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EXHIBIT 10.113
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
between
NATIONAL FINANCIAL AUTO FUNDING TRUST
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Owner Trustee
Dated as of September 1, 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS ......................................................................1
SECTION 1.1. Capitalized Terms.......................................................1
SECTION 1.2. Other Definitional Provisions...........................................4
SECTION 1.3. Action by or Consent of Noteholders and Certificateholder...............4
SECTION 1.4. Material Adverse Effect.................................................5
ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION ....................................................................5
SECTION 2.1. Name....................................................................5
SECTION 2.2. Office..................................................................5
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers.....................................................5
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee............................................6
SECTION 2.5. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate............................6
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust....................................................6
SECTION 2.7. Liability...............................................................7
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property.................................................7
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust..........................................................7
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.........................7
SECTION 2.11. Tax Treatment \f C \l...................................................9
SECTION 2.12. Covenants of the Depositor..............................................9
SECTION 2.13. Covenants of the Certificateholder.....................................12
SECTION 2.13. Covenants of the Owner Trustee.........................................12
ARTICLE III CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS .........................................14
SECTION 3.1. Initial Ownership......................................................14
SECTION 3.2. Signature on Certificate...............................................15
SECTION 3.3. Authentication of Certificate..........................................15
SECTION 3.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of the Certificate...............15
SECTION 3.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificate.......................18
SECTION 3.6. Person Deemed the Certificateholder....................................18
SECTION 3.7. Access to List of Certificateholder's Name and Address.................19
SECTION 3.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency........................................19
SECTION 3.9. ERISA Restrictions.....................................................19
SECTION 3.10. Securities Matters.....................................................19
SECTION 3.10. Pledge of Certificate..................................................19
ARTICLE IV VOTING RIGHTS AND OTHER ACTIONS.................................................20
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Holder with Respect to Certain Matters.................20
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholder with Respect to Certain Matters............20
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SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholder with Respect to Bankruptcy.................21
SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificateholder's Power..............................21
SECTION 4.6. Rights of Insurer......................................................22
ARTICLE V CERTAIN DUTIES ..................................................................22
SECTION 5.1. Accounting and Records to the Noteholders, the Certificateholder,
the Internal Revenue Service and Others................................22
SECTION 5.2. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner..............................23
SECTION 5.3. Note Purchase Agreements...............................................23
ARTICLE VI AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE ..........................................23
SECTION 6.1. General Authority......................................................23
SECTION 6.2. General Duties.........................................................24
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction................................................24
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions.....25
SECTION 6.5. No Action Except under Specified Documents or Instructions.............25
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions...........................................................25
ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE ..................................................26
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties........................................26
SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents................................................27
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties.........................................27
SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel............................................28
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity......................................29
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificate or Receivables................29
SECTION 7.7. Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes...........................29
SECTION 7.8. Payments from Owner Trust Estate.......................................29
SECTION 7.9. Conducting Activities in Other Jurisdictions...........................30
ARTICLE VIII COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE ................................................30
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses......................................30
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification........................................................30
SECTION 8.3. Payments to the Owner Trustee..........................................31
ARTICLE IX TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT .................................................31
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement.........................................31
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ARTICLE X SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES ..........................33
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee.............................33
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee................................33
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee................................................34
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee...............................35
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee..........................35
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS ..................................................................36
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments.............................................36
SECTION 11.2. Limitations on Rights of Others........................................37
SECTION 11.3. Notices................................................................38
SECTION 11.4. Severability...........................................................38
SECTION 11.5. Separate Counterparts..................................................38
SECTION 11.6. Assignments; Insurer...................................................38
SECTION 11.7. No Petition............................................................39
SECTION 11.8. No Recourse............................................................39
SECTION 11.9. Headings...............................................................39
SECTION 11.10. GOVERNING LAW..........................................................39
SECTION 11.11. Master Servicer........................................................39
SECTION 11.12. Instruction............................................................40
SECTION 11.12. Limitation of Liability................................................40
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Exhibit A Form of Certificate
Exhibit B Form of Certificate of Trust
Exhibit C Form of Purchaser Representation Letter
Exhibit D Form of Transferee Representation Letter
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THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of September 1,
1999, between NATIONAL FINANCIAL AUTO FUNDING TRUST, a Delaware business trust
(the "Depositor"), and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation,
as Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"Affiliate" shall mean with respect to any specified Person, a
Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by, or is under common control with, or owns, directly or
indirectly, 50% or more of, the Person specified.
"Agreement" shall mean this Trust Agreement, as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Basic Documents" shall mean this Agreement, the Certificate
of Trust, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Spread Account Agreement, the
Insurance Agreement, the Indenture, the Class A Note Purchase Agreement, the
Class B Note Purchase Agreement and the other documents and certificates
delivered in connection therewith.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.9.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of
the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Codess.. 3801 et. seq. as the same may be amended
from time to time.
"Certificate" or "Trust Certificate" means the trust
certificate evidencing the beneficial ownership interest of the
Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in
the form of Exhibit B to be filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of
the Business Trust Statute.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean
the register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.4.
"Class A Note Purchase Agreement" means the Note Purchase
Agreement dated September 24, 1999, among National Auto Finance Company, Inc.,
the Trust and First Union National Bank, the Depositor and the purchasers listed
on Exhibit A to the Note Purchase Agreement.
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"Class B Note Purchase Agreement" means the Note Purchase
Agreement dated September 24, 1999, among National Auto Finance Company, Inc.,
the Trust and First Union National Bank.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended from time to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Owner
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at such other address as the Owner
Trustee may designate by notice to the Certificateholder and the Depositor, or
the principal corporate trust office of any successor Owner Trustee (the address
of which the successor owner trustee will notify the Certificateholder and the
Depositor).
"Definitive Certificate" shall mean the Certificate issued in
certificated, fully registered form.
"Depositor" shall mean National Financial Auto Funding Trust
in its capacity as Depositor hereunder.
"Distribution Account" shall mean the account designated as
such as established and maintained pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"ERISA" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.9.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.2.
"Holder" or "Certificateholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name the Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 8.2.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture dated as of September 1,
1999, between the Trust and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and Savings Bank, as Trust Collateral
Agent and Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended and supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
"Indenture Trustee" shall mean, initially ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and
Savings Bank, in its capacity as indenture trustee, including its successors in
interest, until and unless a successor Person shall have become the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and thereafter "Indenture
Trustee" shall mean such successor Person.
"Insurer" shall mean Financial Security Assurance Inc., or its
successor in interest.
"Instructing Party" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 6.3.
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"Note Purchase Agreements" means the Class A Note Purchase
Agreement and the Class B Note Purchase Agreement.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest
of the Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time
to time in the Trust Accounts and all other property of the Trust from time to
time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Spread Account Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, a
Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner
trustee under this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"Record Date" shall mean with respect to any Distribution
Date, the close of business on the last Business Day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date.
"Revolving Credit and Term Loan and Security Agreement" means
the Revolving Credit and Term Loan and Security Agreement among the Depositor,
National Auto Finance Company, Inc. and First Union National Bank, dated as of
March 31, 1999, and as the same may be amended or modified from time to time.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and
Servicing Agreement among the Trust, National Financial Auto Funding Trust, as
Seller, National Auto Finance Company, Inc., as Servicer, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and
Savings Bank, as the Trust Collateral Agent and Backup Servicer, dated as of
September 1, 1999, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to
time.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware.
"Security Majority" means a majority, by principal amount, of
the Noteholders so long as the Notes are outstanding, and the Certificateholder
thereafter.
"Series 1999-1 Supplement" means the Series 1999-1 Supplement
to the Spread Account Agreement.
"Spread Account" shall mean the Series 1999-1 Spread Account
established and maintained pursuant to the Series 1999-1 Supplement.
"Spread Account Agreement" shall mean the First Amended and
Restated Master Spread Account Agreement, dated as of March 31, 1998, among
National Financial Auto Funding Trust, the Insurer, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and Savings
Bank, as Trust Collateral Agent and as Collateral Agent, as the same has been
previously supplemented and as may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein
to specific provisions of proposed or
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temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury
Regulations or other successor Treasury Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"Trust Accounts" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Trust Collateral Agent" shall mean, initially, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust
and Savings Bank, in its capacity as collateral agent, including its successors
in interest, until and unless a successor Person shall have become the Trust
Collateral Agent pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and thereafter
"Trust Collateral Agent" shall mean such successor Person.
SECTION 1.2. Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or, if not defined therein, in the Spread Account Agreement or in the
Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or
delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms
not defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other
document, and accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in
any such certificate or other document to the extent not defined, shall
have the respective meanings given to them under generally accepted
accounting principles as in effect on the date of this Agreement or any
such certificate or other document, as applicable. To the extent that
the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such
certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of
such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the
definitions contained in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document shall control.
(d) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of
similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement; Section and Exhibit references contained in this Agreement
are references to Sections and Exhibits in or to this Agreement unless
otherwise specified; and the term "including" shall mean "including
without limitation."
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable
to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms, and to the
masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
SECTION 1.3. Action by or Consent of Noteholders and Certificateholder.
Whenever any provision of this Agreement refers to action to be taken, or
consented to, by the Noteholders or the Certificateholder, such provision shall
be deemed to refer to the Certificateholder or
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Noteholder, as the case may be, of record as of the Record Date immediately
preceding the date on which such action is to be taken, or consent given, by the
Noteholders or the Certificateholder. Solely for the purposes of any action to
be taken, or consented to, by the Noteholders, any Note registered in the name
of the Seller or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed not to be outstanding;
provided, however, that, solely for the purpose of determining whether the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Trust Collateral Agent is entitled to rely
upon any such action or consent, only Notes which the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Trust Collateral Agent, respectively, has been notified
to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
SECTION 1.4. Material Adverse Effect. Whenever a determination is to be
made under this Agreement as to whether a given event, action, course of conduct
or set of facts or circumstances could or would have a material adverse effect
on the Noteholders or the Certificateholder (or any similar or analogous
determination), such determination shall be made without taking into account the
funds available from claims under the Class A Note Policy.
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.1. Name. There is hereby formed a trust to be known as
"National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust," in which name the Owner Trustee may
conduct the activities of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and ▇▇▇ and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address as the
Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholder and the
Depositor.
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the Trust is, and
the Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage in the following
activities: (i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Certificate
pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell the Notes; (ii) with the proceeds of the
sale of the Notes, to fund the Spread Account and to pay the organizational,
start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance to the
Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (iii) to assign, grant,
transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Owner Trust Estate to the Trust
Collateral Agent pursuant to the Indenture for the benefit of the Insurer and
the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, and to hold, manage and
distribute to the Certificateholder and the Depositor pursuant to the terms of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Owner Trust Estate released
from the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust, pursuant to the Indenture; (iv) to
enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic Documents to which it is
a party; (v) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements,
that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are
incidental thereto or connected therewith; and (vi) subject to compliance with
the Basic Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in
connection with conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of
distributions to the Certificateholder and the Noteholders.
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The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities.
The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the
foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement
or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate. The
Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Distribution Account. The Depositor shall pay
organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise.
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares
that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholder,
subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the
intention and agreement of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a
business trust under the Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement
constitute the governing instrument of such business trust. It is the intention
and agreement of the parties hereto that, solely for income and franchise tax
purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a security device only, or
alternatively, if such characterization is not respected for any applicable
income or franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated solely for such
income or franchise tax purposes as a non-entity disregarded as an entity
separate from its owner under Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(ii);
provided, however, that if any Class of Notes is treated as an equity interest
in the Trust for any applicable income or franchise tax purposes, it is the
intention and agreement of the parties hereto that, solely for such income or
franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall then be treated as a partnership and
that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, only after such
time the Servicer, on behalf of the Trust, will file or cause to be filed annual
or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with the
characterization of the Trust as a partnership for such income or franchise tax
purposes. None of the parties hereto shall make the election provided in
Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(c) to have the Trust classified as an
association taxable as a corporation. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner
Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and to the
extent not inconsistent herewith, in the Business Trust Statute with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Owner Trustee shall file the
Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State.
SECTION 2.7. Liability. (a) The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner
Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the
Owner Trustee.
(b) The Holder, other than to the extent set forth in
clause (a), shall not have any personal liability for any liability or
obligation of the Trust.
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SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property. (a) Legal title to all the Owner
Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal
entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which
case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee
and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
(b) The Holder shall not have legal title to any part
of the Trust Property. The Holder shall be entitled to receive
distributions with respect to its undivided ownership interest therein
only in accordance with Article IX and Section 5.7 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of
any right, title or interest by the Certificateholder of its ownership
interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this
Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an
accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the
Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and administered
in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the State of
New York. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or New York
and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New York. The Trust
shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware; provided,
however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee, the
Servicer or any agent of the Trust from having employees within or without the
State of Delaware. The only office of the Trust will be at the Corporate Trust
Office in Delaware.
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The
Depositor makes the following representations and warranties on which the Owner
Trustee relies in accepting the Owner Trust Estate in trust and issuing the
Certificates, and upon which the Insurer relies in issuing the Class A Note
Policy and upon which the Noteholders rely in purchasing their Notes.
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Depositor is duly
organized and validly existing as a Delaware business trust with power
and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such
properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted
and is proposed to be conducted pursuant to this Agreement and the
Basic Documents.
(b) Due Qualification. The Depositor is duly qualified to do
business and is in good standing, and has obtained all necessary
licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or
lease of its property, the conduct of its business and the performance
of its obligations under this Agreement and the Basic Documents
requires such qualification.
(c) Power and Authority. The Depositor has the trust power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its
terms; the Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign
the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Trust,
and the Depositor has duly authorized such sale and assignment and
deposit to the Trust by all necessary trust action; and the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by
the Depositor by all necessary trust action.
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(d) No Consent Required. To the best knowledge of the
Depositor, no consent, license, approval or authorization or
registration or declaration with, any Person or with any governmental
authority, bureau or agency is required in connection with the
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the Basic
Documents, except for such as have been obtained, effected or made.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof
do not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and
provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time)
a default under, the organizational documents of the Depositor, or any
material indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the
Depositor is a party or by which it is bound; nor result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant
to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument
(other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or,
to the best of the Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation
applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any Federal or state
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its
properties.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending or, to its knowledge threatened against the Depositor before
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over it or its
properties (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or any of the
Basic Documents, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the
Certificates or the Notes or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents, (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might
materially and adversely affect its performance of its obligations
under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement or any of
the Basic Documents, or (iv) seeking to adversely affect the federal
income tax or other federal, state or local tax attributes of the Notes
or the Certificate.
SECTION 2.11. Tax Treatment. The Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholder intend and agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent
with the treatment of, the Notes as indebtedness for purposes of federal, state,
local and foreign income and franchise taxes and any other tax imposed on or
measured by net income. Furthermore, subject to the following paragraph, the
Depositor, the Servicer and the Certificateholder agree and intend to treat the
Trust as a security device only (or alternatively, if such characterization is
not respected for any applicable income or franchise tax purposes, as a
non-entity disregarded as an entity separate from its owner for such income or
franchise tax purposes under Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(ii) or
any similar provision of applicable law) and consistent with such intent the
Depositor, the Certificateholder and the Owner Trustee shall not file tax
returns on behalf of the Trust.
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Notwithstanding the above, in the event that any Class of Notes is
recharacterized by the Internal Revenue Service for federal income tax purposes
to represent an equity interest in the Trust, it is the intent and agreement of
the parties hereto that the Trust shall be treated for income and franchise tax
purposes as a partnership among the holders of such Notes and the
Certificateholder. In the event such a partnership is deemed to exist, any
interest accrued on the Notes in accordance with the terms thereof shall be
treated as guaranteed payments as defined in Code Section 707(c) and the
partnership's taxable income or loss (net of such guaranteed payments) shall be
allocated solely to the Certificateholder. If such treatment is not respected,
then the net income of the Trust for any month as determined for federal income
tax purposes (and each item of income, gain, loss and deduction entering into
the computation thereof) shall be allocated in such manner as to cause to the
greatest extent possible the Certificateholder and each Noteholder to recognize
net taxable income or loss at such time, and in such amounts, as each such
person would have recognized such income or loss if such Notes had been
respected as indebtedness and had not been recharacterized as an equity interest
in the Trust.
SECTION 2.12. Covenants of the Depositor. The Depositor agrees and
covenants for the benefit of each Noteholder, the Certificateholder, the Insurer
and the Owner Trustee, during the term of this Agreement, and to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, that:
(a) it shall not cause or permit the Trust to create, incur or
suffer to exist any indebtedness (other than any indebtedness pursuant
to the Revolving Credit and Term Loan and Security Agreement) or engage
in any activity, except, in each case, as permitted by this Agreement
and the Basic Documents;
(b) it shall not, for any reason, institute proceedings for
the Trust to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Trust,
or file a petition seeking or consenting to reorganization or relief
under any applicable federal or state law relating to the bankruptcy of
the Trust, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the
Trust or a substantial part of the property of the Trust or cause or
permit the Trust to make any assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or admit in writing the inability of the Trust to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or declare or effect a moratorium on the
debt of the Trust or take any action in furtherance of any such action;
(c) it shall obtain from each counterparty to each Basic
Document to which it or the Trust is a party and each other agreement
entered into on or after the date hereof to which it or the Trust is a
party, an agreement by each such counterparty that prior to the
occurrence of the event specified in Section 9.1(e) such counterparty
shall not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting
against, it or the Trust, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other similar proceedings
under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States;
(d) it shall not, for any reason, withdraw or attempt to
withdraw from this Agreement, dissolve, institute proceedings for it to
be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution
of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it,
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or file a petition seeking or consenting to reorganization or relief
under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, or
consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of it or a
substantial part of its property, or make any assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or admit in writing its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or declare or effect a moratorium
on its debt or take any action in furtherance of any such action;
(e) the operations of the Trust will be conducted in
accordance with the following standards:
(A) prior to the date which is one year and one day
after the Notes shall have been paid in full, the Depositor shall not
institute any proceedings against, or join any Person in instituting
against, the Trust any bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other similar
proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law. This
Section 2.12(e) shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
Trust;
(B) so long as the Notes shall not have been
indefeasibly paid in full, the Trust shall not:
(i) engage in any activities other than those set
forth in Section 2.3 hereof;
(ii) consolidate or merge with or into any other
entity or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any entity;
(iii) dissolve or liquidate, in whole or in part;
(iv) except as permitted by the Basic Documents to
which the Trust is a party, commingle the funds and other assets
comprising part of the Trust Estate with those of any other Person;
(v) identify itself as a division of any person or
entity;
(vi) become or hold itself out as being liable for
the debts of any other Person;
(vii) (A) incur any indebtedness, except as permitted
under the Basic Documents; (B) suffer or permit to exist any liens,
claims or encumbrances on any of its property other than liens, claims
or encumbrances permitted to be incurred by the Trust pursuant to the
Basic Documents to which the Trust is a party; (C) make any advances,
loans, extensions of credit, acquisitions or investments except as
permitted by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a party; (D)
conduct activities or enter into transactions with Affiliates of the
Trust, except on an arm's-length basis; or (E) own or acquire any stock
of any Person or guarantee any obligation of any Person or, except
pursuant to any Basic Document, own or acquire any securities of any
Person; and
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(viii) amend any of the provisions contained in this
Section 2.12 hereof;
(C) so long as the Notes shall not have been
indefeasibly paid in full, the Trust shall:
(i) (A) act solely in its own name and through its
duly authorized officers or agents in the conduct of its activities
except to the extent required by the law of any applicable
jurisdiction; (B) conduct its activities so as not to mislead others as
to the identity of the entity with which they are conducting
activities; (C) hold itself out to the public as a legal entity
separate and distinct from the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof; (D)
pay its own expenses and liabilities out of its own funds and assets;
and (E) use a telephone number, mailing address, stationery and other
business forms that are separate from the Depositor;
(ii) maintain all records and books of account so as
to reflect the separate existence of the Trust and maintain bank
accounts and assets separate from any other Person. The books of the
Trust may be kept (subject to any provision contained in any applicable
statutes) inside or outside the State of Delaware at such place or
places as maybe designated from time to time by the Depositor;
(iii) hold appropriate meetings and meet such other
formalities as may be necessary to authorize all of the Trust's actions
as may be required by law and observe all other trust formalities;
(iv) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its
separate identity;
(v) conduct the Trust's activities at an office
segregated from the office of the Depositor;
(vi) deliver, file and pay, as applicable, all tax
returns and financial statements and tax payments as and when required
under the Basic Documents, and to the extent its assets and liabilities
are consolidated with those of any Affiliates on any financial
statements, cause appropriate footnotes to be added to such financial
statement indicating that the assets of the Trust are not available to
creditors of such Affiliates; and
(vii) promptly deliver to the Insurer and Noteholders
copies of any and all notices, instructions or other written
communications given by either party hereto to the other pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.13. Covenants of the Certificateholder. The Certificateholder
agrees:
(a) to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Certificate
and of this Agreement, including any supplements or amendments hereto,
and to perform
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the obligations of the Certificateholder as set forth therein or herein
in all respects as if it were a signatory hereto; which undertaking is
made for the benefit of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Insurer and
the Noteholders present and future;
(b) to hereby appoint the Depositor as the Certificateholder's
agent and attorney-in-fact to sign any federal income tax information
return filed on behalf of the Trust, if any, and agree that, if
requested by the Trust, the Certificateholder will sign such federal
income tax information return in its capacity as holder of an interest
in the Trust. The Certificateholder also hereby agrees that in its tax
returns it will not take any position inconsistent with those taken in
any tax returns that may be filed by the Trust;
(c) if the Certificateholder is other than an individual or
other entity holding the Certificate through a broker who reports
securities sales on Form 1099-B, to notify the Owner Trustee of any
transfer by it of the Certificate in a taxable sale or exchange, within
30 days of the date of the transfer; and
(d) until the completion of the events specified in Section
9.1(e), not to, for any reason, institute proceedings for the Trust or
the Depositor to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to
the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the
Trust, or file a petition seeking or consenting to reorganization or
relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to
bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the
Trust or a substantial part of its property, or cause or permit the
Trust to make any assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or admit
in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due,
or declare or effect a moratorium on its debt or take any action in
furtherance of any such action.
SECTION 2.14. Covenants of the Certificateholder/Owner Trustee. The
Certificateholder hereby instructs the Owner Trustee that the operations of the
Trust will be conducted in accordance with the following standards:
(a) prior to the date which is one year and one day after the
Notes shall have been paid in full, the Owner Trustee shall not
institute any proceedings against, or join any Person in instituting
against, either of the Trust or the Depositor any bankruptcy,
reorganization, receivership arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings or other similar proceedings under any federal or state
bankruptcy or similar law. This Section 2.14(a) shall survive the
termination of this Agreement and the Trust;
(b) so long as the Notes shall not have been indefeasibly paid
in full, the Trust shall not:
(i) engage in any activities other than those set
forth in Section 2.3 hereof;
(ii) consolidate or merge with or into any other
entity or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any entity;
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(iii) dissolve or liquidate, in whole or in part;
(iv) except as permitted by the Basic Documents to
which the Trust is a party, commingle the funds and other assets
comprising part of the Trust Estate with those of any other Person;
(v) identify itself as a division of any person or
entity;
(vi) become or hold itself out as being liable for
the debts of any other Person;
(vii) (A) incur any indebtedness, except as permitted
under the Basic Documents; (B) suffer or permit to exist any liens,
claims or encumbrances on any of its property other than liens, claims
or encumbrances permitted pursuant to the Basic Documents to which the
Trust is a party; (C) make any advances, loans, extensions of credit,
acquisitions or investments except as permitted by the Basic Documents
to which the Trust is a party; (D) conduct activities or enter into
transactions with Affiliates of the Trust, except on an arm's-length
basis; or (E) own or acquire any stock of any Person or guarantee any
obligation of any Person or, except pursuant to any Basic Document, own
or acquire any securities of any Person; and
(viii) amend any of the provisions contained in this
Section 2.14 hereof;
(c) so long as the Notes shall not have been indefeasibly paid
in full, the Trust shall:
(i) (A) act solely in it own name and through its
duly authorized officers or agents in the conduct of its activities
except to the extent required by the law of any applicable
jurisdiction; (B) conduct its activities so as not to mislead others as
to the identity of the entity with which they are conducting
activities; (C) hold itself out to the public as a legal entity
separate and distinct from the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof; (D)
pay its own expenses and liabilities out of its own funds and assets;
and (E) use a telephone number, mailing address, stationery and other
business forms that are separate from the Depositor;
(ii) maintain all records and books of account so as
to reflect the separate existence of the Trust and maintain bank
accounts and assets separate from any other Person. The books of the
Trust may be kept (subject to any provision contained in any applicable
statutes) inside or outside the State of Delaware at such place or
places as may be designated from time to time by the Depositor;
(iii) hold appropriate meetings and meet such other
formalities as may be necessary to authorize all of the Trust's actions
as may be required by law and observe all other trust formalities;
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(iv) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its
separate identity;
(v) conduct the Trust's activities at an office
segregated from the office of the Depositor;
(vi) deliver, file and pay, as applicable, all tax
returns and financial statements and tax payments as and when required
under the Basic Documents, and to the extent its assets and liabilities
are consolidated with those of any Affiliates on any financial
statements, cause appropriate footnotes to be added to such financial
statement indicating that the assets of the Trust are not available to
creditors of such ; and
(vii) promptly deliver to the Insurer and the
Noteholders copies of any and all notices, instructions or other
written communications given by either party hereto to the other
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
ARTICLE III
CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
SECTION 3.1. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.5 and until the later of (a)
the payment in full of all amounts payable to First Union National Bank pursuant
to the provisions of the Revolving Credit and Term Loan and Security Agreement
and (b) the sale of the Certificate by the Depositor, the Depositor, as the
Certificateholder, shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust. The Certificate
shall not be divisible and shall always represent 100% of the beneficial
ownership interest of the Trust.
SECTION 3.2. Signature on Certificate. The Certificate shall be
executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an
authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. A Certificate bearing the manual or
facsimile signature of an individual who was, at the time when such signature
shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be
validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Agreement, notwithstanding
that such individual shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Certificate or did not hold such office at
the date of authentication and delivery of such Certificate. A transferee of the
Certificate shall become the Certificateholder, and shall be entitled to the
rights and subject to the obligations of the Certificateholder hereunder, upon
due registration of the Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to
Section 3.4.
SECTION 3.3. Authentication of Certificate. Concurrently with the
initial sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to, or upon the written order
of, the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any
vice president, its treasurer or any assistant treasurer without further
corporate action by the Depositor. The Certificate shall neither entitle its
holder to any benefit under this Agreement nor
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shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on the Certificate a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A,
executed by the Owner Trustee, by manual signature; such authentication shall
constitute conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Certificate shall be dated the date
of its authentication.
SECTION 3.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of the Certificate.
The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or
agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner Trustee
shall provide for the registration of the Certificate and of transfers and
exchanges of the Certificate as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall be the
initial Certificate Registrar.
As a condition to the registration of any transfer of the Certificate,
the prospective transferee of such a Certificate shall represent to the Owner
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar the following:
(i) It has neither acquired nor will it transfer the
Certificate or cause the Certificate to be marketed on or through an
"established securities market" within the meaning of Section
7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-
counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly
disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.
(ii) It either (A) is not, and will not become, a
partnership, S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect
beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have
allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, fifty percent (50%) or more
of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee's
ownership of the Certificate.
(iii) It understands that tax counsel to the Trust
has provided an opinion substantially to the effect that the Trust will
not be a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S.
federal income tax purposes and that the validity of such opinion is
dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs
(i) and (ii) above.
The Certificate has not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or any state securities law. The
Certificate Registrar shall not register the transfer of the Certificate unless
such resale or transfer complies with Section 3.9 and is pursuant to (a) Section
3.1 hereof and (b) an effective registration statement under the Securities Act
or is to the Seller or unless it shall have received (i) a representation letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto or (ii) such other representations
(or an Opinion of Counsel) satisfactory to the Owner Trustee to the effect that
such resale or transfer is made (A) in a transaction exempt from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities
laws, or (B) to a person who the transferor of the Certificate reasonably
believes is a qualified institutional buyer (within the meaning of Rule 144A
under the Securities Act) that is aware that such resale or other transfer is
being made in reliance upon Rule 144A. Until such time as the Certificate shall
be
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registered pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act,
the Certificate shall bear a legend as follows:
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE IN
RELIANCE UPON EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED BY THE SECURITIES ACT AND SUCH STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. NO RESALE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE
UNLESS SUCH RESALE OR TRANSFER (A) IS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3.1 AND
3.4 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT PERTAINING TO THE NATIONAL AUTO FINANCE 1999-1 TRUST
(THE "AGREEMENT") AND (B) IS MADE (i) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (ii) IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS, (iii) TO THE SELLER, OR (iv) TO A PERSON WHO THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS AWARE THAT THE RESALE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS
BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, AND (C) UPON THE SATISFACTION OF CERTAIN
OTHER REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE AGREEMENT. NEITHER THE SELLER, THE SERVICER,
THE TRUST NOR THE OWNER TRUSTEE (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE AGREEMENT) IS
OBLIGATED TO REGISTER THE CERTIFICATES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent with
the name and address of the Certificateholder on the Closing Date in the form
which such information is provided to the Certificate Registrar by the
Depositor. Upon any transfer of the Certificate, the Certificate Registrar shall
notify the Trust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in
writing, by facsimile, on the day of such transfer.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of the Certificate at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall
execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, a new Certificate dated the date of authentication by the Owner
Trustee or any authenticating agent.
The Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by
the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such
signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership
or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP")
or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the
Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"). The Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in
accordance with its customary practice.
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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of the Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of the
Certificate.
Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner
Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not
be required to register, transfers and exchanges of the Certificate for a period
of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the
Certificate.
The Seller shall not sell, transfer, assign, convey or pledge any
Certificate at any time subsequent to the Closing Date to any Person that is an
Affiliate of the Seller, unless, prior to such sale, transfer, assignment,
conveyance or pledge, the Seller delivers to the Insurer an Opinion of Counsel
substantially similar in form and substance to the Opinion of Counsel delivered
on the Closing Date as to non-consolidation of the assets and liabilities of (x)
the Seller and NAFI or (y) the Seller and any such Person that is an Affiliate
of the Seller (other than NAFI), of which a copy shall be delivered to each
Rating Agency.
In furtherance of and not in limitation of the foregoing, the
Certificateholder, by acceptance of the Certificate, specifically acknowledges
that it has no right to or interest in any monies at any time held pursuant to
the Spread Account Agreement or prior to the release of such monies pursuant to
Section 5.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 3.03 of the Spread
Account Agreement, such monies being held in trust for the benefit of the [Class
A] Noteholders and the Insurer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that
it is ever determined that the monies held in the Spread Account constitute a
pledge of collateral, then the provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and the Spread Account Agreement shall be considered to constitute a security
agreement and the Seller and the Certificateholder hereby grant to the
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
[Class A] Noteholders and the Insurer a first priority perfected security
interest in such amounts, to be applied as set forth in Section 3.03 of the
Spread Account Agreement. In addition, the Certificateholder, by acceptance of
the Certificate, hereby appoints the Depositor as its agent to pledge a first
priority perfected security interest in the Spread Account, and any amounts held
therein from time to time, to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Indenture Trustee and the Insurer pursuant to the Spread Account Agreement and
agrees to execute and deliver such instruments of conveyance, assignment, grant,
confirmation, etc. as well as any financing statements, in each case that the
Insurer shall consider reasonably necessary in order to perfect the Collateral
Agent's Security Interest in the Collateral (as such terms are defined in the
Spread Account Agreement).
SECTION 3.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificate. If (a) a
mutilated Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or if
the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of the Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered
to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and (unless (i) an Insurer
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no
longer outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid to it and
the term of the Class A Note Policy has expired) the Insurer, such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
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harmless, then in the absence of notice that the Certificate shall have been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust
shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a
new Certificate. In connection with the issuance of a new Certificate under this
Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of the ownership of the Trust,
as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 3.6. Person Deemed the Certificateholder. Every Person by
virtue of becoming the Certificateholder in accordance with this Agreement and
the rules and regulations of the Certificate Registrar shall be deemed to be
bound by the terms of this Agreement. Prior to due presentation of the
Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar and the Insurer and any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar and the Insurer, respectively, may treat the Person in whose name the
Certificate shall be registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of the
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Insurer nor any agent of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Insurer, shall be bound by any notice
to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7. Access to Certificateholder's Name and Address. The Owner
Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer, the Depositor or
(unless (i) an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the
Class A Notes are no longer outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have
been paid to it and the term of the Class A Note Policy has expired) the
Insurer, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a request therefor
from such Person in writing, the name and address of the Certificateholder as of
the most recent Record Date. The Holder, by receiving and holding the
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Depositor,
the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or the Insurer or any agent thereof accountable
by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source
from which such information was derived.
SECTION 3.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee shall
maintain in Wilmington, Delaware, an office or offices or agency or agencies
where the Certificate may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect
of the Certificate and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee
initially designates its Corporate Trust Office for such purposes. The Owner
Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Certificateholder
and the Insurer of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any
such office or agency.
SECTION 3.9. ERISA Restrictions. The Certificate may not be acquired by
or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3)
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"))
that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets
include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a
"Benefit Plan"). The Certificate shall not be registered in the name of any
Holder unless the
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Holder shall have represented and warranted, substantially in the form of
paragraph 8 to Exhibit C, that it is not a Benefit Plan.
SECTION 3.10. Securities Matters. Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for
ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or
exemptions from the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, applicable state
securities law or the Investment Company Act; provided, however, that if a
Certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a
purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a
duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of
this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such
certificate does not so conform.
SECTION 3.11. Pledge of Certificate. The parties hereto hereby
acknowledge that the Depositor has, pursuant to the Revolving Credit and Term
Loan and Security Agreement, pledged the Certificate to First Union National
Bank. Upon receipt of notice from First Union National Bank to the effect that
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Revolving Credit
and Term Loan and Security Agreement, (i) the Owner Trustee shall upon request,
pay to First Union National Bank directly any and all amounts that the
Certificateholder would be entitled to receive hereunder and (ii) First Union
National Bank may exercise its rights under that agreement and notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, upon the request of First
Union National Bank, the outstanding Certificate shall be deemed canceled and a
new Certificate shall be issued and registered in the name or upon the order of
First Union National Bank, and without further action, First Union National Bank
shall become the Certificateholder.
ARTICLE IV
VOTING RIGHTS AND OTHER ACTIONS
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Holder with Respect to Certain Matters.
With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action
unless at least 10 days before the taking of such action, the Owner Trustee
shall have notified the Certificateholder in writing of the proposed action and
the Certificateholder shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior
to the 10th day after such notice is given that the Certificateholder has
withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to
the Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed
under the Business Trust Statute or unless such amendment would not
materially and adversely affect the interest of the Holder);
(b) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is
required;
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(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not
required and such amendment materially adversely affects the interest
of the Certificateholder; or
(d) except pursuant to Section 13.1(b) of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the amendment, change or modification of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or defect or
to amend or supplement any provision in a manner that would not
materially adversely affect the interest of the Certificateholder.
The Owner Trustee shall notify the Certificateholder in writing of any
appointment of a successor Note Registrar, Trust Collateral Agent or Certificate
Registrar within five Business Days thereof.
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholder with Respect to Certain
Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction
of the Insurer or, (i) in the event that an Insurer Default shall have occurred
and be continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no longer outstanding, all
amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid to it and the term of the Class A
Note Policy has expired, the Security Majority in accordance with the Basic
Documents, to (a) remove the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or
(b) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables
after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions
referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by
the Insurer or the Security Majority, as the case may be, and the furnishing of
indemnification satisfactory to the Owner Trustee by the Certificateholder.
SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholder with Respect to Bankruptcy.
Until the Notes have been indefeasibly paid in full, the Owner Trustee shall not
have the power to, and shall not, commence any proceeding or other actions
contemplated by Section 2.12(d) relating to the Trust without the prior written
consent of the Insurer (unless (i) an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no longer outstanding, all amounts
owing to the Insurer have been paid to it and the term of the Class A Note
Policy has expired) or the Security Majority upon an Insurer Default (or if the
Class A Notes are no longer outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have
been paid to it and the term of the Class A Note Policy has expired). One year
and one day after the Notes have been indefeasibly paid in full, all amounts due
to the Insurer under the Insurance Agreement have been paid in full, the term of
the Class A Note Policy has expired and the Trust Collateral Agent has
surrendered the Class A Note Policy to the Insurer, the Owner Trustee shall not
have the power to, and shall not, commence any proceeding or other actions
contemplated by Section 2.12(d) relating to the Trust without the prior written
consent of the Certificateholder and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by the
Certificateholder of written certification that the Certificateholder reasonably
believes that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificateholder's Power. (a) The
Certificateholder shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.3 or otherwise contrary to law, nor
shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
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(b) The Certificateholder (other than the Depositor
as sole Certificateholder) shall not have any right by virtue, or by
availing itself, of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any
suit, action, or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with
respect to this Agreement or any Basic Document, unless the
Certificateholder is the Instructing Party pursuant to Section 6.3 and
unless the Certificateholder previously shall have given to the Owner
Trustee a written notice of default and of the continuance thereof, as
provided in this Agreement, and also unless the Certificateholder shall
have made written request upon the Owner Trustee to institute such
action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Owner Trustee under this
Agreement and shall have offered to the Owner Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities
to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Owner Trustee, for 30 days
after its receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity,
shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit, or
proceeding, and during such 30-day period no request or waiver
inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to and in compliance with this Section or Section 6.3;
it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the
Certificateholder with the Owner Trustee, that the Certificateholder
shall not have any right in any manner whatever by virtue, or by
availing itself of any provisions of this Agreement to enforce any
right under this Agreement, except in the manner provided in this
Agreement. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this
Section 4.4, the Certificateholder and the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 4.5. Rights of Insurer. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in the Basic Documents, unless (A) either (i) an Insurer Default shall
have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no longer
outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid to it and the term
of the Class A Note Policy has been expired and (B) it shall have received the
prior written consent of the Security Majority, the Owner Trustee shall not (i)
remove the Servicer, the Custodian, the Backup Servicer, or any Sub-Servicer,
(ii) initiate any claim, suit or proceeding by the Trust or compromise any
claim, suit or proceeding brought by or against the Trust, other than with
respect to the enforcement of any Receivable or any rights of the Trust
thereunder, (iii) authorize the merger or consolidation of the Trust with or
into any other business trust or other entity (other than in accordance with
Section 3.10 of the Indenture), (iv) amend the Certificate of Trust, or (v)
amend this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.1 of this Agreement.
ARTICLE V
CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1. Accounting and Records to the Noteholders, the
Certificateholder, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. Subject to Sections
12.1(b)(iii) and 12.1(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Depositor
shall (a) maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a
calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, including, without
limitation, any allocations of net income under Section 2.11, (b) deliver (or
cause to be delivered) to the Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code
and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information in the Depositor's
possession as may be requested (including Schedule K-1, if
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applicable) to enable the Certificateholder to prepare its federal, state and
local income and franchise tax returns, (c) file or cause to be filed, if
necessary, such tax returns relating to the Trust (including, if applicable, a
partnership information return, Form 1065), and direct the Owner Trustee or the
Servicer, as the case may be, to make such elections as may from time to time be
required or appropriate under any applicable state, local or federal statute or
rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's characterization as
a security device or non-entity, as the case may be, or if applicable, as a
partnership, for federal income tax purposes, and (d) collect or cause to be
collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section
5.8(c) of the Sale and Serving Agreement with respect to income or distributions
to the Certificateholder and the appropriate forms relating thereto. The Owner
Trustee or the Servicer, as the case may be, shall make all elections pursuant
to this Section as directed in writing by the Depositor. The Owner Trustee shall
upon request sign all tax information returns provided to it in execution form,
if any, filed pursuant to this Section 5.1 and any other returns as may be
required by law, and in doing so shall rely entirely upon, and shall have no
liability for information provided by, or calculations provided by, the
Depositor or the Servicer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, none
of the parties hereto shall make the election provided in Treasury Regulations
Section 301.7701-3(c) to have the Trust classified as an association taxable as
a corporation.
SECTION 5.2. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner. (a)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.1 and in the event that the Trust is
characterized as a partnership, the Owner Trustee shall pursuant to an
instruction sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust provided to
it in execution form, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to sign
such documents, in which case such documents shall be signed by the Depositor.
(b) In the event that the Trust is characterized as a
partnership, the Depositor shall be the "tax matters partner" of the
Trust pursuant to the Code.
SECTION 5.3. Note Purchase Agreements. The Owner Trustee is hereby
authorized to execute and deliver the Note Purchase Agreements with respect to
the Notes.
ARTICLE VI
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is named
as a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or
contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a signatory and any
amendment thereto, in each case, in such form as the Depositor shall approve as
evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof, and on behalf
of the Trust, to direct the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the
Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $53,125,000. In addition to the
foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take
all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner
Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the
Instructing Party recommends with respect to the Basic Documents, which the
Instructing Party hereby agrees shall be consistent with the terms of the Basic
Documents.
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SECTION 6.2. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee
to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement and to administer the Trust in the interest of the
Holder, subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed
to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Servicer has agreed in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Trust or the Owner
Trustee hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not
be liable for the default or failure of the Servicer to carry out its
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to Article IV and the
terms of the Spread Account Agreement, the Insurer (so long as (i) an Insurer
Default shall not have occurred and be continuing and (ii) either the Class A
Notes are still outstanding, amounts owing to the Insurer under the Insurance
Agreement have not been paid to it or the term of the Class A Note Policy has
not expired) or the Security Majority (if (i) an Insurer Default shall have
occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no longer outstanding,
all amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid to it and the Class A Note
Policy has expired) (the "Instructing Party") shall have the exclusive right to
direct the actions of the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust, so long
as such instructions are not inconsistent with the express terms set forth
herein or in any Basic Document. The Instructing Party shall not instruct the
Owner Trustee in a manner inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic
Documents.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take
any action hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee
shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by
counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part
of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any Basic
Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide
between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the
terms of this Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall
promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the
circumstances) to the Instructing Party requesting instruction as to
the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee
acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of the
Instructing Party received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on
account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not
have received appropriate instruction within ten days of such notice
(or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified
in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but
shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not
in violation of this Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem
to be in the best interests of the Certificateholder, and shall have no
liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as
to the application of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic
Document or any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or
is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision,
or in the event that this Agreement permits any determination by the
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Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the course of action
that the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a particular
set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall
be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Instructing Party
requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts
or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such
instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account
of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall
not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice
(or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified
in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but
shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not
in violation of this Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem
to be in the best interests of the Certificateholder, and shall have no
liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage,
make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any filing for the Trust with the Securities
and Exchange Commission or to record this Agreement or any Basic Document. The
Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense,
promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any Liens on any part
of the Owner Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the
Owner Trustee (solely in its individual capacity) and that are not related to
the ownership or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.5. No Action Except under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents
or (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not (a) take any
action that is in violation of the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section
2.3, or (b) take any action (including, without limitation, participating in the
establishment of a market or the inclusion of the Trust's interests thereon,
within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(d)(1)) that, to the
actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would result in the Trust becoming
taxable as a corporation or a publicly traded partnership for federal income tax
purposes. The Certificateholder shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take
action that would violate the provisions of this Section.
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ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts
the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with
respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting
part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents and this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or
under any Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i) for its own willful
misconduct, bad faith or negligence, (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty contained in Section 7.3 expressly made by the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity, (iii) for liabilities arising from the
failure of the Owner Trustee to perform obligations expressly undertaken by it
in the last sentence of Section 6.4, (iv) for any gains on investments issued by
the Owner Trustee or any branch or Affiliate thereof in its commercial capacity
or (v) for taxes, fees or other charges on, based on or measured by, any fees,
commissions or compensation received by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but
not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the
preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made by a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the
instructions of the Instructing Party[, the Depositor, the Servicer or
any Certificateholder];
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur
any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or
powers hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured or provided to it;
(d) as provided in Section 8.4 hereof, under no circumstances
shall the Owner Trustee be personally liable for indebtedness evidenced
by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including the principal
of and interest on the Notes;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for, or in
respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, or for the
due execution hereof by the Depositor, or for the form, character,
genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust
Estate, or for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of the
Basic Documents, other than the certificate of authentication on the
Certificate, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur
any liability, duty or obligation to the Depositor, the Insurer,
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Trustee, Trust Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Noteholder
or to the Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for
herein and in the Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Depositor, the Insurer, the Trustee, the Trust
Collateral Agent or the Servicer under any of the Basic Documents, or
otherwise, and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability
to perform the obligations under this Agreement or the Basic Documents
that are required to be performed by the Depositor under this
Agreement, by the Trustee under the Indenture, or the Trust Collateral
Agent or the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to
institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement, or
otherwise, or in relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document, at
the request, order or direction of the Instructing Party or the
Certificateholder, unless such Instructing Party or the
Certificateholder has offered to the Owner Trustee security or
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or
thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be
construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for
other than its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct in the
performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish
to the Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee
under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee hereby
represents and warrants, in its individual capacity, to the Depositor, the
Holder, the Noteholders (which shall have relied on such representations and
warranties in purchasing the Notes) and the Insurer (which shall have relied on
such representations and warranties in issuing the Class A Note Policy), that:
(a) It is a Delaware banking corporation, duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware. It has all requisite corporate power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize
the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement
will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this
Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated
hereby nor compliance by it with
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any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any federal or
Delaware state law, governmental rule or regulation governing the
banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order
binding on it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or
by-laws or any indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument
to which it is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound.
SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Owner Trustee shall
incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice,
resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other
document or paper believed by it to be genuine and reasonably believed by it to
be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a
certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body
of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly
adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any
fact or matter the method of the determination of which is not specifically
prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a
certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer,
secretary or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or
matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner
Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts
hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under
this Agreement or the Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act
directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements
entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or attorneys if
such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee
with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants
and other skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and
employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything
done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other
such persons and according to such opinion not contrary to this
Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided in
this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Wilmington Trust
Company acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look
only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificate or Receivables.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than the
authenticity of the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the
Certificate) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor and the Owner
Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of
any Basic Document or of the Certificate (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificate) or the Notes, or of
any Receivable or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and
enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of any security
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interest created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of
any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of
the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed
to the Certificateholder under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the
Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership
of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance
thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer or other
record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or
of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the
performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor,
the Servicer or any other Person with any warranty or representation made under
any Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such
warranty or representation or any action of the Trustee or the Servicer or any
subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.7. Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes. The Owner
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of the Certificate or the Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Trustee and
the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it
were not Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.8. Payments from Owner Trust Estate. All payments to be made
by the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents to which
the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party shall be made only from the income and
proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate and only to the extent that the Owner Trustee
shall have received income or proceeds from the Owner Trust Estate to make such
payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Wilmington Trust Company, or any
successor thereto, in its individual capacity, shall not be liable for any
amounts payable under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents to which the
Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party.
SECTION 7.9. Conducting Activities in Other Jurisdictions.
Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary, neither Wilmington Trust
Company or any successor thereto, nor the Owner Trustee shall be required to
take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of Delaware if the
taking of such action will, even after the appointment of a co-trustee or
separate trustee in accordance with Section 10.5 hereof, (i) require the consent
or approval or authorization or order of or the giving of notice to, or the
registration with or the taking of any other action in respect of, any state or
other governmental authority or agency of any jurisdiction other than the State
of Delaware; (ii) result in any fee, tax or other governmental charge under the
laws of the State of Delaware becoming payable by Wilmington Trust Company (or
any successor thereto); or (iii) subject Wilmington Trust Company (or any
successor thereto) to personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the
State of Delaware for causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the
consummation of the transactions by Wilmington Trust Company (or any successor
thereto) or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, contemplated hereby.
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ARTICLE VIII
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. Wilmington Trust
Company shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as
have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Depositor
and Wilmington Trust Company, and Wilmington Trust Company shall be entitled to
be reimbursed by the Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such
agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in
connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder and under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification. The Depositor shall be liable as primary
obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee (in its individual and trust
capacities) and its officers, directors, successors, assigns, agents and
servants (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and
any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable
legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively,
"Expenses") which may (in its trust or individual capacities) at any time be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any
Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust
Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only
that the Depositor shall not be liable for or required to indemnify the Owner
Trustee from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of the matters
described in the third sentence of Section 7.1. The indemnities contained in
this Section and the rights under Section 8.1 shall survive the resignation or
termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. In the
event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought
pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's choice of legal counsel shall be
subject to the approval of the Depositor which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld. In the event the Owner Trustee shall receive payment from
any Person with respect to any Expenses following the receipt of payment from
the Depositor regarding same, the Owner Trustee shall immediately return such
payment to the Depositor without any action by or on behalf of the Depositor or
any Person.
SECTION 8.3. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to the
Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a part of
the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
SECTION 8.4. Non-recourse Obligations. Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee agrees in its individual
capacity and in its capacity as Owner Trustee for the Trust that all obligations
of the Trust to the Owner Trustee individually or as Owner Trustee for the Trust
shall be recourse to the Owner Trust Estate only and specifically shall not be
recourse to the assets of the Certificateholder.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement. (a) This Agreement and the
Trust shall wind up, dissolve and terminate and be of no further force or effect
upon the latest of (i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Receivable
(including the purchase by the Servicer at its option of the corpus of the Trust
as described in Section 11.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) and the
subsequent distribution of amounts in respect of such Receivables as provided in
the Basic Documents or (ii) the payment to the Certificateholder of all amounts
required to be paid to it pursuant to this Agreement, the indefeasible payment
in full of all amounts payable to the Noteholders pursuant to the Indenture and
the other Transaction Documents and the payment to the Insurer of all amounts
payable or reimbursable to it pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
provided, however, that the rights to indemnification under Section 8.2 and the
rights under Section 8.1 shall survive the termination of the Trust. The
Servicer shall promptly notify the Owner Trustee and the Insurer of any
prospective termination pursuant to this Section 9.1. The bankruptcy,
liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of the Certificateholder shall not
(x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor (y) entitle the
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all
or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate, nor (z) otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(a) Except as provided in clause (a), neither the Depositor
nor any other Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or
terminate the Trust.
(b) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the
Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholder shall surrender its
Certificate to the Trust Collateral Agent for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by
letter to the Certificateholder mailed within five Business Days of
receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given pursuant
to Section 11.1(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the
Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the
Certificate shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificate at the office of the Trust Collateral Agent therein
designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment, (iii) that the
Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not
applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of
the Certificate at the office of the Trust Collateral Agent therein
specified, and (iv) interest will cease to accrue on the Certificate.
The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar
(if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Trust Collateral Agent at the
time such notice is given to the Certificateholder. Upon presentation
and surrender of the Certificate, the Trust Collateral Agent shall
cause to be distributed to the Certificateholder amounts distributable
on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.7 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
In the event that the Certificateholder shall not have surrendered its
Certificate for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the
above mentioned written notice, the
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Owner Trustee shall give a second written notice to the Certificateholder to
surrender the Certificate for cancellation and receive the final distribution
with respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice the Certificate
shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take
appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact
the Certificateholder concerning surrender of the Certificates, and the cost
thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall remain
subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of
such remedies shall be distributed, subject to applicable escheat laws, by the
Owner Trustee to the Depositor and Holder shall thereafter look solely to the
Depositor for payment.
(c) Subject to the requirements of the Business Trust Statute,
any funds remaining in the Trust after funds for final distribution
have been distributed or set aside for distribution shall be
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor.
(d) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the
Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by
filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust
Statute.
(e) Written notice of the termination of this Agreement and
the Trust shall be given to each Rating Agency by the Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE X
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times be a corporation (i) satisfying the provisions of
Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; (ii) authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers; (iii) having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authorities; (iv) having (or having a parent which has) a rating of at least
Baa3 by Moody's and A-1 by Standard & Poors; and (v) acceptable to (A) the
Insurer in its sole discretion, so long as (i) an Insurer Default shall not have
occurred and be continuing and (ii) either the Class A Notes are still
outstanding, amounts owing to the Insurer under the Insurance Agreement have not
been paid in full or the term of the Class A Note Policy has not expired or (B)
acceptable to the Security Majority (instead of the Insurer, in the event that
either (i) an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the
Class A Notes are no longer outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have
been paid to it and the term of the Class A Note Policy has expired). If such
corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the
Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section,
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the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in Section 10.2.
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Certificateholder, the Insurer, the
Noteholders and the Servicer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the
Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee, meeting the
qualifications set forth in Section 10.1 herein, by written instrument, in
duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning
Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, provided that the
Depositor shall have received written confirmation from each of the Rating
Agencies that the proposed appointment will not result in an increased capital
charge to the Insurer by either of the Rating Agencies. If no successor Owner
Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30
days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee
or the Insurer may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.1 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Depositor, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Depositor, with the consent of (A) the Insurer, so long as
(i) an Insurer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing and (ii) either
the Class A Notes are still outstanding, amounts owing to the Insurer under the
Insurance Agreement have not been paid in full or the term of the Class A Note
Policy has not expired or (B) the Security Majority, in the event that either
(i) an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Class A
Notes are no longer outstanding, all amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid
to it and the term of the Class A Note Policy has expired), may remove the Owner
Trustee. If the Depositor shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of
the immediately preceding sentence, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a
successor Owner Trustee, meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 10.1
herein, by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall
be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed, one copy to the Insurer
and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and payment of all fees owed to the
outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.3 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide notice of such
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.2 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Depositor, the Servicer, the Insurer, the Noteholders and to its predecessor
Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act,
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deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers,
duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect
as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall
upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the
Depositor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such
instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and
certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights,
powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall
be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Servicer shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner
Trustee to the Certificateholder, the Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating
Agencies. If the Servicer shall fail to mail such notice within 10 days after
acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the successor Owner
Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Servicer.
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any corporation
into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1, without the
execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding; provided
further that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation
to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by
the Owner Trustee and the Insurer to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner
Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the
Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to
the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Servicer and
the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Servicer shall not
have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a
request so to do, the Owner Trustee subject, unless (i) an Insurer Default shall
have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Class A Notes are no longer
outstanding and all amounts owing to the Insurer have been paid to it, to the
approval of the Insurer (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld)
shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee
under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a
successor trustee pursuant to Section 10.1 and no notice of the appointment of
any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.3.
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Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee
is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining
in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed,
the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such
act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations
(including the holding of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in
any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such
separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the
Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this
Agreement; and
(iii) the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at
any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or
co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall
be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Servicer and the Insurer.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new
or successor trustee.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments. (a) Subject to Section 4.6,
this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, with the prior written
consent of the Insurer (so long as (i) an Insurer Default shall not have
occurred and be continuing and (ii) either the
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Class A Notes are outstanding or amounts owing to the Insurer under the
Insurance Agreement have not been paid in full) and First Union National Bank
(so long as it or any Affiliate shall hold the Class B Notes) and with prior
written notice to the Rating Agencies, but without the consent of any of the
Noteholders or, in the event that the Depositor is not the Certificateholder,
the Certificateholder, (i) to cure any ambiguity or defect or (ii) to correct,
supplement or modify any provisions in this Agreement.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time, with
the prior written consent of the Insurer (so long as (i) an Insurer Default
shall not have occurred and be continuing and (ii) either the Class A Notes are
outstanding or amounts owing to the Insurer under the Insurance Agreement have
not been paid in full) by the parties hereto, with prior written notice to the
Rating Agencies, to the extent such amendment materially and adversely affects
the interests of any Noteholder, with the consent of the Noteholders evidencing
not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and, the consent
of the Certificateholder (which consent of any Noteholder or the
Certificateholder given pursuant to this Section or pursuant to any other
provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Noteholder
and the Certificateholder and on all future Noteholders and Certificateholders
of the Note or Certificate ( as applicable) issued upon the transfer thereof or
in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent
is made upon the Note or the Certificate) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or
the Certificateholder; provided, however, that, subject to the express rights of
the Insurer under the Basic Documents, no such amendment shall (a) increase or
reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of,
collections of payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be required
to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder or (b)
reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the
Certificate, the holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment,
without the consent of the holders of all the outstanding Notes and the
Certificateholder.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish a true copy of such amendment or consent to each
Noteholder, the Certificateholder, the Trustee and each of the Rating Agencies.
Whenever an amendment requires the consent of the Certificateholder,
the Noteholders, the Insurer or the Trustee, such party or parties must approve
the particular form of such proposed amendment. The manner of obtaining such
consents (and any other consent of the Certificateholder provided for in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of
the execution thereof by the Certificateholder shall be subject to such
reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe. Promptly after the
execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall
cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel shall be at the expense of
(i) NAFI, with respect to an amendment pursuant to clause (a) of this section
and (ii) the party requesting or responsible for such amendment, with respect to
an
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amendment pursuant to clause (b) of this section except if requested by the
Owner Trustee, in which case the expense shall be borne by the Trust) stating
that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this
Agreement and that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of
such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 11.2. Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee (including in its
individual capacity), the Depositor, the Certificateholder, the Servicer and, to
the extent expressly provided herein, the Insurer, the Trustee, First Union
National Bank and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether
express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in
respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained
herein.
SECTION 11.3. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or
permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given upon receipt personally delivered, delivered by overnight courier
or mailed first class mail or certified mail, in each case return receipt
requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt, if to the
Owner Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; if to the Depositor,
addressed to National Financial Auto Funding Trust, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; if to the Insurer, addressed
to Insurer, Financial Security Assurance Inc., ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Transaction Oversight, Re: National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust,
Telex No.: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Confirmation: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Telecopy Nos.: (212)
339-3518, (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ (in each case in which notice or other communication to
the Insurer refers to an Event of Default, a claim on the Class A Note Policy or
with respect to which failure on the part of Financial Security to respond shall
be deemed to constitute consent or acceptance, then a copy of such notice or
other communication should also be sent to the attention of the General Counsel
and the Head-Financial Guaranty Group "URGENT MATERIAL ENCLOSED") if to any
Noteholder, to the address listed on the Note Register; or, as to each party, at
such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to
each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to
the Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, at the address of the Holder as shown in the Certificate
Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this
Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given,
whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.4. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
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SECTION 11.5. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by
the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.6. Assignments; Insurer. This Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, the Noteholders and their
respective successors and permitted assigns and First Union National Bank. This
Agreement shall also inure to the benefit of the Insurer for so long as (i) an
Insurer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing and (ii) either the
Class A Notes are outstanding or amounts owing to the Insurer under the
Insurance Agreement have not been paid in full. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, all covenants and agreements in this Agreement which confer
rights upon the Insurer shall be for the benefit of and run directly to the
Insurer, and the Insurer shall be entitled to rely on and enforce such
covenants, subject, however, to the limitations on such rights provided in this
Agreement and the Basic Documents. The Insurer may disclaim any of its rights
and powers under this Agreement (but not its duties and obligations under the
Class A Note Policy) upon delivery of a written notice to the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 11.7. No Petition. The Owner Trustee (both in its individual
capacity and as Owner Trustee), by entering into this Agreement, the
Certificateholder, by accepting the Certificate, and the Trustee and each
Noteholder by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, hereby covenants and
agrees that they will not at any time institute against the Depositor, or join
in any institution against the Depositor of, any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under
any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with
any obligations relating to the Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any
of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.8. No Recourse. The Certificateholder by accepting the
Certificate acknowledges that the Certificateholder's Certificate represents the
beneficial ownership interest in the Trust only and does not represent an
interest in or obligation of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Trustee, the Insurer or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against
such parties or their assets, except as otherwise agreed or may be expressly set
forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Certificate or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.9. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.10. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 11.11. Servicer. The Servicer is authorized to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust all such
documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions as it shall
be the duty of the Trust or Owner Trustee
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to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Basic Documents. Upon written
request, the Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Servicer a limited
power of attorney appointing the Servicer the Trust's agent and attorney-in-fact
to prepare, or cause to be prepared, execute and deliver all such documents,
reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions.
SECTION 11.12. Instruction. National Auto Finance Company, Inc. and the
co-trustees of the Depositor, by execution of this Agreement, hereby direct
Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, as trustee of National Financial Auto Funding
Trust, to execute and deliver this Agreement on behalf of National Financial
Auto Funding Trust.
SECTION 11.13. Limitation of Liability. It is expressly understood and
agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Agreement is executed and delivered
by Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, not individually or personally but solely as
trustee of the Depositor, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred
and vested in it under the governing instrument of the Depositor, (b) each of
the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the
Depositor is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Depositor and
(c) under no circumstances shall Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware be personally
liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Depositor or be
liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or
covenant made or undertaken by the Depositor under this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of
the day and year first above written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
Owner Trustee
By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
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Name:
Title:
NATIONAL FINANCIAL AUTO FUNDING TRUST,
By: CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE, not in
its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee of National
Financial Auto Funding Trust
By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
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Name:
Title:
Acknowledged and Agreed:
NATIONAL AUTO FINANCE COMPANY, INC.,
Servicer and sole Certificateholder of
National Financial Auto Funding Trust
By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE
NUMBER
1
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE IN
RELIANCE UPON EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED BY THE SECURITIES ACT AND SUCH STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. NO RESALE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE
UNLESS SUCH RESALE OR TRANSFER (A) IS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 3.4 OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT PERTAINING TO THE NATIONAL AUTO FINANCE 1999-1 TRUST (THE
"AGREEMENT") AND (B) IS MADE (i) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (ii) IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, (iii)
TO THE SELLER OR (iv) TO A PERSON WHO THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT THAT IS AWARE THAT THE RESALE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
RELIANCE ON RULE 144A AND (C) UPON THE SATISFACTION OF CERTAIN OTHER
REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE AGREEMENT. NEITHER THE SELLER, THE SERVICER, THE
TRUST NOR THE OWNER TRUSTEE (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE AGREEMENT) IS
OBLIGATED TO REGISTER THE CERTIFICATES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
TRUST CERTIFICATE
evidencing a 100% beneficial ownership interest in the assets of the Trust, as
defined below, the property of which includes a pool of retail installment sale
contracts secured by new or used automobiles or light duty trucks and sold to
the Trust by National Financial Auto Funding Trust.
(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of National
Financial Auto Funding Trust or any of its Affiliates, except to the extent
described below.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT National Financial Auto Funding Trust is the
registered owner of a nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership interest
in the assets of National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust (the "Trust") formed by
National Financial Auto Funding Trust, a Delaware business trust (the
"Depositor").
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OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is the Certificate referred to in the within mentioned Trust
Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee
by ________________________________ Authenticating Agent
by_______________________________
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of
September 1, 1999 (the "Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and Wilmington
Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of certain of
the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not
otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is the duly authorized Certificate designated as a
"Trust Certificate" (herein called the "Certificate"). This Certificate is
issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Certificate by virtue of
the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. The property of
the Trust includes a pool of retail installment sale contracts secured by new
and used automobiles or light duty trucks (the "Receivables"), all monies due
thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date, security interests in the vehicles
financed thereby, certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof, proceeds from
claims on certain insurance policies and certain other rights under the Trust
Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all right to and interest of the
Depositor in and to the Sale Agreement dated as of September 1, 1999 between
National Auto Funding Trust II and National Financial Auto Funding Trust and all
proceeds of the foregoing.
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 21st day of
each month or, if such 21st day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day
(the "Distribution Date"), commencing on October 21, 1999, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last
Business Day of the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which such
Distribution Date occurs (the "Record Date"), the amount to be distributed to
the Certificateholder on such Distribution Date.
The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights
to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are subordinated to the
rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture and the Trust Agreement, as applicable.
The holder of this Certificate, by acceptance of this Certificate,
specifically acknowledges that it has no right to or interest in any monies at
any time held pursuant to the Spread Account Agreement or prior to the release
of such monies pursuant to Section 5.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
such monies being held in trust for the benefit of the Class A Noteholders
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and the Insurer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that it is ever
determined that the monies held in the Spread Account constitute a pledge of
collateral, then the provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Spread Account Agreement shall be considered to constitute a security agreement
and the holder of this Certificate hereby grants to the Trust Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Trustee and the Insurer, a first priority perfected
security interest in such amounts, to be applied as set forth in Section 3.03 of
the Spread Account Agreement. In addition, the Certificateholder, by acceptance
of the Certificate, hereby appoints the Seller as its agent to pledge a first
priority perfected security interest in the Spread Account, and any amounts held
therein from time to time to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee
and the Insurer pursuant to the Spread Account Agreement, and agrees to execute
and deliver such instruments of conveyance, assignment, grant, confirmation,
etc., as well as any financing statements, in each case that the Insurer shall
consider reasonably necessary in order to perfect the Trust Collateral Agent's
security interest in the Collateral.
It is the agreement and intent of the Depositor, the Servicer, and the
Certificateholder that, for purposes of income and franchise taxes, the Trust
will be treated as a security device only, or alternatively, if such
characterization is not respected for any applicable income or franchise tax
purposes, the Trust shall be treated solely for such income or franchise tax
purposes as a non-entity disregarded as an entity separate from its owner under
Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(ii) or any similar provision of
applicable law; provided, however, that if any Class of Notes is treated as an
equity interest in the Trust for any applicable income or franchise tax
purposes, it is the intention and agreement of the Depositor, the Servicer and
the Certificateholder that the Trust will be treated as a partnership for such
income and franchise tax purposes and the Certificateholder and the Noteholders
whose Class of Notes are treated as equity interests will be treated as partners
in the partnership. The Depositor and any other Certificateholder, by acceptance
of the Certificate, agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the
treatment of, the Certificate for such tax purposes as a partnership interest in
the Trust. The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of the Certificate,
covenants and agrees that it will not at any time institute against the Trust or
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Trust or the Depositor of,
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States Federal or state
bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the
Certificate, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement by the Trust Collateral Agent by wire transfer or check
mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without
the presentation or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation
hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding
the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency
maintained for the purpose by the Owner Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual or facsimile
signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit
under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for
any purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not
in its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
NATIONAL AUTO FINANCE 1999-1 TRUST
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
By:
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Name:
Title:
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(Reverse of Certificate)
The Certificate does not represent an obligation of, or an interest in,
the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any Affiliates of any of them
and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may
be expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement, the
Indenture or the Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not
guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right
of payment to certain collections with respect to the Receivables, as more
specifically set forth herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of
each of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined
during normal business hours at the principal office of the Depositor, and at
such other places, if any, designated by the Depositor, by the Certificateholder
upon written request.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholder under the Trust Agreement at
any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the prior written consent
of Financial Security Assurance Inc. (the "Insurer") so long as (i) no Insurer
Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) either the Class A Notes are
outstanding or amounts owing to the Insurer under the Insurance Agreement have
not been paid in full, and with the consent of the Certificateholder and the
holders of the Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the outstanding
Notes and the percentage ownership interest of the Trust. Any such consent by
the holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such holder
and on all future holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon
the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the
consent of the Certificateholder (other than the Depositor or the Insurer).
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by
the Owner Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office, accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
evidencing the same class and percentage ownership interest in the Trust will be
issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed
under the Trust Agreement is Wilmington Trust Company.
The Certificate is issuable only as a registered Certificate. As
provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the Certificate is exchangeable for a new Certificate, as requested by
the holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
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The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Insurer may treat the person in whose
name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar nor any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and
the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to the
Certificateholder of all amounts required to be paid to it pursuant to the Trust
Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all
property held as part of the Trust. The Servicer of the Receivables may at its
option purchase the corpus of the Trust at a price specified in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other property of
the Trust will effect a transfer of the Certificate; however, such right of
purchase is exercisable, subject to certain restrictions, only as of the last
day of any Monthly Period as of which the Pool Balance is 10% or less of the
Original Pool Balance.
The Certificate may not be acquired by, and the Holder hereof by
holding this Certificate agrees that it is not (a) an employee benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I
of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e) (1) of the Code or (c) any
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). The Holder of the interest
represented by this Certificate, and each person to whom this Certificate is
transferred, is required to represent and warrant to the Owner Trustee that it
is not a Benefit Plan.
The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that (i) it has neither
acquired nor will it transfer the Certificate or cause the Certificate to be
marketed on or through an "established securities market" within the meaning of
Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-
counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates
firm buy or sell quotations; (ii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a
partnership, S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect
beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or
caused, or will allow or cause, fifty percent (50%) or more of the value of such
interests to be attributable to such transferee's ownership of the Certificate;
and (iii) it understands that tax counsel to the Trust has provided an opinion
substantially to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as a publicly
traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes
and that the validity of such opinion is dependent in part on the accuracy of
the representations in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above.
The recitals contained herein shall be taken as the statements of the
Depositor or the Servicer, as the case may be, and the Owner Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Certificate or of any
Receivable or related document.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual or facsimile
signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the
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holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
____________________ Attorney to transfer said Certificate on the books of the
Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature Guaranteed:
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* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the
registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Certificate in every
particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such
signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership
or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be
determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for,
STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act.
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
NATIONAL AUTO FINANCE 1999-1 TRUST
This Certificate of Trust of National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust (the
"Trust") is being duly executed and filed on behalf of the Trust by the
undersigned, as trustee, to form a business trust under the Delaware Business
Trust Act (12 Del. Code, ss. 3801 et seq.) (the "Act").
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed by this
Certificate of Trust is National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the
trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company,
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Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.
3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be
effective upon filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, has duly executed this Certificate
of Trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
[LETTERHEAD OF PURCHASER]
[Date]
Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee
of National Auto Finance 1999-1 Trust
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned (the "Purchaser") proposes to purchase the Trust
Certificate issued pursuant to that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of
September 1, 1999 (the "Trust Agreement"), between National Financial Auto
Funding Trust, a Delaware business trust, and Wilmington Trust Company, as
trustee (the "Trustee"). Unless the context or use indicates another or
different meaning, each capitalized term used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Trust Agreement.
1. The undersigned hereby certifies that, as indicated below, the
undersigned is a duly authorized officer of the Purchaser.
2. In connection with the purchase by the Purchaser of the Trust
Certificate, the undersigned hereby certifies to you, and, if you act as broker
for one or more customers, to such customers, that the Purchaser is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A ("Rule 144A") promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, because the Purchaser is an entity described
in paragraph (a) (1) ___ [refer to applicable subparagraph] of Rule 144A.
3. The Purchaser certifies and acknowledges that it is familiar with
Rule 144A and understands that you and your customers (if you act as a broker
for one or more customers) are relying on the statements made therein.
4. The Purchaser certifies that the Purchaser is purchasing the Trust
Certificate in the capacity marked below (check one):
[ ] The Purchaser certifies that the Purchaser is purchasing the Trust
Certificate for its own account only; or
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[ ] The Purchaser certifies that the Purchaser is purchasing the Trust
Certificate for the account of [one] [specify number] other qualified
institutional buyer(s), [each of] which is a "qualified institutional buyer."
5. The Purchaser certifies that it has received from the Trust the
information that satisfies the requirements of paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A
(the "Rule 144A Information").
6. The Purchaser certifies that it will comply with all applicable
federal and state securities laws in connection with any subsequent resale by
the Purchaser of the Trust Certificate.
7. The Purchaser understands and acknowledges that the Trust
Certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, or any state securities laws and may be resold only if (a) the
Trust Certificate is registered pursuant to the provisions of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and such state securities laws, or (b) if an exemption from
such registration is available. The Purchaser understands and acknowledges that
the Trust is not required to register the Trust Certificate and that any
transfer must comply with Section 3.4 of the Trust Agreement. The Trustee is not
obligated to provide Rule 144A Information.
8. The Purchaser additionally represents that it is not, and is not
acquiring the Trust Certificate for the account of, (i) an employee benefit plan
(as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of
ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity.
9. The Purchaser additionally represents that (i) it has neither
acquired nor will it transfer the Trust Certificate or cause the Trust
Certificate to be marketed on or through an "established securities market"
within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without
limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that
regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations; (ii) it either (A) is not,
and will not become, a partnership, S corporation or grantor trust for U.S.
federal income tax purposes, or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or
indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have
allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, fifty percent (50%) or more of the
value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee's ownership of the
Trust Certificate; and (iii) it understands that tax counsel to the Trust has
provided an opinion substantially to the effect that the Trust will not be
treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S.
federal income tax purposes and that the validity of such opinion is dependent
in part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above.
Very truly yours,
[Purchaser]
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF TRANSFEREE REPRESENTATION LETTER