“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, association, joint-stock company, trust, other entity, unincorporated organization or government or other agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Principal Property” means any pipeline, terminal or terminal facility property or asset owned or leased by the Partnership or any Subsidiary, including any related property or asset employed in the transportation (including vehicles that generate transportation revenues), distribution, terminalling, gathering, treating, processing, marketing or storage of crude oil or refined petroleum products, natural gas, natural gas liquids, fuel additives, petrochemicals or ammonia, except (1) any property or asset consisting of inventories, furniture, office fixtures and equipment (including data processing equipment), vehicles and equipment used on, or useful with, vehicles (but excluding vehicles that generate transportation revenues as provided above), and (2) any such property or asset, plant or terminal which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, is not material in relation to the activities of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Ratings Affirmation” means, with respect to any particular action or proposed action, each of Standard & Poor’s Rating Services and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or, if either or both of such ratings agencies do not then rate the Notes, such other nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as defined in the rules and regulations of the SEC) then having issued long-term debt ratings for the Notes, affirms that such long-term debt ratings will not be lowered as a result of the taking of such action or proposed action.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Partnership that owns or leases, directly or indirectly through the ownership of or an ownership interest in another Subsidiary, any Principal Property.
“Sale-Leaseback Transaction” means the sale or transfer by the Partnership or any Restricted Subsidiary of any Principal Property to a Person (other than the Partnership or a Restricted Subsidiary) and the taking back by the Partnership or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, of a lease of such Principal Property.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person,
(1) any other Person of which more than 50% of the total voting power of capital interests (without regard to any contingency to vote in the election of directors, managers, trustees, or equivalent persons), at the time of such determination, is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the Subsidiaries of such Person;
(2) in the case of a partnership, any Person of which more than 50% of the partners’ capital interests (considering all partners’ capital interests as a single class), at the time of such determination, is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the Subsidiaries of such Person; or
(3) any other Person in which such Person or one or more of the Subsidiaries of such Person have the power to control, by contract or otherwise, the board of directors, managers, trustees or equivalent governing body of, or otherwise control, such other Person.
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