SNAP-ON INCORPORATED
OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE
Dated as of August 16, 2001
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Setting Forth the Terms of a Series of Securities
6.25 % Notes due August 15, 2011
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Pursuant to the Indenture
Dated as of September 15, 1995
OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE
The undersigned, the Senior Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial
Officer, and the Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Snap-on
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby certify as provided
below pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of September 15, 1995
(the "Indenture") between the Company and U.S. Bank, National Association
(successor in interest to Firstar Trust Company) (the "Trustee"). This Officers'
Certificate is delivered, pursuant to authority granted to the undersigned by
resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, for the purpose of
creating and setting forth the terms of a series of Securities to be issued
pursuant to the Indenture. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein are
used as defined in the Indenture.
1. The Board of Directors of the Company has authorized the creation by the
Company of the series of Securities described below pursuant to this Officers'
Certificate and in accordance with the Indenture.
2. The title of the Securities shall be "6.25% Notes due August 15, 2011"
(herein called the "Notes").
3. The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and
delivered under the Indenture is limited to $200,000,000 (except for Notes
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange
for, or in lieu of, other Notes as pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6, 11.7
or 13.5 of the Indenture).
4. The principal of the Notes shall be payable on August 15, 2011.
5. The Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 6.25% per annum; such
interest shall accrue from August 17, 2001 (or from the most recent Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for); the Interest
Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable shall be February 15th and
August 15th in each year, commencing February 15, 2002, and the Regular Record
Dates for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable shall be the
February 1st or August 1st next preceding each Interest Payment Date.
6. The principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. All payments of principal and interest in
respect of Notes in book-entry form shall be payable in immediately available
funds.
7. All or a portion of the Notes may be redeemed by the Company at any time
or from time to time. The Redemption Price for the Notes to be redeemed on any
Redemption Date will be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount
of the Notes being redeemed on the Redemption Date or (ii) the sum of the
present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on
the Notes being redeemed on that Redemption Date (not including any portion of
any payments of interest accrued to the Redemption Date), discounted to the
Redemption Date on a semiannual basis at the Treasury Rate (as defined herein),
plus twenty (20) basis points, as determined by the Reference Treasury Dealer
(as defined herein), plus, in either of case (i) or (ii) above, accrued and
unpaid interest on the Notes to the Redemption Date.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due
and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date
will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the
close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and
the Indenture. The Redemption Price will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
8. Notice of any redemption will be given to the Holders in accordance with
the Indenture at least thirty (30) days but not more than sixty (60) days before
the Redemption Date to each registered Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Once
notice of redemption is mailed, the Notes called for redemption will become due
and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable Redemption Price, plus
accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date.
9. For purposes hereof, (i) "Treasury Rate" shall mean, with respect to any
Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to
maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date; (ii) "Comparable Treasury
Issue" shall mean the United States Treasury security selected by the Reference
Treasury Dealer as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the
Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in
accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate
debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes; (iii)
"Comparable Treasury Price" shall mean, with respect to any Redemption Date, (A)
the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption
Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, then the average of all such Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations, or (C) if the Trustee obtains only one such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotation, then such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation; (iv)
"Reference Treasury Dealer" shall mean (A) Salomon Smith Barney Inc. or Banc One
Capital Markets, Inc. (or their respective affiliates which are Primary Treasury
Dealers) and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the
foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New
York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"), then the Company will substitute
therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (B) any other Primary Treasury
Dealer(s) selected by the Trustee after consultation with the Company; and (v)
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation" shall mean, with respect to each Reference
Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the
Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. (New York
City time) on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
10. The Notes are not subject to any sinking fund and are not redeemable at
the option of a Holder.
11. Defeasance under Section 14.2 and covenant defeasance under Section
14.3 of the Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
12. The Notes shall initially be issued in whole in the form of one or more
global Securities. The Depository Trust Company, a clearing agency registered
under the Securities
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Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, shall serve as the Depositary for such global
Security or Securities. For so long as The Depository Trust Company shall be the
Depositary, all Notes shall be registered in its name or in the name of a
nominee thereof. While the Notes are evidenced by one or more global Securities,
the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, shall be the sole Holder
thereof for all purposes under the Indenture. Neither the Company nor the
Trustee shall have any responsibility or obligation to the Depositary's
participants or the beneficial owners for whom they act with respect to their
receipt from the Depositary of payments on the Notes or notices given under the
Indenture. The global Security or Securities provided for hereunder shall bear
the legends provided for below and such other legend or legends as may be
required by the Depositary.
13. The form of the Notes shall be substantially as follows:
[FORM OF 6.25% NOTE DUE AUGUST 15, 2011]
[Form of Face of Note]
This Security is a Security in global form within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository
or a nominee of a Depository or a successor Depository. Capitalized terms used
in this Security that are otherwise undefined have the meanings given to them in
the Indenture. This Security is not exchangeable for Securities registered in
the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee except in the
limited circumstances described in the Indenture and no transfer of this
Security (other than a transfer of this Security as a whole by the Depository to
a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository
or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to
a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository) may be
registered except in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture.
Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of
the Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) ("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 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.
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED
6.25% Note due August 15, 2011
No. $__________
CUSIP No. 8333034 AC 5
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as
the "Company," which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture
hereinafter
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referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ______________, the
principal sum of ____________________ ($__________) on August 15, 2011.
The Company will pay interest on the principal amount of this Security
semi-annually at the rate of 6.25% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid
or made available for payment. Interest Payment Dates are on February 15th and
August 15th in each year, commencing February 15, 2002, and Regular Record Dates
are February 1st and August 1st, respectively, immediately preceding such
February 15th and August 15th.
REFERENCE IS MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SECURITY SET FORTH
IN SECTIONS 1 THROUGH 19 BELOW, WHICH WILL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT
AS IF SET FORTH AT THIS PLACE.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED
By:
(SEAL) Attest:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the
Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
By
Authorized Signatory
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[Form of Reverse Side of Note]
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED
6.25% Note due August 15, 2011
1. Interest. The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount
of this Security at the rate per annum set forth above. The Company will pay
interest semi-annually on February 15th and August 15th of each year. Interest
on this Security will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has
been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance; provided
that the first interest payment date shall be February 15, 2002. The Company
shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate borne by this Security and
it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods) at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
2. Method of Payment. The Company will pay interest on the Securities of
this series (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered
holders of such Securities ("Holders") at the close of business on the Regular
Record Dates. The Regular Record Dates are February 1st and August 1st of each
year. The Company will pay principal and interest in money of the United States
that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. The Company, at its option, may pay principal and interest by check
payable in such money or by wire transfer. It may mail an interest check to a
Holder's registered address or wire transfer interest payments to the account of
a Holder indicated on the Security Register. If a payment date is not a Business
Day at a Place of Payment, payment may be made at that place on the next
succeeding Business Day, and no interest on the amount Payable on such payment
date shall accrue for the intervening period.
3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, U.S. Bank, National Association,
a national banking association (the "Trustee," which term shall include any
successor trustee under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), will act as
Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent,
Registrar or co-registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of
its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.
4. Indenture. The Company issued the Securities of this series under an
Indenture dated as of September 15, 1995, (as it may be amended from time to
time in accordance with the terms thereof, the "Indenture"), by and between the
Company and the Trustee. The terms of the Securities include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code Section 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the
date of the Indenture (the "Act"). The Securities are subject to all such terms,
and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the Act for a statement of such
terms.
5. Optional Redemption. All or a portion of the Securities may be redeemed
by the Company at any time or from time to time. The Redemption Price for the
Securities to be redeemed on any Redemption Date will be equal to the greater of
(i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed on the
Redemption Date or (ii) the sum of the present
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values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the
Securities being redeemed on that Redemption Date (not including any portion of
any payments of interest accrued to the Redemption Date), discounted to the
Redemption Date on a semiannual basis at the Treasury Rate (as defined herein),
plus twenty (20) basis points, as determined by the Reference Treasury Dealer
(as defined herein), plus, in either of case (i) or (ii) above, accrued and
unpaid interest on the Securities to the Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, installments of interest on Securities that are due and payable on
Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable
on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of
business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Securities and the
Indenture. The Redemption Price will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
6. Notice of Redemption. Notice of any redemption will be given to the
Holders in accordance with the Indenture at least thirty (30) days but not more
than sixty (60) days before the Redemption Date to each registered Holder of the
Securities to be redeemed. Once notice of redemption is mailed, the Securities
called for redemption will become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at
the applicable Redemption Price, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date.
7. Definitions. For purposes hereof, (i) "Treasury Rate" shall mean, with
respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual
equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price
for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal
amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date; (ii)
"Comparable Treasury Issue" shall mean the United States Treasury security
selected by the Reference Treasury Dealer as having a maturity comparable to the
remaining term of the Securities to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the
time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the
remaining term of the Securities; (iii) "Comparable Treasury Price" shall mean,
with respect to any Redemption Date, (A) the average of the Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and
lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee obtains
fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, then the average of
all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (C) if the Trustee obtains
only one such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation, then such Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotation; (iv) "Reference Treasury Dealer" shall mean (A) Salomon Smith
Barney Inc. or Banc One Capital Markets, Inc. (or their respective affiliates
which are Primary Treasury Dealers) and their respective successors; provided,
however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S.
Government securities dealer in New York City (a "Primary Treasury Dealer"),
then the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer; and
(B) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) selected by the Trustee after
consultation with the Company; and (v) "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation"
shall mean, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption
Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for
the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its
principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury
Dealer at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the third Business Day preceding
such Redemption Date.
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8. No Redemption by Holders. The Securities will not be redeemable at the
option of a Holder.
9. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. The Securities of this series are in
registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and in integral
multiples of $1,000. A Holder may transfer or exchange Securities as provided in
the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any taxes and
fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture.
10. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Security may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
11. Amendments and Waivers. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or
the Securities of this series may be amended with the consent of the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities of such
series, and any existing default with respect to any series (except a payment
default) may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the then outstanding Securities. Without the consent of any
Holder of this series, the Indenture or the Securities with respect to such
series may be amended in certain circumstances as provided in the Indenture.
12. Defeasance. The Indenture contains provisions that apply to the
Securities of this series for defeasance at any time of (a) the entire
indebtedness of the Company on the Securities of this series and (b) certain
restrictive covenants and the related acceleration of payment provisions with
respect to the Securities of this series, upon compliance by the Company with
certain conditions set forth therein.
13. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the
incurrence of Secured Debt by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
the transfer of Principal Property by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries and Sale and Leaseback Transactions by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
14. Defaults and Remedies. Under the Indenture, Events of Default with
respect to any series of the Securities include: default in payment of any
installment of interest on any Security of that series for 30 days; default in
payment of all or any part of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security of that series; failure by the Company to comply with any of its other
agreements in the Indenture or in the Securities (for 60 days after notice);
certain defaults under and accelerations of other Indebtedness; certain final
judgments which remain undischarged; and certain events of bankruptcy or
insolvency. If an Event of Default with respect to any series occurs and is
continuing, then the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the then outstanding Securities of that series may declare all the Securities
of that series to be due and payable as provided in the Indenture, except that
in the case of an Event of Default arising from certain events of bankruptcy or
insolvency, all outstanding Securities become due and payable immediately
without further action or notice. Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the
Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may require
indemnity satisfactory to it before it enforces the Indenture of the Securities.
Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
then outstanding Securities may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust
or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders
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notice of any continuing default (except a default in payment of principal (or
premium, if any), interest or any Additional Amounts) if it determines that
withholding notice is in their interests. The Company must furnish an annual
compliance certificate to the Trustee.
15. Trustee Dealings with Company. Subject to certain limitations imposed
by the Act, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities, and may otherwise deal
with the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not Trustee.
16. No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or
stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any
obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any
claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their
creation. Each Holder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of
the Securities.
17. Authentication. This Security shall not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the Trustee or an
authenticating agent.
18. Abbreviations. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a
Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
19. Copies of Indenture. The Company will furnish to any Holder upon
written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made
to:
Snap-on Incorporated
10801 Corporate Drive
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53143
Attention: General Counsel
ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Security, fill in the form below: I or we assign and
transfer this Security to
(Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint _____________________ agent to transfer this Security on
the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
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Date: Your signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on
the face of this Security)
Signature Guarantee:
Member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or commercial bank or trust
company having an office in the
United States
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES FOR DEFINITIVE SECURITIES
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for
Definitive Securities have been made:
Amount of Amount of Principal Amount
decrease in increase in of this Global
Principal Principal Security following
Date of Amount of this Amount of this such decrease (or Signature of authorized
Exchange Global Security Global Security increase) officer of Trustee
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have set our hands and the corporate seal of
the Company as of the day and year first above written.
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED
By /s/ Donald S. Huml
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Donald S. Huml
Senior Vice President-Finance
and Chief Financial Officer
(CORPORATE SEAL)
By /s/ Susan F. Marrinan
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Susan F. Marrinan
Vice President, Secretary and
General Counsel
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