Exhibit 4(b)
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MURPHY OIL CORPORATION
as Issuer
and
as Trustee
Indenture
Dated as of _________, ____
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Subordinated Debt Securities
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET*
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Between
Provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and the Indenture to be
dated as of , between MURPHY OIL CORPORATION and
, as Trustee:
Section of the Act Section of Indenture
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310(a)(1) and (2)................................ 5.8
310(a)(3) and (4)................................ Inapplicable
310(b)........................................... 5.12 and 5.9(a),(b) and (d)
310(c)........................................... Inapplicable
311(a)........................................... 5.13
311(b)........................................... 5.13
311(c)........................................... Inapplicable
312(a)........................................... 3.6
312(b)........................................... 3.6
312(c)........................................... 4.2(c)
313(a)........................................... 3.8
313(b)(1)........................................ Inapplicable
313(b)(2)........................................ 3.8
313(c)........................................... 3.8
313(d)........................................... 3.8
314(a)........................................... 3.7
314(b)........................................... Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2)................................ 10.5
314(c)(3)........................................ Inapplicable
314(d)........................................... Inapplicable
314(e)........................................... 10.5
314(f)........................................... Inapplicable
315(a), (c) and (d).............................. 5.1
315(b)........................................... 4.11
315(e)........................................... 4.12
316(a)(1)........................................ 4.9
316(a)(2)........................................ Not required
316(a) (last sentence)........................... 6.4
316(b)........................................... 4.7
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* This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
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317(a)........................................... 4.2
317(b)........................................... 3.4(a) and (b)
318(a)........................................... 10.7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Certain Terms Defined...........................................1
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally.................................................8
SECTION 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.................9
SECTION 2.03. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series............................9
SECTION 2.04. Authentication and Delivery of Securities......................11
SECTION 2.05. Execution of Securities........................................13
SECTION 2.06. Certificate of Authentication..................................16
SECTION 2.07. Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest......16
SECTION 2.08. Registration, Transfer and Exchange............................17
SECTION 2.09. Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities......18
SECTION 2.10. Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof................19
SECTION 2.11. Temporary Securities...........................................19
SECTION 2.12. Computation of Interest........................................20
ARTICLE 3
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest..............................20
SECTION 3.02. Offices for Payments, Etc......................................20
SECTION 3.03. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee.............21
SECTION 3.04. Paying Agents..................................................21
SECTION 3.05. Certificate of the Issuer......................................22
SECTION 3.06. Securityholders Lists..........................................22
SECTION 3.07. Reports by the Issuer..........................................22
SECTION 3.08. Reports by the Trustee.........................................23
ARTICLE 4
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 4.01. Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity;
Waiver of Default..............................................23
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SECTION 4.02. Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt...........................................................26
SECTION 4.03. Application of Proceeds........................................29
SECTION 4.04. Suits for Enforcement..........................................30
SECTION 4.05. Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings............30
SECTION 4.06. Limitations on Suits by Securityholders........................30
SECTION 4.07. Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain
Suits..........................................................31
SECTION 4.08. Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not
Waiver of Default..............................................31
SECTION 4.09. Control by Securityholders.....................................32
SECTION 4.10. Waiver of Past Defaults........................................32
SECTION 4.11. Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in
Certain Circumstances..........................................33
SECTION 4.12. Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs..........................................................33
ARTICLE 5
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.01. Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default;
Prior to Default...............................................34
SECTION 5.02. Certain Rights of the Trustee..................................35
SECTION 5.03. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of
Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof..................37
SECTION 5.04. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities, etc....................37
SECTION 5.05. Moneys Held by Trustee.........................................37
SECTION 5.06. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its
Prior Claim....................................................37
SECTION 5.07. Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers' Certificate, etc.........38
SECTION 5.08. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee....................38
SECTION 5.09. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee........................................................38
SECTION 5.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.................40
SECTION 5.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Trustee............................................41
SECTION 5.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer...........41
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ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 6.01. Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders....................42
SECTION 6.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities; Record Date........................................42
SECTION 6.03. Holders to Be Treated as Owners................................42
SECTION 6.04. Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding..............43
SECTION 6.05. Right of Revocation of Action Taken............................43
ARTICLE 7
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 7.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders................................................44
SECTION 7.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders........45
SECTION 7.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture...............................47
SECTION 7.04. Documents to Be Given to Trustee...............................47
SECTION 7.05. Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures.....................................................47
SECTION 7.06. Subordination Unimpaired.......................................47
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 8.01. Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms.................48
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted..............................48
SECTION 8.03. Opinion of Counsel to Trustee..................................49
ARTICLE 9
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 9.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................49
SECTION 9.02. Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of
Securities.....................................................50
SECTION 9.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.......................50
SECTION 9.04. Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent
Unclaimed for Two Years........................................51
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ARTICLE 10
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.01. Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of
Issuer Exempt from Individual Liability.......................51
SECTION 10.02. Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and
Securityholders...............................................52
SECTION 10.03. Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture...........52
SECTION 10.04. Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and
Securityholders...............................................52
SECTION 10.05. Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein............................53
SECTION 10.06. Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays...............54
SECTION 10.07. Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939.........................................54
SECTION 10.08. New York Law to Govern........................................54
SECTION 10.09. Counterparts..................................................54
SECTION 10.10. Effect of Headings............................................54
SECTION 10.11. Separability Clause...........................................54
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article......................................55
SECTION 11.02. Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions.....................55
SECTION 11.03. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption...................56
SECTION 11.04. Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for Redemption......................................57
SECTION 11.05. Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds..........................57
ARTICLE 12
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 12.01. Issuer's Option to Effect Defeasance..........................60
SECTION 12.02. Defeasances and Discharge.....................................60
SECTION 12.03. Covenant Defeasance...........................................61
SECTION 12.04. Conditions to Defeasance......................................61
SECTION 12.05. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be
Held in Trust; Reinstatement; Miscellaneous...................63
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ARTICLE 13
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 13.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.................64
SECTION 13.02. Payment over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. of the
Issuer........................................................64
SECTION 13.03. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default in
Payment.......................................................65
SECTION 13.04. Payment Permitted If No Default...............................65
SECTION 13.05. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.......66
SECTION 13.06. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights...................66
SECTION 13.07. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination...........................66
SECTION 13.08. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.........................67
SECTION 13.09. Notice to Trustee.............................................67
SECTION 13.10. Reliance on Certificate of Liquidating Agent..................68
SECTION 13.11. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness......68
ARTICLE 14
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 14.01. Applicability; Conversion Privilege and Conversion Price......68
SECTION 14.02. Exercise of Conversion Privilege..............................69
SECTION 14.03. Fractions of Shares...........................................70
SECTION 14.04. Adjustment of Conversion Price................................70
SECTION 14.05. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price.....................73
SECTION 14.06. Notice of Certain Corporate Action............................73
SECTION 14.07. Issuer to Reserve Common Stock................................74
SECTION 14.08. Taxes on Conversions..........................................74
SECTION 14.09. Covenant as to Common Stock...................................75
SECTION 14.10. Cancellation of Converted Securities..........................75
SECTION 14.11. Provisions in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of
Assets........................................................75
TESTIMONIUM...................................................................76
SIGNATURES....................................................................76
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...............................................................77
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of ____________, ____ between MURPHY OIL
CORPORATION (the "Issuer"), a corporation organized under the laws of the State
of Delaware, and _________________________, a national banking association
(the "Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of
its unsecured subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of Indebtedness
to be issued in one or more series (the "Securities") up to such principal
amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture and to provide, among other things, for the
authentication, delivery and administration thereof, the Issuer has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture
and agreement according to its terms have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by
the holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for
the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time
of the Securities or of a series thereof as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Certain Terms Defined. The following terms (except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires)
for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Article. All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or
the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933 are referred to in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms defined therein by reference to the
Securities Act of 1933 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless
the context otherwise clearly requires), shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at
the date of this Indenture.
All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and the term "generally accepted accounting principles" means such
accounting principles as are generally accepted at the time of any computation.
The words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned
to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Issuer
or any committee of such Board duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Business Day" means, with respect to any Security, a day that in the
city (or in any of the cities, if more than one) in which amounts are payable,
as specified in the form of such Security, is not a day on which banking
institutions are authorized by law or regulation to close.
"Capital Lease Obligations" means any obligation to pay rent or other
amounts under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real or
personal property that is required to be classified and accounted for as a
capital lease obligation under generally accepted accounting principles, and,
for the purposes of this Indenture, the amount of such obligation at any date
shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such date, determined in accordance
with such principles.
"Capital Stock" means any and all shares, interests, participations,
rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or if at
any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Stock" means any stock of any class of the Issuer which has no
preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Issuer
and which is not subject to redemption by the Issuer.
"Consolidated Net Assets" means the total of all assets (less
depreciation and amortization reserves and other valuation reserves and loss
reserves) which, under generally accepted accounting principles, would appear on
the asset side of a consolidated balance sheet of the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries, less the aggregate
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of all liabilities, deferred credits, minority shareholders' interests in
Subsidiaries, reserves and other items which, under such principles, would
appear on the liability side of such consolidated balance sheet, except Funded
Indebtedness and Stockholders' Equity; provided, however, that in determining
Consolidated Net Assets, there shall not be included as assets, (i) all assets
(other than goodwill, which shall be included) which would be classified as
intangible assets under generally accepted accounting principles, including,
without limitation, patents, trademarks, copyrights and unamortized debt
discount and expense, (ii) any treasury stock carried as an asset, or (iii) any
write-ups of capital assets (other than write-ups resulting from the acquisition
of stock or assets of another corporation or business).
"Conversion Price" has the meaning specified in Section 14.01
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located at .
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 until a
successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more
than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of
that series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Global Securities of
that series.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 4.01.
"Funded Indebtedness" of any Person means all indebtedness for borrowed
money created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed in any manner by such Person, and
all indebtedness incurred or assumed by such Person in connection with the
acquisition of any business, property or asset, which in each case matures more
than one year after, or which by its terms is renewable or extendible or payable
out of the proceeds of similar indebtedness incurred pursuant to the terms of
any revolving credit agreement or any similar agreement at the option of such
Person for a period ending more than one year after the date as of which Funded
Indebtedness is being determined (excluding any amount thereof which is included
in current liabilities); provided, however, that Funded Indebtedness shall not
include: (i) any indebtedness for the payment, redemption or satisfaction of
which money (or evidences of indebtedness, if permitted under the instrument
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creating or evidencing such indebtedness) in the necessary amount shall have
been irrevocably deposited in trust with a trustee or proper depository either
on or before the maturity or redemption date thereof or (ii) any indebtedness of
such Person to any of its subsidiaries or of any subsidiary to such Person or
any other subsidiary or (iii) any indebtedness incurred in connection with the
financing of operating, construction or acquisition projects, provided that the
recourse for such indebtedness is limited to the assets of such projects.
"Global Security" means a Security evidencing all or a part of a series
of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such series in accordance with
Section 2.05, and bearing the legend prescribed in Section 2.05.
"Holder", "holder of Securities", "Securityholder" or other similar
terms mean the Person in whose name a Security is registered in the security
register kept by the Issuer for the purpose in accordance with the terms hereof.
"Indebtedness" means (a) any liability of any Person (1) for borrowed
money, or any non-contingent reimbursement obligation relating to a letter of
credit, or (2) evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or similar instrument
(including a purchase money obligation) given in connection with the acquisition
of any businesses, properties or assets of any kind (other than a trade payable
or a current liability arising in the ordinary course of business), or (3) for
the payment of money relating to a Capital Lease Obligation; (b) any liability
of others described in the preceding clause (a) that the Person has guaranteed
or that is otherwise its legal liability; and (c) any amendment, supplement,
modification, deferral, renewal, extension or refunding of any liability of the
types referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered
or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented
or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of
Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
"Interest" means, when used with respect to non-interest bearing
Securities, interest payable after maturity.
"Issuer" means Murphy Oil Corporation, a corporation organized under
the laws of the State of Delaware, and, subject to Article Eight, its successors
and assigns.
"Issuer Order" means a written statement, request or order of the
Issuer signed in its name by the chairman of the Board of Directors, the
president, any vice president or the treasurer of the Issuer.
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"New York Agency" means the office of ,
serving as agent of the Trustee in The City of New York, which office is, at
the date as of which this Indenture is dated, located at .
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the chairman of
the Board of Directors or the president or any vice president and by the
treasurer or the secretary or any assistant secretary of the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and include the statements provided for in
Section 10.05 hereof, if and to the extent that such sections are applicable.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and include the statements provided for in
Section 10.05 hereof, if and to the extent that such sections are applicable.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that provides for
an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.
"Outstanding", when used with reference to Securities, shall, subject
to the provisions of Section 6.04, mean, as of any particular time, all
Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture,
except
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption
of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in
trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Issuer)
or shall have been set aside, segregated and held in trust by the
Issuer for the holders of such Securities (if the Issuer shall act as
its own paying agent), provided that if such Securities, or portions
thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of
such redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or provision
satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such
notice;
(c) Securities in substitution for which other Securities shall
have been authenticated and delivered, or which shall have been paid,
pursuant to the terms of Section 2.09 (except with respect to any such
Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented
that such
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Security is held by a person in whose hands such Security is a legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Issuer); and
(d) Securities converted for Common Stock pursuant to Article
Fourteen.
In determining whether the holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration
of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from
time to time, the specific terms of which Securities, including, without
limitation, the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the stated maturity
or maturities thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with respect
thereto, are to be determined by the Issuer or its agents upon the issuance of
such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or any
Security or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium, if
any".
"Principal Property" means all property and equipment directly engaged
in the exploration, production, refining, marketing and transportation
activities of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, except any such property and
equipment which the Board of Directors declares is not material to the business
of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means the
chairman of the board of directors, any vice chairman of the board of directors,
the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee,
any vice chairman of the executive committee, the president, any vice president,
the cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any senior trust officer, any trust
officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any
assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any
other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be
such officers, respectively, or to whom any
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corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Issuer that owns a
Principal Property and has Stockholders' Equity that is greater than 2% of the
Consolidated Net Assets of the Issuer.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital
of this Indenture, or, as the case may be, Securities that have been
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Senior Funded Indebtedness" means any Funded Indebtedness which is
also Senior Indebtedness.
"Senior Indebtedness" shall mean the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on (including interest accruing after the filing of a petition
initiating any proceeding pursuant to any bankruptcy law) and other amounts due
on or in connection with any Indebtedness of the Issuer, whether outstanding on
the date of this Indenture or hereafter created, incurred or assumed, unless, in
the case of any particular Indebtedness, the instrument creating or evidencing
the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding expressly provides that
such Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Securities. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Senior Indebtedness shall not include Indebtedness of the Issuer to a
Subsidiary of the Issuer for money borrowed or advanced from such Subsidiary.
"Stockholders' Equity" means the aggregate of (however designated)
capital, capital stock (including preferred stock), capital surplus, capital in
excess of par value of stock, earned surplus, net income retained for use in the
business and cumulative foreign exchange translation adjustments, after
deducting the cost of shares of the Issuer held in its treasury.
"Subsidiary" means (i) any corporation of which more than 50% of the
total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the
occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors thereof is
at the time directly or indirectly owned by the Issuer or by the Issuer and one
or more Subsidiaries or by one or more Subsidiaries, and (ii) any limited
partnership in which the Issuer or a Subsidiary is a general partner and in
which more than 50% of the voting interests thereof is at the time directly or
indirectly owned by the Issuer or by the Issuer and one or more Subsidiaries or
by one or more Subsidiaries. The term "subsidiary", when used with respect to
any Person other than the Issuer, shall have a meaning correlative to the
foregoing.
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"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in Sections
7.01 and 7.02) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as
of which this Indenture was originally executed.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article Five, shall also
include any successor trustee. "Trustee" shall also mean or include each Person
who is then a trustee hereunder and if at any time there is more than one such
Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall
mean the trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
"U.S. Government Obligations" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 9.01.
"vice president" when used with respect to the Issuer or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title of "vice president".
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of
Securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and
calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series shall be
substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be
established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors (as set
forth in such resolution or, to the extent established pursuant to rather than
set forth in such resolution, an Officers' Certificate detailing such
establishment) or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or
otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with
any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities
exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities.
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The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[NAME OF TRUSTEE],
as Trustee
By
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Authorized Officer
SECTION 2.03. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors and set
forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the 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 the series pursuant to Section 2.08, 2.09, 2.11, 7.05,
7.06 or 11.03);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of
the series is payable;
(4) if other than the coin or currency of the United States, the
coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are
denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the principal of
or interest, if any, on the Securities of that series shall be payable
and the method of valuing that
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coin or currency for purposes of determining the aggregate principal
amount of Securities of that series then Outstanding and the amount to
be paid to satisfy a judgment denominated in the coin or currency of
the United States;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate shall be
determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue,
the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be payable and
the record dates for the determination of Holders to whom interest is
payable;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any interest on
Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than as provided in
Section 3.02);
(7) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within
which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Issuer,
pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof,
the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(9) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or
repay Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price
or prices at which and the period or periods within which and the terms
and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed,
purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(10) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 4.01 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02;
(11) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index
based on a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities of
the series are denominated, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
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(12) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a person who
is not a U.S. person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental
charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Issuer will have
the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional
amounts;
(13) any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents
or registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of
such series;
(14) any other events of default or covenants with respect to the
Securities of such series;
(15) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in the
form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary
for such Global Security or Securities;
(16) the terms and conditions, if any, pursuant to which the
Securities of the series are convertible into Common Stock of the
Issuer; and
(17) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant
to such resolution of the Board of Directors or Officers' Certificate or in any
such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the
terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to such a resolution of
the Board of Directors, such Officer's Certificate or in any such indenture
supplemental hereto.
SECTION 2.04. Authentication and Delivery of Securities. At any time
and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Issuer may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Issuer to the
Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and
deliver such Securities to or upon the written order of the Issuer (contained in
the Issuer Order referred to below in this Section), or pursuant to such
procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients as may be specified
from time to time by an Issuer Order. The maturity date, original issue date,
interest rate and any other terms of the Securities of such series may, if not
previously established by a Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate or indenture
supplemental hereto pursuant to Section 2.03, be determined by or pursuant to
such Issuer Order and procedures.
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If provided for in such procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize
authentication and delivery pursuant to oral instructions from the Issuer or its
duly authorized agent, which instructions shall be promptly confirmed in
writing. In authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities the Trustee
shall be entitled to receive (in the case of subparagraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 below
only at or before the time of the first request of the Issuer to the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series), and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, unless and until such documents have been
superseded or revoked:
(1) a copy of any resolution or resolutions of the Board of
Directors relating to such series, in each case certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Issuer;
(2) an executed supplemental indenture, if any;
(3) an Officers' Certificate setting forth the form and terms,
or the manner of establishing the terms, of the Securities as
required pursuant to Section 2.01 and 2.03, respectively and
prepared in accordance with Section 10.05;
(4) an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section
10.05, to the effect that
(a) the form or forms of such Securities have been
established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of
Directors or by a supplemental indenture as permitted by
Section 2.01 and 2.03 in conformity with the provisions of
this Indenture;
(b) in the case of an underwritten offering, the
terms of the Securities have been duly authorized and
established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture, and, in the case of a Periodic Offering, certain
terms of the Securities have been established pursuant to a
resolution of the Board of Directors, an Officers' Certificate
or a supplemental indenture in accordance with this Indenture,
and when such other terms as are to be established pursuant to
procedures set forth in an Issuer Order shall have been
established, all such terms will have been duly authorized by
the Issuer and will have been established in conformity with
the provisions of this Indenture;
(c) such Securities, when authenticated and delivered
by the Trustee and issued by the Issuer in the manner and
subject to
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any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Issuer;
(d) all laws and requirements in respect of the
execution and delivery by the Issuer of the Securities have
been complied with; and
(e) covering such other matters as the Trustee may
reasonably request.
(5) an Issuer Order requesting such authentication and setting
forth delivery instructions if the Securities are not to be
delivered to the Issuer, provided that, with respect to Securities
of a series subject to a Periodic Offering, (a) such Issuer Order
may be delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee prior to the delivery
to the Trustee of such Securities for authentication and delivery,
(b) the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such
series for original issue from time to time, in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding the aggregate principal amount
established for such series, pursuant to an Issuer Order or
pursuant to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be
specified from time to time by an Issuer Order, (c) the maturity
date or dates, original issue date or dates, interest rate or rates
and any other terms of Securities of such series shall be
determined by an Issuer Order or pursuant to such procedures and
(d) if provided for in such procedures, such Issuer Order may
authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or
electronic instructions from the Issuer or its duly authorized
agent or agents, which oral instructions shall be promptly
confirmed in writing;
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver
any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel,
determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Issuer or if the
Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or board of trustees, executive
committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees or Responsible Officers
shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability
to existing Holders or would affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities, this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 2.05. Execution of Securities. The Securities shall be signed
on behalf of the Issuer by both (a) the chairman of its Board of Directors or
any vice chairman of its Board of Directors or its president or any vice
president and (b) by its treasurer or any assistant treasurer or its secretary
or any assistant secretary, under its corporate seal which may, but need not, be
attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the
present or any future such
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officers. The seal of the Issuer may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and
may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of the
seal or any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of
any Security that has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the
Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Security so signed shall be
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Issuer, such
Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as
though the person who signed such Security had not ceased to be such officer of
the Issuer; and any Security may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such
persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Security, shall be the
proper officers of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and
delivery of this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 2.03 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more Global
Securities, then the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance
with this Section and the Issuer Order with respect to such series, authenticate
and deliver one or more Global Securities that (i) shall represent and shall be
denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all of the
Securities of such series having the same terms issued and not yet canceled,
(ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Security
or Securities or the nominee of such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the
Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary's instructions and
(iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: "Unless and
until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive
registered form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary to the nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to
the Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by the Depositary or any
such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
Depositary."
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.03 must, at the time
of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing
agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any
other applicable statute or regulation.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.05, unless and
until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive form, a
Global Security representing all or a portion of the Securities of a series may
not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such series to a
nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary
or
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another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to
a successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such successor
Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for any Securities of a series
represented by one or more Global Securities notifies the Issuer that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Securities or if at any
time the Depositary for such Securities shall no longer be eligible under this
Section 2.05, the Issuer shall appoint a successor Depositary eligible under
this Section 2.05 with respect to such Securities. If a successor Depositary
eligible under this Section 2.05 for such Securities is not appointed by the
Issuer within 90 days after the Issuer receives such notice or becomes aware of
such ineligibility, the Issuer's election pursuant to Section 2.03 that such
Securities be represented by one or more Global Securities shall no longer be
effective and the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officers' Certificate for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such
series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized
denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Global Security or Securities representing such Securities in exchange for
such Global Security or Securities.
The Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that
the Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more Global Securities
shall no longer be represented by a Global Security or Securities. In such event
the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order for
the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will
authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive registered
form without coupons, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security or Securities
representing such Securities, in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 with respect to
Securities represented by a Global Security, the Depositary for such Global
Security may surrender such Global Security in exchange in whole or in part for
Securities of the same series in definitive registered form on such terms as are
acceptable to the Issuer and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new Security or
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations as
requested by such Person, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and
in exchange for such Person's beneficial interest in the Global
Security; and
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(ii) to such Depositary a new Global Security in a denomination
equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the
surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of
Securities authenticated and delivered pursuant to clause (i) above.
Upon the exchange of a Global Security for Securities in definitive
registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, such Global
Security shall be canceled by the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the
Trustee. Securities in definitive registered form without coupons issued in
exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall be registered
in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such
Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer
or the Trustee. The Trustee or such agent shall deliver such Securities to or as
directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
SECTION 2.06. Certificate of Authentication. Only such Securities as
shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee upon any
Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security
so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that
the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.07. Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of
Interest. The Securities shall be issuable as registered securities without
coupons and in denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section
2.03. In the absence of any such specification with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and any multiple thereof. The Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or
otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the
officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with the approval of the
Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication, shall bear
interest, if any, from such date and shall be payable on the dates, in each
case, which shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.03.
The person in whose name any Security of any series is registered at
the close of business on any record date applicable to a particular series with
respect to any interest payment date for such series shall be entitled to
receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest payment date
notwithstanding any transfer or
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exchange of such Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such
interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Issuer shall default in
the payment of the interest due on such interest payment date for such series,
in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose
names Outstanding Securities for such series are registered at the close of
business on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business
Days prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by
notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Issuer to the holders of Securities
not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The term "record
date" as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for
payment of defaulted interest) shall mean the date specified as such in the
terms of the Securities of any particular series, or, if no such date is so
specified, if such interest payment date is the first day of a calendar month,
the fifteenth day of the next preceding calendar month or, if such interest
payment date is the fifteenth day of a calendar month, the first day of such
calendar month, whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
SECTION 2.08. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer will keep
or cause to be kept at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as
provided in Section 3.02 a register or registers in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will register, and will register
the transfer of, Securities as in this Article provided. Such register shall be
in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being
converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such
register or registers shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security of
any series at any such office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as
provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a new
Security or Securities of the same series in authorized denominations for a like
aggregate principal amount.
Any Security or Securities of any series may be exchanged for a
Security or Securities of the same series in other authorized denominations, in
an equal aggregate principal amount. Securities of any series to be exchanged
shall be surrendered at any office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for
the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, and the Issuer shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor the Security or
Securities of the same series which the Securityholder making the exchange shall
be entitled to receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All Securities presented for registration of transfer, exchange,
redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the Trustee) be
duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of
transfer in form
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satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly executed by, the holder or his
attorney duly authorized in writing.
The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or
registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any
such transaction.
The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of
(a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the
first mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be
redeemed, or (b) any Securities selected, called or being called for redemption
except, in the case of any Security where notice has been given that such
Security is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall
be valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to
the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
transfer or exchange.
SECTION 2.09. Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. In case any temporary or definitive Security shall become mutilated,
defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may
execute, and upon the written request of any officer of the Issuer, the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of the same series, bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the
mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and substitution for the Security
so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case, the applicant for a substitute
Security shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
indemnify and defend and to save each of them harmless and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, shall furnish evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security, the Issuer 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 (including the
fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. In case any Security
which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in
full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the
payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated
or defaced Security), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the
Issuer and to the Trustee and
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any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them
may require to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction,
loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee
and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security of any series issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security is
destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation
of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone and that substitute Security shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set
forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities of such series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All
Securities shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the
extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies
notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary
with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other
securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.10. Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof. All
Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or
exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking or analogous
fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or of the Trustee,
shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to the
Trustee, shall be canceled by it; and no Securities shall be issued in lieu
thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this
Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Securities held by it in
accordance with its customary procedures and deliver a certificate of
disposition to the Issuer. If the Issuer shall acquire any of the Securities,
such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the
indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 2.11. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form
satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be
issuable as registered Securities without coupons, of any authorized
denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such
series but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate
for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer with the
concurrence of the
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Trustee. Temporary Securities may contain such reference to any provisions of
this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be executed
by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and
in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive
Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Issuer shall execute and shall
furnish definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary Securities
of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge at each
office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to
Section 3.02, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for
such temporary Securities of such series a like aggregate principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
SECTION 2.12. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.03 for Securities of any series, interest on the
Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year of
twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 3
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer covenants
and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of
the Securities of such series at the place or places, at the respective times
and in the manner provided in such Securities. Each instalment of interest on
the Securities of any series may be paid by mailing checks for such interest
payable to or upon the written order of the holders of Securities entitled
thereto as they shall appear on the registry books of the Issuer.
SECTION 3.02. Offices for Payments, Etc. So long as any of the
Securities remain Outstanding, the Issuer will maintain in The City of New York,
the following for each series: an office or agency (a) where the Securities may
be presented for payment, (b) where the Securities may be presented for
registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture provided, (c)
where Securities may be surrendered for conversion and (d) where notices and
demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Securities or of this Indenture
may be served. The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the
location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof.
Unless otherwise specified in
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accordance with Section 2.03, the Issuer hereby initially designates the New
York Agency, as the office to be maintained by it for each such purpose. In case
the Issuer shall fail to so designate or maintain any such office or agency or
shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location
thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the
New York Agency.
SECTION 3.03. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee. The
Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee,
will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 5.09, a Trustee, so that there
shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series of Securities
hereunder.
SECTION 3.04. Paying Agents. Whenever the Issuer shall appoint a paying
agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series, it
will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument
in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section,
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such
series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or by any
other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the
benefit of the holders of the Securities of such series or of the
Trustee,
(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Issuer (or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to
make any payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of
such series when the same shall be due and payable, and
(c) that it will pay any such sums so held by it in trust to the
Trustee upon the Trustee's written request at any time during the
continuance of the failure referred to in clause (b) above.
The Issuer will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or
interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the paying agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such
paying agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any
failure to take such action.
If the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent with respect to the
Securities of any series, it will, on or before each due date of the principal
of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside, segregate and hold
in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Securities of such series a sum
sufficient to pay such
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principal or interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the
Trustee of any failure to take such action.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Issuer
may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with
respect to one or more or all series of Securities hereunder, or for any other
reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any
such series by the Issuer or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this
Section, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement
to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the provisions
of Section 9.03 and 9.04.
SECTION 3.05. Certificate of the Issuer. The Issuer will deliver to the
Trustee, on or before a date not more than 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Issuer ending after the date of this Indenture, a written statement
signed by the following officers (one of whom shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of the Issuer): the Chairman, the President or a
Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Comptroller,
an Assistant Comptroller, the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary of the
Issuer, stating whether or not, after a review under each signer's supervision
of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of the Issuer's performance
under this Indenture, to the best knowledge, based on such review, of the
signers thereof, the Issuer has fulfilled all of its obligations, conditions and
covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, and, if there has been a
default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, condition or covenant
specifying each default and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.06. Securityholders Lists. If and so long as the Trustee
shall not be the Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer
will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the holders of the
Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 (a) semi-annually not more than 15 days after each record date for the
payment of interest on such Securities, as hereinabove specified, as of such
record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.03 for
non-interest bearing securities in each year, and (b) at such other times as the
Trustee may request in writing, within thirty days after receipt by the Issuer
of any such request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished.
SECTION 3.07. Reports by the Issuer. The Issuer covenants to file with
the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is required to file the same with
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Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and
other reports which the Issuer may be required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or pursuant to Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 3.08. Reports by the Trustee. Any Trustee's report required
under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be transmitted on
or before July 15 in each year following the date hereof, so long as any
Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be dated as of a date convenient
to the Trustee no more than 60 nor less than 45 days prior thereto. At the time
it delivers such report, the Trustee shall deliver a copy thereof to the Issuer.
ARTICLE 4
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 4.01. Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity;
Waiver of Default. "Event of Default" with respect to Securities of any series
wherever used herein, means each one of the following events which shall have
occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any
of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due
and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;
or
(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal on
any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become
due and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or
otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund installment as and
when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the
Securities of such series; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Issuer in respect of the Securities of such series
(other than a covenant or warranty in respect of the Securities of such
series a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
this Section
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specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for
a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of all series affected thereby, a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(e) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer in an involuntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee or sequestrator (or similar official) of
the Issuer or for any substantial part of its property or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of the Issuer's affairs, and such decree or
order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(f) the Issuer shall commence a voluntary case under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect,
or consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case
under any such law, or consent to the appointment of or taking
possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee or
sequestrator (or similar official) of the Issuer or for any substantial
part of its property, or make any general assignment for the benefit of
creditors;
(g) an event of default, as defined in any indenture or instrument
evidencing or securing or under which the Issuer has at the date of
this Indenture or shall hereafter have outstanding, any Indebtedness in
an amount exceeding $25,000,000, which default shall involve (i) the
failure by the Issuer to make any payment when such Indebtedness is due
and payable after demand has been made and the passage of any
applicable grace period and such failure shall have continued for a
period of thirty days after written notice thereof to the Issuer and
the Trustee by the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of such series or (ii) a default in the
payment of interest, premium, principal or a default in the payment of
a sinking fund or redemption payment, which shall have resulted in such
Indebtedness having been accelerated so that the same shall be or
become due and payable prior to the date on which the same would
otherwise become due and payable, and such acceleration shall not be
stayed, rescinded or annulled within ten days after written notice
thereof to the Issuer and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series; provided,
however, that if such event of default
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under such indenture or instrument shall be remedied or cured by the
Issuer or be waived by the holders of such Indebtedness before any
judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been
obtained or entered, then the Event of Default hereunder by reason
thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon remedied, cured
or waived without further action upon the part of either the Trustee or
any of the holders of the Securities of such series; or
(h) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental
indenture or provided in or pursuant to the resolution of the Board of
Directors under which such series of Securities is issued or in the
form of Security for such series.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series occurs and is
continuing, then, and in each and every such case, unless the principal of all
of the Securities of such series shall have already become due and payable,
either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding hereunder (each such
series voting as a separate class) by notice in writing to the Issuer (and to
the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal (or,
if the Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series)
of all Securities of such series and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be
due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become
immediately due and payable.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that
if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the
terms thereof) of the Securities of any series shall have been so declared due
and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer shall
pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest upon all the Securities of such series and the
principal of any and all Securities of such series which shall have become due
otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and, to the
extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on
overdue installments of interest, at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified
in the Securities of such series to the date of such payment or deposit) and
such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the
Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result
of negligence or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under the
Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities which shall
have become
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due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as
provided herein--then and in every such case the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of such series, each series
voting as a separate class, then Outstanding, by written notice to the Issuer
and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to such series and
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or
rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default
or shall impair any right consequent thereon.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal of
any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and declared
due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and after such
declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for
all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be
due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of
the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such
acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all other amounts
owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such Original Issue
Discount Securities.
The Trustee shall not be charged with notice of any event of default
referred to in Section 4.01(g) unless (i) an officer of the Trustee assigned to
its Corporate Trustee Administration Department shall have actual knowledge
thereof or (ii) the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Issuer, the holder of any Debt referred to in Section 4.01(g) or the holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any series.
SECTION 4.02. Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt. The Issuer covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment
of any instalment of interest on any of the Securities of any series when such
interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall have
continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be made in the
payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the Securities of any
series when the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon maturity of
the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or by declaration or
otherwise--then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer will pay to the Trustee
for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series the whole amount
that then shall have become due and payable on all Securities of such series for
principal or interest, as the case may be (with interest to the date of such
payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of
interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the
case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such
series); and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
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sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and
all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a
result of its negligence or bad faith.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay the
principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the registered
holders, whether or not the principal of and interest on the Securities of such
series be overdue.
In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall
be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Issuer or other obligor upon such
Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Issuer or other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated, the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer or
any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States Code
or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor, or in case
of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other
obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of
the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of any 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 pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and
unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel,
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and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a
result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed
in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor
upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of
the Issuer or such other obligor,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the holders of the Securities of any series in any election
of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization,
liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or person
performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and
(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received
with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on
their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or
other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the
Securityholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that
the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the
Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each
predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel,
and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made,
by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of
negligence or bad faith and all other amounts due to the Trustee or any
predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section 5.06.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof on any trial or
other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the
expenses, liabilities incurred, disbursements and compensation of the Trustee,
each predecessor Trustee and
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their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the
holders of the Securities in respect of which such action was taken.
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 in respect to which such action was taken, and it shall not be
necessary to make any holders of such Securities parties to any such
proceedings.
SECTION 4.03. Application of Proceeds. Any moneys collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall be applied in
the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of
the distribution of such moneys on account of principal or interest, upon
presentation of the several Securities in respect of which monies have been
collected and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing
Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the
presented Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such
series in respect of which monies have been collected, including
reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and
all other amounts due to the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee
pursuant to Section 5.06;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become
and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the
Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of
the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue
installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities)
specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the
persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series
in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and
shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then
owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal
and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the
extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon
overdue installments of
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interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity
(in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the
Securities of such series; and in case such moneys shall be
insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the
Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and
interest or Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority of
principal over interest or Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield
to Maturity over principal, or of any instalment of interest over any
other instalment of interest, or of any Security of such series over
any other Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate of such
principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to Maturity; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the
Issuer or any other person lawfully entitled thereto.
SECTION 4.04. Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of Default has
occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or
equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
SECTION 4.05. Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. In
case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture
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 Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such
proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 4.06. Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No Holder of any
Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any
provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian
or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series
then Outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute
such action or proceedings
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in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such
reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after
its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to
institute any such action or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such
written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.09;
it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker
and Holder of every Security with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee,
that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series shall have any right in
any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture
to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holder of
Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any
other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all
Holders of Securities of the applicable series. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and
the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in
equity.
SECTION 4.07. Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute
Certain Suits. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any
provision of any Security, the right of any Holder of any Security to receive
payment of the principal of and interest on such Security on or after the
respective due dates expressed or provided for in 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 4.08. Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not
Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Sections 2.09 and 4.06, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and
continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein; and, subject to Section 4.06, every power and remedy given by this
Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised
from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or
by the Securityholders.
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SECTION 4.09. Control by Securityholders. The Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series affected (with each
series voting as a separate class) at the time Outstanding 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 with respect to the Securities of such series by this Indenture;
provided that such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law
and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further that (subject to the
provisions of Section 5.01) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to
follow any such direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall
determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or
if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, the executive committee
or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee shall
determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee
in personal liability or if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that
the actions or forebearances specified in or pursuant to such direction would be
unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all series
so affected not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood
that (subject to Section 5.01) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain
whether or not such actions or forebearances are unduly prejudicial to such
Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in its
discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.
SECTION 4.10. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to a declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Securities of any series as provided in
Section 4.01, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series at the time Outstanding (each such series voting as a
separate class) may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such
series waive any past default or Event of Default described in clause (d) or (g)
of Section 4.01 which relates to less than all series of Securities then
Outstanding, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder affected as
provided in Section 7.02. Prior to a declaration of acceleration of the maturity
of the Securities of any series as provided in Section 4.01, the Holders of
Securities of a majority in principal amount of all the Securities then
Outstanding (voting as one class) may on behalf of all Holders waive any past
default or Event of Default referred to in said clause (d) or (g) which relates
to all series of Securities then Outstanding, or described in clause (e) or (f)
of Section 4.01, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Security affected as provided in Section 7.02. In the case of any such waiver,
the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of each
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series affected shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 4.11. Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in
Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall give to the Securityholders of any
series, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on the registry books,
notice by mail of all defaults known to the Trustee which have occurred with
respect to such series, such notice to be transmitted within 90 days after the
occurrence thereof, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving
of such notice (the term "default" or "defaults" for the purposes of this
Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition which is, or with
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default); provided
that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of or
interest on any of the Securities of such series, or in the payment of any
sinking or purchase fund instalment with respect to the Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of
directors or trustees and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders of such series.
SECTION 4.12. Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of
Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the case of
any suit relating to or arising under clauses (d) or (g) of Section 4.01 (if the
suit relates to Securities of more than one but less than all series), 10% in
aggregate principal amount of Securities Outstanding affected thereby, or in the
case of any suit relating to or arising under clauses (d) or (g) (if the suit
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all the Securities then Outstanding), (e) or (f) of Section 4.01, 10% in
aggregate principal amount of all Securities Outstanding, or to any suit
instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or interest on any Security on or after the due date expressed in
such Security.
ARTICLE 5
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.01. Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During
Default; Prior to Default. With respect to the Holders of any series of
Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect
to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or
waived) the Trustee shall with respect to such series of Securities 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.
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 wilful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such
Events of Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations 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 the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any
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statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such statements, certificates or opinions
which by any provision 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) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(c) 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 pursuant to Section 4.09 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.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
The provisions of this Section 5.01 are in furtherance of and subject
to Sections 315 and 316 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
SECTION 5.02. Certain Rights of the Trustee. In furtherance of and
subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and subject to Section 5.01:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers' Certificate or
any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or
other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically
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prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the secretary
or an assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or Opinion
of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion
of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order
or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions
of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted
by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder and
after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, 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, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture,
note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in
writing so to do by the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all series affected
then Outstanding; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable
time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be
incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion
of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security
afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a
condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such
investigation shall be paid by the Issuer or, if paid by the Trustee or
any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer upon demand; and
(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 not regularly in its employ and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
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SECTION 5.03. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of
Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein and
in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be
taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility
for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representation as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the
Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 5.04. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities, etc. The Trustee
or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent and may otherwise deal with
the Issuer and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer
with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 5.05. Moneys Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 9.04 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or
applied as 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 mandatory provisions of law. Neither the Trustee nor any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any
moneys received by it hereunder.
SECTION 5.06. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior
Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time,
and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation (which shall not
be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of
an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of
all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ) except to the extent
any such expense, disbursement or advance may arise from its negligence or bad
faith. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
Indenture or the trusts hereunder and the performance of its duties hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating
any claim of liability in the premises, except to the extent such loss,
liability or expense is due to the negligence or bad faith of the Trustee or
such predecessor Trustee. The
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obligations of the Issuer under this Section to compensate and indemnify the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute additional Indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture. Such additional Indebtedness shall be a senior
claim to that of the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by
the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the holders
of particular Securities, and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such
senior claim.
SECTION 5.07. Right of Trustee to Rely on Officers' Certificate, etc.
Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, whenever in the administration of the trusts
of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter
be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the
part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the
absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full
warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the
provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 5.08. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The Trustee
for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all times be a corporation
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and which is
eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a Federal, State or
District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published.
SECTION 5.09. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at
any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by
giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer and by mailing notice thereof
by first class mail to Holders of the applicable series of Securities at their
last addresses as they shall appear on the Security register. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor
trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable series by written instrument
in duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of Directors, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor trustee or
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trustees. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to
any series and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of
such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of
the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of
Section 4.12, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may
thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe,
appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any series of
Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or
Securities of such series for at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by
any Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to
any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent,
or a receiver or liquidator 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, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors
of the Issuer, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so
removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to Section 315(e) of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six 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 with respect to such series. Such court may thereupon, after
such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and
appoint a successor trustee.
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(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of each series at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the
Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a successor
trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the
Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the
evidence provided for in Section 6.01 of the action in that regard taken by the
Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any
series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 5.09 shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
5.10.
SECTION 5.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 5.09 shall execute and
deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations
with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the
written request of the Issuer or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its
charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 9.04,
pay over to the successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder
and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any
such successor trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall,
nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected
by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of
Section 5.06.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor Trustee and each
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not retiring
shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, it being understood that nothing herein
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or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such trustees co-trustees of
the same trust and that each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
under separate indentures.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in
this Section 5.10, the Issuer shall mail notice thereof by first-class mail to
the Holders of Securities of any series for which such successor trustee is
acting as trustee at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security
register. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with
the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be
combined with the notice called for by Section 5.09. If the Issuer fails to mail
such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Issuer.
SECTION 5.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Trustee. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate
trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section
5.08, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor
hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such
certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of
such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee
shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication
of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any series in the
name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors
by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 5.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer.
Reference is made to Section 311 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
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ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 6.01. Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in
principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may be embodied in
and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed
by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing
any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the
Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article.
SECTION 6.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities; Record Date. Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, the execution of any
instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance
with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee
or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of
Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a certificate of the
registrar thereof. The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining
the identity of holders of Securities of any series entitled to vote or consent
to any action referred to in Section 6.01 which record date may be set at any
time or from time to time by notice to the Trustee, for any date or dates (in
the case of any adjournment or reconsideration) not more than 60 days nor less
than five days prior to the proposed date of such vote or consent, and
thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, only holders of
Securities of such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to so
vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent.
SECTION 6.03. Holders to Be Treated as Owners. The Issuer, the Trustee
and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in
whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such
series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security
shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing
thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal
of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security
and for all other purposes; and neither the Issuer nor the Trustee nor any agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
All such payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid,
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the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for
moneys payable upon any such Security.
SECTION 6.04. Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding. In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Issuer
or any other obligor on the Securities or by any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities shall be disregarded and deemed
not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for
the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on
any such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which the Trustee knows
are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to
such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or any other obligor upon
the Securities or any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by
or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor
on the Securities. In case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel
shall be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Trustee in
accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee, the Issuer shall
furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying
all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned or held by or for the
account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 5.01 and
5.02, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as
conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all
Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination.
SECTION 6.05. Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time prior to
(but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 6.01, of
the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the
serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial
numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of
holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such
Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or
substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of
whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security.
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the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection
with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and
the Holders of all the Securities affected by such action.
ARTICLE 7
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 7.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders. The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of
Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such
action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined
in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee may from
time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee
as security for the Securities of one or more series any property or
assets;
(b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Issuer, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer
pursuant to Article Eight;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions as its Board of Directors and
the Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders of
Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting
the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this
Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in respect of any such
additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such
supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace
after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed
in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate
enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may limit the remedies
available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may limit the
right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series to waive such an Event of Default;
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(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, which may be
defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or
in any supplemental indenture; or to make such other provisions in
regard to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under
any supplemental indenture as the Board of Directors may deem necessary
or desirable; provided that no such action shall adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of the Securities in any material respect;
(e) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03;
(f) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights, if
any, of Holders of Securities pursuant to the requirements of Article
14 hereof; and
(g) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.10.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder,
but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section
may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the Securities at
the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 7.02.
SECTION 7.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article Six) of the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, the Issuer,
when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Trustee may,
from time to time and at any time, 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 or of any
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supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders
of the Securities of each such series; provided, that no such supplemental
indenture shall (a) extend the final maturity of any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of
interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof or reduce
the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be
due and payable upon an acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section
4.01 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02, or
impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the
payment thereof or, if the Securities provide therefor, any right of repayment
at the option of the Securityholder without the consent of the Holder of each
Security so affected, or adversely affect the right to convert any security as
provided in Article Fourteen or modify the provisions of this Indenture with
respect to the subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the
Holders, or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities of any series, the
consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture,
without the consent of the Holders of each Security so affected.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of
the holders of Securities of any other series.
Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a copy of a resolution
of the Board of Directors certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary
of the Issuer authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and
upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders
as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Issuer
shall mail a notice thereof by first class mail to the Holders of Securities of
each series affected thereby at their addresses as they shall appear on the
registry books of the
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Issuer, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture. Any failure of the Issuer to mail such notice, or any defect therein,
shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such
supplemental indenture.
SECTION 7.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and
the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of Securities of
each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments,
and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and
be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and
all purposes.
SECTION 7.04. Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to
the provisions of Sections 5.01 and 5.02, may receive an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article Seven complies with the applicable provisions
of this Indenture.
SECTION 7.05. Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as
to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the
Trustee shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any
modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared by the Issuer, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in
exchange for the Securities of such series then Outstanding.
SECTION 7.06. Subordination Unimpaired. No supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article shall adversely affect the rights of any
holder of Senior Indebtedness under Article Thirteen without the consent of such
holder.
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ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 8.01. Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms. The
Issuer covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any other
corporation or sell or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any
Person, unless (i) either the Issuer shall be the continuing corporation, or the
successor corporation or the Person which acquires by sale or conveyance
substantially all the assets of the Issuer (if other than the Issuer) shall be a
corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
State thereof and shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all the Securities, according to their tenor, and
the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and
conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Issuer and shall
have provided for conversion rights in accordance with Section 14.11, by
supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and
delivered to the Trustee by such corporation, and (ii) the Issuer or such
successor corporation, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such
merger or consolidation, or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the
performance of any such covenant or condition of this Indenture.
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. In case of any such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and following such an assumption by
the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Issuer, with the same effect as if it had been named herein.
Such successor corporation may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its
own name or in the name of the Issuer prior to such succession any or all of the
Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by
the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
corporation instead of the Issuer and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and
any Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be
signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All of the Securities so
issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this
Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with
the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at
the date of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
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In the event of any such sale or conveyance (other than a conveyance by
way of lease) the Issuer or any successor corporation which shall theretofore
have become such in the manner described in this Article shall be discharged
from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and
may be liquidated and dissolved.
SECTION 8.03. Opinion of Counsel to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to
the provisions of Sections 5.01 and 5.02, may receive an Opinion of Counsel,
prepared in accordance with Section 10.05, as conclusive evidence that any such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, and
any such liquidation or dissolution, complies with the applicable provisions of
this Indenture.
ARTICLE 9
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 9.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. If at any time
(a) the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and
interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder (other than
Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) as and when the same
shall have become due and payable, or (b) the Issuer shall have delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series theretofore authenticated
(other than any Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost
or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section
2.09) or (c) (i) all the Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their
terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be called for
redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
the giving of notice of redemption, and (ii) the Issuer shall have irrevocably
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the entire
amount in cash (other than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any paying agent to
the Issuer in accordance with Section 9.04) or direct obligations of the United
States of America, backed by its full faith and credit ("U.S. Government
Obligations"), maturing as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such
times as will insure the availability of cash sufficient (in case U.S.
Government Obligations have been so deposited, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee) to pay at maturity or upon
redemption all Securities of such series (other than any Securities of such
series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been
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replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest due or to become due
on or prior to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any such
case, the Issuer shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Issuer with respect to Securities of such series, then this
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to Securities of such
series (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange and
conversion, if any, of Securities of such series, and the Issuer's right of
optional redemption, if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities, (iii) rights of holders to receive payments of
principal thereof and interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates
therefor (but not upon acceleration) and remaining rights of the holders to
receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations
and immunities of the Trustee hereunder (v) the rights of the Securityholders of
such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited
with the Trustee payable to all or any of them and (vi) the obligations of the
Issuer under Section 3.02), and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer accompanied
by an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such series;
provided, that the rights of Holders of the Securities to receive amounts in
respect of principal of and interest on the Securities held by them shall not be
delayed longer than required by then-applicable mandatory rules or policies of
any securities exchange upon which the Securities are listed. The Issuer agrees
to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and
properly incurred and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter
reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this
Indenture or the Securities of such series.
SECTION 9.02. Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of
Securities. Subject to Section 9.04, all moneys deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 9.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it to the
payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Issuer
acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of
such series for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been
deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for
principal and interest; but such money need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 9.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or any defeasance under
Article Twelve with respect to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by
any paying agent under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such
series of Securities shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid
to the
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Trustee and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 9.04. Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent
Unclaimed for Two Years. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any
paying agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of
any series and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date
upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall,
upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by
mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for such series or such paying
agent, and the Holder of the Security of such series shall, unless otherwise
required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed
property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such
Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any
paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease provided,
however, that the Trustee or such paying agent, before being required to make
any such repayment, may at the expense of the Issuer cause to be published once,
in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
and State of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after
a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Issuer.
ARTICLE 10
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.01. Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of
Issuer Exempt from Individual Liability. No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any
Security, or because of any Indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against
any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future stockholder,
officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor, either directly
or through the Issuer or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or
constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal
or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived
and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the holders thereof and as
part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.
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SECTION 10.02. Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties
and Securityholders. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, expressed
or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or
corporation, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the Holders
of the Securities, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all such
covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and
their successors and of the Holders of the Securities.
SECTION 10.03. Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture. All
the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained
by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 10.04. Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and
Securityholders. Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture
is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders
of Securities to or on the Issuer may be given or served by being deposited
postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided
herein) addressed (until another address of the Issuer is filed by the Issuer
with the Trustee) to Murphy Oil Corporation, 200 Peach Street, P.O. Box 7000, El
Dorado, Arkansas 71731-7000. Any notice, direction, request or demand by the
Issuer or any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if in writing and by being
deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically
provided herein) addressed to the Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trustee Administration Department.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall
be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled thereto, at his
last address as it appears in the Security register. 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.
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.
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In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer and
Securityholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any
provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such
notice.
SECTION 10.05. Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the Issuer
to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture,
the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent 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 have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture (other than the certificate required by Section
3.05) shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he 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 and (d) a
statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in
the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any
certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of
the Issuer, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by
an officer of officers of the Issuer, unless such counsel knows that the
certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the matters
upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are
erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are
erroneous.
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Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer or of
counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or
opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is
independent.
SECTION 10.06. Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. If the
date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any series or
the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Security shall not be a
Business Day, then payment of interest or principal 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 the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption
or repayment, and no interest shall accrue on the payment so deferred for the
period after such date.
SECTION 10.07. Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by or with another
provision (an "incorporated provision") included in this Indenture by operation
of Sections 310 to 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, such
imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.
SECTION 10.08. New York Law to Govern. This Indenture and each Security
shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and
for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State,
except as may otherwise be required by mandatory provisions of law.
SECTION 10.09. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 10.10. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.
SECTION 10.11. Separability Clause. In case any provision of this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
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validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any be affected or impaired thereby.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable before
their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a
series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03 for
Securities of such series.
SECTION 11.02. Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. Notice of
redemption to the Holders of Securities of any series to be redeemed as a whole
or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by mailing notice of such
redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days and not more
than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to such Holders of
Securities of such series at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the
registry books. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall
be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in the notice
to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption as a whole
or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption
of any other Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify the
principal amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be
redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or
places of payment, that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of
such Securities, that such redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional
sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, that interest accrued to the date
fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such notice and that on and
after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will
cease to accrue. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only
the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption,
upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
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The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at
the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.
On or prior to the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its
own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section
3.04) an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the
Securities of such series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption
price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If less
than all the Outstanding Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Issuer
will deliver to the Trustee at least 70 days prior to the date on which notice
of redemption is to be issued an Officers' Certificate stating the aggregate
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair,
Securities of such Series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may be
redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such series selected for
partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all
purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any series shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 11.03. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If notice
of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of
Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and
at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together
with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on and after said
date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Securities at the
redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the
Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to
accrue and, except as provided in Sections 5.05 and 9.04, such Securities shall
cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit
or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in
respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price
thereof and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation
and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice,
said Securities or the specified portions thereof
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shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price,
together with interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption;
provided that any semiannual payment of interest becoming due on or prior to the
date fixed for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities
registered as such on the relevant record date subject to the terms and
provisions of Section 2.04 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly
provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security) borne by the Security.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order
of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or
Securities of such series , of authorized denominations, in principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
SECTION 11.04. Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for Redemption. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for
selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate
number in a written statement signed by an authorized officer of the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice
of redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not
pledged or hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically
identified in such written statement directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer.
SECTION 11.05. Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. The minimum amount
of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any
payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities
of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". The
date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein referred to as the
"sinking fund payment date".
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment
with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its option
(a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore purchased or
otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the mandatory sinking
fund) by the
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Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so
credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except as aforesaid) by
the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to Section
2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking fund payments (not previously so
credited) made pursuant to this Section, (c) receive credit for Securities of
such series (not previously so credited) redeemed by the Issuer through any
optional redemption provision contained in the terms of such series or (d) which
have been converted into Common Stock or otherwise acquired by the Issuer
pursuant to the terms of such Securities. Securities so delivered or credited
shall be received or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption
price specified in such Securities.
On or before the sixtieth day next preceding each sinking fund payment
date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee a written statement
(which need not contain the statements required by Section 10.05) signed by an
authorized officer of the Issuer (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory
sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be
satisfied by credit of Securities of such series, (b) stating that none of the
Securities of such series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no
defaults in the payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such
series have occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing
and (d) stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make
an optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so,
specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer
intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any
Securities of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the
Trustee in order for the Issuer to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid
which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such written statement
(or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee). Such written
statement shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the Trustee the Issuer
shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash payments or payments
therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding sinking fund
payment date. Failure of the Issuer, on or before any such sixtieth day, to
deliver such written statement and Securities specified in this paragraph, if
any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on and as of such
date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the mandatory sinking fund
payment for such series due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date
shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to deliver or credit
Securities of such series in respect thereof and (ii) that the Issuer will make
no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series as provided in this
Section.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or both)
to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus any
unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall
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exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Issuer shall so request) with respect to
the Securities of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such
series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to
the date fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less and the
Issuer makes no such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in excess
of $50,000 is available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in
Section 11.02, for redemption on such sinking fund payment date a sufficient
principal amount of Securities of such series to absorb said cash, as nearly as
may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform the Issuer of
the serial numbers of the Securities of such series (or portions thereof) so
selected. The Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer (or the
Issuer, if it shall so request the Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of
redemption of the Securities of such series to be given in substantially the
manner provided in Section 11.02 (and with the effect provided in Section 11.03)
for the redemption of Securities of such series in part at the option of the
Issuer. The amount of any sinking fund payments not so applied or allocated to
the redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to the next cash
sinking fund payment for such series and, together with such payment, shall be
applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Any and all sinking
fund moneys held on the stated maturity date of the Securities of any particular
series (or earlier, if such maturity is accelerated), which are not held for the
payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied,
together with other moneys, if necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the
payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities of such series at
maturity.
On or prior to each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall pay to
the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all interest
accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed on such
sinking fund payment date.
The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities of
a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption of Securities
for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the continuance of a
default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any Event of Default
except that, where the mailing of notice of redemption of any Securities shall
theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall redeem or cause to be redeemed
such Securities, provided that it shall have received from the Issuer a sum
sufficient for such redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking
fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall
occur, and any moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the
continuance of such default or Event of Default, be deemed to have been
collected under Article Four and held for the payment of all such Securities. In
case such Event of Default shall have
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been waived as provided in Section 4.10 or the default cured on or before the
sixtieth day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys
shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date in
accordance with this Section to the redemption of such Securities.
ARTICLE 12
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 12.01. Issuer's Option to Effect Defeasance. The Issuer may at
its option, by Board Resolution, at any time, elect to defease the Issuer's
obligations under the Outstanding Securities of any series and this Indenture in
accordance with either Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article Twelve. Notwithstanding any such
election, the terms of the Securities of such series shall remain in full force
and effect.
SECTION 12.02. Defeasances and Discharge. Upon the Issuer's exercise of
the option set forth in Section 12.01 applicable to this Section, and after the
expiration of the 90-day (or other) period referred to in clause (6)(ii) of
Section 12.04, the Issuer shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the
date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance").
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Issuer shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding
Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under
the Securities of such series and this Indenture insofar as the Securities of
such series are concerned (and the Trustee, upon an Issuer Order and at the
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same),
except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of holders of Outstanding Securities of
such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 12.04
and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the
principal of and interest on the Securities of such series when such payments
are due, (B) the Issuer's obligations with respect to such Securities of such
series under Sections 2.08, 2.09 and 3.02, (C) the rights, powers, trusts,
duties, and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, including but not limited to
Article Five, (D) the Issuer's right of optional redemption, if any, (E) the
rights of Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, and (F)
this Article Twelve. Subject to compliance with this Article Twelve, the Issuer
may exercise its option under this Section 12.02 notwithstanding the prior
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exercise of its option under Section 12.03 with respect to the Securities of
such series.
SECTION 12.03. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Issuer's exercise of the
option set forth in Section 12.01 applicable to this Section, and after the
expiration of the 90-day (or other) period referred to in clause (6)(ii) of
Section 12.04, the Issuer shall be released from its obligations under Sections
? and ?, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any series on and after
the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant
defeasance"). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series, the Issuer may omit to
comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
limitation set forth in any such Section, whether directly or indirectly by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any
reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other
document, and such omission to comply shall not constitute a default or Event of
Default under Section 4.01(d), but, except as specified above, the remainder of
this Indenture and the Securities of such series shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 12.04. Conditions to Defeasance. The following shall be the
conditions to application of either Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 to the
Outstanding Securities of any series.
(1) The Issuer shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of
making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the holders of Securities of
such series (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations
which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest, if any,
in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not
later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in each case, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to
the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the
Trustee to pay and discharge the principal of and interest, if any, on
the Outstanding Securities of such series on the stated maturity of
such principal or interest or earlier date of redemption.
(2) No Event of Default or event which after notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit.
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(3) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee for the Securities of such series to have a conflicting
interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 with respect to any Securities of the Issuer.
(4) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be permitted by,
and shall not result in breach or violation of, or constitute a default
under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the
Issuer is a party or by which it is bound.
(5) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause any
Securities of such series then listed on any registered national
securities exchange under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, to be delisted.
(6) In the case of an election under Section 12.02, the Issuer
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating (i)
that the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling to the effect that, and based thereon
such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding
Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner
and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance
had not occurred, and (ii) that after the passage of 90 days (or such
other period of time as then required by the non-insider preference
provisions of any applicable federal bankruptcy laws) following the
deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws
affecting creditors' rights generally, and (iii) that there would not
occur any violation of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
on the part of the Issuer, the trust funds representing such deposit or
the Trustee as a result of such deposit and the related exercise of the
Issuer's election under this Article Twelve.
(7) In the case of an election under Section 12.03, the Issuer
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a
result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal
income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not
occurred. Such Opinion shall also cover the matters referred to in
clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 12.4(6).
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(8) The Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an irrevocable
Issuer Order to apply the monies so deposited towards payment of all
indebtedness on the Securities of such series at their stated maturity
or earlier date of redemption, and an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided
for relating to either the defeasance under Section 12.02 or the
covenant defeasance under Section 12.03 (as the case may be) have been
complied with.
SECTION 12.05. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be
Held in Trust; Reinstatement; Miscellaneous. Subject to the provisions of
Section 9.04, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.04 in respect of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities of such series and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent
(including the Issuer acting as its own paying agent), as the Trustee may
determine, to the holders of Securities of such series, of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal and interest, if any, but such money
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Issuer shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 9.01 or 12.04 or the principal and interest
received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which
by law is for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such
series.
If the Trustee is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government
Obligations in accordance with Section 9.01 or 12.04 by reason of any legal
proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental
authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the
Issuer's obligations under this Indenture and the Securities of such series
shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to
Section 9.01 or 12.04; provided that if the Issuer has made any payment of
principal of or interest on any Securities of such series because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuer shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of such Securities of such series to receive such payment from
the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee.
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ARTICLE 13
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 13.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness. The
Issuer covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by acceptance
thereof, whether upon original issue or upon transfer or assignment, likewise
covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set
forth, the payment of the principal of and interest on each and all of the
Securities is hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 13.02. Payment over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. of the
Issuer. In the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding in
connection therewith, relative to the Issuer or to its creditors, as such, or to
its property, and in the event of any voluntary liquidation, dissolution or
other winding up of the Issuer, whether or not involving insolvency or
bankruptcy, then the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive
payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all
Senior Indebtedness before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive
any payment on account of principal of or interest on the Securities, and to
that end (but subject to the power of a court of competent jurisdiction to make
other equitable provision reflecting the rights conferred by the provisions of
this Article upon the Senior Indebtedness and the holders thereof with respect
to the Securities and the Holders thereof by a lawful plan of reorganization
under applicable bankruptcy law) the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be
entitled to receive any payment or distribution of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities, which may be payable or deliverable in
any such case or proceeding in respect of the Securities, except securities of
the Issuer which are subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness then outstanding.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security shall have received any payment or distribution of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (other than as
aforesaid), before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full or payment thereof
provided for, and if such fact shall then have been made known to the Trustee
or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment or
distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, agent or other Person
making payment or distribution of assets or securities of the Issuer for
application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the
extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full,
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after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the
holders Senior Indebtedness.
In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable before
their final maturity because of the occurrence of an Event of Default (under
circumstances when the provisions of the foregoing paragraph shall not be
applicable), the holders of the Senior Indebtedness outstanding at the time such
Securities become due and payable because of such occurrence of an Event of
Default shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to
become due or in respect of all Senior Indebtedness before the Holders of the
Securities are entitled to receive any payment on account of the principal of or
interest on the Securities.
The consolidation of the Issuer with, or the merger of the Issuer into,
another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of the Issuer following
the conveyance or transfer of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to another corporation upon the terms and conditions set forth in
Article Eight shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization for the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall,
as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the
conditions set forth in Article Eight.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 5.06.
SECTION 13.03. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default in
Payment.
(a) In the event and during the continuation of any default in the
payment of principal of or interest on any Senior Indebtedness beyond any
applicable period of grace, unless and until such default in payment shall have
been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, or (b) in the event any
judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default in
payment, then no payment of principal of or interest on the Securities shall be
made by the Issuer; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall
prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article
Eleven by means of Securities redeemed or acquired prior to such default in
payment or by means of conversion Securities.
SECTION 13.04. Payment Permitted If No Default. Nothing contained in
this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall
prevent (a) the Issuer, at any time except during the pendency of any case or
proceeding, or any dissolution or other winding up referred to in Section 13.02
or under the
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other conditions described in Section 13.02 or the conditions described in
Section 13.03 from making payments at any time of principal of or interest on
the Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited
with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of or
interest on the Securities if, at the time of such application, the Trustee did
not have knowledge that such payment would have been prohibited by the
provisions of this Article.
SECTION 13.05. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the
Securities shall be subrogated (to the extent of the payments or distributions
made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of
this Article) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to
receive payments or distributions from the Issuer applicable to the Senior
Indebtedness until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments
or distributions to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness to which the Holders
of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee,
shall, as between the Issuer, its creditors other than holders of Senior
Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or
distribution by the Issuer to or on account of the Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 13.06. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The
provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on the one hand,
and the holders of Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand. Nothing contained in
this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to
or shall impair, as between the Issuer and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders of the Securities the principal of and interest on the Securities as and
when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is
intended to or shall effect the relative rights against the Issuer of the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Issuer other than the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or
the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any,
under this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash,
property or securities of the Issuer otherwise payable or deliverable to the
Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 13.07. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. Each Holder of a
Security by acceptance thereof, whether upon original issue or upon transfer or
assignment, authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action
as
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may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
SECTION 13.08. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. No right of any
present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of the Issuer or by any act or failure to act,
in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Issuer with
the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph,
the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Holders of the Securities, without
incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities and without impairing
or releasing the subordination provided in this Article or the obligations of
the Holders of the Securities to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, do any
one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment
of, or renew or alter, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in
any manner Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any
agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for
the collection of Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Issuer and any other Person.
SECTION 13.09. Notice to Trustee. The Issuer shall give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Issuer which would prohibit the
making of any payment of money to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities
pursuant to the provisions of this Article. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant
to the provisions of this Article, unless and until a responsible officer of the
Trustee shall have received at its Corporate Trust Office written notice thereof
from the Issuer or a holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any
trustee therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.01, shall be entitled in all
respects to assume that no such facts exist.
Subject to the provisions of Section 5.01, the Trustee shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a
trustee on behalf of such
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holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior
Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf of any such holder. In the event that the
Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect
to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request
such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as
to the amount of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which
such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any
other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article, and if
such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment.
SECTION 13.10. Reliance on Certificate of Liquidating Agent. Upon any
payment or distribution referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.01, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled
to rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction
in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation reorganization,
dissolution, winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a
certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, custodian,
receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making
such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of
Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other
indebtedness of the Issuer, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or
amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to
this Article.
SECTION 13.11. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee's duties to holders of Senior
Indebtedness are limited to those specifically set forth in this Indenture and
no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against
the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in
good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the
Issuer or to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
ARTICLE 14
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 14.01. Applicability; Conversion Privilege and Conversion
Price. Securities of any series which are convertible into Common Stock shall
be convertible in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified
as
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contemplated by Section 2.03 for Securities of any series) in accordance with
this Article.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article
Fourteen, at the option of the Holder thereof, any Security or any portion of
the principal amount thereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000
may be converted at the principal amount thereof, (or, with respect to Original
Issue Discount Securities, at the amount determined pursuant to Section 2.03),
or of such portion thereof, into fully paid and nonassessable shares (calculated
as to each conversion to the nearest one-hundredth of a share) of Common Stock,
at the Conversion Price, determined as hereinafter provided, in effect at the
time of conversion. Such conversion right shall expire at the close of business
on the date specified for Securities of such Series. In case a Security or
portion thereof is called for redemption, such conversion right in respect of
the Security or portion so called shall expire at the close of business on the
date fixed for redemption, unless the Issuer defaults in making the payment due
upon redemption.
The price at which shares of Common Stock shall be delivered upon
conversion (herein called the "Conversion Price") shall be the price specified
in relation to Securities of such series pursuant to Section 2.03. The
Conversion Price shall be adjusted in certain instances as provided in
paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (g) of Section 14.04.
SECTION 14.02. Exercise of Conversion Privilege. In order to exercise
the conversion privilege, the Holder of any Security to be converted shall
surrender such Security, together with the conversion notice duly executed, at
any office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose pursuant to
Section 3.02, accompanied by written notice to the Issuer at such office or
agency that the Holder elects to convert such Security or, if less than the
entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, the portion thereof to be
converted. Securities or portions thereof surrendered for conversion during the
period from the close of business on any regular record date next preceding any
interest payment date to the opening of business on such interest payment date
shall (unless such Securities or portions thereof have been called for
redemption on a redemption date within such period) be accompanied by payment to
the Issuer or its order, in New York Clearing House funds or other funds
acceptable to the Issuer, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such
interest payment date on the principal amount of Securities or portions thereof
being surrendered for conversion. No payment or adjustment shall be made upon
any conversion on account of any interest accrued on the Securities surrendered
for conversion or, except as provided in Section 14.04, on account of any
dividends on the Common Stock issued upon conversion.
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Securities shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to
the close of business on the day of surrender of such Securities for conversion
in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and at such time the rights of the
Holders of such Securities as Holders shall cease, and the Person or Persons
entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be treated
for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Common Stock at such
time. As promptly as practicable on or after the conversion date, the Issuer
shall issue and shall deliver at such office or agency a certificate or
certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as
provided in Section 14.03.
In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon such
conversion the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or
Securities of authorized denominations in aggregate principal amount equal to
the unconverted portion of the principal amount of such Security.
SECTION 14.03. Fractions of Shares. No fractional shares of Common
Stock shall be issued upon conversion of Securities. If more than one Security
shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number
of full shares which shall be issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed
on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified
portions thereof) so surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common
Stock which would otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security or
Securities (or specified portions thereof), the Issuer shall pay a cash
adjustment in respect of such fraction in an amount equal to the same fraction
of the market price (determined as provided in the last sentence of paragraph
(f) of Section 14.04) at the close of business on the day of conversion.
SECTION 14.04. Adjustment of Conversion Price.
(a) In case the Issuer shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on any class of capital stock of the Issuer in Common Stock, the
Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion
Price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and
the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution,
such reduction to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of
this paragraph (a), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding
shall not include
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shares held in the treasury of the Issuer but shall include shares issuable in
respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common
Stock. The Issuer will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares
of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Issuer.
(b) In case the Issuer shall issue rights or warrants to all holders
of its Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the market price (determined as provided in
paragraph (f) of this Section) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants, the
Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for such determination shall be reduced by multiplying such
Conversion Price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed
for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the
aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so
offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such market price and the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the
close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of
shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such reduction
to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day
following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this
paragraph (b), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding
shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Issuer but shall include
shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of
shares of Common Stock. The Issuer will not issue any rights or warrants in
respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Issuer.
(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided
into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and, conversely,
in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined into a smaller
number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in effect at the opening
of business on the day following the day upon which such combination becomes
effective shall be proportionately increased, such reduction or increase, as the
case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes
effective.
(d) In case the Issuer shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets
(including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in
paragraph (b) of this
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Section, any dividend or distribution paid in cash out of the retained earnings
of the Issuer and any dividend or distribution referred to in paragraph (a) of
this Section), the Conversion Price shall be adjusted so that the same shall
equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect
immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the market price per share (determined
as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section) of the Common Stock on the date
fixed for such determination, reduced by the then fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution filed with the Trustee) of the portion of
the assets or evidence of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock and the denominator shall be such market price per share of the
Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.
(e) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including
other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a consolidation or
merger to which Section 14.11 applies) shall be deemed to involve (a) a
distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all holders of Common
Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be"the
date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution" and "the date fixed for such determination") within the meaning of
paragraph (d) of this Section, and (b) a subdivision or combination, as the case
may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to
such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be
deemed to be "the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective" or "the day
upon which such combination becomes effective", as the case may be, and "the day
upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective" within the meaning
of paragraph (c) of this Section).
(f) For the purpose of any computation under paragraphs (b) and (d) of
this Section, the market price on any date shall be deemed to be the average of
the daily market prices for the ten consecutive Business Days selected by the
Issuer commencing not less than ten nor more than 80 Business Days before the
day in question. The closing price for each day shall be the last reported sales
price regular way on the composite tape or, in case no such reported sale takes
place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked prices
regular way, in either case on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common
Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on such Exchange, on the principal
national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to
trading or, if not
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listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the average
of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange
member firm selected from time to time by the Issuer for that purpose.
(g) The Issuer may make such reductions in the Conversion Price, in
addition to those required by paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section,
as it considers to be advisable in order that any event treated for Federal
income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not be taxable
to the recipients.
SECTION 14.05. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price. Whenever
the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein provided:
(a) the Issuer shall compute the adjusted Conversion Price in
accordance with Section 14.04 and shall prepare a certificate signed by
the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller or an Assistant
Controller of the Issuer setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price
and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment
is based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed with the
Trustee and at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of
conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 3.02; and
(b) a notice stating that the Conversion Price has been adjusted
and setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price shall forthwith be
required, and as soon as practicable after it is required, such notice
shall be prepared by the Issuer, filed with the Trustee and mailed by
the Issuer to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear
in the Security Register.
SECTION 14.06. Notice of Certain Corporate Action.
In case:
(a) the Issuer shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution)
on Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of its retained
earnings; or
(b) the Issuer shall authorize the granting to the holders of
Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights; or
(c) of any reclassification of the Common Stock (other than a
subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of Common Stock),
or of any consolidation or merger to which the Issuer is a party and
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which approval of any stockholders of the Issuer is required, or of the
sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Issuer; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or
winding up of the Issuer;
then the Issuer shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and at each office or
agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities pursuant to
Section 3.02, and shall cause to be mailed to all Holders at their last
addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register, at least 20 days (or
ten days in any case specified in clause (a) or (b) above) prior to the
applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x)
the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend,
distribution, rights or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date
as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such
dividend, distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, or (y) the date
on which such reclassification, liquidation or winding up is expected to become
effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock
of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for
securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
The failure to give notice required by this Section or any defect therein shall
not affect the legality or validity of any dividend, distribution, rights,
warrants, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up, or the vote on any such action.
SECTION 14.07. Issuer to Reserve Common Stock. The Issuer shall at all
times reserve and keep available, free from pre-emptive rights, out of its
authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting the
conversion of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock then
issuable upon the conversion of all outstanding Securities.
SECTION 14.08. Taxes on Conversions. The Issuer will pay any and all
transfer taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares
of Common Stock on conversion of Securities pursuant thereto. The Issuer shall
not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name
other than that of the Holder of the Security or Securities to be converted, and
no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the Person requesting
such issue has paid to the Issuer the amount of any such tax, or has established
to the satisfaction of the Issuer that such tax has been paid.
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SECTION 14.09. Covenant as to Common Stock. The Issuer covenants that
all shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion of Securities
will upon issue be fully paid and nonassessable.
SECTION 14.10. Cancellation of Converted Securities. All Securities
delivered for conversion shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and
the Trustee shall dispose of the same as provided in Section 2.10.
SECTION 14.11. Provisions in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of
Assets. In case of any consolidation of the Issuer with, or merger of the Issuer
into, any other corporation, any merger of another corporation into the Issuer
(other than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion,
exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Issuer) or
any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer,
the corporation formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or
which acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the
Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security then
outstanding shall have the right thereafter, during the period such Security
shall be convertible as specified in Section 14.01, to convert such Security
only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable
upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock of the Issuer into which such Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer,
assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Issuer (i) is not a corporation with
which the Issuer consolidated or into which the Issuer merged or which merged
into the Issuer or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be
("constituent corporation"), or an Affiliate of a constituent corporation and
(ii) failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount
of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation,
merger, sale or transfer (provided that if the kind or amount of securities,
cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or
transfer is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Issuer held
immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by others than
a constituent corporation or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such
rights of election shall not have been exercised ("non-electing share"), then
for the purpose of this Section the kind and amount of securities, cash and
other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by
each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable
per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). Such supplemental
indenture shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the
effective date of such supplemental indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as
may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article. The above
provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive consolidations,
mergers, sales or transfers.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first written above.
MURPHY OIL CORPORATION
By
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[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
By
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[NAME OF TRUSTEE],
as Trustee
By
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[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest:
By
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STATE OF ARKANSAS )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF _______________ )
On this day of before me personally came
to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that he resides at
that he is a of MURPHY OIL CORPORATION, one of
the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he
knows the corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said
instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the
Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by
like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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Notary Public
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STATE OF ______________)
) ss.:
COUNTY OF _____________)
On this day of before me personally came
to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose
and say that he resides at
that he is a of , one of the
corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows
the corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument
is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like
authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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Notary Public
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