SECTION 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BORROWER AND THE GENERAL PARTNER
In order to induce the Lenders and Administrative Agent to enter into this Amendment No. 1, each of the General Partner and the Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent as follows:
(i) It has the power and authority and legal right to execute and deliver each of this Amendment No. 1 and the Notes described in Section 5D below (collectively, the “Amendment Documents”) and to perform its obligations thereunder and under the Credit Agreement as amended by this Amendment No. 1 (as so amended, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The execution and delivery by it of the Amendment Documents and the performance of its obligations thereunder and under the Amended Credit Agreement have been duly authorized by proper proceedings, and the Amendment Documents and the Amended Credit Agreement constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of, respectively, the General Partner or the Borrower enforceable against such entity in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity;
(ii) Neither the execution and delivery by it of the Amendment Documents, nor the consummation of the transactions therein contemplated or contemplated in the Amended Credit Agreement, nor performance of the provisions thereof or of the Amended Credit Agreement will violate any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award binding on, respectively, the General Partner or the Borrower or any of such entity’s Material Subsidiaries or such entity’s or any Material Subsidiary’s articles of incorporation, by-laws, certificate of limited partnership or partnership agreement or the provisions of any indenture, instrument or agreement to which such entity or any of its Material Subsidiaries is a party or is subject, or by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with or constitute a default thereunder, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien in, of or on the Property of such entity or a Material Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement other than any violation, conflict, default or creation of a Lien under any indenture, instrument or agreement which could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is required to authorize, or is required in connection with the execution and delivery of the Amendment Documents or the performance of, or the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of, any of the Amendment Documents or the Amended Credit Agreement;
(iii) It is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Indiana, with its principal place of business in Indianapolis, Indiana and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or partnership, properly licensed (if required), in good standing and has all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, except to the extent the failure to be in good standing, or to be so qualified or licensed, or have such authority, could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expect to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(iv) Each of the representations and warranties made by the Borrower and the General Partner in or pursuant to the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language, true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects) on and as of the Amendment Effective Date as if made on and as of such date except for representations and warranties expressly stated to relate to a specific earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language, true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects) as of such earlier date; and
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