“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the Issuer by two of its Officers that meets the requirements of Section 9.05 hereof and is delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. Such counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer.
“Participant” means, with respect to the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, a Person who has an account with the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, respectively (and, with respect to DTC, shall include Euroclear and Clearstream).
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, joint stock company, association, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
“principal” of a Note means the principal of such Note plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Note.
“Principal Domestic Subsidiary” means any of the Issuer’s Subsidiaries that (i) has substantially all of its assets located in the United States, (ii) owns or leases, directly or indirectly, a Principal Property and (iii) in which the Issuer’s direct or indirect capital investment, together with the outstanding balance of (a) any loans and advances made to such Subsidiary by the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer and (b) any Debt of such Subsidiary guaranteed by the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer, exceeds $20,000,000.
“Principal Property” means, whether currently owned or leased or subsequently acquired, any pipeline, gathering system, terminal, storage facility, processing plant or other plant or facility located in the United States of America or any territory or political subdivision thereof owned or leased by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries and used in the transportation, distribution, terminalling, gathering, treating, processing, marketing or storage of crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and propane and refined petroleum products 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) and (2) any such property or asset, plant or terminal which, in the good faith opinion of the board of directors of the General Partner as evidenced by resolutions of the board of directors of the General Partner, is not of material importance to the total business conducted by the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of (a) Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC or their respective affiliates or successors (provided, however, that if any shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Issuer will substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer), and (b) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Issuer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Issuer, of the bid and ask prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to us by such Reference Treasury Dealer as of 3:30 p.m., New York time, on the third business day preceding the redemption date.
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