Exhibit 4.4
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE
dated as of August 1, 1995
between
THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD
OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA
and
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA, as Trustee
Providing for the Issuance from Time to Time of
Securities in One or More Series
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions; Construction.............................. 3
SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions................... 3
SECTION 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee................. 4
SECTION 1.4. Acts of Holders........................................ 5
SECTION 1.5. Notices, etc. to Trustee, IDB and Mobile Energy
Parties............................................. 6
SECTION 1.6. Notices to Holders; Waiver............................. 7
SECTION 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents............... 7
SECTION 1.8. Successors and Assigns................................. 7
SECTION 1.9. Severability Clause.................................... 7
SECTION 1.10. Benefits of Indenture.................................. 7
SECTION 1.11. Governing Law.......................................... 7
SECTION 1.12. Legal Holidays......................................... 8
SECTION 1.13. Execution in Counterparts.............................. 8
SECTION 1.14. Amendment and Restatement.............................. 8
SECTION 1.15. Survival of Assignment Agreement.........................8
ARTICLE II.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1. Form of Security to be Established by
Series Supplemental Indenture.......................... 9
SECTION 2.2. Form of Trustee's Authentication....................... 9
SECTION 2.3. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series; Limitations
on Issuance......................................... 9
SECTION 2.4. Authentication and Delivery of Securities.............. 11
SECTION 2.5. Form and Denominations................................. 12
SECTION 2.6. Execution of Securities................................ 13
SECTION 2.7. Temporary Securities................................... 13
SECTION 2.8. Registration, Transfer and Exchange.................... 13
SECTION 2.9. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities.......................................... 15
SECTION 2.10. Payment of Principal and Interest; Principal
and Interest Rights Preserved.......................... 15
SECTION 2.11. Persons Deemed Owners.................................. 17
SECTION 2.12. Cancellation........................................... 17
SECTION 2.13. Dating of Securities; Computation of Interest.......... 17
SECTION 2.14. Source of Payments Limited; Rights and
Liabilities of the Mobile Energy Parties............... 17
SECTION 2.15. Parity of Securities................................... 18
SECTION 2.16. Allocation of Principal and Interest................... 18
SECTION 2.17. Authorization and Provisions for Issuance of
1995 Bonds; Application of Proceeds.................... 18
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 3.1. Organization, Power, Authority and Status of
IDB.................................................. 20
SECTION 3.2. Authorization; Enforceability; Execution and
Delivery............................................. 20
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SECTION 3.3. No Conflicts; Laws and Contracts; No Default........... 21
SECTION 3.4. Litigation............................................. 21
SECTION 3.5. Signed Certificates.................................... 21
ARTICLE IV.
TAX-EXEMPT INDENTURE ACCOUNTS
SECTION 4.1. Establishment of Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Account..................................... 22
SECTION 4.2. Payments into Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Account............................................. 22
SECTION 4.3. Application of Funds in Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Account..................................... 22
SECTION 4.4. Establishment of 1995 Bond Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Account........................................ 23
SECTION 4.5. Payments into Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve
Accounts............................................... 23
SECTION 4.6. Application of Funds in Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Accounts....................................... 23
SECTION 4.7. Reserve Account Letter of Credit....................... 24
SECTION 4.8. Investment of Monies in the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Accounts..................................... 25
SECTION 4.9. Monies to be Held in Trust............................. 27
SECTION 4.10. Dominion and Control................................... 27
ARTICLE V.
COVENANTS
SECTION 5.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and
Interest............................................ 27
SECTION 5.2. Performance of Covenants by IDB........................ 27
SECTION 5.3. Rights Under IDB Lease Agreement....................... 27
SECTION 5.4. Arbitrage and Tax Covenants............................ 28
SECTION 5.5. No Disposition of Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral............................................. 28
SECTION 5.6. Access to Books........................................ 28
SECTION 5.7. Covenant to Perform Further Acts....................... 28
SECTION 5.8. Enforcement of Duties and Obligations of Mobile
Energy Parties......................................... 29
SECTION 5.9. Further Assurances..................................... 29
SECTION 5.10. Filing and Recording................................... 29
SECTION 5.11. Trustee's Obligations.................................. 29
ARTICLE VI.
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT OF SECURITIES
SECTION 6.1. Applicability of Article............................... 30
SECTION 6.2. Election to Redeem or Prepay; Notice to Trustee........ 30
SECTION 6.3. Optional Redemption; Extraordinary Redemption;
Prepayment; Selection of Securities to Be
Redeemed or Prepaid................................. 30
SECTION 6.4. Notice of Redemption or Prepayment..................... 32
SECTION 6.5. Securities Payable on Redemption Date or
Prepayment Date........................................ 33
SECTION 6.6. Securities Redeemed or Prepaid in Part................. 34
SECTION 6.7. Determination of Taxability............................ 34
ARTICLE VII.
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 7.1. Applicability of Article............................... 34
SECTION 7.2. Sinking Funds for Securities........................... 35
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ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
SECTION 8.1. Events of Default...................................... 35
SECTION 8.2. Enforcement of Remedies................................ 36
SECTION 8.3. Specific Remedies...................................... 37
SECTION 8.4. Judicial Proceedings Instituted by Trustee............. 37
SECTION 8.5. Holders May Demand Enforcement of Rights by
Trustee............................................. 39
SECTION 8.6. Control by Holders..................................... 40
SECTION 8.7. Waiver of Past Events of Defaults...................... 40
SECTION 8.8. Holder May Not Bring Suit Except Under Certain
Conditions............................................. 40
SECTION 8.9. Undertaking to Pay Court Costs......................... 41
SECTION 8.10. Right of Holders to Receive Payment Not to Be
Impaired............................................ 41
SECTION 8.11. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee............. 41
SECTION 8.12. Securities Held by Certain Persons Not to Share in
Distribution........................................... 43
SECTION 8.13. Waiver of Appraisement, Valuation, Stay, Right to
Marshaling............................................. 43
SECTION 8.14. Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not a
Waiver.............................................. 43
SECTION 8.15. Intercreditor Agreement................................ 44
ARTICLE IX.
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 9.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.................... 44
SECTION 9.2. Notice of Events of Defaults........................... 45
SECTION 9.3. Certain Rights of Trustee.............................. 46
SECTION 9.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities.......................................... 47
SECTION 9.5. May Hold Securities.................................... 47
SECTION 9.6. Funds May Be Held by Trustee or Paying Agent........... 47
SECTION 9.7. Compensation, Reimbursement and Indemnification........ 47
SECTION 9.8. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility................ 48
SECTION 9.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor.......................................... 48
SECTION 9.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor................. 49
SECTION 9.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business............................................... 50
SECTION 9.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against any
Obligor............................................. 50
SECTION 9.13. Maintenance of Offices and Agencies.................... 53
SECTION 9.14. Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee......................... 56
SECTION 9.15. Taxes.................................................. 58
ARTICLE X.
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE,
IDB AND MOBILE ENERGY PARTIES
SECTION 10.1. IDB to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders............................................. 58
SECTION 10.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Holders............................................. 58
SECTION 10.3. Reports by Trustee..................................... 59
SECTION 10.4. Reports by the IDB and Mobile Energy Parties........... 61
ARTICLE XI.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES AND
AMENDMENTS TO IDB LEASE AGREEMENT
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SECTION 11.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders............................................ 61
SECTION 11.2. Supplemental Indenture With Consent of Holders......... 62
SECTION 11.3. Documents Affecting Immunity or Indemnity.............. 64
SECTION 11.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures................... 64
SECTION 11.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures...................... 64
SECTION 11.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures.......................................... 64
SECTION 11.7. Supplements and Amendments to IDB Lease Agreement
Without Consent of Holders............................. 65
SECTION 11.8. Supplements and Amendments to IDB Lease Agreement
With Consent of Holders................................ 65
ARTICLE XII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 12.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities............... 66
SECTION 12.2. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................ 70
SECTION 12.3. Application of Trust Money............................. 71
ARTICLE XIII.
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES;
ACTION WITHOUT MEETING
SECTION 13.1. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.............. 71
SECTION 13.2. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings..................... 72
SECTION 13.3. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings................... 72
SECTION 13.4. Quorum; Action......................................... 72
SECTION 13.5. Attendance at Meetings; Determination of Voting
Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings......... 73
SECTION 13.6. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings........ 74
SECTION 13.7. Action Without Meeting................................. 75
ARTICLE XIV.
LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF IDB AND LIMITED RECOURSE
SECTION 14.1. Limited Obligations of IDB............................. 75
SECTION 14.2. Limited Recourse....................................... 75
EXHIBIT A - Form of 1995 Bond
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE, dated as of August 1, 1995,
between THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA (the
"IDB"), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama,
its principal office and mailing address being at 451 Government Street, Mobile,
Alabama 36602, and FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA, as trustee (the
"Trustee"), its corporate trust office and mailing address being at 999
Peachtree Street, N.E., 11th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the IDB is a public corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Alabama under the Alabama Act (as defined below);
and the IDB is authorized and empowered, under the Alabama Act, to
issue bonds for, and to acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
maintain, lease and dispose of, projects, which is defined to include
any land and any building or other improvement thereon, and all real
and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith,
suitable for use by, among other things, any industry for the
manufacturing, processing or assembling of any agricultural,
manufactured or mineral products and facilities for or useful in the
control, reduction, abatement or prevention of pollution of air or
water or both and to sell and lease the same to others for such rentals
or payments and on such terms and conditions as the IDB may deem
advisable;
WHEREAS, the IDB, by due corporate action, previously (a)
authorized the financing of the cost of acquisition and construction of
the Tax-Exempt Project (as defined below) and the leasing thereof to a
predecessor-in-interest of Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C., an
Alabama limited liability company (the "Company"), and (b) issued and
sold $112,300,000 principal amount of the 1983 Bonds (as defined below)
to provide funds for and toward the costs thereof;
WHEREAS, the IDB, by due corporate action, previously
authorized the refunding of the 1983 Bonds, and issued and sold
$93,000,000 principal amount (of which $85,000,000 principal amount are
currently outstanding) of the 1984 Bonds (as defined below) pursuant to
the 1984 Indenture (as defined below) to provide funds for the costs of
refunding the 1983 Bonds;
WHEREAS, the IDB, by due corporate action, has authorized the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Indenture and has
authorized the payment of the 1984 Bonds, within the meaning of Article
VIII of the 1984 Indenture and for all other purposes of the 1984
Indenture, and the redemption of the 1984 Bonds thereafter; and, upon
such payment, and the issuance of the 1995 Bonds (as defined in Section
2.17), (a) the 1984 Lease (as defined below) shall be amended and
restated in its entirety as and by the IDB Lease Agreement (as defined
below) and (b) the 1984 Indenture shall be amended and restated in its
entirety as and by this Indenture (except that the provisions of
Article VIII of the 1984 Indenture shall survive with respect to the
1984 Bonds); and
WHEREAS, the IDB may from time to time issue additional bonds,
debentures, promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness in one
(1) or more series (together with the 1995 Bonds, the "Securities") in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture; the IDB has duly
authorized the execution, delivery and performance by it of this
Indenture to secure the Securities and to provide for the
authentication and delivery thereof by the Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that, for and in
consideration of the premises and of the purchase of the Securities by the
Holders (as defined
below) thereof, and in order to secure the payment of the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on all Securities from time to time outstanding
and the performance of the covenants therein and herein contained and to declare
the terms and conditions on which such Securities are secured, the IDB hereby
grants, bargains, mortgages, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers,
pledges, sets over and confirms to the Trustee, and grants to the Trustee a
security interest in, (a) all right, title and interest of the IDB in the IDB
Lease Agreement and all amendments, modifications and renewals thereof,
reserving, however, the IDB's rights to receive notices, to indemnification and
to reimbursement of its fees and expenses incurred under the IDB Lease
Agreement, (b) all right, title and interest of the IDB in and to the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Accounts (as defined below), including any and all monies contained
therein or hereafter delivered to the Trustee for deposit therein and, in each
case, all monies received and the right to receive monies thereunder, and (c)
all right, title and interest of the IDB in and to all monies and securities
from time to time held under the terms of this Indenture, and in any and all
other property of every type and nature from time to time hereafter by delivery
or by writing of any kind given, granted, pledged and assigned as and for
additional security hereunder, by the IDB or by anyone in its behalf or with its
written consent, to the Trustee, which is hereby authorized to receive any and
all such property at any and all times and to hold and apply the same subject to
the terms hereof;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all the same with all privileges and appurtenances
hereby given, granted, pledged and assigned, or agreed or intended so to be,
unto the Trustee and its successors in said trust and to it and its assigns
forever;
IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and proportionate benefit and
security of the Holders from time to time of all Outstanding (as defined below)
Securities without any priority of any such Security over any other such
Security;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the right, title and interest of the Company in
and to any Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account (as defined below), including
any and all monies contained therein or hereafter delivered to the Trustee for
deposit therein and, in each case, all monies received and the right to receive
monies thereunder, shall be held in trust solely for the equal and proportionate
benefit and security of the Holders from time to time of the Outstanding
Securities for the benefit of whom such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account
was established; and
PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, that if, after the right, title and interest
of the Trustee in and to the Tax-Exempt Indenture Accounts shall have ceased,
terminated and become void in accordance with Article XII, and the principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall have been paid to the
Holders thereof, then and in that case this Indenture and the estate and rights
hereby granted shall cease, terminate and be void, and the Trustee shall cancel
and discharge this Indenture and execute and deliver to the IDB and the Company
such instruments as the IDB and the Company shall require to evidence the
discharge hereof; otherwise this Indenture shall be and remain in full force and
effect; and
THE PARTIES HEREBY COVENANT AND AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions; Construction. (a) For all purposes of this
Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture or unless
the context otherwise requires, all terms used herein shall have the meanings
set
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forth in Appendix A to the Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement dated
as of August 1, 1995 among the Trustee, First Union National Bank of Georgia, as
the Indenture Trustee referred to therein, Banque Paribas, as the Working
Capital Facility Provider referred to therein, the IDB, the Company, Mobile
Energy Services Holdings, Inc. and Bankers Trust (Delaware), as the Collateral
Agent referred to therein.
SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Except as otherwise
expressly provided by this Indenture, upon any application or request by either
of the Mobile Energy Parties or the IDB to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, upon
its request, an Officer's Certificate of such Mobile Energy Party or the IDB (as
the case may be) stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an
Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that, in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, such
individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary
to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with;
(d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(e) in the case of an Officer's Certificate, a statement as to whether or
not any Event of Default under this Indenture has occurred and is
continuing.
SECTION 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one (1) such Person, or that they be so
certified or covered by only one (1) document, but one (1) such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one (1) or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give
an opinion as to such matters in one (1) or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company, Mobile Energy
or the IDB may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion
of Counsel or a certificate of counsel unless such officer knows or has reason
to believe that such Opinion of Counsel or certificate with respect to the
matters upon which such officer's certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.
Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
Authorized Officer of either of the Mobile Energy Parties or the IDB stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession
of such
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Mobile Energy Party or the IDB (as the case may be), unless such counsel knows
that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters
are erroneous.
Any Opinion of Counsel stated to be based on the opinion of other
counsel shall be accompanied by a copy of such other opinion.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two (2) or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one (1) instrument.
SECTION 1.4. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one (1) or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by an agent duly appointed in writing or, alternatively, may be embodied in and
evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities voting in favor thereof, either
in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of
Securities duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
XIII, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as herein
otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such
instrument or instruments or record, or both are delivered to the Trustee and,
when it is specifically required herein, to the IDB and either of the Mobile
Energy Parties. Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to
as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments and so voting
at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and (subject to Section 9.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the IDB and the
Mobile Energy Parties, if made in the manner provided in this Section 1.4. The
record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 13.6.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or
other officer of any jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds or
administer oaths that the Person executing such instrument acknowledged to such
officer the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution
sworn to before any such notary or other such officer, and where such execution
is by an officer of a corporation or association or a member of a partnership or
limited liability company, on behalf of such corporation, association,
partnership or limited liability company, such certificate or affidavit shall
also constitute sufficient proof of such Person's authority. The fact and date
of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the
Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the
Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The principal amount and serial numbers of Securities held by any
Person, and the date or dates of holding the same, shall be proven by the
Security Register and the Trustee shall not be affected by notice to the
contrary.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security, the Holder of every Security issued upon the
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(e) Until such time as written instruments shall have been delivered
with respect to the requisite percentage of principal amount of Securities for
the action contemplated by such instruments, any such instrument executed and
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delivered by or on behalf of a Holder of Securities may be revoked with respect
to any or all of such Securities by written notice by such Holder or any
subsequent Holder, proven in the manner in which such instrument was proven.
(f) Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after any Act
of Holders may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form
approved by the Trustee as to any action taken by such Act of Holders. If the
IDB shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform,
in the opinion of the Trustee and the IDB, to such action may be prepared and
executed by the IDB and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange
for Outstanding Securities of such series.
(g) The IDB may fix any day as the record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders entitled to give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on
any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders. If not set
by the IDB prior to the first solicitation of a Holder made by any Person in
respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such
vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the thirtieth (30th)
day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be
provided pursuant to Section 10.1) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as
the case may be. With regard to any record date, only the Holders on such date
(or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take, or vote
on, the relevant action.
SECTION 1.5. Notices, etc. to Trustee, IDB and Mobile Energy Parties.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder, by the IDB, by either of the
Mobile Energy Parties or by an Authorized Agent shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(b) the IDB by the Trustee, by any Holder, by either of the
Mobile Energy Parties or by an Authorized Agent shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the IDB addressed to it at the address of its principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee, each
Holder and the Mobile Energy Parties by the IDB for such purpose;
(c) the Company by the Trustee, by the IDB, by any Holder, by
Mobile Energy or by an Authorized Agent shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at 900 Ashwood Parkway, Suite
300, Atlanta, Georgia 30338, together with a copy to it at P.O. Box
2747, 200 Bay Bridge Road, Mobile, Alabama 36652, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee, the IDB, each
Holder and Mobile Energy by the Company for such purpose, or
(d) Mobile Energy by the Trustee, by the IDB, by any Holder,
by the Company or by an Authorized Agent shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to Mobile Energy addressed to it at 900 Ashwood Parkway, Suite
450, Atlanta, Georgia 30338, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee, the IDB, each Holder and the
Company by Mobile Energy for such purpose.
SECTION 1.6. Notices to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides
for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given
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(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder, at its address as it appears in the
Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. Where this Indenture
provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the
Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and
such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders
shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. In
any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail
such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder
shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders, and
any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given.
SECTION 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 1.8. Successors and Assigns. All covenants, agreements,
representations and warranties in this Indenture by the Trustee and the IDB
shall bind and, to the extent permitted hereby, shall inure to the benefit of
and be enforceable by their respective successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 1.9. Severability Clause. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.10. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in
the Securities, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the
parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.11. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, EXCEPT THAT SUCH
LAWS SHALL NOT APPLY WITH RESPECT TO ANY COLLATERAL WHERE IT IS NECESSARY TO
APPLY THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION TO PERFECT LIENS IN SUCH COLLATERAL
RELATING TO DEBT ISSUED HEREUNDER AND EXCEPT THAT THE RIGHTS, DUTIES, IMMUNITIES
AND STANDARDS OF CARE RELATING TO THE TRUSTEE AND ANY AUTHORIZED AGENTS SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 1.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Redemption Date or
Prepayment Date or the date of any Stated Maturity of any Security or of any
installment of principal thereof or payment of interest thereon shall not be a
Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or
such Security) payment of interest or principal, or premium, if any, need not be
made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the
same force and effect as if made on such Redemption Date or Prepayment Date or
the date of such Stated Maturity and, except as provided in the provisions
herein or in the Series Supplemental Indenture establishing the terms of such
Security, if such payment is timely made, no interest shall accrue for the
period from and after such Redemption Date or Prepayment Date or the date of
such Stated Maturity (as the case may be) to the date of such payment.
SECTION 1.13. Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed
in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to
be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one (1)
and the same instrument.
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SECTION 1.14. Amendment and Restatement. This Indenture amends and
restates the 1984 Indenture, and the parties hereto hereby acknowledge, consent
to, approve and ratify (i) the amendment and restatement of the 1984 Indenture,
as effectuated by this Indenture, including the appointment of the Trustee as
successor trustee to the trustee under the 1984 Indenture (provided that (A) the
provisions of Article VIII of the 1984 Indenture shall survive with respect to
the 1984 Bonds and (B) the trustee under the 1984 Indenture shall continue in
such capacity with respect to the 1984 Bonds), (ii) the amendment and
restatement of the 1984 Lease, as effectuated by the IDB Lease Agreement, (iii)
the termination as of the date hereof of the Remarketing Agreement dated as of
October 30, 1987 among the IDB, the Company (as assignee) and Goldman, Sachs &
Co., as remarketing agent thereunder (subject to the survival of the provisions
of Sections 4 and 5 thereof), and (iv) the termination of Scott's obligations
under the 1984 Indenture, the 1984 Lease, and the 1984 Bonds and the fact that
Scott shall have no obligations under this Indenture, the IDB Lease Agreement or
the Securities; all notices with respect to the foregoing are hereby waived.
SECTION 1.15. Survival of Assignment Agreement. Nothing contained
herein (including Section 1.14) shall be deemed or construed to restrict, waive
or otherwise limit or modify the rights and obligations of any party under the
Lease Assignment and Assumption Agreement dated as of December 12, 1994 between
Scott and the Company (as assignee of Mobile Energy), which agreement remains in
full force and effect.
ARTICLE II.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1. Form of Security to be Established by Series Supplemental
Indenture. The Securities of each series shall be substantially in the form (not
inconsistent with this Indenture, including Section 2.5 hereof) established in
the Series Supplemental Indenture relating to the Securities of such series
(except the 1995 Bonds, which shall be established pursuant to Section 2.17).
SECTION 2.2. Form of Trustee's Authentication. The Trustee's
certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the
following form:
This Security is one of the Securities referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
OF GEORGIA, as Trustee
By____________________________
Authorized Trust Officer
SECTION 2.3. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series; Limitations on
Issuance. The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The provisions of this Section
2.3 shall not be deemed in any way to supersede the restrictions contained in
Sections 4.16 and 4.17 of the IDB Lease Agreement.
The Securities may be issued in one (1) or more series. There shall be
established in one (1) or more Series Supplemental Indentures, prior to the
issuance of Securities of any series (except the 1995 Bonds, which shall be
established pursuant to Section 2.17):
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(a) the title of the Securities of such series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of such series from all other Securities)
and the form or forms of Securities of such series;
(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series that may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of such series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 6.6 or
11.6 and except for Securities that, pursuant to Section 2.4, are
deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(c) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities
of such series is payable, the amounts of principal payable on such
date or dates and the Regular Record Dates for the determination of
Holders to whom principal is payable; and the date or dates on or as of
which the Securities of such series shall be dated, if other than as
provided in Section 2.13;
(d) the rate or rates at which the Securities of such series
shall bear interest, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be
determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue,
the Regular Record Dates for the determination of Holders to whom
interest is payable and the basis of computation of interest, if other
than as provided in Section 2.13(b);
(e) if other than as provided in Section 9.13(a), the place or
places where (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on
Securities of such series shall be payable, (ii) Securities of such
series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and
(iii) notices and demands to or upon the IDB in respect of the
Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served;
(f) the price or prices at, the period or periods within, and
the terms and conditions upon, which Securities of such series may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the IDB;
(g) the obligation, if any, of the IDB to redeem, purchase or
repay Securities of such series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price
or prices at which, the period or periods within which and the terms
and conditions upon which Securities of such series shall be redeemed,
purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligations;
(h) if other than denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples
of $5,000 in excess thereof, the denominations in which Securities of such
series shall be issuable;
(i) if the Securities are to be issued in whole or in part in
the form of one (1) or more global securities registered in the name of
a clearing corporation or clearing agency registered under the Exchange
Act, as depositary for such Securities, or a nominee of such clearing
corporation or clearing agency, (i) the name of such depositary and any
such nominee, (ii) any limitations on the rights of beneficial holders
thereof to transfer or exchange the same or to obtain the registration
of transfer thereof, (iii) any limitations on the rights of beneficial
holders thereof to obtain certificates therefor in definitive form and
(iv) any and all other matters incidental to such Securities;
(j) any other terms of such series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture); and
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(k) any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, warrant
agents, transfer agents or registrars with respect to the Securities of
such series.
SECTION 2.4. Authentication and Delivery of Securities. Subject to
Section 2.3 and to Sections 4.16 and 4.17 of the IDB Lease Agreement, at any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture,
the IDB may deliver Securities of any series executed by an Authorized Officer
of the IDB to the Trustee for authentication, together with an IDB Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee shall thereupon
authenticate and make available for delivery such Securities in accordance with
such IDB Order, without any further action by the IDB. No Security shall be
secured by or entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate
of authentication, in the form provided for herein, executed by the Trustee by
the manual signature of any Authorized Trust Officer, and such certificate upon
any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. In authenticating
such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities under this
Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 9.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon:
(a) an executed Series Supplemental Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series (other than the 1995 Bonds) and any
amendment of the IDB Lease Agreement expressly providing that, for all
purposes of this Indenture and the IDB Lease Agreement, the Tax-Exempt
Project shall include any facilities being financed by the additional
Securities and adjusting the payments under the IDB Lease Agreement to
provide for payments by the Mobile Energy Parties of the amounts
necessary to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
such additional Securities;
(b) an Officer's Certificate of the IDB certifying (i) as to
resolutions of the IDB authorizing the issuance of such Securities, the
execution and delivery of this Indenture (in the case of the 1995
Bonds) and the IDB Lease Agreement and (in the case of Securities other
than the 1995 Bonds) the execution and delivery of the related Series
Supplemental Indenture, (ii) that all conditions precedent under this
Indenture to the Trustee's authentication and delivery of such
Securities have been complied with and (iii) as to the incumbency of
the persons named in such Officer's Certificate;
(c) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the form or
forms and the terms of such Securities have been established by a
Series Supplemental Indenture (or, in the case of the 1995 Bonds, by
Section 2.17) as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3 in accordance with
the provisions of this Indenture, (ii) the Securities of such series,
when authenticated and made available for delivery by the Trustee and
issued by the IDB in the manner and subject to any conditions specified
in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of the IDB, enforceable against the IDB in accordance with
their terms, except as such enforceability (A) may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent
conveyance, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies generally and (B) is
subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and the discretion of
the court before which proceedings may be brought and (iii) all laws of
the States of Alabama and New York and the requirements of this
Indenture and the IDB Lease Agreement, in each case in respect of the
execution and delivery by the IDB of such Securities, have been
complied with;
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(d) an Opinion of Counsel of Bond Counsel to the effect that
the exemption from Federal income tax of the interest on the 1995 Bonds
and any additional Securities theretofore issued will not be adversely
affected by the issuance of the additional Securities being issued; and
(e) such other documents and evidence with respect to the IDB
and the Mobile Energy Parties as the Trustee may reasonably request.
Prior to the authentication and delivery of a series of Securities, the
Trustee shall also receive such other funds, accounts, documents, certificates,
instruments or opinions as may be required by the related Series Supplemental
Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the IDB, and
the IDB shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided
in Section 2.12 together with a written statement (which need not comply with
Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that
such Security has never been issued and sold by the IDB, for all purposes of
this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder and shall never have been or be entitled to the benefits
hereof.
SECTION 2.5. Form and Denominations. The Securities of each series
shall be in registered form and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed, engraved,
typewritten or photocopied thereon, as may be required to comply with any
applicable law and the rules of any securities exchange (if any) upon which the
Securities are to be listed or of any clearing corporation or clearing agency
that is a Holder of such Securities in accordance with Section 2.3(i) or to
conform to any usage in respect thereof, or as may, consistently herewith, be
prescribed by the IDB or by the officers executing such Securities, such
determination by said officers to be evidenced by their signing the Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed, engraved,
typewritten, photocopied or produced by any combination of these methods or may
be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities
exchange upon which the Securities of such series are to be listed (if any) or
of any clearing corporation or clearing agency that is a Holder of such
Securities in accordance with Section 2.3(i), all as determined by the officers
executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
All Securities of any one (1) series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided herein or in
the Series Supplemental Indenture setting forth the terms of the Securities of
such series.
All Securities in whole or in part in the form of one (1) or more
global securities in accordance with Section 2.3(i) shall comply with the
requirements of the clearing corporation or clearing agency with whom the
registered form of such Security will be deposited.
SECTION 2.6. Execution of Securities. The Securities shall be executed
on behalf of the IDB by its president or any of its vice presidents and its
secretary or assistant secretary under its seal reproduced thereon. The
signature of any such officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile,
provided that any such signature shall be manually subscribed if so required by
applicable Law.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at the time such signatures were affixed the proper officers of the IDB
shall bind the IDB notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
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ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
SECTION 2.7. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of definitive
Securities of any series, the IDB may execute, and upon receipt of an IDB Order
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary
Securities of such series that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
photocopied or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the IDB will cause
definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
Corporate Trust Office or at the Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder.
Upon surrender for cancellation of any one (1) or more temporary Securities of
any series, the IDB shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery, in exchange therefor, definitive Securities of such
series of authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount. Until so exchanged such temporary Securities of any series shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive
Securities of such series.
SECTION 2.8. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The IDB shall cause
to be kept a register that, subject to such reasonable regulations as the IDB
may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Securities and for the
registration of transfers and exchanges of Securities. This register and, if
there shall be more than one (1) Security Registrar, the combined registers
maintained by all such Security Registrars, are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Security Register." The Trustee is hereby appointed as the initial
"Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities.
If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the IDB as Security
Registrar, the IDB will give the Trustee prompt notice of the appointment of the
Security Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Security
Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the Trustee
shall have the right to rely upon an Officer's Certificate executed on behalf of
the Security Registrar as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the
Securities and the principal amounts and numbers of such Securities.
At the option of any Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Securities of the same series to be registered in the name of such
Holder, of authorized denominations and of like tenor, maturity and aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any office
or agency maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 9.13(a). Whenever any
Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the IDB shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities that
the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the IDB, evidencing the same debt,
and entitled to the same security and benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the IDB and the Security Registrar or any
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transfer agent, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder's attorney
duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be required of any Holders participating in any
transfer or exchange of Securities in respect of such transfer or exchange, but
the Security Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer
or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.7, 6.6 or
11.6 not involving any transfer.
The Security Registrar shall not be required (a) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Security of any series during a period (i) beginning
at the opening of business fifteen (15) days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Securities of such series selected for redemption under
Section 6.2 or 7.2 and ending at the close of business on the day of such
mailing and (ii) beginning on the Regular Record Date for the Stated Maturity of
any installment of principal of or payment of interest on the Securities of such
series and ending on the Stated Maturity of such installment of principal or
payment of interest or (b) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any
Security selected pursuant to clause (i) above for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security selected for redemption in
part.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any transfer of the
Securities of any series may be subject to restrictions, if any, set forth in
the Series Supplemental Indenture relating to such series.
SECTION 2.9. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If (a)
any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Security
Registrar and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (b) there is delivered to
the IDB, the Security Registrar and the Trustee evidence to their
satisfaction of the ownership and authenticity thereof, and such security
or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, the
IDB shall execute and upon the IDB's request the Trustee shall authenticate
and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same
series and of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not then
outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case any such mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the
IDB, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (a) and (b) of the
immediately preceding paragraph, may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay
such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 2.9, the IDB
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.9 in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the IDB, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen
Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all the security and benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder (except as otherwise
specifically provided in this Indenture and in the other Security Documents).
The provisions of this Section 2.9 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 Securities.
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SECTION 2.10. Payment of Principal and Interest; Principal and Interest
Rights Preserved. Principal of or interest on any Security that is payable, and
is punctually paid or duly provided for, at any Stated Maturity shall be paid to
the Person in whose name that Security (or one (1) or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such principal or interest. Payment of principal of and interest on the
Securities of any series shall be made at the Corporate Trust Office or at the
Place of Payment (or, if (i) and for so long as any Outstanding Securities are
not issued in the form of one or more global securities registered in the name
of a clearing corporation or clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act,
as depositary for such Securities, or a nominee of such clearing corporation or
clearing agency and (ii) such office is not in the Borough of Manhattan, the
City of New York, at either such office or an office to be maintained in such
Borough), or by check or in another manner or manners if so provided in the
Series Supplemental Indenture creating the Securities of such series (or, in the
case of the 1995 Bonds, in Section 2.17).
Any principal of or interest on any Security of any series that is
payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, at any Stated Maturity
of an installment of principal or payment of interest shall forthwith cease to
be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been such Holder to the extent that such defaulted principal or interest may be
paid by the IDB, at its election (at the direction of the Company) in each case,
as provided in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) below:
(a) The IDB may elect to make payment of all or any portion of
such defaulted principal or interest to the Persons in whose names the
Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
in respect of which principal or interest is in default are registered
at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such defaulted principal or interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The IDB shall notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent
in writing of the amount of defaulted principal or interest proposed to
be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed
payment, and concurrently there shall be deposited with the Trustee or
the Paying Agent an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such defaulted principal or interest
or there shall be made arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee or the
Paying Agent for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed
payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled to such defaulted principal or interest as
provided in this paragraph. Thereupon, the Trustee shall fix a Special
Record Date for the payment of such defaulted principal or interest
(together with other amounts payable with respect to such defaulted
principal or interest) that shall not be more than fifteen (15) nor
less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment and
not less than ten (10) days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
IDB, the Company and the Security Registrar of such Special Record Date
and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such defaulted principal or interest and the
Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid,
to each Holder of a Security of such series at such Holder's address as
it appears in the Security Register, not less than ten (10) days prior
to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
defaulted principal or interest and the Special Record Date therefor
having been mailed as aforesaid, such defaulted principal or interest
shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such
series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on
such Special Record Date.
(b) The IDB may make, or cause to be made, payment of any
defaulted principal or interest (together with other amounts payable
with
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respect to such defaulted interest) in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange (if any)
on which the Securities in respect of which principal or interest is in
default may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange, if, after notice given by the IDB or the Company to the
Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this paragraph, such
payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.10, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Security, and each
such Security shall bear interest from whatever date shall be necessary so that
neither gain nor loss in interest shall result from such registration of
transfer, exchange or replacement.
SECTION 2.11. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a
Security for registration of transfer, the Person in whose name any Security is
registered shall be deemed to be the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to Section
2.10) interest on such Security and (subject to Section 5.3) for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, regardless of any
notice to anyone to the contrary.
SECTION 2.12. Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, credit against any Sinking Fund payment or registration of transfer
or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. The IDB may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder that the IDB may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and
all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No
Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities
canceled as provided in this Section 2.12, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and
certification of their destruction delivered to the IDB unless, by IDB Request,
the IDB otherwise directs.
SECTION 2.13. Dating of Securities; Computation of Interest. (a) Except as
otherwise provided in the Series Supplemental Indenture relating to the
Securities of a series, each Security of such series shall be dated the date of
its authentication.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the Series Supplemental Indenture
relating to the Securities of a series, interest on the Securities of such
series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months and, for any period shorter than a full calendar month, on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period.
SECTION 2.14. Source of Payments Limited; Rights and Liabilities of the
Mobile Energy Parties. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
Indenture, the IDB Lease Agreement and the Guaranty, all payments of principal
and premium, if any, and interest to be made in respect of the Securities and
this Indenture shall be made only from the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral, the payments therefrom and the income and proceeds received by the
Trustee or the Collateral Agent and allocable to the Trustee therefrom pursuant
to the Security Documents. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Security, agrees
that (a) it will look solely to the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral,
the payments therefrom and the income and proceeds received by the Trustee or
the Collateral Agent and allocable to the Trustee therefrom to the extent
available for distribution to such Holder as herein provided or provided in the
Security Documents and the Guaranty and (b) recourse shall be limited in
accordance with Article XIV.
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SECTION 2.15. Parity of Securities. (a) Except as otherwise
specifically provided in this Indenture and the other Security Documents, all
Securities of a series issued and Outstanding hereunder rank on a parity with
each other Security of the same series and with all Securities of each other
series and each Security of a series shall be secured equally and ratably by
this Indenture and the Security Documents with each other Security of the same
series and with all Securities of each other series, without preference,
priority or distinction of any one (1) thereof over any other by reason of
difference in time of issuance or otherwise, and each Security of a series shall
be entitled to the same benefits and security in this Indenture and the Security
Documents as each other Security of the same series and with all Securities of
each other series.
(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the right, title
and interest of the IDB in and to any Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account,
including all monies contained therein or hereafter delivered to the Trustee for
deposit therein and, in each case, all monies received and the right to receive
monies thereunder, shall be held in a separate account in trust solely for the
equal and proportionate benefit and security of the Holders from time to time of
the Outstanding Securities for the benefit of whom such Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Account was established.
SECTION 2.16. Allocation of Principal and Interest. Each payment of
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each Security shall be
applied, first, to the payment of accrued but unpaid interest on such Security
(as well as any interest on overdue principal or, to the extent permitted by
applicable Law, overdue interest) to the date of such payment, second, to the
payment of the principal amount of and premium, if any, on such Security then
due (including any overdue installment of principal) thereunder and, third, the
balance, if any, to the payment of the principal amount of and premium, if any,
on such Security remaining unpaid.
SECTION 2.17. Authorization and Provisions for Issuance of 1995 Bonds;
Application of Proceeds. (a) There is hereby created a series of Securities
designated "The Industrial Development Board of the City of Mobile, Alabama
Solid Waste Revenue Refunding Bonds (Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C.
Project), Series 1995" (the "1995 Bonds"). Upon delivery of an IDB Order to the
Trustee in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.4, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver the 1995 Bonds. Such IDB Order shall specify the amount
of the 1995 Bonds to be authenticated and the date on which such Securities are
to be authenticated.
(b) The 1995 Bonds shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A and
shall have and be subject to such other terms as provided in this Indenture.
(c) Each of the 1995 Bonds shall bear interest on the unpaid principal
amount thereof from time to time Outstanding from the date specified therein
until such amount is paid in full at the rate of interest, and the principal
amount of each of the 1995 Bonds shall be due and payable as, set forth in the
form thereof.
Payment of principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each of
the 1995 Bonds shall be made, if the IDB (at the direction of the Company) so
elects, by check mailed to the Holder at its registered address or otherwise as
provided in Section 2.10 of this Indenture, except that the final payment of
principal of any of the 1995 Bonds shall be made on the due date therefor to the
accounts of the Holders thereof as such accounts shall appear in the Security
Register, which shall be due and payable as set forth in the form thereof
attached hereto. For so long as the 1995 Bonds are issued in the form of one (1)
or more global 1995 Bonds, payment of principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on such 1995 Bonds shall be made in immediately available funds by wire
transfer to the clearing corporation or clearing agency acting as depositary for
such global 1995 Bonds, or a nominee of such clearing corporation or clearing
agency. Any other
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Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of 1995 Bonds may, by
delivery of a written notice to the Paying Agent, elect to have all such
payments to such Holder made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
a designated account maintained in the United States (so long as the Paying
Agent has received proper wire transfer instructions in writing by the Regular
Record Date next preceding the date for such payment).
The 1995 Bonds shall mature on the date set forth in the form thereof.
(d)The 1995 Bonds are subject to optional redemption as set forth in the
form thereof.
(e) In accordance with the provisions of Section 6.3 of this Indenture,
the 1995 Bonds are subject to extraordinary redemption under certain conditions,
and mandatory sinking fund redemption, in each case on the terms set forth in
the form thereof.
(f) Pursuant to Section 4.28 of the IDB Lease Agreement, each of the
Mobile Energy Parties has covenanted and agreed, for the benefit of the Holders
of 1995 Bonds, to comply with and carry out all of the provisions of the
Continuing Disclosure Agreement applicable to such Mobile Energy Party, and such
covenant and agreement is incorporated herein by reference and pursuant to the
assignment of the IDB's rights under the IDB Lease Agreement. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture, the failure by either of the Mobile
Energy Parties or the Trustee to comply with the Continuing Disclosure Agreement
shall not be considered an Event of Default under this Indenture; provided,
however, that the Trustee may (and, at the request of any Participating
Underwriter (as defined in the Continuing Disclosure Agreement) or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding 1995 Bonds, shall)
or any beneficial holder of a 1995 Bond may take such actions as may be
necessary and appropriate, including seeking mandamus or specific performance by
court order, to cause such Mobile Energy Party or the Trustee (as the case may
be) to comply with its obligations under this Section 2.17(f).
(g) The Trustee hereby covenants and agrees that any Holder of a 1995
Bond or an owner of a beneficial interest therein or any prospective investor of
a 1995 Bond may, upon reasonable notice, inspect any of the Project Documents at
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
(h) Promptly upon receipt by the Trustee (on behalf of the IDB) of the
proceeds from the sale of the 1995 Bonds, the Trustee shall (i) deposit any
proceeds representing accrued interest into the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Interest Subaccount and apply such amount to the payment of interest on the 1995
Bonds on the first Interest Payment Date and (ii) make an irrevocable transfer
of the balance of such proceeds to the trustee under the 1984 Indenture, to be
applied to the payment of the 1984 Bonds, within the meaning of Article VIII of
the 1984 Indenture and for all other purposes of the 1984 Indenture, and
thereafter to the redemption of the 1984 Bonds.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The IDB represents and warrants, as of the Closing Date, to the Trustee
as follows:
SECTION 3.1. Organization, Power, Authority and Status of IDB. The IDB
is a public corporation duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the State of Alabama. The IDB has complied with all of the
provisions of the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, including the
Alabama Act.
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SECTION 3.2. Authorization; Enforceability; Execution and Delivery. (a)
The IDB has all necessary power and authority to execute, deliver and perform
its obligations under this Indenture, the Securities, the IDB Lease Agreement
and each other Project Document to which it is a party, and any and all other
agreements relating thereto. All action on the part of the IDB that is required
for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture,
the Securities and each other Project Document to which the IDB is a party has
been duly and effectively taken.
(b) This Indenture, the Securities and each other Project Document to
which the IDB is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the IDB. Each
of this Indenture, the Securities and each other Project Document to which the
IDB is a party constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the IDB,
enforceable against it in accordance with the terms thereof, except as such
enforceability (i) may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium and similar laws relating to
or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies generally and
(ii) is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and the
discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought and
to public policy or Federal or state laws that may limit rights to
indemnification.
SECTION 3.3. No Conflicts; Laws and Contracts; No Default. (a) Neither
the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Securities and each other
Project Document to which the IDB is a party nor the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby nor performance of or compliance
with the terms and conditions hereof or thereof (i) conflicts or is inconsistent
with or constitutes a default under or results in the violation of the
provisions of the organizational documents of the IDB, or of any other Project
Document or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, sale/leaseback agreement,
loan agreement or other similar financing agreement or instrument or other
agreement or instrument to which the IDB is a party or by which the IDB or any
of its property or assets is bound or to which either may be subject or (ii)
results in the creation or imposition of any Liens on any of the property or
assets of the IDB or (other than Permitted Liens) either of the Mobile Energy
Parties, or results in the acceleration of any obligation of either of the
Mobile Energy Parties.
(b) Neither the IDB nor (to the knowledge of the IDB without
independent investigation) any other party to a Project Document to which the
IDB is a party, to the 1984 Indenture or to the 1984 Lease is in material
default in the performance of any term, covenant or obligation under such
Contract and no event has occurred that with the lapse of time, notice or both
could result in a default thereunder; no material force majeure event has
occurred and is continuing under any Project Document to which the IDB is a
party; and (to the knowledge of the IDB without independent investigation) each
such Project Document is in full force and effect.
SECTION 3.4. Litigation. There are no claims, actions, suits,
investigations or proceedings at law or in equity by or before any arbitrator or
any Governmental Authority now pending or (to the knowledge of the IDB without
independent investigation) threatened against the IDB, or any property or other
assets or rights of the IDB with respect to this Indenture, any other Project
Document to which the IDB is a party or the Energy Complex, that would
reasonably be expected to adversely affect the transactions contemplated hereby,
the validity of, or the power of the IDB to execute and deliver, this Indenture,
the Securities or any other Project Document to which the IDB is a party or the
right of the IDB to finance the Tax-Exempt Project.
SECTION 3.5. Signed Certificates. Any certificate signed by any official of
the IDB and delivered to the parties hereto shall be deemed a
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representation and warranty by the IDB to the respective parties as to the
statements made therein.
ARTICLE IV.
TAX-EXEMPT INDENTURE ACCOUNTS
SECTION 4.1. Establishment of Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account. An
account designated the "Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account" is hereby
established and created with the Trustee. The following subaccounts of the Tax-
Exempt Indenture Securities Account are hereby established and created with the
Trustee: (a) "Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Interest Subaccount"; (b) "Tax-
Exempt Indenture Securities Principal Subaccount"; and (c) "Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Redemption Subaccount."
SECTION 4.2. Payments into Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account. The
Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account shall be funded with (a) monies
transferred by the Collateral Agent from the Revenue Account pursuant to
Sections 3.11(e)(iii) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) monies transferred by
the Collateral Agent from the Maintenance Reserve Account pursuant to Section
3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (c) monies transferred by the Collateral
Agent from the Distribution Account pursuant to Section 3.8(b) of the
Intercreditor Agreement, (d) monies transferred by the Collateral Agent from the
Subordinated Fee Account pursuant to Section 3.7(b) of the Intercreditor
Agreement, (e) monies transferred by the Collateral Agent from the Subordinated
Debt Account pursuant to Section 3.6(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (f) Loss
Proceeds transferred by the Collateral Agent from the Loss Proceeds Account
pursuant to Section 3.10 of the Intercreditor Agreement and (g) monies on
deposit in the Mill Owner Maintenance Reserve Account used pursuant to the
proviso contained in Section 4.29 of the IDB Lease Agreement. The Trustee shall
deposit all monies received by it for (i) payment of interest on the Securities
at Stated Maturity into the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Interest Subaccount,
(ii) payment of principal of the Securities at Stated Maturity into the
Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Principal Subaccount and (iii) redemption of
Securities other than at Stated Maturity into the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Redemption Subaccount, in each case as specified in the Officer's
Certificate of the Company delivered pursuant to Section 3.11 of the
Intercreditor Agreement (which the Company shall deliver to the Trustee) and in
each case for disbursement in accordance with Section 4.3.
SECTION 4.3. Application of Funds in Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Account. (a) The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to disburse from (i)
the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Interest Subaccount, the amount required to
pay interest on Securities when due (whether on an Interest Payment Date or at
any other Stated Maturity, but not on any Redemption Date or Prepayment Date),
(ii) the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Principal Subaccount, the amount
required to pay principal of the Securities when due (whether on a Principal
Payment Date or at any other Stated Maturity, but not on any Redemption Date or
Prepayment Date) and (iii) the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Redemption
Subaccount, the amount required to pay principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on the Securities when due otherwise than at Stated Maturity (whether
upon acceleration or on any Redemption Date or Prepayment Date); provided,
however, that if there are insufficient monies in (A) the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Interest Subaccount to pay the interest then due on the Securities,
then the Trustee shall, in the following order of priority: first, transfer
monies on deposit in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Redemption Subaccount
and, second, transfer monies on deposit in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Principal Subaccount to the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Interest Subaccount
to be applied to make such payment, (B) the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Principal Subaccount to pay the principal then due on the Securities, then the
Trustee shall transfer monies on deposit in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Redemption Subaccount to the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Principal
Subaccount
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to be applied to make such payment and (C) the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Redemption Subaccount to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on the Securities then due upon acceleration or on any Redemption Date or
Prepayment Date, then the Trustee shall transfer monies on deposit in the Tax-
Exempt Indenture Securities Principal Subaccount and the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Interest Subaccount (but only, in each case, to the extent such
monies are in excess of the amount necessary for payment of principal of and
interest on the Securities not being redeemed or prepaid) to be applied to make
such payment.
SECTION 4.4. Establishment of 1995 Bond Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve
Account. (a) An account designated the "1995 Bond Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Account" is hereby established and created with the Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders of the 1995 Bonds.
(b) The Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account Required Balance in
respect of the 1995 Bond Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account shall be an
amount equal to $5,908,000. The 1995 Bond Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve
Account shall be funded on the Closing Date in an amount equal to such
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account Required Balance.
SECTION 4.5. Payments into Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Accounts.
Subject to Section 4.7, each Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account (if any)
shall be funded (a) with monies to be deposited therein on the date of original
issuance of any Securities for whose benefit any such Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Account was established and created, in accordance with the Series
Supplemental Indenture establishing such Securities (except the 1995 Bonds, in
which case in accordance with Section 4.4), and (b) with monies to be
transferred thereto by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 3.11(g)(ii) of
the Intercreditor Agreement, in the case of clauses (a) and (b) above, to the
extent necessary so that the amount of monies, together with the Available
Amount under any Reserve Account Letter of Credit, then on deposit in such
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account shall be equal to the Tax-Exempt Debt
Service Reserve Account Required Balance in respect of such Tax-Exempt Debt
Service Reserve Account.
SECTION 4.6. Application of Funds in Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve
Accounts. If, following the application of monies on deposit in the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Account in accordance with Section 4.3, amounts are due and
owing in respect of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any
Securities for whose benefit a Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account was
established and created, in accordance with the Series Supplemental Indenture
establishing such Securities (except the 1995 Bonds, in which case in accordance
with Section 4.4), the Trustee shall, in the following order of priority: first,
apply monies then on deposit in such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account;
and, second, draw upon any Reserve Account Letter of Credit on deposit in such
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account pursuant to Section 4.7(d) in an amount
up to the Available Amount thereunder and apply the monies in respect thereof,
in each case, directly to the payment (to the extent necessary) of such amounts
due and owing in respect of such Securities; provided, however, that, prior to a
Trigger Event, if an Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, the
Trustee shall provide notice thereof to the Collateral Agent, and the Collateral
Agent shall (to the extent necessary), in the following order of priority,
transfer monies on deposit in the Distribution Account, the Subordinated Fee
Account and the Subordinated Debt Account (including then Available Amounts
under any Reserve Account Security on deposit therein) in accordance with and
subject to Sections 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6, respectively, of the Intercreditor
Agreement, to the Trustee for application to the payment of such amounts due and
payable in respect of such Securities, prior to the application of monies
pursuant to clauses first and second above. Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement or any other Financing Document to the contrary, the Trustee is hereby
authorized and directed to transfer monies on deposit in any Tax-Exempt Debt
Service Reserve
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Account (together with then Available Amounts under any Reserve Account Letter
of Credit deposited therein) into a segregated account to be held by the Trustee
for the purpose of paying any amount required to be rebated to the United States
government pursuant to Section 148 of the Code in connection with any series of
the Securities. The Company shall comply with Article IX of the Company's Tax
and Non-Arbitrage Certification dated August 24, 1995. Unless the Trustee shall
have received an Officer's Certificate of the Company, not later than thirty
(30) days after each installment computation date (as defined in such Tax and
Non-Arbitrage Certification), specifying the amount of such rebate, and the
calculation thereof, that would be required to be so paid, the Trustee is hereby
authorized and directed to employ such Person or Persons, which shall be expert
in such matters, as it may reasonably select, for the purpose of making such
calculations.
SECTION 4.7. Reserve Account Letter of Credit. (a) Subject to Section
4.7(c), the IDB shall not be required at any time to deposit any monies into any
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account, and the Company shall be entitled from
time to time to withdraw monies on deposit in such Tax-Exempt Debt Service
Reserve Account, provided that and for so long as one (1) or more Reserve
Account Letters of Credit having an Available Amount thereunder equal to the
amount of such monies otherwise required to be and not so deposited or the
amount of such monies so withdrawn (as the case may be) shall have been
delivered to the Trustee, at or prior to such time, for deposit into such
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account. At the time of any such deposit, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 9.1) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
Reserve Account Letter of Credit (i) is permitted by this Section 4.7 and has
been delivered in accordance with the provisions hereof, (ii) has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the provider thereof and (iii) constitutes
a legal, valid and binding obligation of such provider, enforceable against such
provider in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability (A) may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent
conveyance, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies generally as such laws would apply
in the event of a bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of, or other similar
occurrence with respect to, such provider and (B) is subject to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity
or at law) or other customary qualifications and limitations. The Company may
from time to time, at its discretion, replace or reduce the Available Amount (in
whole or in part) under any Reserve Account Letter of Credit on deposit in any
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account with one (1) or more other Reserve
Account Letters of Credit having an Available Amount thereunder, or with monies
in an amount, equal to the Available Amount so replaced or reduced.
(b) Each Reserve Account Letter of Credit on deposit in any Tax-Exempt
Debt Service Reserve Account shall provide that not less than forty-five (45)
days prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event with respect to such Reserve
Account Letter of Credit, the provider thereof shall deliver written notice to
the Trustee and the Company of such occurrence. The Company shall provide notice
to the Trustee of the occurrence of any Credit Standard Event or Default Event
within three (3) Business Days of its actual or constructive knowledge of the
event giving rise to such occurrence.
(c) If (in lieu of any monies required to be deposited into, or in
replacement of monies or one (1) or more other Reserve Account Letters of Credit
on deposit in, any Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account) any Reserve Account
Letter of Credit is on deposit in such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account
pursuant to Section 4.7(a), then, immediately upon the occurrence of a Required
Deposit Event with respect to such Reserve Account Letter of Credit, the Company
agrees to deposit into such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account an amount of
monies equal to the Required Deposit with respect to such Required Deposit
Event.
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(d) If the Company fails to make any Required Deposit pursuant to
Section 4.6(c) as and when due, then the Trustee shall, and is hereby authorized
and directed to, draw upon any such Reserve Account Letter of Credit in an
amount equal to the amount of such Required Deposit that the Company so failed
to deposit; provided, however, that, if a Required Deposit Event occurs at a
time when more than one (1) Reserve Account Letter of Credit is on deposit in
such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account, the Trustee may elect, subject to
Section 4.6, the order in which the Trustee shall draw upon such Reserve Account
Letters of Credit. Any amounts drawn by the Trustee under any Reserve Account
Letter of Credit on deposit in any Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account shall
be deposited into such Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account. The Company's
obligations under Section 4.7(c) shall be satisfied to the extent of any such
deposit.
SECTION 4.8. Investment of Monies in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Accounts.
(a) Amounts deposited in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Accounts, at the written
request and direction of the Company, shall be invested by the Trustee in
Permitted Investments. Such Permitted Investments shall mature in such amounts
and not later than such times as may be necessary to provide monies when needed
to make payments from such monies as provided in this Indenture. Net interest or
gain received from such Permitted Investments shall remain in the respective
subaccounts of the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account and in each
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account (if any) pending application as provided
in this Indenture, provided that (i) to the extent that monies on deposit in any
Tax- Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account (together with then Available Amounts
under any Reserve Account Letter of Credit deposited therein) exceed the
Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account Required Balance therefor, such monies
shall be transferred to the Collateral Agent for deposit into the Revenue
Account and (ii) net interest on monies deposited into the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Account Principal Subaccount shall be transferred to the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Account Interest Subaccount immediately prior to each
Monthly Transfer Date. In the event monies are required for payment of any
amounts to be paid by the Trustee pursuant to Article VI in respect of any
series of Securities and for any payment of the principal of or premium, if any,
or interest on any series of Securities, the Trustee shall, at the written
request and direction of the Company, sell such Permitted Investments as
required to restore to cash such amounts as are needed for any such payments.
Absent written instructions from the Company, the Trustee shall invest the
amounts held in the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Account and each Tax-Exempt
Debt Service Reserve Account in Permitted Investments described in clause (a) of
the definition thereof. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name
of the Trustee (it being understood and agreed that the Trustee shall not be
responsible for losses in respect thereof) and shall be made in such manner as
to preserve the Lien of this Indenture thereon. The Trustee shall maintain
records reflecting the interest of each Tax-Exempt Indenture Account in such
Permitted Investments.
(b) In computing the amount in any Tax-Exempt Indenture Account (or any
other separate account or fund created under the provisions of, and for any
purpose provided in, this Indenture), each Permitted Investment on deposit
therein shall be valued at the fair value thereof, including accrued interest
thereon. On the Business Day immediately preceding each Monthly Transfer Date
and the date of any withdrawal of monies on deposit in any Tax-Exempt Indenture
Account, the Trustee shall so value each Permitted Investment on deposit in such
Tax-Exempt Indenture Account and, promptly thereafter, shall notify the Company,
the Collateral Agent and the Independent Engineer as to the amount of any
deficiency or surplus in such Tax-Exempt Indenture Account as of such date based
upon such valuation.
(c) In addition to the records referenced above, the Trustee shall keep
and retain or cause to be kept and retained, until at least six (6) years after
the discharge and retirement of the Securities, whether at maturity, redemption
or acceleration, the following records with respect to Permitted Investments:
(i)
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purchase price, (ii) purchase date, (iii) type of investment, (iv) accrued
interest paid, (v) interest rate (if applicable), (vi) principal amount, (vii)
maturity date, (viii) interest payment date (if applicable), (ix) date of
liquidation and (x) receipt upon liquidation. If any investment is retained
following the date the last Security is retired, the records required to be kept
by the Trustee shall include the fair value of such investment on the date the
last Security is retired. Amounts shall be segregated wherever held in order to
maintain the foregoing records.
SECTION 4.9. Monies to be Held in Trust. All monies required to be
deposited with or paid to the Trustee for the account of any Tax-Exempt
Indenture Account under any provision of this Indenture and all investments made
therewith, and all investments made therewith, and all monies withdrawn from any
Tax-Exempt Indenture Account and held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent, shall
be held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent in trust, and while so held shall be
held in trust for the Holders of the Securities.
SECTION 4.10. Dominion and Control. The IDB hereby transfers, assigns
and sets over all of its right, title and interest in and to all amounts
deposited or held in any Tax-Exempt Indenture Account and grants the Trustee
(acting on behalf of the Holders of the Securities) sole dominion and control
over such amounts. Neither the Mobile Energy Parties nor the IDB shall have the
right to withdraw monies from any Tax-Exempt Indenture Account hereunder.
ARTICLE V.
COVENANTS
The IDB hereby covenants and agrees that so long as this Indenture is
in effect and any Securities remain Outstanding:
SECTION 5.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest. The IDB
shall duly and punctually pay, or cause to be paid, the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on, and all other amounts payable in respect of,
the Securities of each series in accordance with their terms and the terms of
this Indenture and (other than in the case of the 1995 Bonds) of the related
Series Supplemental Indenture, provided that the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on the Securities are payable by the IDB solely and only from
the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral. The Securities are not general
obligations of the IDB but are limited obligations payable solely and only from
the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral.
SECTION 5.2. Performance of Covenants by IDB. The IDB covenants and
agrees that it will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants,
undertakings and provisions contained in this Indenture, in any and every
Security executed, authenticated and delivered hereunder and in all of its
proceedings pertaining hereto, and that it will diligently enforce the
performance of any and all covenants, undertakings and provisions of the Mobile
Energy Parties contained in the IDB Lease Agreement.
SECTION 5.3. Rights Under IDB Lease Agreement. The IDB Lease Agreement
sets forth the covenants and obligations of the IDB and the Mobile Energy
Parties, including provisions to the effect that, subsequent to the issuance of
the Securities and prior to the payment in full or provision for payment thereof
in accordance with the provisions hereof, the IDB Lease Agreement (except as
expressly provided therein) may not be effectively terminated, amended,
supplemented, waived or otherwise modified without the concurring written
consent of the Trustee, and reference is hereby made to the IDB Lease Agreement
for a detailed statement of such covenants and obligations of the Mobile Energy
Parties, and the IDB agrees that the Trustee in its name or (to the extent
required by Law) in the name of the IDB, may enforce all rights of the IDB and
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all obligations of the Mobile Energy Parties, under and pursuant to the IDB
Lease Agreement for and on behalf of the Holders of Securities, whether or not
the IDB is in default hereunder. The IDB shall cooperate with the Trustee in
enforcing the obligations of the Mobile Energy Parties to pay or cause to be
paid all amounts payable by the Mobile Energy Parties under the IDB Lease
Agreement.
SECTION 5.4. Arbitrage and Tax Covenants. The IDB shall not knowingly
use or permit the use of any proceeds of Securities or any other funds of the
IDB, directly or indirectly, to acquire any securities or obligations, and shall
not knowingly use or permit the use of any revenues of the IDB from the IDB
Lease Agreement in any manner, and shall not knowingly take or permit to be
taken any other action or actions, that would cause any Security to be an
"arbitrage bond" within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code, or that would
otherwise cause interest on the Securities to become subject to Federal income
tax. The IDB, at the direction of the Company, shall comply with all applicable
provisions of Section 148 of the Code.
The IDB shall at all times do and perform all acts reasonably requested
by the Company or the Trustee and things permitted by Law and necessary or
desirable in order to assure that interest paid by the IDB on the Securities
shall, for the purposes of Federal income tax, be exempt from all income
taxation under any valid provision of Law.
SECTION 5.5. No Disposition of Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral. Except as permitted by this Indenture, the IDB Lease Agreement, the
Intercreditor Agreement, the Mortgage, the Security Agreement or the Recognition
Agreement relating to the 1995 Bonds, the IDB shall not sell, lease, pledge,
assign or otherwise encumber or dispose of its interest in the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Collateral and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged
(but solely from the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral), or make
adequate provision in the judgment of the Trustee to discharge, any lien or
charge on any part thereof not permitted hereby.
SECTION 5.6. Access to Books. All books and documents in the possession
of the IDB relating to the Tax-Exempt Project, the revenues of the IDB from the
IDB Lease Agreement, and the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral shall at
all reasonable times be open to inspection by such accountants or other agencies
as the Trustee may from time to time designate.
SECTION 5.7. Covenant to Perform Further Acts. The IDB covenants that
it will do, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be done, executed,
acknowledged and delivered, such indentures supplemental hereto and such further
acts, instruments and transfers as the Trustee may reasonably require for the
better pledging unto the Trustee all and singular the rental payments under the
IDB Lease Agreement and any other income, monies, rights and properties pledged
hereby to the payment of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on
the Securities.
SECTION 5.8. Enforcement of Duties and Obligations of Mobile Energy
Parties. The IDB shall take all legally available action to cause the Mobile
Energy Parties to fully perform all duties and acts and fully comply with the
covenants of the Mobile Energy Parties imposed by the Lease Documents in the
manner and at the times provided therein. So long as no Event of Default
hereunder shall have occurred and be continuing, the IDB may exercise all its
rights under the Lease Documents, but the IDB shall not amend any of the same so
as to diminish the amounts payable thereunder or otherwise so as to adversely
affect the IDB's ability to perform its covenants under this Indenture.
SECTION 5.9. Further Assurances. The IDB shall not enter into any Contract
or take any action by which the rights of the Trustee or the Holders may be
impaired and shall, from time to time, execute and deliver such further
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instruments and take such further action as may be required to carry out the
purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.10. Filing and Recording. The IDB, at the expense of the
Company, shall cause all documents, statements, memoranda or other instruments
to be registered, filed or recorded in such manner and at such places as may be
required by law fully to protect the security of the Holders and the right,
title and interest of the Trustee in and to any monies or securities held
hereunder or any part thereof (including any refilings, continuation statements
or such other documents as may be required).
SECTION 5.11. Trustee's Obligations. (a) The Trustee covenants and
agrees that, as assignee of the rights of the IDB under the IDB Lease Agreement,
it will not suffer, permit or take any action or do anything or fail to take any
action or fail to do anything that may result in the termination of the IDB
Lease Agreement prior to its stated expiration date so long as any Security is
Outstanding; that it will fulfill its obligations (as assignee of the IDB) and
will require the Mobile Energy Parties to perform punctually the duties and
obligations of the Mobile Energy Parties under the IDB Lease Agreement and will
otherwise administer the IDB Lease Agreement in accordance with its terms and
assure the continued ownership, operation, management, repair and maintenance of
the Tax-Exempt Project by the Company and the Company's payment of the rental
payments thereunder and the costs and expenses of ownership, operation,
management, repair and maintenance of the Tax-Exempt Project, all in accordance
with the terms of the IDB Lease Agreement; that (as assignee of the IDB) it will
not terminate the IDB Lease Agreement or cause it to be terminated except in
strict accordance with the terms thereof; that it will not agree to any
termination, amendment, supplement, waiver or other modification of or to the
IDB Lease Agreement except by supplemental Contract duly executed by the Mobile
Energy Parties and the IDB and upon the further terms and conditions set forth
in Article XI of this Indenture; and that (as assignee of the IDB), except as
expressly provided in the IDB Lease Agreement and herein, it will not agree to
any abatement, reduction, abrogation, waiver, diminution or other modification
in any manner or to any extent whatsoever of the obligation of the Mobile Energy
Parties or any successor under the IDB Lease Agreement to pay the rental
payments to meet its other obligations as provided in the IDB Lease Agreement.
(b) The Trustee covenants and agrees that it will undertake to enforce
to the extent reasonably practicable and necessary for and on behalf of the IDB
the obligations of the Mobile Energy Parties to the IDB and the Trustee under
the IDB Lease Agreement.
(c) The IDB covenants that it will promptly notify the Trustee of any
actual or alleged Event of Default, whether by the IDB or the Mobile Energy
Parties, of which it is aware, and will further notify the Trustee at least
thirty (30) days before the proposed date of effectiveness thereof of any
proposed termination or amendment of the IDB Lease Agreement.
ARTICLE VI.
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT OF SECURITIES
SECTION 6.1. Applicability of Article. Securities of any series that
are subject to redemption or prepayment before their Stated Maturity (or, if the
principal of the Securities of any series is payable in installments, the Stated
Maturity of the final installment of the principal thereof) shall be redeemed or
prepaid in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified in the
Series Supplemental Indenture creating such series) in accordance with this
Article VI.
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SECTION 6.2. Election to Redeem or Prepay; Notice to Trustee. The election
or requirement of the IDB to redeem or prepay any Securities otherwise than
through a Sinking Fund shall be evidenced by an IDB Order. If the IDB determines
(at the direction of the Company) or is required to redeem or prepay any
Securities, the IDB (or the Company on behalf of the IDB) shall, at least
fifteen (15) days prior to the date upon which notice of redemption or
prepayment is required to be given to the Holders pursuant to Section 6.4 hereof
(unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), deliver
to the Trustee an IDB Order specifying the date on which such redemption or
prepayment shall occur (a "Redemption Date" or "Prepayment Date," as the case
may be) and the series and principal amount of Securities to be redeemed or
prepaid. In the case of any redemption or prepayment of Securities (a) prior to
the expiration of any restriction on such redemption or prepayment provided in
the terms of such Securities, the Series Supplemental Indenture relating thereto
or elsewhere in this Indenture or (b) pursuant to an election of the IDB (at the
direction of the Company) that is subject to a condition specified in the terms
of such Securities or in the Series Supplemental Indenture relating thereto, the
IDB (or the Company on behalf of the IDB) shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officer's Certificate and Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such
restriction or condition.
SECTION 6.3. Optional Redemption; Extraordinary Redemption; Prepayment;
Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed or Prepaid. (a) The Securities of any
series shall be subject to redemption from time to time at the option of the IDB
(at the direction of the Company) only as provided in the terms of such
Securities or in the Series Supplemental Indenture relating thereto.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities or in a
Series Supplemental Indenture, all Outstanding Securities shall be redeemed
prior to maturity, as a whole, at a redemption price equal to the principal
amount thereof, together with any interest on the principal amount of the
Securities accrued to the Redemption Date, upon an Event of Loss or an Event of
Eminent Domain if (i) the determination is made in accordance with Section
3.10(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement that neither the Energy Complex nor any
portion thereof can be rebuilt, repaired, restored or replaced with a
Replacement Facility (subject to the conditions specified in the Intercreditor
Agreement) or that the Loss Proceeds with respect thereto, together with
Additional Available Proceeds, are not sufficient to permit such rebuilding,
repair, restoration or replacement or (ii) if (A) the monies on deposit in the
Loss Proceeds Account, including all Additional Available Proceeds, are
sufficient to redeem all Senior Debt, (B) all or substantially all of the Energy
Complex is destroyed or otherwise rendered unfit for normal use or is the
subject of a compulsory transfer or taking or transfer under threat of a
compulsory transfer or taking, (C) the Company elects not to rebuild, repair,
restore or replace the Energy Complex and (D) the Company provides an Officer's
Certificate to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent certifying that the Company
is not otherwise required under the Master Operating Agreement or the Lease to
rebuild, repair, restore or replace the Energy Complex, or to apply Loss
Proceeds to the rebuilding, repairing, restoration or replacement of the Energy
Complex (which certification shall be confirmed by an Opinion of Counsel to such
effect). All Loss Proceeds received by the Trustee from the Collateral Agent
pursuant to Section 6.2(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement with respect to such
Event of Loss or Event of Eminent Domain (as the case may be) shall be deposited
into the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Redemption Subaccount and applied by
the Trustee to the redemption of all Outstanding Securities pursuant to this
Section 6.3(b).
Any redemption pursuant to this Section 6.3(b) shall be made within
ninety (90) days after the receipt by the Trustee of the Excess Loss Proceeds
from the Collateral Agent.
(c) The Outstanding Securities shall be partially redeemed, ratably
among, and by lot within, all outstanding series and maturities, prior to
maturity at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, together
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with any interest on the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities accrued
to the Redemption Date, upon completion of the rebuilding, repair, restoration
or replacement of the Energy Complex following an Event of Loss or an Event of
Eminent Domain where a determination is made that the Energy Complex or any
portion thereof can be rebuilt, repaired, restored or replaced with a
Replacement Facility and that the Company has sufficient monies available for
such rebuilding, repair, restoration or replacement. The foregoing provisions of
this Section 6.3(c) may be altered in a Series Supplemental Indenture, but such
altered provisions shall not be effective while any Securities Outstanding as of
the date of such Series Supplemental Indenture remain outstanding.
The aggregate amount of Securities to be redeemed shall be equal to the
Tax-Exempt Indenture Distribution Amount transferred to the Trustee for such
purpose pursuant to Section 6.2(b)(iii) of the Intercreditor Agreement. All
Excess Loss Proceeds so transferred to the Trustee shall be deposited into the
Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Redemption Subaccount and applied by the Trustee
to the redemption of such Securities pursuant to this Section 6.3(c); provided,
however, that, to the extent that any of such Excess Loss Proceeds is
transferred to the Trustee pursuant to clause (B) of the last sentence of
Section 6.2(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee shall deposit such
Excess Loss Proceeds into the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Principal
Subaccount to be applied to the payment or redemption of Securities at the
earliest date permitted by the terms thereof.
Any redemption pursuant to this Section 6.3(c) shall be made within
ninety (90) days after the receipt by the Trustee of such Excess Loss Proceeds
(other than any such Excess Loss Proceeds transferred to the Indenture
Securities Principal Subaccount).
(d) Except as otherwise specified herein, in the terms of the
Securities of any series or in the Series Supplemental Indenture relating to
such Securities, if less than all the Securities of such series are to be
redeemed or prepaid pursuant to Section 6.3(a), the particular Securities of
such series to be redeemed or prepaid shall be selected by the Trustee from the
Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption or
prepayment in whole, by such method (including by lot) as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate.
(e) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption or prepayment and, in the case of any
Securities to be redeemed or prepaid in part, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed or prepaid.
(f) For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption or prepayment of Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or prepaid or to be
redeemed or prepaid only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such
Securities that has been or is to be redeemed or prepaid.
SECTION 6.4. Notice of Redemption or Prepayment. Except as otherwise
specified in the Series Supplemental Indenture relating to the Securities of a
series, or in the terms of the Securities of any series, to be redeemed or
prepaid, notice of redemption or prepayment (including any Sinking Fund
redemption pursuant to Article VII hereof) shall be given in the manner provided
in Section 1.6 to the Holders of Securities of such series to be redeemed or
prepaid at least thirty (30) days but not more than sixty (60) days prior to the
Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the case may be). All notices of
redemption or prepayment shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the case may be);
(b) the premium payable on redemption or prepayment, if any;
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(c) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to
be redeemed or prepaid in whole, (i) the particular Securities of
such series to be redeemed or prepaid in whole, (ii) the portion
of the principal amount of each Security of such series to be
redeemed or prepaid in part and (iii) that, on and after the
Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the case may be), upon
surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such
series in principal amount equal to the remaining unpaid
principal amount thereof will be issued;
(d) that on the Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the case may
be), interest on the Securities of such series to be redeemed or
prepaid will cease to accrue on and after such date;
(e) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the amount in respect of such
redemption or prepayment; and
(f) that such redemption is for a Sinking Fund, if such is the case.
In addition to the notice described above, each notice of redemption
shall be sent two (2) Business Days prior to such notice by telecopy or telefax
to the registered securities depository holding any global securities if the
Securities are in book-entry form, and each of the registered securities
depositaries then in the business of holding substantial amounts of obligations
similar to the Securities (such depositaries as of the date hereof consisting of
The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, Midwest Securities Trust
Company, Chicago, Illinois and Philadelphia Depository Trust Company,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and to two (2) or more national information services
that disseminate notices of redemption of obligations such as the Securities
(such as Financial Information, Inc.'s Financial Daily Called Bond Service,
Kenny Information Service's Called Bond Service, Bloomberg Financial Markets
Commodities News, Moody's Municipal and Government Called Bond Record and
Standard & Poor's Called Bond Service).
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the IDB shall be given by the Trustee in the name of the IDB and at the expense
of the Company. The Company shall provide the Trustee with a copy of the form of
notice of redemption or prepayment of the Securities at the time the Company
directs the IDB with respect to such redemption or prepayment pursuant to
Section 6.2 hereof.
SECTION 6.5. Securities Payable on Redemption Date or Prepayment Date.
Notice of redemption or prepayment (as the case may be) having been given as
aforesaid, and the conditions, if any, set forth in such notice having been
satisfied, the Securities or portions thereof so to be redeemed or prepaid
shall, on the Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the case may be), become
due and payable, and from and after such date such Securities or portions
thereof shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption or prepayment in accordance with such notice, an amount in respect of
such Security or portion thereof shall be paid as provided therein; provided,
however, that any payment of interest on any Security the Stated Maturity of
which payment is on or prior to the Redemption Date or Prepayment Date (as the
case may be) shall be payable to the Holder of such Security, or one (1) or more
Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
related Regular Record Date according to the terms of such Security and subject
to the provisions of Section 2.10. If any Security called for redemption or
prepayment shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption or
repayment (as the case may be), the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption
Date or the Prepayment Date (as the case may be) at the rate prescribed in the
Security.
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SECTION 6.6. Securities Redeemed or Prepaid in Part. Any Security that
is to be redeemed or prepaid only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of
Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Mobile Energy Parties shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to
the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denomination requested by such Holder and
of like tenor and in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
remaining unpaid principal amount of the Security so surrendered.
SECTION 6.7. Determination of Taxability. In the case of the 1995 Bonds
and any other Securities (excluding any Securities in respect of which no
opinion of Bond Counsel was delivered at the time of original issuance to the
effect that interest thereon is exempt from Federal income taxation), if the
Trustee receives written notice from any Holder or beneficial holder of a
Security to the effect that (i) such Holder or beneficial holder of a Security
has been notified in writing by the Internal Revenue Service that it proposes to
include the interest on any such Security in the gross income of such Holder or
beneficial holder, which the Trustee determines may lead to a Determination of
Taxability (for any of the reasons described in the definition thereof, or
because of institution of proceedings against such Holder or beneficial holder
or otherwise) and (ii) such Holder or beneficial holder will afford the Trustee
the opportunity to contest the same in accordance with the procedures set forth
in the definition of Determination of Taxability, either directly or in the name
of such Holder or beneficial holder, and until a conclusion of any appellate
review, if sought, and the Trustee has received a copy of the notice described
in clause (i), then the Trustee shall promptly give notice thereof to the Mobile
Energy Parties, the IDB, the Collateral Agent and the Indenture Trustee and to
each Holder and each beneficial holder of Securities. The Trustee shall
thereafter coordinate any similar requests or notices it may receive or may have
received from other Holder or beneficial holders of Securities and shall monitor
the progress of any administrative proceedings or litigation with respect
thereto.
ARTICLE VII.
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 7.1. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article
VII shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities
of any series except as otherwise specified in the Series Supplemental Indenture
creating the Securities of such series or in the terms of the Securities of any
series.
SECTION 7.2. Sinking Funds for Securities. Any Series Supplemental
Indenture may provide for a sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of
the series created thereby (hereinafter called a "Sinking Fund") in accordance
with which the IDB will be required to redeem on the dates set forth therein
(hereinafter called "Sinking Fund Redemption Dates") Securities of principal
amounts set forth therein (hereinafter called "Sinking Fund Requirements").
Except as otherwise specified in the Series Supplemental Indenture
relating to the Securities of a series (except the 1995 Bonds, in which case in
Section 2.17), the particular Securities of such series, if any, to be redeemed
through a Sinking Fund shall be selected in the manner provided in Section
6.3(d), and notice of such redemption shall be given in the manner provided in
Section 6.4.
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ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
SECTION 8.1. Events of Default. The term "Event of Default," whenever
used herein, shall mean any of the following events (whatever the reason for
such event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or come about or be
affected by operation of law, or be pursuant to or in compliance with any
applicable Law), and such event shall continue to be an Event of Default if and
for so long as it shall not have been remedied:
(a) the IDB shall fail to pay any principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on any Security when the same becomes due and
payable, whether by scheduled maturity or required prepayment or by
acceleration or otherwise, for fifteen (15) or more days; or
(b) an "Event of Default" under the IDB Lease Agreement shall
have occurred and be continuing; or
(c) the IDB shall fail to perform or observe any material
covenant or agreement to be performed or observed by it under the
provisions of this Indenture (other than those referred to in Section
8.1(a)) and such failure shall continue uncured for thirty (30) or
more days after the IDB and the Company have been given notice in
writing of such failure; provided, however, that if (and for so long
as a representative of the IDB certifies (or, in lieu thereof, an
Authorized Officer of the Company provides an Officer's Certificate
certifying) that) (i) such failure is capable of being remedied and
the IDB or the Company is diligently attempting to remedy such failure
and (ii) no other Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
then the IDB or the Company, as applicable, may continue to effect
such cure of the default for an additional one hundred eighty (180)
days.
SECTION 8.2. Enforcement of Remedies. (a) If one (1) or more Events of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then:
(i) in the case of an Event of Default described in Section
8.1(b) that arises from an "Event of Default" under the IDB Lease
Agreement described in Section 7.1(n) thereof (an "Automatic
Acceleration Default"), the entire principal amounts of the Securities
Outstanding, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all premium
and other amounts payable under the Securities and this Indenture, if
any, shall automatically become due and payable without presentment,
demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived;
or
(ii) (A) in the case of an Event of Default described in
Section 8.1(a), upon the direction of the Holders of not less than
twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities or (B) in the case of an Event of Default
described in Section 8.1(b) that arises from an "Event of Default"
under the IDB Lease Agreement described in Sections 7.1(b) through (m),
(o) or (p) thereof, upon the direction of the Holders of not less than
thirty-three and one-third percent (331/3%) in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities, the Trustee shall, by notice to
the IDB (with a copy to each of the Mobile Energy Parties), declare the
entire principal amounts of the Securities Outstanding, all interest
accrued and unpaid thereon, and all premium and other amounts payable
under the Securities and this Indenture, if any, to be due and payable,
whereupon the same shall become due and payable without presentment,
demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are to the
extent permitted by law hereby waived.
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(b) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and is known to a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder a
notice of such Event of Default within thirty (30) days after the occurrence
thereof. Except in the case of an Event of Default in payment of principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any Security, the Trustee may withhold the
notice to the Holders if and for so long as a committee of its Responsible
Officers in good faith determines that withholding such notice is in the
interest of the Holders. In addition, if the Event of Default described in
Section 8.1(a) shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may accelerate
the maturity of the Securities as provided in Section 8.2(a)(ii) notwithstanding
the absence of direction from the Holders if in the judgment of the Trustee such
action is necessary to protect the interests of the Holders.
(c) At any time after the principal of the Securities shall have become
due and payable upon an acceleration as provided herein, and before any judgment
or decree for the payment of the money so due, or any portion thereof, shall be
entered, such declaration and its consequences shall be deemed to be rescinded
and annulled if:
(i) there shall have been paid to or deposited with the Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest on the Securities,
(B) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities
that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the respective rates
provided in the Securities for late payments of principal or
premium,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue installments of interest at the respective
rates provided in the Securities for late payments of interest,
and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, the IDB and their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the
principal of the Securities that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 8.7.
No such rescission and annulment shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 8.3. Specific Remedies. If any Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and an acceleration shall have occurred pursuant to
Section 8.2, subject to the provisions of Sections 8.2, 8.5, 8.6 and 8.15, the
Trustee, by such officer or agent as it may appoint, may deliver notice to the
Collateral Agent in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement requesting that
the Collateral Agent sell, without recourse, for cash, or credit or for other
property, for immediate or future delivery, and for such price or prices and on
such terms as the Collateral Agent in its discretion may determine, the Shared
Collateral as an entirety, or in such portions as the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding shall request by
an Act of Holders, or, in the absence of such request, as the Trustee in its
discretion shall deem expedient in the interest of the Holders, at public or
private sale.
SECTION 8.4. Judicial Proceedings Instituted by Trustee. (a) Trustee May
Bring Suit. If there shall exist an Event of Default, then the Trustee, in its
own name, and as trustee of an express trust, subject to the provisions of
Sections 2.14 and 8.2, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any suits,
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actions or proceedings at law, in equity or otherwise, for the collection of the
sums so due and unpaid on the Securities, and may prosecute any such claim or
proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or
final decree and collect the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in any
manner provided by law, whether before or after or during the pendency of any
proceedings for the enforcement of the Lien of this Indenture, or of any of the
Trustee's rights or the rights of the Holders under this Indenture, and such
power of the Trustee shall not be affected by any sale hereunder or by the
exercise of any other right, power or remedy for the enforcement of the
provisions of this Indenture or for the foreclosure of the Lien hereof.
(b) Trustee May Recover Unpaid Indebtedness after Sale of Collateral.
Subject to Section 2.14, in the case of a sale of the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Collateral and of the application of the proceeds of such sale to the
payment of the indebtedness secured by this Indenture, the Trustee, in its own
name, and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered, by
any appropriate means, legal, equitable or otherwise, to enforce payment of, and
to receive all amounts then remaining due and unpaid upon, all or any of the
Securities, for the benefit of the Holders thereof, and upon any other portion
of such indebtedness remaining unpaid, with interest at the rates specified in
the respective Securities on the overdue principal of and premium, if any, and
(to the extent that payment of such interest is legally enforceable) on the
overdue installments of interest.
(c) Recovery of Judgment Does Not Affect Lien of Indenture or Other
Rights. No recovery of any such judgment or final decree by the Trustee and no
levy of any execution under any such judgment upon any of the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Collateral, or upon any other property, shall in any manner
or to any extent affect the Lien of this Indenture upon any of the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Collateral, or any rights, powers or remedies of the
Trustee, or any liens, rights, powers or remedies of the Holders, but all such
liens, rights, powers or remedies shall continue unimpaired as before.
(d) Trustee May File Proofs of Claim; Appointment of Trustee as
Attorney-in-Fact in Judicial Proceedings. The Trustee in its own name, or as
trustee of an express trust, or as attorney-in-fact for the Holders, or in any
one (1) or more of such capacities (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration
or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand
for the payment of overdue principal, premium, if any, or interest), shall be
entitled and empowered to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee and of the Holders (whether such claims be based upon the provisions of
the Securities or of this Indenture) allowed in any equity, receivership,
insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, readjustment, reorganization or any other
judicial proceedings relating to the IDB, either of the Mobile Energy Parties or
any obligor on the Securities, the creditors of the IDB, or any such obligor,
the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral or any other property of the IDB,
either of the Mobile Energy Parties or any such obligor and any receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any
such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such
payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the
making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. The Trustee is hereby
irrevocably appointed (and the successive respective Holders of the Securities,
by taking and holding the same, shall be conclusively deemed to have so
appointed the Trustee) the true and lawful attorney-in-fact of the respective
Holders, with authority to (i) make and file in the respective names of the
Holders (subject to deduction from any such claims of the amounts of any claims
filed by any of the Holders themselves) any claim, proof of claim or amendment
thereof, debt, proof of debt or amendment thereof, petition or other document in
any such proceedings and to
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receive payment of any amounts distributable on account thereof, (ii) execute
any such other papers and documents and to do and perform any and all such acts
and things for and on behalf of such Holders, as may be necessary or advisable
in order to have the respective claims of the Trustee and of the Holders against
the IDB, either of the Mobile Energy Parties or any such obligor, the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Collateral or any other property of the IDB, the Mobile
Energy Parties or any such obligor allowed in any such proceeding and (iii)
receive payment of or on account of such claims and debt; provided, however,
that nothing contained in this Indenture shall be deemed to give to the Trustee
any right to accept or consent to any plan of reorganization or otherwise by
action of any character in any such proceeding to waive or change in any way any
right of any Holder. Any monies collected by the Trustee under this Section 8.4
shall be applied as provided in Section 8.11.
(e) Trustee Need Not have Possession of Securities. All proofs of
claim, rights of action and rights to assert claims under this Indenture or
under any of the Securities may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of the Securities or the production thereof at any trial or other
proceedings instituted by the Trustee. In any proceedings brought by the Trustee
(and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to
represent all the Holders of the Securities and it shall not be necessary to
make any such Holders parties to such proceedings.
(f) Suit to Be Brought for Ratable Benefit of Holders. Any suit, action
or other proceeding at law, in equity or otherwise that shall be instituted by
the Trustee under any of the provisions of this Indenture shall be for the
equal, ratable and common benefit of all the Holders, subject to the provisions
of this Indenture.
(g) Trustee May Be Restored to Former Position and Rights in Certain
Circumstances. In case the Trustee shall have instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right, power or remedy under this Indenture by foreclosure, entry or
otherwise, and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in
every such case the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and the Trustee shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, powers
and remedies of the Trustee shall continue as if no such proceedings had been
taken.
SECTION 8.5. Holders May Demand Enforcement of Rights by Trustee. If an
Event of Default shall have occurred and shall be continuing, the Trustee shall,
upon the written request of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities then Outstanding and upon the offering of indemnity as
provided in Section 9.3(e), but subject in all cases to the provisions of
Section 8.3, proceed to institute one (1) or more suits, actions or proceedings
at law, in equity or otherwise, or take any other appropriate remedy, to enforce
payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities,
to foreclose the Lien of this Indenture or to deliver notice to the Collateral
Agent in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement requesting that the
Collateral Agent foreclose the Lien of the other Security Documents or to sell
the Shared Collateral under a judgment or decree of a court or courts of
competent jurisdiction or under the power of sale herein granted, or take such
other appropriate legal, equitable or other remedy, as the Trustee, being
advised by counsel, shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of the
rights or powers of the Trustee or the Holders, or, in case such Holders shall
have requested a specific method of enforcement permitted hereunder, in the
manner requested, provided that such action shall not be otherwise than in
accordance with Law and the provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee,
subject to such indemnity provisions, shall have the right to decline to follow
any such request if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the suit,
proceeding or exercise of the remedy so requested would involve the Trustee in
personal liability or expense.
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SECTION 8.6. Control by Holders. Subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that (a)
such direction shall not be in conflict with any Law or with this Indenture and
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is
not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 8.7. Waiver of Past Events of Defaults. The Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may
on behalf of the Holders of all Securities waive any past Event of Default and
its consequences, except that only the Holders of all Securities affected
thereby may waive an Event of Default (a) in the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on, or other amounts due under, any Security then
Outstanding or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under
Article XI cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Security Outstanding affected. Upon any such waiver such Event of Default
shall cease to exist and shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of
this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event
of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 8.8. Holder May Not Bring Suit Except Under Certain Conditions.
A Holder shall not have the right to institute any suit, action or proceeding at
law or in equity or otherwise for the foreclosure of the Lien of this Indenture,
for the appointment of a receiver or for the enforcement of any other remedy
under or upon this Indenture, unless:
(a) such Holder previously shall have given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have
requested the Trustee in writing to institute such action, suit or
proceeding and shall have offered to the Trustee indemnity as provided
in Section 9.3(e);
(c) the Trustee shall have refused or neglected to institute any
such action, suit or proceeding for sixty (60) days after receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and
(d) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such sixty (60)-day period by the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities.
It is understood and intended that no one (1) or more of the Holders
shall have any right in any manner whatever hereunder or under the Securities to
(i) surrender, impair, waive, affect, disturb or prejudice the Lien of the
Security Documents or the Lease Documents on any property subject thereto or the
rights of the Holders of any other Securities, (ii) obtain or seek to obtain
priority or preference over any other such Holder or (iii) enforce any right
under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal,
ratable and common benefit of all the Holders subject to the provisions of this
Indenture.
SECTION 8.9. Undertaking to Pay Court Costs. All parties to this
Indenture, and each Holder by such Holder's acceptance of a Security, shall be
deemed to have agreed that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit,
action or proceeding for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit, action or proceeding against the Trustee for any
action taken or omitted by it as Trustee hereunder, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit, action or proceeding of an undertaking to pay the costs
of such suit, action or proceeding, and that such court may, in its discretion,
assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party
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litigant in such suit, action or proceeding, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided,
however, that the provisions of this Section 8.9 regarding such agreement by the
parties to this Indenture and each Holder shall not apply to (a) any suit,
action or proceeding instituted by the Trustee, (b) any suit, action or
proceeding instituted by any Holder or group of Holders holding in the aggregate
more than ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities or (c) any suit, action or proceeding instituted by any Holder for
the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Securities, on or after the respective due dates
expressed therein.
SECTION 8.10. Right of Holders to Receive Payment Not to Be Impaired.
Anything in this Indenture or in the Intercreditor Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, the right of any Holder to receive payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on such Security, on or after the respective
due dates expressed in such Security (or, in case of redemption, on the
Redemption Date fixed for such Security), or to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 8.11. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies
collected or to be applied by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII in
respect of the Securities of a series, together with any other monies that may
then be held by the Trustee under any of the provisions of this Indenture as
security for the Securities of such series (other than as set forth in the
Intercreditor Agreement and other than monies at the time required to be held
for the payment of specific Securities of such series at their Stated Maturities
or at a time fixed for the redemption thereof) shall be applied in the following
order from time to time, on the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in the
case of a distribution of such monies on account of principal, premium, if any,
or interest, upon presentation of the Outstanding Securities of such series, and
stamping thereon of payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof,
if fully paid:
FIRST: to the payment of any amount required to be rebated
to the United States government pursuant to Section 148 of the
Code in connection with any series of Securities;
SECOND: to the payment of all taxes, assessments or liens
prior to the Lien of the Security Documents, except those subject
to which any sale shall have been made, all reasonable costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable costs and
expenses of handling the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral (other than the Shared Collateral) and of any sale
thereof pursuant to the provisions of the Security Documents, and
to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee under Section 9.7 and to the payment of all amounts due
the IDB under Article VI of the IDB Lease Agreement;
THIRD: in case the unpaid principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series or any of them shall not
have become due, to the payment of any interest in default, in
the order of the maturity of the payments thereof, with interest
at the rates specified in the respective Securities of such
series in respect of overdue payments (to the extent that payment
of such interest shall be legally enforceable) on the payments of
interest then overdue;
FOURTH: in case the unpaid principal amount of any of but
not all the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have
become due, first to the payment of accrued interest on all
Outstanding Securities of such series in the order of the
maturity of the payments thereof, with interest at the respective
rates specified in the Securities of such series for overdue
payments of principal, premium, if any, and (to the extent that
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payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) interest then
overdue, and next to the payment of the unpaid principal amount of all
Securities then due;
FIFTH: in case the unpaid principal amount of all the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall have become due, to
the payment of the whole amount then due and unpaid upon the
Outstanding Securities of such series for principal, premium, if
any, and interest, together with interest at the respective rates
specified in the Securities of such series for overdue payments
on principal, premium, if any, and (to the extent that payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable) interest then
overdue; and
SIXTH: in case the unpaid principal amount of all the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall have become due, and
all of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have been
fully paid, any surplus then remaining shall be paid to the
Collateral Agent (to be applied pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Intercreditor Agreement), or to whomsoever may
be lawfully entitled to receive the same, or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may direct;
provided, however, that all payments in respect of the Securities of a series to
be made pursuant to clauses "THIRD" through "FIFTH" of this Section 8.11 shall
be made ratably to the Holders of Securities of such series entitled thereto,
without discrimination or preference, based upon the ratio of the unpaid
principal amount of the Securities of such series in respect of which such
payments are to be made held by each such Holder to the unpaid principal amount
of all Securities of such series.
SECTION 8.12. Securities Held by Certain Persons Not to Share in
Distribution. Any Securities known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to be
owned or held by, or for the account or benefit of, the IDB or either of the
Mobile Energy Parties or an Affiliate thereof, shall not be entitled to share in
any payment or distribution provided for in this Article VIII until all
Securities held by other Persons have been indefeasibly paid in full.
SECTION 8.13. Waiver of Appraisement, Valuation, Stay, Right to
Marshaling. To the full extent it may lawfully do so, the IDB and each of the
Mobile Energy Parties, for itself and for any other Person who may claim through
or under it, hereby:
(a) agrees that neither it nor any such Person will set up,
plead, claim or in any manner whatsoever take advantage of any
appraisal, valuation, stay, extension or redemption Laws, now or
hereafter in force in any jurisdiction that may delay, prevent or
otherwise hinder (i) the performance or enforcement or
foreclosure of this Indenture and the other Security Documents,
(ii) the sale of any of the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral or (iii) the putting of the purchaser or purchasers
thereof into possession of such Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral immediately after the sale thereof;
(b) waives all benefit or advantage of any such Laws;
(c) consents and agrees that the Collateral may be sold by
the Collateral Agent as an entirety or in parts; and
(d) waives and releases all rights to have the Tax-Exempt
Indenture Securities Collateral marshaled upon any foreclosure,
sale or other enforcement of this Indenture.
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SECTION 8.14. Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. To the
extent permitted by law, each and every right, power and remedy herein
specifically given to the Trustee shall be cumulative and shall be in addition
to every other right, power and remedy herein specifically given or now or
hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute, and each and every right,
power and remedy whether specifically herein given or otherwise existing may be
exercised from time to time and as often and in such order as may be deemed
expedient by the Trustee and the exercise or the beginning of the exercise of
any right, power or remedy shall not be construed to be a waiver of the right to
exercise at the same time or thereafter any other right, power or remedy, and no
delay or omission by the Trustee in the exercise of any right, power or remedy
or in the pursuance of any remedy shall impair any such right, power or remedy
or be construed to be a waiver of any default on the part of the IDB or either
of the Mobile Energy Parties or to be an acquiescence therein.
SECTION 8.15. Intercreditor Agreement. Simultaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Trustee (on behalf of itself and
all Holders of any of the Outstanding Securities and all future Holders of
Securities) and the IDB shall enter into the Intercreditor Agreement.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, all
rights, powers and remedies available to the Holders of any of the Outstanding
Securities, and all future Holders of any of the Securities or the Trustee, with
respect to the Shared Collateral, or otherwise pursuant to the Security
Documents and the Lease Documents, shall be subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement, including, in all cases, the ability to enforce any remedy other than
remedies specified in Section 8.2 and Section 8.10 of this Indenture. To the
extent that the Collateral Agent has been authorized to exercise any such
rights, powers and remedies under the Intercreditor Agreement, any right given
to the Trustee hereunder to exercise any remedy with respect to the Shared
Collateral shall, during such time as the Intercreditor Agreement is in effect,
be a right of the Trustee to direct the Collateral Agent to take such action to
the extent set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
ARTICLE IX.
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 9.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the
continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and
only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and
no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions
that by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished
to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
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(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this Section 9.1(c) shall not be construed to limit the
effect of Section 9.1(a);
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under
this Indenture; and
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if
it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of
such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability
is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not herein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 9.1.
SECTION 9.2. Notice of Events of Defaults. In addition to its
obligation to give notice to Holders as provided in Section 1.6, as promptly as
practicable after, and in any event within thirty (30) days after, the
occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder, the Trustee shall transmit by mail
to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register,
notice of such Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such
Event of Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that,
except in the case of an Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any Security, or in the payment of any Sinking
Fund Requirement, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if
and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines
that withholding the notice is in the interest of the Holders.
SECTION 9.3. Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 9.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in reliance upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document believed by
it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the purported
proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of either of the Mobile Energy
Parties or the IDB mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by
a Company Request or Company Order or a Mobile Energy Request or Mobile
Energy Order or an IDB Request or IDB Order (as the case may be), and
any resolution of the Board of Directors of either of the Mobile Energy
Parties or the IDB may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution
of such Mobile Energy Party or the IDB (as the case may be);
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(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer's
Certificate of either of the Mobile Energy Parties or of the IDB;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation,
it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of
either of the Mobile Energy Parties or the IDB personally or by agent
or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
shall have actual knowledge of such Event of Default or (ii) written
notice of such Event of Default shall have been given to the Trustee by
either of the Mobile Energy Parties, by the IDB or by any Holder.
SECTION 9.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the certificates of
authentication, shall not be taken as the statements of the Trustee, and the
Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture, the Tax-
Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral or the Securities, except that the
Trustee hereby represents and warrants that this Indenture has been executed and
delivered by one (1) of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and
deliver such document on its behalf. The Trustee shall not be accountable for
the use or application by either of the Mobile Energy Parties or the IDB of the
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 9.5. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or Authenticating Agent, or any Affiliate thereof, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and, subject to Section 9.12, may otherwise deal with the Mobile Energy Parties
and the IDB with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying
Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such other agent.
SECTION 9.6. Funds May Be Held by Trustee or Paying Agent. Any monies
received by the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall, until used or applied as
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herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received,
but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by
law. Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall have any liability for
interest upon any such monies. Amounts so received, at the written request and
direction of the Company, shall be invested by the Trustee in Permitted
Investments. Such investments shall mature in such amounts and not later than
such times as may be necessary to provide monies when needed to make payments
from such monies as provided in the Indenture.
SECTION 9.7. Compensation, Reimbursement and Indemnification. Each of the
Mobile Energy Parties agrees:
(a) to pay, or cause to be paid, to each of the Trustee and any
Authorized Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder;
(b) to reimburse, or cause to be reimbursed, each of the Trustee and
any Authorized Agent upon its request for all expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by it in accordance with any provision of this
Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable of its own negligence,
willful misconduct or bad faith; and
(c) to indemnify, or cause to be indemnified, each of the Trustee, any
predecessor Trustee and any Authorized Agent for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence,
willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or the
performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Mobile Energy
Parties and the IDB under this Section 9.7, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior
to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee
as such, except funds held in trust under Section 12.3.
SECTION 9.8. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder that shall be a bank or trust company,
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or
of any State thereof, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, having (or whose obligations are unconditionally guaranteed by a
corporation having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000,
which bank or trust company is subject to supervision or examination by Federal
or state authority and does not provide credit or credit enhancement to either
of the Mobile Energy Parties. If such bank or trust company publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section 9.8, the combined capital and surplus of such bank or trust company
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 Trustee shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.8, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article IX.
SECTION 9.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article IX shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee as provided in Section 9.10.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and to the Holders of
Securities in the
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manner provided in Section 1.6. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and
the Trustee within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee, or any Holder who has
been a bona fide holder of a Security for at least six (6) months may, subject
to Section 8.9, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated,
petition any such court for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of
not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
delivered to the Trustee, the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 9.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by
any such Holder or the Company, or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or
shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee
or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the IDB may remove the Trustee by Board Resolution
or (B) subject to Section 8.9, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Security for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal
of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the
IDB shall promptly appoint by Board Resolution a successor Trustee, which shall
be reasonably acceptable to the Company. If no successor Trustee shall have been
so appointed by the IDB, or by the Holders, and accepted appointment in the
manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Security for at least six (6) months may, subject to Section 8.9, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The IDB or the Company shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by
mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
the Holders of Securities as their names and addresses appear in the Security
Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office. If the IDB and the Company fail to give
such notice within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be given at
the expense of the Company.
SECTION 9.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every successor
Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the IDB,
the retiring Trustee and each of the Mobile Energy Parties an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee but, on request of the IDB or
of the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its
charges, execute and deliver an instrument prepared by either of the Mobile
Energy Parties transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor
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Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject
nevertheless to its Lien, if any, provided for in Section 9.7. Upon request of
any such successor Trustee, the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article IX.
SECTION 9.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business. Any Person into which the 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 Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
successor Trustee shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article
IX, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part
of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 9.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against any Obligor.
(a) Subject to Section 9.12(b), if the Trustee shall be or shall become a
creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of any obligor (as
defined in Section 9.12(c)) on the Securities within three (3) months prior to a
default (as defined in Section 9.12(c)) or subsequent to such a default, then,
unless and until such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and
hold in a special account for the benefit of the Trustee individually and the
Holders of the Securities:
(i) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the
amount due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of
principal or interest, effected after the beginning of such three (3)
month period and valid as against any obligor on the Securities and its
other creditors, except any such reduction resulting from the receipt
or disposition of any property described in paragraph (ii) of this
Section 9.12(a), or from the exercise of any right of set-off that the
Trustee could have exercised if a petition in bankruptcy had been filed
by or against any such obligor upon the date of such default; and
(ii) all property received by the Trustee in respect
of any claim as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in
satisfaction or composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning
of such three (3) month period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of
any such property, if disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if
any, of any obligor on the Securities and its other creditors in such
property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the
Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (1) payments made on account
of any such claim by any Person (other than an obligor on the
Securities) who is liable thereon, (2) the proceeds of the bona fide
sale of any such claim by the Trustee to a third person and (3)
distributions made in cash, securities or other property in respect of
claims filed against such obligor in bankruptcy or receivership or in
proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code or
applicable state law;
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(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by
it as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior
to the beginning of such three (3) month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as
security for any such claim, if such claim was created after the
beginning of such three (3) month period and such property was received
as security therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if
the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at the time such
property was so received the Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe
that a default (as defined in Section 9.12(c)) would occur within three
(3) months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph
(B) or (C) above, against the release of any property held as security
for such claim as provided in paragraph (B) or (C) above (as the case
may be), to the extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D) of the immediately
preceding paragraph, property substituted after the beginning of such three (3)
month period for property held as security at the time of such substitution
shall, to the extent of the fair value of the property released, have the same
status as the property released, and, to the extent that any claim referred to
in any of such clauses is created in renewal of or in substitution for or for
the purpose of repaying or refunding any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as
such creditor, such claim shall have the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
between the Trustee and the Holders in such manner that the Trustee and the
Holders realize, as a result of payments from such special account and payments
of dividends on claims filed against the obligor on the Securities in bankruptcy
or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Bankruptcy
Code or applicable state law, the same percentage of their respective claims,
figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on account of the
receipt by it from such obligor of the funds and property in such special
account and before crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee and the
Holders dividends on claims filed against such obligor in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Bankruptcy
Code or applicable state law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of
the indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other
than from such dividends and from the funds and property so held in such special
account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term
"dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such claim, in
bankruptcy or receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, whether such distribution is made in
cash, securities or other property, but shall not include any such distribution
with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The court in which
such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for reorganization is pending shall
have jurisdiction (1) to apportion between the Trustee and the Holders in
accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held in
such special account and proceeds thereof, or (2) in lieu of such apportionment,
in whole or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph due
consideration in determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to the
Trustee and the Holders with respect to their respective claims, in which event
it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value of any
securities or other property held in such special account or as security for any
such claim, or to make a specific allocation of such distributions as between
the secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the
provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical formula.
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Any Trustee that has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such three (3) month period shall be subject to the provisions of this
subsection as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any
Trustee has resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such three (3)
month period, it shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 9(a) if and
only if the following conditions exist: (x) the receipt of property or reduction
of claim, which would have given rise to the obligation to account if such
Trustee had continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such three (3)
month period; and (y) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within three (3) months after such resignation or removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Section 9.12(a) a
creditor relationship arising from:
(i) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one (1)
year or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(ii) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of
competent jurisdiction, or by this Indenture, for the purpose of
preserving the property that shall at any time be subject to the Lien
of this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders
at the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(iii) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in
the capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity;
(iv) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction (as defined in Section 9.12(c));
(v) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
Federal Reserve Act that is directly or indirectly a creditor of an
obligor upon the securities; or
(vi) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations that fall within
the classification of self-liquidating paper (as defined in Section
9.12(c)).
(c) For the purposes of this Section 9.12 only:
(i) The term "default" means any failure to make
payment in full of the principal of or interest on any of the
Securities when and as such principal or interest becomes due and
payable;
(ii) The term "cash transaction" means any
transaction in which full payment for goods or securities sold is made
within seven (7) days after delivery of the goods or securities in
currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and
payable upon demand; and
(iii) The term "self-liquidating paper" means any
draft, bill of exchange, acceptance or obligation that is made, drawn,
negotiated or incurred by any obligor on the Securities for the purpose
of financing the purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage
or sale of goods, wares or merchandise and that is secured by documents
evidencing title to, possession of or a lien upon, the goods, wares or
merchandise or the
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receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security
is received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the
creditor relationship with such obligor arising from the making,
drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange,
acceptance or obligation.
SECTION 9.13. Maintenance of Offices and Agencies. (a) There shall at
all times be maintained an office or agency where Securities may be presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and for payment of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, and where notices and demands to or
upon the Trustee in respect of the Securities or this Indenture may be served
(i) in the borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, if, and for so long as,
any Outstanding Securities are not issued in the form of one or more global
Securities registered in the name of a clearing corporation or clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act, as depositary for such Securities, or a
nominee of such clearing corporation or clearing agency and (ii) in such Place
of Payment (which may be the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section
9.13(a)(i), if any), and such additional Places of Payment, if any, as shall be
specified for the Securities of any series in the related Series Supplemental
Indenture or in the terms of such Securities. Except as otherwise provided in
the related Series Supplemental Indenture or in the terms of the Securities of
any series, such office or agency shall be initially at the office of the
Trustee specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture. Written notice of
the location of each of such other office or agency and of any change of
location thereof shall be given by the IDB to the Trustee and by the Trustee to
the Holders in the manner specified in Section 1.6. In the event that no such
office or agency shall be maintained or no such notice of location or of change
of location shall be given, presentations, surrenders and demands may be made
and notices may be served at the Corporate Trust Office.
(b) There shall at all times be a Security Registrar and a Paying Agent
(which may be the Trustee) appointed by the IDB hereunder (which shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Company). In addition, at any time when any
Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent
or Agents with respect to the Securities of one (1) or more series that shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such
series issued upon original issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 2.7 or 2.9, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder (it being understood that wherever reference is made in this Indenture
to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent). If an appointment of an Authenticating Agent with respect
to the Securities of one (1) or more series shall be made pursuant to this
Section 9.13(b), the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
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This Security is one of the Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA,
as Trustee
By________________________________________
Authenticating Agent
By________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
Any Authorized Agent shall be a bank or trust company, shall be a Person
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or any state
thereof, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000, and
shall be authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, subject
to supervision by Federal or state authorities. If such Authorized Agent
publishes reports of its condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section 9.13, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authorized Agent 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 an
Authorized Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 9.13, such Authorized Agent shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect specified in this Section 9.13. The Trustee at its office
specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, is hereby appointed as
Paying Agent and Security Registrar hereunder.
(c) Any Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) from time to time
appointed hereunder shall execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section 9.13, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided;
(ii) give the Trustee within five (5) days thereafter
notice of any default by any obligor upon the Securities in the making
of any such payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest; and
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such
default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, any payment required to
be made to or received or held by the Trustee may, to the extent authorized by
written instructions of the Trustee, be made to or received or held by a Paying
Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, for the account of the
Trustee.
(d) Any Person into which any Authorized Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any
merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authorized Agent shall be a
party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate trust business of any
Authorized Agent, shall be the successor of such Authorized Agent hereunder, if
such successor
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corporation is otherwise eligible under this Section 9.13, without the execution
or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or
such Authorized Agent or such successor Person.
(e) Any Authorized Agent may at any time resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee, the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties. The
IDB may, and at the request of the Trustee shall, at any time, terminate the
agency of any Authorized Agent by giving written notice of termination to such
Authorized Agent and to the Trustee. Upon the resignation or termination of an
Authorized Agent or in case at any time any such Authorized Agent shall cease to
be eligible under this Section 9.13 (when, in either case, no other Authorized
Agent performing the functions of such Authorized Agent shall have been
appointed), the IDB shall promptly appoint one (1) or more qualified successor
Authorized Agents approved by the Trustee and the Mobile Energy Parties to
perform the functions of the Authorized Agent that has resigned or whose agency
has been terminated or that shall have ceased to be eligible under this Section
9.13. The Company shall give written notice of any such appointment to all
Holders as their names and addresses appear on the Security Register.
SECTION 9.14. Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. (a) If at any time or
times it shall be necessary, prudent or desirable in order to conform to any Law
of any jurisdiction in which property shall be held subject to the Lien of this
Indenture or the other Security Documents, or the Trustee shall be advised by
counsel satisfactory to it that it is so necessary or prudent in the interest of
the Holders, or the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding
Securities shall in writing so request, the Trustee, the IDB and the Mobile
Energy Parties shall execute and deliver all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to constitute another bank or trust company or one (1) or
more Persons approved by the Trustee either to act as co-trustee or co-trustees
of all or any part of the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral (other than
the Shared Collateral) jointly with the Trustee originally named herein or any
successor or successors, or to act as separate trustee or trustees of all or any
such property. In the event the IDB or the Mobile Energy Parties shall have not
joined in the execution of such instruments and agreements within ten (10) days
after the receipt of a written request from the Trustee so to do, or in case an
Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a series shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Trustee may act under the foregoing provisions of this
Section 9.14 without the concurrence of either of the IDB or the Mobile Energy
Parties; and the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties hereby appoint the Trustee as
agent and attorney to act under the foregoing provisions of this Section 9.14 in
either of such contingencies.
(b) Every additional trustee hereunder shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act, and such additional trustee and its successors
shall act, subject to the following provisions and conditions, namely:
(i) the Securities shall be authenticated and delivered,
and all powers, duties, obligations and rights conferred upon the
Trustee in respect of the custody, control and management of monies,
papers or securities, shall be exercised, solely by the Trustee (or, in
the case of authentication and delivery of Securities, by any
Authenticating Agent);
(ii) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Trustee or the additional trustee or trustees shall be
conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee or
the Trustee and such additional trustee or trustees jointly, except to
the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed, the Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event
such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and
performed by such additional trustee or trustees;
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(iii) no power given hereby to, or which it is provided
hereby may be exercised by, any such additional trustee or trustees,
shall be exercised hereunder by such additional trustee or trustees,
except jointly with, or with the consent in writing of, the Trustee,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding;
(iv) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(v) the IDB and the Trustee, at any time, by an instrument
in writing, executed by them jointly, may remove any such additional
trustee, and in that case, by an instrument in writing executed by them
jointly, may appoint a successor or successors to such additional
trustee or trustees (as the case may be), anything herein contained to
the contrary notwithstanding. In the event that the IDB shall have
joined in the execution of any such instrument within ten (10) days
after the receipt of a written request from the Trustee to do so, the
Trustee shall have the power to remove any such additional trustee and
to appoint a successor additional trustee without the concurrence of
the IDB, the IDB hereby appointing the Trustee its agent and attorney
to act for it in such connection in such contingency. In the event that
the Trustee alone shall have appointed an additional trustee or
trustees or co-trustee or co-trustees as above provided, it may at any
time, by an instrument in writing, remove any such additional trustee
or co-trustee, the successor to any such trustee or co-trustee so
removed to be appointed by the IDB and the Trustee, or by the Trustee
alone, as hereinbefore in this Section 9.14 provided.
SECTION 9.15. Taxes. Any United States withholding taxes imposed with
respect to payments made to a Holder of a Security shall be the sole
responsibility of such Holder and therefore no Holder shall have the right to
have any payment to it "grossed-up" for, or paid free of, any such withholding
taxes.
ARTICLE X.
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE,
IDB AND MOBILE ENERGY PARTIES
SECTION 10.1. IDB to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The IDB will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee semiannually,
between April 1 and April 15 and between October 1 and October 15, in each year,
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within thirty
(30) days after receipt by the IDB of any such request, a list, in such form as
the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders,
in each case as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the time such
list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the sole
Security Registrar or is otherwise furnished a copy of the Security Register, no
such list need be furnished.
SECTION 10.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders (i) contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 10.1 and (ii) received by
the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may
destroy any list furnished to it upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three (3) or more Holders (hereinafter referred to as
"applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of
at least six (6) months preceding the date of such application, and such
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application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication that such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five (5) Business
Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.2(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
Holders of Securities whose names and addresses appear in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
Section 10.2(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such
Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in
such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appears in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.2(a), a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication that is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five (5) days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail
to such applicants, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written
statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would
be contrary to the best interests of the Holders or would be in violation of
applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion.
In such case, the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such
applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and the Trustee that none of the
IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and the Trustee shall be held accountable by
reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses
of the Holders in accordance with Section 10.2 (b), regardless of the source
from which such information was derived.
SECTION 10.3. Reports by Trustee. (a) Within sixty (60) days after May
1 in each year, commencing with May 1996, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a
brief report dated as of such May 1 with respect to (but if no such event has
occurred within the one (1) year period ending such May 1, no report need be
transmitted):
(i) any change to its eligibility under Section 9.8;
(ii) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making
thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) that remain unpaid on the date
of such report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may
claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on the trust
estate or any property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee,
except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report
such advances if such advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more
than one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) of the principal amount of the
Securities Outstanding on the date of such report;
(iii) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all
other indebtedness owing by an obligor on the Securities within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act to the Trustee in its individual
capacity, on the date of such report, with a brief description of any
property held as collateral security therefor, except an indebtedness
based upon a creditor
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relationship arising in any manner described in Section 9.12(b)(ii),
(iii), (iv) or (vi);
(iv) any change to the property and funds physically in the
possession of the Trustee (as such) on the date of such report;
(v) any release, or release and substitution, of property subject
to the Lien of this Indenture (and the consideration therefor, if any)
that the Trustee has not previously reported;
(vi) any additional issue of Securities that the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(vii) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of
its duties hereunder that it has not previously reported and that in
its opinion materially affects the Securities of any series, except
action in respect of an Event of Default, notice of which has been or
is to be withheld by the Trustee in accordance with Section 9.2.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report with respect to:
(i) the release, or release and substitution, of property
subject to the Lien of this Indenture (and the consideration therefor,
if any) unless the fair value of such property is less than ten percent
(10%) of the principal amount of Securities Outstanding at the time of
such release, or such release and substitution, such report to be
transmitted within ninety (90) days after such release or release and
substitution; and
(ii) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state the circumstances surrounding the making
thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of the last
report transmitted pursuant to Section 10.3(a) (or if no such report
has yet been so transmitted, since the date of execution of this
instrument) for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a
lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of any series, on
property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, and that it has
not previously reported pursuant to this Section 10.3(b), except that
the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report such
advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate ten
percent (10%) or less of the principal amount of Securities Outstanding
at such time, such report to be transmitted within ninety (90) days
after such advance.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon which
the Securities are listed. The IDB will notify the Trustee when the Securities
of any series are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 10.4. Reports by the IDB and Mobile Energy Parties. Each of the IDB
and the Mobile Energy Parties will:
(a) file with the Trustee, within fifteen (15) days after it
is required to file the same with the SEC, copies of the annual reports
and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such
portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may from time to time by
rules and regulations prescribe) that the IDB or either of the Mobile
Energy Parties may be required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section
13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(b) file with the Trustee and the SEC, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC,
such additional
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information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the
IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties with the conditions and covenants of
this Indenture, as may be required by such rules and regulations;
(c) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, within thirty (30) days
after the filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any
information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Mobile
Energy Parties pursuant to Section 10.4 (a) and (b) as may be required
by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC.
ARTICLE XI.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES AND
AMENDMENTS TO IDB LEASE AGREEMENT
SECTION 11.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, the IDB and the Trustee,
at any time and from time to time, may enter into one (1) or more indentures
supplemental hereto in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
(a) to establish the form and terms of Securities of any
series permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and to provide for the sale,
authentication and delivery of additional Securities and refunding
Securities and the disposition of the proceeds from the sale thereof,
in the manner and to the extent authorized by this Indenture; or
(b) to grant to or confer upon the Holders or the Trustee for
the benefit of the Holders any additional rights, remedies, powers or
authorities or security that may lawfully be granted to or conferred
upon the Holders or the Trustee; or
(c) to evidence the succession of a new Trustee hereunder or
a co-trustee or separate trustee pursuant to Section 9.14; or
(d) to add to the covenants of the IDB, for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the IDB; or
(e) to convey, transfer and assign to the Trustee, and to
subject to the Lien of this Indenture, additional properties or assets,
and to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the Lien of this Indenture or to assure, convey and confirm
unto the Trustee any property subject or required to be subject to the
Lien of this Indenture; or
(f) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to qualify or continue
the qualification of this Indenture (including any supplemental
indenture) under the Trust Indenture Act or to maintain any exemption
therefrom, or under any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted, or
to permit the qualification of any Securities for sale under the
securities laws of any of the States of the United States, and to add
to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly permitted
by the Trust Indenture Act, or under any similar Federal statute
hereafter enacted, excluding, however, the provisions referred to in
Section 316(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act as in effect at the date
as of which this instrument was executed or any corresponding provision
in any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted; or
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(g) to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in
uncertificated form or to provide for the cessation thereof; or
(h) to cure any ambiguity, inconsistency or formal defect or
omission, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action shall not
be inconsistent with this Indenture, shall not impair the security for
the Securities and shall not adversely affect the interest of the
Holders of any series; or
(i) to secure or maintain the rating for any Securities from
any Rating Agency; or
(j) to cure any defect in the Indenture that would, if not
cured, cause the interest on any Securities (excluding any Securities
in respect of which no opinion of Bond Counsel was delivered at the
time of original issuance to the effect that interest thereon is exempt
from Federal income taxation) to be included in gross income of the
Holders thereof for Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 11.2. Supplemental Indenture With Consent of Holders. With the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities of all series then Outstanding, considered as one (1) class,
by Act of such Holders delivered to the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and the
Trustee, the IDB, when authorized by Board Resolutions, may, and the Trustee,
subject to Sections 11.3 and 11.4, shall, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided,
however, that if there shall be Securities of more than one (1) series
Outstanding hereunder and if a proposed supplemental indenture shall directly
affect the rights of the Holders of one (1) or more, but less than all, of such
series, then the consent only of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series so
directly affected, considered as one (1) class, shall be required; provided
further, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security directly affected thereby:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of any Security (or, if the
principal thereof is payable in installments, the Stated Maturity of
any such installment), or of any payment of interest thereon, or the
dates or circumstances of payment of premium, if any, on any Security,
or change the principal amount thereof or the interest thereon or any
premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or the
premium, if any, or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the
right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment of
principal or interest on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) or such
payment of premium, if any, on or after the date such premium becomes
due and payable or change the dates or the amounts of payments to be
made through the operation of the Sinking Fund in respect of such
Securities, if any; or
(b) permit the creation of any Lien prior to or pari passu
with the Lien of the Security Documents with respect to any of the
Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral, or terminate the Lien of
the Security Documents on any Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral or deprive any Holder of the security afforded by the Lien
of the Security Documents, except to the extent expressly permitted by
this Indenture or any of the Security Documents; or
(c) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required
for any such
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supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for
any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 13.4 for quorum or
voting; or
(d) modify any of the provisions of Section 3.2 or Section 8.7
(except to increase the percentage of the principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities required to waive past defaults) or of this
Section 11.2 (except to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the
Holder of each Security affected thereby).
A supplemental indenture that changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture that has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one (1) or more particular series of Securities, or that modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of Board Resolutions of the IDB and such
other documentation as the Trustee may reasonably require and upon the filing
with the Trustee of evidence of the Act of such Holders, the Trustee shall join
in the execution of such supplemental indenture or other instrument (as the case
may be), subject to the provisions of Sections 11.3 and 11.4.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section
11.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but
it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 11.3. Documents Affecting Immunity or Indemnity. If in the
opinion of the IDB or the Trustee any document required to be executed by it
pursuant to the terms of Section 11.2 affects any interest, right, duty,
immunity or indemnity in favor of the IDB or the Trustee under this Indenture,
the IDB or the Trustee (as the case may be), may in its discretion decline to
execute such document.
SECTION 11.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any Series Supplemental Indenture or
other supplemental indenture permitted by this Article XI or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to section 9.1) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and will not adversely
affect the exemption of interest on the Securities from Federal income taxation.
SECTION 11.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture under this Article XI, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a
part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby.
SECTION 11.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article XI may, and if required by the IDB or the
Company shall, bear a notation in form approved by the IDB, the Company and the
Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture; and, in
such case, suitable notation may be made upon Outstanding Securities after
proper presentation and demand. If the IDB shall so determine, new Securities so
modified as to conform, in the opinion of the IDB and the Trustee, to any such
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supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the IDB and authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
SECTION 11.7. Supplements and Amendments to IDB Lease Agreement Without
Consent of Holders. Without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, the
IDB and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into such
amendments and supplements to the IDB Lease Agreement as therein permitted, for
any of the following purposes:
(a) to grant to or confer upon the Holders or the Trustee for
the benefit of the Holders any additional rights, remedies, powers or
authorities or security that may lawfully be granted to or conferred
upon the Holders or the Trustee; or
(b) to correct any description of the Tax-Exempt Project, to
add to the covenants of the Mobile Energy Parties, for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Mobile Energy Parties; or
(c) to cure any ambiguity, inconsistency or formal defect or
omission, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under the IDB Lease Agreement, provided such action
shall not be inconsistent with the IDB Lease Agreement, shall not
impair the security in the Securities and shall not adversely affect
the interest of the Holders of any Securities; or
(d) to secure or maintain the rating for any Securities from
any Rating Agency; or
(e) to cure any defect in the IDB Lease Agreement that would,
if not cured, cause the interest on any Securities (excluding any
Securities in respect of which no opinion of Bond Counsel was delivered
at the time of original issuance to the effect that interest thereon is
exempt from Federal income taxation) to be included in gross income of
the Holders thereof for Federal income tax purposes; or
(f) to provide for the issuance of additional Securities
pursuant to Article III.
Before the IDB shall enter into, and the Trustee shall consent to, any
supplement or amendment to the IDB Lease Agreement pursuant to this Section
11.8, there shall have been delivered to the IDB and the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel of Bond Counsel stating that such supplement or amendment is authorized
or permitted by this Indenture and the Alabama Act, complies with their
respective terms, will, upon the execution and delivery thereof, be valid and
binding upon the IDB and the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to
customary exceptions) and will not adversely affect the exemption of interest on
the Securities from Federal income taxation.
SECTION 11.8. Supplements and Amendments to IDB Lease Agreement With
Consent of Holders. Except for supplements and amendments provided for in
Section 11.7, the IDB and the Trustee shall not consent to any supplement or
amendment to the IDB Lease Agreement unless approved by the Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities in the manner
provided for in Section 11.2; provided, however, that unless approved in writing
by Holders of all Outstanding Securities, nothing herein shall permit, or be
construed to permit, any change in the obligations of the Company under Section
4.1(a) of the IDB Lease Agreement.
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ARTICLE XII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 12.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Securities. (a) Except as
otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any series in the Series
Supplemental Indenture relating thereto, or in the terms of the Securities of
any series, the Securities of such series shall, prior to the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, if principal is payable in installments, the Stated Maturity of the
final installment of principal thereof), on the ninety-first (91st) day after
the date of the deposit referred to in paragraph (i) below, be deemed to have
been paid for all purposes of this Indenture, and the entire indebtedness of the
IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties in respect thereof shall be deemed to have
been satisfied and discharged, upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the IDB shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee, in trust, specifically pledged as security
for and dedicated solely for the benefit of the Holders of Securities
of such series (A) monies in an amount that shall be sufficient, (B)
U.S. Government Obligations, the payment of interest and principal on
which when due, without any regard to reinvestment thereof, will
provide monies that shall be sufficient or (C) any combination of
clause (A) and (B) above that shall be sufficient, in each case, in the
opinion of a firm of independent certified public accountants of
recognized national standing expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay when due the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest due and to become due on the Securities
of such series, whether at Stated Maturity or upon redemption,
acceleration or otherwise;
(ii) if any such deposit of monies or U.S. Government
Obligations shall have been made prior to the Stated Maturity (or, if
principal is payable in installments, the Stated Maturity of the final
installment of principal) or Redemption Date or Prepayment Date of such
Securities, the IDB shall have delivered to the Trustee an IDB Order
stating that such monies shall be held by the Trustee, in trust, as
provided in Section 12.3;
(iii) if the IDB has deposited or caused to be deposited
monies or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) to pay
or discharge the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the
Outstanding Securities of such series to and including a Redemption
Date on which all of the Outstanding Securities of such series are
eligible for optional redemption and on which all of the Outstanding
Securities of such series are to be redeemed, such Redemption Date
shall be irrevocably designated by a Board Resolution of the IDB
delivered to the Trustee on or prior to the date of such deposit of
such monies or U.S. Government Obligations, and such Board Resolution
shall be accompanied by an irrevocable IDB Request that the Trustee
give notice of such redemption in the name and at the expense of the
Company not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior
to such redemption in accordance with Section 6.4;
(iv) the IDB shall have delivered, or cause to be delivered,
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) the trust
resulting from such deposit does not constitute an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and (B) the Holders shall have
a perfected security interest under applicable Law in the monies and
U.S. Government Obligations so deposited;
(v) no Event of Default, or event that with notice, lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default (including by reason of
such deposit), in any case arising pursuant to Section 8.1(a) or, if
arising from an "Event of Default" under the IDB Lease Agreement
described in
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Section 7.1(n) thereof, Section 8.1(b) with respect to the Securities
of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of
deposit or during the period ending on the ninety-first (91st) day
after such date;
(vi) the IDB shall have delivered, or caused to be delivered,
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) based upon
(1) a change in the applicable Federal income tax law since the date of
this Indenture (or a change in the official interpretation thereof) or
(2) the receipt by the Company from, or the publishing by, the Internal
Revenue Service of a ruling on which such counsel is relying for the
opinion contemplated herein, the Holders of Securities of such series
will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes
as a result of the deposit, defeasance and discharge pursuant to this
Section 12.1(a) and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred and
(B) the deposit, defeasance and discharge pursuant to this Section
12.1(a) will not adversely affect the exemption of interest on the
Securities from Federal income taxation; and
(vii) there shall have been delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate of the IDB and each of the Mobile Energy Parties
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the
Securities of such series have been complied with;
provided, however, that if each of the conditions set forth in this Section
12.1(a) shall have been satisfied with respect to the Outstanding Securities of
any series, but the ninety-one (91) day period referenced above shall not have
elapsed, the Securities of such series shall nevertheless be deemed to have been
paid for all purposes of this Indenture on the date of the deposit referred to
in paragraph (i) above if the IDB shall have delivered, or caused to be
delivered, to the Trustee an opinion of qualified nationally recognized
bankruptcy counsel acceptable to the Trustee to the effect that the use by the
Trustee of such monies in accordance with this Indenture would not constitute an
avoidable preference or be subject to the provisions of Sections 544 and 547,
would not be recoverable under Section 550 and would not be subject to the
provisions of Section 362(a), in each case of the Bankruptcy Code or similar
laws of the United States of America or the State of Alabama, if a Bankruptcy
Event in respect of the Person making such deposit were to occur.
Upon satisfaction of the aforesaid conditions with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Trustee shall, upon receipt of an IDB Request,
acknowledge in writing that the Securities of such series are deemed to have
been paid for all purposes of this Indenture and that the entire indebtedness of
the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties in respect thereof is deemed to have been
satisfied and discharged.
In the event that Securities that shall be deemed to have been paid as
provided in this Section 12.1(a) do not mature and are not to be redeemed within
the sixty (60) day period commencing on the date of the deposit with the Trustee
of monies, the IDB or the Mobile Energy Parties shall, as promptly as
practicable, give a notice, in the same manner as a notice of redemption with
respect to such Securities, to the Holders of such Securities to the effect that
such Securities are deemed to have been paid and the circumstances thereof.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of any Securities as
aforesaid, (i) the rights of Holders of Securities of such series to receive,
solely from the trust funds described in paragraph (i) of this Section 12.1(a),
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities
of such series on the Stated Maturity thereof (to and including the Redemption
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Date, if any, designated pursuant to paragraph (iii) of this Section 12.1(a))
and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holders of Securities of such series,
the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and the Trustee in respect of the Securities
of such series under Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12 and 2.15, Article
VI (in the case of redemption as contemplated by paragraph (iii) of this Section
12.1(a), to the extent Article VI applies to the redemption to be made on such
Redemption Date), Sections 9.3(e) and 9.7 and this Article XII shall survive.
(b) If (i) each of the conditions set forth in paragraphs (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv) and (v) of Section 12.1(a) shall have been satisfied with respect to
the Outstanding Securities of any series, but the conditions set forth in
paragraphs (vi) and (vii) thereof are not satisfied and (ii) the IDB shall have
delivered to the Trustee (A) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, defeasance and discharge
pursuant to this Section 12.1(b) and will be subject to Federal income tax on
the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred and (B) an
Officer's Certificate of the IDB and each of the Mobile Energy Parties and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to the defeasance of the Securities of such series pursuant to this
Section 12.1(b) have been complied with, then:
(A)with respect to the Securities of such series, the IDB and
the Mobile Energy Parties shall be released from their covenants and
other obligations contained in Articles IV (other than Section 4.3) and
VIII of the IDB Lease Agreement and Section 2.15 of this Indenture and
all their obligations under the other Security Documents, and may omit
to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant or obligation
whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to any other provision of this Indenture or any other document
and any failure to comply with any such covenant shall not constitute
an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series;
(B)the occurrence of any event specified in any of paragraphs
(b) through (m), (o) or (p) of Section 7.1 of the IDB Lease Agreement
shall not constitute an Event of Default under the IDB Lease Agreement
and shall not result in an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.1(b)
with respect to the Securities of such series;
(C)the Securities of such series shall thereafter be deemed
not to be "Outstanding" solely for purposes of determining whether or
not the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Securities have concurred in any Act under this Indenture with respect
to any covenant or obligation from which the Mobile Energy Parties have
been released pursuant to paragraph (A) above, or with respect to any
event that shall have ceased to be an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series pursuant to paragraph (B) above (or the
consequences thereof); and
(D)the Securities of such series shall cease to be secured by
or to be entitled to any benefit under the Security Documents or any
other Lien upon any Collateral, including any monies, security or other
property held by the Trustee (other than monies and U.S. Obligations
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to paragraph (i) of Section 12.1(a)
in respect of Securities of such series and interest and other amounts
earned and received thereon);
provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 12.1(b) shall not be
deemed to relieve the IDB or the Mobile Energy Parties of its obligations with
respect to the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on
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the Outstanding Securities of such series. In respect of the foregoing, it is
understood and agreed that:
(1) satisfaction by the IDB of the conditions necessary to
achieve the consequences specified in this Section 12.1(b) with respect
to any series of Securities shall not be construed to preclude the IDB
from achieving the consequences specified in Section 12.1(a) with
respect to such Securities at a later date upon satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 12.1(a); and
(2) if at any time the only Outstanding Securities are
Securities with respect to which the conditions described in this
Section 12.1(b) have been satisfied, the Trustee shall, upon receipt of
an IDB Request, take the actions specified in the last paragraph of
Section 12.2 notwithstanding the failure to satisfy and discharge the
Indenture as provided in Section 12.2.
(c) For purposes of this Section 12.1, if the IDB, the Mobile Energy
Parties, or any of them, shall incur any Debt and all or any portion of the
proceeds thereof are concurrently applied to make a deposit pursuant to
paragraph (i) of Section 12.1(a) in respect of any series of Securities (or to
acquire U.S. Government Obligations that are concurrently so deposited), whether
for purposes of Section 12.1(a) or 12.1(b), then any Event of Default that would
arise as a result of such incurrence or as a result of any Lien granted to
secure such Debt shall not constitute an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series; provided, however, that if, on or before the
ninety-first (91st) day after the date of such deposit any of the applicable
conditions under Section 12.1(a) or (b), as the case may be, required to be
satisfied on such date or during the period ending on such date are not
satisfied, then any such Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred at
the time and to the extent such Event of Default would have occurred without
regard to this Section 12.1(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if, at any time
after a Security would be deemed to have been paid for purposes of this
Indenture, and, if such is the case, the IDB and the Company's indebtedness in
respect thereof would be deemed to have been satisfied and discharged, pursuant
to this Section 12.1 (without regard to provisions of this paragraph), the
Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall be required to return the
monies or U.S. Government Obligations, or combination thereof, deposited with it
to the IDB or either of the Mobile Energy Parties or any Affiliate thereof or
its representatives under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency
or other similar Law such Security shall thereupon be deemed retroactively not
to have been paid and any satisfaction and discharge of the Company's
indebtedness in respect thereof shall retroactively be deemed not have been
effected, and such Security shall be deemed to remain Outstanding.
SECTION 12.2. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture
shall upon an IDB Request, a Company Request and a Mobile Energy Request cease
to be of further effect (except as hereinafter expressly provided), and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
prepared by the Company and the IDB acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture, when:
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
(other than (A) Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and
that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9 and (B)
Securities deemed to have been paid in accordance with Section 12.1)
have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
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(ii) all Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation shall be deemed to have been paid in accordance
with Section 12.1;
(b) all other sums due and payable hereunder have been paid;
and
(c) the IDB and the Mobile Energy Parties have delivered to
the Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with.
Upon satisfaction of the aforesaid conditions, the Trustee shall, upon
receipt of an IDB Request, Company Request and Mobile Energy Request,
acknowledge in writing the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as
aforesaid, if at the time of such satisfaction and discharge any Securities are
deemed to have been paid in accordance with Section 12.1, but have not actually
been fully paid, then the rights and obligations of the IDB, the Mobile Energy
Parties and the Trustee in respect of such Securities shall survive to the
extent provided in Section 12.1 until all such Securities have actually been
repaid in full.
Upon satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as provided in this
Section 12.2, the Trustee shall assign, transfer and turn over to or upon the
order of the Company, any and all monies, securities and other property then
held by the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders other than monies and U.S.
Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.1 and
interest and other amounts earned or received thereon.
SECTION 12.3. Application of Trust Money. The monies deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 12.1 and all monies received by the Trustee in
respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 12.1 shall not be withdrawn or used for any purpose other than, and
shall be held in trust for, the payment of the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on the Securities or portions of principal amount thereof in
respect of which such deposit was made. The Company shall pay and shall
indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or
assessed against U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 12.1
or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than
any such tax, fee or other charge payable by or on behalf of Holders.
ARTICLE XIII.
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES;
ACTION WITHOUT MEETING
SECTION 13.1. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. A meeting of
Holders of Securities of one (1) or more, or all, series, may be called at any
time and from time to time pursuant to this Article XIII to make, give or take
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of such
series.
SECTION 13.2. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. (a) The Trustee may
at any time call a meeting of Holders of one (1) or more, or all, series of
Securities for any purposes specified in Section 13.1, to be held at such time
and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such
other place, as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every such meeting,
setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the
action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner
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provided in Section 1.6, not less than twenty (20) nor more than sixty (60) days
prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) If the Trustee shall have been requested to call a meeting of the
Holders of Securities of one (1) or more, or all, series, by the IDB, by the
Company, by Mobile Energy or by the Holders of ten percent (10%) in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series (or, in the case
of a meeting of the Holders of the Securities of all series, ten percent (10%)
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series,
considered as one (1) class), by written request setting forth in reasonable
detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not
have made the first mailing of the notice of such meeting within twenty-one (21)
days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the
meeting to be held as provided herein, then the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties
or such Holders (as the case may be) may determine the time and the place in the
Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, or in such other place as the IDB,
Mobile Energy Parties or such Holders (as the case may be) shall determine, for
such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice
thereof as provided in Section 13.2(a).
(c) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of one (1) or more, or all,
series shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Outstanding
Securities of such series are present in person or by proxy and the Trustee is
present, or if notice is waived in writing before or after the meeting by the
Holders of all Outstanding Securities of such series, or by such of them as are
not present at the meeting in person or by proxy.
SECTION 13.3. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. To be entitled to
vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of one (1) or more, or all, series,
a Person shall be (a) a Holder of one (1) or more Outstanding Securities of such
series or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a
Holder or Holders of one (1) or more Outstanding Securities of such series by
such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to attend any
meeting shall be the Holders described above and any proxies of such Holders and
their respective counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and
any representatives of the IDB, the Mobile Energy Parties and their respective
counsels.
SECTION 13.4. Quorum; Action. The Persons entitled to vote a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of the series with
respect to which a meeting shall have been called as hereinbefore provided,
considered as one (1) class, shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders
of Securities of such series; provided, however, that if any action is to be
taken at such meeting that this Indenture expressly provides may be taken by the
Holders of a specified percentage that is less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, considered as one (1)
class, the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, considered as one (1)
class, shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum, the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than ten (10) days as determined by the
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence
of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further
adjourned for a period of not less than ten (10) days as determined by the
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.
Except as provided in Section 13.5(e), notice of the reconvening of any
adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 13.2(a), except that
such notice need be given only once not less than five (5) days prior to the
date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the
reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series that shall constitute a quorum.
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Except as limited by Section 11.2, any resolution presented to a
meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as
aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of the series with
respect to which such meeting shall have been called, considered as one (1)
class; provided, however, that, except as so limited, any resolution with
respect to any action that this Indenture expressly provides may be taken by the
Holders of a specified percentage that is less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, considered as one (1)
class, may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and
at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders
of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of such series, considered as one (1) class.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities duly held in accordance with this Section 13.4 shall be binding on
all the Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such meeting
shall have been held, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
SECTION 13.5. Attendance at Meetings; Determination of Voting Rights;
Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings. (a) Attendance at meetings of Holders of
Securities may be in person or by proxy, and, to the extent permitted by law,
any such proxy shall remain in effect and be binding upon any future Holder of
the Securities with respect to which it was given, unless and until specifically
revoked by the Holder or future Holder of such Securities before being voted.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Securities in regard to proof of the holding of such Securities and
of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of
inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and
other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the
conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise
permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall
be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.4 and the appointment of any
proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.4. Such regulations
may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face,
may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 1.4 or
other proof.
(c) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the IDB,
by either of the Mobile Energy Parties or by Holders of Securities as provided
in Section 13.2(b), in which case the IDB, such Mobile Energy Party or the
Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting (as the case may be)
shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a
permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons
entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of all series represented at the meeting, considered as one (1)
class.
(d) At any meeting each Holder of an Outstanding Security of any series
or such Holder's proxy shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each $1,000
original principal amount of Securities of such series held or represented by
such Holder, and each Holder of any such Security or such Holder's proxy shall
be entitled to divide the votes carried by such Security, casting some for and
some against a particular action, as such Holder sees fit; provided, however,
that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security
challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as
a Holder of a Security or proxy.
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(e) Any meeting duly called pursuant to Section 13.2 at which a quorum
is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all
series represented at the meeting, considered as one (1) class; and the meeting
may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 13.6. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings. The vote
upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be
by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of
Outstanding Securities or of their representatives by proxy and the principal
amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities, of the series with
respect to which the meeting shall have been called, held or represented by
them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two (2) inspectors of
votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any
resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their
verified written reports in quadruplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A
record, at least in quadruplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders
of Securities shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall
be attached to such record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on
any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one (1) or more persons
having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting
and showing that such notice was given as provided in Section 13.2 and, if
applicable, Section 13.4. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one (1)
such copy shall be delivered to each of the Mobile Energy Parties, one such copy
shall be delivered to the IDB and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the
Trustee, the last to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any
record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters
therein stated.
SECTION 13.7. Action Without Meeting. In lieu of the vote of Holders of
Securities at a meeting as hereinbefore contemplated in this Article XIII, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action may be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities by written
instruments as provided in Section 1.4.
ARTICLE XIV.
LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF IDB AND LIMITED RECOURSE
SECTION 14.1. Limited Obligations of IDB. (a) THE SECURITIES ARE
LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF THE IDB PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE REVENUES AND RECEIPTS
DERIVED FROM, AND CERTAIN ACCOUNTS CREATED UNDER, THE IDB LEASE AGREEMENT, THIS
INDENTURE AND THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. THE SECURITIES SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE
AN INDEBTEDNESS OR OTHER LIABILITY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, THE CITY OF MOBILE,
ALABAMA OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. NEITHER THE FULL
FAITH OR CREDIT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA OR THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, NOR ANY
OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, NOR THE IDB, WILL BE
PLEDGED TO THE PAYMENT OF THE SECURITIES OR THE INTEREST THEREON, AND THE
ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITIES WILL NOT DIRECTLY, INDIRECTLY OR CONTINGENTLY
OBLIGATE THE STATE OF ALABAMA, THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA OR ANY OTHER
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA TO APPLY MONEY FOR, OR TO LEVY OR
PLEDGE ANY FORM OF TAXATION WHATEVER TO THE PAYMENT OF, THE PRINCIPAL OF,
PREMIUM, IF ANY, OR INTEREST ON, THE SECURITIES. THE IDB HAS NO TAXING POWER.
(b) No covenant or agreement contained in the Securities or in this
Indenture shall be deemed to be the covenant or agreement of any official,
officer, agent, employee or attorney of the IDB in his individual capacity, and
neither the members of the IDB nor any official executing the Securities shall
be personally liable on the Securities or subject to any personal liability or
accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.
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SECTION 14.2. Limited Recourse. Satisfaction of the obligations of the
Mobile Energy Parties (including pursuant to the Guaranty) under this Indenture
and the IDB Lease Agreement for the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on any Securities, or any part thereof, or for any claim based
thereon or otherwise in respect thereof or related thereto, shall be had solely
from the assets of the Mobile Energy Parties. No recourse shall be had to (a)
any assets or properties of the Members (other than Mobile Energy as provided in
Article VIII of the IDB Lease Agreement) or of the stockholders of Mobile
Energy, other than their respective interests in the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Collateral, if any, (b) any Member (other than Mobile Energy as
provided in Article VIII of the IDB Lease Agreement) or (c) any Affiliate,
incorporator, stockholder, partner, member, officer, director or employee of any
Member or the Company (other than the Mobile Energy Parties and, in respect of
any Southern Guaranty on deposit in the Maintenance Plan Funding Subaccount or
the Distribution Account, Southern) and in the event of any non-performance by
either of the Mobile Energy Parties of its obligation to make rental payments
under the IDB Lease Agreement, or any part thereof, or for any claim based
thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, no judgment for any deficiency upon the
obligations of either of the Mobile Energy Parties under this Indenture or the
IDB Lease Agreement, for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Securities, or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon
or otherwise in respect thereof or related thereto, shall be obtainable by the
Holders, the IDB, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent against any Member or any
Affiliate, incorporator, stockholder, partner, member, officer, director or
employee of any Member or of the Company (other than the Mobile Energy Parties
and, in respect of any Southern Guaranty on deposit in the Maintenance Plan
Funding Subaccount or the Distribution Account, Southern). Notwithstanding
anything in this Article XIV to the contrary, (i) satisfaction of the Guaranteed
Obligations shall be non-recourse to any monies or other assets of Mobile Energy
acquired through or on account of its interests in the Southern Master Tax
Sharing Agreement to the extent such assets are not commingled with any of
Mobile Energy's other assets or any monies or assets of the Company, (ii)
nothing contained herein or in the Securities shall limit or otherwise prejudice
in any way the right of the Trustee, the IDB, the Collateral Agent or any Holder
to proceed against any Person whomsoever (A) with respect to the enforcement of
such Person's obligations under any Project Document (including the Guaranty and
any Southern Guaranty) to which such Person is a party or limit or otherwise
prejudice in any way the right of the Holders, the IDB, the Trustee or the
Collateral Agent to proceed against such Person with respect to the enforcement
of such obligations or (B) to the extent necessary to realize upon the
Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral granted hereunder or under the
Security Documents and (iii) any limitations of liability herein shall not apply
to any Person if and to the extent that such Person commits fraud or wilful
misrepresentations, including those contained in Officer's Certificates issued
from time to time.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed, and their seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first above
written.
[SEAL] THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
BOARD OF THE CITY OF MOBILE,
Attest: ALABAMA
/s/ By: /s/
Name: Clarence M. Boll, Jr.
Title: Vice President of the
Board of Directors
[SEAL] FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
OF GEORGIA, as Trustee
Attest:
/s/ By: /s/
Name: Doug Milner
Title: Assistant Vice President
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
I, the undersigned Notary Public in and for said County in
said State, hereby certify that Clarence M. Boll, Jr. whose name as Vice
Chairman of The Industrial Development Board of the City of Mobile, Alabama, a
public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, is signed
to the foregoing Amended and Restated Trust Indenture and who is known to me,
acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the
instrument, he, as such officer and with full authority, executed the same
voluntarily for and as the act of said public corporation.
Given under my hand and seal this the 17 day of August, 1995.
/s/ (seal)
Notary Public
STATE OF New York )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF New York )
I, the undersigned Notary Public in and for said County in
said State, hereby certify that R. Douglas Milner whose name as Assistant Vice
President of First Union National Bank of Georgia, a national banking
association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, is signed to the foregoing Amended and Restated Lease and Agreement and
who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of
the contents of the instrument, he, as such officer and with full authority,
executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said national banking
association.
Given under my hand and seal this the 23rd day of August,
1995.
/s/ (seal)
Notary Public
EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF 1995 BOND]
[Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the issuer hereof
or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Security
of this series issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name
as 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.]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF ALABAMA
THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA
SOLID WASTE REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS
(MOBILE ENERGY SERVICES COMPANY, L.L.C. PROJECT)
SERIES 1995
No. R- CUSIP No. 607168AY7
Principal Amount Maturity Date Dated Date Interest Rate
$85,000,000.00 January 1, 2020 August 1, 1995 6.95%
THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, a
public corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama
(herein called the "Issuer," which term includes any permitted successor or
assign under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.], or its registered assigns, solely from the
funds provided therefor as hereinafter set forth, the Principal Amount set forth
above on the Maturity Date set forth above (subject to any right of redemption),
and to pay interest on the Principal Amount set forth above at the Interest Rate
set forth above from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for, or if no interest has been paid or duly provided
for, from August 1, 1995, semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 in each year,
commencing on January 1, 1996, until the Principal Amount set forth above is
paid in full or payment therefor is duly provided for. Any payment of principal,
any payment of premium, and, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, any
payment of interest not punctually paid or duly provided for shall continue to
bear interest at a rate equal to the Interest Rate set forth above plus two
percent (2%). The principal, premium, if any, and interest so payable on any
payment date shall, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered in the
Security Register at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
payment of principal or interest, which shall be the preceding December 15 and
June 15, respectively, provided that interest payable on the Maturity Date set
forth above shall be payable to the Person to whom the principal hereof shall be
payable. Any such principal or interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) was registered in the Security
Register at the close of business on the Regular Record Date therefor, and may
be paid 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 principal or
interest to be fixed by the Trustee referred to below, notice of which shall be
given to the Holder hereof to be mailed not less than ten (10) days prior to
such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner
not inconsistent with the requirements of
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any securities exchange (if any) on which this Security may be listed, and upon
such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in
the Indenture. All payments in respect of this Security shall be made in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of debts, in immediately available funds. Interest on
this Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months and, for any period shorter than a full calendar month, on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed in such period.
Principal of and interest on this Security payable on the Maturity Date
set forth above shall be paid upon presentation and surrender of this Security
at the office of the Paying Agent. Payments of principal of and interest on this
Security shall be made, so long as this Security is issued in the form of a
global security, in immediately available funds by wire transfer or, if this
Security is not held in the form of a global security, by check mailed on or
prior to the date for such payment to the address of the Holder entitled thereto
as such address appears on the Security Register; provided, however, that if
this Security is not held in the form of a global security, any Holder of
$1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series
may, by delivery of a written request to the Paying Agent, elect to have all
such payments to such Holder made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to a designated account maintained in the United States (so long as the
Paying Agent has received proper wire transfer instructions in writing by the
Regular Record Date next preceding the date for such payment).
The provisions of this Security are continued on the reverse hereof and
such continued provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though
fully set forth at this place.
This Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture,
or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose, until FIRST UNION NATIONAL
BANK OF GEORGIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, or its successor thereunder or
an Authenticating Agent on behalf thereof, shall have authenticated the form of
certificate endorsed hereon or an alternative certificate of authentication
provided for in the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The Industrial Development Board of the City of
Mobile, Alabama has caused this Security to be signed in its name by its
President or Vice President, by the signature or a facsimile thereof, attested
by its Secretary by the signature or a facsimile thereof.
Dated:
THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD
OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA
[Seal] By:
Name:
Title:
Attest:
By:
Secretary
TRUSTEE'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
This Security is one of the Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA,
as Trustee
By:
Authorized Trust Officer
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[REVERSE]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF ALABAMA
THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA
SOLID WASTE REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS
(MOBILE ENERGY SERVICES COMPANY, L.L.C. PROJECT)
SERIES 1995
This Security is one of an authorized issue of Securities of the
Issuer, known as its Solid Waste Revenue Refunding Bonds (Mobile Energy Services
Company, L.L.C. Project), Series 1995, to be issued under an Amended and
Restated Trust Indenture, dated as of August 1, 1995 (as the same may be
amended, modified and supplemented, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and
First Union National Bank of Georgia, as trustee (the "Trustee"). Capitalized
terms used herein, but not otherwise defined herein, shall have the meanings
assigned thereto in the Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture, the aggregate principal amount of
Securities that may be issued thereunder is unlimited. The Securities of this
series are limited in principal amount to $85,000,000.
All Securities shall be secured equally and ratably with one another
(except as to any Tax-Exempt Debt Service Reserve Account or Sinking Fund
established in accordance with the Indenture for the benefit of any particular
series). Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a description of the
nature of the Securities, the respective rights of the Holders, the Trustee, and
the Issuer in respect of the Securities, and the terms upon which the Securities
are to be authenticated and delivered. The terms of the Securities include those
stated in the Indenture.
The Indenture amends and restates the 1984 Indenture, and the proceeds
of the Securities of this series will be used to pay and redeem the outstanding
1984 Bonds issued under the 1984 Indenture. Proceeds of the 1984 Bonds were used
to refinance the 1983 Bonds, the proceeds of which were used to finance the cost
of acquisition and construction of the Tax-Exempt Project. The Tax-Exempt
Project is leased to Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C., an Alabama limited
liability company (the "Company"), pursuant to an Amended and Restated Lease and
Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1995 (the "IDB Lease Agreement"), among the
Issuer, the Company and Mobile Energy Services Holdings, Inc., an Alabama
corporation ("Mobile Energy"), as guarantor of the Company's obligations
thereunder. Pursuant to the IDB Lease Agreement (which amends and restates the
1984 Lease), the Company has agreed to lease the Tax- Exempt Project, and make
rental payments therefor, by paying to the Trustee for the account of the Issuer
an amount equal to the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities of this series when due.
By acceptance of the Securities of this series, the initial Holder
hereof hereby acknowledges, consents to, approves and ratifies the amendment and
restatement of the 1984 Indenture and the 1984 Lease, as effectuated by the
Indenture and the IDB Lease Agreement, respectively.
The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Security are
payable only from, and secured by, the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities
Collateral, and all payments of principal and interest shall be made in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
The Securities, and the rights of the Holders in respect of the Shared
Collateral, are subject to the terms of an Intercreditor and Collateral Agency
Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1995 (the "Intercreditor Agreement"), among
Bankers Trust (Delaware), as collateral agent, the Trustee (on behalf of the
Holders of the Securities), First Union National Bank of Georgia, as trustee (on
behalf of the holders of the securities issued under a Trust Indenture, dated as
of August 1, 1995, with the Company and Mobile Energy), Banque
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Paribas, as the Working Capital Provider, the Issuer, the Company and Mobile
Energy, to which reference is hereby made.
As provided in Section 6.3(b) of the Indenture, all Outstanding
Securities shall be subject to redemption in whole prior to the Maturity Date
set forth on the face of this Security at a redemption price equal to one
hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest
thereon, if any, to the Redemption Date, if an Event of Loss or an Event of
Eminent Domain shall occur and, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Energy Complex is not rebuilt, repaired, restored or replaced.
Pursuant to Section 6.3(c) of the Indenture, the Outstanding Securities
shall be subject to partial redemption, ratably among, and by lot within, all
outstanding series and maturities, prior to the Maturity Date set forth on the
face of this Security at a redemption price equal to one hundred percent (100%)
of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest thereon, if any, to the
Redemption Date, if (i) an Event of Loss or an Event of Eminent Domain shall
occur, to the extent of any Excess Loss Proceeds and provided, subject to
certain exceptions described in the Intercreditor Agreement, that such Excess
Loss Proceeds exceed $3,000,000 and (ii) the Energy Complex or a portion thereof
is rebuilt, repaired, restored or replaced. The aggregate amount of Securities
to be so redeemed will equal the amount made available to the Trustee for such
purpose pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, which, subject to certain
exceptions, will equal the ratable share of the Securities of this series (based
upon the principal amount of Securities and Indenture Securities then
Outstanding and the Working Capital Facility Commitment under the Working
Capital Facility, as further described in the Intercreditor Agreement) of the
amount by which all of the Loss Proceeds in respect of such Event of Loss or
Event of Eminent Domain exceeds the total cost of rebuilding, repairing,
restoring or replacing the Energy Complex.
Securities of this series shall be subject to mandatory sinking fund
redemption in part, prior to maturity, by lot, on January 1, 2017 and on January
1 of each year thereafter to and including January 1, 2020, at a redemption
price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof plus
accrued interest thereon, if any, to the Redemption Date, according to the
schedule set forth below:
Redemption Date Principal Amount
(January 1,) to be Redeemed
2017.........................................$13,700,000
2018......................................... 22,400,000
2019......................................... 23,750,000
2020*........................................ 25,150,000
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* Final Maturity
The Securities of this series shall be subject to redemption at the
option of the Issuer (at the direction of the Company) in the event of a
Determination of Taxability with respect to the Securities of this series, in
whole (or in part if in the opinion of Bond Counsel redemption of a portion of
the Securities of this series would result in the interest on the Securities of
this series outstanding thereafter remaining exempt from federal income
taxation) on a date specified by the Issuer (or the Company on behalf of the
Issuer), which date shall not be more than one hundred eighty (180) days
following such Determination of Taxability, at a redemption price equal to one
hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest
thereon, if any, to the Redemption Date. Any such redemption of less than all of
the Securities of this series shall be by lot or by such other method, and in
such amounts and/or in such manner, as the Trustee, with the advice of Bond
Counsel, shall deem proper.
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If the Trustee receives written notice from the Holder or any
beneficial holder hereof to the effect that (i) such Holder or beneficial holder
has been notified in writing by the Internal Revenue Service that it proposes to
include the interest on this Security in the gross income of such Holder or
beneficial holder, which the Trustee determines may lead to a Determination of
Taxability (for any of the reasons described in the definition thereof, because
a proceeding has been instituted against such Holder or otherwise) and (ii) such
Holder or beneficial holder will afford the Trustee the opportunity to contest
the same in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture, either
directly or in the name of such Holder or beneficial holder, and until a
conclusion of any appellate review, if sought, and the Trustee has received a
copy of the notification described in clause (i) above, then the Trustee shall
promptly give notice thereof to the Company, Mobile Energy, the Issuer, the
Collateral Agent and the Indenture Trustee and to each other Holder and
beneficial holder of the Securities of this series. The Trustee shall thereafter
coordinate any similar requests or notices it may receive or may have received
from other Holders or beneficial holders of the Securities of this series and
shall monitor the progress of any administrative proceedings or litigation with
respect thereto. If a Determination of Taxability thereafter occurs and the
Company directs the Issuer to redeem the Securities of this series, in whole or
in part, the Trustee shall make demand for prepayment and give notice of the
redemption of the appropriate amount of the Securities of this series, the
Redemption Date to be no later than the date specified above. In taking any
action or making any determination in this regard, the Trustee may rely upon a
favorable opinion of Bond Counsel.
Securities of this series shall be subject to redemption prior to the
Maturity Date set forth on the face of this Security at the option of the Issuer
(at the direction of the Company), in whole or in part (if in part, by lot or by
such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair or appropriate), on or after
January 1, 2005 at any time upon thirty (30) days' notice at the following
redemption prices, plus accrued interest on the principal amount of such
Security, if any, to the Redemption Date:
Period During Which Redeemed Redemption
(both dates inclusive) Price
January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005...........102%
January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006...........101%
January 1, 2007 and thereafter......................100%
Notice of any redemption of Securities will be given at least thirty
(30) but not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified
percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance
by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver or
direction shall be conclusive and binding upon the Holder, and all future
Holders, of this Security and of any Security issued upon the transfer hereof
whether or not citation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As more fully described therein, the Indenture and the IDB Lease
Agreement permit, with certain exceptions, the amendment thereof and of the
rights and obligations of the Issuer, the Company, Mobile Energy and the Holders
of the Securities thereunder, at any time with the consent of the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding and, in certain cases, without any consent or other action by
Holders of the Securities.
The principal hereof may be declared or may become due on the
conditions, in the manner and at the time set forth in the Indenture, upon the
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occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default as provided in
the Indenture.
The Securities of this series are issuable only as registered bonds
without coupons in denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $5,000 in
excess thereof. This Security is transferable as prescribed in the Indenture by
the registered owner hereof, in person or by attorney duly authorized, at an
office or agency of the Trustee, upon surrender and cancellation of this
Security and thereupon a new registered Security or Securities of the same
series for a like principal amount, in authorized denominations, will be issued
to the transferee in exchange therefor, as provided in the Indenture. The Issuer
and the Trustee shall deem and treat the Person in whose name this Security is
registered as the absolute owner for the purpose of receiving payment of or on
account of the principal due hereof and interest due hereon and for all other
purposes. Registered Securities of this series shall be exchangeable at such
offices or agencies of the Trustee for registered Securities of other authorized
denominations having the same aggregate principal amount, in the manner and upon
the conditions prescribed in the Indenture. No service charge shall be required
of any Holder in connection with any transfer or exchange, but the Security
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith. Notwithstanding any
provision of the Indenture, neither the Issuer nor the Trustee shall be required
to register the transfer of or exchange of any Securities of this series during
the period (i) beginning at the opening of business fifteen (15) days before the
day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of this series under
the Indenture and ending on the close of business on the day of such mailing and
(ii) beginning on the Regular Record Date for the Stated Maturity of principal
of or interest on the Securities of this series and ending on the Stated
Maturity of such payment, or to register the transfer or exchange any Securities
of this series so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Security of this series selected for redemption in
part. The Holder hereof, by the acceptance of this Security, agrees that each
payment received by it hereunder shall be applied in the manner set forth in
Section 2.16 of the Indenture.
This Security is a global security within the meaning of the Indenture
and is registered in the name of a depositary or its nominee with respect to the
Securities of this series. This Security is exchangeable for other Securities of
this series registered in the name of a Person other than such depositary or its
nominee only if (i) the Issuer advises the Trustee in writing that such
depositary is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its
responsibilities as depositary with respect to the Securities of this series and
is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Issuer, at its option elects
to terminate the book-entry system through such depositary with respect to the
Securities of this series and (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default,
beneficial owners of the Securities of this series holding interests
representing an aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series of
not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities of this series
represented by this global security advise the Trustee through such depositary
in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through such depositary
(or any successor thereto) with respect to the Securities of this series is no
longer in such beneficial owners' best interest.
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA.
THE SECURITIES OF THIS SERIES WILL BE LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF THE
ISSUER, PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE REVENUES AND RECEIPTS DERIVED FROM, AND CERTAIN
ACCOUNTS CREATED UNDER, THE IDB LEASE AGREEMENT, THE INDENTURE AND THE
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. THE SECURITIES OF THIS SERIES WILL NOT CONSTITUTE AN
INDEBTEDNESS OR OTHER LIABILITY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, THE CITY OF MOBILE,
ALABAMA OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. NEITHER THE FULL
FAITH OR CREDIT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA OR THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, NOR ANY
OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, NOR THE ISSUER, WILL BE
PLEDGED TO THE PAYMENT OF THE SECURITIES OF THIS SERIES, OR THE PREMIUM, IF ANY,
OR THE INTEREST THEREON, AND THE ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITIES
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OF THIS SERIES WILL NOT DIRECTLY, INDIRECTLY OR CONTINGENTLY OBLIGATE THE STATE
OF ALABAMA, THE CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, OR ANY OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF
THE STATE OF ALABAMA TO APPLY MONEY FOR, OR TO LEVY OR PLEDGE ANY FORM OF
TAXATION WHATEVER TO THE PAYMENT OF, THE PRINCIPAL OF OR PREMIUM, IF ANY, OR
INTEREST ON THE SECURITIES OF THIS SERIES. THE ISSUER HAS NO TAXING POWER.
Satisfaction of the obligations of the Company and Mobile Energy
(including pursuant to the Guaranty) under the Indenture and the IDB Lease
Agreement for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any Securities, or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise
in respect thereof or related thereto, shall be had solely from the assets of
the Company or (except to the extent provided in the Guaranty) Mobile Energy. No
recourse shall be had to (a) any assets or properties of the Members (other than
Mobile Energy as provided in the Guaranty) or of the stockholders of Mobile
Energy, other than their respective interests in the Tax-Exempt Indenture
Securities Collateral, if any, (b) any Member (other than Mobile Energy as
provided in the Guaranty) or (c) any Affiliate, incorporator, stockholder,
partner, member, officer, director or employee of any Member or of the Company
(other than Mobile Energy and, in respect of any Southern Guaranty on deposit in
the Maintenance Plan Funding Subaccount or the Distribution Account, Southern)
and in the event of any non-performance by either of the Company or Mobile
Energy of its obligation to make rental payment under the IDB Lease Agreement,
or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect
thereof, no judgment for any deficiency upon the obligations of either of the
Company or Mobile Energy under the Indenture or the IDB Lease Agreement, for the
payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities,
or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect
thereof or related thereto, shall be obtainable by the Holders, the Issuer, the
Trustee or the Collateral Agent against any Member (other than Mobile Energy as
provided in the Guaranty) or any Affiliate, incorporator, stockholder, partner,
member, officer, director or employee of any Member or of the Company (other
than the Mobile Energy Parties and, in respect of any Southern Guaranty on
deposit in the Maintenance Plan Funding Subaccount or the Distribution Account,
Southern). Notwithstanding anything in this Security to the contrary, (i)
satisfaction of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be non-recourse to any monies
or other assets of Mobile Energy acquired through or on account of its interests
in the Southern Master Tax Sharing Agreement to the extent such assets are not
commingled with any of Mobile Energy's other assets or any monies or assets of
the Company, (ii) nothing contained herein or in the Securities shall limit or
otherwise prejudice in any way the right of the Trustee, the Issuer, the
Collateral Agent or any Holder to proceed against any Person whomsoever (A) with
respect to the enforcement of such Person's obligations under any Project
Document (including the Guaranty and any Southern Guaranty) to which such Person
is a party or limit or otherwise prejudice in any way the right of the Holders,
the Issuer, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent to proceed against such Person
with respect to the enforcement of such obligations or (B) to the extent
necessary to realize upon the Tax-Exempt Indenture Securities Collateral granted
hereunder or under the Security Documents and (iii) any limitations of liability
herein shall not apply to any Person if and to the extent that such Person
commits fraud or willful misrepresentations, including those contained in
Officer's Certificates issued from time to time.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations when used in the inscription on the face of
this instrument shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM -- as tenants in common
TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right of survivorship and
not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ___________________
(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gift to Minors Act
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(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though
not in the above list
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s)
unto
Social Security Number or Other
Identifying Number of Assignee
(Please print or typewrite name and address,
including zip code of Assignee)
the written Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting
and appointing ________________________ attorney to transfer such Security on
the books of the Issuer, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
as written upon the first page of the within instrument in
every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any
change whatsoever.
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