THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY
OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE
Pursuant to Sections 3.01, 3.03 and 11.04
of the Indenture
Claude J. Incaudo, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Penn
Traffic Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and Eugene R.
Sunderhaft, Vice President-Finance, Secretary and Treasurer of the Company, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY:
1. Each of the undersigned (i) has read Sections 2.01, 3.01, 3.03,
3.04, 11.04 and 11.05 of the Indenture dated as of December 15, 1993 (the
"Indenture") between the Company and United States Trust Company of New
York, as Trustee; (ii) has examined such accounts and records of the
Company and made such inquiries of officers, employees and agents of the
Company as he has deemed necessary to express his opinion as contained
herein; and (iii) is of the opinion that such examinations and inquiries
are sufficient to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not the covenants and conditions precedent which are stated herein to be
complied with have been complied with;
2. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of a
specimen of the Company's 8 5/8% Senior Notes due December 15, 2003 (the
"Notes"), the aggregate principal amount of which shall be limited to
$200,000,000 and which shall have the terms set forth in such Exhibit A;
3. After giving effect to the authentication and delivery of the
Notes pursuant to the Company Order dated the date hereof (i) the aggregate
principal amount of Notes Outstanding will not exceed the maximum aggregate
principal amount permitted to be Outstanding pursuant to authorization by
the Company's Board of Directors; and (ii) the Company will not be in
Default and no Event of Default will have occurred; and
4. All conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to
the authentication and delivery of the Notes have been complied with.
Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
This Certificate may be executed in counterparts, each one of which
shall be deemed an original and which together shall constitute one document.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate
this 21st day of December, 1993.
/s/ Claude J. Incaudo
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Claude J. Incaudo
President and Chief
Executive Officer
/s/ Eugene R. Sunderhaft
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Eugene R. Sunderhaft
Vice President-Finance,
Secretary and Treasurer
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Exhibit A
No. $200,000,000.00
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CUSIP 707832 AE1
THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY
Incorporated under the laws of the
State of Delaware
8 5/8% Senior Notes due December 15, 2003
THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY, for value received, hereby promises to pay
to _________________________ or registered assigns, the principal sum of
$200,000,000.00 Dollars on December 15, 2003 and to pay interest thereon
semiannually in arrears at the rate of 8 5/8% per annum on June 15 and December
15 of each year until the principal hereof is paid or made available for
payment. Payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be made in
the manner and subject to the terms set forth in provisions appearing on the
reverse hereof, which provisions, in their entirety, shall for all purposes have
the same effect as if set forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY has caused this
instrument to be executed in its corporate name by the manual or facsimile
signature of its President or a Vice President and attested by its Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary.
Dated: December 21, 1993
THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY
By
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Eugene R. Sunderhaft
Vice President - Finance,
Secretary and Treasurer
Attest:
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Francis D. Price, Jr.
Vice President and
Assistant Secretary
[SEAL]
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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: December 21, 1993
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By:_______________________________
Authorized Signatory
or
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, as
Authenticating Agent
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(Back of Security)
THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY
8 5/8% Senior Notes due December 15, 2003.
1. INTEREST. THE PENN TRAFFIC COMPANY (the "Company"), a Delaware
corporation, promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security
at the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest semiannually
in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year. Interest on the Securities
will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from December 21, 1993. 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 (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders
of Securities at the close of business on the regular record date, which shall
be the June 1 and December 1, as the case may be, next preceding the interest
payment date even though Securities are cancelled after the record date and on
or before the interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for, and any interest payable on such defaulted interest (to
the extent lawful), will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such
regular record date and shall be payable to the Person in whose name this
Security is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the
payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Company, notice of which
shall be given to Holders not less than 5 days prior to such special record
date. Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal
payments. 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. However, the Company may pay principal, premium, if any, and
interest by check payable in such money. It may mail an interest check to a
Holder's registered address.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Bankers Trust Company, a New York
banking corporation, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may
change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to any Holder.
The Company may act in any such capacity.
4. INDENTURE. This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of
securities of the Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be
issued under an Indenture dated as of December 15, 1993 (the "Indenture")
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.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbbb), as amended by the
Trust Indenture
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Reform Act of 1990, as in effect on the date of the Indenture ("TIA"). The
Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the
Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. This Security is one of
the series designated on the face hereof limited to $200,000,000.00 in an
aggregate principal amount. The Securities are unsecured general obligations of
the Company. Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
5. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Securities are in
registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral
multiples thereof. The transfer of Securities may be registered and Securities
may be exchanged 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. The Registrar need not exchange or register the transfer of any
Security or portion of a Security selected for redemption. Also, it need not
exchange or register the transfer of any Securities for a period of 15 days
before a selection of Securities to be redeemed.
6. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Securities may not be redeemed prior to
December 15, 1998. On or after such date, the Securities may be redeemed at the
election of the Company as a whole at any time or in part from time to time at
the Redemption Prices (expressed in percentages of principal amount) set forth
below plus accrued interest to the Redemption Date, if redeemed during the
12-month period beginning December 15 of the years indicated below:
Year Percentage
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1998.................... 103.234%
1999.................... 102.156%
2000.................... 101.078%
2001 and thereafter..... 100.000%
Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60
days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at
his registered address. Securities in denominations larger than $1,000 may be
redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000. On and after the
Redemption Date interest ceases to accrue on Securities or portions of them
called for redemption.
These Securities shall not have the benefit of any sinking fund
obligations.
7. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Security may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
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8. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture
and the rights of the Holder of the Securities of each series to be affected
under the Indenture may be amended at any time by the Company and the Trustee
with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of
the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified
percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time
Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive
compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain
past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Without the consent
of any Holder, the Indenture or the Securities may be amended to cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency; to comply with Section 5.01 of the
Indenture; to make any change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of
any Holder; to comply with the requirements of the SEC to maintain qualification
of the Indenture under the TIA; to add to or change the provisions of the
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to
principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or to provide for the appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to one or more (but not all) series of
Securities issued pursuant to the Indenture, as provided in Section 7.08 of the
Indenture.
9. REMEDIES. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the
Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any
proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or
trustee of for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have
previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25%
in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding
shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable
indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time
Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to
institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by
the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal
hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates
expressed herein.
10. PREPAYMENT AT HOLDER'S OPTION UPON CERTAIN MERGER AND CHANGE OF
CONTROL EVENTS. In the event of a Change of Control or in the event of a merger
where, immediately after giving effect to the merger, the surviving corporation
does
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not meet the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio set forth in the Indenture,
the Company shall be obligated to make an offer to purchase this Security at a
purchase price in cash equal to 101% of its principal amount plus accrued
interest, after the occurrence of such Change in Control or merger. Holders of
Securities which are the subject of such an offer to repurchase shall receive an
offer to repurchase and may elect to have such Securities repurchased in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture pursuant to and in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture. The Company shall give the Holder of this
Security notice of such right of repurchase not less than 20 nor more than 60
business days prior to the consummation of a merger, consolidation, transfer,
sale or lease that would require the Company to offer to repurchase the
Securities and not more than 45 business days following any other event
constituting a Change of Control, mailed by first-class mail to the Holder's
last address as it appears upon the register. The Holder shall have the right
to have this Security repurchased if, among other things, the Security is
tendered for repurchase no later than five business days prior to the applicable
repurchase date. The Company shall have no obligation to consummate any merger,
consolidation, transfer, sale or lease that is the subject of any such notice,
and if any such merger, consolidation, transfer, sale or lease that was the
subject of any notice described above is not consummated, the Holder will not be
entitled to have this Security prepaid, and any Securities tendered for
prepayment will be returned.
11. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY. United States Trust Company of New
York, 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 any Affiliate with the same rights it would have as if it were not
the Trustee.
12. 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. This waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue
of the Securities.
13. UNCLAIMED MONEY. If money for the payment of principal of or interest
on any Security remains unclaimed for two years after the date on which such
payment shall have come due, the Trustee or Paying Agent will pay the money back
to the Company at the Company's written request. After that, Holders entitled
to this money must look to the Company for payment, unless a law governing
abandoned property designates another Person.
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14. DISCHARGE UPON REDEMPTION OR MATURITY. Subject to the terms of the
Indenture, the Indenture will be discharged and cancelled with respect to
Securities of any series upon the payment of all Securities of such series. The
Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of certain restrictive
covenants with respect to this Security (in each case upon compliance with
certain conditions set forth therein).
15. AUTHENTICATION. This Security shall not be valid until authenticated
by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
16. GOVERNING LAW. THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THIS
SECURITY AND THE INDENTURE.
17. 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 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT (= Uniform
Gifts to Minors Act).
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture, which has in it the text of this Security in
larger type. Requests may be made to The Penn Traffic Company, 1200 State Fair
Boulevard, Syracuse, New York 13221, Attention: Eugene R. Sunderhaft.
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REPURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Indenture, check the box:
/ /
Dated: ______________ Your signature:__________________
_________________________________
(Sign exactly as name appears
on the other side of this
Security)
Signature Guarantee: ______________________________________
(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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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.
________________________________________________________
Dated:_____________________ Your signature: _______________
_______________________________
(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side of
this Security)
Signature Guarantee: ____________________________________
(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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