EXHIBIT 4.6
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
________________
Indenture
dated as of December 1, 1998
________________
$1,200,000,000
TMCC Demand Notes
CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
(not a part of this Indenture)
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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(Section)310(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.08
7.10
11.02
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(Section)311(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(Section)312(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.05
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.03
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.03
(Section)313(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.06
(b)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.06
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.06
11.02
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.06
(Section)314(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.09
4.10
11.02
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
11.02
(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.04
(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.04
(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.09(c)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.05
(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(Section)315(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01(b)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.05
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01(a)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01(c)
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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(Section)316(a)(last sentence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.09
(a)(1)(A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.05
(a)(1)(B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.04
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.07
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.04
(Section)317(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.08
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.09
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.04
(Section)318(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.01
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N.A. means not applicable
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE. . . . . . . . .1
Section 1.01. Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of TIA. . . . . . . . . . .1
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Section 2.01. Form; Title and Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Section 2.03. Securities Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Section 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. . . . . . . . . .5
Section 2.05. Holder Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Section 2.06. Transfer and Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Section 2.07. Replacement Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Section 2.08. Outstanding Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Section 2.09. Securities Not Outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Section 2.10. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Section 2.11. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Section 2.12. Defaulted Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Section 2.13. Persons Deemed Owners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Section 2.14. Computation of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Section 3.01. Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
ARTICLE IV. COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Section 4.01. Payment of Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency; Paying Agent and
Registrar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 4.03. Company Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain
Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ARTICLE V. CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS, ETC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 5.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 5.02. Successor Person Substituted for Company . . . . . . 12
ARTICLE VI. DEFAULT AND REMEDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section 6.01. Events of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section 6.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . 12
Section 6.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 6.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 6.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Section 6.06. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 6.07. Limitation on Suits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 6.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal
and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 6.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 6.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 6.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 6.12. Control by Holders of Securities . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 6.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 6.14. Undertaking for Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ARTICLE VII. TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 7.01. Duties of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 7.02. Rights of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 7.05. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 7.08. Replacement of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification. . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. . 23
ARTICLE VIII. DEFEASANCE; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE. . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 8.01. Defeasance of the Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 8.02. Satisfaction and Discharge of the Indenture. . . . . 24
Section 8.03. Survival of Certain Obligations. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section 8.04. Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee . . . . . . . 25
Section 8.05. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section 8.06. Repayment to the Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 8.07. Reinstatement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 9.01. Without Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 9.02. With Consent of Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Section 9.03. Compliance with TIA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents. . . . . . . . . . 28
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Section 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities. . . . . . . . 29
Section 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . 29
Section 9.07. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . 29
ARTICLE X. MEETINGS OF AND ACTIONS BY HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 10.01. Purposes for Which Meetings may be Called. . . . . . 30
Section 10.02. Manner of Calling Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 10.03. Call of Meetings by Company or Holders . . . . . . . 30
Section 10.04. Who May Attend and Vote at Meetings. . . . . . . . . 31
Section 10.05. Regulations may be Made by Trustee; Conduct of the
Meeting; Voting Rights; Adjournment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 10.06. Voting at the Meeting and Record to be Kept. . . . . 32
Section 10.07. Exercise of Rights of Trustee or Holders May Not be
Hindered or Delayed by Call of Meeting . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 10.08. Evidence of Action Taken by Holders. . . . . . . . . 32
Section 10.09. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 10.10. Right of Revocation of Action Taken. . . . . . . . . 33
ARTICLE XI. MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 11.01. TIA Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 11.02. Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 11.03. Communications by Holders with Other Holders . . . . 35
Section 11.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent . 35
Section 11.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. . . . 35
Section 11.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar. . . . . . 36
Section 11.07. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.08. Governing Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. . . . 36
Section 11.10. No Recourse Against Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.11. Successors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.12. Duplicate Originals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.13. Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 11.14. Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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EXHIBITS
Annex I - Definitions I-1
Exhibit A - Form of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Exhibit B - Form of Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
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INDENTURE dated as of December 1, 1998, between Toyota Motor Credit
Corporation, a California corporation (the "Company"), and U.S. Bank National
Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the "Trustee").
RECITALS
A. The Company is duly authorized to execute and deliver this
Indenture and to provide for the issuance by the Company of the Securities as
provided herein.
B. All things have been done that are necessary to make the
Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee hereunder, the valid and binding legal obligations of the Company
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
C. For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders, each party hereto agrees as follows for the
benefit of each other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders.
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE.
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS.
All capitalized terms used in this Indenture and not defined elsewhere
herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in Annex I, which is hereby
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
SECTION 1.02. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TIA.
Wherever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision
is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Securities.
"indenture security holder" means a Holder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company or any other
obligor on the Securities.
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All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule and
not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.
SECTION 1.03. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) unless otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, an
accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP and all financial computations required under this
Indenture shall be made in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the
plural include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(6) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision; and
(7) "including" shall be deemed to mean "including, without
limitation".
ARTICLE II.
THE SECURITIES.
SECTION 2.01. FORM; TITLE AND TERMS.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication thereon
shall be substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The
Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law or
stock exchange rules. Each Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the Securities shall constitute a
part of, and are hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of, this
Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their
execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to their
incorporation herein.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "TMCC Demand Notes"
of the Company. The aggregate original principal amount of Securities that
may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to
$1,200,000,000, except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.06, 2.07 and 9.05.
References herein and in the forms of Securities to "Security" or
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"Securities" shall include references to the principal amounts issued
thereunder as evidenced by the appropriate notation on the Schedules.
The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form, without
coupons. The minimum denominations of the Securities will be $0.01.
Interest on the Securities which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall, except as otherwise
provided in Section 2.12, be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities (or one or more Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment
Date. At the option of the Company, payment of interest on the Securities
due on any Interest Payment Date, falling after a Record Date for the payment
of interest on the Securities and on or before the related Interest Payment
Date, shall be paid by wire transfer to an account specified by the Person
entitled thereto as proven by the names appearing in the Securities register.
SECTION 2.02. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by an Officer
of the Company. Any such signature may be by facsimile.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that
office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the Security shall
be valid nevertheless.
All of the Securities to be issued under this Indenture, and all of the
principal amounts to be evidenced by the Securities need not be issued at the
same time and may be issued from time to time at the order of the Company as
herein provided for. The Securities and the principal amount in respect of
the Securities to be issued hereunder shall all be of the same series known
as the "TMCC Demand Notes", but need not have the same issue date, Stated
Maturity Date, Required Rate, or Interest Payment Date. It is envisioned
that five certificates representing potential investments related to the
Securities shall be issued hereunder and carry principal balances which will
correspond to amounts actually on deposit in the 1998-C SUBI
Certificateholders' Account in respect of the following amounts: (1) one
certificate representing amounts allocated as Class A-1 Notional Interest
Accrual Amounts, any Class A-1 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-2
Notional Interest Accrual Amounts, any Class A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall
Amount, Class A-3 Notional Interest Accrual Amounts, any Class A-3 Interest
Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class B Notional Interest Accrual Amounts, any
Adjustable Rate Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class B Fixed
Rate Interest Accrual Amounts and any Fixed Rate Class B Interest Carryover
Shortfall Amount (the "Interest Demand Note") in a maximum aggregate
principal amount equal to $513,700,000; (2) one certificate representing
amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-1
Certificate Balance in a maximum aggregate principal amount equal to
$189,000,000; (3) one certificate representing amounts allocated to make
applications in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-2 Certificate Balance in a
maximum principal amount equal to $424,500,000; (4) one certificate
representing amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the
Adjusted Class A-3 Certificate Balance in a maximum principal amount equal to
$72,800,000; and (5) one certificate representing amounts allocated to make
applications in reduction of the Adjusted Class B Certificate Balance in a
maximum principal amount equal to $48,700,000;
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provided that nothing herein shall limit the number of certificates
representing the Securities that may be issued hereunder. Each certificate
representing a Security will have a Schedule attached thereto indicating: (i)
the amount of the increase in the principal amount outstanding under such
Security and the date on which each principal amount under such Security was
first issued, (ii) the Stated Maturity Date for such principal amount, (iii)
the Required Rate applicable to such principal amount, (iv) the amount of the
decrease in the principal amount outstanding under such Security and the date
on which such principal amount under such Security was paid, (v) the amount
of the interest paid on such Security and the date on which such interest was
paid and (vi) the aggregate principal amount outstanding with respect to such
certificate representing a Security.
A Security shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the
certificate of authentication on the Security. Entries on the Schedule to
any such Security shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the
space provided for such entry as authentication of such increase or decrease
in outstanding principal amount of such Security. Such signature shall be
conclusive evidence that the Security and such entry has been authenticated
under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall authenticate Securities for original issue in any
amount not to exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount as aforesaid,
upon a written order of the Company signed by an Officer of the Company. The
Trustee shall annotate and initial the Schedule attached to a Security to
indicate the issuance of an additional principal amount of the Securities,
upon either (i) a written order of the Company signed by an Officer of the
Company, or (ii) if an Officer's Certificate has previously been delivered to
the Trustee by the Company specifying the names and titles of officers,
employees or agents of the Company eligible to give such an order, the order
of any such officer, employee or agent of the Company, which order may be by
facsimile (promptly confirmed in writing). Any such order shall specify the
principal amount in respect of the Securities to be issued and to which
certificate such amount shall be allocable, the applicable Required Rate, the
Stated Maturity Date and the date on which such issue of principal in respect
of the Securities is to be authenticated.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the
Company to authenticate Securities and the Schedules attached thereto.
Unless otherwise provided in the appointment, an authenticating agent may
authenticate Securities and the Schedules attached thereto whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has
the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company. The Trustee is initially appointed as the authentication agent by
the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in lieu of annotating the related
Schedule and initializing such entries, the Trustee may instead provide a
written confirmation to the Company of its receipt of and compliance with any
Company Order and of its receipt of each payment made by the Company in
respect of any principal amount of any Security or interest on any principal
amount of any Securities, which alternative written confirmations shall be
deemed to be conclusive evidence that the Trustee has received any such
Company Order or payment from the Company, in each case with the same force
and effect as if the Schedule had in fact been annotated and initialed as
described above; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to make any
payment at the Maturity of any Security unless and until the Trustee delivers
to the
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Company the related Schedule annotated with entries corresponding to each
such alternative confirmation and having each such annotation authenticated
as described above.
SECTION 2.03. SECURITIES REGISTER.
The Company shall keep or cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office
or at any office or agency of the Company where Securities may be presented
for registration of transfer or for exchange as provided in Section 4.02 a
register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Company may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and
registration of transfers and exchanges of Securities as in this Article
provided. The Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 4.02 shall keep the
register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange.
SECTION 2.04. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST.
Each Paying Agent appointed pursuant to Section 4.02 shall hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, without interest, all money
held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal and interest on the
Securities (whether such money has been paid to it by the Company or any
other obligor on the Securities), and shall notify the Trustee in writing of
any Default by the Company (or any other obligor on the Securities) in making
any such payment. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as
Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money and hold it as a separate trust
fund. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the Trustee and account for any funds disbursed and the Trustee
may at any time during the continuance of any payment Default, upon written
request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to pay all money held by
it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed. Upon payment of
all funds held by it to the Trustee, the Paying Agent shall have no further
liability for such money. As provided in Section 6.04 hereof, in any
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar proceeding relative
to the Company or any other obligor on the Securities, the Trustee shall
serve as Paying Agent for the Securities; provided that the foregoing shall
not relieve the Company of its obligations under Section 4.02.
SECTION 2.05. HOLDER LISTS.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list of the names and addresses of the Holders
furnished to it or maintained by it in its capacity as Registrar. If and so
long as the Trustee is not the Registrar, in accordance with Section 312(a)
of the TIA, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
semiannually not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days before each Interest
Payment Date and at such times as the Trustee may request in writing a list
in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the
names and addresses of Holders including an identification of the Securities
and the aggregate amount thereof.
SECTION 2.06. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) The Trustee will not authenticate or deliver any Security
in connection with any registration of transfer to any person unless the
Trustee has received a certification from the transferring Holder to the
effect that (i) it is no longer the Securitization Trustee of the 1998-
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C Securitization Trust and the proposed transferee is its successor in such
capacity, or (ii) a Swap Termination has occurred and such proposed transfer
is made in contemplation of a liquidation of the trust assets. Each
certificate shall bear a legend containing the foregoing transfer
restrictions.
(b) When Securities are presented to the Registrar or a
co-Registrar with a written request satisfying the requirements of clause (a)
to register the transfer of such Securities or to exchange such Securities
for an equal principal amount of Securities in other authorized
denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or
make the exchange if its reasonable requirements for such transactions (which
may include a requirement that any Security presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by
a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar and
the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing) are met. To permit registration of transfers and
exchanges as provided herein, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver Securities at the Registrar's or a co-Registrar's
written request. All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company
evidencing the same debt and entitling the Holders thereof to the same
benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange. No service charge shall be made to a
Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar
governmental charge payable in connection therewith, other than in the case
of exchanges under Section 9.05 hereof not involving any transfer.
SECTION 2.07. REPLACEMENT SECURITIES.
If a defaced or mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or if
the Holder of a Security presents evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of
the Trustee that the Security has been lost, destroyed or stolen the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Security if
the Company's and the Trustee's reasonable requirements are met. The Trustee
or the Company may require an indemnity bond or other security, sufficient in
the reasonable judgment of both the Company and the Trustee, to protect the
Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer
if a Security is replaced. The Company and the Trustee may charge such
Holder for their reasonable expenses in replacing a Security.
Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company,
whether or not the apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone, and such replacement Security shall be
entitled to the benefits of and subject to the limitations of rights set
forth in this Indenture.
The provisions of this Section, as amended or supplemented pursuant to
this Indenture with respect to particular Securities or generally, shall be
exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities.
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SECTION 2.08. OUTSTANDING SECURITIES.
Securities outstanding at any time under this Indenture are all
Securities that have been theretofore authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, except (a) those canceled by the Trustee, (b) those delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation, (c) those in exchange for or in lieu of which
other Securities have been authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
and (d) those described in this Section as not outstanding.
Except as provided in Section 2.09 hereof, a Security does not cease to
be outstanding because the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor holds the Security.
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof, it ceases to
be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.
If on the Stated Maturity Date of any Securities, the Paying Agent
(other than the Company or a Subsidiary) holds U.S. Legal Tender sufficient
to pay all of the principal and interest due on the Securities payable on
that date, then on and after that date such Securities shall cease to be
outstanding and interest on them shall cease to accrue.
SECTION 2.09. SECURITIES NOT OUTSTANDING.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or whether a quorum is present
at a meeting of Holders of Securities, Securities owned by the Company or any
other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon
any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
or upon any such determination as to the presence of a quorum, only
Securities which a Trust Officer actually knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may
be regarded as outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of
the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and
that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
or an Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. The Trustee may
require an Officer's Certificate listing Securities owned by the Company or
any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of
such other obligor.
SECTION 2.10. RESERVED.
SECTION 2.11. CANCELLATION.
The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar, each co-Registrar and the Paying Agent shall
forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for transfer,
exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for
registration of transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation.
Subject to Section 2.07 hereof, the Company may not execute new Securities to
replace Securities it has
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paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. All canceled Securities
held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and certification of their destruction
delivered to the Company, unless the Company shall direct the Trustee, by a
written order signed by an Officer of the Company, to return the cancelled
Securities to the Company.
SECTION 2.12. DEFAULTED INTEREST.
If the Company fails to pay any principal of or interest on any Security
on the due date therefor (whether upon acceleration, at the related Stated
Maturity Date or otherwise), the Company shall pay, from and after the
expiration of any cure period, interest thereon, at the rate per annum borne
by the Securities, to the extent permitted by law. Any interest on any
Security which shall be payable, but shall not be punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for such Security (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
thereof on the relevant Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder; and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Person in whose name such Security (or a Predecessor Security thereof)
shall be registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which date shall be fixed in the
following manner:
(A) The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the
amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on such Security and the
date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of U.S. Legal Tender equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on
or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such U.S. Legal Tender when
so deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to
such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided.
(B) Thereupon, the Trustee shall fix a "Special Record Date" for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class, postage
prepaid, to each Holder of Securities at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Security (or a
Predecessor Security thereof) shall be registered at the close of business
on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2).
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(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by
the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment method pursuant to this
clause, such payment method shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 2.13. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any Agent may treat the Person in whose name such
Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payments of principal of and, subject to Section 2.12, interest on
such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever (whether or not such
Security is overdue), and neither the Company nor the Trustee or any other
Agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.14. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE III.
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. REDEMPTION.
The Securities may not be redeemed at the option of the Company, in
whole or in part at any time prior to their respective Stated Maturities.
ARTICLE IV.
COVENANTS.
SECTION 4.01. PAYMENT OF SECURITIES.
The Company will punctually pay the principal of and interest on the
Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and this
Indenture.
The Company will, on or prior to the day when any principal of or
interest on any of the Securities becomes payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity Date thereof, by demand for payment by any Holder of a Security (i)
if for any reason Standard & Poor's reduces the Company's short-term debt to
a rating less than A-1+ or the Company's long-term debt to a rating of less
than AA or Moody's reduces the Company's short-term debt to a rating less
than P-1 or the Company's
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long-term debt to a rating less than Aa3 and the Trustee determines, based on
advice of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Lynch, Pierce, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ and/or Credit Suisse First
Boston Corporation, its successor or its independent public accountants, that
at such time one or more Permitted Investments having substantially the same
maturities, similar demand features and bearing interest at the relevant
Required Rates are available and, based on oral or written advice to such
effect from each Rating Agency, that investment therein rather than in the
Company's Demand Notes will not, by itself, cause a Rating Agency to reduce
or withdraw its rating of any Class of Certificates or (ii) in connection
with any Swap Termination, in the form of Exhibit B hereto delivered to the
Trustee, surrender the Securities for repurchase, declaration of acceleration
or otherwise, and deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company is acting as Paying Agent, segregate and hold in
trust), in immediately available funds, no later than 12:00 noon (New York
City time), a sum in U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay the principal and
interest becoming due. Such sum shall be held in trust for the benefit of
the Holders entitled to such payment and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its
action or failure so to act, and of the amount of each such payment made to
each Paying Agent.
On the second Business Day preceding each Monthly Allocation Date on
which Securities are to be issued or additional amounts are to be invested in
outstanding Securities, the Trustee will calculate the Commercial Paper Rate
for the relevant Interest Period for each Security in which an investment is
to be made, and shall inform the Company promptly in writing of each such
Commercial Paper Rate.
SECTION 4.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY; PAYING AGENT AND
REGISTRAR.
The Company will maintain in Chicago, Illinois, an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment ("Paying
Agent"), where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange ("Registrar") and where notices and demands to or upon the Company
in respect of payments on the Securities or under this Indenture may be
served. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, the Trustee, the Company
or a Subsidiary of the Company may act as Registrar, co-Registrar or Paying
Agent. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee and the
Holders of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee, as the initial Registrar and
Paying Agent in Chicago, Illinois, and designates, for the purposes of this
Section 4.02, such agent as an agency where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of payments on the Securities or under this Indenture
may be served. The parties hereto agree such agency is not an agency for
service of process.
SECTION 4.03. COMPANY STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE; NOTICE OF CERTAIN
DEFAULTS.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year, a written statement (which need not be contained in or
accompanied by an Officer's
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Certificate) signed by the principal executive officer, the principal
financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, stating
that:
(a) a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of
its performance under this Indenture has been made under his or her
supervision, and
(b) to the best of his or her knowledge, based on such review, (i) the
Company has complied with all the conditions and covenants imposed on it
under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in
the fulfillment of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such
default known to him or her and the nature and status thereof, and (ii) no
event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of
time or both would become, an Event of Default, or, if such an event has
occurred and is continuing, specifying each such event known to him and the
nature and status thereof.
(c) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within five days after
the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which after notice or
lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to clause (c)
of Section 6.01.
ARTICLE V.
CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS, ETC.
SECTION 5.01. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall
prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other
Person or Persons (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive
consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors
shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any conveyance, transfer or
lease of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety, to any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Company);
provided, however, that:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge
into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Company shall be the
surviving entity or the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or
which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety shall be a Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and
shall expressly assume, by an indenture (or indentures, if at such time there
is more than one Trustee) supplemental hereto, executed by the successor
Person and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the
due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the
Securities and the performance of every other covenant of this Indenture on
the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no event which, after notice or lapse of time, would become an Event of
Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
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(3) either the Company or the successor Person shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or
lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with.
SECTION 5.02. SUCCESSOR PERSON SUBSTITUTED FOR COMPANY.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any conveyance, transfer or lease of
the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety to any
Person in accordance with Section 5.01, the successor Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such
conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as
the Company herein; and thereafter, except in the case of a lease to another
Person, the predecessor Person shall be released from all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE VI.
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES.
SECTION 6.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
The occurrence of any one of the following events for any reason
whatsoever, and whether voluntary, involuntary or by operation of law, shall
constitute an "Event of Default":
(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default
for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of any Security
of such series when it becomes due and payable at its Maturity, and
continuance of such default for a period of 10 days; or
(c) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture or the Securities, and continuance
of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(d) any Insolvency Event of the Company.
SECTION 6.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is
continuing, then the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal
amount of the outstanding Securities may declare the principal of all the
Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
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Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article
provided, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum of money
sufficient to pay:
(A) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
(B) all due and overdue installments of interest on all
Securities;
(C) the principal of any Securities which have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate borne by or provided for in such Securities; and
(D) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by or
provided for in such Securities; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities, other than the
non-payment of the principal of, and interest on Securities which shall have
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, shall have been cured
or waived as provided in Section 6.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.03. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest on any Security when such interest shall have become due and payable
and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of
any Security at its Maturity, and such default continues for a period of 10
days;
the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount of money then due
and payable with respect to such Securities with interest upon the overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such
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interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of
interest at the rate borne by or provided for in such Securities, and, in
addition thereto, such further amount of money as shall be sufficient to
cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay the money it is required to pay the Trustee
pursuant to the preceding paragraph forthwith upon the demand of the Trustee,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the money so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and
may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities and collect the money adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other
obligor upon such Securities wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate
judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant
or agreement in this Indenture or such Securities or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.
SECTION 6.04. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand on the Company for the payment of any overdue principal
and/or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such lesser
amount as may be provided for in the Securities, of the principal and
interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have
the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents or counsel) and of the Holders of Securities allowed in such
judicial proceeding; and
(ii) to collect and receive any money or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized
by each Holder of Securities to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the
event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly
to the Holders of Securities, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for
the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee relating to this
Indenture.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a
Security any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize
the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a Security in
any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.05. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or any of the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and
any recovery or judgment, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, shall be for the ratable benefit of each and every Holder of a
Security in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 6.06. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee
and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or
interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee relating to this Indenture;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the
Securities for principal and interest in respect of which or for the benefit
of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and payable on
such Securities and Coupons for principal and interest, respectively;
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
SECTION 6.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to
the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee
to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name
as Trustee hereunder;
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(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities
(including counsel's fees, expenses and disbursements) to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice
the rights of any other such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain
priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under
this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and
ratable benefit of all such Holders.
SECTION 6.08. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL AND
INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Security, as the
case may be, on the respective Stated Maturity Date or other Maturity
therefor specified in such Security (subject in each case to the respective
cure periods set forth in Section 6.01) and to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without
the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.09. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security has instituted any proceeding
to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has
been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined
adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the
Company, the Trustee and each such Holder shall, subject to any determination
in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee
and each such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
SECTION 6.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of
Section 2.07, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to each and every Holder of a Security is intended to be exclusive
of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy, to the extent
permitted by law, shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right
and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity
or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder,
or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any
other appropriate right or remedy.
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SECTION 6.11. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default
or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or
by law to the Trustee or to any Holder of a Security may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by
such Holder, as the case may be.
SECTION 6.12. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct in writing the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any law
or regulation, with this Indenture or with the Securities of such series;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction;
(3) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the
rights of the other Holders of Securities of such series not joining in such
action; and
(4) such direction shall not, in the good faith
determination of any Trust Officer of the Trustee, subject the Trustee to
personal liability unless such Holders have provided indemnity to the Trustee
satisfactory to it.
SECTION 6.13. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities may
waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its
consequences, except a default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of or interest on
any Security which has not been cured as provided in Section 6.02; or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent
or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 6.14. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having
due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to
any suit instituted by the Company, the Trustee or by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder of any
Security for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest
on any Security on or after the respective Maturities expressed in such
Security or interest on any overdue principal of any Security.
ARTICLE VII.
TRUSTEE.
The Trustee hereby accepts the trust imposed upon it by this Indenture
and covenants and agrees to perform the same, as herein expressed.
SECTION 7.01. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no covenants or obligations
shall be implied in this Indenture which are adverse to the Trustee.
(2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness
of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However,
the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture, but need not
verify the accuracy of the contents thereof.
(c) Neither the Trustee nor any of its officers, directors or employees
shall be liable for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to
act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
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(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of
paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01.
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.12 hereof.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties or obligations hereunder or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) Whether or not expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to
paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 7.01.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
(g) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders, unless such Holders shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it, against the
costs, expenses and liability (including counsel's fees, expenses and
disbursements) which might be incurred by the Trustee in compliance with such
request or direction.
SECTION 7.02. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01 hereof:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely and be fully protected
in acting or refraining from acting on any document, resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order or
approval believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper Person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter
stated in the document.
(b) Whenever in the administration of its duties and
obligations pursuant to this Indenture, before the Trustee acts or refrains
from acting, it may require an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, which shall conform to Section 11.05. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on
such certificate or opinion. The Trustee may consult with counsel and the
written advice of such counsel or any
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Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys, agents,
custodians and nominees and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or
negligence of any attorney, agent, custodian or nominee appointed with due
care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within
its rights or powers.
(e) In the event that the Trustee is also acting as Paying
Agent, authenticating agent or Registrar hereunder, the rights and
protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VII shall also
be afforded to such Paying Agent, authenticating agent or Registrar.
SECTION 7.03. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee
must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11 hereof.
SECTION 7.04. TRUSTEE'S DISCLAIMER.
The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of
this Indenture or the Securities or any money paid to the Company or upon the
Company's written direction under any provision hereof, and the Trustee shall
not be accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds from the Securities,
and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities
other than its certificate of authentication.
SECTION 7.05. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and it is
actually known to a Trust Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to
each Holder notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it
occurs; provided that, except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default
in payment of principal of or interest on any Security, the Trustee may
withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in
good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interest of the
Holders.
SECTION 7.06. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS.
Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the
date of this Indenture, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder, and each other
Person so entitled under TIA Section 313(c), a brief report dated as of such
May 15 that shall comply with TIA Section 313(a). The Trustee need not send
such report if such report is not required by TIA Section 313(a). The
Trustee also shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders shall be
mailed to the Company and filed with the Commission and each stock exchange,
if any, on which the Securities are listed.
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The Company shall notify the Trustee if the Securities become listed on
any stock exchange prior to such listing.
SECTION 7.07. COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY.
The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services hereunder. The Trustee's compensation shall
not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.
The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable
disbursements, expenses and advances incurred or made by it. Such expenses
shall include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the
Trustee's agents and counsel.
The Company shall indemnify the Trustee for, and hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred by it and its officers,
directors and employees including, without limitation, the cost and expense
of enforcement of this Indenture against the Company and of defending itself
against any claim (whether asserted by any Holder or the Company or
otherwise) unless the Trustee or its officers, directors and employees acted
with negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of
or in connection with the administration of this trust or any trust created
under Section 8.01 or 8.02 and its duties hereunder. The Trustee shall
notify the Company, as soon as is reasonably practicable, of any claim
asserted against the Trustee for which it may seek indemnity; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER that the Trustee's failure to provide such notice shall not
constitute a waiver of its rights under this Section 7.07. The Company need
not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred
by the Trustee through negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all money or Property
held or collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except money or
Property held in trust to pay principal of or interest on particular
Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.01(d) hereof, the expenses and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or similar law.
The provisions of this Section 7.07 shall survive the termination of
this Indenture or the earlier resignation or termination of the Trustee.
SECTION 7.08. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company in writing and
mailing notice of such resignation to the Holders. The Holders of at least a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may remove the
Trustee by so notifying the Company and the Trustee in writing and may
appoint a successor Trustee. The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;
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(2) the Trustee is adjudged, by a court of competent
jurisdiction, a bankrupt or an insolvent;
(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of
the Trustee or its Property; or
(4) the Trustee becomes legally or otherwise incapable
of acting under and in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee, unless the Holders have appointed a successor Trustee in
accordance with the previous paragraph. Within one year after the successor
Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company.
A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee's acceptance
of appointment as provided in this Section 7.08 and payment to the prior
Trustee of all sums due under Section 7.07 hereof.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after
that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all Property held by it as Trustee
to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section 7.07
hereof, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and
duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail
notice of its succession to each Holder. The predecessor Trustee shall not
be liable for any acts or omissions of any successor Trustee and the
successor Trustee shall not be liable for any acts or omissions of any
predecessor Trustee.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 30 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or
the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof, any Holder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 above shall continue for
the benefit of the retiring or removed Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER, ETC.
If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers
all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is
otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee.
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SECTION 7.10. ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION.
This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of TIA Section 310(a)(1). The Trustee shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent
published annual report of condition. Neither the Company nor any Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control
with the Company shall serve as Trustee. The Trustee shall comply with TIA
Section 310(b).
SECTION 7.11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or
been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.
ARTICLE VIII.
DEFEASANCE; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE.
SECTION 8.01. DEFEASANCE OF THE INDENTURE.
The Company shall be deemed to have satisfied and terminated all of its
obligations under this Indenture (subject to Section 8.03 hereof) if:
(1) the Company irrevocably shall have deposited in
trust with the Trustee, pursuant to an irrevocable trust agreement in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely for
the benefit of the Holders for that purpose, U.S. Legal Tender, in such
amounts as are sufficient, without consideration of the investment of any
such U.S. Legal Tender and after payment of all federal, state and local
taxes or other charges or assessments in respect thereof payable by the
Trustee, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to, and in
form reasonably satisfactory to, the Trustee, to pay the principal of and
interest on the outstanding Securities on the dates on which such payments
are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of the
Securities, provided that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed
in writing to apply such U.S. Legal Tender to the payment of said principal
and interest on the Securities;
(2) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
or be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur on or before the
366th day after the date of such deposit;
(3) such deposit shall not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other
instrument or agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it or its
Property is bound;
(4) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel in form satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that
Holders of the Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and the defeasance
contemplated hereby and will be subject to Federal income tax in the same
amounts
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and in the same manner and at the same time as would have been the case if
such deposit and defeasance had not occurred and that the deposit is not
subject to the control of any bankruptcy court;
(5) such defeasance shall not cause the Securities, if
then listed on any national securities exchange registered under the Exchange
Act, to be delisted;
(6) such deposit shall not result in the Company, the
Trustee or the irrevocable trust becoming or being deemed an "investment
company" under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and
(7) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent specified herein relating to the defeasance contemplated
by this Section 8.01 have been complied with.
In the event all or any portion of the Securities are to be redeemed
through such irrevocable trust, the Company shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee, at the time of such deposit, for the giving of
notice of such redemption or redemptions by the Trustee in the name and at
the expense of the Company.
SECTION 8.02. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF THE INDENTURE.
In addition to its rights under Section 8.01 above, the Company may
terminate all of its obligations under this Indenture (subject to Section
8.03 hereof) if:
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than Securities which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07
hereof) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation:
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity
within one year;
and the Company, in the case of (i) or (ii) above, has
irrevocably deposited in trust with the Trustee, pursuant to an
irrevocable trust agreement in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the
Holders for that purpose, an amount of U.S. Legal Tender
sufficient, without consideration of the investment thereof and
after payment of all federal, state and local taxes or other
charges or assessments in respect thereof payable by the Trustee,
to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities
on the dates on which such payments are due and payable in
accordance with the
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terms of this Indenture and of the Securities, provided that the
Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed in writing to apply
such U.S. Legal Tender to the payment of said principal and interest
on the Securities;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent specified herein relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.02 have been complied
with.
SECTION 8.03. SURVIVAL OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS.
Notwithstanding the defeasance of this Indenture or the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture referred to in Section 8.01 and Section 8.02
above, respectively, the respective obligations of the Company and the
Trustee under Sections 2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.11,
2.13, 2.14, Sections 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 6.08, 7.07, 7.08, 7.09, 7.10, 7.11,
8.03, 8.04, 8.05, 8.06 and 8.07, Article IX, and Sections 11.01, 11.02,
11.06, 11.07, 11.08, 11.10, 11.11 and 11.13 hereof shall survive until the
Securities are no longer outstanding. Thereafter the obligations of the
Company and the Trustee under Sections 7.07, 8.05, 8.06, 8.07 and 11.10
hereof shall survive.
SECTION 8.04. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DISCHARGE BY TRUSTEE.
Subject to Section 8.07 below and after the Company has delivered to the
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
all conditions precedent referred to in Section 8.01 or Section 8.02, as the
case may be, relating to the defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with, the Trustee upon written request of the
Company shall acknowledge in writing the defeasance or the satisfaction and
discharge, as the case may be, of this Indenture and the discharge of the
Company's obligations under this Indenture except for those surviving
obligations specified in Section 8.03 above. The Company shall reimburse the
Trustee for reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it in the performance
of its duties and obligations under this Section 8.04.
SECTION 8.05. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.
The Trustee shall hold any U.S. Legal Tender deposited with it in the
irrevocable trust established pursuant to Section 8.01 or 8.02, as the case
may be. The Trustee shall apply the deposited U.S. Legal Tender through the
Paying Agent (other than the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the
Company), in accordance with this Indenture and the terms of the irrevocable
trust agreement, to the payment of principal of and interest on the
Securities as and when the same become due and payable. The U.S. Legal
Tender so held in trust shall not be part of the trust estate under this
Indenture, but shall constitute a separate trust fund for the benefit of all
Holders entitled thereto.
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SECTION 8.06. REPAYMENT TO THE COMPANY.
The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon written
request, and, if applicable, in accordance with the irrevocable trust
established pursuant to Section 8.01 or 8.02 above, any U.S. Legal Tender
held by them for the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities
that remains unclaimed for two years after the date on which such payment
shall have become due (whether on or before the related Stated Maturity
Date); provided, however, that, before being required to make any such
payment to the Company, the Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, cause
to be mailed to the Holders of such Securities, at their last addresses as
they appear on the Securities register, notice that such moneys remain
unclaimed and that, after a date specified in said notice, the balance of
such moneys then unclaimed will be returned to the Company. After payment to
the Company as aforesaid, Holders entitled to such moneys must look to the
Company for such payment unless an applicable abandoned property law
designates another Person.
SECTION 8.07. REINSTATEMENT.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. Legal Tender
in accordance with Section 8.01 or 8.02 hereof by reason of any legal
proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or Governmental
Authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application,
the Company's obligations under this Indenture shall be revived and
reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.01 or
8.02, as the case may be until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all such funds in accordance with Section 8.01 or 8.02, as
the case may be, and 8.05; provided, however, that if the Company has made
any payment of principal of or interest on any Securities because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the
rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the
U.S. Legal Tender held by the Trustee.
ARTICLE IX.
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS.
SECTION 9.01. WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
The Company and the Trustee, together, may amend or supplement this
Indenture or the Securities without notice to or consent of any Holder (i) to
cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided
that any such action does not, in the good faith judgment of the Company,
materially and adversely affect the rights or interests of any Holder of
Securities, (ii) to add to the covenants and agreements of the Company such
further covenants and agreements as the Board of Directors of the Company
shall consider to be for the protection or benefit of the Holders (including
to add any Events of Default), (iii) to add to or change or eliminate any
provision of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance
with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act, provided such action does not
adversely affect the rights or interests of any Holder of Securities and (iv)
to secure all of the Securities. In addition to the requirements set forth in
Section 9.06 herein, the Trustee may require delivery of an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that such amendment will not materially and adversely
affect the interest of
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any Certificateholder in connection with any such amendment or supplement,
and the Trustee shall be fully protected in relying upon such Opinion of
Counsel.
In addition, this Indenture may be amended or supplemented by the
Trustee and the Company without the consent of any Holder or of any
Certificate Owner with respect to the Investor Certificates issued pursuant
to the 1998-C Securitization Trust Agreement or of the Trustee of the 1998-C
Securitization Trust to (i) reflect changes necessary or appropriate in
connection with any event described under Section 5.01, Section 7.08 or
Section 7.09 or (ii) to surrender any right or power reserved to or conferred
upon the Company.
SECTION 9.02. WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Subject to Section 6.08 and the next succeeding paragraph, the Company,
when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Trustee
with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Securities (which consent will not be
given except at the written direction of Investor Certificateholders of at
least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Class A Certificates) may
amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner, or eliminating any other
provisions of this Indenture or modifying in any manner the rights with
respect to the Securities. Subject to Section 6.08 and the next succeeding
paragraph, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the outstanding Securities may waive compliance by the Company with any
provision of or obligation under this Indenture or the Securities without
notice to any other Holders.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing provisions of
this Section 9.02, without the consent of each Holder and Investor
Certificateholder affected, no amendment, supplement or waiver, including a
waiver pursuant to Section 6.02, may:
(1) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities the consent of whose Holders is required for any
amendment or supplement to this Indenture, for any waiver (of compliance with
any obligation or provision of this Indenture or of certain Defaults or
Events of Default hereunder or their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or for a rescission of acceleration of the Securities pursuant to
Section 6.02, or reduce the requirements pursuant to Section 10.05 for a
quorum or voting;
(2) reduce the rate or change the time for payment of
interest on any Security;
(3) reduce the principal amount of any Security;
(4) alter the repurchase provisions of any Security in a
manner adverse to any Holder thereof, or change the Stated Maturity of any
Security;
(5) waive any default in the payment of the principal of
or interest on any Security which has not been cured as provided in Section
6.02;
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(6) impair the right of Holders to institute suit for
the enforcement of any payment of the principal of or interest on the
Securities on or after the respective due dates therefor (after the
expiration of any applicable cure period);
(7) make any changes in Section 6.02, 6.08 or this
second paragraph of Section 9.02;
(8) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an
office or agency in the place and for the purpose specified in Section 4.02
or make the Securities payable in any coin or currency other than U.S. Legal
Tender;
(9) make any change to or modify the priority between
the Holders of the Securities and any other creditors of the Company; or
(10) provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to
certificated Securities.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement
or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a notice
briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the
Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in
any way impair or affect the validity of any such amendment, supplement or
waiver.
SECTION 9.03. COMPLIANCE WITH TIA.
Every amendment to or waiver or supplement of this Indenture or the
Securities shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
SECTION 9.04. REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF CONSENTS.
Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to
it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent
Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as
the consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is not made
on any such Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may
revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee
receives written notice of revocation before the date on which the Trustee
receives an Officer's Certificate certifying that the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Securities have consented to the amendment,
supplement or waiver. Such amendment, waiver or supplement, as the case may
be, shall be effective upon receipt by the Trustee of such Officer's
Certificate.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for
the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the
last two sentences of the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who
were Holders at the close of business on such record date (or their
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duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to revoke
any consent previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be
Holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective
for more than 90 days after such record date.
All Holders that consent to such modification, waiver or action in the
manner and within the time period requested shall be entitled to receive the
consideration, if any, offered for such consent.
SECTION 9.05. NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES.
If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security,
the Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the
Trustee. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Security about
the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company
or the Trustee has so determined, the Company in exchange for the Security
may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Security of like kind
that reflects the changed terms.
SECTION 9.06. TRUSTEE TO SIGN AMENDMENTS, ETC.
The Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected
in relying upon, an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant
to this Article IX is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee
may, but shall not be obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or
waiver which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise. In signing or refusing to sign such amendment
or supplement, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and, subject to
Section 7.01 hereof, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such
amendment or supplement is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, that it
is not inconsistent herewith, and that it will be valid and binding upon the
Company in accordance with its terms. The Company shall not sign an
amendment or supplement until its Board of Directors approves thereof.
SECTION 9.07. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplement or amendment to this Indenture in
accordance with this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance
therewith and such supplement or amendment shall form a part of the Indenture
for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered shall be bound thereby. Any Holder and every
subsequent Holder of a Security (or portion thereof) shall be bound by any
waivers authorized or obtained by this Article.
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ARTICLE X.
MEETINGS OF AND ACTIONS BY HOLDERS.
SECTION 10.01. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED.
A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time
pursuant to the provisions of this Article X for any of the following
purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or
to give any directions to the Trustee, or to waive or to consent to the
waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences, or
to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of
the provisions of Article VI;
(b) to remove the Trustee or appoint a successor Trustee
pursuant to the provisions of Article VII;
(c) to consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant
to the provisions of Section 9.02; or
(d) to take any other action (i) authorized to be taken by or
on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the
Securities under any other provision of this Indenture, or authorized or
permitted by law or (ii) which the Trustee deems necessary or appropriate in
connection with the administration of this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. MANNER OF CALLING MEETINGS.
The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action
specified in Section 10.01 hereof, to be held at such time and at such place
in New York, New York or elsewhere as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of
every meeting of Holders, setting forth the time and place of such meeting
and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall
be mailed by the Trustee, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company, and to
the Holders of the Securities at their last addresses as they shall appear on
the registration books of the Registrar, not less than 10 nor more than 60
days prior to the date fixed for a meeting.
Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of
all Securities then outstanding are present in Person or by proxy, or if
notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Securities
outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly
authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived
notice.
SECTION 10.03. CALL OF MEETINGS BY COMPANY OR HOLDERS.
In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Certified Resolution of
its Board of Directors delivered to the Trustee, or the Holders of not less
than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding,
shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders to take any
action specified in Section 10.01 hereof, by written request setting forth in
reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within 20 days after
receipt of such request, then the Company or the Holders of Securities in the
amount above specified may determine the time and place in
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New York City or elsewhere for such meeting and may call such meeting for the
purpose of taking such action, by notice given as provided in Section 10.02.
SECTION 10.04. WHO MAY ATTEND AND VOTE AT MEETINGS.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders, a Person shall (a) be
a registered Holder of one or more Securities, or (b) be a Person appointed
by an instrument in writing as proxy for the registered Holder or Holders of
Securities. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak
at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such
meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its
counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 10.05. REGULATIONS MAY BE MADE BY TRUSTEE; CONDUCT OF THE
MEETING; VOTING RIGHTS; ADJOURNMENT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee may
make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Securities and of the
appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of
inspectors of votes, and submission and examination of proxies, certificates
and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning
the conduct of the meeting as it shall think appropriate. Such regulations
may fix a record date and time for determining the Holders of record of
Securities entitled to vote at such meeting, in which case those and only
those Persons who are Holders of Securities at the record date and time so
fixed, or their proxies, shall be entitled to vote at such meeting whether or
not they shall be such Holders at the time of the meeting.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders as provided in Section 10.03, in which case the Company
or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner
appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary
of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities represented at the meeting and entitled to
vote.
At any meeting each Holder or proxy shall be entitled to vote with
respect to the outstanding Securities held or represented by him; provided,
however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of
any Securities challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the
meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall not have
the right to vote other than by virtue of Securities held by him or
instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating him as the proxy to vote
on behalf of other Holders. At any meeting of Holders, the presence of
Persons holding or representing a majority of the principal amount of the
outstanding Securities shall be sufficient for a quorum. Any meeting of
Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Sections 10.02 or 10.03 may
be adjourned from time to time by vote of the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities represented at the meeting and
entitled to vote, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further
notice.
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Except as limited by Sections 6.02 and 6.08 and the second paragraph of
Section 9.02, any resolution presented to a meeting at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities.
SECTION 10.06. VOTING AT THE MEETING AND RECORD TO BE KEPT.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall
be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the
Holders of Securities or of their representatives by proxy and the principal
amount of the Securities voted by the ballot. The permanent chairman of the
meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes, who shall count all votes cast
at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with
the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of
all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of
each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and
there shall be attached to such record the original reports of the inspectors
of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more
Persons having knowledge of the facts, setting forth a copy of the notice of
the meeting and showing that such notice was mailed as provided in Section
10.02 or Section 10.03. The record shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the
Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the
latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the
matters therein stated.
SECTION 10.07. EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE OR HOLDERS MAY NOT BE
HINDERED OR DELAYED BY CALL OF MEETING.
Nothing contained in this Article X shall be deemed or construed to
authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any
rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any
hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this
Indenture or of the Securities.
SECTION 10.08. EVIDENCE OF ACTION TAKEN BY HOLDERS.
(a) In addition to the foregoing provisions of this Article
X, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in
writing, or by combination of such instrument or instruments and the record
of a meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with this Article
X. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for
any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 7.01) conclusive in
favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Article.
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(b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action of the Holder of any Security in accordance
with this Section 10.08 shall bind every future Holder of the same Security
and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer
thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything
done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
(c) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action in accordance with this Section 10.08, the Company may, at its option,
by or pursuant to an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, fix in
advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or such
other act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a
record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other act may be given before or after such record date,
but only those Persons who were Holders of record at the close of business on
such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of
determining whether Holders of the requisite percentage of outstanding
Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other act, and for that
purpose the outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date;
provided, that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on
the record date shall be deemed effective unless such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other act shall become
effective pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section 10.08
not later than 90 days after the record date.
SECTION 10.09. PROOF OF EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS AND OF HOLDING OF
SECURITIES.
The execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent or proxy may be
proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee, and the holding of Securities shall be proved by the Security
register or by a certificate of the Registrar.
SECTION 10.10. RIGHT OF REVOCATION OF ACTION TAKEN.
At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as
provided in Section 10.08, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities specified in this
Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the serial
number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial
numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of
holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns
such Security. After such time, such action shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and the Securities issued in exchange or substitution
therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is
made upon any such Security.
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ARTICLE XI.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION 11.01. TIA CONTROLS.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts
with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by
the TIA, the required provision shall control.
SECTION 11.02. NOTICES.
Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand
delivery, by telecopier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid,
return receipt requested, addressed as follows:
if to the Company:
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telecopier: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: Treasury Department -
Corporate Treasury Manager
if to the Trustee:
U. S. Bank National Association
▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telecopier: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention:TMCC Demand Notes
The Company or the Trustee by written notice to the other may designate
additional or different addresses as shall be furnished in writing by either
party. Any notice or communication to the Company or the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally
delivered; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five days after
mailing if sent by registered or certified mail (except that a notice of
change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until actually
received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed to him by
first class mail, postage prepaid, at his address as it appears on the
register of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given to such Holder if
so mailed within the time prescribed. If the Company mails a notice or
communication to Holders, it shall simultaneously mail a copy to the Trustee.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in
it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a
notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly
given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
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SECTION 11.03. COMMUNICATIONS BY HOLDERS WITH OTHER HOLDERS.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities.
The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall have the
protection of TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 11.04. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1) an Officer's Certificate (which shall include the
statements set forth in Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of
the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
relating to the proposed action have been complied with (and, if applicable,
setting forth in reasonable detail any financial calculations providing the
basis of such opinion);
(2) an Opinion of Counsel (which shall include the
statements set forth in Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of
such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with; and
(3) in the case of conditions precedent compliance with
which is subject to verification by accountants, the Company shall comply
with Section 314(c)(3) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 ("TIA").
SECTION 11.05. STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.
Each Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall
include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained
in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of
each such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with;
provided, however, that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel
may rely on an Officer's Certificate or certificates of public officials.
At the request of the Trustee, any Officer's Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel shall address any particular condition precedent to such action.
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SECTION 11.06. RULES BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT, REGISTRAR.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Holders. The Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its
functions.
SECTION 11.07. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
If a payment date is not a Business Day at a particular place where the
principal of or interest on the Securities is payable, payment may be made on
the next succeeding day that is a Business Day at such place of payment, and
no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
SECTION 11.08. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITHOUT REGARD (TO THE
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW) TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
SECTION 11.09. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such
indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this
Indenture.
SECTION 11.10. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
A director, officer, employee, stockholder, Affiliate or incorporator,
as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of
the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on,
in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each
Holder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such Persons from such
liability. Such waivers and releases are part of the consideration for the
issuance of the Securities.
SECTION 11.11. SUCCESSORS.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall
bind their successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall
bind its successor.
SECTION 11.12. DUPLICATE ORIGINALS.
All parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each
signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same
agreement.
SECTION 11.13. SEVERABILITY.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or enforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any
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way be affected or impaired thereby, and a Holder shall have no claim
thereunder for or against any party hereto.
SECTION 11.14. HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The headings and Table of Contents in this Indenture are for convenience
of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Indenture or limit
or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of the date first written above.
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION,
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Senior Vice President and
General Manager
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
On December 1, 1998, before me, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, Notary Public,
personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, personally known to me to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that
he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on
the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person
acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
On December 2, 1998, before me, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Notary Public,
personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, personally known to me to be the
person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to
me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his
signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which
the person acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
/s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
ANNEX I
TO
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF DECEMBER 1, 1998
BETWEEN
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
Definitions
The following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all
purposes of the Indenture, and Section and Article references are to Sections
and Articles in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in the Indenture and
the Securities not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings
assigned thereto in the Annex of Definitions attached to the Amended and
Restated Trust and Servicing Agreement dated as of October 1, 1996 among
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, TMTT, Inc. and (for certain limited purposes
only) First Bank National Association or in the Supplemental Annex of
Definitions attached to the 1998-C SUBI Supplement to the Amended and
Restated Trust and Servicing Agreement dated as of December 1, 1998, among
TMTT, Inc.(for certain limited purposes only), U.S. National Bank
Association, as Trust Agent, and U.S. Bank National Association, as 1998-C
Securitization Trustee. In the event of any conflict between a definition
set forth both herein and in the Annex of Definitions or Annex of
Supplemental Definitions, the definition set forth herein shall prevail.
"Affiliate" means, as to any Person, any other Person which directly or
indirectly controls or is controlled by, or is under direct or indirect
common control with, such Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control", when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have the meanings correlative to
the foregoing. For purposes of this Indenture, the 1998-C Securitization
Trust (and the 1998-C Securitization Trustee on behalf of the 1998-C
Securitization Trust) shall not be considered to be "Affiliates" of the
Company.
"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar or other agent
of the Company acting under the Indenture.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or any
committee thereof authorized generally or in any particular respect to
exercise the power of the board of directors of the Company.
"Certified Resolution" means a copy of a resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Company, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted and to be in full force
and effect on the date of such certification.
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"Commercial Paper Rate" means the Money Market Yield on the Calculation
Date for commercial paper maturing in one month as such rate appears at 11:00
a.m. New York City time on the Calculation Date on page 133 of the Dow ▇▇▇▇▇
Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace such page on that service
or such other service or services as may succeed such service) which shows
information for such rate as of the prior business day under the caption
"Daily Commercial Paper Rates (Non financial) from the Federal Reserve"(or
similar heading of like import). If by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
related Calculation Date such rate is not yet available, then the Commercial
Paper Rate will be the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic mean of the
offered rates at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date
of three leading dealers of commercial paper in The City of New York for
commercial paper having a maturity date of one month placed for an industrial
issuer whose bond rating is "AA", or the equivalent, from a nationally
recognized securities rating agency; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if such dealers
are not quoting as mentioned in this sentence, the Commercial Paper Rate for
such date shall be the Commercial Paper Rate as in effect as of the
immediately preceding Calculation Date. For purposes of these definitions,
"Calculation Date" shall mean the Business Day preceding each of the
original dates of investment in the Security (each of which is a Monthly
Allocation Date), and each Monthly Allocation Date thereafter, and "Money
Market Yield" shall mean a yield (expressed as a percentage rounded upwards
to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point) calculated in
accordance with the following formula:
Money Market Yield = ([D x 360]/[360-{D x M}]) x 100
where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper rate
quoted on a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to
the actual number of days in the interest period for which interest is being
calculated. Such Commercial Paper Rate shall be calculated on each
Calculation Date by the Trustee.
"Company" means Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, a California
corporation, the issuer of the Securities under the Indenture, until a
successor replaces it pursuant to the Indenture and thereafter means such
successor.
"Corporate Trust Office" means an office of the Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which at
the date of execution of the Indenture is located at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, or at any other such address as the
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders.
"Date of Investment" means each Monthly Allocation Date on which an
amount is invested in the TMCC Demand Notes.
"Default" means any event that is or with the passing of time or giving
of notice or both would be an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
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"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States which are applied by the Company as of the date of the Indenture.
"Governmental Authority" means any nation or government, any state or
other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or
regulatory authority) thereof, any entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government, and any corporation or other entity owned or controlled, through
stock or capital ownership or otherwise, by any of the foregoing.
"Holder" with respect to the TMCC Demand Notes, means a Person in
possession of a TMCC Demand Note, or a Person deemed an owner thereof
pursuant to Section 2.13 of the Indenture.
"Indenture" means the Indenture dated as of December 1, 1998 between the
Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, relating to
$1,200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's TMCC Demand Notes,
including Exhibit A and this Annex I thereto, as the same may be amended or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.
"Interest Payment Date" is any date on which interest is payable as set
forth in the Security.
"Maturity", with respect to any Security, means the date on which the
principal (and the accrued interest thereon to but excluding the date on
which such principal is paid) of such Security or an installment of principal
(and the accrued interest thereon to the date on which such principal is
paid) becomes due and payable as provided in or pursuant to the Indenture,
whether (i) at the Stated Maturity Date thereof, (ii) on the date specified
in a demand (as evidenced by the delivery to the Trustee of a demand in the
form of Exhibit B to the Indenture) for the payment of 100% of the
outstanding principal amount of the TMCC Demand Notes by any Holder following
(x) the occurrence of a Swap Termination or (y) in connection with a
reduction of the rating of the Company's short-term debt to a rating less
than "A-1+" by Standard & Poor's or "P-1" by Moody's or a downgrade of the
Company's long-term debt to a rating less than "AA" by Standard & Poor's or
"Aa3" by Moody's in the circumstances provided for in Section 4.01 of the
Indenture or (iii) upon declaration of acceleration upon the occurrence of an
Event of Default hereunder. A demand duly delivered to the Trustee in
accordance with clause (ii) above will cause the entire principal amount (and
the accrued interest thereon to but excluding the date on which such
principal is paid) of the outstanding Securities to become due and payable on
the date specified in such demand. A Maturity pursuant to clause (i) or (ii)
of this definition, in and of itself, shall not be an Event of Default or
Default hereunder.
"Officer" means the President or Vice President, the Chief Financial
Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the Treasurer, the Controller,
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by any Officer of the
Company, and otherwise complying with the applicable requirements of Sections
11.04 and 11.05 of the Indenture.
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"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel who, in
the case of an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, is reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to
the Company. Each opinion shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Sections 11.04 and 11.05 of the Indenture.
"Paying Agent" has the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, business trust,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or
governmental authority.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such particular Security. For purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.07 in exchange for or in lieu of
a defaced, mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the defaced, mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen
Security.
"Record Date" means the day immediately preceding the related
Certificate Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day).
"Registrar" has the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
"Required Rate" with respect to any Monthly Allocation Date and the
principal amount outstanding as set forth on any of the Schedules attached to
a Security, means a per annum rate of interest which shall be calculated by
(a) calculating the amount of interest that would have accrued on (i) the
Interest Demand Note at the Commercial Paper Rate, as such rate shall be
adjusted monthly on the second Business Day preceding each Monthly Allocation
Date; (ii) on any Security representing the investment of any amount
allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-1 Certificate Balance, at
5.265% per annum; (iii) on any Security representing the investment of any
amount allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-2 Certificate Balance,
at 5.413% per annum; (iv) on any Security representing the investment of any
amount allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-3 Certificate Balance,
at 5.463% per annum; or (v) on any Security representing the investment of
any amount allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class B Certificate Balance
at 6.959% per annum, in each case from the date of investment to but
excluding the succeeding relevant Certificate Payment Date for such
investment for such Class on the basis of months assumed to consist of 30
days and years assumed to consist of 360 days, and, (b) expressing the amount
of interest so accrued as a per annum rate on the amount invested in such
Security for the period from the date of investment in such Security to but
excluding the Maturity of such Security, on the basis of months assumed to
consist of 30 days and years assumed to consist of 360 days.
"Securities" means the Company's TMCC Demand Notes.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any
successor thereto, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Special Record Date" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.
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"Stated Maturity Date" when used with respect to the principal on the
Securities means the date specified on the Schedule attached to the
certificate representing such Security as the fixed date on which the
principal thereof is due and payable, which date shall be (i) with respect to
the Interest Demand Note, the Business Day preceding the Certificate Payment
Date that immediately follows the related Date of Investment; and (ii) with
respect to any Security representing the investment of any amount allocated
in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-1 Certificate Balance, the Adjusted
Class A-2 Certificate Balance, the Adjusted Class A-3 Certificate Balance or
the Adjusted Class B Certificate Balance, the Business Day preceding the
Class A-1 Targeted Maturity Date, the Class A-2 Targeted Maturity Date, the
Class A-3 Targeted Maturity Date or the Class B Targeted Maturity Date, as
applicable.
"Subsidiary" means any Corporation of which at the time of determination
the Company or one or more Subsidiaries owns or controls directly or
indirectly more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock.
"TIA" and "Trust Indenture Act" mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular
provision thereof shall mean such Act or provision, as the case may be, as
amended or replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time to time by
rules or regulations adopted by the Commission under or in furtherance of the
purposes of such Act or provision, as the case may be.
"Trustee" means U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee under the
Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of
the Indenture, and thereafter means such successor.
"Trust Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers or to whom
any corporate trust matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge
and familiarity with the particular subject.
"United States" and "U.S." each mean the United States of America.
"U.S. Legal Tender" means such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
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EXHIBIT A
THE TRUSTEE WILL NOT AUTHENTICATE OR DELIVER THIS SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH
ANY REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER TO ANY PERSON UNLESS THE TRUSTEE HAS RECEIVED A
CERTIFICATION FROM THE TRANSFERRING HOLDER TO THE EFFECT THAT (i) IT IS NO
LONGER THE SECURITIZATION TRUSTEE OF THE 1998-C SECURITIZATION TRUST AND THE
PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS ITS SUCCESSOR IN SUCH CAPACITY, OR (ii) A SWAP
TERMINATION HAS OCCURRED AND SUCH PROPOSED TRANSFER IS MADE IN CONTEMPLATION
OF A LIQUIDATION OF THE TRUST ASSETS.
FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
TMCC Demand Notes
(For amounts allocated as Class A-1 Notional Interest Accrual Amounts, Class
A-1 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amounts, Class A-2 Notional Interest Accrual
Amounts, Class A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amounts, Class A-3 Notional
Interest Accrual Amounts, Class A-3 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amounts,
Class B Notional Interest Accrual Amounts, Adjustable Rate Class B Interest
Carryover Shortfall Amounts, Class B Fixed Rate Interest Accrual Amounts
and/or Fixed Rate Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall Amounts)
(For amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the Adjusted
Class A-1 Certificate Balance)
(For amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the Adjusted
Class A-2 Certificate Balance)
(For amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the Adjusted
Class A-3 Certificate Balance)
(For amounts allocated to make applications in reduction of the Adjusted
Class B Certificate Balance)
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Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, a California corporation (the
"Company," which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to
pay to U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as 1998-C
Securitization Trustee under the 1998-C Securitization Trust Agreement dated
as of December 1, 1998, or registered assigns, the principal sum of U.S.
Dollars as shall be set forth on the Schedule attached hereto as of the date
of Maturity, and to pay interest on the outstanding
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amount of principal, as set forth on the Schedule from time to time, from the
date such principal amount is originally issued and outstanding to the
Business Day next preceding the relevant Certificate Payment Date immediately
following the related Date of Investment (or from the most recent Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to the
Business Day next preceding the relevant Certificate Payment Date immediately
following such Interest Payment Date)(1)(1) Insert for TMCC Demand Notes
issued in connection with the investment of amounts allocated in reduction of
the Adjusted Class A-1 Certificate Balance, Adjusted Class A-2 Certificate
Balance, Adjusted Class A-3 Certificate Balance or the Adjusted Class B
Certificate Balance., (each an "Interest Payment Date"), at the then
applicable Required Rate as such rate shall be adjusted on each Calculation
Date (2). Insert for TMCC Demand Notes issued in connection with the
investment of any Class A-1 Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-1
Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-2 Notional Interest Accrual
Amount, Class A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-3 Notional
Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-3 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class
B Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Adjustable Rate Class B Interest
Carryover Shortfall Amount. , until the date on which the principal hereof is
paid or duly provided for. Interest on this Security will be computed on the
basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months. The interest so payable and
punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the date that is one day (whether or not a Business Day), next
preceding such Interest Payment Date (each, a "Record Date"). Any such
interest which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date, shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on such Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and, at the
election of the Company, (i) may be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to the
Holder of this Security not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date or (ii) may be paid in any other lawful manner, all as more fully
provided in the Indenture. Payment of the principal and interest on this
Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose in Chicago, Illinois in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts; provided, however, that, except as otherwise
provided in the Indenture, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to
the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in
the register of Securities maintained by the Registrar.
The date of Maturity with respect to the principal amount (and the
accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date on which such principal
is paid) evidenced by this Security shall be, the Business Day preceding the
earlier of (x) the Targeted Maturity Date for the Class A-1/A-2/B
Certificates3)(the Certificate Payment Date immediately following the related
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1 Insert for TMCC Demand Notes issued in connection with the
investment of amounts allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-1
Certificate Balance, Adjusted Class A-2 Certificate Balance, Adjusted Class
A-3 Certificate Balance or the Adjusted Class B Certificate Balance.
2 Insert for TMCC Demand Notes issued in connection with the
investment of any Class A-1 Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-1
Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-2 Notional Interest Accrual
Amount, Class A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-3 Notional
Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-3 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class
A-4 Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-4 Interest Carryover Shortfall
Amount,
3 Insert for TMCC Demand Notes issued in connection with the
investment of amounts allocated in reduction of the Adjusted Class A-1
Certificate Balance, Adjusted Class A-2 Certificate Balance, Adjusted Class
A-3 Certificate Balance or Adjusted Class B Certificate Balance.
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Date of Investment4), (y) the date specified in a demand (as evidenced by the
delivery to the Trustee of a demand in the form of Exhibit B to the
Indenture) for the payment of 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the
TMCC Demand Notes by any Holder following the occurrence of a Swap Terminator
or (z) the date upon which the outstanding Securities become due and payable
due to the declaration of acceleration upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default under the terms of the Indenture.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
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4 Insert for TMCC Demand Notes issued in connection with the investment
of any Class A-1 Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Class A-1 Interest
Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-2 Notional Interest Accrual Amount, Class
A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class A-3 Notional Interest Accrual
Amount, Class A-3 Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount, Class B Notional
Interest Accrual Amount, Adjustable Rate Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall
Amount, Class B Fixed Rate Interest Accrual Amount and/or Fixed Rate Class B
Interest Carryover Shortfall Amount.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: December __, 1998 TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
By:
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇. ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Senior Vice President
and General Manager
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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U.S. Bank National Association, U.S. Bank National Association,
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as Trustee as Trustee
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By: By:
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Authorized Signatory as Authenticating Agent
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By:
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Authorized Signatory
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FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
TMCC DEMAND NOTES
1. INDENTURE.
This Security is one of the duly authorized issue of the Company's TMCC
Demand Notes (the "Securities"), issued by the Company under an Indenture
dated as of December 1, 1998 (as the same may be amended or supplemented from
time to time, the "Indenture") between the Company and U.S. Bank National
Association, as Trustee (the "Trustee," which term includes any successor
trustee under the Indenture).
The Securities are unsecured general obligations of the Company, limited
to an aggregate principal amount of $1,200,000,000, except as otherwise
provided in the Indenture.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this
Security at the times, places and rate and in the coin and currency herein
and in the Indenture prescribed.
The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to: Toyota Motor Credit
Corporation, Attention: Treasury Department.
2. CAPITALIZED TERMS.
Capitalized terms used in this Security have the meanings assigned to
them in the Indenture unless otherwise defined in this Security.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR.
The Trustee has been appointed to act as initial Paying Agent and
Registrar for the Securities in Chicago, Illinois. The Company may appoint
additional Paying Agents and co-Registrars, and may change any Paying Agent,
Registrar or co-Registrar, all as provided in the Indenture. Except as
otherwise provided in the Indenture, the Trustee, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar.
4. REDEMPTION.
The Securities are not redeemable prior to their respective Maturities
at the option of the Company, in whole or from time to time in part.
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5. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of at least U.S. $0.01 and integral multiples of $0.01 in
excess thereof. The Securities may be transferred only in accordance with
the provisions of Section 2.06(a) of the Indenture. A Holder may register
the exchange of any Security only in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.06 of the Indenture. The Registrar or a co-Registrar may require a
Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer
documents in form satisfactory to the Registrar and the Trustee. No service
charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection
therewith, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture. The Company will
maintain in Chicago, Illinois, an office or agency where Securities may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
6. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any Agent may treat the Person in whose name such
Security is registered as the owner of such Security for all purposes.
7. UNCLAIMED MONEY.
The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon written
request any U.S. Legal Tender held by them for the payment of the principal
of or interest on the Securities which remains unclaimed for two years after
the date on which such payment shall have become due. After payment to the
Company as aforesaid, Holders entitled to such moneys must look to the
Company for such payment unless an applicable abandoned property law
designates another Person.
8. DISCHARGE PRIOR TO MATURITY.
If the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Securities to
maturity, or if all the outstanding Securities have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, and in either case if the Company complies with the
other provisions of the Indenture relating thereto, the Company will be
discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture and the Securities,
excluding its obligation to pay the principal of and interest on the
Securities.
9. AMENDMENT; SUPPLEMENT; WAIVER.
Subject to certain exceptions and limitations set forth in the
Indenture, the Indenture or the Securities may be amended or supplemented
with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities then outstanding, and compliance with any provision
or obligation under the Indenture or the Securities may be waived with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then outstanding. The Indenture also permits the Company and the
Trustee, without notice to or consent of any Holder, to enter into certain
amendments or supplements to the Indenture or the Securities.
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10. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, or the
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities,
may declare all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Securities to
be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in
the Indenture. The Indenture provides that the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities outstanding may rescind an acceleration of
the Securities and its consequences on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Indenture. The Indenture also provides that the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may
waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences except,
among other things, a default in the payment of the principal of or interest
on any of the Securities which has not been cured as provided in Section 6.02.
11. RESERVED.
12. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
A director, officer, employee, stockholder or incorporator, as such, of
the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company
under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect
of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by
accepting a Security waives and releases all such Persons from such
liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the
issuance of the Securities.
13. AUTHENTICATION.
This Security and the entries on the Schedule shall not be valid unless
the Trustee or an authenticating agent has signed the certificate of
authentication on this Security and such Schedule by manual signature or has
satisfied the provisions set forth in the last paragraph of Section 2.02 of
the Indenture.
14. GOVERNING LAW; HEADINGS.
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITHOUT REGARD (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW) TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
The headings in this Security are for convenience of reference only and
shall not be deemed a part of this Security or limit or otherwise affect the
meaning hereof.
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FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered Holder hereby sell(s),
assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
(Insert Taxpayer Identification No.) ____________
____________________
____________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
____________________
the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting
and appointing ____________________ attorney to transfer said Security on the
books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
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SCHEDULE TO
TMCC DEMAND NOTE
NUMBER _________
MAXIMUM AMOUNT $ _________
AMOUNTS INVESTED AMOUNTS PAID
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Date of
Investment Aggregate Current Stated Principal
or Amount of Amount Required Maturity Principal Interest Balance Initial of
Payment Investment Invested Rate Date Amount Amount Outstanding Trustee
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF DEMAND
The undersigned hereby certifies to U.S. Bank National Association, in
its capacity as trustee (the "Trustee") under the Indenture dated as of
December 1, 1998 (the "Indenture") between the Trustee and Toyota Motor
Credit Corporation, that it is the holder of all or a portion of the
Securities issued and outstanding under the Indenture, and that pursuant to
the terms of the Indenture, it is demanding the payment in full of the
principal (plus accrued interest thereon to the date specified below) of the
outstanding Securities in connection with:
/ / the occurrence of a Swap Termination (which I hereby certify is
effective as of ____________)
/ / the downgrade of the Company's short-term debt to a rating less
than "A-1+" by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The
▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Companies, Inc. ("Standard & Poor's") or "P-1" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇
Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") or a downgrade of the Company's
long-term debt to a rating less than "AA" by Standard & Poor's or "Aa3" by
Moody's (and I hereby certify that I have obtained the advice of
__________________ pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Indenture and have
received the advice required by such Section concerning ratings downgrades
from __________________ of Standard & Poor's and from __________________
of Moody's.
The date on which such principal and accrued interest is to be paid is:
__________________.
Dated:
By: ________________________________
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