of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if a Company or Parent shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Companies and Parent will do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect their respective corporate existences.
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.
The Companies and Parent will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of their respective businesses 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, and to the extent, in the judgment of the Companies and Parent, may be necessary so that the businesses carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Companies or Parent from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties, or disposing of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the judgment of the Companies or the Parent, desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Companies and Parent will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Companies and Parent upon the income, profits or property of the Companies and Parent, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Companies and Parent; provided, however, that the Companies and Parent shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) if the failure to pay or discharge would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
SECTION 1008. Limitation on Liens.
The Companies and Parent will not issue, incur, create, assume or guarantee, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue, incur, create, assume or guarantee, any Secured Debt (as defined below) without in any such case providing concurrently with the issuance, incurrence, creation, assumption or guarantee of any such Secured Debt, or the grant of a mortgage with respect to any such indebtedness, that the Securities (together with, if the Companies shall so determine, any other indebtedness of or guarantee by the Companies, Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary ranking equally with the Securities and then existing or thereafter created) shall be secured equally and ratably with (or, at the option of the Companies, prior to) such Secured Debt. The foregoing restriction with respect to Secured Debt, however, will not apply to:
(1) mortgages on property existing at the time of acquisition thereof by a Company, Parent or any Subsidiary, whether or not assumed, provided that such mortgages were in existence prior to the contemplation of such acquisition;
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