering and organizational
expenses) in the above described activities is presumed to be an Income Program.
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"Interest" shall mean the entire ownership interest (which may, either
for a Partner's Capital Account or a Partner's interest in Distributable Cash,
be expressed as a percentage) of a Partner in the Limited Partnership at any
particular time, including the rights and obligations of such Partner under this
Agreement and the Act.
"Limited Partner" shall mean the Depositary.
"Limited Partnership" shall mean the limited partnership continued
hereby.
"Limited Partnership Account" shall mean the bank account or accounts
established by the General Partner pursuant to Section 10.3 of this Agreement.
"Limited Partnership Property" shall mean all interest, property and
right of any type owned by the Limited Partnership.
"Managing Partner" shall mean Geodyne Energy Company, a Delaware
corporation, in such capacity, and any successor acting in such capacity.
"Net Profits Interest" shall mean an interest in a Producing Property
which entitles the holder thereof to a share of the gross revenues from oil and
gas production from the Producing Property less all operating, production,
development, transportation, transmission and marketing expenses, severance,
sales, ad valorem and excise taxes (including the windfall profit tax)
attributable to such production.
"Notification" shall mean a writing, containing the information required
by this Agreement to be communicated to any Person, hand delivered or sent by
registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, to such
Person at the last known address of such Person, the date of the certified
receipt (or such other evidence of receipt) therefor being deemed the date of
the giving of Notification; provided, however, that any written communication
containing the information sent or delivered to the Person and actually received
by the Person shall constitute Notification for all purposes of this Agreement.
"NPI Partnership" shall mean the general partnership of which the Limited
Partnership shall be a general partner.
"NPI Partnership Agreement" shall mean the agreement of general
partnership under which the NPI Partnership is formed, as amended from time to
time.
"NPI Partnership Well" shall mean any well in which the NPI Partnership
has a Royalty or Net Profits Interest.
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"Organization and Offering Costs" shall mean all costs and expenses
incurred by the General Partner and its Affiliates in connection with the
organization and activation of the Limited Partnership, including, without
limitation, the legal, printing, accounting and other direct and indirect costs
incurred in connection with preparing, filing and recording of this Agreement,
the costs incurred with respect to the registration for offer and sale of the
Depositary Units under applicable federal and state securities laws, the
wholesale offering and marketing fees and expenses of the Dealer Manager and
Geodyne Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of Geodyne Resources which is a
registered broker-dealer, and other front--end fees (other than any organization
and offering costs as defined in the NPI Partnership Agreement). Organization
and Offering Costs shall not include the Commissions paid to the Dealer Manager
or reallowed to the Selected Dealers, but shall include fees and expenses
(including expense reimbursements) paid to persons in connection with the
offering and sale of Depositary Units and issuing Depositary Receipts, including
due diligence costs; and, subject to the Dealer Manager's control, sales
incentive items, including but not limited to travel bonuses, and awards for
account executives participating in the offering and sales incentives and other
payments offered to representatives of the Dealer Manager to promote the
solicitation of subscriptions.
"Partner" shall mean the General Partner or any Limited Partner.
"Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, corporation, trust or
other entity.
"Prior Limited Partnership" shall mean any limited partnership activated
prior to the Activation of the Limited Partnership of which depositary units or
units of limited partnership interest were offered and sold pursuant to the
Prospectus or pursuant to the prospectus prepared for the PaineWebber/Geodyne
Energy Income Programs I and II.
"Producing Property" shall mean any property (or interest in such
property) with a well or ▇▇▇▇▇ capable of producing Hydrocarbons in commercial
quantities or properties unitized with such properties or properties adjacent to
such properties which are acquired as an incidental part of the acquisition of
such properties. The term also includes well machinery and equipment, gathering
systems, storage facilities or processing installations or other equipment and
property associated with the production of Hydrocarbons.
"Profits" and "Losses" shall mean the net income or net losses of the
Limited Partnership for federal income tax purposes determined as of the close
of the Limited Partnership's Fiscal Year, as well as, when the context requires,
any tax-exempt income and nondeductible expenses.
"Prospectus" shall mean the prospectus pursuant to which the Depositary
Units were offered, including all supplements or amendments thereto delivered in
such offering, if any.
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"Proved Reserves" shall mean those quantities of Hydrocarbons, which,
upon analysis of geologic and engineering data, appear with reasonable certainty
to be recoverable in the future from known Hydrocarbon reservoirs under existing
economic and operating conditions. Proved Reserves are limited to those
quantities of Hydrocarbons which can be expected, with little doubt, to be
recoverable commercially at current prices and costs, under existing regulatory
practices and with existing conventional equipment and operating methods.
Depending upon their status of development, such Proved Reserves shall be
subdivided into the following classifications and have the following
definitions:
(a) "Proved Developed Reserves" shall mean Proved Reserves which
can be expected to be recovered through existing ▇▇▇▇▇ with existing
equipment and operating methods. This classification shall include:
(1) "Proved Developed Producing Reserves" which are Proved
Developed Reserves which are expected to be produced from existing
▇▇▇▇▇; and
(2) "Proved Developed Non-Producing Reserves" which are
Proved Developed Reserves which exist behind the casing of existing
▇▇▇▇▇, or at minor depths below the present bottom of such ▇▇▇▇▇,
which are expected to be produced through these ▇▇▇▇▇ in the
predictable future, where the cost of making Hydrocarbons available
for production should be relatively small compared to the cost of a
new well.
Additional Hydrocarbons expected to be obtained through the
application of improved recovery techniques are included as "Proved
Developed Reserves" only after testing by a pilot project or after the
operation of an installed program has confirmed through production
responses that increased recovery will be achieved.
(b) "Proved Undeveloped Reserves" shall mean all reserves which are
expected to be recovered from new ▇▇▇▇▇ on undrilled acreage or from
existing ▇▇▇▇▇ where a relatively major expenditure is required for
recompletion. Such reserves on undrilled acreage are limited to those
drilling units offsetting productive units which are reasonably certain
of production when drilled; provided that proved reserves for other
undrilled units can be claimed where it can be demonstrated with
certainty, based on accepted geological, geophysical and engineering
studies and data, that there is continuity of production from an existing
productive formation. No estimates for Proved Undeveloped Reserves are
attributable to any acreage for which improved recovery is contemplated,
unless the techniques to be employed have been proved effective by actual
tests in the same area and reservoir.
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"Remove", "Removed" or "Removal" shall mean, with reference to the
removal of the General Partner, the termination of the management powers, duties
and responsibilities of the General Partner pursuant to Sections 6.3 and 6.5 of
this Agreement and the removal of the General Partner as a Partner.
"Royalty" shall mean an interest, including an overriding royalty, in
gross production or the proceeds therefrom which does not require the owner
thereof to bear any of the cost of production, development, operation or
maintenance.
"Sale" shall mean any event or transaction that is, for federal income
tax purposes, considered a sale, exchange or abandonment by the Limited
Partnership of any Limited Partnership Property.
"Selected Dealer" shall mean a member in good standing of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. which has been selected by the Dealer
Manager to offer and sell the Depositary Units.
"Sponsor" shall mean any person directly or indirectly instrumental in
organizing a program or any person who will manage or participate in the
management of a program, including the general partner(s) and any other person
who regularly performs or selects the person who performs 25% of more of the
exploratory, developmental or producing activities of the program, or segment
thereof. "Sponsor" does not include wholly independent third parties such as
attorneys, accountants, and underwriters whose only compensation is for
professional services rendered in connection with the offering of Depositary
Units but does include Affiliates of the Sponsor.
"State" shall mean the State of Oklahoma.
"Subscription Agreement" shall mean the Subscription Agreement in the
form attached to the Prospectus as Exhibit C.
"Subsequent Limited Partnership" shall mean any limited partnership
activated after the Activation of the Limited Partnership of which Depositary
Units are offered and sold pursuant to the Prospectus.
"Substituted Limited Partner" shall mean any Person admitted to the
Limited Partnership as a Partner pursuant to Section 7.3 or Sections 8.1 and 8.2
of this Agreement.
"Unit Holders" shall mean any Person who holds Depositary Receipts in
accordance with Section 7.1 or Section 8.3 hereof as reflected in the records of
the Partnership and the Depositary.
"Unit Holders' Subscription" shall mean the aggregate dollar amount
initially subscribed for by Persons to acquire the Depositary Units.
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"Working Interest" shall mean the interest (whether held directly or
indirectly) in a lease (as defined in the NPI Partnership Agreement) which is
subject to some portion of the expense of production, development, operation or
maintenance.
ARTICLE TWO
Continuation; Name, Place of Business and Office; Term
Section 2.1. Continuation
The parties hereto hereby continue the limited partnership heretofore
formed pursuant to the Act, and the rights and liabilities of the Partners shall
be as provided in the Act, except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Agreement.
Section 2.2. Name, Place of Business and Office, Agent
The Limited Partnership shall be conducted under the name
PaineWebber/Geodyne Institutional/Pension Energy Income Limited Partnership P-4.
The business of the Limited Partnership may, however, be conducted under any
other name deemed necessary or desirable by the General Partner in order to
comply with applicable laws. The office and principal place of business of the
Limited Partnership shall be c/o Geodyne Properties, Inc., ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇. The registered agent of the
Limited Partnership shall be Geodyne Properties, Inc., ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇. The General Partner may change the
principal place of business and the location of such office and may establish
such additional offices as they deem advisable from time to time; provided,
however, that in the event the principal place of business of the Limited
Partnership shall be changed, the General Partner shall provide Notification
thereof to the Unit Holders. The General Partner shall not be obligated to
provide a copy of the Certificate of Limited Partnership as filed with the
Oklahoma Secretary of State to the Limited Partner or Unit Holders.
Section 2.3. Purpose
The business and purpose of the Limited Partnership shall be to become a
general partner in the NPI Partnership. Such business and purpose shall include
the doing of any and all things incident thereto or connected therewith,
including the carrying on of the business of the NPI Partnership in the event of
its termination if it is determined by the General Partner to be in the best
interests of the Unit Holders. The Limited Partnership shall not engage in any
other business or activity.
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Section 2.4 Term
The Limited Partnership shall continue in force and effect until December
31, 2005, provided that the General Partner shall extend the term of the Limited
Partnership for up to five periods of two years each in the event that the NPI
Partnership's term has been so extended, or until dissolution prior thereto
pursuant to the provisions hereof.
ARTICLE THREE
Partners and Capital
Section 3.1. General Partner
A. The name, address and Capital Contribution of the General Partner
are set forth in Schedule A attached hereto and are incorporated herein.
B. The General Partner shall not be required to contribute funds to the
Limited Partnership to pay for Limited Partnership costs allocated to it except
to the extent necessary to pay costs referred to in Section 5.2B and any amounts
required to satisfy its obligations under Section 9.2.
Section 3.2. Limited Partner
A. The name, address and Capital Contribution of the Depositary as
Limited Partner are set forth in Schedule A hereto and are incorporated
herein.
B. Neither the Depositary nor any Unit Holder shall be required to
make any additional capital contribution to the Limited Partnership.
C. The Depositary shall engage in no business activity and shall incur no
liabilities other than acting as Depositary for the Limited Partnership or any
other limited partnership in which depositary units evidencing assignments of
limited partnership interests are offered by the Prospectus. The Depositary
shall not amend its Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws without the prior
Consent of the Limited Partnership.
Section 3.3. Certain Returns of Capital
Any portion of the capital contribution of the Limited Partnership to the
NPI Partnership which is distributed to the Limited Partnership pursuant to
Section 3.4 of the NPI Partnership Agreement shall be distributed promptly to
the Unit Holders in proportion to the Depositary Units held by them as a return
of part of their Subscription. In addition, the General Partner shall contribute
cash to the Limited Partnership (with respect to which its Capital Account
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will be credited) in an amount equal to the amounts paid to the General Partner
or its Affiliates from the Unit Holders' Subscriptions in respect of Commissions
and Organization and Offering Costs attributable (on a proportionate basis) to
the amount of the unexpended Unit Holders' Subscriptions so refunded, which cash
shall be refunded pro rata to the Limited Partners (except that cash
representing refunded Commissions and amounts charged as Organization and
Offering Costs shall be distributed to each Unit Holder in proportion to the
manner in which Commissions and Organization and Offering Costs attributable to
his subscription were payable) together with the unexpended Unit Holders'
Subscriptions.
Section 3.4. Limited Partnership Capital
A. No Partner shall be paid interest on any Capital Contribution to the
Limited Partnership or on such Partner's Capital Account, notwithstanding any
disproportion therein as between Partners.
B. Except as provided in Sections 3.2, 3.3, 6.1 and 9.2 of this
Agreement, no Partner or Unit Holder shall have the right to withdraw or receive
any return of the Capital Contribution. Under circumstances involving a return
of any Capital Contribution, no Limited Partner or Unit Holder shall have
priority over any other Limited Partner nor shall any Partner or Unit Holder
have the right to receive any property other than cash, except as may otherwise
be provided in Sections 6.4 and 9.2A of this Agreement.
C. Any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no Limited
Partner or Unit Holder should have an obligation to restore a deficit balance
that may exist in its Capital Account following the winding up of the Limited
Partnership's business.
Section 3.5. Application of Capital Contributions
A. The General Partner shall deposit in the Limited Partnership Account
the Capital Contributions attributable to the Limited Partner and shall apply
such Capital Contributions to (i) pay to the General Partner an amount equal to
3.5% of the Unit Holders' Subscriptions in consideration of the General
Partner's payment of Organization and Offering Costs, less the amounts of any
reduced charges for such costs allowed by the General Partner, (ii) pay
Commissions, (iii) establish a reasonable reserve for working capital and
payment of the Unit Holders' allocable share of Direct Administrative Costs, and
(iv) contribute the balance of the Partners' Capital Contributions to the NPI
Partnership in exchange for the Limited Partnership's interest therein.
Section 3.6. Liability of Partners and Unit Holders
A. Except as provided in the Act, neither the Depositary nor the
Unit Holders shall be personally liable for any debts, liabilities, contracts
or obligations of the Limited Partnership. To the extent that any
distribution pursuant to Sections 5.1 or 9.2 is deemed to constitute a return
of capital under the Act, the General
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Partner shall not seek to recover any distribution unless the General Partner
has applied all other available Limited Partnership assets to the payment of
liabilities of the Limited Partnership and the liabilities of the Limited
Partnership, other than to Partners, have not been fully paid, satisfied,
assumed or discharged. In no event shall the Depositary or any Unit Holder be
obligated to make any contribution to the Limited Partnership for any purpose
whatsoever other than Capital Contributions of the Depositary representing the
proceeds of the offering of Depositary Units.
B. Geodyne Properties and any General Partner subsequently admitted to
the Limited Partnership agrees that it shall remain generally liable for any
obligation or recourse liability of the Limited Partnership incurred during the
period in which it is a General Partner and to the extent the Limited
Partnership has incurred personal liability.
ARTICLE FOUR
Management
Section 4.1. Management and Control of the Limited Partnership
A. The General Partner, within the authority granted to it under and in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, shall have the full and
exclusive right to manage and control the business and affairs of the Limited
Partnership and to make all decisions regarding the business of the Limited
Partnership and shall have all of the rights, powers and obligations of a
general partner of a limited partnership under the laws of the State.
B. Neither the Depositary or any Unit Holder, as such, shall participate
in the management of or have any control over the Limited Partnership's business
nor shall the Depositary or any Unit Holder, as such, have the power to
represent, act for, sign for or bind the General Partner or the Limited
Partnership. The Depositary and the Unit Holders hereby consent to the exercise
by the General Partner of the powers conferred on it by this Agreement.
Section 4.2. Powers of the General Partner
A. In addition to any other rights and powers which the General Partner
may possess under this Agreement and the Act, the General Partner shall have the
power, except and subject to the extent otherwise provided or limited in this
Agreement:
(i) to contribute the balance (after payment and retention of the
amounts set forth in Section 3.5) of all Capital Contributions to the NPI
Partnership as required by the Limited Partnership's interest therein,
and to execute the NPI Partnership Agreement (including any amendment and
restatement thereof) on behalf of the Limited Partnership;
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(ii) if the NPI Partnership is dissolved, to enter into all
transactions contemplated by the NPI Partnership Agreement, subject to
the limitations and provisions contained therein, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein;
(iii) to maintain the books and records of the Limited
Partnership in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.1;
(iv) subject to Sections 4.5D, 4.5E and 4.5F, to consent to certain
actions on behalf of the Limited Partnership pursuant to the NPI
Partnership Agreement;
(v) to engage in any kind of activity and execute, perform and
carry out contracts, agreements and other documents of any kind necessary
or incidental to, or in connection with, the accomplishment of the
purposes of the Limited Partnership; and
(vi) to perform all duties imposed by Sections 6221 through 6232 of
the Code on the General Partner as "tax matters partner" of the Limited
Partnership, including (but not limited to) the following: (a) the power
to conduct all audits and other administrative proceedings (including
windfall profits tax audits) with respect to Limited Partnership tax
items; (b) the power to extend the statute of limitations for all
Partners and Unit Holders with respect to Limited Partnership tax items;
(c) the power to file a petition with an appropriate federal court for
review of a final Limited Partnership administrative adjustment; and (d)
the power to enter into a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service on
behalf of, and binding upon, the Depositary and those Unit Holders having
less than a 1% interest in Profits unless the Depositary or Unit Holder
notifies the Internal Revenue Service and the General Partner that the
General Partner may not act on its behalf.
B. No person, firm or corporation dealing with the Limited Partnership
shall be required to inquire into the authority of the General Partner to take
or refrain from taking any action or make or refrain from making any decision,
but any person so inquiring shall be entitled to rely upon a certificate of the
General Partner as to its due authorization.
Section 4.3. Prohibited Transactions
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary,
the following transactions are expressly prohibited:
(i) the Limited Partnership shall not make any loans to the
General Partner or any Affiliate;
(ii) except as expressly contemplated hereby, no agent, attorney,
accountant or other independent consultant or contractor who is also
employed on a full-time basis by the General Partner or any Affiliate
shall be compensated by the Limited Partnership for his services;
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(iii) there shall be no commingling of Limited Partnership funds
with funds of any other entity;
(iv) the Limited Partnership shall not make any advance payment
to the General Partner or its Affiliates; and
(v) no creditor who makes a nonrecourse loan to the Limited
Partnership may have or acquire, at any time as a result of making the
loan, any direct or indirect interest in the profits, capital or property
of the Limited Partnership other than as a secured creditor.
Section 4.4. Other Agreements of the General Partner
A. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, it
is agreed that:
(i) the General Partner and its Affiliates shall not take any
action with respect to the assets or property of the Limited Partnership
which does not benefit primarily the Limited Partnership, including the
utilization of Limited Partnership funds as compensating balances for the
benefit of the General Partner or its Affiliates;
(ii) neither the General Partner nor any Affiliate shall render to
the Limited Partnership any services nor sell or lease to the Limited
Partnership any equipment or supplies unless:
(a) the General Partner or Affiliate is engaged,
independently of the Limited Partnership, in the business of
rendering such services or selling or leasing such equipment and
supplies to a substantial extent to other Persons in the industry
in addition to drilling and income programs in which they have an
interest;
(b) the compensation, price or rental therefor is competitive
with the compensation, price or rental of other Persons in the area
engaged in the business of rendering comparable services or selling
or leasing comparable equipment and supplies which could reasonably
be made available to the Limited Partnership; and
(c) provided that, if the General Partner or Affiliate is not
engaged in a business within the meaning of subdivision (a), then
such compensation, price or rental shall be the cost of such
services, equipment or supplies to the General Partner or Affiliate
or the competitive rate which could be obtained in the area,
whichever is less.
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B. In the event the Limited Partnership acquires a direct interest in a
Producing Property, the General Partner shall be subject to the same limitations
imposed upon the Managing Partner set forth in Section 4.3C of the NPI
Partnership Agreement.
Section 4.5. Restrictions on the Authority of the General Partner
A. The General Partner shall not have the authority to:
(i) do any act in contravention of this Agreement or which
would make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the
Limited Partnership;
(ii) confess a judgment against the Limited Partnership;
(iii) possess Limited Partnership Property or assign, pledge or
hypothecate rights in specific Limited Partnership Property for other
than a Limited Partnership purpose;
(iv) admit a Person as a General Partner or a Limited Partner
except as otherwise provided herein; or
(v) perform any act which would result in loss of the Depositary's
status as a limited partner under the Act or the laws of the State or the
loss of limited liability under the laws of any other jurisdiction in
which the Limited Partnership is doing business, or would subject it or
any Unit Holder to liability as a general partner in any jurisdiction
including use of the Depositary's or any Unit Holder's name in conducting
the business of the Limited Partnership.
B. The General Partner shall not lease, sell, abandon or otherwise
dispose of any assets of the Limited Partnership to the General Partner or to
any of its Affiliates; provided, however, that if the Limited Partnership should
own any inventory or other materials which is used tangible property or
equipment used in production or transportation of Hydrocarbons (but excluding
Hydrocarbons), such inventory or materials may be transferred to the General
Partner or any of its Affiliates at the applicable rates set forth in the
standard form of accounting procedure then recommended by the Council of
Petroleum Accountants Societies of North America.
C. Without the consent of the Depositary, which shall be given upon
receipt of the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the outstanding
Depositary Units, the General Partner shall not have the authority to:
(i) lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of at any one time all or
substantially all of the assets of the Limited Partnership other than in
the ordinary course of business;
(ii) elect to dissolve and wind up the Limited Partnership; or
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(iii) except as set forth in Article Eleven, adopt any amendment
to this Agreement.
D. The General Partner shall not cause the Limited Partnership to consent
to, or join in, any amendment, or modification of, or supplement to, or waiver
of the terms of, the NPI Partnership Agreement unless: (i) in the judgment of
the General Partner such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver would not
materially adversely affect the Limited Partnership's rights under the then
existing NPI Partnership Agreement or such amendment, modification, supplement,
or waiver is in the best interests of the Unit Holders; or (ii) if the
conditions of Section 12.3 are satisfied, the Consent of the Depositary is
obtained, which shall he given if the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than
50% of the outstanding Depositary Units is obtained. If the conditions of
Section 12.3 are satisfied, the General Partner shall propose any amendment to
the NPI Partnership Agreement on behalf of the Limited Partnership which is
proposed by Unit Holders owning at least 10% of the outstanding Depositary
Units.
E. Unless the conditions of Section 12.3 are satisfied and the Consent of
the Depositary is obtained, which shall be given if the Consent of Unit Holders
owning more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units is obtained, the
General Partner shall not have the authority to consent on behalf of the Limited
Partnership to the:
(i) lease, sale or other disposition at any one time of all or
substantially all of the assets of the NPI Partnership; or
(ii) dissolution and winding up of the NPI Partnership.
F. Unless the conditions of Section 12.3 are satisfied and the Consent of
the Depositary is obtained, which shall be given if the Consent of Unit Holders
owning more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units is obtained, the
General Partner shall not have the authority to cause the Limited Partnership to
(i) remove the Managing Partner, or (ii) appoint a successor Managing Partner
pursuant to Sections 6.2 and 6.3 of the NPI Partnership Agreement.
Section 4.6. Duties and Obligations of the General Partner
The General Partner shall:
(i) use its best efforts to take all actions that may be necessary or
appropriate for the continuation of the Limited Partnership's valid existence as
a limited partnership or partnership in commendam under the laws of the State
and the laws of any other jurisdiction in which the Limited Partnership is doing
business, and for the acquisition and holding, in accordance with the provisions
of this Agreement and applicable laws and regulations, of the interest of the
Limited Partnership in the NPI Partnership;
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(ii) devote to the Limited Partnership the time that it shall deem to be
necessary to conduct the Limited Partnership's business and affairs in the best
interests of the Limited Partnership;
(iii) be under a fiduciary duty and obligation to conduct the affairs of
the Limited Partnership in the best interests of the Limited Partnership,
including the safekeeping and use of all Limited Partnership funds and assets
(whether or not in the immediate possession or control of the General Partner)
and the use thereof for the benefit of the Limited Partnership;
(iv) at all times act with integrity and good faith and exercise due
diligence in all activities relating to the conduct of the business of the
Limited Partnership and in resolving conflicts of interest;
(v) use its best efforts at all times to maintain its aggregate net worth
at a level that is sufficient to meet all present and future requirements set by
statute, Treasury Regulations, the Internal Revenue Service or the courts to
ensure that the Limited Partnership will not fail to be classified for Federal
income tax purposes as a partnership, rather than as an association taxable as a
corporation, on account of the net worth of the General Partner;
(vi) prepare or cause to be prepared and shall file on or before the due
date (or any extension thereof) any Federal, state or local tax returns required
to be filed by the Limited Partnership;
(vii) cause the Limited Partnership to pay any taxes payable by the
Limited Partnership;
(viii) use its best efforts to cause the Limited Partnership to be
formed, reformed, qualified to do business, or registered under any applicable
assumed or fictitious name statute or similar law in any state in which the
Limited Partnership then owns property or transacts business, if such formation,
reformation, qualification or registration is necessary or advisable in its
counsel's opinion to protect the limited liability of the Depositary and the
Unit Holders or to permit the Limited Partnership lawfully to own property or
transact business;
(ix) from time to time, prepare and file all amendments to this Agreement
and other similar documents that are required by law to be filed and recorded
for any reason, in the office or offices that are required under the laws of the
State or any other state in which the Limited Partnership is then formed or
qualified:
(x) do all other acts and things (including making publications or
periodic filings of this Agreement or amendments hereto or other similar
documents without the necessity of mailing or delivering copies of them to each
Unit Holder) that may now or hereafter be deemed by the General Partner to be
necessary,
(a) for the perfection and continued maintenance of the
Limited Partnership as a limited partnership under the laws of the
State,
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(b) to protect the limited liability of the Depositary and the Unit
Holders under the laws of the State and other jurisdictions in which the
Limited Partnership is doing business, and
(c) to cause this Agreement, certificates or other documents to
reflect accurately the agreement of the Partners and the Unit Holders,
the identity of the Depositary as the Limited Partner and the amount of
its Capital Contribution made by the Depositary on behalf of the Unit
Holders;
(xi) monitor the activities of the NPI Partnership and keep the Unit
Holders informed of them in the manner provided in this Agreement;
(xii) from time to time submit to any appropriate state securities
administrator all documents, papers, statistics and reports required to be filed
with or submitted to such state securities administrator; and
(xiii) inform each Unit Holder of all administrative and judicial
proceedings for an adjustment at the Limited Partnership or NPI Partnership
level for partnership tax items and forward to each Unit Holder within 30 days
of receipt all notices received from the Internal Revenue Service regarding the
commencement of a partnership level audit or a final partnership administrative
adjustment, and to perform all other duties imposed by Sections 6221 through
6232 of the Code on Geodyne Properties as "tax matters partner" of the Limited
Partnership, including (but not limited to) the following: (a) the power to
conduct all audits and other administrative proceedings (including windfall
profit tax audits) with respect to Limited Partnership tax items; (b) the power
to extend the statute of limitations for all Partners with respect to Limited
Partnership tax items; and (c) the power to file a petition with an appropriate
federal court for review of a final partnership administrative adjustment.
Section 4.7. Compensation of the General Partner
A. Except as provided in Articles Four and Five, the General Partner
shall not, either in its capacity as General Partner or in its individual
capacity, receive any salary, fees or profits from the Limited Partnership.
B. In consideration of its payment of Organization and Offering Costs,
the General Partner shall be paid by the Limited Partnership an amount equal to
3.5% of the Unit Holders' Subscriptions upon Activation of the Limited
Partnership. The General Partner shall be reimbursed by the Limited Partnership
for General and Administrative Costs and Direct Administrative Costs incurred by
it on behalf of the Limited Partnership. The amount of General and
Administrative Costs allocable to the accounts of the Unit Holders for which the
General Partner will be reimbursed by the Limited Partnership and the Managing
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Partner by the NPI Partnership will not (i) in the first 12 months following
Activation of the Limited Partnership, exceed an amount equal to 2.5% of the
Unit Holders' Subscription, and (ii) in any succeeding 12 month period, exceed
an amount equal to 1% of the Unit Holders' Subscriptions.
All General and Administrative costs allocable to the accounts of the
Unit Holders will be paid solely out of cash generated from Limited Partnership
Income otherwise distributable to the Unit Holders. To the extent that Income is
insufficient to generate cash sufficient to pay such General and Administrative
Costs in the period in which they are incurred or accrued or if the General
Partner, in its sole discretion, elects to defer payment of such General and
Administrative Costs (and not charge interest thereon during such deferred
period), and in either case the amounts actually reimbursed by the Limited
Partnership do not exceed the forgoing limitations, such unreimbursed General
and Administrative Costs may be carried forward and paid out of cash generated
from Limited Partnership Income otherwise available in the future for
distribution to the Unit Holders or increase the maximum amount of reimbursable
General and Administrative Costs for any other period. The General Partner shall
be paid any excess of interest income over the costs incurred in connection with
the maintenance of the reinvestment account referred to in Section 5.1(B)(i).
Section 4.8. Contracts with the General Partner and Affiliates
All services provided to the Limited Partnership by the General Partner
or any Affiliate for which it is compensated shall be embodied in a written
contract precisely setting forth the services to be rendered and the
compensation to be paid. Each such contract, other than this Agreement and the
NPI Partnership Agreement, shall contain a provision which shall permit
termination of the contract by the Limited Partnership without penalty on 30
days' prior written notice.
Section 4.9. Other Operations
The General Partner and its Affiliates shall at all times be free to
engage in all aspects of the oil, gas and natural resources business for their
own accounts and for the accounts of others. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the General Partner and its Affiliates shall have the right to
organize and operate other partnerships, joint ventures or other oil and gas
investment programs similar to the Limited Partnership or the NPI Partnership.
Section 4.10. Prosecution, Defense and Settlement of Claims;
Indemnification
A. The General Partner shall arrange to prosecute, defend, settle or
compromise actions at law or in equity at the expense of the Limited Partnership
as may be necessary to enforce or protect the interests of the Limited
Partnership. The General Partner shall satisfy any judgment, decree, decision or
settlement, first, out of any insurance proceeds available therefor, next, out
of the Limited Partnership assets and income, and, finally, out of the assets of
the General Partner.
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B. The General Partner and its Affiliates shall have no liability to the
Limited Partnership or to any Unit Holders for any loss suffered by the Limited
Partnership which arises out of any action or inaction of the General Partner or
its Affiliates if the General Partner and its Affiliates, in good faith,
determined that such course of conduct was in the best interests of the Limited
Partnership and such course of conduct did not constitute negligence or
misconduct of the General Partner or its Affiliates. The General Partner and its
Affiliates shall be indemnified by the Limited Partnership against any losses,
judgments, liabilities, expenses and amounts paid in settlement of any claims
sustained by it in connection with the Limited Partnership, provided that the
same were not the result of negligence or misconduct on the part of the General
Partner or its Affiliates. Any indemnification under this Section 4.10 shall be
satisfied solely out of the assets and Income of the Limited Partnership and no
Unit Holder or Limited Partner shall have any liability therefor.
C. Notwithstanding the above, the General Partner and its Affiliates and
any Person acting as a broker-dealer shall not be indemnified for liabilities
arising under federal and state securities laws unless (i) there has been a
successful adjudication on the merits of each count involving securities law
violations and the court approves such indemnification and the litigation costs
thereof; or (ii) such claims have been dismissed with prejudice on the merits by
a court of competent jurisdiction and the court approves such indemnification
and the litigation costs thereof. In any such case, the General Partner shall
apprise the court of the current published positions, if any, of the federal,
Massachusetts State Securities Administrator and other applicable state
securities administrators regarding indemnification of program sponsors prior to
obtaining court approval of any such indemnification.
D. The Limited Partnership shall not incur the cost of the portion of any
insurance which insures any party against any liability as to which such party
is herein prohibited from being indemnified.
E. For purposes of this Section 4.10, the term Affiliates shall include
only those Affiliates, as defined in Article I, performing services on behalf of
the Limited Partnership.
Section 4.11. Dealer Manager
The Dealer Manager shall have no duties, responsibilities or obligations
to the Limited Partnership, the General Partner or any Limited Partner as a
consequence of its right to receive Commissions, except to the extent provided
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Dealer Manager has not
assumed, and will not assume, any responsibility with respect to the Limited
Partnership nor will it be permitted by the General Partner to assume any
duties, responsibilities or obligations regarding the management, operations or
any of the business affairs of the Limited Partnership subsequent to the date on
which the Limited Partnership is Activated.
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ARTICLE FIVE
Distributions, Fees and Allocations
Section 5.1. Distributions of Limited Partnership Funds
A. The Distributable Cash of the Limited Partnership shall be distributed
simultaneously to the Unit Holders for the account of the Depositary (either
directly to such Unit Holders or as they shall direct by their notice to the
General Partner pursuant to the reinvestment option set forth in Section ▇.▇▇)
and the General Partner promptly upon receipt of cash distributions from the NPI
Partnership. Subject to Section 9.2B, Distributable Cash shall be distributed
99% to the Depositary (on behalf of the Unit Holders as a class) and 1% to the
General Partner except that (i) any Distributable Cash attributable to the
receipt by the NPI Partnership of investment income (as defined in the NPI
Partnership Agreement) shall be distributed 100% to the Depositary (on behalf of
the Unit Holders as a class) and, (ii) any Distributable Cash which is
attributable to a return pursuant to Section 3.3 shall be distributed entirely
to those Persons (other than corporate affiliates of Geodyne Resources, Inc. or
the Dealer Manager or any purchasers of Depositary Units therefrom with respect
to the distribution of cash contributed by the Managing Partner to the NPI
Partnership pursuant to Section 3.4 of the NPI Partnership Agreement or to the
Limited Partnership by the General Partner pursuant to Section 3.4 of this
Agreement) who are, at the time of the distribution, Unit Holders. Distributions
to the Unit Holders shall be allocated to each Unit Holder pursuant to Section
5.3. All distributions of Distributable Cash shall reduce dollar-for-dollar the
balances of the Partners' and Unit Holders' Capital Accounts.
B.
(i) Prior to the first cash distribution by the Limited
Partnership, each Unit Holder will be given an opportunity to elect to
have all or a portion of such Unit Holder's cash distributions (1) paid
directly to the Unit Holder in cash, or (2) held in a reinvestment
account established for Unit Holders of the Limited Partnership, any
Prior Limited Partnerships and any Subsequent Limited Partnership,
pending the reinvestment of such cash distributions in a minimum amount
of $100 (with reinvestment in excess of such minimum being permitted in
whole increments of $100) in Depositary Units of any Subsequent Limited
Partnership. After receipt of the Prospectus with respect to any
Subsequent Limited Partnership, each Unit Holder may revoke such Unit
Holder's prior election to have such Unit Holder's cash distributions
held in the reinvestment account invested in Depositary Units of the
Subsequent Limited Partnership. Such revocation shall be made by the Unit
Holder's delivery to the Limited Partnership of a written notice of
revocation. On or before 30 days prior to the reinvestment of a Unit
Holder's cash distributions in a Subsequent Limited Partnership, the
General
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Partner shall provide each Unit Holder who has previously elected to have
cash distributions from the Limited Partnership reinvested in Depositary
Units of a Subsequent Limited Partnership, and who has $100 or more held
in the reinvestment account on such Unit Holder's behalf, a form for the
Unit Holder to provide the Limited Partnership such written notice of
revocation. The cash distributions of a Unit Holder held in the
reinvestment account shall at all times be the property of the Unit
Holder, and the Unit Holder may withdraw such cash distributions held in
the reinvestment account on such Unit Holder's behalf upon thirty days'
prior written notice to the Limited Partnership. No interest shall be
payable to Unit Holders on the amount of their cash distributions held in
such reinvestment account; provided, however, that the General Partner
shall hold the Unit Holders harmless against any losses sustained therein
and the General Partner shall deposit into the reinvestment account an
amount equal to any loss suffered by a Unit Holder prior to the earlier of
the time the Unit Holder withdraws the Unit Holder's share or an
investment in a Subsequent Limited Partnership is made on behalf of the
Unit Holder. Prior to investment in Depositary Units of a Subsequent
Limited Partnership or distribution of such funds, monies held in the
reinvestment account may be invested in investments permitted under
Section 10.3 of this Agreement. Any costs and interest income attributable
to the maintenance of the reinvestment account shall be paid or credited,
as the case may be, to the General Partner.
(ii) Cash distributions held in the reinvestment account on behalf
of a Unit Holder will be delivered to such Unit Holder, and no investment
in a Subsequent Limited Partnership will be made on such Unit Holder's
behalf, upon (1) a decision by the General Partner not to offer, or
continue the offering of, Depositary Units of a Subsequent Limited
Partnership, (2) a decision by such Unit Holder not to invest in a
Subsequent Limited Partnership, or (3) such cash distributions have not
been invested in a Subsequent Limited Partnership within 180 days of the
date such distributions were initially deposited in the reinvestment
accounts. Subject to the Limited Partnership's receipt of a Unit Holder's
written notice of revocation or withdrawal referred to in Section 5.1B(i),
amounts held in the reinvestment account on behalf of a Unit Holder which
are not reinvested in a Subsequent Limited Partnership (either because
such amount is less than $100 or is in excess of a whole increment of
$100) shall remain in such reinvestment account.
(iii) A Unit Holder's cash distribution will be reinvested in
Depositary Units of a Subsequent Limited Partnership only if a
registration statement covering interests in the Subsequent Limited
Partnership is in effect under the Securities Act of 1933, the offering of
Depositary Units is qualified for sale under the applicable state
securities laws and the Unit Holder meets the appropriate suitability
standards. The General Partner may terminate its offering of Depositary
Units in a Subsequent Limited Partnership at any time and will have no
obligation to
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continue to offer Depositary Units or to permit reinvestment of
Distributable Cash therein. In the event the General Partner or its
Affiliates offer limited partnerships other than the Subsequent Limited
Partnerships and provide Unit Holders the opportunity to reinvest cash
distributions from the Limited Partnership in such Depositary Units of
limited partnerships, the terms and conditions of such reinvestment shall
be determined by the General Partner or its Affiliates in its discretion
(which may differ from the terms and conditions of reinvestment in
Depositary Units of Subsequent Limited Partnerships provided herein).
Section 5.2. Allocation of Income, Gain, Loss, Cost, Deduction
and Credit
A. Each item of Income, gain, loss, cost, deduction and credit of the
Limited Partnership shall be determined and allocated with respect to each
Fiscal Year of the Limited Partnership on or before March 15 of each year.
B. Direct Administrative Costs and General and Administrative Costs
directly incurred by the Limited Partnership shall be allocated to, and borne
by, the Partners in the same amounts and proportions as they would be if such
costs were incurred or borne by only the NPI Partnership.
C. Except as set forth in Sections 5.2B, 5.2F and 5.2G, each item of
Income, gain, loss, cost, deduction and credit of the Limited Partnership shall
be allocated between the Partners and credited to or charged against their
Capital Accounts in the following ratio:
Depositary (on behalf of
the Unit Holders as a class) 99%
Geodyne Properties 1%
D. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be expressed or
implied in this Agreement, the interest of the General Partner in each material
item of Partnership Income, gain, loss, deduction or credit shall be equal to at
least one percent of each such item at all times during the existence of the
Partnership. In determining the General Partner's interest in such items for the
purpose of this Section 5.2D, Depositary Units or units of limited partnership
interest owned by the General Partner shall not be taken into account.
E. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if, under any
provision of this Agreement, the Capital Account of any Partner or Unit Holder
is adjusted to reflect the difference between the basis to the Limited
Partnership of Limited Partnership Property and such Limited Partnership
Property's fair market value, then all items of Income, gain, loss, and
deduction with respect to such Limited Partnership Property shall be allocated
among the Partners and Unit Holders so as to take account of the variation
between the basis
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of such Limited Partnership Property and its fair market value at the time of
the adjustment to such Partner's Capital Account in accordancewith the
requirements of subsection 704(c) of the Code, or in the same manner as provided
under subsection 704(c) of the Code.
F. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary stated herein,
(i) There shall be allocated to the General Partner any item of
loss, deduction, credit or allowance that, but for this Section 5.2F,
would have been allocated to a Unit Holder thereby causing or increasing
a deficit balance in such Unit Holder's Capital Account as of the end of
the Limited Partnership's taxable year to which such allocation related
(after taking into consideration the provisions of Section 5.3D(v));
(ii) Any Unit Holder who unexpectedly receives an adjustment,
allocation or distribution specified in Section 5.3D(v) hereof shall be
allocated items of Income and gain in an amount and manner sufficient to
eliminate such deficit balance as quickly as possible; and
(iii) In the event any allocations of loss, deduction, credit or
allowance are made to the General Partner pursuant to clause (i) of this
Section 5.2F, the General Partner shall be subsequently allocated all
items of Income and gain until the aggregate amount of such allocations
of Income and gain is equal to the aggregate amount of any such
allocations of loss, deduction, credit or allowance allocated to the
General Partner pursuant to clause (i) of this Section 5.2F.
G. Commissions and Organizational and Offering Costs shall be allocated
1% to the General Partner and 99% to the Depositary (on behalf of the Unit
Holders as a class), and will be allocated and charged among the Unit Holders as
follows: (i) to the extent necessary, to each Unit Holder in an amount
sufficient to cause all of the Unit Holders' Capital Account balances to be in
the ratio of the Depositary Units owned by the Unit Holders, and (ii) any
remaining amount pursuant to Section 5.3.
Section 5.3. Determinations of Allocations and Distributions Among
Unit Holders
A. Except as set forth in Section ▇.▇▇, each item of Income, gain, loss,
cost, deduction or credit allocated to the Unit Holders, as a class, shall be
allocated to each Unit Holder in the ratio that (i) the number of Depositary
Units held of record by each Unit Holder as of the first day of each month
during the period ("Record Date") bears to (ii) the aggregate number of
Depositary Units outstanding on each such monthly Record Date. Distributions of
Distributable Cash for a calendar quarter will be made to Unit Holders of record
on the first day of such calendar quarter in the ratio which (i) the number of
Depositary Units owned of record by each Unit Holder on such record date bears
to (ii) the aggregate number of Depositary Units
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outstanding on such record date. Unless otherwise designated by the General
Partner, the record date for distributions of Distributable Cash will be the
last day of the calendar quarter to which such distributions are attributable.
Each distribution in respect of Depositary Units shall be paid by the Limited
Partnership only to the Persons who are record holders of Depositary Units as of
the first day of the calendar quarter for which such distribution is being made.
Such payment shall constitute full payment and satisfaction of the Limited
Partnership's liability in respect of such payment regardless of any claim of
any Person who may have an interest in such payment by reason of an assignment
or otherwise.
B. The Limited Partnership's share of the NPI Partnership's adjusted
basis in each of its Net Profits Interests and Royalties (allocated pursuant to
the Managing Partner's and the Limited Partnership's interests in NPI
Partnership capital at the date of acquisition of the respective Producing
Properties) shall be allocated pursuant to Section 613A(c)(7)(D) of the Code
among the Unit Holders and Partners in proportion to the interest of each in the
Limited Partnership capital ultimately used to acquire that property.
C. All items of Income, gain, loss, expense deduction and credit and all
recapture of such deductions and credits shall be allocated and charged or
credited to the Partners and Unit Holders in the same manner that the revenues,
costs or expenses giving rise to such items of Income, gain, loss, deduction and
credit are allocated and charged. Federal income tax deductions for cost or
percentage depletion with respect to any Net Profits Interest or Royalty shall
be determined at the Partner or Unit Holder level and shall be determined in the
case of percentage depletion on the same basis that Income from the Net Profits
Interest or Royalty is allocated.
D. Capital Accounts shall be established and maintained for each Partner
and Unit Holder in accordance with tax accounting principles and with valid
regulations issued by the U.S. Treasury Department under subsection 704(b) of
the Code (the "704 Regulations"). To the extent that tax accounting principles
and the 704 Regulations may conflict, the latter shall control. In connection
with the establishment and maintenance of such Capital Accounts, the following
provisions shall apply:
(i) Each Partner's or Unit Holder's Capital Account shall be (a)
increased by the amount of cash contributed by or on behalf of such
Partner or Unit Holder, the fair market value of property contributed by
it or on its behalf to the Limited Partnership (net of liabilities
securing such contributed property that the Limited Partnership is
considered to assume or take subject to under section 752 of the Code)
and allocations to it of Income and gain (except to the extent such
Income or gain has previously been reflected in its Capital Account by
adjustments thereto) and (b) decreased by the amount of Distributable
Cash distributed to it, the fair market value of property distributed to
it by the Limited Partnership (net of liabilities securing such
distributed property that such Partner or Unit Holder is considered to
assume or take subject to under
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section 752 of the Code) and allocations to it of Limited Partnership
loss, deduction (except to the extent such loss or deduction has
previously been reflected in its Capital Account by adjustments thereto)
and expenditures described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code.
(ii) In the event Limited Partnership Property is distributed to a
Partner or Unit Holder, then, before the Capital Account of such Partner
or Unit Holder is adjusted as required by clause (i) of this Section 5.3D,
the Capital Accounts of the Partners and Unit Holders shall be adjusted to
reflect the manner in which the unrealized Income, gain, loss and
deduction inherent in such Limited Partnership Property (that has not been
reflected in such Capital Accounts previously) would be allocated among
the Partners and Unit Holders if there were a taxable disposition of such
Limited Partnership Property for its fair market value on the date of
distribution.
(iii) If, pursuant to this Agreement, Limited Partnership Property
is reflected on the books of the Limited Partnership at a book value that
differs from the adjusted tax basis of such Limited Partnership Property,
then the Partners' and Unit Holders' Capital Accounts shall be adjusted in
accordance with the 704 Regulations for allocations to the Partners and
Unit Holders of depreciation, depletion, amortization, and gain or loss,
as computed for book purposes, with respect to such Limited Partnership
Property.
(iv) The Partners' and Unit Holders' Capital Accounts shall be
reduced by a simulated depletion allowance computed on each oil or gas
property using either the cost depletion method or the percentage
depletion method (without regard to the limitations under the Code which
could apply to less than all Partners or Unit Holders); provided, however,
that the choice between the cost depletion method and the percentage
depletion method shall be made by the General Partner on a
property-by-property basis and such choice shall be binding for all
Limited Partnership taxable years during which such oil or gas property is
held by the Limited Partnership. Such reductions for depletion shall not
exceed the aggregate adjusted basis allocated to the Partners and Unit
Holders with respect to such oil or gas property. Such reductions for
depletion shall be allocated among the Partners' and Unit Holders' Capital
Accounts in the same proportions as the adjusted basis in the particular
property is allocated to each Partner or Unit Holder. Upon the taxable
disposition of an oil or gas property by the Limited Partnership, the
Limited Partnership's simulated gain or loss shall be determined by
subtracting its simulated adjusted basis (aggregate adjusted tax basis of
the Partners and Unit Holders less simulated depletion allowances) in such
property from the amount realized on such disposition and the Partners'
and Unit Holders' Capital Accounts shall be increased or reduced, as the
case may be, by the amount of the simulated gain or loss on such
disposition in proportion to the Partners' and Unit Holders' allocable
shares of the total amount realized on such disposition.
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(v) For purposes of determining the Capital Account balance of any
Partner or Unit Holder as of the end of any Limited Partnership taxable
year for purposes of Section 5.2G, such Partner's or Unit Holder's
Capital Account shall be reduced by:
(a) Adjustments that, as of the end of such year, reasonably
are expected to be made to such Partner's or Unit Holder's Capital
Account pursuant to paragraph (b)(2)(iv)(k) of the 704 Regulations
for depletion allowances with respect to oil and gas properties of
the Limited Partnership, and
(b) Allocations of loss and deduction that, as of the end of
such year, reasonably are expected to be made to such Partner or
Unit Holder pursuant to Code section 704(e)(2), Code section
706(d), and paragraph (b)(2)(ii) of section 1.751-1 of regulations
promulgated under the Code, and
(c) Distributions that, as of the end of such year,
reasonably are expected to be made to such Partner to the extent
they exceed offsetting increases to such Partner's or Unit Holder's
Capital Account that reasonably are expected to occur during (or
prior to) the Limited Partnership taxable years in which such
distributions reasonably are expected to be made.
E. The Capital Accounts of those Partners and Unit Holders which are
charged with an expense shall be credited with any portion of that expense which
is finally determined, judicially or administratively, to be nondeductible for
federal income tax purposes, less any amortization or depreciation thereof
incurred prior to the date that the credit is made.
ARTICLE SIX
Withdrawal or Removal of General Partner
Section 6.1. Withdrawal of General Partner
The General Partner (including by definition any successor General
Partner) shall have the right to retire or withdraw, upon 120 days Notification
to the Unit Holders, subject to its obligation to pay all costs and expenses
incurred by the Limited Partnership by virtue of such retirement or withdrawal.
Section 6.2. Assignment of General Partner Interest
Subject to Section 12.3 and Section 6.5B, upon the Consent of the
Depositary, which shall be given if the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than
50% of the outstanding Depositary Units is obtained, the General Partner may
assign or transfer its General Partner
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Interest to a person who shall become a successor General Partner; provided,
however, that no such Consent shall be required in connection with an assignment
or transfer pursuant to the merger, consolidation or transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the General Partner.
Section 6.3. Removal of General Partner
A. Subject to Section 12.3, upon the Consent of the Depositary, which
shall be given if the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the
outstanding Depositary Units is obtained, the power shall be vested in the
Depositary to (a) remove the General Partner and (b) cause the General Partner,
on behalf of the Limited Partnership, to Remove the Managing Partner.
B. (i) If the Unit Holders elect to Remove the General Partner as
permitted under this Section, and further elect to continue the business
of the Limited Partnership with one or more successor General Partners,
the removed General Partner shall not be Removed until a successor
General Partner has been selected by the Unit Holders and admitted to the
Limited Partnership pursuant to Section 11.2.
(ii) Notwithstanding Section 3.6B, any General Partner who shall
withdraw or be Removed from the Limited Partnership shall be released by
any successor General Partner from all liability for Limited Partnership
debts and obligations incurred by the Limited Partnership prior to the
time of such Removal.
6.4 Option to Purchase Interest from Former General Partner
In the event the General Partner withdraws or is Removed and a successor
General Partner selected, the incoming General Partner and the departing General
Partner shall, by mutual agreement, select an independent petroleum consultant
to value the departing General Partner's Interest in the Limited Partnership. If
no agreement can be reached on the selection of a qualified consultant, the
departing General Partner and incoming General Partner shall each select an
independent petroleum consultant, who together shall select a third consultant,
and the three consultants shall together determine a value of the interests of
the departing General Partner. The incoming General Partner, or the Limited
Partnership, shall have the option to purchase at least 20% of the interests of
the departing General Partner for the value determined by the independent
appraisal. The departing General Partner's Interest in the Limited Partnership
shall be transferred to the successor General Partner, and the successor General
Partner shall assign to the departing General Partner a portion of Limited
Partnership Income, costs and Distributable Cash as and when such items are
allocated or distributed, as the case may be, by the Limited Partnership equal
to the percentage interest of the departing General Partner in the Limited
Partnership prior to Removal, less the portion purchased by the successor
General Partner or the Limited Partnership.
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6.5 Power to Admit Successor General Partner
A. If the General Partner has withdrawn or been Removed, the power shall
be vested in the Unit Holders to Consent to the admission of a successor General
Partner meeting the requirements of Section 6.5B to take the place of the
departing General Partner upon the Consent of the Depositary, which shall be
given if the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the outstanding
Depositary Units is obtained.
B. If there is admitted to the Limited Partnership a successor General
Partner, such admission shall not become effective unless (a) the Limited
Partnership shall have received a certificate, duly executed by or on behalf of
such proposed successor General Partner, to the effect that: (i) it is
experienced in performing (or employs sufficient personnel who are experienced
in performing) functions of the type then being performed by the departing
General Partner and (ii) it has a net worth sufficient to satisfy the net worth
requirements of the Code, Treasury Regulations, the Internal Revenue Service or
the courts applicable to a general partner in a limited partnership in order to
ensure that the Limited Partnership will not fail to be classified for federal
income tax purposes as a partnership, and (iii) such Person, if other than an
individual, has the authority to become a successor General Partner under the
terms of this Agreement; and (b) the proposed successor General Partner shall
have (i) become a party to, and adopted all of the terms and conditions of, this
Agreement and (ii) paid all reasonable legal fees of the Limited Partnership and
filing and publication costs in connection with such Person's becoming a
successor General Partner.
Section 6.6. Incapacity of the General Partner
A. In the event of the Incapacity of the General Partner, the Limited
Partnership shall be dissolved. However, within 90 days thereafter the
Depositary, upon the Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the
outstanding Depositary Units, may elect to reconstitute the Limited Partnership
prior to application of the liquidation provisions of Section 9.2.
B. Upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, the Person who is its
legal representative shall have all the rights of a General Partner for the
purpose of settling or managing its estate and such power as the Incapacitated
General Partner possessed to assign all or any part of its Interest and to join
with such assignee in satisfying conditions precedent to such assignee becoming
a Substituted Partner.
Section 6.7. Termination of Contracts with General Partner or
Managing Partner
Subject to and upon fulfilling the conditions of Section 12.3, the power
shall be vested in the Unit Holders to terminate any or all contracts between
the General Partner or any Affiliate and the Limited Partnership, or to cause
the General Partner, on behalf of the Limited
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Partnership, to terminate any contracts between the Managing Partner or any
Affiliate and the NPI Partnership, and select, or cause the General Partner, on
behalf of the Limited Partnership, to select, as the case may be, a replacement
Person therefor upon the Consent of the Depositary, which shall be given if the
Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units
is obtained.
ARTICLE SEVEN
Assignment of Limited Partner Interests to Unit Holders
Section 7.1 Assignments of the Interests of the Depositary.
A. Pursuant to Sections ▇.▇▇ and 13.1, the Depositary shall issue to each
Person purchasing one or more Depositary Units a Depositary Receipt evidencing
such Depositary Units. The Limited Partnership shall recognize as a Unit Holder,
for the number of Depositary Units for which the Limited Partnership has
received proceeds, each Person to whom the Depositary issues a Depositary
Receipt as of the date provided in Section 13.1 or otherwise as the General
Partner shall determine in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
B. The Depositary, by the execution of this Agreement, irrevocably
assigns to the Unit Holders all of the Depositary's rights and interest in and
to the Interests, except as otherwise provided herein, as of the date of
Activation of the Limited Partnership. The rights and interest so transferred
and assigned shall include, without limitation, the following:
(i) all rights to receive distributions of uninvested Capital
Contributions pursuant to Section 3.3 and the right to receive rebates of
Commissions and Organization and Offering Costs pursuant to Section 3.3;
(ii) all rights to receive distributions of Distributable Cash
pursuant to Section 5.1;
(iii) all rights in respect of allocations of Profits, Losses and
each other item of Income, gain, loss, deduction and credit pursuant to
Sections 5.2 and 5.3;
(iv) all rights in respect of allocations to Capital Accounts
pursuant to Section 5.3;
(v) all rights to receive any proceeds of liquidation of the
Limited Partnership pursuant to Section 9.2;
(vi) all rights to inspect books and records and to receive
reports pursuant to Article Ten;
(vii) the right to bring derivative actions pursuant to the Act (in
the event any such action must be brought in the name of the Depositary
as a Limited Partner, the Depositary agrees to bring such action, at the
expense of the Unit Holder(s) requesting such action); and
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(viii) all rights which limited partners have, or may have in the
future, under this Agreement or the Act, except as otherwise provided
herein.
C. The General Partner, by the execution of this Agreement, irrevocably
consents to and acknowledges that (i) the foregoing assignment pursuant to
Section 7.1B by the Depositary to the Unit Holders of the Depositary's rights
and interest in the Interests is effective and (ii) the Unit Holders are
intended to be third-party beneficiaries of all rights and privileges of the
Depositary in respect of the Interests. The General Partner covenants and agrees
that, in accordance with the foregoing transfer and assignment, all the
Depositary's rights and privileges in respect of Interests may be exercised by
the Unit Holders, including, without limitation, those listed in Section ▇.▇▇.
D. The Depositary, by execution of this Agreement, irrevocably commits to
exercise its voting rights as the Limited Partner in accordance with directions
it receives from the Unit Holders such that it will vote a proportionate share
of its Interest as the owner, as shown on the books of the Depositary, of a
corresponding Depositary Unit shall direct in writing, by proxy or otherwise.
E. The Depositary may transfer its Interest as the Depositary to another
Person only with the Consent of the General Partner and Unit Holders owning a
majority of the outstanding Depositary Units.
F. All Persons becoming Unit Holders will by their payment for and
acceptance of Depositary Receipts agree to comply with and be bound by the terms
and conditions of and will be entitled to all rights of Unit Holders under this
Agreement.
G. Other than pursuant to Sections 7.1B, 7.1E and 7.2, the Depositary
shall not transfer, assign, encumber, pledge or hypothecate any of its
Interest.
Section 7.2 Rights of Unit Holders
A. In accordance with the transfer and assignment described in Section
7.1B, it is the intention of the parties hereto that Unit Holders shall have the
same rights and obligations that Limited Partners have under this Agreement and
under the Act. The fiduciary duties and obligations of the General Partner to
the Limited Partner under the Act and this Agreement shall extend to the Unit
Holders.
B. Without limiting the generality of Section 7.2A, persons who become
Limited Partners pursuant to Section 7.3 below and Unit Holders shall share pari
passu on the basis of one Limited Partner Interest for one Depositary Unit, and
shall be considered as a single class, with respect to all rights to receive
distributions and allocations pursuant to this Agreement.
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C. Limited Partners (other than the Depositary) and Unit Holders shall
vote on all matters in respect of which they are entitled to vote (either in
person, by proxy, or by written consent), as a single class, with each Limited
Partner Interest and each Depositary Unit entitled to one vote; provided,
however, that the Depositary shall vote on behalf of and only as directed by the
Unit Holders.
Section 7.3. Conversion of Depositary Units into Limited Partner
Interests. Subject to the consent of the General Partner, which consent may be
granted or withheld in its absolute discretion, any Unit Holder who desires to
convert his Depositary Units into an equal number of Limited Partner Interests
may do so following Activation of the Limited Partnership by delivering to the
Depositary all (but no less than all) of his Depositary Receipts (properly
endorsed), an executed subscription agreement and transfer application (which
are available upon request from the General Partner), accompanied by written
instructions which set forth an intention to become a Substituted Limited
Partner and request admission as such to the Limited Partnership, together with
such other instruments or documents as the General Partner or the Depositary may
deem necessary or desirable, including the written acceptance and adoption by
such Unit Holder of the provisions of this Agreement and the execution,
acknowledgment and delivery to the General Partner of a special power of
attorney, the form and content of which are reasonably satisfactory to the
General Partner. Such Depositary Receipts shall be accompanied by a payment to
the Limited Partnership by such Unit Holder of a fee (not to exceed $100) for
legal and administrative costs and recording fees. Unit Holders becoming
Substituted Limited Partners will be admitted to the Limited Partnership
quarterly, or as promptly as possible after the commencement of the next
calendar quarter. Persons who effect such conversion will receive one Limited
Partner Interest for each Depositary Unit they convert and will not be able to
re-exchange their Limited Partner Interests for Depositary Units. The Capital
Account of the Depositary shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Capital
Account of such former Unit Holder and such amount will be credited as the
former Unit Holder's new Capital Account as a Substituted Limited Partner.
Depositary Units which have been converted into Limited Partner Interests will
be cancelled and will not be reissued. Except as specifically stated or as the
context otherwise requires, references in all but Articles Seven and Eight of
this Agreement to Unit Holders shall include Substituted Limited Partners and to
Depositary Units shall include Limited Partner Interests of Substituted Limited
Partners.
ARTICLE EIGHT
Transferability of Limited Partner Interests
and Depositary Units
Section 8.1. Assignments of Limited Partner Interests by Limited
Partners Other than the Depositary.
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A. Subject to the provisions of Section 8.6, no Substituted Limited
Partner may assign, sell or transfer his Limited Partner Interests without the
approval of the General Partner. In exercising its obligations under this
Section 8.1A, the General Partner shall use its best effort to ensure that the
terms of transfer are not in contravention of any of the provisions of this
Agreement and shall not approve any transfer:
(i) to a Person who makes a market in the Depositary Units or
Limited Partner Interests;
(ii) which is effected through a matching agent unless the
procedures of such matching agent with respect to the transfer of
Depositary Units or Limited Partner Interests have been approved by the
General Partner as not being incident to a public trading of such
securities within the meaning of Code Sections 7704, 469(k) or 512(c);
(iii) if such sale, assignment, transfer or exchange would be in
violation of any applicable federal or state securities laws (including
any applicable suitability standard and, with respect to transfers by
residents of California, the restrictions on transfer set forth in Rule
260.l41.11 of Title 10 of the California Administrative Code) or would
cause the Limited Partnership to be taxed as an entity other than a
partnership under the Code;
(iv) except for transfers by gift or inheritance, intra-family
transfers, transfers resulting from family dissolutions, transfers to
Affiliates or transfers of such transferor's entire remaining holding of
Limited Partner Interests, if the transferor would hold less than 10
Limited Partner Interests.
B. Any attempted sale, assignment, transfer or exchange in contravention
of the provisions of this Section 8.1 shall, unless otherwise determined by the
General Partner in its sole discretion, be void and deemed ineffectual and shall
not bind or be recognized by the Limited Partnership.
C. The Limited Partnership need not recognize for any purpose any sale,
assignment or transfer of the Limited Partner Interests of a Substituted Limited
Partner unless there shall have been filed with the Limited Partnership and
recorded on the Limited Partnership's books a duly executed and acknowledged
instrument of assignment, and such instrument evidences the written acceptance
by the assignee of all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement, represents
that such assignment was made in accordance with all applicable laws and
regulations and in all other respects is satisfactory in form and substance to
the General Partner.
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D. The Partnership shall not recognize for any purpose any purported
sale, assignment or transfer of all or part of the Interest of a Limited
Partner, and such purported sale, assignment or transfer shall be null and void
if, in the opinion of counsel:
(i) such sale, transfer, assignment or transfer would cause the
Limited Partnership to be treated as an association taxable as a
corporation for federal income tax purposes or, when added to the total
of all other sales or exchanges or Interests within the preceding 12
months, would result in the Limited Partnership being considered to have
terminated within the meaning of Section 708 of the Code; and the General
Partner is expressly authorized to enforce this provision by suspending
transfers if and when any such transfer would result in transfers of
Interests in the Limited Partnership which represent in the aggregate 40%
or more of all Interests;
(ii) such sale, transfer or assignment would violate any state
securities or "blue sky" laws (including any applicable suitability
standards) applicable to the Limited Partnership or the Interest to be
transferred or assigned, except in the case of transfers upon the death
of the Limited Partner (by bequest or inheritance) or by operation of
law; or
(iii) such sale, transfer or assignment might cause the Limited
Partnership to be classified as a publicly traded partnership within the
meaning of Code Sections 7702 469(k) or 512(c).
E. Unless otherwise provided by the General Partner, any sale, assignment
or transfer of a Substituted Limited Partner's Interest shall be recognized by
the Limited Partnership as of the first business day of the month following the
approval of such assignment or transfer by the General Partner, or as soon
thereafter as practicable. The General Partner shall not approve sales,
assignments or transfers more frequently than quarterly unless it receives a
written opinion of counsel that more frequent approvals shall not jeopardize the
Limited Partnership's federal income tax status as a partnership. The Limited
Partnership and the General Partner shall be entitled to treat the assignor of
such Limited Partner Interests as the absolute owner thereof in all respects,
and shall incur no liability for any allocation of Profit or Loss, distribution,
or transmittal of reports or notice required to be given to Limited Partners
hereunder which is made in good faith to such assignor until such time as the
written instrument of assignment has been received by the Limited Partnership
and recorded on its books.
F. The General Partner may reasonably interpret, and is hereby authorized
to take such action as it deems necessary or desirable to effect, the foregoing
provisions of this Section 8.1. The General Partner may, in its reasonable
discretion, and without the approval of the Limited Partner or Unit Holders,
amend the provisions of this Agreement in such manner as may be necessary or
desirable to (i)
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preserve the tax status of the Limited Partnership as a partnership or (ii)
avoid a classification of the Limited Partnership as a publicly traded
partnership within the meaning of Code Sections 7704, 469(k) or 512(c). The
General Partner may, in its reasonable discretion, and without the approval of
the Limited Partners or Unit Holders, also amend the provisions of this
Agreement to include provisions governing the transferability of Interests in
the Limited Partnership which may be approved in future legislation, Treasury
Regulations, administrative rulings and other pronouncements or judicial
decisions.
G. No purported sale, assignment or transfer by a transferor of an
Interest shall be recognized unless (i) the transferor shall have represented
that such transfer (x) was effected through a broker-dealer or matching agent
whose procedures with respect to the transfer of Interests have been approved by
the General Partner as not being incident to a public trading market and not
through any other broker-dealer or matching agent or (y) otherwise was not
effected through a broker-dealer or matching agent which makes a market in
Interests or which provides a readily available, regular and ongoing opportunity
to holders of Interests to sell or exchange their Interests through a public
means of obtaining or providing information of offers to buy, sell or exchange
Interests and (ii) the General Partner determines that such sale, assignment or
transfer would not, by itself or together with any other sales, transfers or
assignments, likely result in the Limited Partnership's being classified as a
publicly-traded partnership.
Section 8.2. Substituted Limited Partners.
A. The consent of the General Partner shall be required before the
assignee of any Limited Partner Interest shall be admitted as a Substituted
Limited Partner, which consent may be withheld in the sole and absolute
discretion of the General Partner.
B. No person shall have the right to become a Substituted Limited
Partner in place of his assignor unless all of the following conditions are
first satisfied:
(i) a duly executed and acknowledged written instrument of
assignment complying with Section 8.1 shall have been filed with the
Limited Partnership and recorded on its books, which instrument shall
specify the Limited Partner Interests being assigned and set forth the
intention of the assignor that the assignee succeed to the assignor's
interest as a Substituted Limited Partner in his place;
(ii) the transferor and his assignee shall have executed and
acknowledged such other instruments as the General Partner may deem
necessary or desirable to effect such substitution, including the written
acceptance and adoption by the assignee of the provisions of this
Agreement, as the same may be amended, and his execution, acknowledgment
and delivery to the General Partner of a special power of attorney, the
form and content of which are reasonably satisfactory to the General
Partner; and
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(iii) a transfer fee sufficient to cover all reasonable expenses
connected with such substitution (not to exceed $50) shall have been paid
to the Limited Partnership.
C. By executing or adopting this Agreement, each Limited Partner and
Substituted Limited Partner and, by the purchase of a Depositary Unit, each Unit
Holder hereby consents to the admission of Substituted Limited Partners by the
General Partner in accordance with the foregoing.
D. The General Partner shall amend this Agreement at least once each
quarter if necessary to effect the substitution of Substituted Limited Partners.
Section 8.3 Transferability of Depositary Units.
A. Depositary Units may be transferred only as provided in this
Agreement. The Depositary Units shall be evidenced by Depositary Receipts which
shall be issued in registered form only and shall be transferable subject to the
same restrictions and conditions applicable to transfers of Limited Partner
Interests set forth in Section 8.1 above. The Depositary shall not recognize
transfers of Depositary Units except by a transfer of Depositary Receipts
therefor. Unit Holders who are residents of the State of California must meet
the restrictions on transfers set forth in Rule 260.14l.11 of Title 10 of the
California Administrative Code. Except as provided in Section 8.4, no transfer
of Depositary Receipts will be recorded or otherwise recognized by the
Depositary or Limited Partnership for any purpose whatsoever unless and until
the transferee has certified to the Depositary that he is an Eligible Investor
and, unless the transfer is among members of the immediate family of the
transferor Unit Holder, paid a transfer fee to reimburse the Depositary for all
actual, reasonable and necessary expenses (not to exceed $50 per transaction)
incurred in connection with the transfer.
B. A transferee who has accepted delivery of a Depositary Receipt shall
be deemed to have agreed to comply with and be bound by all of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
Section 8.4 Eligible Investors. If the General Partner determines that a
Unit Holder or Substituted Limited Partner is not an Eligible Investor (i) then
the Unit Holder shall immediately be divested of his rights to Consent on
matters submitted to Unit Holders and Substituted Limited Partners (and no such
Depositary Units shall be Consented by the Depositary or otherwise deemed
outstanding for purposes of Consents of Unit Holders under this Agreement), and
(ii) if such Person is subject to a higher rate of windfall profits tax than the
rate imposed upon other Unit Holders and Substituted Limited Partners, the
General Partner shall adjust actual cash distributions payable to such Person in
order to reflect accurately any varying rate of windfall profits tax imposed.
Any amounts so withheld shall be deemed to have been distributed and the tax
shall be treated as paid by the Person.
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Section 8.5 Death, Incompetency or Dissolution of a Substituted
Limited Partner or Unit Holder.
If a Substituted Limited Partner or Unit Holder who is an individual
dies or a court of competent jurisdiction adjudges him to be incompetent to
manage his person or his property, such Substituted Limited Partner's executor,
administrator, guardian, conservator or other legal representative may exercise
all of such Substituted Limited Partner's or Unit Holder's rights for the
purpose of settling his estate or administering his property, including any
power under this Agreement of an assignee to become a Substituted Limited
Partner or Unit Holder. If a Substituted Limited Partner or Unit Holder is a
corporation, trust or other entity and is dissolved or terminated, the powers of
such Substituted Limited Partner or Unit Holder may be exercised by its legal
representative or successor.
ARTICLE NINE
Dissolution, Liquidation and Termination
of the Limited Partnership
Section 9.1. Events Causing Dissolution
A. The Limited Partnership shall be dissolved upon the happening of
any of the following events:
(i) the expiration of its term, without any continuation thereof
as set forth in Section 2.3;
(ii) the Incapacity of the General Partner. However, within
ninety days thereafter the Unit Holders may elect to reconstitute the
Limited Partnership prior to application of the liquidation provisions
of Section 9.2;
(iii) the Sale or other disposition at one time of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Limited Partnership existing at
the time of such Sale (including the liquidation or redemption other than
in kind of its interest in the NPI Partnership);
(iv) the election to dissolve the Limited Partnership (a) by the
General Partner (which election shall be Consented to by Unit Holders
owning more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units), or (b) by the
Consent of Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the outstanding
Depositary Units;
(v) ninety days after the Removal or withdrawal of the sole General
Partner (unless a successor is elected pursuant to Section 6.5);
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(vi) the dissolution and liquidation of the NPI Partnership
without the continuance of its business by the Limited Partnership
pursuant to Section 4.2A(ii); or
(vii) the happening of any other event causing the dissolution of
the Limited Partnership under the laws of the State, except that the
Incapacity of the Depositary or any Unit Holder shall not dissolve the
Limited Partnership and the seizure of the Interest of the Depositary
shall not dissolve the Limited Partnership.
B. Dissolution of the Limited Partnership shall be effective on the day
on which the event occurs giving rise to the dissolution, but the Limited
Partnership shall not terminate until the General Partner has recorded a notice
of dissolution of the Limited Partnership with the office of the Secretary of
State of the State and shall have complied with the laws of the other states in
which its does business and the assets of the Limited Partnership have been
distributed as provided in Section 9.2.
C. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall impair, restrict or limit
the rights and powers of the Partners under the laws of the State or any other
jurisdiction in which the Limited Partnership is doing business to reform and
reconstitute themselves as a limited partnership following dissolution of the
Limited Partnership either under provisions identical to those set forth herein
or under any other provisions.
D. If the Limited Partnership is dissolved as a result of an event set
forth in Sections ▇.▇▇(ii), (v) or (vi), Unit Holders owning a majority of the
outstanding Depositary Units may appoint an interim manager of the Limited
Partnership, who shall have and may exercise only the rights, powers and duties
of a general partner necessary to preserve Limited Partnership assets, until (a)
a successor General Partner is elected pursuant to Section 6.5, if the Limited
Partnership is reconstituted, or (b) the Limited Partnership is liquidated
pursuant to Section 9.2. The interim manager shall not be liable as a general
partner to the Depositary or Unit Holders and shall, while acting in such
capacity, be entitled to the same indemnification rights as are set forth in
Section 4.10.
Section 9.2. Liquidation
A. Upon dissolution of the Limited Partnership, its liabilities shall be
paid in the order provided herein. The General Partner shall sell the Limited
Partnership's property so that such disposition is in the best interests of the
Unit Holders, and shall execute all amendments terminating the Limited
Partnership. In connection with any such Sale, the General Partner shall attempt
to obtain the best prices for such property. Pending such Sales, the General
Partner shall have the right to continue to operate and otherwise to deal with
Limited Partnership property. In the event the Limited Partnership is
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dissolved on account of the Incapacity or Removal of the General Partner, the
Limited Partnership shall elect, in accordance with the provisions of Article
Twelve, a person (the "Liquidating Agent") to perform the function of the
General Partner in liquidating the assets of the Limited Partnership and winding
up its affairs, and shall pay to such Liquidating Agent its reasonable fees and
expenses incurred in connection therewith. Gain or loss realized on the Sale or
other disposition of the Limited Partnership's assets will be credited to (in
the case of gain) or charged against (in the case of loss) each Partner's or
Unit Holder's Capital Account to the extent allocable to such Partner or Unit
Holder under Sections 5.2 and 5.3. Any liquidation of the Limited Partnership
shall take place out of court and without application being made therefor to the
Secretary of State of the State.
The Liquidating Agent shall agree not to resign at any time without 15
days' prior written notice and (if other than the General Partner) may be
removed at any time, with or without cause, by notice of removal approved by
Unit Holders owning a majority of the outstanding Depositary Units. Upon
dissolution, removal, or resignation of the Liquidating Agent, a successor and
substitute Liquidating Agent (who shall have and succeed to all rights, powers
and duties of the original Liquidating Agent) shall, within 30 days thereafter,
be selected by Unit Holders owning a majority of the outstanding Depositary
Units. The right to appoint a successor or substitute Liquidating Agent in the
manner provided herein shall be recurring and continuing for so long as the
functions and services of the Liquidating Agent are authorized to continue under
the provisions hereof, and every reference herein to the Liquidating Agent shall
be deemed to refer also to any such successor substitute Liquidating Agent
appointed in the manner herein provided. The Liquidating Agent shall have and
may exercise, without further authorization or Consent of any of the parties
hereto, all of the powers conferred upon the General Partner under the terms of
this Agreement (but subject to all of the applicable limitations, contractual
and otherwise, upon the exercise of such powers, other than the limitation on
sales set forth in Section 4.5B) to the extent necessary or desirable in the
good faith judgment of the Liquidating Agent to carry out the duties and
functions of the Liquidating Agent hereunder for and during such period of time
as shall be reasonably required in the good faith judgment of the Liquidating
Agent to complete the winding-up and liquidation of the Limited Partnership as
provided for herein.
Notwithstanding the provision of Section 9.1 which requires the
liquidation of the assets of the Limited Partnership, but subject to the order
or priorities set forth herein, if on dissolution of the Limited Partnership the
General Partner or Liquidating Agent determines that an immediate sale of part
or all of the Limited Partnership's assets would be impracticable or would cause
undue loss to the Unit Holders, the General Partner or Liquidating Agent may, in
its absolute discretion, defer for a reasonable time the liquidation of any
assets except those necessary to satisfy liabilities of the Limited Partnership
(other than those to Partners).
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B. In settling accounts after dissolution, the assets of the Limited
Partnership shall be paid out in the following order: (i) to third party
creditors, in the order or priority as provided by law; (ii) to the General
Partner and any Liquidating Agent for any expenses of the Limited Partnership
paid by or payable to them to the extent they are entitled to reimbursement
therefor pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) to all of the Unit Holders in the
amount equivalent to the amount of their positive Capital Account balances (as
adjusted pursuant to Section 9.2A) on the date of distribution; (iv) to the
General Partner in the amount equivalent to the amount of its positive Capital
Account balance (as adjusted pursuant to Section 9.2A) on the date of
distribution; and (v) the balance, if any, shall be paid to the Partners and
Unit Holders in the manner in which Income is then being allocated.
C. If the General Partner has a deficit balance in its Capital Account
following the distribution(s) provided for in Section 9.2B above, as determined
after taking into account all adjustments to its Capital Account for the taxable
year of the Limited Partnership during which such distribution(s) occur, it
shall restore the amount of such deficit balance to the Limited Partnership
within 90 days and such amount shall be distributed to the other Partners and
Unit Holders in accordance with their positive Capital Account balances.
D. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon the
dissolution and termination of the Partnership, the General Partner will
contribute to the Partnership the lesser of: (a) the deficit balance in its
capital account; or (b) the excess of 1.01 percent of the total Capital
Contribution of the Depositary over the capital previously contributed by the
General Partner.
ARTICLE TEN
Books and Records Accounting; Tax Elections; etc.
Section 10.1. Books and Records
The books and records of the Limited Partnership, including information
relating to the sale by the General Partner or any Affiliates of goods or
services to the Limited Partnership, and a list of the names and addresses and
Depositary Units of all Unit Holders and Limited Partners, shall be maintained
by the General Partner at the principal office of the Limited Partnership for a
period of five years following the close of the Fiscal Year to which they relate
and shall be available for examination there by any Partner or Unit Holder or
its duly authorized representatives at any and all reasonable times. Any Partner
or Unit Holder, or its duly authorized representatives, upon paying the costs of
collection, duplication and mailing, shall be entitled for any proper purpose to
a copy of the list of names and addresses and Depositary Units of the Unit
Holders and Limited Partners. The Limited Partnership may maintain such other
books and records and may provide such financial or other statements as the
General Partner in its discretion deems advisable.
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Section 10.2. Accounting Basis for Tax and Reporting Purposes; Fiscal
Year
The books and records of the Limited Partnership for tax purposes, for
purposes of this Agreement and for the purpose of reports to the Partners, shall
be kept on the accrual basis. The Fiscal Year of the Limited Partnership shall
be the calendar year to the extent permissible and the General Partner shall use
its best efforts to obtain any necessary approvals therefor.
Section 10.3 Bank Accounts
The General Partner shall maintain a bank account or accounts to be
maintained by the General Partner on behalf of the Limited Partnership with any
bank in the United States having total assets in excess of $100,000,000. The
General Partner shall not deposit Limited Partnership funds in an account with
any bank in an aggregate amount in excess of 5% of such bank's total assets.
Withdrawals shall be made only in the regular course of the Limited
Partnership's business on such signature or signatures as the General Partner
may determine. All deposits and other funds not needed in the operation of the
business may be deposited in interest--hearing accounts, certificates of
deposit, unaffiliated money market funds or invested, in short term United
States Government obligations maturing within one year, commercial paper of
United States corporations having the highest credit rating granted by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇
Investors Services, Inc. or Standard & Poors Corporation, or other similar
highly liquid investments.
Section 10.4 Reports
A. The General Partner shall close the Limited Partnerships books of
account promptly at the close of each Fiscal Year and an annual examination of
the Limited Partnership's financial statements shall be performed at the expense
of the Limited Partnership by the Accountants. The General Partner shall furnish
to the Unit Holders an annual report within 120 days after the close of each
Fiscal Year of the Limited Partnership commencing with the Fiscal Year in which
the Limited Partnership was Activated. If requested by a Unit Holder, the
General Partner shall also furnish such Unit Holder with a report within 75 days
after the end of the first six months of the Fiscal Year in which such request
was made, or within 75 days after the request is made, whichever is later. Such
report will contain at least the following information:
(i) Financial statements for the Limited Partnership's and the NPI
Partnership's accounts, including a balance sheet, statement of income,
statement of changes in partners' capital and statement of changes in
financial position prepared on an accrual basis in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles and accompanied by a report of
the Accountants together with their opinion thereon, except that the
semi-annual financial statements need not be audited;
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(ii) A summary itemization, by type and/or classification, of the
total fees and compensation, including any overhead reimbursement, paid
by the Limited Partnership or NPI Partnership or indirectly on their
behalf, to the General Partner or Managing Partner and any Affiliate;
(iii) A description of each acquisition of Net Profits Interests
and Royalties, including the costs therefor, in which the NPI Partnership
owns an interest, except succeeding reports need contain only material
changes (including all farmouts, development drilling, improved recovery
operations on and abandonments of any Producing Properties in which the
NPI Partnership owns an interest and which may have a material effect on
the NPI Partnership's activities), if any, regarding Producing Properties
already reported upon. In the case of ▇▇▇▇▇ that have been abandoned
after production has commenced, a statement justifying such abandonment
shall be included if the General Partner or an Affiliate is the operator.
In the case of farmouts, the statement shall include a justification of
the farmout, location, time, to whom made, and a general description of
terms;
B. Within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter each Unit Holder
will receive a "participant statement" which summarizes his allocable interest
in the Limited Partnership. The participant statement will detail the Unit
Holder's cash receipts and disbursements for the Unit Holder's Depositary Units.
C. Within 120 days after the end of the Fiscal Year following the Fiscal
Year in which Activation of the Limited Partnership occurs, and annually
thereafter, the General Partner shall furnish to the Unit Holders a computation
as of the end of the immediately preceding Fiscal Year, based upon engineering
reports prepared by one or more qualified independent petroleum engineering
firms with respect to Producing Properties containing Proved Reserves equal to
at least 80% of the Proved Reserves of the NPI Partnership (with the computation
as to any balance of the NPI Partnership's Proved Reserves being based upon
petroleum engineering reports prepared by the General Partner or an Affiliate),
of the total estimated Proved Developed Producing Reserves, Proved Developed
Non-Producing Reserves and Proved Undeveloped Reserves owned by the NPI
Partnership, the estimated dollar value thereof stated in then existing prices
and escalated prices (as provided by the General Partner). In addition, the
computation shall include an estimate of the time required for the extraction of
such reserves and the present worth of such reserves and the estimate shall
contain a statement that because of the time period required to extract such
reserves the present value of revenues to be obtained in the future is less than
if immediately receivable.
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D. In addition to the report described in Section 10.4C of this
Agreement, if an event occurs to the knowledge of the General Partner or its
Affiliates leading to a reduction or an increase of such Reserves of more than
10 percent, excluding reduction as a result of normal production, an additional
computation and estimate similar to that described in Section 10.4C shall be
sent to each Unit Holder as soon as possible.
E. By March 15 of each year, the General Partner will furnish a report to
each Unit Holder containing such information as is pertinent for completion of
his respective federal, state, and other income tax returns.
F. By January 31 of each year, the General Partner will furnish a report
to each ▇▇▇ and Retirement Plan owning Depositary Units as of December 31 of the
preceding year setting forth an evaluation of the fair market value of the
Depositary Units as of such December 31 of the preceding year.
G. The General Partner shall file on a timely basis with the Securities
and Exchange Commission all filings required to be made by the Limited
Partnership and NPI Partnership pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder. The General Partner shall make available to any Unit Holder upon the
Unit Holder's request, copies of any report filed by or on behalf of the Limited
Partnership or the NPI Partnership with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The General Partner shall cause a copy of the report sent to the Unit Holders
under paragraphs A, C, D and E hereof to be sent to the California Commissioner
of Corporations.
H. The General Partner agrees to make all relevant financial and
engineering reports available for review by a Unit Holder on request at the
offices of the Limited Partnership.
Section 10.5. Elections
The General Partner shall cause the Limited Partnership to make all
elections required or permitted to be made by the Limited Partnership under the
Code and not otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement, in the manner
that the General Partner believes will be most advantageous to the Unit Holders,
except that (i) the General Partner shall not be required to make an election
under Section 754 of the Code or corresponding provisions of applicable state
income tax laws, and (ii) the General Partner shall make the election under
Section 263(c) of the Code to expense all intangible drilling and development
costs in the initial Limited Partnership Federal income tax return filed for the
Fiscal Year in which such costs are incurred.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
Amendments
Section 11.1. Proposal and Adoption of Amendments General
A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the General
Partner may, without prior notice or consent of any Unit Holder, amend any
provision of this Agreement (including an amendment to admit an additional
General Partner or a successor General Partner in the event of the withdrawal or
Removal of the General Partner) if, in its opinion, such amendment does not have
a material adverse effect upon the Unit Holders. Amendments to this Agreement to
reflect the addition or substitution of a Limited Partner or the admission of a
successor General Partner shall be made at the time and in the manner referred
to in Section 11.2. Any other amendment to this Agreement may be proposed by the
General Partner or holders of at least 10% of the outstanding Depositary Units.
The Unit Holder or Unit Holders proposing such amendment shall submit a
Notification containing (a) the text of such amendment and (b) a statement of
the purpose of such amendment. The General Partner shall, within 15 days after
receipt of any proposal under this Section 11.1A, give Notification to all
Partners and Unit Holders of such proposed amendment and of such statement of
purpose, together, in the case of an amendment proposed by other Partners or
Unit Holders, with the views, if any, of the General Partner with respect to
such proposed amendment, unless the General Partner has received prior thereto
an opinion of counsel to the effect that such amendment is permitted by the Act,
will impair the limited liability of the Unit Holders, or will adversely affect
the classification of the Limited Partnership as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes.
B. Amendments to this Agreement shall be adopted if: (i) in the case of
amendments other than those referred to in Section 11.2, the conditions
specified in Section 7.1E shall have been satisfactorily completed and the
Limited Partnership has not received an opinion of counsel to the Limited
Partnership to the effect that such amendment will adversely affect the
classification of the Limited Partnership as a partnership for federal income
tax purposes; (ii) in the case of amendments referred to in Section 11.2, the
conditions specified in Section 6.5B shall have been satisfactorily completed;
or (iii) in the case of all other amendments, such amendment shall have been
Consented to by the Depositary, which Consent will be given if the Consent of
Unit Holders owning more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units is
obtained (unless such Consent is not required pursuant to Section 11.1A of this
Agreement); provided, however, that no such amendment may: (a) enlarge the
obligations of any Partner or Unit Holder under this Agreement or convert the
Interest of any Limited Partner into the Interest of a General Partner or modify
the limited liability of any Limited Partner without the Consent of such
Partner; (b) modify the method provided in Article Five of determining and
allocating or distributing, as the case may be, Profits, Losses, Distributable
Cash and each item of Income, gain, loss, cost, deduction or credit without the
Consent of each Partner or Unit Holder adversely affected by such modification;
(c) amend Sections 4.9, 4.10, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 or 6.4 without the Consent of the
General Partner.
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C. Upon the adoption of any amendment to this Agreement, the amendment
shall be executed by the General Partner and the Depositary and shall be
recorded in the proper records of the State and any other state in which the
Limited Partnership is then doing business.
Section 11.2. Amendments on Admission or Removal of Partners
If this Agreement shall be amended to reflect the withdrawal or Removal
of the General Partner and the continuation of the business of the Limited
Partnership, such amendment shall be signed by the remaining or successor
General Partner, the Removed General Partner and the Depositary.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Consents, Voting and Meeting
Section 12.1. Method of Giving Consent
Any Consent of a Unit Holder required by this Agreement may be given by
a Unit Holder as follows: (i) at a meeting, in person, by a written proxy or
signed writing directing the manner in which it desires that its vote be cast,
which writing must be received by the General Partner prior to such meeting, or
(ii) without a meeting, by a signed writing directing the manner in which it
desires that its vote be cast, which writing must be received by the Depositary
prior to the date upon which the vote of Unit Holders are to be counted. Any
Partner or Unit Holder may waive notice of or attendance at any meeting of the
Unit Holders and Partners and may execute a signed written consent. Only the
votes of Unit Holders of record on the date set by the General Partner (which
date shall be not less than 10 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date
set for the meeting or consent) whether at a meeting or otherwise, shall be
counted. The laws of the State pertaining to the validity and use of corporate
proxies shall govern the validity and use of proxies given by Unit Holders.
Section 12.2. Meetings of Partners and Unit Holders
The General Partner may at any time call a meeting of the Unit Holders
or for a vote, without a meeting, of the Unit Holders on matters upon which the
Unit Holders are entitled to provide their Consent, and shall call for such a
meeting or vote upon receipt by the General Partner of a request therefor made
by Unit Holders owning at least 10% of the outstanding Depositary Units as of
the date of receipt of such Notification. Within 15 days of the receipt of the
Notification, the General Partner shall notify all Unit Holders of record as of
the date set by the General Partner (which date shall be not less than 10 days
and not more than 60 days prior to the date set for the meeting or consent) as
to the time and place of the meeting, if called, and the general nature of the
business to be transacted thereat, or if no such meeting has been called, of the
matter or matters to be voted upon and the date upon which the votes will be
counted. Any Unit Holders meeting or the date upon which such votes, without a
meeting, will be counted (regardless of whether the General
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Partner has called for such meeting or vote upon the request of Unit Holders or
has initiated such event without such request) shall be not less than 30 or more
than 60 days following mailing of the Notification thereof by the General
Partner. All expenses of the meetings, voting and such Notification shall be
borne by the Limited Partnership.
Section 12 .3. Limitations on Requirements for Consents
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement,
the powers of the Unit Holders set forth in Sections 4.5D, 4.5E, 4.5F, 6.3A,
6.6A, 6.7 and 12.5 shall not be deemed to be granted to the Unit Holders or
exercisable by them if, prior to the exercise of such powers, counsel for the
Limited Partnership or counsel designated by Unit Holders owning at least 10% of
the outstanding Depositary Units delivers to the Depositary an opinion to the
effect that the grant or the exercise of those powers is prohibited by the Act,
will impair the limited liability of the Depositary or the Unit Holders or will
affect the classification of the Limited Partnership as a partnership for
Federal income tax purposes.
Section 12.4. Submissions to Unit Holders
The General Partner shall give all the Unit Holders Notification of any
proposal or other matter required by any provisions of this Agreement or by law
to be submitted for the consideration and approval of the Unit Holders. Such
Notification shall include any information required by the relevant provision of
the Agreement or by law.
Section 12.5. Acting without Concurrence of General Partner
Except as limited by Sections 12.3, 12.6 and 11.18, Unit Holders owning
more than 50% of the outstanding Depositary Units, without the necessity for
concurrence by the General Partner, may cause the Depositary to vote to:
(a) amend the Agreement or cause the NPI Partnership Agreement to be
amended;
(b) dissolve the Limited Partnership or cause the NPI Partnership to
be dissolved;
(c) remove the General Partner or cause the Managing Partner of the NPI
Partnership to be removed and elect a new General Partner or cause the NPI
Partnership to elect a new Managing Partner;
(d) approve or disapprove the sale of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Limited Partnership or cause the NPI Partnership to sell or not to
sell all or substantially all of its assets; or
(e) cancel or amend the terms of any contract for services with the
General Partner or any Affiliate or cause the NPI Partnership to do so, which
shall be without penalty, provided 30 days written notice is given.
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Section 12.6 Restricted Voting Rights for Depositary Units of General
Partner. The General Partner and its Affiliates shall not vote on any proposals
submitted to the Unit Holders to amend Sections 2.3, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, Article XI
or Section 12 . 3.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
The Depositary
Section 13.1 Depositary Receipts.
A. Within 45 days of the Activation of the Partnership, the Depositary
shall execute and forward to each Unit Holder Depositary Receipts evidencing the
ownership by the Unit Holder as of the date of Activation the Depositary Units
for which such Unit Holder subscribed.
B. Pursuant to the terms of Section 8.3, upon receipt of a properly
executed application for transfer, the Depositary shall within three business
days execute and forward Depositary Receipts to the respective transferees.
C. Depositary Receipts may be endorsed with, have incorporated in the
text thereof or be accompanied by such legends or recitals, attachments or
changes, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, as may be
required to comply with any applicable law or regulation or with the rules and
regulations of any securities exchange upon which the Depositary Units may be
listed, or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any
special limitation or restriction to which any particular Depositary Unit may be
subject, or as may for any other reason be required. Each Depositary Receipt
shall bear the Depositary's corporate seal and shall be duly executed on behalf
of the Depositary by the manual or facsimile signature of the duly authorized
officers of the Depositary. No Depositary Receipt shall be entitled to any
benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless it bears such
signatures and corporate seal.
D. All Depositary Receipts executed by the Depositary shall be numbered
consecutively. The Unit Holder of each numbered Depositary Receipt shall be
registered on the books of the Depositary maintained pursuant to Section 13.3A.
E. Upon surrender by the Unit Holder in person or by duly authorized
attorney of one or more Depositary Receipts at the Depositary's principal
office, or at any other office it may designate for the purpose, for split--up
or combination, the Depositary shall, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement and the Depositary Receipt, execute and deliver one or more new
Depositary Receipts in authorized denominations as requested, evidencing the
same aggregate number of Depositary Units as evidenced by the Depositary
Receipt(s) surrendered.
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F. If any Depositary Receipt is mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Depositary shall execute and deliver a Depositary Receipt in like form and tenor
in exchange and substitution for the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Depositary Receipt; provided, that the Depositary may require the Unit Holder to
(i) surrender any mutilated Depositary Receipt, (ii) file with the Depositary,
in a form and manner satisfactory to it, proof of the destruction, loss or
theft, and of such Unit Holder's ownership, of the Depositary Receipt and (iii)
furnish to the Depositary reasonable indemnification (including posting of an
indemnity bond) satisfactory to the Depositary.
G. As a condition precedent to the execution and delivery, transfer,
split-up, combination, surrender, conversion or exchange of any Depositary
Receipt, the Depositary may require (i) payment of a sum sufficient for
reimbursement of any tax or other governmental charge with respect thereto, (ii)
production of proof satisfactory to it as to the identity and genuineness of any
signature or endorsement or as to the due authorization of the action, (iii)
filing of such information and execution of such documents by the transferor
and/or the transferee as may be required by this Agreement or the Depositary
Receipt or otherwise is deemed necessary or appropriate by the Depositary and
(iv) compliance with such other conditions as may be imposed under applicable
laws and regulations. The Depositary shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall
not have any liability to the Limited Partnership, the General Partner, any Unit
Holder or any other Person with respect to the content of any proof submitted to
it pursuant to this Section 13.1G. and shall have no obligation to inquire as to
the truth and accuracy thereof (except for acts or omissions resulting from the
Depositary's gross negligence).
H. All Depositary Receipts surrendered to the Depositary shall be
cancelled. The Depositary shall retain all cancelled Depositary Receipts and
other instruments, documents and records in accordance with the policies and
regulations of the Depositary, federal securities laws and the rules and
regulations of any securities exchange or market upon which the Depositary
Receipts may be listed or quoted.
Section 13.2 Depositary as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Depositary
shall also be the transfer agent and registrar for the Depositary Receipts
unless prohibited by law, regulation or any applicable rule of a securities
exchange or market. In its capacity as such, subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, the Depositary shall transfer record ownership of the
Depositary Units by bookkeeping entry on the books and records maintained
pursuant to Section l3.3A.
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Section 13.3 Duties of Depositary
A. In performing its duties hereunder the Depositary shall:
(i) maintain at its principal office a current list of the full
name and last known home or business address of each Unit Holder, set
forth in alphabetical order which list shall be available during ordinary
business hours for examination and copying at the reasonable request, and
at the expense, of any Unit Holder or his duly authorized representative,
or copies of such list may be requested in writing for any proper purpose
by any Unit Holder or his duly authorized representative; provided that
the reasonable costs of fulfilling such request, including copying
expenses, shall be paid by the Unit Holder making such request. In
addition, the Depositary shall, as required, furnish to the Securities
and Exchange Commission, any report, financial statement or communication
received from the Limited Partnership or the General Partner that is made
generally available to Unit Holders;
(ii) keep all records required to be kept, for the periods
specified, and shall file with the Securities and Exchange Commission all
materials required to be so filed, under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, by virtue of its status as Depositary. A copy of any material filed
by the Depositary with the Securities and Exchange Commission shall also
be provided to the Limited Partnership within two business days after its
filing. To the extent that any such filing requires information from the
Limited Partnership or the General Partner, such information shall be
furnished to the Depositary by the General Partner in sufficient quantity
and a sufficient time in advance of the date the filing is required to be
made to enable the Depositary to comply with such requirements; and
(iii) keep books at its corporate office for the transfer of
Depositary Receipts. The books shall be open during normal business hours
for inspection by the Unit Holders. The Depositary may, however, close
the transfer books, at any time or from time to time, when deemed
expedient by it in connection with the performance of its duties
hereunder.
B. Upon the request of the Limited Partnership, the Depositary shall as
promptly as practicable furnish to the Limited Partnership a list, as of the
date specified in such request, of the names, addresses and social security or
taxpayer identification numbers of all Unit Holders.
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Section 13.4 Depositary Not a Trustee, Issuer, etc. The Depositary is not
a trustee and it is intended that the Depositary, in its capacity as depositary,
shall not be deemed to be an "issuer" or "underwriter" of securities under the
federal securities laws or applicable state securities laws; it being expressly
understood and agreed that the Depositary, in its capacity as the limited
partner of the Limited Partnership, is acting only in a ministerial capacity.
Section 13.5 Indemnification of the Depositary.
The Depositary shall be indemnified by the Limited Partnership to the
same extent and subject to the same conditions and restrictions as provided in
Section 4.10 of this Agreement with respect to the indemnification of the
General Partner.
Section 13.6 Limitation of Expense Reimbursements
The expenses of the Depositary otherwise reimbursable to it under the
terms of this Agreement and the fees payable to it hereunder shall not exceed
the lesser of (i) an amount equal to 90% of the competitive price which would be
charged by non-affiliated persons rendering similar services in the same or
comparable geographic location or (ii) the costs and expenses of the Depositary
incurred in rendering such services.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 14.1. Notification to the Limited Partnership or the General
Partner
Any Notification to the Limited Partnership or the General Partner shall
be sent to the principal office of the Limited Partnership, as set forth in this
Agreement. Except as provided herein, any Notification to a Unit Holder shall be
sent to its last known address.
Section 14.2. Binding Provisions
The covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and
assigns of the respective parties hereto.
Section 14.3. Applicable Law
This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the
laws of the State.
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Section 14.4. Separability of Provisions
If for any reason any provision or provisions hereofwhich are not
material to the purposes or business of the Limited Partnership or of the Unit
Holders' Depositary Units are determined to be invalid and contrary to any
existing or future law, such invalidity shall not impair the operation of or
affect those portions of this Agreement that are valid.
Section 14.5. Appointment of the General Partner as Attorney- in-Fact
The Depositary, by the execution of this Agreement, irrevocably
constitutes and appoints the General Partner, its true and lawful agent and
attorney-in-fact with full power and authority in its name, place and stead to
execute, acknowledge, deliver, swear to, file and record at the appropriate
public offices such documents, instruments and conveyances that may be necessary
or appropriate to carry out the provisions or purposes of this Agreement,
including without limitation: (i) all certificates and other instruments
(including counterparts of this Agreement), and any amendment thereof, including
any amendment substituting a Limited Partner pursuant to Section 7.lE and
Section 8.2, that the General Partner deems appropriate to form, reform, qualify
or continue the Limited Partnership (or a new partnership with substantially the
same provisions as the Limited Partnership) as a limited partnership (or a
partnership in which the Partners will have limited liability comparable to that
provided by the Act) in the jurisdiction in which the Limited Partnership may
conduct business; (ii) all amendments and other instruments necessary to admit
into the Limited Partnership additional or substituted Partners pursuant to
Section 11.2; (iii) all instruments that the General Partner deems appropriate
to reflect a change or modification of the Limited Partnership in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement (including those necessary to reflect
additional Capital Contributions); (iv) all conveyances and other instruments
that the General Partner deems appropriate to reflect the dissolution and
termination of the Limited Partnership; (v) all amendments that the General
Partner deems appropriate to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or
to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under
this Agreement which will not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Agreement; and (vi) to delete or add any provision of this Agreement required to
be so deleted or added by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission or
by any state securities commissioner or similar such official, which addition or
deletion is deemed by such commissioner or official to be for the benefit or
protection of the Limited Partner or Unit Holders.
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Section 14.6. Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties. This
Agreement supersedes any prior agreement or understanding among the parties and
may not be modified or amended in any manner other than as set forth herein.
Section 14.7. Paragraph Titles
Article and section titles are for descriptive purposes only and shall
not control or alter the meaning of this Agreement as set forth in the text.
Section 14.8. Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, all of which
together shall constitute one agreement binding on all parties hereto,
notwithstanding that all the parties have not signed the same counterpart except
that no counterpart shall be binding unless signed by the General Partner.
GEODYNE PROPERTIES, INC., as
General Partner
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
Executive Vice President
GEODYNE INSTITUTIONAL DEPOSITARY
COMPANY, as the Limited Partner
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President
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SCHEDULE A
General Partner
Name and Address Capital Contribution
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Geodyne Properties, Inc. $100
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Limited Partner
Name and Address Capital Contribution
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Geodyne Properties, Inc. $12,630,600
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