EXHIBIT 4.5
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PETROLEUM CORPORATION,
AS ISSUER
AND
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN,
AS SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
TO
[TRUSTEE'S NAME],
AS TRUSTEE
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
DATED AS OF _____________, 200_
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PARTIES..................................................................................... 1
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS....................................... 1
ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions..........,......................................................... 1
Act................................................................................... 2
Affiliate............................................................................. 2
Authenticating Agent.................................................................. 2
Board of Directors.................................................................... 2
Board Resolution...................................................................... 2
Business Day.......................................................................... 2
Capital Stock......................................................................... 2
Commission............................................................................ 2
Common Stock.......................................................................... 3
Company............................................................................... 3
Company Request....................................................................... 3
Company Order......................................................................... 3
Conversion Agent...................................................................... 3
Corporate Trust Office................................................................ 3
corporation........................................................................... 3
Covenant Defeasance................................................................... 3
Defaulted Interest.................................................................... 3
Defeasance............................................................................ 3
Depositary............................................................................ 3
Event of Default...................................................................... 3
Exchange Act.......................................................................... 3
Expiration Date....................................................................... 3
Global Security....................................................................... 3
Holder................................................................................ 3
Indenture............................................................................. 3
interest.............................................................................. 4
Interest Payment Date................................................................. 4
Investment Company Act................................................................ 4
Maturity.............................................................................. 4
Notice of Default..................................................................... 4
Officers' Certificate................................................................. 4
Opinion of Counsel.................................................................... 4
Original Issue Discount Security...................................................... 4
Outstanding........................................................................... 4
Paying Agent.......................................................................... 5
Person................................................................................ 5
Place of Payment...................................................................... 5
Predecessor Security............................................................. 6
Redemption Date.................................................................. 6
Redemption Price................................................................. 6
Regular Record Date.............................................................. 6
Securities....................................................................... 6
Securities Act................................................................... 6
Security Register................................................................ 6
Security Registrar............................................................... 6
Senior Debt...................................................................... 6
Significant Subsidiary........................................................... 6
Special Record Date.............................................................. 6
Stated Maturity.................................................................. 6
Subsidiary....................................................................... 6
Subsidiary Guarantees............................................................ 7
Subsidiary Guarantors............................................................ 7
Trust Indenture Act.............................................................. 7
Trustee.......................................................................... 7
U.S. Government Obligation....................................................... 7
Vice President................................................................... 7
Voting Stock..................................................................... 7
Wholly Owned Subsidiary.......................................................... 7
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions..................................... 7
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee................................... 8
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates............................................ 8
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.................................... 10
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver................................................ 11
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act........................................ 11
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents................................. 11
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns................................................... 12
SECTION 110. Separability Clause...................................................... 12
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.................................................... 12
SECTION 112. Governing Law............................................................ 12
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays........................................................... 12
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.......................................................... 12
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security................................................. 13
SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security.............................................. 15
SECTION 204. Form of Subsidiary Guarantee............................................. 19
SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Global Securities..................................... 21
SECTION 206. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.......................... 21
SECTION 207. Form of Conversion Notice................................................ 22
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series..................................... 23
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SECTION 302. Denominations..................................................................... 26
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.................................... 26
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.............................................................. 27
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange............................... 28
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.................................. 29
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.................................... 30
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners............................................................. 31
SECTION 309. Cancellation...................................................................... 32
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest........................................................... 32
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................................... 32
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money........................................................ 33
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default................................................................. 34
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment................................ 36
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee................... 37
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................................................. 37
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities....................... 38
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.................................................... 38
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits............................................................... 38
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest......... 39
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies................................................ 39
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.................................................... 39
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver...................................................... 40
SECTION 512. Control by Holders................................................................ 40
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults........................................................... 40
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs............................................................. 41
SECTION 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws........................................... 41
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities............................................... 41
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults................................................................ 41
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee......................................................... 42
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities............................ 42
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities............................................................... 43
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust............................................................... 43
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.................................................... 43
SECTION 608. Conflicting Interests............................................................. 43
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility........................................... 44
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor................................. 44
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................................ 45
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SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business....................... 46
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company and Subsidiary Guarantors....... 47
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent............................................... 47
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders......................... 48
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders............................ 49
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee................................................................ 49
SECTION 704. Reports by Company and Subsidiary Guarantors...................................... 49
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.............................. 50
SECTION 802. Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms................ 51
SECTION 803. Successor Substituted............................................................. 51
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders................................ 52
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders................................... 53
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............................................. 54
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures................................................. 54
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act............................................... 54
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures................................ 55
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest........................................ 55
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency................................................... 55
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust................................. 56
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default............................................... 57
SECTION 1005. Existence......................................................................... 57
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties......................................................... 57
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................................................. 57
SECTION 1008. Maintenance of Insurance.......................................................... 58
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants....................................................... 58
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.......................................................... 58
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee............................................. 58
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed................................. 59
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.............................................................. 60
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price....................................................... 60
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date............................................. 61
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part....................................................... 61
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ARTICLE TWELVE SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.......................................................... 61
SECTION 1202. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt............................................. 61
SECTION 1203. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.................................... 62
SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Debt of the Company in Default............................. 63
SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted If No Default................................................... 64
SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.................... 64
SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights....................................... 65
SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination............................................... 65
SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions............................................. 65
SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee................................................................. 66
SECTION 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.................... 66
SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of the Company................... 67
SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of the Company; Preservation
of Trustee's Rights............................................................... 67
SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents............................................... 67
SECTION 1215. Defeasance of this Article Twelve................................................. 67
ARTICLE THIRTEEN SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article.......................................................... 68
SECTION 1302. Subsidiary Guarantees............................................................. 68
SECTION 1303. Execution and Delivery of Subsidiary Guarantees................................... 70
SECTION 1304. Release of Subsidiary Guarantors.................................................. 70
SECTION 1305. Additional Subsidiary Guarantors.................................................. 71
SECTION 1306. Limitation on Liability........................................................... 71
ARTICLE FOURTEEN SUBORDINATION OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article.......................................................... 71
SECTION 1402. Subsidiary Guarantees Subordinate to Senior Debt of Subordinate Guarantors........ 71
SECTION 1403. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.................................... 72
SECTION 1404. No Payment When Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor in
Default........................................................................... 73
SECTION 1405. Payment Permitted If No Default................................................... 74
SECTION 1406. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor.............................................................. 74
SECTION 1407. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights....................................... 74
SECTION 1408. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination............................................... 75
SECTION 1409. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions............................................. 75
SECTION 1410. Notice to Trustee................................................................. 75
SECTION 1411. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.................... 76
SECTION 1412. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor..... 76
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SECTION 1413. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor; Preservation of Trustee's Rights..................................... 77
SECTION 1414. Article Applicable to Paying Agents............................................. 77
SECTION 1415. Defeasance of this Article Fourteen............................................. 77
ARTICLE FIFTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1501. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.................... 77
SECTION 1502. Defeasance and Discharge........................................................ 78
SECTION 1503. Covenant Defeasance............................................................. 78
SECTION 1504. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance................................. 79
SECTION 1505. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be
Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions......................................... 81
SECTION 1506. Reinstatement................................................................... 81
ARTICLE SIXTEEN SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1601. Applicability of Article........................................................ 82
SECTION 1602. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities........................... 82
SECTION 1603. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund....................................... 82
SIGNATURES..................................................................................... 83
SCHEDULE I..................................................................................... I-1
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PETROLEUM CORPORATION
CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THIS INDENTURE RELATING TO SECTIONS 310
THROUGH 318, INCLUSIVE, OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939:
TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
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Section 310(a)(1)........................................ 609
(a)(2).............................................. 609
(a)(3).............................................. Not Applicable
(a)(4).............................................. Not Applicable
(b)................................................. 608
610
Section 311(a)........................................... 613
(b)................................................. 613
Section 312(a) 701
702
(b)................................................. 702
(c)................................................. 702
Section 313(a)........................................... 703
(b)................................................. 703
(c)................................................. 703
(d)................................................. 703
Section 314(a)........................................... 704
(a)(4).............................................. 101
1004
(b)................................................. Not Applicable
(c)(1).............................................. 102
(c)(2).............................................. 102
(c)(3).............................................. Not Applicable
(d)................................................. Not Applicable
(e)................................................. 102
Section 315(a)........................................... 601
(b)................................................. 602
(c)................................................. 601
(d)................................................. 601
(e)................................................. 514
Section 316(a)........................................... 101
(a)(1)(A)........................................... 502
512
(a)(1)(B)........................................... 513
(a)(2).............................................. Not Applicable
(b)................................................. 508
(c)................................................. 104
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TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
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Section 317(a)(1)........................................ 503
(a)(2).............................................. 504
(b)................................................. 1003
Section 318(a)........................................... 107
NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of __________, 200__, among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum
Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors
(as hereinafter defined) and [TRUSTEE'S NAME], a banking corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of [________], as Trustee
(herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors are members of the same
consolidated group of companies. The Subsidiary Guarantors will derive direct
and indirect economic benefit from the issuance of the Securities. Accordingly,
each Subsidiary Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for its full, unconditional and joint and several guarantee
of the Securities to the extent provided in or pursuant this Indenture.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and,
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except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally
accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required
or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are
generally accepted at the date of this instrument;
(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case
may be, of this Indenture; and
(5) the words "herein", "hereof", "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing; provided that direct or indirect beneficial ownership of 10% or more
of the Voting Stock of a Person shall be deemed to control.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one
or more series.
"Board of Directors" means, with respect to the Company, either the board
of directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to
act for it in respect hereof, and with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor,
either the board of directors of such Subsidiary Guarantor or any committee of
that board duly authorized to act for it in respect hereof.
"Board Resolution" means, with respect to the Company or a Subsidiary
Guarantor, a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, to
have been duly adopted by its Board of Directors and to be in full force and
effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
or executive order to close.
"Capital Stock" of any Person means any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock or
other equity participations, including partnership interests, whether general or
limited, of such Person.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
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"Common Stock" means the common stock, no par value, of the Company as the
same exists at the date of execution and delivery of this Indenture or other
Capital Stock of the Company into which such common stock is converted,
reclassified or changed from time to time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its President or a Vice President, and
by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Conversion Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to convert
any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
such office being located on the date hereof at [TRUSTEE'S ADDRESS].
"corporation" means a corporation, association, limited liability company,
joint-stock company or business trust.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1503.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1502.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for
such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 104.
"Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 205 (or such
legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into
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pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of
this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any
such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term "Indenture" shall also
include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated
by Section 301.
"interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 501(4).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President or
a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case
may be, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers'
Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means, as to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, a
written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company or such
Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, and who shall be acceptable to the
Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides for
an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date
of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated
in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Securities; provided
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that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 1502; and
(4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities
in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser
in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of
the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon
acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B)
if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a
Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall
be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as
contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated
in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be
Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in
the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of
such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in clause (A) or (B)
above, of the amount determined as provided in such clause), and (D) Securities
owned by the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or of such
other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that
the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon
the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor or of
such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and
interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 301.
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"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 301.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture
and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 305.
"Senior Debt" with respect to any series of Securities shall have the
meaning specified as contemplated by Section 301.
"Significant Subsidiary" means, at any date of determination, any
Subsidiary that represents 10% or more of the Company's consolidated total
assets at the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial
information is available or 10% or more of the Company's consolidated net
revenues or consolidated operating income for the most recent four quarters for
which financial information is available.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any Person means (1) a corporation more than 50% of the
combined voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned,
directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of
such Person or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries thereof or (2) any
other Person (other than a corporation) in which such Person, or one or more
other Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more other
Subsidiaries thereof, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority ownership
and power to direct the policies, management and affairs thereof.
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"Subsidiary Guarantees" means the guarantees of each Subsidiary Guarantor
as provided in Article Thirteen.
"Subsidiary Guarantors" means (i) the subsidiaries listed in Schedule I
hereto; (ii) any successor of the foregoing; and (iii) each other Subsidiary of
the Company that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with Section 1305
hereof, in each case (i), (ii) and (iii) until such Subsidiary Guarantor ceases
to be such in accordance with Section 1304 hereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust
Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean
or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there
is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities
of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in Section 1504.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president".
"Voting Stock" of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person which
ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing
similar functions) of such Person, whether at all times or only so long as no
senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Wholly Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person
all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which
(other than directors' qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such
Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by such
Person and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor
to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the
Company and/or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as appropriate, shall furnish to the
Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an
Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company or a
Subsidiary Guarantor, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and
shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other
requirements set forth in this Indenture.
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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or a Subsidiary
Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion
of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor stating that the information with respect
to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or such Subsidiary
Guarantor, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series
may take action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of
any direction, notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the
fact that at the time of taking any such action the Holders of such specified
percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any
number
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of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or
proxy appointed in writing, (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor
thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with
procedures approved by the Trustee, (c) by a combination of such instrument or
instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders or (d) in the case
of Securities evidenced by a Global Security, by any electronic transmission or
other message, whether or not in written format, that complies with the
Depositary's applicable procedures. Such evidence (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of
the relevant Holders. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent or proxy shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or
writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by
a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing,
or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any
other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to
give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the
Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice,
declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be
effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date
by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such
series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a
record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the
record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person
be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action
is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Company, at its
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own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by
Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing
and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth
in Section 106.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join
in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, (▇▇▇) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in
Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant
series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause
notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable
Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party
hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the "Expiration
Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and
to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date
is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section,
the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any
action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to
all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
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(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or any Subsidiary
Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing in the English language to or with the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust
Department; or
(2) the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor by the Trustee or by any
Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) if in writing in the English language and
mailed, first-class postage prepaid, in the case of the Company addressed
to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished
in writing to the Trustee by the Company and, in the case of any
Subsidiary Guarantor, to it at the address of the Company's principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention:
Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Trustee by such Subsidiary Guarantor.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any),
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is
given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any
notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice
in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to
receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be
the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with
the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity
of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then
such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of
the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and
govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of
this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act
which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to
apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and any
Subsidiary Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed
or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture, the Securities or the Subsidiary
Guarantees shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality
and enforce ability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture, the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees,
express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and
their successors hereunder, the holders of Senior Debt and the Holders, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture, the Securities and the Subsidiary Guarantees shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, purchase
date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place
of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of
the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states
that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date or purchase date, or at the Stated Maturity.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series and, if applicable, the Subsidiary
Guarantees to be endorsed thereon shall be in substantially the form set forth
in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each
case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may,
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consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities
or Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be, as evidenced by their execution
thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.
[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations
thereunder.]
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum Corporation
No.__________ $ ___________
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing
under the laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company," which term includes any
successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received, hereby promises to pay to ____________________________, or registered
assigns, the principal sum of _____________________________ Dollars on
___________________________________ [if the Security is to bear interest prior
to Maturity, insert -- , and to pay interest thereon from _____________ or from
the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, semi-annually on ____________ and ____________ in each year,
commencing _________, at the rate of ____% per annum, until the principal hereof
is paid or made available for payment, provided that any principal and premium,
and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at
the rate of ____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they
are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on
demand. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on
any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be the _______ or _______ (whether or not a Business Day),
as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest
not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable
to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person
in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the
Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].
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[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert -- The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall
bear interest at the rate of ____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due
until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue
principal or premium shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on overdue
principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate
of ______% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on
interest shall be legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the
amount so demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any
overdue interest shall be payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable,
insert -- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in ____________, in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the
option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the
address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the
Security Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum Corporation
By: __________________________
Attest:
___________________________
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SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of _________, 200__ (herein called the
"Indenture", which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such
instrument), among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and
[TRUSTEE'S NAME], as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term includes
any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the
Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the
Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities and of the
terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable,
insert -- , limited in aggregate principal amount to $ __________].
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, [if applicable, insert --
(1) on ___________ in any year commencing with the year ______ and ending with
the year ______ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a
Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if
applicable, insert -- on or after __________, 20__], as a whole or in part, at
the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as
percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert -- on
or before _______________, ___%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period
beginning _____________ of the years indicated,
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ----- ---- -----
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert -- (whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on ____________ in
any year commencing with the year ____ and ending with the year ____ through
operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for
redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of
the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if
applicable, insert -- on or after ____________], as a whole or in part, at the
election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than
through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period
beginning ____________ of the years indicated,
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Redemption Price
For Redemption Redemption Price For
Through Operation Redemption Otherwise
of the Than Through Operation
Year Sinking Fund of the Sinking Fund
---- ----------------- ----------------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may
not, prior to _____________, redeem any Securities of this series as
contemplated by [if applicable, insert -- clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph
as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application,
directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the
Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of
less than _____% per annum.]
[If applicable, insert -- The sinking fund for this series provides for
the redemption on ____________ in each year beginning with the year _______ and
ending with the year ______ of [if applicable, insert -- not less than $
_________ ("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than] $ ________ aggregate
principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series
acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable,
insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent
[if applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to
be made [if applicable, insert -- , in the inverse order in which they become
due].]
[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert -- In the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If the Security is subject to conversion, insert - Subject to the
provisions of the Indenture, each Holder has the right to convert the principal
amount of this Security into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock
of the Company at the initial conversion price per share of Common Stock of
$_____ (or $_____ in principal amount of Securities for each such share of
Common Stock), or at the adjusted conversion price then in effect, if adjustment
has been made as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of the Security to
the Conversion Agent, together with a fully executed notice in substantially the
form attached hereto and, if required by the Indenture, an amount equal to
accrued interest payable on this Security.]
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The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in
the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment
in full of all Senior Debt of the Company, and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so
provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
[If applicable, insert -- As provided in the Indenture and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, the obligations of the Company under this
Security are guaranteed on a senior subordinated basis pursuant to the
Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed hereon. The Indenture provides that a Subsidiary
Guarantor shall be released from its Subsidiary Guarantee upon compliance with
certain conditions.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Indenture contains provisions for Defeasance
at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain
restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in
each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If
an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- insert formula for determining the
amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each
case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the
principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series
shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
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As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest
on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency,
herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $ ______ and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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SECTION 204. Form of Subsidiary Guarantee.
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE
For value received, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors named (or deemed
herein to be named) below hereby jointly and severally fully and unconditionally
guarantees to the Holder of the Security upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is
endorsed, and to the Trustee on behalf of such Holder, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Security
when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption, offer to purchase or otherwise,
according to the terms thereof and of the Indenture referred to therein and to
cover all the rights of the Trustee under Section 607. In case of the failure of
the Company punctually to make any such payment, each of the Subsidiary
Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees to cause such payment to be made
punctually when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the
Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption, offer to purchase or
otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Company.
Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that
its obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of,
and shall be unaffected by, the validity, regularity or enforceability of such
Security or the Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same or any
release, amendment, waiver or indulgence granted to the Company or any other
guarantor, or any consent to departure from any requirement of any other
guarantee of all or of any of the Securities of this series, or any other
circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or
defense of a surety or guarantor; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the
foregoing, no such release, amendment, waiver or indulgence shall, without the
consent of such Subsidiary Guarantor, increase the principal amount of such
Security, or increase the interest rate thereon, or alter the Stated Maturity
thereof. Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby waives the benefits of
diligence, presentment, demand of payment, any requirement that the Trustee or
any of the Holders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest in
or other lien on any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any
action against the Company or any other Person or any collateral, filing of
claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any
right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest or notice with
respect to such Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands
whatsoever, and covenants that this Subsidiary Guarantee will not be discharged
except by complete performance of the obligations contained in such Security and
in this Subsidiary Guarantee. Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that if, after
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of this series, the Trustee or any of the Holders are prevented by
applicable law from exercising their respective rights to accelerate the
maturity of the Securities of this series, to collect interest on the Securities
of this series, or to enforce or exercise any other right or remedy with respect
to the Securities of this series, such Subsidiary Guarantor agrees to pay to the
Trustee for the account of the Holders, upon demand therefor, the amount that
would otherwise have been due and payable had such rights and remedies been
permitted to be exercised by the Trustee or any of the Holders.
The indebtedness of each Subsidiary Guarantor evidenced by this Subsidiary
Guarantee is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate in right of
payment to the prior payment
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in full of all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, and the Subsidiary
Guarantee of each Subsidiary Guarantor is issued subject to the provisions of
the Indenture with respect thereto.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Subsidiary
Guarantee or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the Subsidiary Guarantee of
any Subsidiary Guarantor, which is absolute and unconditional, of the due and
punctual payment of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Security upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed.
Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holder
of this Security against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by such
Subsidiary Guarantor on account of this Security pursuant to the provisions of
its Subsidiary Guarantee or the Indenture; provided, however, that such
Subsidiary Guarantor shall not be entitled to enforce or to receive any payments
arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on this Security and all other Securities of
this series issued under the Indenture shall have been paid in full.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and
continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company
for liquidation or reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make
an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be
appointed for all or any part of the Company's assets, and shall, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case
may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Securities of this series
is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must
otherwise be restored or returned by any Holder of the Securities of this
series, whether as a "voidable preference," "fraudulent transfer," or otherwise,
all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that
any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned,
the Securities of this series shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be
reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded,
reduced, restored or returned.
The Subsidiary Guarantors or any particular Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
released from this Subsidiary Guarantee upon the terms and subject to certain
conditions provided in the Indenture.
By delivery to the Trustee of a supplement to the Indenture referred to in
the Security upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture, each Person that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor
after the date of first issuance of the Securities of this series will be deemed
to have executed and delivered this Subsidiary Guarantee for the benefit of the
Holder of the Security upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed with the
same effect as if such Subsidiary Guarantor was named below and has executed and
delivered this Subsidiary Guarantee.
All terms used in this Subsidiary Guarantee which are defined in the
Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in such Indenture.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this
Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed shall have been executed by the Trustee under
the Indenture by manual signature.
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Reference is made to the Indenture for further provisions with respect to
this Subsidiary Guarantee.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors has caused this
Subsidiary Guarantee to be duly executed.
[Insert Names of Subsidiary Guarantors]
By: __________________________________
Title:
Attest:
__________________________
SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the
Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART
FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN
PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH
DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES
DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
SECTION 206. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[TRUSTEE'S NAME],
As Trustee
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By: ____________________
Authorized Officer
SECTION 207. Form of Conversion Notice.
Each convertible Security shall have attached thereto, or set forth on the
reverse of the Security, a notice of conversion in substantially the following
form:
Conversion Notice
To: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum Corporation
The undersigned owner of this Security hereby: (i) irrevocably
exercises the option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof below
designated, for shares of Common Stock of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Petroleum Corporation
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security
and (ii) directs that such shares of Common Stock deliverable upon the
conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and
any Security(ies) representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be
issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different
name has been indicated below. If shares are to be delivered registered in
the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay
all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any amount required to be
paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.
Dated: ______________________ -------------------------------
Signature
Fill in for registration of shares if to be delivered, and of
Securities if to be issued, otherwise than to and in the name of the
registered holder.
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification Number
------------------------------------
(Name)
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(Please print name and address)
Principal amount to be converted: (if less than all)
$--------------------------------------
Signature Guarantee*
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*Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or
other signature acceptable to the Trustee).
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303,
set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any series,
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other
series);
(2) if the Securities of the series will not have the benefit of the
Subsidiary Guarantees of the Subsidiary Guarantors;
(3) any change to the subordination provisions which applies to the
Securities of the series from those contained in Article Twelve with
respect to the Securities and/or, if applicable, those contained in
Article Fourteen with respect to the Subsidiary Guarantees, and the
definitions of Senior Debt and Designated Senior Debt which shall apply to
the Securities of the series, and, if applicable, the Subsidiary
Guarantees;
(4) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107
and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed
never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(5) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series
shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or
one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
(6) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of
the series is payable;
(7) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest
shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall
be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on
any Interest Payment Date;
(8) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and
interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
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(9) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which
and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may
be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if
other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the
Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
(10) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and
conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or
purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(11) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be
issuable;
(12) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or
pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
(13) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the
currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and
the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the
United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the
definition of "Outstanding" in Section 101;
(14) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any
Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company
or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other
than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the
currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any
premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made
shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions
upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the
manner in which such amount shall be determined);
(15) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 502;
(16) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more
dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be
the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any
purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof
which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated
Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior
to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such
amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
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(17) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or
any specified part, shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 1502 or
Section 1503 or both such Sections and, if other than by a Board
Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease
such Securities shall be evidenced;
(18) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be
issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities
and, in such case, the respective Depositories for such Global Securities,
the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global
Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 205 and
any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in clause
(2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security
may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any
transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in
the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof;
(19) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which
applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the
Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the
principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
(20) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article
Ten which applies to Securities of the series;
(21) whether the Securities of the series will be convertible into
Common Stock (or cash in lieu thereof) and, if so, the terms and
conditions upon which such conversion will be effected; and
(22) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by
Section 901(5)).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except
as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the
Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in the Officers' Certificate referred to
above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant
to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
The Securities of each series shall have the benefit of the Subsidiary
Guarantees unless the Company elects otherwise upon the establishment of a
series pursuant to this Section 301.
The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior Debt of
the Company as provided in Article Twelve. Each Subsidiary Guarantee shall be
subordinated in right of payment to Senior Debt of the applicable Subsidiary
Guarantor as provided in Article Fourteen.
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SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form
without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination
with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series
shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board of Directors, its Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its
President or one of its Vice Presidents. If its corporate seal is reproduced
thereon, then it shall be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant
Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be
manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon the Subsidiary Guarantees
executed as provided in Section 1303 by the Subsidiary Guarantors to the Trustee
for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company
Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of
the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more
Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such
Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture
in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of
Counsel stating,
(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form
has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
and
(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company, and, if applicable, the
Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon will constitute valid and legally
binding obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization,
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moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner
which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise
required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered
at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security
of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security or Subsidiary Guarantee shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on
such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall
deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section
309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities and, if applicable,
having endorsed thereon the Subsidiary Guarantees in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as the officers executing such Securities and, if applicable,
Subsidiary Guarantees may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities and Subsidiary Guarantees.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations
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and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and, if applicable, having
endorsed thereon Subsidiary Guarantees executed by the Subsidiary Guarantors.
Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities
of such series and tenor.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and
transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at
the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the
Company shall execute, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the
Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered
for exchange, the Company shall execute, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors
shall execute the Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Securities and, if applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed
thereon issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall
be the valid obligations of the Company and, if applicable, the respective
Subsidiary Guarantors, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities and Subsidiaries Guarantees
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107 or otherwise not involving any
transfer.
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If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are
to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register
the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and
specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any
such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of
or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except
the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
The provisions of clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to
Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a
nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall
constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered,
and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be
registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such
Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has
notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing
agency registered under the Exchange Act, and in either case the Company
fails to appoint a successor Depositary within 90 days, (B) there shall
have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such
Global Security and the Depositary shall have notified the Trustee of its
decision to exchange such Global Security for Securities in certificated
form or (C) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to
or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.
(3) Subject to clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security
for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be
registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall
direct.
(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any
portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906
or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of,
and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the
name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a
nominee thereof.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall
execute, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the Subsidiary
Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor a new Security of the same
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series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and
any agent of either of them harmless from any loss that any of them may suffer
if a Security is replaced, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the
Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the
Company shall execute, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the
Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security
of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become
or is about to become due and payable or is to be converted, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay or authorize the
conversion of such Security (without surrender thereof save in the case of a
mutilated Security).
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu
of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and, if applicable, the Subsidiary
Guarantees endorsed thereon, shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Company and, if applicable, the respective Subsidiary
Guarantors, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of
that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement,
payment or conversion of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
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(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money
when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days
prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after
the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the
manner set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall
no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may
be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if,
after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company,
the Subsidiary Guarantors, or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307)
any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or
not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor,
the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
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SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, purchase, registration
of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery
to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated
hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company
Order.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
with respect to the Securities of any series, and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Securities of such series which have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities of such series for
whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to
the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section
1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities of such series not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
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(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving
of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Company,
and the Company or, if applicable, a Subsidiary Guarantor, in the
case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
the purpose money in an amount sufficient, without consideration of
any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption
Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor has paid or caused to be
paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company and the Subsidiary
Guarantors with respect to the Securities of such series; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series have been
complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, any surviving
rights of conversion, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent
under Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the
Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and
interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
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ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any
series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article
Twelve or be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that
series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default
for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any
Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as
due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant of the
Company or, if the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees
with respect to the Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor in
Article Eight of this Indenture; or
(5) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company or, if the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued
Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the Securities of such series, any
Subsidiary Guarantor in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty
a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in
this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than
that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60
days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of
at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it
to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(6) debt of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or, if the
Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to
the Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor is not paid within
any applicable grace period after final maturity or is accelerated by the
holders thereof because of a default and the total amount of such
Indebtedness unpaid or accelerated exceeds $20.0 million, or its foreign
currency equivalent at the time; or
(7) any judgment or decree for the payment of money in excess of
$20.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time it is entered
against the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or, if the Subsidiary
Guarantors have issued
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Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the Securities of such series, any
Subsidiary Guarantor, remains outstanding for a period of 60 consecutive
days following the entry of such judgment or decree and is not discharged,
waived or the execution thereof stayed; or
(8) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A)
a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company, any Significant
Subsidiary or, if the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary
Guarantees with respect to the Securities of such series, any Subsidiary
Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company, any Significant
Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor a bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company,
any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor under any
applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of
the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor
or of any substantial part of its or their property, or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its or their affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order
unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(9) the commencement by the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or,
if the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with
respect to the Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor of a
voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any
other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the
consent by it or them to the entry of a decree or order for relief in
respect of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary
Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
proceeding against it or them, or the filing by it or them of a petition
or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable
Federal or State law, or the consent by it or them to the filing of such
petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary
Guarantor or of any substantial part of its or their property, or the
making by it or them of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it or them in writing of its or their inability to pay its or
their debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate
action by the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary
Guarantor in furtherance of any such action; or
(10) in the event the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary
Guarantees with respect to the Securities of such series, the Subsidiary
Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor is held by a final non-appealable
order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable
or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect (other
than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture) or any Subsidiary
Guarantor or any Person acting on behalf of any Subsidiary Guarantor
denies or disaffirms such Subsidiary Guarantor's obligations under its
Subsidiary Guarantee (other
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than by reason of a release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its
Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with the terms of this Indenture); or
(11) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default with respect to the
Company specified in Section 501(8) or 501(9)) with respect to Securities of any
series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all
the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such
Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default with
respect to the Company specified in Section 501(8) or 501 (9) with respect to
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of
all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such
Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) shall automatically, and
without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder, become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company or, if applicable, any Subsidiary Guarantor has paid
or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities
of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
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and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series
which has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue
principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company, any Subsidiary
Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, or the property or creditors
of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust
Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in
any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect
and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee,
trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607.
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No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or any Subsidiary Guarantee or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize
the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders,
vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a
member of a creditors' or other similar committee.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities or
any Subsidiary Guarantee may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without
the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in
respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium
or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607;
SECOND: Subject to Article Twelve and Article Fourteen, to the
payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and
payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest,
respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Company or to such other Person
as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default
in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of security or indemnity has failed to institute any
such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such
Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307)
interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption or offer by the Company to purchase the
Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, on the Redemption Date or
purchase date, as applicable) and, if applicable, to convert such Security in
accordance with its terms, and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
right, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee and the
Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section
306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
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cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities of such series, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such
series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on
any Security of such series (including any Security which is required to
have been purchased by the Company pursuant to an offer to purchase by the
Company made pursuant to the terms of this Indenture), or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to
file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against
any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust
Indenture Act; provided, however, that neither this Section nor the Trust
Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an
undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company
or any Subsidiary Guarantor.
SECTION 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
Each of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead,
or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any
usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
each of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as expressly set
forth in this Indenture and as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly
so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series,
the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such
default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided,
however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
501(5) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the
purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of such series.
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SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by the proper party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any
resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a
Board Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it
in compliance with such request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities and the Subsidiary
Guarantees, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken
as the statements of the Company or
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the Subsidiary Guarantors, as the case may be, and neither the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The
Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon.
Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the
use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company and
any Subsidiary Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other
agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor jointly and severally agree
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee
of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision
of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against,
any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and
expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection
with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
SECTION 608. Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
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To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a
conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with
respect to Securities of more than one series.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, and has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and
surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 611.
The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one
or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of
any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
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then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or
if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to
the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities
of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may
be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series
and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal
or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance
with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of
Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
Subsidiary Guarantors, the retiring Trustee
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and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series
shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each
successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which
the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue
to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate
the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon
the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of
the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company and the Subsidiary
Guarantors shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may
be.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which
it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to
all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be
the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise
qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of
any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. As soon
as practicable, the successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to
the Company and the Holders of the Securities then Outstanding. In case any
Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then
in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
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SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company and Subsidiary
Guarantors.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company, any
Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, the Trustee shall
be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection
of claims against the Company, such Subsidiary Guarantor or any such other
obligor.
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to
one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of
the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue
and upon exchange, registration of transfer, conversion or partial redemption
thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for
all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Person organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or
the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party,
or any Person succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of
an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided
such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in
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Section 106 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which
such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon
acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights,
powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent
shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[TRUSTEE'S NAME],
As Trustee
By: _________________________,
As Authenticating Agent
By: _________________________,
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of each series:
(1) not more than 10 days after each record date with respect to the
payment of interest, if any, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of
Securities of such series as of such record date, and
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(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior
to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding
rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act.
Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with
the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors
nor the Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason
of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee
and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company and with the
Subsidiary Guarantors. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities
are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company and Subsidiary Guarantors.
The Company and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors shall file with the
Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents
and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such
Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be
filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to
be filed with the Commission.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not, in a single transaction or a series of related
transactions, consolidate with or merge into any other Person or permit any
other Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company or, directly or
indirectly, transfer, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of its assets, unless:
(1) in a transaction in which the Company does not survive or in
which the Company transfers, conveys, sells, leases or otherwise disposes
of all or substantially all of its assets, the successor entity (for
purposes of this Article Eight, a "Successor Company") shall be a
corporation, partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly
existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof
or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal
of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance
or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately before and after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction and treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of
the Company or any Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having
been incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such
transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or
lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have
happened and be continuing;
(3) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such
transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition, properties or
assets of the Company would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien,
security interest or other encumbrance which would not be permitted by
this Indenture, the Company or the Successor Company, as the case may be,
shall take such steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure the
Securities equally and ratably with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured
thereby;
(4) any other conditions provided pursuant to Section 301 with
respect to the Securities of a series are satisfied; and
(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other
disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection
with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with.
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SECTION 802. Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
Except in a transaction resulting in the release of a Subsidiary Guarantor
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, each Subsidiary Guarantor shall
not, and the Company shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to, in a single
or a series of related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any
Person (other than the Company or another Subsidiary Guarantor) or permit any
Person (other than another Subsidiary Guarantor) to consolidate or merge with or
into such Subsidiary Guarantor or, directly or indirectly, transfer, convey,
sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets
unless, in each case:
(1) in a transaction in which such Subsidiary Guarantor does not
survive or in which all or substantially all of the assets of such
Subsidiary Guarantor are transferred, conveyed, sold, leased or otherwise
disposed of, the successor entity (the "Successor Subsidiary Guarantor")
shall be a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity organized and
validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume by an
indenture supplemental hereto executed and delivered to the Trustee, in
form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of all
obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee
and this Indenture and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture
on the part of such Subsidiary Guarantor to be performed or observed; and
(2) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other
disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection
with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with.
SECTION 803. Successor Substituted.
(a) Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into, any other Person or any transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in
accordance with Section 801, the Successor Company shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under
this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named
as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the
predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this
Indenture and the Securities.
(b) Upon any consolidation of a Subsidiary Guarantor with, or merger of
such Subsidiary Guarantor into, any other Person or any transfer, conveyance,
sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of
such Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with Section 802, the Successor
Subsidiary Guarantor shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as a Subsidiary
Guarantor herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor
Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture
and its Subsidiary Guarantee.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, the Subsidiary Guarantors, when authorized by their respective
Board Resolutions, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or
any Subsidiary Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the
covenants of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor herein and in the
Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to
be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events
of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly
being included solely for the benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of
Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal,
and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that
any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to
any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such
supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor
(ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to
such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such
Security Outstanding; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
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facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein; or
(10) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant
to this clause (10) shall not adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or
(11) to add new Subsidiary Guarantors.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the
Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, the Subsidiary Guarantors, when authorized by their respective Board
Resolutions and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture
shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal
of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would
be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of (a) any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or
in the case of an offer to purchase Securities which has been made
pursuant to a covenant contained in this Indenture, on or after the
applicable purchase date), or (b) any conversion right with respect to any
Security, or modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the
conversion or subordination of the Securities or the Subsidiary
Guarantees, in a manner adverse to the Holders, or release any Subsidiary
Guarantee other than as provided in this Indenture; or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture; or
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(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1009, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and
Section 1009, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8); or
(4) following the making of an offer to purchase Securities from any
Holder which has been made pursuant to a covenant contained in this
Indenture, modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such
offer to purchase in a manner adverse to such Holder.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
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SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if
required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so
determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantees
may be endorsed thereon and such new Securities may be authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium
and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture. Principal, premium, if any, and interest
shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the
Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on
the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and
designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and
interest then due.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment or, if applicable, for conversion, where Securities
of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and
where notices and demands to or upon the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor in
respect of the Securities of that series or any Subsidiary Guarantee and this
Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company and each Subsidiary
Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in
any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency
in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
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SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall at any time act as its
own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before
each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the
Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium
and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of
its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series
of Securities, it will, prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on each due
date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that
series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such
sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the
continuance of any default by the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, if
applicable, or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series in the
making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that
series.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter,
as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof,
and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to
be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New
York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein,
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which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
(a) The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors will deliver to the Trustee,
within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the
date hereof, an Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not to the best
knowledge of the signers thereof the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the
case may be, is in default in the performance and observance of any of the
terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period
of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the
nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
(b) The Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor shall deliver to the
Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within five days after the Company
or such Subsidiary Guarantor becomes aware or should reasonably become aware of
the occurrence of an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the
lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers'
Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or default, and
the action which the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor proposes to take with
respect thereto.
SECTION 1005. Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence,
rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of the Company; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise
if it shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in
the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its
business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good
condition, repair and working order (reasonable wear and tear excepted) and
supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary
repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in
the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from
discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such
discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any
material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and
governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or
upon the income, profits or property of the Company or
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any Subsidiary, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies
which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or
any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay
or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge
or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 1008. Maintenance of Insurance.
The Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, keep at all times
all of their properties which are of an insurable nature insured against loss or
damage with insurers believed by the Company to be responsible to the extent
that property of similar character is usually so insured by corporations
similarly situated and owning like properties in accordance with good business
practice.
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of
any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision
or condition set forth in any of Sections 1005 through 1008 or in any covenant
provided pursuant to Section 301(22), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the
Holders of such series if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at
least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition,
but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and
effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with
this Article.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by
a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301
for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption
affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least five Business
Days prior to giving notice of such redemption (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the
principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable,
of the tenor of the
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Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to
the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of
such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the
Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such
restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless
all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or
unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, (i) in
compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange
on which such Securities are listed, if such Securities are listed on any
national securities exchange, and (ii) if such Securities are not so listed, on
a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair
and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a
portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that
the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series
and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only
a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified
tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding
sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for
partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
If any Security selected for partial redemption is surrendered for conversion
after such selection, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so
far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Upon any redemption of
less than all the Securities of a series, for purposes of selection for
redemption the Company and the Trustee may treat as Outstanding Securities
surrendered for conversion during the period of 15 days next preceding the
mailing of a notice of redemption, and need not treat as Outstanding any
Security authenticated and delivered during such period in exchange for the
unconverted portion of any Security converted in part during such period.
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SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the
Security Register; provided, however, notice of redemption may be given more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date if the notice is issued in connection
with a satisfaction and discharge pursuant to Article Four.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price, if then determinable and otherwise the
method of its determination,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such
Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount
of the particular Security to be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable,
that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price,
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case,
and
(7) if applicable, the conversion price then in effect and the date
on which the right to convert such Securities will expire.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
If any Security called for redemption is converted pursuant hereto, any money
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in
trust for the redemption of such Security shall be paid to the Company upon
delivery of a Company Request to the Trustee or such Paying Agent, or, if then
held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to
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pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an
Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be
redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to
be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is
on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear
interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the
Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at
a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, if applicable to
Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed thereon,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security
without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of
like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any series in
or pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such
series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to each series of Securities.
SECTION 1202. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth
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in this Article (subject to the provisions of Article Four and Article Fifteen),
the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on each and
all of the Securities of such series are hereby expressly made subordinate and
subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt of
the Company.
No provisions of this Article Twelve shall prevent the occurrence of any
Event of Default.
SECTION 1203. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or
any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding in connection therewith, relative to the Company or to its creditors,
as such, or to its assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding
up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving
insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or
any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any
such event specified in (a), (b) or (c) above (each such event, if any, herein
sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding") the holders of Senior Debt of the
Company shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to
become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt of the Company, or provision
shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, before the
Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including any
payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the
payment of any other indebtedness of the Company subordinated to the payment of
the Securities, such payment or distribution being hereinafter referred to as a
"Junior Subordinated Payment"), on account of principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest on the Securities or on account of any purchase or other acquisition
of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (all such
payments, distributions, purchases and acquisitions, other than the payment or
distribution of stock or securities of the Company referred to in the second
succeeding paragraph, herein referred to, individually and collectively, as a
"Securities Payment"), and to that end the holders of Senior Debt of the Company
shall be entitled to receive, for application to the payment thereof, any
Securities Payment which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the
Securities in any such Proceeding.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
Securities Payment before all Senior Debt of the Company is paid in full or
payment thereof provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, and if such
fact shall, at or prior to the time of such Securities Payment, have been made
known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event
such Securities Payment shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee
in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or
other Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for
application to the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company remaining unpaid,
to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt of the Company in full, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of
Senior Debt of the Company.
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For purposes of this Article only, the words "any payment or distribution
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities" shall not be
deemed to include a payment or distribution of stock or securities of the
Company provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment authorized by
an order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in a reorganization
proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy law or of any other corporation
provided for by such plan of reorganization or readjustment which stock or
securities are subordinated in right of payment to all then outstanding Senior
Debt of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are so
subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of the Company with,
or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer of all or
substantially all of its assets to another Person upon the terms and conditions
set forth in Article Eight shall not be deemed a Proceeding for the purposes of
this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer such
assets, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger,
conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set forth in Article Eight.
SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Debt of the Company in Default.
In the event that any Senior Payment Default (as defined below) shall have
occurred and be continuing, then no Securities Payment shall be made unless and
until such Senior Payment Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have
ceased to exist or all amounts then due and payable in respect of Senior Debt of
the Company shall have been paid in full, or provision shall have been made for
such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory
to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company; provided, however, that nothing in
this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in
accordance with Article Sixteen by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section
1602 Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to
such Senior Payment Default.
"Senior Payment Default" means any default in the payment of
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt of the
Company when due, whether at the Stated Maturity of any such payment or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
In the event that any Senior Nonmonetary Default (as defined below) shall
have occurred and be continuing, then, upon the receipt by the Company, the
Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee of written notice of such Senior
Nonmonetary Default from the agent for the Designated Senior Debt which is the
subject of such Senior Nonmonetary Default, no Securities Payment shall be made
during the period (the "Payment Blockage Period") commencing on the date of such
receipt of such written notice and ending on the earlier of (i) the date on
which such Senior Nonmonetary Default shall have been cured or waived or shall
have ceased to exist or all Designated Senior Debt the subject of such Senior
Nonmonetary Default shall have been discharged; (ii) the 179th day after the
date of such receipt of such written notice; or (iii) the date on which the
Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by written notice to the
Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Trustee from the agent for the
Designated Senior Debt initiating the Payment Blockage Period; provided,
however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any
sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen by delivering and
crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have been acquired (upon
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redemption or otherwise) prior to the date of such receipt of such written
notice. No more than one Payment Blockage Period may be commenced with respect
to the Securities of a particular series during any 360-day period and there
shall be a period of at least 181 consecutive days in each 360-day period when
no Payment Blockage Period is in effect. For all purposes of this paragraph, no
Senior Nonmonetary Default that existed or was continuing on the date of
commencement of any Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for
the commencement of a subsequent Payment Blockage Period, whether or not within
a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such Senior Nonmonetary Default shall
have been cured for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days.
"Senior Nonmonetary Default" means the occurrence or existence and
continuance of any event of default with respect to any Designated Senior Debt,
other than a Senior Payment Default, permitting the holders of such Designated
Senior Debt (or a trustee or agent on behalf of the holders thereof) to declare
such Designated Senior Debt due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise become due and payable.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make
any Securities Payment to the Trustee or any Holder prohibited by the foregoing
provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of
such Securities Payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may
be, such Holder, then and in such event such Securities Payment shall be paid
over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any Securities Payment
with respect to which Section 1203 would be applicable.
SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted If No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any
of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the
pendency of any Proceeding referred to in Section 1203 or under the conditions
described in Section 1204, from making Securities Payments, or (b) the
application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it hereunder to
Securities Payments or the retention of such Securities Payment by the Holders,
if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge
that such Securities Payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of
this Article.
SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or
in respect of Senior Debt of the Company, or the provision for such payment in
cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of
Senior Debt of the Company, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to
the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt of the Company to receive payments
and distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt
of the Company until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments
or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company of any cash,
property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee
would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no payments
over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of Senior
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Debt of the Company by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among
the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt of the Company and
the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the
Company to or on account of the Senior Debt of the Company.
SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose
of defining the relative rights of the Holders on the one hand and the holders
of Senior Debt of the Company on the other hand. Nothing contained in this
Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or
shall (a) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of
Senior Debt of the Company and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of
the Company, which is absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the
rights under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, is
intended to rank equally with all other general obligations of the Company), to
pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the
Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than
the holders of Senior Debt of the Company; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any,
under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company to receive cash,
property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such
Holder.
SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs
the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate
to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and appoints the
Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt of the Company
to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the
holders of Senior Debt of the Company may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities
and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article or
the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Senior Debt of the Company, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the
manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or
alter, Senior Debt of the Company, or otherwise amend or supplement in any
manner Senior Debt of the Company or any instrument
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evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt of the Company is
outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property
pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt of the Company; (iii)
release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior Debt of the
Company; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the
Company and any other Person.
SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact
known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless
and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a holder of Senior Debt of the Company or from any trustee therefor;
and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that
no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have
received the notice provided for in this Section at least three Business Days
prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable
for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on any Security), then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which
such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary
which may be received by it within three Business Days prior to such date.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled to
rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself
to be a holder of Senior Debt of the Company (or a trustee therefor) to
establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt of the
Company (or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines in
good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any
Person as a holder of Senior Debt of the Company to participate in any payment
or distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person to
furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount
of Senior Debt of the Company held by such Person, the extent to which such
Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other
facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article, and if such
evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment.
SECTION 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is
pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating
trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders
of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of
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the Senior Debt of the Company and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount
thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon
and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders
of Senior Debt of the Company and shall not be liable to any such holders if it
shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities
or to the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor or to any other Person cash, property
or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be
entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of the Company;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company which
may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Debt of the Company, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of
any of its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided,
however, that Section 1213 shall not apply to the Company, any Subsidiary
Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Subsidiary Guarantor or
Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
SECTION 1215. Defeasance of this Article Twelve.
The subordination of the Securities of a series provided by this Article
Twelve is expressly made subject to the provisions for Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance in Article Fifteen hereof and, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of any such Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance, the Securities of such series then outstanding shall thereupon cease
to be subordinated pursuant to this Article Twelve.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article.
Unless the Company elects to issue any series of Securities without the
benefit of the Subsidiary Guarantees, which election shall be evidenced in or
pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such
series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to each series of Securities except as otherwise specified
in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing
such series pursuant to Section 301.
SECTION 1302. Subsidiary Guarantees.
Subject to Section 1301, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby, jointly and
severally, fully and unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Security when and as the
same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity, by
acceleration, call for redemption, offer to purchase or otherwise, in accordance
with the terms of such Security and of this Indenture, and each Subsidiary
Guarantor similarly guarantees to the Trustee the payment of all amounts owing
to the Trustee in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. In case of the
failure of the Company punctually to make any such payment, each Subsidiary
Guarantor hereby, jointly and severally, agrees to cause such payment to be made
punctually when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the
Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption, offer to purchase or
otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Company.
Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that
its obligations hereunder shall be absolute, unconditional, irrespective of, and
shall be unaffected by, the validity, regularity or enforceability of such
Security or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same or any
release, amendment, waiver or indulgence granted to the Company or any guarantor
or any consent to departure from any requirement of any other guarantee of all
or any of the Securities of such series or any other circumstances which might
otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or
guarantor; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no such
release, amendment, waiver or indulgence shall, without the consent of such
Subsidiary Guarantor, increase the principal amount of such Security, or
increase the interest rate thereon, or alter the Stated Maturity thereof. Each
of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby waives the benefits of diligence,
presentment, demand for payment, any requirement that the Trustee or any of the
Holders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest in or other
lien on any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action
against the Company or any other Person or any collateral, filing of claims with
a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to
require a proceeding first against the Company, protest or notice with respect
to such Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands
whatsoever, and covenants that this Subsidiary Guarantee will not be discharged
in respect of such Security except by complete performance of the obligations
contained in such Security and in such Subsidiary Guarantee. Each Subsidiary
Guarantor agrees
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that if, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default,
the Trustee or any of the Holders are prevented by applicable law from
exercising their respective rights to accelerate the maturity of the Securities
of a series, to collect interest on the Securities of a series, or to enforce or
exercise any other right or remedy with respect to the Securities of a series,
such Subsidiary Guarantor agrees to pay to the Trustee for the account of the
Holders, upon demand therefor, the amount that would otherwise have been due and
payable had such rights and remedies been permitted to be exercised by the
Trustee or any of the Holders.
The indebtedness of each Subsidiary Guarantor evidenced by the Subsidiary
Guarantees is, to the extent provided in this Indenture, subordinate and subject
in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt of each
Subsidiary Guarantor, and the Subsidiary Guarantees are issued subject to the
provisions of this Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of such Security,
by accepting the same, will be deemed to have (a) agreed to and be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorized and directed the Trustee on his behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so
provided and (c) appointed the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders
of the Securities upon which its Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed against the
Company in respect of any amounts paid by such Subsidiary Guarantor on account
of such Security pursuant to the provisions of its Subsidiary Guarantee or this
Indenture; provided, however, that no Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to
enforce or to receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of
subrogation until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all
Securities of the relevant series issued hereunder shall have been paid in full.
Each Subsidiary Guarantor that makes or is required to make any payment in
respect of its Subsidiary Guarantee shall be entitled to seek contribution from
the other Subsidiary Guarantors to the extent permitted by applicable law;
provided, however, that no Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to enforce or
receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of contribution
until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all Securities of
the relevant series issued hereunder shall have been paid in full.
Each Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and
continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company
for liquidation or reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make
an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be
appointed for all or any part of the Company's assets, and shall, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case
may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Securities of a series,
is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must
otherwise be restored or returned by any Holder of the Securities, whether as a
"voidable preference," "fraudulent transfer," or otherwise, all as though such
payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any
part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Securities shall,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by
such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
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SECTION 1303. Execution and Delivery of Subsidiary Guarantees.
The Subsidiary Guarantees to be endorsed on the Securities shall include
the terms of the Subsidiary Guarantee set forth in Section 1302 and any other
terms that may be set forth in the form established pursuant to Section 204.
Subject to Section 1301, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees to
execute its Subsidiary Guarantee, in a form established pursuant to Section 204,
to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
The Subsidiary Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of each respective
Subsidiary Guarantor by any one of such Subsidiary Guarantor's Chairman of the
Board of Directors, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive
Officer, President, one of its Vice Presidents, or its Secretary. The signature
of any or all of these persons on the Subsidiary Guarantee may be manual or
facsimile.
A Subsidiary Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of a Subsidiary Guarantor
shall bind such Subsidiary Guarantor, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
delivery of the Security on which such Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Subsidiary Guarantee.
The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication
thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Subsidiary Guarantee
endorsed thereon on behalf of the Subsidiary Guarantors and shall bind each
Subsidiary Guarantor notwithstanding the fact that Subsidiary Guarantee does not
bear the signature of such Subsidiary Guarantor. Each of the Subsidiary
Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantee set
forth in Section 1302 and in the form of Subsidiary Guarantee established
pursuant to Section 204 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding
any failure to endorse a Subsidiary Guarantee on any Security.
SECTION 1304. Release of Subsidiary Guarantors.
Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a
series of Securities, each Subsidiary Guarantee will remain in effect with
respect to the respective Subsidiary Guarantor until the entire principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities to which such Subsidiary
Guarantee relates shall have been paid in full or otherwise satisfied and
discharged in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this
Indenture and all amounts owing to the Trustee hereunder have been paid;
provided, however, that if (i) such Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a
Subsidiary in compliance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture, (ii)
either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance occurs with respect to such Securities
pursuant to Article Fifteen or (iii) all or substantially all of the assets of
such Subsidiary Guarantor or all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary
Guarantor is sold (including by sale, merger, consolidation or otherwise) by the
Company or any Subsidiary in a transaction complying with the requirements of
this Indenture, then, in each case of (i), (ii) or (iii), upon delivery by the
Company of an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the release of such
Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and
this Article Thirteen have been complied with, such Subsidiary Guarantor shall
be released and discharged of its obligations under its
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Subsidiary Guarantee and under this Article Thirteen without any action on the
part of the Trustee or any Holder, and the Trustee shall execute any documents
reasonably required in order to acknowledge the release of such Subsidiary
Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed on the
Securities of such series and under this Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1305. Additional Subsidiary Guarantors.
Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a
series of Securities, the Company will cause any domestic Subsidiary of the
Company that becomes a Subsidiary after the date the Securities of a series are
first issued hereunder to become a Subsidiary Guarantor as soon as practicable
after such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary. The Company shall cause any such
Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Guarantor with respect to the Securities by
executing and delivering to the Trustee (a) a supplemental indenture, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, which subjects such Person to the
provisions (including the representations and warranties) of this Indenture as a
Subsidiary Guarantor and (b) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
supplemental indenture has been duly authorized and executed by such Person and
such supplemental indenture and such Person's obligations under its Subsidiary
Guarantee and this Indenture constitute the legal, valid, binding and
enforceable obligations of such Person (subject to such customary exceptions
concerning creditors' rights and equitable principles as may be acceptable to
the Trustee in its discretion).
SECTION 1306. Limitation on Liability.
Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding,
the maximum amount of the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor shall
not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed by such Subsidiary
Guarantor without rendering such Subsidiary Guarantee voidable under applicable
law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws
affecting the rights of creditors generally.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any series in
or pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such
series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to each series of Securities.
SECTION 1402. Subsidiary Guarantees Subordinate to Senior Debt of Subordinate
Guarantors.
Each Subsidiary Guarantor covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a
Security, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the
extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article (subject to the
provisions of Article Four and Article Fifteen), the Subsidiary Guarantee of
such Subsidiary Guarantor is hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in
right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor.
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No provisions of this Article Fourteen shall prevent the occurrence of any
Event of Default.
SECTION 1403. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or
any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding in connection therewith, relative to any Subsidiary Guarantor or to
its creditors, as such, or to its assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or
other winding up of any Subsidiary Guarantor, whether voluntary or involuntary
and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for
the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of
any Subsidiary Guarantor, then and in any such event specified in (a), (b) or
(c) above (each such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a "Guarantor
Proceeding") the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in
respect of all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, or provision shall be
made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner
satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, before
the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities
(including any payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by
reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor
subordinated to the payment of the Securities, such payment or distribution
being hereinafter referred to as a "Guarantor Junior Subordinated Payment"), on
account of the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor (all such
payments, other than the payment or distribution of stock or securities of a
Subsidiary Guarantor referred to in the second succeeding paragraph, herein
referred to, individually and collectively, as a "Guarantee Payment"), and to
that end the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
entitled to receive, for application to the payment thereof, any Guarantee
Payment which may be payable or deliverable in respect of such Subsidiary
Guarantor's Subsidiary Guarantee in any such Guarantor Proceeding.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
Guarantee Payment before all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor is paid in
full or payment thereof provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in
a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such Guarantee
Payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such
Holder, then and in such event such Guarantee Payment shall be paid over or
delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee,
custodian, assignee, agent or other Person making payment or distribution of
assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor for application to the payment of all Senior
Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to
pay all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor in full, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt of
such Subsidiary Guarantor.
For purposes of this Article only, the words "any payment or distribution
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities" shall not be
deemed to include a payment or distribution of stock or securities of a
Subsidiary Guarantor provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment
authorized by an order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in a
reorganization proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy law or of any other
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corporation provided for by such plan of reorganization or readjustment which
stock or securities are subordinated in right of payment to all then outstanding
Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor to substantially the same extent as the
Subsidiary Guarantees are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The
consolidation of a Subsidiary Guarantor with, or the merger of a Subsidiary
Guarantor into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of such
Subsidiary Guarantor following the conveyance or transfer of all or
substantially all of its assets to another Person upon the terms and conditions
set forth in Article Eight shall not be deemed a Guarantor Proceeding for the
purposes of this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation or into
which such Subsidiary Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by
conveyance or transfer such assets, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set
forth in Article Eight.
SECTION 1404. No Payment When Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor in
Default.
In the event that any Senior Payment Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, then no Guarantee Payment shall be made unless and until such Senior
Payment Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist or
all amounts then due and payable in respect of the relevant Senior Debt of the
Company shall have been paid in full, or provision shall have been made for such
payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of such Senior Debt; provided, that nothing in this Section shall
prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article
Sixteen by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which
have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such Senior Payment
Default.
In the event that any Senior Nonmonetary Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, then, upon the receipt by the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors
and the Trustee of written notice of such Senior Nonmonetary Default from any
holder, or agent for the holders, of any Designated Senior Debt of the Company,
no Guarantee Payment shall be made during the applicable Payment Blockage
Period; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen by
delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have been
acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to the date of such receipt of
such written notice. No more than one Payment Blockage Period may be commenced
with respect to the Subsidiary Guarantees during any 360-day period and there
shall be a period of at least 181 consecutive days in each 360-day period when
no Payment Blockage Period is in effect. For all purposes of this paragraph, no
Senior Nonmonetary Default that existed or was continuing on the date of
commencement of any Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for
the commencement of a subsequent Payment Blockage Period, whether or not within
a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such Senior Nonmonetary Default shall
have been cured for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, a Subsidiary Guarantor
shall make any Guarantee Payment to the Trustee or any Holder prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the
time of such Guarantee Payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the
case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such Guarantee Payment shall be
paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
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The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any Guarantee Payment
with respect to which Section 1403 would be applicable.
SECTION 1405. Payment Permitted If No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any
of the Subsidiary Guarantees shall prevent (a) a Subsidiary Guarantor, at any
time except during the pendency of any Guarantor Proceeding referred to in
Section 1403 or under the conditions described in Section 1404, from making
Guarantee Payments, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited
with it hereunder to Guarantee Payments or the retention of such Guarantee
Payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it
did not have knowledge that such Guarantee Payment would have been prohibited by
the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 1406. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or
in respect of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor, or the provision for such
payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, the Holders of the
Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt
of such Subsidiary Guarantor to receive payments and distributions of cash,
property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments
or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor of
any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no
payments over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of
Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor by Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee, shall, as among a Subsidiary Guarantor, its creditors other than
holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor and the Holders of the
Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by such Subsidiary
Guarantor to or on account of the Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.
SECTION 1407. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose
of defining the relative rights of the Holders on the one hand and the holders
of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor on the other hand. Nothing contained in
this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Subsidiary Guarantees is
intended to or shall (a) impair, as among a Subsidiary Guarantor, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor and the Holders
of the Securities, the obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor, which is
absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this Article
of the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, is intended to rank
equally with all other general obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor), to
guarantee payment to the Holders of the Securities of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the
relative rights against a Subsidiary Guarantor of the Holders of the Securities
and creditors of such Subsidiary Guarantor other than
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the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; or (c) prevent the
Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the
rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary
Guarantor to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or
deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 1408. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs
the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate
to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and appoints the
Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
SECTION 1409. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt of a
Subsidiary Guarantor to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any
time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the
part of such Subsidiary Guarantor or by any act or failure to act, in good
faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by such Subsidiary Guarantor
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the
holders of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor may, at any time and from time
to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities
and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article or
the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, do any one or more of the following:
(i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment
of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, or otherwise
amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor or
any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt of
such Subsidiary Guarantor is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or
otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior
Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner
for the collection of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; and (iv)
exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against such Subsidiary Guarantor
and any other Person.
SECTION 1410. Notice to Trustee.
Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee
of any fact known to such Subsidiary Guarantor which would prohibit the making
of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of its Subsidiary Guarantee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provision of this
Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of
any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in
respect of the Subsidiary Guarantees, unless and until the Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof from a Subsidiary Guarantor or a holder of
Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor or from any trustee therefor; and,
prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the
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Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all
respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the
Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least
three Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money
may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment
of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security), then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the
purpose for which such money was received and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary which may be received by it within three Business Days
prior to such date.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled to
rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself
to be a holder of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor (or a trustee therefor)
to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor (or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee
determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the
right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor to
participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee
may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of
the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such
Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee
may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the
right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 1411. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of a Subsidiary Guarantor
referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section
601, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order
or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Guarantor
Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver,
liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt
of such Subsidiary Guarantor and other indebtedness of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
SECTION 1412. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders
of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor and shall not be liable to any such
holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders
of Securities or to the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor, or to any other Person
cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
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SECTION 1413. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor; Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Debt of a Subsidiary
Guarantor which may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other
holder of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, and nothing in this
Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
SECTION 1414. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided,
however, that Section 1413 shall not apply to the Company, any Subsidiary
Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Subsidiary Guarantor or
Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
SECTION 1415. Defeasance of this Article Fourteen.
The subordination of the Subsidiary Guarantees provided by this Article
Fourteen is expressly made subject to the provisions for Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance of a series of Securities in Article Fifteen hereof and, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of any such
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance with respect to a series of Securities, the
Subsidiary Guarantees of the Securities of such series shall thereupon cease to
be subordinated pursuant to this Article Fourteen.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1501. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section 1502 or
Section 1503 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case
may be, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such
Section 1502 or 1503, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided
pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below
in this Article. Any such election shall be evidenced in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
such Securities.
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SECTION 1502. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the
Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations, and each
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to its Subsidiary Guarantees of such Securities, and
the provisions of Articles Twelve and Fourteen shall cease to be effective, with
respect to such Securities and Subsidiary Guarantees as provided in this Section
on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1504 are satisfied
(herein called "Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the
Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness
represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations
under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are
concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of
Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in
Section 1504 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of
the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments
are due, or, if applicable, to convert such Securities in accordance with their
terms, (2) the Company's and each Subsidiary Guarantor's obligations with
respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, and, if
applicable, their obligations with respect to the conversion of such Securities,
(3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder
and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may
exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1503
applied to such Securities.
SECTION 1503. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, (1)
the Company shall be released from its obligations under Section 801(3),
Sections 1005 through 1008, inclusive, and any covenants provided pursuant to
Section 301(22), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(5)
(with respect to any of Section 801(3), Sections 1005 through 1008, inclusive,
and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(22), 901(2) or 901(7)),
501(6), 501(7)), 501(10) and 501(11) shall be deemed not to be or result in an
Event of Default and (3) the provisions of Articles Twelve, Thirteen and
Fourteen shall cease to be effective, in each case with respect to such
Securities and Subsidiary Guarantees as provided in this Section on and after
the date the conditions set forth in Section 1504 are satisfied (herein called
"Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that,
with respect to such Securities, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, as
applicable, may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of
any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to
the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(5)) or Article Twelve,
Thirteen or Article Fourteen, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any
reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by reason of any
reference in any such Section or Article to any other provision herein or in any
other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be
unaffected thereby.
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SECTION 1504. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1502
or Section 1503 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may
be:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such
Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations
which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect
thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one
day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a
combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in
a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium
and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used
herein, "U.S. Government Obligation" means (x) any security which is (i) a
direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or
(ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as
an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment
of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or
(ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof,
and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section
3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S.
Government Obligation which is specified in clause (x) above and held by
such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or
with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any
U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that
(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt
from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S.
Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest
evidenced by such depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 1502 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A)
the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this
instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax
law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such
opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not
recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the
deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such
Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount,
in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such
deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
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(3) In the event of an election to have Section 1503 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant
Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and
at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant
Defeasance were not to occur.
(4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other
Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange,
will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any
other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(7) and
(8), at any time on or prior to the 121st day after the date of such
deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed
satisfied until after such 121st day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning
of such Act).
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement
or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by
which it is bound.
(8) At the time of such deposit, (A) no default in the payment of
any principal of or premium or interest on any Senior Debt of the Company
or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall have occurred and be continuing, (B) no
event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor shall have resulted in such Senior Debt becoming, and
continuing to be, due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise have become due and payable (unless payment of such Senior Debt
has been made or duly provided for), and (C) no other event of default
with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor
shall have occurred and be continuing permitting (after notice or lapse of
time or both) the holders of such Senior Debt (or a trustee on behalf of
such holders) to declare such Senior Debt due and payable prior to the
date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable.
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that such deposit shall not cause either the Trustee
or the trust so created to be subject to the Investment Company Act of
1940.
(10) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been
complied with.
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SECTION 1505. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money
and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with
the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and
Section 1506, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to
collectively as the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1504 in respect of any
Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such
Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal
and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. Money and U.S. Government
Obligations so held in trust shall not be subject to the provisions of Article
Twelve or Article Fourteen.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 1504 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any
money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1504 with
respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then
be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as
the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 1506. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining
or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or
released pursuant to Section 1502 or 1503 shall be revived and reinstated as
though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such
Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply
all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1505 with respect to such Securities
in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes
any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security
following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated
to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment
from the money so held in trust.
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ARTICLE SIXTEEN
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1601. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of any Securities is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment",
and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of
such Securities is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment." If
provided for by the terms of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund
payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1602. Each sinking
fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by
the terms of such Securities.
SECTION 1602. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than
any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities
of a series which have been (x) converted or (y) redeemed either at the election
of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of
such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by
the terms of such Securities; provided, however, that the Securities to be so
credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited
shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption
Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1603. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 35 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to
Section 1602 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 32 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date,
the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
ISSUER:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PETROLEUM CORPORATION
By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS:
[INSERT SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS]
By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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TRUSTEE:
[TRUSTEE'S NAME],
as Trustee
By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE I
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
SUBSIDIARY STATE OF ORGANIZATION
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