EXHIBIT 4.2
TRUST AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES, INC.
SELLER
AND
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE)
OWNER TRUSTEE
DATED AS OF APRIL 19, 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE...............................................................1
Section 1.1 Definitions...................................................................1
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION.............................................................................................1
Section 2.1 Name..........................................................................1
Section 2.2 Office........................................................................1
Section 2.3 Purposes and Powers...........................................................1
Section 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee..................................................2
Section 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate............................2
Section 2.6 Declaration of Trust..........................................................2
Section 2.7 Liability of the Certificateholders...........................................3
Section 2.8 Title to Trust Property.......................................................3
Section 2.9 Situs of Trust................................................................3
Section 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Seller..................................3
Section 2.11 Tax Treatment.................................................................4
ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES.........................................................................................4
Section 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership.................................................4
Section 3.2 Form of the Certificates......................................................4
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery........................................5
Section 3.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange of Certificates......................................................5
Section 3.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.............................6
Section 3.6 Persons Deemed Certificateholders.............................................7
Section 3.7 Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.....................7
Section 3.8 Maintenance of Corporate Trust Office.........................................7
Section 3.9 Appointment of Paying Agent...................................................7
Section 3.10 [Reserved]....................................................................8
Section 3.11 Book-Entry Certificates.......................................................8
Section 3.12 Notices to Clearing Agency....................................................9
Section 3.13 Definitive Certificates.......................................................9
Section 3.14 Seller as Certificateholder..................................................10
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ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE................................................................................10
Section 4.1 Prior Notice to Certificateholders with Respect to
Certain Matters..............................................................10
Section 4.2 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to
Certain Matters..............................................................10
Section 4.3 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy......................11
Section 4.4 Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power....................................11
Section 4.5 Majority Control.............................................................11
ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES..............................................................11
Section 5.1 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account............................11
Section 5.2 Application of Trust Funds...................................................12
Section 5.3 Method of Payment............................................................13
Section 5.4 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders,
the Internal Revenue Service and Others......................................13
Section 5.5 Signature on Returns; Other Tax Matters......................................13
ARTICLE VI
THE OWNER TRUSTEE.......................................................................................14
Section 6.1 Duties of Owner Trustee......................................................14
Section 6.2 Rights of Owner Trustee......................................................15
Section 6.3 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties..............................................15
Section 6.4 Action upon Instruction by Certificateholders................................17
Section 6.5 Furnishing of Documents......................................................17
Section 6.6 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee..............................17
Section 6.7 Reliance; Advice of Counsel..................................................18
Section 6.8 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes.................................19
Section 6.9 Compensation and Indemnity...................................................19
Section 6.10 Replacement of Owner Trustee.................................................19
Section 6.11 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.....................................20
Section 6.12 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee................................20
Section 6.13 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee...................................21
ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT..........................................................................22
Section 7.1 Termination of Trust Agreement...............................................22
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ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS..............................................................................................23
Section 8.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or
Noteholders..................................................................23
Section 8.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and
Noteholders..................................................................23
Section 8.3 Form of Amendments...........................................................24
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS...........................................................................................25
Section 9.1 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate.........................................25
Section 9.2 Limitations on Rights of Others..............................................25
Section 9.3 Derivative Actions...........................................................25
Section 9.4 Notices......................................................................25
Section 9.5 Severability.................................................................25
Section 9.6 Counterparts.................................................................25
Section 9.7 Successors and Assigns.......................................................26
Section 9.8 No Petition..................................................................26
Section 9.9 No Recourse..................................................................26
Section 9.10 Headings.....................................................................26
Section 9.11 Governing Law................................................................26
Section 9.12 Certificate Transfer Restrictions............................................26
Section 9.13 Indemnification by and Reimbursement of the Servicer.........................27
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Certificate
Exhibit B Form of Certificate of Trust
Exhibit C Form of Certificate Depositary Agreement
Exhibit D Undertaking Letter
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TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of April 19, 2000, between CAPITAL
AUTO RECEIVABLES, INC., a Delaware corporation, as Seller, and BANKERS TRUST
(DELAWARE), a Delaware banking corporation, as Owner Trustee.
The Seller and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 DEFINITIONS. Certain capitalized terms used in this
Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in PART I of
APPENDIX A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith,
among the Seller, the Servicer and the Trust (the "TRUST SALE AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT"). All references herein to "THE AGREEMENT" or "THIS AGREEMENT" are to
this Trust Agreement, and all references herein to Articles, Sections and
subsections are to Articles, Sections and subsections of this Agreement unless
otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in PART II of such
APPENDIX shall be applicable to this Agreement.
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.1 NAME. The Trust created hereby shall be known as "Capital
Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2000-1" in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct
the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on
behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued on behalf of the Trust.
SECTION 2.2 OFFICE. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware
as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders
and the Seller.
SECTION 2.3 PURPOSES AND POWERS. The purpose of the Trust is,
and the Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage in the following
activities:
(i) to acquire, manage and hold the Receivables;
(ii) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell, transfer or
exchange the Notes and the Certificates;
(iii) to acquire certain property and assets from the Seller
pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, to make payments to
the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, to make deposits into and
withdrawals from the Reserve Account and to pay the organizational,
start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust;
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(iv) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey
the Trust Estate pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and to hold,
manage and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement and the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement any
portion of the Trust Estate released from the lien of, and remitted to
the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(v) to enter into and perform its obligations and exercise
its rights under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a party;
(vi) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish
the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith,
including entering into interest rate swaps and caps and other
derivative instruments; and
(vii) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to
engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions
to the Certificateholders and the Noteholders.
The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the
foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement
or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.4 APPOINTMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Seller hereby appoints
the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to
have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5 INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OF OWNER TRUST ESTATE. The
Seller hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Seller, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Seller shall
pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the
request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such
expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.6 DECLARATION OF TRUST. The Owner Trustee hereby declares
that it shall hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificate Owners,
subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the
intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under
the Business Trust Statute, that this Agreement constitute the governing
instrument of such business trust and that the Certificates represent the
beneficial interests therein. The rights of the Certificateholders shall be
determined as set forth herein and in the Business Trust Statute and the
relationship between the parties hereto created by this Agreement shall not
constitute indebtedness for any purpose. Effective as of the date hereof, the
Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in
the Business Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the
Trust.
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SECTION 2.7 LIABILITY OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. Certificateholders
and holders of beneficial interests therein shall be entitled to the same
limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
SECTION 2.8 TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY. Legal title to all the Owner
Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal
entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in
which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a
co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.9 SITUS OF TRUST. The Trust shall be located and
administered in the States of Delaware or New York. All bank accounts maintained
by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of
Delaware or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in
any state other than Delaware; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing herein shall
restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without
the State of Delaware. Payments shall be received by the Trust only in
Delaware or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from
Delaware or New York. The only office of the Trust shall be the Corporate
Trust Office in Delaware.
SECTION 2.10 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER. The Seller
hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
(a) The Seller has been duly organized and is validly existing
as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct
its business as such properties are presently owned and such business
is presently conducted and had at all relevant times, and now has,
power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables.
(b) The Seller is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses
and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of
property or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications.
(c) The Seller has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms, the Seller has full
power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and
assigned to and deposited with the Issuer as part of the Trust and the
Seller has duly authorized such sale and assignment to the Issuer by
all necessary corporate action; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by the Seller
by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement do not
conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions
of or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default
under, the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Seller, or
any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Seller is a
party or by which it is bound, or result
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in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties
pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other
instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents), or violate any
law or, to the best of the Seller's knowledge, any order, rule or
regulation applicable to the Seller of any court or of any federal or
state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or any of its
properties.
SECTION 2.11 TAX TREATMENT. The Seller and the Owner Trustee, by
entering into this Agreement, and the Certificateholders, by acquiring any
Certificates or interest therein, (i) express their intention that the
Certificates will qualify as equity interests in a grantor trust for federal
income tax purposes or, if the Internal Revenue Service were to contend
successfully that the Trust is not a grantor trust, as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes and (ii) unless otherwise required by the appropriate taxing
authorities, agree to treat the Certificates as equity interests in an entity as
described in CLAUSE (I) of this SECTION 2.11 for the purposes of federal income
taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes, Michigan single business tax,
and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by, or based upon gross or net
income. The parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax
authorities, the Trust shall file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary
returns, reports and other forms consistent with such characterization of the
Trust for such tax purposes.
ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES
SECTION 3.1 INITIAL CERTIFICATE OWNERSHIP. Upon the formation of the
Trust by the contribution by the Seller pursuant to SECTION 2.5 and until the
issuance of the Certificates, the Seller shall be the sole Certificateholder.
SECTION 3.2 FORM OF THE CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Certificates shall be substantially in the form set forth in
EXHIBIT A and shall be issued in minimum denominations of $20,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided, however, that one Certificate
may be issued in a denomination that includes any residual amount. The
Certificates shall represent the entire beneficial interest in the Trust. The
Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile
signature of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when
such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the
Trust, shall be duly issued, fully paid and non-assessable beneficial interests
in the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and
delivery of such Certificates.
(b) The Definitive Certificates shall be typewritten, printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with
or without steel engraved borders) all as
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determined by the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their
execution of such Certificates.
(c) The Certificates shall be issued in fully-registered form. The
terms of the Certificates set forth in EXHIBIT A shall form part of this
Agreement.
SECTION 3.3 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY. Concurrently with
the sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificates in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the initial Certificate Balance to be
executed on behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the
written order of the Seller, signed by its chairman of the board, its president
or any vice president, without further corporate action by the Seller, in
authorized denominations. No Certificate shall entitle its holder to any benefit
under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall
appear on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form set forth in EXHIBIT A, executed by the Owner Trustee or Bankers Trust
Company, as the Owner Trustee's authenticating agent, by manual signature. Such
authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall
have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be
dated the date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.4 REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF
CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to SECTION 3.8, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and
exchanges of Certificates as provided herein; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no
Certificate may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange such that the
denomination of any resulting Certificate is less than $20,000. Bankers Trust
Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of a
Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or,
if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Certificate
Registrar.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to SECTION 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall
execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Bankers
Trust Company as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates
in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of
authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if the Seller shall have advised the Owner Trustee in writing
that an Undertaking Letter shall be required with respect to any transfer, such
transfer shall not be effective unless the requirements of Section 9.12, with
respect to the delivery of an Undertaking Letter, shall have been complied with.
(c) At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate principal amount
upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office
maintained pursuant to SECTION 3.8. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered
for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust,
authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Bankers Trust Company as its
authenticating agent to
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authenticate and deliver) one or more Certificates dated the date of
authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. Such
Certificates shall be delivered to the Holder making the exchange.
(d) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing and such other
documents and instruments as may be required by SECTION 3.4(B). Each Certificate
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and
subsequently destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the Owner Trustee or
Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(e) The Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed
and any other expenses of the Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Certificates.
SECTION 3.5 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN CERTIFICATES.
(a) If (i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate
Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of
the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered
to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Trust such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee that such
Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall
execute on behalf of the Trust and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver (or shall cause Bankers Trust Company as its authenticating agent to
authenticate and deliver), in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a replacement Certificate in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate principal amount; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if
any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, but not a mutilated Certificate,
shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable, then instead of
issuing a replacement Certificate the Owner Trustee may pay such destroyed, lost
or stolen Certificate when so due or payable.
(b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Certificate or payment in
respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate pursuant to SECTION 3.5(A), a
protected purchaser of the original Certificate in lieu of which such
replacement Certificate was issued presents for payment such original
Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement
Certificate (and any distributions or payments made with respect thereto) or
such payment from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such
replacement Certificate from such Person to whom such replacement Certificate
was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and
shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to
the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Owner Trustee in
connection therewith.
(c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Certificate
under this SECTION 3.5, the Owner Trustee may require the payment by the Holder
of such Certificate of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
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reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Owner Trustee and
the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith.
(d) Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this SECTION 3.5 in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall
constitute an original additional beneficial interest in the Trust, whether or
not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be found at any
time or be enforced by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates duly
issued hereunder.
(e) The provisions of this SECTION 3.5 are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificates.
SECTION 3.6 PERSONS DEEMED CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. Prior to due
presentation of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate
shall be registered in the Certificate Register as the Certificateholder of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to ARTICLE V and
for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the
Certificate Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7 ACCESS TO LIST OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the
Seller, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a request therefor
from the Servicer or the Seller in writing, a list of the names and addresses of
the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. Each Holder, by
receiving and holding a Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold
any of the Servicer, the Seller or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of
the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
SECTION 3.8 MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE. The Owner Trustee
shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, an office or
offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Owner Trustee in respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be
served. The Owner Trustee initially designates the offices of Bankers Trust
Company, Four Albany Street, New York, New York 10006, as its principal office
for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the
Seller and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the
Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.9 APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT. Except as otherwise provided
in SECTION 5.2, the Paying Agent shall make distributions to Certificateholders
from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to SECTION 5.2 and shall
report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee and the Servicer;
PROVIDED that no such reports shall be required so long as the Seller is the
sole Certificateholder. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to
withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of
making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such
power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole
discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations
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under this Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent shall initially
be Bankers Trust Company, and any co-paying agent chosen by Bankers Trust
Company, and acceptable to the Owner Trustee. Bankers Trust Company shall be
permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner
Trustee. If Bankers Trust Company shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner
Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank
or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or
any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and
deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent
or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that as Paying
Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to
the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall
also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of
SECTIONS 6.3, 6.6, 6.7 AND 6.9 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role
as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and,
to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent, certificate registrar or
authenticating agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the
Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires
otherwise.
SECTION 3.10 [RESERVED].
SECTION 3.11 BOOK-ENTRY CERTIFICATES. Except for the Certificates
issued to the Seller, the Certificates, upon original issuance, shall be issued
in the form of a printed Certificate or Certificates representing Book-Entry
Certificates, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial
Clearing Agency by or on behalf of the Trust. Such Certificate or Certificates
shall initially be regis tered on the Certificate Register in the name of Cede &
Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency and no Certificate Owner shall
receive a definitive Certificate representing such Certificate Owner's interest
in such Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.13. Unless and until
definitive fully registered Certificates (the "Definitive Certificates") shall
have been issued to Certificate Owners pursuant to Section 3.13:
(a) the provisions of this Section 3.11 shall be in full
force and effect;
(b) the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Agreement (including the payment of principal of and interest on the
Certificates and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as
the sole Holder of the Certificate, and shall have no obligation to the
Certificate Owners;
(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.11
conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of
this Section 3.11 shall control;
(d) the rights of the Certificate Owners shall be exercised
only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Certificate Owners and
the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants and
pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement in the form attached
as EXHIBIT C,
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unless and until Definitive Certificates are issued pursuant to Section
3.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among
the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of
principal of and interest on the Certificates to such Clearing Agency
Participants;
(e) whenever this Agreement requires or permits actions to be
taken based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Certificates
evidencing a specified percentage of the Voting Interests, the Clearing
Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent
that it has received instructions to such effect from Certificate
Owners and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing,
respectively, such required percentage of Voting Interests and has
delivered such instructions to the Owner Trustee;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the provisions of this Section 3.11 shall not be
applicable in respect of Certificates issued to the Seller. The Seller or the
Owner Trustee may set a record date for the purpose of determining the identity
of Holders of Certificates entitled to vote or to consent to any action by vote
as provided in this Agreement.
SECTION 3.12 NOTICES TO CLEARING AGENCY. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Certificateholders is required under this Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Certificates shall have been issued to Certificate Owners
pursuant to Section 3.13, the Owner Trustee shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to Certificateholders to the
Clearing Agency and shall have no further obligation to the Certificate Owners.
SECTION 3.13 DEFINITIVE CERTIFICATES. If (a) the Administrator advises
the Owner Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or
able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Certificates
and the Administrator is unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the
Administrator at its option advises the Owner Trustee in writing that it elects
to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (c) after the
occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Certificate Owners
representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the Voting
Interests advise the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest
of the Certificate Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Certificate
Owners and the Owner Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of Definitive Certificates to Certificate Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Owner Trustee of the printed Certificate or
Certificates representing the Book-Entry Certificates by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Owner Trustee shall execute and
authenticate the Definitive Certificates in accordance with the instructions of
the Clearing Agency. Neither the Certificate Registrar nor the Owner Trustee
shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instruc tions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates, the Owner Trustee shall recognize
the Holders of the Defini tive Certificates as Certificateholders.
SECTION 3.14 SELLER AS CERTIFICATEHOLDER. The Seller in its individual
or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates and may
otherwise deal with the Owner Trustee or its Affiliates as if it were not the
Seller.
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ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 PRIOR NOTICE TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS. The Owner Trustee shall not take action with respect to the following
matters, unless (i) the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders
in writing of the proposed action at least 30 days before the taking of such
action, and (ii) the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner
Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that such
Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust
(other than an action to collect on a Receivable or an action by the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture) and the compromise of
any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (other
than an action to collect on a Receivable or an action by the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust, a conformed copy of which is attached hereto as
EXHIBIT B;
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is
required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not
required and such amendment materially adversely affects the interests
of the Certificateholders;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the
Administration Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or
supplement any provision in a manner that would not materially
adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor
Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this
Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the
assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or
Certificate Registrar of its obligations under the Indenture or this
Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.2 ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written
direction of the Certificateholders, to remove the Administrator under the
Administration Agreement pursuant to SECTION 10 thereof, appoint a successor
Administrator pursuant to SECTION 10 of the Administration Agreement, remove the
Servicer under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to SECTION 7.02
thereof or except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the
Receivables or any interest therein
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after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions
referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by
the Certificateholders.
SECTION 4.3 ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO BANKRUPTCY.
The Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Certificateholders (including the Seller) and the delivery to the Owner Trustee
by each such Certificateholder of a certificate certifying that such
Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee commence or join in
commencing any such proceeding prior to the date that is one year and one day
after the termination of the Trust.
SECTION 4.4 RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' POWER. The
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents or would be contrary to SECTION 2.3, nor shall the Owner Trustee be
obligated to follow any such direction, if given. The Certificateholders shall
not and shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the
provisions of SECTION 6.1 and, if given, the Owner Trustee shall not be
obligated to follow any such direction.
SECTION 4.5 MAJORITY CONTROL. Except as expressly provided herein, any
action that may be taken or consent that may be given or withheld by the
Certificateholders under this Agreement shall be effective if such action is
taken or such consent is given or withheld by the Holders of Certificates
evidencing not less than a majority of the Voting Interests as of the close of
the preceding Distribution Date. Except as expressly provided herein, any
written notice, instruction, direction or other document of the
Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if
signed by Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Voting Interests at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in SECTION 5.2, the Servicer, for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name of
the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables
Asset Trust 2000-1 Certificate Distribution Account (the "CERTIFICATE
DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT"), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating
that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
(b) The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in and to
all funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account
and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein or in the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Certificate Distribution Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee for the
benefit of the
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Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases
to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Servicer on behalf
of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held
by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall within 10 Business Days (or
such longer period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating
Agency may consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an
Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to
such new Certificate Distribution Account.
SECTION 5.2 APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS.
(a) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall distribute to
the Certificate holders, on a pro rata basis, amounts equal to the amounts
deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to SECTIONS 4.06 AND
4.07 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement on or prior to such Distribution
Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary in this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents, if and for so long as Certificates
representing in the aggregate a 100% beneficial interest in the Trust are held
by the Seller, (i) no Certificate Distribution Account shall be required to be
established or maintained and (ii) all distributions and payments on the
Certificates (including the final distribution as contemplated by SECTION 7.1(C)
hereof) required hereunder or under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall
be made directly to the Seller by the Indenture Trustee (whether or not the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement otherwise contemplates deposit into the
Certificate Distribution Account) and the Owner Trustee shall have no duty or
liability to see to such distribution.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement provided to the Owner Trustee by the Servicer
pursuant to SECTION 4.09(A) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement on such
Distribution Date setting forth, among other things, the amount of the
distribution allocable to Certificate Balance and to interest, the Certificate
Balance after giving effect to such distribution, the balance of the Reserve
Account (and amounts, if any, distributed from the Reserve Account) and the
Total Servicing Fee with respect to such Distribution Date or Monthly Period, as
applicable; PROVIDED that no such statement shall be required to be sent by the
Owner Trustee if and for so long as the Seller is the sole Certificateholder.
(c) If any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's payment (or
allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount
otherwise distributable to the Certificate holder in accordance with this
SECTION 5.2; PROVIDED that the Owner Trustee shall not have an obligation to
withhold any such amount if and for so long as the Seller is the sole
Certificateholder. The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain
from amounts otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds
for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such
authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax
in appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by
law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax
imposed with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed
to such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted
to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding
tax is payable with respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a
non-U.S. Certificateholder), the Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion
withhold such amounts in
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accordance with this SECTION 5.2(C). If a Certificateholder wishes to apply for
a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably
cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such
Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of- pocket
expenses incurred.
(d) If the Indenture Trustee holds escheated funds for payment to the
Trust pursuant to SECTION 3.3(E) of the Indenture, the Owner Trustee shall, upon
notice from the Indenture Trustee that such funds exist, submit on behalf of the
Trust an Issuer Order to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to SECTION 3.3(E) of the
Indenture instructing the Indenture Trustee to pay such funds to or at the order
of the Seller.
SECTION 5.3 METHOD OF PAYMENT. Subject to SECTION 7.1(C),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date
shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the related Record
Date (i) by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of
such Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities
therefor, if (x) the Certificates are Definitive Certificates, and such
Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate
written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Record Date and
the distribution required to be made to such Holder on such Distribution Date
exceeds $100,000 or (y) the Certificates are Book-Entry Certificates, or, (ii)
if neither clause (i)(x) nor clause (i)(y) is applicable, by check mailed to
such Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in
the Certificate Register.
SECTION 5.4 ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS TO THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS, THE
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND OTHERS. The Owner Trustee shall maintain (or cause
to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual
method of accounting, deliver to each Certificateholder, as may be required by
the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations or otherwise, such information as
may be required to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal income
tax return, file such tax returns relating to the Trust and make such elections
as may from time to time be required or appropriate under any applicable state
or federal statute or rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the
Trust's characterization as an entity described in clause (i) of SECTION 2.11
for federal income tax purposes, cause such tax returns to be signed in the
manner required by law and collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax
as described in and in accordance with SECTION 5.2(C) with respect to income or
distributions to Certificateholders. In the event that the Internal Revenue
Service were to contend successfully that the Trust is not a grantor trust but
is rather a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the Trust shall
allocate items of income, gain, deduction and loss to the partners of the Trust
in accordance with their economic interests in the Trust. With respect to
interest expense of the Trust, the Trust shall allocate to the
Certificateholders their share of the entire amount of such interest expense.
SECTION 5.5 SIGNATURE ON RETURNS; OTHER TAX MATTERS. The Owner Trustee
shall sign on behalf of the Trust any and all tax returns of the Trust, unless
applicable law requires a Certificateholder to sign such documents, in which
case such documents shall be signed by the Seller. To the extent one may be
required, the Seller shall be the "tax matters partner" of the Trust pursuant to
the Code.
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ARTICLE VI
THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE.
(a) The Owner Trustee undertakes to perform such duties, and only such
duties, as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents, including the administration of the Trust in the interest of the
Certificateholders, subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed
to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee
hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable
for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its obligations
under the Administration Agreement.
(c) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Owner Trustee may
conclusively rely upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Owner Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement in determining the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions contained therein; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the Owner Trustee shall have examined such certificates or
opinions so as to determine compliance of the same with the requirements of this
Agreement.
(d) The Owner Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this SECTION 6.1(D) shall not limit the effect of
SECTION 6.1(A) OR (B);
(ii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is
proved that the Owner Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a
direction received by it pursuant to SECTION 4.1, 4.2 OR 6.4.
(e) Subject to SECTIONS 5.1 AND 5.2, monies received by the Owner
Trustee hereunder need not be segregated in any manner except to the extent
required by law or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and may be deposited
under such general conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be liable for any interest thereon.
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that (i) is
inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in SECTION 2.3 or (ii)
would, to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer
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of the Owner Trustee, result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation
for federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders shall not direct the
Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this SECTION
6.1.
SECTION 6.2 RIGHTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Owner Trustee is authorized
and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents and each certificate or
other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents
to which the Trust is to be a party, in such form as the Seller shall approve as
evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to
the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to
take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The
Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the
Administrator recommends and directs in writing with respect to the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 6.3 ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES. Except as otherwise
provided in this ARTICLE VI, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Bankers
Trust (Delaware) acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its
individual capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee
by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic
Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction
thereof. The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to
perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms
of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually
received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the
Basic Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable or
accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any circumstances,
except for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own
willful misconduct or in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or
warranty contained in SECTION 6.6 and expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In
particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set
forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality,
validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and
priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in any
Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and
priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust
Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or to Noteholders under
the Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence,
condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the exis tence and
enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and contents of
any Receiv able on any computer or other record thereof; the
validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or of
any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable;
the performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by
the Seller or the Servicer with any warranty or representation
made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the
accuracy of any such warranty or representation or any action of the
Administrator, the Trustee or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in
the name of the Owner Trustee.
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(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the
instructions of the Administrator or any Certificateholder;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document
shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise
incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its
rights or powers hereunder or under any Basic Document, if the
Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable
for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic
Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes or the
Certificate Balance of and interest on the Certificates;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in
respect of and makes no representation as to the validity or
sufficiency of any provision of this Agreement or for the due execution
hereof by the Seller or for the form, character, genuineness,
sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for
or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Basic Documents,
the Notes, the Certificates (other than the certificate of
authentication on the Certificates) or of any Receivables or any
related documents, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or
incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to any
Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in
the Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Seller or
the Servicer under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise and the
Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the
obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents
that are required to be performed by the Administrator under the
Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or
the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the Trust
Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement,
or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement
or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document,
at the request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders,
unless such Certificateholders have offered to the Owner Trustee
security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses
and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or
thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be
construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for
other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of
any such act.
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SECTION 6.4 ACTION UPON INSTRUCTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS.
(a) Subject to SECTION 4.4, the Certificateholders may by written
instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such
direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Certificateholders pursuant to SECTION 4.5.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be
required to take any action hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner
Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel,
that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner
Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any Basic Document or is
otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any
Basic Document, or is unsure as to the application, intent, interpretation or
meaning of any provision of this Agreement or the Basic Documents, the Owner
Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under
the circumstances) to the Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the
course of action to be adopted, and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in
good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee
shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner
Trustee shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten days of such
notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in
such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be
under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent,
in its view, with this Agreement or the Basic Documents, and as it shall deem to
be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall
have no liability to any Person for any such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.5 FURNISHING OF DOCUMENTS. The Owner Trustee shall furnish
to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee
under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.6 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The
Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Seller, for the benefit of
the Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of its
incorporation. It has satisfied the eligibility requirements set forth
in SECTION 6.13.
(b) It has full power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform this Agreement, and has taken all necessary action
to authorize the execution, delivery and per formance by it of this
Agreement.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this
Agreement (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation
governing the banking and trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any
order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or
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governmental authority applicable to the Owner Trustee or any of its
assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter
or by-laws of the Owner Trustee or (iii) shall not violate any
provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a
default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on
any properties included in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of any
mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which
it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be
expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Owner Trustee's
performance or ability to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under
this Agreement or on the transactions contemplated in this Agreement.
(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
the Owner Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
agreement of the Owner Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights in general and by general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 6.7 RELIANCE; ADVICE OF COUNSEL.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting
upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to
be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties and
need not investigate any fact or matter in any such document. The Owner Trustee
may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other
governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force
and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is
not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes
hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or
by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the
Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in
the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, the Owner Trustee: may act directly or through its agents, attorneys,
custodians or nominees (including the granting of a power of attorney to
officers of Bankers Trust Company to execute and deliver any Basic Documents,
Certificate, Note or other documents related thereto on behalf of the Owner
Trustee) pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents,
attorneys, custodians or nominees if such agents, attorneys, custodians or
nominees shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care; and
may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled professionals to be
selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be
liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance
with the opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such
Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
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SECTION 6.8 OWNER TRUSTEE MAY OWN CERTIFICATES AND NOTES. The Owner
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Seller, the Administrator, the
Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in transactions in the same manner as it
would have if it were not the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 6.9 COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY. The Owner Trustee shall
receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Servicer and the Owner
Trustee, and the Owner Trustee, any paying agent, registrar, authenticating
agent or co-trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Servicer for
its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses and disbursements of such agents, custodians, nominees,
representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in
connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder. The Servicer shall indemnify the Owner Trustee, any paying agent,
registrar, authenticating agent or co-trustee and its successors, assigns,
agents and servants in accordance with the provisions of SECTION 6.01 of the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The indemnities contained in this
SECTION 6.9 shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner
Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. Any amounts paid to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this ARTICLE VI shall be deemed not to be a part of the
Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
SECTION 6.10 REPLACEMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE.
(a) The Owner Trustee may give notice of its intent to resign and be
discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving notice thereof to the
Administrator PROVIDED that no such resignation shall become effective, and the
Owner Trustee shall not resign, prior to the time set forth in SECTION 6.10(C).
If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been appointed pursuant to SECTION
6.10(B) and have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the giving of
such notice, the Owner Trustee giving such notice may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee. The
Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee if:
(i) the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of SECTION 6.13 and shall fail to
resign after written request therefor by the Administrator;
(ii) the Owner Trustee shall be adjudged bankrupt or
insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer shall be appointed or
take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or
affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
or
(iv) the Owner Trustee shall otherwise be incapable of
acting.
(b) If the Owner Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is
removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Owner Trustee for any reason the
Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written
instrument, in duplicate (one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee)
and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
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(c) Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of
a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this SECTION 6.10
shall not become effective and no such resignation shall be deemed to have
occurred until a written acceptance of appointment is delivered by the successor
Owner Trustee to the outgoing Owner Trustee and the Administrator and all fees
and expenses due to the outgoing Owner Trustee are paid. Any successor Owner
Trustee appointed pursuant to this SECTION 6.10 shall be eligible to act in such
capacity in accordance with SECTION 6.13 and, following compliance with the
preceding sentence, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers,
duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect
as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice
of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating
Agencies.
(d) The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and
expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and
monies held by it under this Agreement. The Administrator and the predecessor
Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other
things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and
confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations.
(e) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to this SECTION 6.10, the Administrator shall mail notice of the
successor of such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 6.11 MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE. Any Person into
which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided
such Person shall be eligible pursuant to SECTION 6.13, and without the
execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice
of such merger or consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 6.12 APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE TRUSTEE.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time
be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall, at the
expense of the Servicer, have the power and shall, at the expense of the
Servicer, execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
approved by the Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner
Trustee, or as separate trustee or trustees, of all or any part of the Owner
Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to the
Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this SECTION
6.12, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Administrator
and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator
shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it
of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such
appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be
required to meet the
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terms of eligibility as a successor trustee pursuant to SECTION 6.13 and no
notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required pursuant to SECTION 6.10.
(b) Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee
is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining
in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed,
the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such
act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations
(including the holding of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in
any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such
separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the
Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this
Agreement; and
(iii) the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly
may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate
trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
SECTION 6.13 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR OWNER TRUSTEE. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirement of Section 26(a)(1) of the
Investment Company Act. The Owner Trustee shall at all times: (a) be a
corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust
Statute; (b) be authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; (c) have a
combined
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capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and be subject to supervision or
examination by federal or state authorities; and (d) have (or have a parent
which has) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least BBB- by Standard &
Poor's Ratings Services and at least Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. If
such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purpose of this SECTION 6.13, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this SECTION 6.13, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect specified in SECTION 6.10.
ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 7.1 TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT.
(a) This Agreement (other than SECTION 6.9) and the Trust shall
terminate in accordance with Section 3808 of the Business Trust Statute and be
of no further force or effect on the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of
all monies or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement
(including the exercise by the Servicer of its option to purchase the
Receivables pursuant to SECTION 8.01(A) of the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement), the Interest Rate Swap and ARTICLE V. The bankruptcy, liquidation,
dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (x) operate
to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (y) entitle such Certificateholder's
legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or
proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the
Trust or the Owner Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations
and liabilities of the parties hereto.
(b) Neither the Seller nor any Certificateholder shall be entitled to
revoke or terminate the Trust or this Agreement.
(c) Subject to SECTION 5.2(A), notice of any termination of the Trust,
specifying the Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholders shall
surrender their Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to
Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such
termination from the Servicer given pursuant to SECTION 8.01(C) of the Trust
Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating: (i) the Distribution Date upon or with
respect to which final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent
therein designated; (ii) the amount of any such final payment; and (iii) that
the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not
applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner
Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the
Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender
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of the Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to
SECTION 5.2.
(d) If all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their
Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the
written notice referred to in SECTION 7.1(C), the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Certificates shall
not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take
appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact
the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and
the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall
remain subject to this Agreement. Subject to applicable laws with respect to
escheat of funds, any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such
remedies in the preceding sentence shall be deemed property of the Seller and
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Seller, and the Owner Trustee shall have
no further liability to the Certificateholders with respect thereto.
(e) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 8.1 AMENDMENTS WITHOUT CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OR
NOTEHOLDERS. This Agreement may be amended by the Seller and the Owner Trustee
without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders (but
with prior notice to each of the Rating Agencies), to (i) cure any ambiguity,
(ii) correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement that may be defective
or inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or any other Basic
Document, (iii) add or supplement any credit enhancement for the benefit of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders (provided that if any such addition shall
affect any class of Noteholders or Certificateholders differently than any other
class of Noteholders or Certificateholders, then such addition shall not, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any class of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders), (iv) add
to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Seller or the Owner
Trustee, (v) evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment of a
successor trustee with respect to the Owner Trust Estate and add to or change
any provisions as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one trustee pursuant to ARTICLE VI, and (vi) add,
change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that
shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.
SECTION 8.2 AMENDMENTS WITH CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND
NOTEHOLDERS. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Seller and
the Owner Trustee with the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes as of the close of the
preceding Distribution Date and the consent of Certificateholders whose
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Certificates evidence not less than a majority of the Voting Interests as of the
close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant
to this SECTION 8.2 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall
be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of such Notes
or Certificates and of any Notes or Certificates issued upon the transfer
thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of
such consent is made upon the Notes or Certificates) for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders
or the Certificateholders; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such amendment shall (a)
increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the
timing of, collections of payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be
required to be made on any Note or Certificate, the Pass Through Rate or the
Specified Reserve Account Balance or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of
all Notes and all of the Voting Interests with respect to Certificates then
outstanding. The Owner Trustee shall furnish notice to each of the Rating
Agencies prior to obtaining consent to any proposed amendment under this SECTION
8.2.
SECTION 8.3 FORM OF AMENDMENTS.
(a) Promptly after the execution of any amendment, supplement or
consent pursuant to SECTION 8.1 OR 8.2, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written
notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each
Certificateholder and the Indenture Trustee.
(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders,
the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to SECTION 8.2 to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient
if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining
such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of
the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
(c) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate
of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with
the Secretary of State.
(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the
Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or
otherwise.
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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.1 NO LEGAL TITLE TO OWNER TRUST ESTATE. The
Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust
Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with
respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with
ARTICLES V AND VII. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right,
title, and interest of the Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest
in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the
trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer
to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 9.2 LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS. Except for SECTION 9.13,
the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner
Trustee, the Seller, the Certificateholders, the Administrator and, to the
extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and
nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to
give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the
Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants,
conditions or provisions contained herein.
SECTION 9.3 DERIVATIVE ACTIONS. Any provision contained herein to the
contrary notwithstanding, the right of any Certificate Owner to bring a
derivative action in the right of the Trust is hereby made expressly subject to
the following limitations and requirements:
(a) such Certificate Owner must meet all requirements set forth in the
Business Trust Statute; and
(b) no Certificate Owner may bring a derivative action in the right of
the Trust without the prior written consent of Certificate Owners owning, in the
aggregate, a beneficial interest in Certificates representing 50% of the then
outstanding Certificate Balance.
SECTION 9.4 NOTICES. All demands, notices and communications upon or
to the Seller, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies under this Agreement shall be
delivered as specified in APPENDIX B to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 9.5 SEVERABILITY. If any one or more of the covenants,
agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason
whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms
shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions
or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or
enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates
or the rights of the holders thereof.
SECTION 9.6 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute one and the same instrument.
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SECTION 9.7 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Seller,
the Owner Trustee and each Certificateholder and their respective successors and
permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction,
consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind
the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder.
SECTION 9.8 NO PETITION. The Owner Trustee by entering this Trust
Agreement and each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, by accepting a
Certificate (or interest therein) issued hereunder, hereby covenant and agree
that they shall not, prior to the day that is one year and one day after the
termination of the Trust, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the
Seller or the Trust to invoke in any court or government authority for the
purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Seller or the Trust under
any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Seller or the Trust or any substantial part of its
property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller
or the Trust.
SECTION 9.9 NO RECOURSE. Each Certificateholder by accepting a
Certificate (or any interest therein) acknowledges that such Person's
Certificate (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Trust
only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Seller, the
Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any
Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had
against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or
contemplated in this Agreement, the Certificates or the Basic Documents. Except
as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of the Seller, the Servicer
or the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, or any of their
respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or
successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, or shall recourse be had
to any of them for the distribution of any amount with respect to the
Certificates or the Trust's performance of, or omission to perform, any
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Certificates, this Agreement or
the Basic Documents, it being expressly understood that such Certificateholder
obligations have been made solely by the Trust. Each Certificateholder by the
acceptance of a Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) agrees except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any
amounts with respect to the Certificates, it shall have no claim against any of
the foregoing Persons for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom.
SECTION 9.10 HEADINGS. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 9.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 9.12 CERTIFICATE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS. The Certificates may
not be acquired by or for the account of a Benefit Plan. By accepting and
holding a Certificate, the Holder thereof and
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the Certificate Owner shall each be deemed to have represented and warranted
that it is not a Benefit Plan and, if requested to do so by the Seller, the
Certificateholder and the Certificate Owner shall execute and deliver to the
Owner Trustee an Undertaking Letter in the form set forth in EXHIBIT D. The
Certificates are also subject to the minimum denomination specified in Section
3.4(a).
SECTION 9.13 INDEMNIFICATION BY AND REIMBURSEMENT OF THE SERVICER. The
Owner Trustee acknowledges and agrees to reimburse (i) the Servicer and its
directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with SECTION 6.03(B) of
the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) the Seller and its directors,
officers, employees and agents in accordance with SECTION 3.04 of the Trust Sale
and Servicing Agreement. The Owner Trustee further acknowledges and accepts the
conditions and limitations with respect to the Servicer's obligation to
indemnify, defend and hold the Owner Trustee harmless as set forth in SECTION
6.01(A)(IV) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE),
as Owner Trustee
By: /S/ RAYMOND DELLICOLLI
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Name: Raymond DelliColli
Title: Attorney In Fact
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES, INC.
By: /S/ C. A. ONDRICK
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Name: C. A. Ondrick
Title: Manager - Securitization
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EXHIBIT A
NUMBER R- $_____________
CUSIP NO.____
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION
("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.
OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF
(i) AN "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, ("ERISA"))
THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (ii) A PLAN
DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986,
AS AMENDED, OR (iii) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN
ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY. BY ACCEPTING AND
HOLDING THIS CERTIFICATE, THE HOLDER HEREOF AND THE CERTIFICATE OWNER
SHALL EACH BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT A
BENEFIT PLAN.
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2000-1
7.28% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined
below, the property of which includes a pool of retail instalment sale
contracts secured by new and used automobiles and light trucks and sold
to the Trust by Capital Auto Receivables, Inc.
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(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of
Capital Auto Receivables, Inc., General Motors Acceptance Corporation
or General Motors Corpo ration or any of their respective affiliates,
except to the extent described in the Basic Documents.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT Capital Auto Receivables, Inc. is the
registered owner of a nonassessable, fully-paid, fractional undivided interest
in Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2000-1 (the "TRUST") formed by Capital
Auto Receivables, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as
of April 19, 2000 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the "TRUST
AGREEMENT"), between the Seller and Bankers Trust (Delaware), as owner trustee
(the "OWNER TRUSTEE"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which
is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "7.28% Asset Backed Certificates" (the "CERTIFICATES"). This
Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Trust Agreement, the terms of which are incorporated herein by
reference and made a part hereof, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this
Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder
is bound.
Under the Trust Agreement, there shall be distributed on the
15th day of each month or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day, commencing on May 15, 2000 (each, a "DISTRIBUTION DATE"), to the
person in whose name this Certificate is registered on the related Record Date
(as defined below), such Certificateholder's fractional undivided interest in
the amount of interest on and distributions in respect of Certificate Balance to
be distributed to Certificateholders on such Distribution Date; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, Certificateholders shall not receive payments in respect of the
Certificate Balance until all the Notes have been paid (or provided for) in
full. The "RECORD DATE," with respect to any Distribution Date, means the last
day of the preceding Monthly Period.
The distributions in respect of Certificate Balance and
interest on this Certificate are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts. All payments made by the Trust with respect to this
Certificate shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this
Certificate as provided above and then to the unpaid distributions in respect of
Certificate Balance of this Certificate.
The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that
its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are
subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as and to the extent described in
the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
It is the intent of the Seller, the Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income
and franchise taxes, Michigan single business tax and any other taxes imposed
upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income, the Trust shall be treated
as a grantor trust or, if the Internal Revenue Service were to contend
successfully that the
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Trust is not a grantor trust, a partnership. Except as otherwise required by
appropriate taxing authorities, the Seller and the other Certificateholders by
acceptance of a Certificate agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent
with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax purposes as interests in
such a grantor trust as described in the previous sentence.
Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner by its acceptance
of a Certificate (or an interest therein) covenants and agrees that such
Certificateholder shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day
after the termination of the Trust, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or
cause the Seller or the Trustee to invoke the process of any court or
governmental authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case
against the Seller or the Trustee under any federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the
Seller or the Trustee or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller or the Trustee.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement,
distributions on this Certificate shall be made as provided in the Trust
Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon, except
that with respect to Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust
Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate shall be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this
Certificate at the office maintained for such purpose by the Owner Trustee in
the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have
been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee by manual signature,
this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the
Trust Agreement or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any
purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust
and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: April 19, 2000
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET
TRUST 2000-1
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE),
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee
By: _________________________
Name:
Title:
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Trust Agreement.
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE), BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE),
not in its individual not in its individual
capacity but solely OR capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee as Owner Trustee
By:_________________________
as Authenticating Agent
By:_________________________ By:_________________________
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE
The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Seller, the Servicer, General Motors Corporation, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any affiliates of any of them and no recourse may
be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set
forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the Basic Documents.
In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or
instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and
recoveries with respect to the Receivables (and certain other amounts), all as
more specifically set forth herein and in the Trust Agreement and the Trust Sale
and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined during normal business hours
at the principal office of the Seller, and at such other places, if any,
designated by the Seller, by any Certificateholder upon written request.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Seller and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Trust Agreement at any time by the Seller and the Owner Trustee with the consent
of the Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes as of the close of the preceding Distribution
Date and the consent of Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less
than a majority of the Voting Interests as of the close of the preceding
Distribution Date. Any such consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be
conclusive and binding on such holder and on all future Holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of
the Certificates or the Notes.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Owner Trustee in the City of New York, accompanied by (i) a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing and (ii) if requested by the Seller, the
Undertaking Letter required by Section 9.12 of the Trust Agreement, and
thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing
the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated
transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust
Agreement is Bankers Trust Company, New York, New York.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates
without coupons in denominations of $20,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in
excess thereof; provided, however, that one Certificate may be issued in a
denomination that includes any residual amount. As provided in the Trust
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Certificates are
exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the
same aggregate denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no Certificate may be subdivided such that the
denomination of any resulting Certificate is less than $20,000. No service
charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Owner Trustee or the
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Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of
the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose
name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust
Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate in accordance with
Article VII of Trust Agreement.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells,
assigns and transfers unto
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OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
_________________________________________________________ Attorney to transfer
said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Date: _____________________________*
Signature Guaranteed:
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* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank
or trust company.
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2000-1
THIS Certificate of Trust of Capital Auto Receivables Asset
Trust 2000-1 (the "TRUST") is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned,
as trustee, to form a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12
DEL. C. ss.3801 ET SEQ.) (the "Act").
1. NAME. The name of the business trust formed hereby is
Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2000-1.
2. DELAWARE TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the
trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware are Bankers Trust (Delaware), E.A.
Delle Donne Corporate Center, Montgomery Building, 1011 Centre Road, Wilmington,
Delaware 19805-1266.
3. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective on
April 19, 2000.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this
Certificate of Trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE), not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CERTIFICATE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT
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EXHIBIT D
UNDERTAKING LETTER
Capital Auto Receivables, Inc.
Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Bankers Trust (Delaware),
as Owner Trustee of Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2000-1
E.A. Delle Donne Corporate Center
Montgomery Building
1011 Centre Road, Suite 200
Wilmington, DE 19805-1266
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our purchase or record or beneficial
ownership of the 7.28% Asset Backed Certificate (the "Certificate") of the
Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2000-1, the undersigned purchaser, record
owner or beneficial owner hereby acknowledges, represents and warrants that such
purchaser, record owner or beneficial owner:
(1) is not, and has not acquired the Certificate by or for the
benefit of, (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is
subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section
4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or (iii) any entity
whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in
the entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity; and
(2) acknowledges that you and others will rely on our
acknowledgments, representations and warranties, and agrees to notify you
promptly in writing if any of our representations or warranties herein cease to
be accurate and complete.
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Name of Certificate Owner
By:___________________________
Name:
Title:
Date: _________________________
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