Section 7.02.Company May Consolidate, etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.03, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its assets to, another Person, unless:
(a) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture; and
(b) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
For purposes of this Section 7.02, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to another Person.
Section 7.03.Successor Company to be Substituted. Upon any such consolidation, merger or sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the Indenture with the same effect as if such successor had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter the Company shall be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and this Indenture, except in the case of any such lease.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 7.04.Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee. The Company shall not enter into any consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease subject to Section 7.02 unless the Trustee shall have received an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the provisions of this Article VII.
ARTICLE VIII
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
Section 8.01.Applicability of Article 3 of the Original Indenture. Article 3 of the Original Indenture shall not apply to the Notes. Instead, the provisions set forth in this Article VIII shall, with respect to the Notes, supersede in its entirety Article 3 of the Original Indenture and all references in the Original Indenture to Article 3 thereof and the provisions therein, as the case may be, shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be references to this Article VIII and the provisions set forth in this Article VIII.
Section 8.02.Right to Redeem; Notices to Trustee. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Company has the option to redeem the Notes (an “Optional Redemption”), at any time in whole or in part, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the applicable Redemption Price.
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