“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
“Percentage” shall mean, for any Lender on any date of determination, the percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Commitment on such date by the Total Commitment on such date.
“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean, as to any Person at any date, any of the following:
(i) (A) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges not then delinquent and Liens for workers’ compensation awards and similar obligations not then delinquent and undetermined Liens or charges incidental to construction, Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges then delinquent but the validity of which is being contested at the time by such Person in good faith against which an adequate reserve has been established, with respect to which levy and execution thereon have been stayed and continue to be stayed and that do not impair the use of the property or the operation of such Person’s business, (B) Liens incurred or created in connection with or to secure the performance of bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of money), leases, statutory obligations, surety bonds or appeal bonds, and mechanics’ or materialmen’s Liens, assessments or similar encumbrances, the existence of which does not impair the use of the property subject thereto for the purposes for which it was acquired, and other Liens of like nature incurred or created in the ordinary course of business;
(ii) Liens securing indebtedness, neither assumed nor guaranteed by such Person nor on which it customarily pays interest, existing upon real estate or rights in or relating to real estate acquired by such Person for any substation, transmission line, transportation line, distribution line, right of way or similar purpose;
(iii) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or public authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit, or by any provision of law, to terminate such right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit or to purchase or recapture or to designate a purchaser of any of the property of such Person;
(iv) rights reserved to or vested in others to take or receive any part of the power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or timber generated, developed, manufactured or produced by, or grown on, or acquired with, any property of such Person and Liens upon the production from property of power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or timber, and the by-products and proceeds thereof, to secure the obligations to pay all or a part of the expenses of exploration, drilling, mining or development of such property only out of such production or proceeds;
(v) easements, licenses, restrictions, exceptions or reservations in any property and/or rights of way of such Person for the purpose of roads, pipe lines, substations, transmission lines, transportation lines, distribution lines, removal of oil, gas, lignite, coal or other minerals or timber, and other like purposes, or for the joint or common use of real property, rights of way, facilities and/or equipment, and defects, irregularities and deficiencies in titles of any property and/or rights of way, which do not materially impair the use of such property and/or rights of way for the purposes for which such property and/or rights of way are held by such Person;
(vi) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or public authority to use, control or regulate any property of such Person;
(vii) any obligations or duties, affecting the property of such Person, to any municipality or public authority with respect to any franchise, grant, license or permit;
(viii) as of any particular time any controls, Liens, restrictions, regulations, easements, exceptions or reservations of any municipality or public authority applying particularly to space satellites or nuclear fuel;
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