Exhibit 4.6.2
CD RADIO INC.
AND
Trustee
Indenture
Dated as of September 15, 1999
Subordinated Indebtedness Securities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION.........................................................1
Section 1.1 Definitions....................................................................1
Section 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions..........................................11
Section 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee........................................12
Section 1.4 Acts of Holders...............................................................12
Section 1.5 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company.........................................15
Section 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver.....................................................15
Section 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents......................................17
Section 1.8 Successors and Assigns........................................................17
Section 1.9 Separability Clause...........................................................17
Section 1.10 Benefits of Indenture.........................................................17
Section 1.11 Governing Law.................................................................17
Section 1.12 Legal Holidays................................................................17
Section 1.13 Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators,
Stockholders, Etc.............................................................18
Section 1.14 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.............................................18
ARTICLE 2 SECURITIES FORMS..............................................................18
Section 2.1 Forms of Securities...........................................................18
Section 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication...............................19
Section 2.3 Securities Issuable in Global Form............................................19
ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES................................................................20
Section 3.1 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series..........................................20
Section 3.2 Denominations.................................................................25
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating................................25
Section 3.4 Temporary Securities..........................................................28
Section 3.5 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange...........................30
Section 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities..............................34
Section 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved................................35
Section 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners.........................................................37
Section 3.9 Cancellation..................................................................38
Section 3.10 Computation of Interest.......................................................39
ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE....................................................39
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.......................................39
Section 4.2 Application of Trust Funds....................................................40
ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES......................................................................41
Section 5.1 Events of Default.............................................................41
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Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment............................42
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee....................................................................43
Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim..............................................44
Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
Coupons.......................................................................45
Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected................................................45
Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits...........................................................46
Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts..............................47
Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................................47
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................................47
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver..................................................47
Section 5.12 Control by Holders of Securities..............................................48
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.......................................................48
Section 5.14 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.......................................48
Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs.........................................................49
ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE...................................................................49
Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities...........................................49
Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults............................................................50
Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee.....................................................51
Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities........................52
Section 6.5 May Hold Securities...........................................................52
Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust...........................................................52
Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement................................................53
Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting
Interests.....................................................................53
Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.............................54
Section 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor........................................55
Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business......................................................................57
Section 6.12 Appointment of Authenticating Agent...........................................57
ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE
AND COMPANY...................................................................59
Section 7.1 Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders..................................59
Section 7.2 Reports by Trustee............................................................59
Section 7.3 Reports by Company............................................................59
Section 7.4 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders....................................................................60
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ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR
CONVEYANCE....................................................................61
Section 8.1 Consolidations and Mergers of Company and Sales,
Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain
Conditions....................................................................61
Section 8.2 Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation....................................61
Section 8.3 Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel..................................62
ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.......................................................62
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders............................62
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders...............................64
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures..........................................65
Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.............................................66
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act...........................................66
Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures............................66
ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS.....................................................................66
Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and Additional
Amounts.......................................................................66
Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency...............................................67
Section 10.3 Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.............................68
Section 10.4 Existence.....................................................................70
Section 10.5 Maintenance of Properties.....................................................70
Section 10.6 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.............................................71
Section 10.7 Statement as to Compliance....................................................71
Section 10.8 Additional Amounts............................................................71
Section 10.9 Waiver of Certain Covenants...................................................72
ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES......................................................73
Section 11.1 Applicability of Article......................................................73
Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.........................................73
Section 11.3 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.............................73
Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption..........................................................73
Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price...................................................75
Section 11.6 Securities Payable on Redemption Date.........................................75
Section 11.7 Securities Redeemed in Part...................................................76
ARTICLE 12 SINKING FUNDS.................................................................77
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article......................................................77
Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.........................77
Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.....................................77
ARTICLE 13 REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS...........................................78
Section 13.1 Applicability of Article......................................................78
Section 13.2 Repurchase of Securities......................................................78
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Section 13.3 Notice; Exercise of Repurchase Right..........................................78
Section 13.4 When Securities Presented for Repurchase Become Due and
Payable.......................................................................79
Section 13.5 Securities Not Repurchased on Repurchase Date.................................80
Section 13.6 Securities Repaid in Part.....................................................80
ARTICLE 14 DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE............................................81
Section 14.1 Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.............................................81
Section 14.2 Defeasance and Discharge......................................................81
Section 14.3 Covenant Defeasance...........................................................81
Section 14.4 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance...............................82
Section 14.5 Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.........................................84
Section 14.6 Reinstatement.................................................................85
ARTICLE 15 SUBORDINATION.................................................................86
Section 15.1 Agreement to Subordinate......................................................86
Section 15.2 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy..........................................86
Section 15.3 Default on Senior Indebtedness................................................86
Section 15.4 Acceleration of Securities....................................................87
Section 15.5 When Distribution Must Be Paid Over...........................................87
Section 15.6 Notice by Company.............................................................87
Section 15.7 Subrogation...................................................................87
Section 15.8 Relative Rights...............................................................87
Section 15.9 Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Trust....................................88
Section 15.10 Distribution or Notice to Representative......................................88
Section 15.11 Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent............................................88
TESTIMONIUM
SIGNATURES AND SEALS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EXHIBIT A - FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
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CD RADIO INC.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the
"TIA") and Indenture, dated as of September 15, 1999.
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
310(a)(1).............................................. 6.7
(b)(2)............................................. 6.7
(b)................................................ 6.7, 6.8
312(a)................................................. 7.4
312(c)................................................. 7.1
313(a)................................................. 7.2
(c)................................................. 7.2
314(a)................................................. 7.3
(a)(4).............................................. 10.9
(c)(1).............................................. 1.2
(c)(2).............................................. 1.2
(e)................................................. 1.2
315(b)................................................. 6.1
316(a) (last sentence)................................. 1.1 ("Outstanding")
(a)(1)(A)........................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B)........................................... 5.13
(b)................................................. 5.8
317(a)(1).............................................. 5.3
(a)(2).............................................. 5.4
318(a)................................................. 1.11
(c)................................................. 1.11
NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the TIA, which
provides that the provisions of Sections 310 through 317 of the TIA are a part
of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained in
the Indenture.
INDENTURE, dated as of September 15, 1999, between CD RADIO INC., a
Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"), having its principal
office at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 36th Floor, New York, New York 10020 and
, a corporation organized under the laws of , as
Trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the "Trustee"), having its Corporate
Trust Office at .
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its
lawful purposes subordinated debt securities (hereinafter called the
"Securities") evidencing its subordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized
the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from
time to time of the Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear
interest at the rates or formulas, to mature at such times and to have such
other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 that are deemed to be incorporated into this Indenture and shall, to the
extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all the holders of the Securities, as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 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;
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(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the TIA, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein, and the terms "cash transaction" and "self-liquidating paper," as
used in TIA Section 311, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
rules of the Commission adopted under the TIA;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(4) the word "including" means "including without limitation," and
(5) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.4.
"Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are required
by a Security or by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under circumstances
specified therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed
on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any authenticating agent appointed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, printed in the English
language or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily
published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays
or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which
the term is used or in the financial community of each such place. Whenever
successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the
successive publications may be made in the same or in different Authorized
Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case
on any Business Day.
"Bankruptcy Law" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
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"Bearer Security" means any Security established pursuant to Section
2.1 which is payable to bearer.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company, the
executive committee of that board or any committee of that board duly authorized
to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the 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 or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities,
means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 3.1, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal
holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or
particular location are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive
order to close.
"CEDEL" means Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres, S.A., or
its successor.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or,
if at any time after execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
"Common Stock" means, with respect to any Person, capital stock issued
by such Person other than Preferred Stock.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor corporation.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chief Executive
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, the President or a Vice President of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which, at
any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date hereof is located at .
"corporation" means a corporation, association, partnership, companies
(including limited liability companies) joint-stock company or business trust.
"coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security.
"Currency Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a
Foreign Currency both by the government of the country which issued such
currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other
public institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii) the
ECU both within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of
transactions by public institutions of or within the European Communities or
(iii) any currency unit (or composite currency) other than the ECU for the
purposes for which it was established.
"Custodian" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin
or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender
for the payment of public and private debts.
"DTC" has the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised from
time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"Euroclear" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.
"European Communities" means the European Economic Community, the
European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System
established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European
Communities.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article 5.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency, currency unit or composite
currency, including the ECU, issued by the government of one or more countries
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other than the United States of America or by any recognized confederation or
association of such governments.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles, as in effect
from time to time, as used in the United States, applied on a consistent basis.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America or the government which issued the
Foreign Currency in which the Securities of a particular series are payable, for
the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of
a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality
of the United States of America or such government which issued the foreign
currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States of America or such other government, which, in either case, are
not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also
include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on
or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the
account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of
interest on or principal of the Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.
"Holder" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in
whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of
a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, when used with respect to any coupon,
shall mean the bearer thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 3.1; provided, however, that, if at any time more than
one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, "Indenture" shall mean,
with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is
Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time
be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
the particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established
as contemplated by Section 3.1, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms
which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not
Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive
of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or
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more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had
become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide that
the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than
the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
"interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, shall mean
interest payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security which
provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.8,
includes such Additional Amounts.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption, notice of option to elect
repayment or otherwise.
"Material Adverse Effect" has the meaning specified in Section 10.4.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company or who may be an employee of or other counsel for the
Company and who shall be reasonably satisfactory 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 5.2.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation;
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(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or
any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its
own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto; provided that, if such Securities are to be
redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to
this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made;
(iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 14.2
and 14.3, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance
and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article 14;
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6 or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by
a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company; and
(v) Securities converted into Common Stock or Preferred Stock
pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the terms of such
Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 3.1;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at
a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the
calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) the principal amount of an
Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or
shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such
determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.2, (ii) the principal amount of any Security denominated
in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such determination or
calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal
to the Dollar equivalent, determined pursuant to Section 3.1 as of the date such
Security is originally issued by the Company, of the principal amount (or, in
the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of
such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause
(i) above) of such Security, (iii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security
that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall
be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the
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principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless
otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 3.1, and
(iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of
the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities or coupons on
behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of or
within any series, means the place or places where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on such Securities are payable as specified as
contemplated by Sections 3.1 and 10.2.
"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 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
the Security to which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains.
"Preferred Stock" means, with respect to any Person, capital shares
issued by such Person that are entitled to a preference or priority over any
other capital shares issued by such Person upon any distribution of such
Person's assets, whether by dividend or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding
up.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture as set forth in such Security.
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"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Registered Security" shall mean any Security which is registered in
the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1, whether or not a
Business Day.
"Repurchase Date" means, when used with respect to any
Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such
repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Repurchase Price" means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Representative" means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent
or representative for an issue of Senior Indebtedness.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means
the chairman or vice-chairman of the Board of Directors, the chairman or
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the Board of Directors, the
president, any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or a word
or words added before or after the title "vice president,") the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, any corporate trust
officer, the controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Security" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time
there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture,
"Securities" with respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee
shall have the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall
more particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such
Person is not Trustee.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.5.
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"Senior Indebtedness" means: (1) the principal, premium, if any,
interest and all other amounts owed in respect of all the Company's (A)
indebtedness for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities,
debentures, bonds or other similar instruments, (2) all of the Company's capital
lease obligations, (3) all obligations issued or assumed by the Company as the
deferred purchase price of property, all of the Company's conditional sale
obligations and all of the Company's obligations under any title retention
agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course
of business), (4) all of the Company's obligations for the reimbursement of any
letter of credit, banker's acceptance, security purchase facility or similar
credit transaction, (5) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1)
through (4) above of other persons for the payment of which the Company is
responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, and (6) all
obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (5) above of other
persons secured by any lien on any of the Company's properties or assets
(whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company), except for (x) any
such indebtedness that is by its terms subordinated to or pari passu with the
Securities and (y) any indebtedness between or among the Company or affiliates
of the Company, including all other debt securities and guarantees in respect of
those debt securities issued to any trust, or trustees of such trust,
partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company that is, directly or
indirectly, a financing vehicle of the Company (a "Financing Entity") in
connection with the issuance by such Financing Entity of preferred securities or
other securities that rank pari passu with, or junior to, the Securities.
"Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary which is a "significant
subsidiary" (as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933) of the Company.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.7.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation a majority of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or
more other Subsidiaries of the Company, or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
that ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
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"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as in force at the date hereof; provided, however, that in the event the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 or such rules and regulations are amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and such rules and regulations as so amended.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder;
provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one such Person,
"Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean only
the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"United States" means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, the United States of America (including the
states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other
areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States person" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, an individual who is a citizen or
resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or an estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation
regardless of its source.
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity, computed at the time
of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination
of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance
with generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.
Section 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Upon any application
or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision
of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion
of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions
precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such
application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (including certificates
delivered pursuant to Section 10.8) shall include:
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(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant
has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified
or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other
matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters
in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, or a
certificate or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion, certificate or
representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate or
representations may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company stating that the information as to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations as to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.4 Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one
or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or
more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person
or by
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agents duly appointed in writing. If Securities of a series are issuable as
Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and
evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series voting in favor
thereof, either in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any
meeting of Holders of Securities of such series duly called and held in
accordance with the provisions of the supplemental indenture with respect to
such series, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or
of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose
of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any
agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section 1.4.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(d) The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the production
of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any
trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at
the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or
exhibited, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved
by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if
such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The
Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security
continues until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued
in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security
is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is
surrendered in exchange for a Registered
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Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of
Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(e) (i) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of
Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option,
in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for
the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but
the Company shall have no obligation to do so; 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 clause
(e)(iii) below. Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date
shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board
Resolution, which shall be a date not earlier than the date 30 days
prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection
therewith and not later than the date such solicitation is completed.
If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or
after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of
business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the
purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be
computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization,
agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be
deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture not later than eleven months after the
record date.
(ii) Subject to clause (e)(iii) below, in the absence of any such
record date fixed by the Company, regardless as to whether a
solicitation of the Holders is occurring on behalf of the Company or
any Holder, the Trustee may, at its option, fix in advance a record
date for the determination of such Holders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act, but the Trustee shall have no obligation to do so. Any such
record date shall be a date not more than 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and no later
than the date of such solicitation.
(iii) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled
to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any
declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any
request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(2), or
(iv) any direction referred to in Section 5.12. If
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any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of
Outstanding Securities 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 any applicable expiration date by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such
record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent
the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action (whereupon
the record date previously set shall automatically and without any
action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), nor shall
anything in this paragraph be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities 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 in
the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
Section 1.5 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or
furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration; provided that notices to the Trustee shall only be
deemed given when actually received by the Trustee,
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to the Company
addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the
first paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides
for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Company or
the
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Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each such Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where
notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure
to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular
Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders
of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer
Securities given as provided herein. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner
herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such
Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.
If by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail
service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such
notice by mail, then such notification to Holders of Registered Securities as
shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
notification to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified
with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of any event, such notice
shall be sufficiently given if published in an Authorized Newspaper in New York
City and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities on
a Business Day, such publication to be not later than the latest date, and not
earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. Any
such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date of such publication
or, if published more than once, on the date of the first such publication.
If by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided
above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given
with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to any particular Holder of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency of
any notice to Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
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Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
Section 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.8 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
Section 1.9 Separability Clause. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in any Security or coupon shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.10 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in
the Securities or coupons, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other
than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any
Authenticating Agent and their successors hereunder and the Holders any benefit
or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.11 Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities and
coupons shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the
State of New York without regard to conflicts of laws principles. This Indenture
is subject to the provisions of the TIA that are required to be part of this
Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
Section 1.12 Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated
Maturity or Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the
right to convert his Securities shall not be a Business Day at any Place of
Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any
Security or coupon other than a provision in the Securities of any series which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of
interest or any Additional Amounts or principal (and premium, if any) need not
be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect
as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date or
sinking fund payment date, or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity or on such last
day for conversion; provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so
payable for the period from and after such Interest
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Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date, sinking fund payment date,
Stated Maturity or Maturity or on such last day for conversion, as the case may
be.
Section 1.13 Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators,
Stockholders, Etc. No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of
or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Security, or for any claim based
thereon, or otherwise in respect of any Security, or based on or in respect of
this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, against any incorporator,
or against any past, present or future stockholder, director or officer, as
such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or
penalty or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released as
a condition of, and as consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issue of Securities.
Section 1.14 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the TIA 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 TIA 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. To the extent a Security conflicts with a
provision in the Indenture, the Indenture governs.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES FORMS
Section 2.1 Forms of Securities. The Registered Securities, if any, of
each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, of each series and related
coupons shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in one or
more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or pursuant
to a Board Resolution in accordance with Section 3.1, shall have such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto,
and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or
designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required
to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or
with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange on which the Securities
may be listed or any depositary therefor, or to conform to usage or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, Bearer
Securities shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons shall be printed, lithographed
or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved
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border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by
their execution of such Securities or coupons.
Section 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. Subject
to Section 6.12, the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
as Trustee
By
Authorized Signatory
Section 2.3 Securities Issuable in Global Form. If Securities of or
within a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated by
Section 3.1, then, notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 3.1 and the provisions
of Section 3.2, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding
Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it
shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series
from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased
or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form
to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and
upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein
or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3
or 3.4. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.3 and, if applicable, Section
3.4, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global
form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons
specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order
pursuant to Section 3.3 or 3.4 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any
instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or
redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply
with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 3.3 shall apply to any
Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the
Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not
comply with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
with regard to
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the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby,
together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section
3.3.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.7, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, payment of principal of and any
premium and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made to
the Person or Persons specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.8 and except as provided
in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of
Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the
case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such
permanent global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a permanent
global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or CEDEL.
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by
one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 3.3, set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established
in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of
Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of
which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (22) below) if
so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with respect to
unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time):
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish
the Securities of such series from all other series of Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6, 11.7 or 13.6);
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(3) the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the
series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, the manner in
which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the
series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and surrender
of the coupons appertaining thereto as they severally mature, and the
extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a
temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other
than in the manner provided in Section 3.4;
(4) the date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will
be determined, on which the principal and premium, if any, of the
Securities of the series shall be payable or the method of that
determination or the right to defer any interest payments;
(5) the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) at which the
Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by
which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which
such interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall
be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be
payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on
any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date, or the method by
which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest
shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months;
(6) the place or places, if any, other than or in addition to the
Borough of Manhattan, New York City, where the principal of (and premium,
if any), interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in
respect of, Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered
Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer,
exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served;
(7) the period or periods within which, the date or dates on which,
the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or
units or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or
in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have the
option;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or
purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods
within which or the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which,
the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in
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which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to
such obligation;
(9) the terms, if any, upon which the Securities of the series may be
convertible into or exchanged for Securities of another series, Common
Stock or Preferred Stock, as the case may be, and the terms and conditions
upon which such conversion shall be effected (including the initial
conversion or exchange price or rate, the conversion or exchange period,
any adjustment of the applicable conversion price and any requirements
relative to the reservation of such shares for purposes of conversion or
exchange);
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the series
shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the
denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(11) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency or Currencies in
which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be
payable or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated;
(12) whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined
with reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula
or method may be based, without limitation, on one or more currencies,
currency units, composite currencies, commodities, equity indices or other
indices), and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) if the principal amount payable at the stated maturity of the
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more
dates before the Stated Maturity, the amount that will be deemed to be the
principal amount as of any date for any purpose, including the principal
amount thereof which will be due and payable upon any Maturity other than
the Stated Maturity or which will be deemed to be outstanding as of any
date (or, in any such case, the manner in which the deemed principal amount
is to be determined), and if necessary, the manner of determining the
equivalent thereof in United States currency;
(14) whether the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be
payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency
or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies
other than that in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be
payable, the
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period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which,
such election may be made, and the time and manner of, and identity of the
exchange rate agent with responsibility for, determining the exchange rate
between the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite
currency or currencies in which such Securities are denominated or stated
to be payable and the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which such Securities are to be so
payable;
(15) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2
or, if applicable, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the
series that is convertible in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture, or the method by which such portion shall be determined;
(16) the applicability of, and any addition to or change in, the
covenants and definitions then set forth in the Indenture or in the terms
then set forth in such Indenture relating to permitted consolidations,
mergers or sales of assets;
(17) the applicability, if any, of Section 14.2 and/or Section 14.3 to
the Securities of the series and any provisions in modification of, in
addition to or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article 14;
(18)(a) whether Securities of the series are to be issuable as
Registered Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without coupons) or both,
any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of Bearer
Securities and the terms upon which Bearer Securities of the series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and vice versa (if
permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of
the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and
whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in permanent global
form with or without coupons and, if so, whether beneficial owners of
interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange such interests
for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and
denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may
occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 3.5, and, if
Registered Securities of the series are to be issuable as a global
Security, the identity of the depositary for such series;
(18)(b) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and
any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of the
series shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the
first Security of the series to be issued;
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(18)(c) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in
definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a
temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain
certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then
the form and/or terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;
(19) the appointment of any trustee, any authenticating or paying
agents, transfer agent or registrars;
(20) the terms, if any, of any guarantee of the payment of principal,
premium and interest with respect to the Securities of the series and any
corresponding changes to the provisions of the applicable indenture as then
in effect;
(21) the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or
assignment as security for the Securities of the series of any properties,
assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral, including whether
certain provisions of the TIA are applicable and any corresponding changes
to provisions of the applicable indenture as then in effect and including
provisions addressing priority, perfection and escrow arrangements related
to the security interest;
(22) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events
of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to Securities of the
series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent
with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein, and any change in
the right of the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities to declare the
principal premium and interest with respect to debt securities due and
payable;
(23) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of
Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be
specified;
(24) if the Securities of the series are to be issued upon the
exercise of warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be
authenticated and delivered;
(25) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay
Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 10.8 on the Securities of the
series to any Holder who is not a United States person (including any
modification to the definition of such term) in respect of any tax,
assessment or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Company will have
the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional
Amounts (and the terms of any such option); and
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(26) any other terms of the series.
All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except, in the
case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be
provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 3.3) and
set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time
and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of
the Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by
action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions, a copy of an appropriate
record of such action(s) shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the
delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the Securities
of such series.
Section 3.2 Denominations. The Securities of each series shall be
issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section
3.1. With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the
absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the
Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities issued in
global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and the Bearer
Securities of such series, other than Bearer Securities issued in global form
(which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in a denomination of
$5,000.
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of
the Company by the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, the
President or a Vice President of the Company and attested by its Secretary or
one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these individuals
on the Securities and coupons may be manual or facsimile signatures of the
present or any future such authorized officer and may be imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Securities.
Securities or coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or coupons.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with
any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of
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such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that, in connection
with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise
delivered to any location in the United States; and provided further that,
unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to
Section 3.1, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with its original
issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer Security shall have
furnished a certificate to Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, in the form
set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture or such other certificate as may be
specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 3.1,
dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the earlier of the date on which such
Bearer Security is delivered and the date on which any temporary Security first
becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in accordance with the terms of
such temporary Security and this Indenture. If any Security shall be represented
by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for purposes of this Section and
Section 3.4, the notation of a beneficial owner's interest therein upon original
issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global
Security shall be deemed to be delivery in connection with its original issuance
of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. Except as
permitted by Section 3.6, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any
Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have
been detached and cancelled.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time
and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series
shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the
Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of
particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity
date, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue. In
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be
fully protected in relying upon,
(i) an Opinion of Counsel stating that:
(a) the form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have
been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining
thereto, when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and
delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication in
accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Company in
the manner and subject to any
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conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute
legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, moratorium, reorganization and other similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally and to general equitable principles; and
(ii) an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of the Securities have
been complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such
certificate, no Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall
have occurred and be continuing.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties,
obligations or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise
in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time,
it shall not be necessary to deliver an Officers' Certificate otherwise required
pursuant to Section 3.1 or a Company Order, or an Opinion of Counsel or an
Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to the preceding paragraph at
the time of issuance of each Security of such series; provided that such order,
opinion and certificates, with appropriate modifications to cover such future
issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first
Security of such series.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated
by Section 3.1.
No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Security or Security to which such coupon appertains a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by
the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture. 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 3.9 together with a written statement (which
need not comply with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the
Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security
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shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and
shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.4 Temporary Securities. (a) Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities
in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form, or, if authorized, in
bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by
their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of any series,
such temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall
be exchanged in accordance with Section 3.4(b) or as otherwise provided in or
pursuant to a Board Resolution) if temporary Securities of any series are
issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the
temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a
Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender
for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series
(accompanied by any non-matured coupons appertaining thereto) the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a
like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be
delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided further
that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 3.3.
Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to
in all respects the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities
of such series.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution,
this Section 3.4(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in
global form other than through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company
("DTC"). If any such temporary Security is issued in global form, then such
temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered
to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the "Common
Depositary"), for the benefit of Euroclear and CEDEL, for credit to the
respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global
Security (the "Exchange Date"), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive
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Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the Exchange
Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common
Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities
without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be
exchanged. The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, and, if any combination
thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided,
however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security,
upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security
is accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and
signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for
its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a
subsequent date and signed by CEDEL as to the portion of such temporary global
Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth
in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in such other form as may be established
pursuant to Section 3.1; and provided further that definitive Bearer Securities
shall be delivered in exchange for a portion of a temporary global Security only
in compliance with the requirements of Section 3.3.
Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the
interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of
like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs
Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf
and delivers to Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, a certificate in the
form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be
established pursuant to Section 3.1), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the
Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices
of Euroclear and CEDEL, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such
series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise specified in such
temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge to the
beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person
receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like unless such Person takes delivery of such definitive
Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or CEDEL. Definitive Securities
in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global
Security shall be delivered only outside the United States.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this
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Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor
authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 3.1, interest payable on a temporary global Security
on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the
applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear and CEDEL on such
Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and CEDEL to the Trustee of a
certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this
Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section
3.1), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date
to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such
temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each
delivered to Euroclear or CEDEL, as the case may be, a certificate dated no
earlier than 15 days prior to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such
Exchange Date in the form set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such
other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 3.1). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to
this paragraph shall satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two
paragraphs of this Section 3.4(b) and of the third paragraph of Section 3.3 of
this Indenture and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of
the temporary global Security with respect to which such certification was made
will be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor
on the Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the
Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as
otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing
with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be
made unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security shall have
been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security. Any interest so
received by Euroclear and CEDEL and not paid as herein provided shall be
returned to the Trustee prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest
Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Company.
Section 3.5 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The
Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or
in any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment a register for each
series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office or in any such
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
referred to collectively as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities.
The Security Register shall be in written form or any other form capable of
being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee, at its
Corporate Trust Office, is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose
of registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities on
such Security Register as herein provided. In the event that the Trustee shall
cease to be Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine the Security
Register at all reasonable times.
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Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.5, upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any office
or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and
containing identical terms and provisions.
Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.5, at the option of the
Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical
terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any such Registered Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive. Unless otherwise specified with
respect to any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 3.1, Bearer
Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution and
(subject to Section 3.3) set forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate, or
in any indenture supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by Section 3.1,
at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged
for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and
of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer
Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured
coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder
of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons
or matured coupon or coupons in default, any such permitted exchange may be
effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable
to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any
such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided,
however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.2, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at any such office or agency in a permitted exchange for a
Registered Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of
business at such office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant
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Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of
Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon
relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer
Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable
only as provided in this paragraph. If the depositary for any permanent global
Security is DTC, then, unless the terms of such global Security expressly permit
such global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive
Securities, a global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only
to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor to DTC for
such global Security selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such
successor to DTC. If at any time DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as depositary for the applicable global Security or
Securities or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 if so required by applicable law or
regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to
such global Security or Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such
global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days
after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness,
inability or ineligibility, (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the beneficial owners representing a majority in principal amount
of the applicable series of Securities represented by such global Security or
Securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary for such global Security or
Securities or (z) the Company, in its sole discretion, determines at any time
that all Outstanding Securities (but not less than all) of any series issued or
issuable in the form of one or more global Securities shall no longer be
represented by such global Security or Securities, then the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities
of like series, rank, tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security or
Securities. If any beneficial owner of an interest in a permanent global
Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such
series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and
denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 and provided that any
applicable notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been
given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
earliest date on which such interest may be so exchanged, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities
in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
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such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. On or after
the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such permanent
global Security shall be surrendered for exchange by DTC or such other
depositary as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to
the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose; provided, however, that no
such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the
relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be
among those selected for redemption; and provided further that no Bearer
Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security
shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. If
a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent
global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such
exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date or (ii)
any Special Record Date and the opening of business at such office or agency on
the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or
Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of
such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom
interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or
the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized
in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 9.6, 11.7 or 13.6 not involving any transfer.
The Company or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be required (i)
to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security if such Security may
be among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be redeemed under
Section 11.3 and ending at the close of business on (A) if such Securities are
issuable only as Registered
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Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption and (B)
if such Securities are issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first
publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if such Securities are also
issuable as Registered Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of
the relevant notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or
exchange any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
except, in the case of any Registered Security to be redeemed in part, the
portion thereof not to be redeemed, or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so
selected for redemption except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for
a Registered Security of that series and like tenor, provided that such
Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption or (iv)
to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which has been
surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if
any, of such Security not to be so repaid.
Section 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any
mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it is
surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, together with, in proper cases, such
security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save
each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and
provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons
corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
or coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not
destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal
amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security
to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead
of issuing a new Security, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any,
appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to
which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, pay such Security or
coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of (and premium, if any),
any interest on and any
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Additional Amounts with respect to, Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise
provided in Section 10.2, be payable only at an office or agency located outside
the United States and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
3.1, any interest on Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation
and surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, or
in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series and their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons.
Section 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Except as
otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with
the provisions of Section 3.1, interest on any Registered Security that is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for such purpose pursuant to Section 10.2; provided, however, that each
installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Company's option
be paid by (i) mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written
order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 3.8, to the address of
such Person as it appears on the Security Register or (ii) transfer to an
account maintained by the payee located inside the United States.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect
to the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the case of
a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank
located outside the United States.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1, every
permanent global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any
Interest Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear and/or CEDEL, as the case
may be,
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with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its
account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for the
purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in
respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial
owners thereof.
In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in exchange for
a Registered Security of such series after the close of business (at an office
or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular Record Date and
before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the
coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable
on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of
such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.1, any interest on any Registered
Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall
notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed
to be paid on each Registered Security of such series and the date of the
proposed payment (which shall not be less than 30 days after such notice is
received by the Trustee) and at the same time the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency
unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities
of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) equal to the aggregate
amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall
make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior
to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest
as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not
more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the
proposed payment. 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
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Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at
his address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days
prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in
the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be
published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each place of
payment, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to the
establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment
of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been
mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons
in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2). In case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series
in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of
business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date
for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such proposed date of payment
and Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment
in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer
Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such
Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be
deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.5,
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 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a
Registered 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 such
Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose
of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to
Sections 3.5 and 3.7) interest on, such Registered Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and
neither the Company, the
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Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto
shall pass by delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer Security and the Holder of any
coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or coupon for the purpose of
receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder, with respect to
such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners of
beneficial interests in such global Security, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depositary (or its
nominee) as Holder of such global Security.
Section 3.9 Cancellation. All Securities and coupons surrendered for
payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee,
and any such Securities and coupons and Securities and coupons surrendered
directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by it;
provided, however, where the Place of Payment is located outside of the United
States, the Paying Agent at such Place of Payment may cancel the Securities
surrendered to it for such purposes prior to delivering the Securities to the
Trustee. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or
to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold,
and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If
the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition
shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness
represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the
Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. Canceled Securities and coupons held by
the Trustee
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shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of
such destruction to the Company, unless by a Company Order the Company directs
their return to it.
Section 3.10 Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect to Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any
series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any
surviving rights of conversion, registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities of such series herein expressly provided for and any right to receive
Additional Amounts), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, and at
the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when:
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and
delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i)
coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for
Registered Securities and maturing after such exchange, whose surrender is
not required or has been waived as provided in Section 3.5, (ii) Securities
and coupons of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and
which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6, (iii) coupons
appertaining to Securities called for redemption and maturing after the
relevant Redemption Date, whose surrender has been waived as provided in
Section 11.6, and (iv) Securities and coupons of such series for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and
held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii)
below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
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(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be
called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above,
has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose (A) an amount of
money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such
series are payable, (B) Government Obligations that 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, sufficient in each case to pay and discharge
the entire indebtedness on such Securities and such coupons not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and any Additional
Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the
case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the
Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied
with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under
Section 6.7, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under
Section 6.12 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the
Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations
of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last paragraph of Section 10.3 shall
survive.
Section 4.2 Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the provisions of
the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all amounts deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Securities, the coupons and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent), as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons
entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), and any interest and
Additional Amounts for whose payment such
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amounts have been deposited with or received by the Trustee, but such amounts
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 (and held by it
or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently converted shall
be returned to the Company upon Company Request.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever used
herein with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether or
not it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article 15 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 or any Additional
Amounts payable in respect of any Security of that series or of any coupon
appertaining thereto, when such interest, Additional Amounts or coupon
becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days (whether or not such payment is prohibited by the provisions of
Article 15); or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at its
Maturity (whether or not such payment is prohibited by the provisions of
Article 15); or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as
due by the terms of any Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty
of the Company in this Indenture with respect to any Security of that
series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or
whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) and
continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 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
(5) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within
the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
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(A) commences a voluntary case,
(B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an
involuntary case,
(C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all
or substantially all of its property, or
(D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
or
(6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under
any Bankruptcy Law that:
(A) is for relief against the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary in an involuntary case,
(B) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of the property of any of
them, or
(C) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary,
and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of
that series.
As used in this Section 5.1, the term "Bankruptcy Law" means title 11, U.S. Code
or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors and the term
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or other similar
official under any Bankruptcy Law.
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series may declare the principal (or, if any Securities are
Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the
principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities of
that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become immediately
due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(5) or 5.1(6)
occurs, the principal of, and accrued interest (including Additional Amounts)
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on, all the Securities 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 has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay in the currency or currency unit or composite currency in
which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series):
(A) all overdue installments of interest on and any Additional
Amounts payable in respect of all Outstanding Securities of that
series and any related coupons,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates
borne by or provided for in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue installments of interest and any Additional
Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such
Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security of any series and any related
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coupon when such interest or Additional Amount becomes due and payable
and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity,
then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series and coupons, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts, with interest upon any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest
or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in
such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities of such series and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
of such series, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any related coupons by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee
shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for
the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.
Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency
of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the
Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective
of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall then be due and
payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of
overdue principal, premium, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
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(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such
lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series, of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts, if
any, owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other
papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby directed by
each Holder of Securities of such series and coupons to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall request the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee
and any predecessor Trustee, their agents and counsel, and any other amounts due
the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a Security
or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or coupon in any such proceeding; 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 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities or Coupons. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or
any of the Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Securities or coupons or the production
thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted
by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust,
and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities and coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6 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
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account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest and any Additional
Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or coupons, or both, as the case
may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon
surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7;
SECOND: To the holders of Senior Indebtedness to the extent required
by the provisions of Article 15.
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the
Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and
any Additional Amounts payable, in respect of which or for the benefit of
which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and payable on
such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any), interest
and Additional Amounts, respectively; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security of any
series or any related coupon shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of
a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
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it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts. Notwithstanding any other
provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security or coupon shall have the
right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 3.5 and 3.7) interest on, and any
Additional Amounts in respect of, such Security or payment of such coupon on the
respective due dates expressed in such Security or coupon (or, in the case of
redemption or repurchase, on the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date, as the case
may be) and, if applicable, to convert such Security in accordance with the
provisions of the applicable supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case, the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of Securities and coupons shall, subject to any determination in such
proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise
provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Holders of Securities or coupons is intended to be exclusive of any other right
or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of
the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or coupon to exercise any right or
remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy
or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every
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right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or coupons, as the
case may be.
Section 5.12 Control by Holders of Securities. The Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series,
provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in
personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of
such series not joining therein.
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series and any related
coupons waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its
consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on or Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of
such series or any related coupons, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 9
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The Company
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 the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby
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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.
Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed
to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing
by any party litigant in such suit of any undertaking to pay the costs of such
suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group
of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the
enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the
continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants
or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof
are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and
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use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that
(1) this paragraph (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of
paragraph (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust
or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture; and
(4) 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.
(d) 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 (as Trustee, Paying Agent, Authenticating
Agent or Security Registrar) shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of
any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall transmit in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c),
notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall
have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a
default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of such series, or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities
and coupons of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default
or breach of the character specified in Section 5.1(4) with respect to the
Securities and coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given
until at least 90 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this
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Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of such series.
Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d):
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than
delivery of any Security, together with any coupons appertaining thereto,
to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.3
which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any
resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a
Board Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other
evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may request and, in the absence
of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate and Opinion
of Counsel;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction
of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons
pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the
Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it
in compliance with such request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document, but the Trustee,
in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to
make such further inquiry or
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investigation, it shall be entitled to make reasonable examination of the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
attorney following reasonable notice to the Company;
(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; and
(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized
or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture.
The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee
undertakes to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee.
Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, and in any coupons shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities
and perform its obligations hereunder. 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 6.5 May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying Agent,
Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or any other agent of the Company, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities and coupons and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may
otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were
not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such
other agent.
Section 6.6 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
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law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received
by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee
of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each
of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents
and counsel) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for,
and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on its own part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its powers or duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.l(5) or Section 5.1(6), the
expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
on particular Securities or any coupons.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting
Interests. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
eligible to act as Trustee under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such corporation publishes
reports of condition at
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least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of Federal, State,
Territorial or District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for
the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article. If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the TIA, 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 TIA and this Indenture.
Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 6.10.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to
the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA
Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.8 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for
at least six months, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the
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Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may
remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, or (ii) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with
respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with
respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any
such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any particular series). If, within one year
after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall
be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring
Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance
of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by
the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities
and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder of a
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series in the
manner provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in Section 1.6. 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 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In case of
the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities,
every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment,
and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective and such
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successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee
shall, upon payment of its charges, 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.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto,
pursuant to Article 9 hereof, wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or
desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all
the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with
respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed
necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in
the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood
that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such
Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be
trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or
trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution
and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each
such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or
any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to
which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
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Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities or coupons shall have
been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any
successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee
may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities or coupons so
authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities or coupons. In case any Securities or coupons
shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor Trustee, any such
successor Trustee may authenticate and deliver such Securities or coupons, in
either its own name or that of its predecessor Trustee, with the full force and
effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of
the Trustee.
Section 6.12 Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any
of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating
Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such
series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption or
repayment thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as
if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Any such appointment shall be
evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company.
Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery
of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication,
such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf
of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times
be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in
good standing under the laws of the United States of America or of any State or
the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authorities. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any
time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such
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Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or further act
on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at any time
resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series
and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with
respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties
of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses
for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to or in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternate certificate of authentication substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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as Trustee
By: ,
as Authenticating Agent
By: ,
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.1 Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders. Every Holder
of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Security Registrar shall be
held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names
and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section 312,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant
to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).
Section 7.2 Reports by Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15 of each
year commencing with the first May 15 after the first issuance of Securities
pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities as provided in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such May
15 if required by TIA Section 313(a). 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 the
Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on
any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.
Section 7.3 Reports by Company. The Company will:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports
and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such
portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 13(b) or Section 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not required to
file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such Sections,
then it
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will file with the Trustee, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary
and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required
pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of
a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may
be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules
and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by
the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be
required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(3) file with the Trustee and the Commission, if applicable, and
transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities, within 30 days after the
filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided
in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and
(2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission and other information as may be
required pursuant to the TIA at the time and in the manner provided
pursuant to such Act.
Section 7.4 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
(a) The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(i) semi-annually, not later than 10 days after the Regular
Record Date for interest for each series of Securities, a list, in such
form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of such Regular
Record Date, or if there is no Regular Record Date for interest for such
series of Securities, semi-annually, upon such dates as are set forth in
the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such
series, and such information, if any, concerning the holders of Bearer
Securities that is known to the Company or any Paying Agent other than the
Company; provided, however, that the Company and such Paying Agents shall
have no obligation to investigate any matter relating to any holder of a
Bearer Security or a coupon appertaining thereto; and
(ii) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list
of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished,
provided, however, that, so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished.
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(b) The Company shall provide the Trustee with at least 30 days' prior
notice of any change in location of its principal executive offices or other
principal place of business.
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE
Section 8.1 Consolidations and Mergers of Company and Sales, Leases
and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions. The Company may
consolidate with, or sell, lease, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all
or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other Person,
provided that in any such case, (1) either the Company shall be the continuing
corporation, or the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
or leases the Company's assets substantially as an entirety is a corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or trust organized and existing under the
laws of any United States jurisdiction and expressly assumes the due and
punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any interest
(including all Additional Amounts, if any, payable pursuant to this Indenture on
all of the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual
performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this
Indenture to be performed by the Company and shall have provided for conversion
rights, if applicable, in accordance with the relevant supplemental indenture or
Board Resolution, by supplemental indenture, complying with Article 9 hereof,
satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such
corporation and (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and
treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or such
Person or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the
Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default,
and no event which, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an
Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.
Section 8.2 Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation. In case of any
such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance and upon any such
assumption by the successor Person, such successor Person shall succeed to and
be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named
herein as the party of the first part, and the predecessor corporation, except
in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation under this
Indenture and the Securities. Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any
or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have
been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of
such successor corporation, instead of the Company, and subject to all the
terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee
shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which
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previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company
to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor
Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that
purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal
rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all
of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance,
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 8.3 Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel. Any
consolidation, merger, sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other dispositions
permitted under Section 8.1 is also subject to the condition that the Trustee
receive an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, transfer or conveyance or other
dispositions and the assumption by any successor Person, complies with the
provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the Company, when
authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time
and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the equal and ratable
benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such
covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the
benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default
are to
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be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of
such series); provided, however, that in respect of any such additional
Events of Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular
period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than
that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate
enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the
Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of
Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive such
default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to
change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be
issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities
to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized
denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in
uncertificated form, provided that any such action shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any
related coupons in any material respect; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only
when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the
execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit
of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any
related coupons as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1, including the
provisions and procedures relating to Securities convertible into Common
Stock or Preferred Stock, as the case may be; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of
the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with
the provisions of this Indenture; provided such provisions shall not
adversely affect the interests of
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the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any
material respect; or
(10) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and
discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 4.1, 14.2 and
14.3; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of Securities of such series and any related
coupons or any other series of Securities in any material respect; or
(11) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of
any holder of Securities of the applicable series; or
(12) to make any change to comply with any requirement of the
Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under TIA;
or
(13) to provide for the issuance of uncertificated Securities of one
or more series in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;
provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in
registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code or in a manner
such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section
163(f)(2)(B) of the Code.
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all
Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities and any related coupons under this Indenture; provided, however, that
no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security;
or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate or amount of interest
thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any
premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of
the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.8 (except as
contemplated by Section 8.1(1) and permitted by Section 9.1(1)), or reduce
the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that
would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 or the amount thereof provable in
bankruptcy pursuant
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to Section 5.4, or adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of
the Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where, or the
currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the
Redemption Date or the Repurchase Date, as the case may be); or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver with respect to such series (or compliance with certain
provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences) provided for in this Indenture;
(3) make any change that adversely affects the right to convert any
Security;
(4) modify the provisions of the Indenture relating to the ranking of
the Securities in a manner adverse to the Holders of the Securities;
(5) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
payment with respect to, or conversion of, the Securities; or
(6) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.8, except to increase the required percentage to effect such
action or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot
be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security affected thereby.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the
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Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) 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 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified
in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of
this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and of any coupon appertaining
thereto shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of
the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall, if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and
Additional Amounts. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the
Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts
payable in respect of the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms
of such series of Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 with
respect to any series of Securities, any interest due on and any Additional
Amounts payable in respect of Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other
than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section 10.8 in respect
of principal of (or premium, if any, on) such a Security, shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of the several coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. Unless
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otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section
3.1, at the option of the Company, all payments of principal may be paid by
check to the registered Holder of the Registered Security or other person
entitled thereto against surrender of such Security.
Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. If Securities of a
series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Company shall maintain in
each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or
conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of each such office or agency. If Securities of a series
are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain: (A) in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where any Registered
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or
conversion, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served and where Bearer
Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented or surrendered
for payment or conversion in the circumstances described in the following
paragraph (and not otherwise); (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable
thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which is located outside the
United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series and related
coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any
Additional Amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant to Section
10.8) or conversion; provided, however, that if the Securities of that series
are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located
outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company
will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in Luxembourg or
any other required city located outside the United States, as the case may be,
so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such exchange; and (C)
subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for
that series located outside the United States an office or agency where any
Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of
transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange and
where notices and demand to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of
that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location,
of each such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain
any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made
or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (except that Bearer
Securities of that series and the related coupons may be presented and
surrendered for payment (including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on
Bearer Securities of that series pursuant to Section 10.8) or
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conversion at the offices specified in the Security, in London, England, and the
Company hereby appoints the same as its agent to receive such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands), and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee
its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 3.1, no payment of principal, premium or interest on or Additional
Amounts in respect of Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of
the Company in the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United
States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United
States; provided, however, that, if the Securities of a series are payable in
Dollars, payment of principal of and any premium and interest on any Bearer
Security (including any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of such series
pursuant to Section 10.8) shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying
Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if)
payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest or
Additional Amounts, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the
United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this
Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other
similar restrictions.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind
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 accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of
any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location
of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to
any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to a series of Securities,
the Company hereby designates as a Place of Payment for each series of
Securities the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office as Paying Agent in such city and as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notice and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 3.1, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated
in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long
as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Company
will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required,
at least one exchange rate agent.
Section 10.3 Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust. If the
Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series
of any Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before each due date
of the
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principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts in
respect of, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which
the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the
principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities and any related coupons, it will, before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts in
respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in
the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or
currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal
(and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, so becoming due, such
sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal, premium or interest or Additional Amounts and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities or Additional Amounts in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be
paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any Event of Default upon
the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums
so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or 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
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Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums.
Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series, 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 (and premium, if any) or
interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series
and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if
any), interest or Additional Amounts has become due and payable shall be paid to
the Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment of such
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts in
respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and all liability of the
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such 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 an
Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a
date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4 Existence. Subject to Article 8, the Company will do or
cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises,
except to the extent that the Board of Directors shall determine that the
failure to do so would not have a material adverse effect on the business,
assets, financial condition or results of operation of the Company (a "Material
Adverse Effect"); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to
preserve any right or franchise if the Board of Directors 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 10.5 Maintenance of Properties. The Company will cause all of
it properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of
any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working
order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof,
all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business
carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted
at all times, except to the extent that the failure to do so would not have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Company; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to continue the operation or maintenance of any such
property or be prevented from disposing of such property if the Board of
Directors shall determine that such discontinuance or disposal
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is desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or the business of
any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 10.6 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 it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the
Company or 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 and have a Material Adverse Effect; 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 10.7 Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver to
the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a
certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's
compliance with all terms, conditions and provisions under this Indenture and,
in the event of any noncompliance, specifying such noncompliance and the nature
and status thereof. For purposes of this Section 10.7, such compliance shall be
determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under
this Indenture.
Section 10.8 Additional Amounts. If any Securities of a series provide
for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any
Security of such series or any coupon appertaining thereto Additional Amounts as
may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.1. Whenever in this Indenture
there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of Section 5.2(1), the
payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any
Security of any series or payment of any related coupon or the net proceeds
received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention
shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided
by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 3.1 to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of
Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, if the
Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least
10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of
Securities or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to
Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is made,
and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and any premium
or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth
in the below-mentioned Officers'
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Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal
Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers'
Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents
whether such payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the
Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series
or any related coupons who are not United States persons without withholding for
or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in
the Securities of the series. If any such withholding shall be required, then
such Officers' Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required
to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities of that series or
related coupons and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the
Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. In the event that
the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the
above-mentioned certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be
entitled (i) to assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with
respect to any payment of principal or interest with respect to any Securities
of a series or related coupons until it shall have received a certificate
advising otherwise and (ii) to make all payments of principal and interest with
respect to the Securities of a series or related coupons without withholding or
deductions until otherwise advised. The Company covenants to indemnify the
Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on
their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any
of them or in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this
Section or in reliance on the Company's not furnishing such an Officers'
Certificate.
The obligations of the Company under this Section shall survive
any termination, defeasance or discharge of the Indenture or applicable
Security.
Section 10.9 Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in any
particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in
Sections 10.4 to 10.6, inclusive, if before the time for such compliance the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all outstanding Securities
of such series, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no
such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the
extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such
term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
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ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1 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
3.1 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.
Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of
the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
all or any part of the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 45
days prior to the giving of the notice of redemption in Section 11.4 (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of
any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
Section 11.3 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If
less than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day with the same
terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be
selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from
the Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date with the same
terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall
deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption
of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that
series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities
of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption,
the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be given
in the manner provided in Section 1.6, not less than 30 days nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified by the
terms
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of such series established pursuant to Section 3.1, to each Holder of Securities
to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner herein provided to
the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or
any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of
the proceedings for the redemption of any other such Security or portion
thereof.
Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered Securities in
the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly
given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption Date
payable as provided in Section 11.6, if any, and Additional Amounts, if
any,
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
principal amount) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed,
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice
which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption
Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will receive, without a
charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the
principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and accrued
interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 11.6, if
any, will become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion
thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall
cease to accrue on and after said date,
(6) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities, together in
the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if
any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment
of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, or for conversion,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case,
(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities
of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied by
all coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for redemption or the
amount of any such missing coupon or coupons will be deducted from the
Redemption
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Price, unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Company, the
Trustee for such series and any Paying Agent is furnished,
(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any
Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such
Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject to
redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 3.5 or otherwise,
the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such exchanges may be
made,
(10) the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and
(11) if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to convert
Securities for redemption must satisfy the requirements for conversion
contained in such Securities, the then existing conversion price or rate
and the date and time when the option to convert shall expire.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by
the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company.
Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price. Not later than 11:00 a.m. on
the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it may not do
in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article 12, segregate and hold in
trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money in the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which
the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on
the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date
shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or
portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 11.6 Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or
composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are
payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for the
Securities of such series) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the
Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default
in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities
shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the coupons
for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed,
except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all
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coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that
installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency
located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 10.2)
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, only upon
presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest; and provided further
that, except as otherwise provided with respect to Securities convertible into
Common Stock or Preferred Stock, installments of interest on Registered
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be
furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security
shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in
respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided,
however, that interest represented by coupons shall be payable only at an office
or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in
Section 10.2) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1,
only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the
Security.
Section 11.7 Securities Redeemed in Part. Any Registered Security
which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article
or of Article 12) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if
the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge a new Security or Securities of
the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion
of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
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ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a
series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the
terms of Securities of such series.
Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory sinking
fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series, (1) deliver Outstanding Securities of such series (other than any
previously called for redemption) together, in the case of any Bearer Securities
of such series, with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto and (2) apply as
a credit Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the
election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of
such Securities, as provided for by the terms of such Securities, or which have
otherwise been acquired by the Company; provided that such Securities so
delivered or applied as a credit have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
applicable Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than
60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for Securities of any series,
the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the
amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies, currency unit or
units or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series
are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for the
Securities of such series) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that
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series pursuant to Section 12.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in
cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver
to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited. If such Officers'
Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next
ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated
to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days before each such
sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 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 11.4. Such notice
having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.6 and 11.7.
ARTICLE 13
REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 13.1 Applicability of Article. Repurchase of Securities of any
series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be
made in accordance with the terms of such Securities, if any, and (except as
otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section
3.1) in accordance with this Article.
Section 13.2 Repurchase of Securities. Securities of any series
subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof
will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a
price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest, if any,
thereon accrued to the Repurchase Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of
such Securities. The Company covenants that not later than 12:00 noon on the
Repurchase Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money in the currency or currencies,
currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal
(or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage
of the principal) of, and (except if the Repurchase Date shall be an Interest
Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as
the case may be, to be repaid on such date.
Section 13.3 Notice; Exercise of Repurchase Right. (a) On or before
the 15th day after the Company knows or reasonably should know an event giving
rise to a repurchase right has occurred, the Company, or at the written request
of the Company, the Trustee (in the name and at the expense of the Company),
shall give notice of the occurrence of such event and of the repurchase right
set forth herein
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arising as a result thereof by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by
telefacsimile with written acknowledgment of transmittal to each Holder of the
Securities at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register. The
Company shall also deliver a copy of such notice of a repurchase right to the
Trustee.
Each notice of a repurchase right shall state:
(1) the Repurchase Date,
(2) the date by which the repurchase right must be exercised,
(3) the Repurchase Price, and
(4) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise its repurchase
right.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notice shall limit any
Holder's right to exercise a repurchase right. The Trustee shall have no
affirmative obligation to determine if there shall have occurred such an event.
(b) To exercise a repurchase right, a Holder shall deliver to the
Company (or an agent designated by the Company for such purpose in the notice
referred to in (a) above) and to the Trustee on or before the 30th day after the
date of transmittal of the notice referred to in (a) above (i) written notice of
the Holder's exercise of such right, which notice shall set forth the name of
the Holder, the principal amount of the Security or Securities (or portion of a
Security) to be repurchased, and a statement that an election to exercise the
repurchase right is being made thereby, and (ii) the Security or Securities with
respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised, duly endorsed for
transfer to the Company. Such written notice shall be irrevocable. If the
Repurchase Date falls between any Regular Record Date and the corresponding
succeeding Interest Payment Date, Securities to be repurchased must be
accompanied by payment from the Holder of an amount equal to the interest
thereon which the registered Holder thereof is to receive on such Interest
Payment Date.
Section 13.4 When Securities Presented for Repurchase Become Due and
Payable. If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of
the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this Article and
as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or
the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and
payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repurchase Date therein
specified, and on and after such Repurchase Date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of such Securities on such Repurchase Date) such
Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and
the coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be
repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be
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void. Upon surrender of any such Security for repayment in accordance with such
provisions, together with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing
after the Repurchase Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid
shall be paid by the Company, together with accrued interest, if any, to the
Repurchase Date; provided, however, that coupons whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to the Repurchase Date shall be payable only at an office or agency
located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 10.2)
and, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1, only upon presentation
and surrender of such coupons; and provided further that, in the case of
Registered Securities, installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity
is on or prior to the Repurchase Date shall be payable (but without interest
thereon, unless the Company shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders
of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at
the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and
the provisions of Section 3.7.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Repurchase Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the amount payable therefor as
provided in Section 13.2 an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing
coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity
as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If
thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any
Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have
been made as provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be entitled
to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented
by coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the
United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 10.2) and, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons.
If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment
shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (together
with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repurchase Date) shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Repurchase Date at the rate of interest or Yield to
Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such
Security.
Section 13.5 Securities Not Repurchased on Repurchase Date. If any
Security surrendered for repurchase shall not be so paid on the Repurchase Date,
the principal of such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Repurchase Date at a rate borne by such Security.
Section 13.6 Securities Repaid in Part. Upon surrender of any
Registered Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new
Registered Security or
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Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the
Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered which is not to be
repaid.
ARTICLE 14
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 14.1 Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The Company may at its option by Board
Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 14.2 (if applicable) or Section 14.3
(if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this
Article.
Section 14.2 Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise of
the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or
within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto and the provisions of Article 15 hereof shall cease to be
effective on the date the conditions set forth in Section 14.4 are
satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance"). For this purpose, such defeasance means
that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "Outstanding" only
for the purposes of Section 14.5 and the other Sections of this Indenture
referred to in clauses (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all of its other
obligations under such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto are
concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of
Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 14.4 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto when such payments are due, (B) the Company's obligations with respect
to such Securities under Sections 3.5, 3.6, 10.2 and 10.3 and with respect to
the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by
Section 10.8, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article
14, the Company may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the
prior exercise of its option under Section 14.3 with respect to such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto.
Section 14.3 Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or
within
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a series, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 10.4
to 10.6, inclusive, and, if specified pursuant to Section 3.1, its obligations
under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto and the provisions of Article 15 hereof shall cease
to be effective, on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 14.4
are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be not "Outstanding"
for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of
Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with Sections 10.4
to 10.6, inclusive, or such other covenant, but shall continue to be deemed
"Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant
defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have
no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any
such Section or such other covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason
of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant or
by reason of reference in any such Section or such other covenant to any other
provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not
constitute a default or an Event of Default under Section 5.1(4) (with respect
to any of Sections 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6) or 5.1(7) or otherwise, as the case may
be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 14.4 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to application of Section 14.2 or Section 14.3
to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series and any coupons appertaining
thereto:
(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.8 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article 14
applic able 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 benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto, (1) an amount in such currency, currencies or currency unit in which
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as
payable at Stated Maturity, or (2) Government Obligations applicable to such
Securities and coupons appertaining thereto (determined on the basis of the
currency, currencies or currency unit in which such Securities and coupons
appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity) which
through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due
date of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any,
on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount, or
(3) a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount, sufficient, without
consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion
of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge,
and which shall
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be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge,
(i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such
Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on the Stated
Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) any
mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such
Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on the day on which
such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture
and of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto.
(b) At the time of such deposit: (A) no default in the payment of
all or a portion of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on or other
obligations in respect of any Senior Indebtedness shall have occurred and be
continuing, and no event of default with respect to any Senior Indebtedness
shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior
Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on
which it would otherwise have become due and payable and (B) no other event with
respect to any Senior Indebtedness shall have occurred and be continuing
permitting (after notice or the lapse of time, or both) the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of the holders thereof) to declare
such Senior Indebtedness due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise have become due and payable, or, in the case of either clause (A) or
clause (B) above, each such default or event of default shall have been cured or
waived or shall have ceased to exist.
(c) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any
other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound.
(d) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and be continuing on
the date of such deposit or, insofar as Sections 5.1(5) and 5.1(6) are
concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date
of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed
satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(e) In the case of an election under Section 14.2, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the
Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue
Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there
has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to
the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders
of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
such defeasance and will be
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subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.
(f) In the case of an election under Section 14.3, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will
not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result
of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the
same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the
case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(g) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent to the defeasance under Section 14.2 or the covenant defeasance under
Section 14.3 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that either (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to
subsection (a) above and the related exercise of the Company's option under
Section 14.2 or Section 14.3 (as the case may be), registration is not required
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Company, with
respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such
trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act have been
effected.
(h) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate to the effect that the Securities, if then listed on any securities
exchange, will not be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(i) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest as defined in Article 6 and for purposes
of the TIA with respect to any securities of the Company.
(j) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, such
defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any
additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed
on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 3.1.
Section 14.5 Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions. Subject to the provisions of the last
paragraph of Section 10.3, all money and Government Obligations (or other
property as may be provided pursuant to Section 3.1) (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively
for purposes of this Section 14.5, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 14.4 in
respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any coupons appertaining
thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own
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Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon
in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional
Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except
to the extent required by law. Money so held in trust shall not be subject to
the provisiuons of Article 15.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to
Section 3.1, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 14.4(a) has been made,
(a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is
entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.1 or the terms of such
Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that in
which the deposit pursuant to Section 14.4(a) has been made in respect of such
Security, or (b) a Currency Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency
or currency unit in which the deposit pursuant to Section 14.4(a) has been made,
the indebtedness represented by such Security and any coupons appertaining
thereto shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and
satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and
interest, if any, on such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds
yielded by converting (from time to time in the case of any such election) the
amount or other property deposited in respect of such Security into the currency
or currency unit in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such
election or Currency Conversion Event based on the applicable market exchange
rate for such currency or currency unit in effect on the second Business Day
prior to each payment date, except, with respect to a Currency Conversion Event,
for such currency or currency unit in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time
of the Currency Conversion Event.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 14.4 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, subject to
Section 6.7, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time
upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and
any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 14.4 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 an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in
accordance with this Article.
Section 14.6 Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is
unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 14.2 or 14.3 by reason of
any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or
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otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company's obligations under
this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no
deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article until such time as the Trustee or
Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section
14.2 or 14.3; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by
the Trustee or the Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 15
SUBORDINATION
Section 15.1 Agreement to Subordinate. The Company agrees, and each
Holder of Securities by accepting a Security agrees, that the indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent
and in the manner provided in this Article, to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness and that the subordination is for the benefit of the holders
of Senior Indebtedness.
Section 15.2 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy. Upon any
distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation or dissolution of the
Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar
proceeding relating to the Company or its property:
(1) holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive
payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest (including
interest accruing after the commencement of any such proceeding) to the
date of payment on the Senior Indebtedness before Holders of Securities
shall be entitled to receive any payment of principal of or interest on
Securities; and
(2) until the Senior Indebtedness is paid in full in cash, any
distribution to which Holders of Securities would be entitled but for this
Article shall be made to holders of Senior Indebtedness as their interests
may appear, except that Holders of Securities may receive securities that
are subordinated to Senior Indebtedness to at least the same extent as the
Securities.
Section 15.3 Default on Senior Indebtedness. The Company may not pay
principal of or interest on the Securities and may not acquire any Securities
for cash or property other than capital stock of the Company if:
(1) a default on Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that
permits holders of such Senior Indebtedness to accelerate its maturity, and
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(2) the default is the subject of judicial proceedings or the Company
receives a notice of the default from a person who may give it pursuant to
Section 15.11. If the Company receives any such notice, a similar notice
received within nine months thereafter relating to the same default on the
same issue of Senior Debt shall not be effective for purposes of this
Section.
The Company may resume payments on the Securities and may acquire them
when:
(1) the default is cured or waived, or
(2) 120 days pass after the notice is given if the default is not the
subject of judicial proceedings,
if this Article otherwise permits the payment or acquisition at that time.
Section 15.4 Acceleration of Securities. If payment of the Securities
is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company shall promptly notify
holders of Senior Indebtedness of the acceleration. The Company may pay the
Securities when 120 days pass after the acceleration occurs if this Article
permits the payment at that time.
Section 15.5 When Distribution Must Be Paid Over. If a distribution is
made to Holders of Securities that because of this Article should not have been
made to them, the Holders of Securities who receive the distribution shall hold
it in trust for holders of Senior Indebtedness and pay it over to them as their
interests may appear.
Section 15.6 Notice by Company. The Company shall promptly notify the
Trustee and any Paying Agent of any facts known to the Company that would cause
a payment of principal of or interest on Securities to violate this Article.
Section 15.7 Subrogation. After all Senior Indebtedness is paid in
full and until the Securities are paid in full, Holders of Securities shall be
subrogated to the rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive
distributions applicable to Senior Indebtedness to the extent that distributions
otherwise payable to the Holders of Securities have been applied to the payment
of Senior Indebtedness. A distribution made under this Article to holders of
Senior Indebtedness which otherwise would have been made to Holders of
Securities is not, as between the Company and Holders of Securities, a payment
by the Company on Senior Indebtedness.
Section 15.8 Relative Rights. This Article defines the relative rights
of Holders of Securities and holders of Senior Indebtedness. Nothing in this
Indenture shall:
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(1) impair, as between the Company and Holders of Securities, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay
principal of and interest on the Securities in accordance with their terms;
(2) affect the relative rights of Holders of Securities and creditors
of the Company other than holders of Senior Indebtedness; or
(3) prevent the Trustee or any Holders of Securities from exercising
its available remedies upon an Event of Default, subject to the rights of
holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions otherwise payable
to Holders of Securities.
If the Company fails because of this Article to pay principal of or
interest on a Security on the due date, the failure is still an Event of Default
as provided elsewhere herein.
Section 15.9 Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Trust. No right of
any holder of Senior Indebtedness to enforce the subordination of the
Indebtedness evidenced by the Securities shall be impaired by any act or
failure to act by the Company or by its failure to comply with this Indenture.
Section 15.10 Distribution or Notice to Representative. Whenever a
distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of Senior Indebtedness,
the distribution may be made and the notice given to their Representative.
Section 15.11 Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent. The Trustee or any
Paying Agent may continue to make payments on the Securities until it receives
notice of facts that would cause a payment of principal of or interest on the
Securities to violate this Article. Only the Company, a Representative or a
holder of an issue of Senior Indebtedness that has no Representative may give
the notice.
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This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
CD RADIO INC.
By:
Title:
Attest:
Title:
as Trustee
By:
Title:
Attest:
Title:
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the day of , before me personally came , to
me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides
at , , that he/she is of CD RADIO INC., one of the
parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and that
he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of CD RADIO INC.'s board of
directors.
[Notarial Seal]
Notary Public
COMMISSION EXPIRES
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the day of , before me personally came , to me
known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides
at , that he/she is of , one of the parties described in
and which executed the foregoing instrument, and that he/she signed his/her
name thereto by authority of the Board of Trustees.
[Notarial Seal]
Notary Public
COMMISSION EXPIRES
EXHIBIT A
FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED
TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST
PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as
set forth below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i)
are owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States,
domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income
of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its
source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s)
that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial
institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section
1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions") purchasing
for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired
the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions
and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on
the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States
financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent,
that you may advise CD Radio Inc. or its agent that such financial institution
will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial
institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined
in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, in
addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign financial institution
described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or
(ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution has not
acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a
United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of
America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its
"possessions" include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American
Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or
prior to the date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to
the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with
your Operating Procedures
if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such date, and in the
absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification
applies as of such date.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S.$]
__________ of such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect of
which we are not able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange for
an interest in a Permanent Global Security or an exchange for and delivery of
definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be
made until we do so certify.
We understand that this certificate may be required in
connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative
or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: , 19
[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior
to (i) the Exchange Date or (ii) the relevant
Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the
Exchange Date, as applicable]
[Name of Person Making
Certification]
(Authorized Signatory)
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR
AND CEDEL S.A. IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF
A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO
OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify that, based solely on written
certifications that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by
electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our records as
persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our
"Member Organizations") substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the
date hereof, [U.S.$] _____________ principal amount of the above-captioned
Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the
United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation
regardless of its source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) is owned by United
States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial
institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations
Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions")
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s)
who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial
institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial
institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such
financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that
we may advise CD Radio Inc. or its agent that such financial institution will
comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (c) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) is
owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of
resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury
Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, to the further effect, that
financial institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also
described in clause (i) or (ii)) have certified that they have not acquired the
Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States
person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.
As used herein, "United States" means the United States of
America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its
"possessions" include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American
Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We further certify that (i) we are not making available
herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion
of the temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities
excepted in the
above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations and (ii) as of the date
hereof we have not received any notification from any of our Member
Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member
Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for
exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and
cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
We understand that this certification is required in
connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative
or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this
certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: , 19
[To be dated no earlier than the Exchange Date
or the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring
prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]
[Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of
New York, Brussels Office,] as
Operator of the Euroclear System
[Cedel S.A.]
By: