EXHIBIT 4.b.i
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MASCO CORPORATION,
ISSUER
AND
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
TRUSTEE
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Indenture
Dated as of February 12, 2001
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Reconciliation and tie(1) between Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and
Indenture, dated as of February 12, 2001
between
Masco Corporation, Issuer
and
Bank One Trust Company, NA, Trustee
TRUST INDENTURE INDENTURE
ACT SECTION SECTION
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Section 310(a)(1)............................................ 6.09
(a)(2).................................................... 6.09
(a)(3).................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4).................................................... Not Applicable
(b)....................................................... 6.08
.......................................................... 6.10
Section 311(a)............................................... 6.13
(b)....................................................... 6.13
(b)(2).................................................... 7.03(a)(ii)
Section 312(a)............................................... 7.01
.......................................................... 7.02(a)
(b)....................................................... 7.02(b)
(c)....................................................... 7.02(c)
Section 313(a)............................................... 7.03(a)
(b)....................................................... 7.03(b)
(c)....................................................... 7.03(a), 7.03(b)
(d)....................................................... 7.03(c)
Section 314(a)............................................... 7.04
(b)....................................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1).................................................... 1.02
(c)(2).................................................... 1.02
(c)(3).................................................... Not Applicable
(d)....................................................... Not Applicable
(e)....................................................... 1.02
Section 315 (a).............................................. 6.01(a)(i)
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(1) NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be a part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:....................................... 1
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificates And Opinions...................... 8
Section 1.03. Form Of Documents Delivered To Trustee.................... 9
Section 1.04. Acts Of Holders........................................... 9
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc.,............................................ 10
Section 1.06. Notice To Holders; Waiver................................. 11
Section 1.07. Conflict With Trust Indenture Act......................... 11
Section 1.08. Effect Of Headings And Table Of Contents.................. 11
Section 1.09. Successors And Assigns.................................... 11
Section 1.10. Separability Clause....................................... 12
Section 1.11. Benefits Of Indenture..................................... 12
Section 1.12. Governing Law............................................. 12
Section 1.13. Legal Holidays............................................ 12
Section 1.14. Counterparts.............................................. 12
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.01. Forms Generally........................................... 12
Section 2.02. Securities In Permanent Global Form....................... 13
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable In Series...................... 14
Section 3.02. Denominations............................................. 17
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery And Dating............ 17
Section 3.04. Temporary Securities...................................... 20
Section 3.05. Registration, Registration Of Transfer And Exchange....... 20
Section 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost And Stolen Securities.......... 23
Section 3.07. Payment Of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved............ 24
Section 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners..................................... 25
Section 3.09. Cancellation.............................................. 25
Section 3.10. Computation Of Interest................................... 26
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.01. Satisfaction And Discharge Of Indenture................... 26
Section 4.02. Defeasance Of Securities Of Any Series.................... 27
Section 4.03. Application Of Trust Funds; Indemnification............... 29
Section 4.04. Reinstatement............................................. 30
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
Section 5.01. Events Of Default......................................... 30
Section 5.02. Acceleration Of Maturity; Rescission And Annulment........ 31
Section 5.03. Collection Of Indebtedness And Suits For Enforcement By
Trustee................................................... 32
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs Of Claim.......................... 33
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession Of
Securities................................................ 34
Section 5.06. Application Of Money Collected............................ 34
Section 5.07. Limitation On Suits....................................... 35
Section 5.08. Unconditional Right Of Holders To Receive Principal,
Premium And Interest...................................... 35
Section 5.09. Restoration Of Rights And Remedies........................ 35
Section 5.10. Rights And Remedies Cumulative............................ 36
Section 5.11. Delay Or Omission Not Waiver.............................. 36
Section 5.12. Control By Holders........................................ 36
Section 5.13. Waiver Of Past Defaults................................... 36
Section 5.14. Undertaking For Costs..................................... 37
Section 5.15. Waiver Of Usury, Stay Or Extension Law.................... 37
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.01. Certain Duties And Responsibilities....................... 38
Section 6.02. Notice Of Defaults........................................ 39
Section 6.03. Certain Rights Of Trustee................................. 39
Section 6.04. Not Responsible For Recitals Or Issuance Of Securities.... 40
Section 6.05. May Hold Securities....................................... 40
Section 6.06. Money Held In Trust....................................... 41
Section 6.07. Compensation And Reimbursement............................ 41
Section 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interest.................... 41
Section 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility................... 42
Section 6.10. Resignation And Removal; Appointment Of Successor......... 42
Section 6.11. Acceptance Of Appointment By Successor.................... 43
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation Or Succession To
Business.................................................. 44
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection Of Claims......................... 45
Section 6.14. Appointment Of Authenticating Agent....................... 45
ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LIST AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.01. Company To Furnish Trustee Names And Addresses Of
Holders................................................... 47
Section 7.02. Preservation Of Information; Communications To Holders.... 47
Section 7.03. Reports By Trustee........................................ 48
Section 7.04. Reports By Company........................................ 50
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ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc.,............................ 50
Section 8.02. Successor Corporation To Be Substituted For Company....... 51
Section 8.03. Securities To Be Secured In Certain Events................ 51
Section 8.04. Evidence To Be Furnished To The Trustee................... 52
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent Of Holders........ 52
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent Of Holders........... 53
Section 9.03. Execution Of Supplemental Indentures...................... 54
Section 9.04. Effect Of Supplemental Indentures......................... 54
Section 9.05. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act....................... 54
Section 9.06. Reference In Securities To Supplemental Indentures........ 54
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
Section 10.01. Payment Of Principal, Premium And Interest............... 55
Section 10.02. Maintenance Of Office Or Agency.......................... 55
Section 10.03. Money For Securities Payments To Be Held In Trust........ 55
Section 10.04. Limitations On Liens..................................... 57
Section 10.05. Limitation On Sale And Leaseback......................... 58
Section 10.06. Defeasance Of Certain Obligations........................ 59
Section 10.07. Certificate Of Officers Of The Company................... 60
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.01. Applicability Of Article................................. 61
Section 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice To Trustee.................... 61
Section 11.03. Selection By Trustee Of Securities To Be Redeemed........ 61
Section 11.04. Notice Of Redemption..................................... 62
Section 11.05. Deposit Of Redemption Price.............................. 62
Section 11.06. Securities Payable On Redemption Date.................... 63
Section 11.07. Securities Redeemed In Part.............................. 63
ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.01. Applicability Of Article................................. 63
Section 12.02. Satisfaction Of Sinking Fund Payments With Securities.... 64
Section 12.03. Redemption Of Securities For Sinking Fund................ 64
EXHIBIT A - FORM OF SECURITIES........................................... A-1
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INDENTURE, dated as o February 12, 2001, between MASCO CORPORATION, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware
(herein called the "COMPANY"), and BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the "TRUSTEE").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"SECURITIES"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in
this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
and except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "GENERALLY ACCEPTED
ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES" with respect to any computation required or permitted
hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the
date of such computation; and
(d) 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.
Certain terms, used principally in Article 6, are defined in that Article.
"ACT," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.04.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"ATTRIBUTABLE DEBT" means in respect of a sale and leaseback arrangement,
at the time of determination, the lesser of (x) the fair value of the property
subject to such arrangement (as determined by the Board of Directors) or (y) the
present value (discounted at the rate per annum equal to the interest borne by
fixed-rate Securities or the Yield to Maturity at the time of issuance of any
Original Issue Discount Securities determined on a weighted average basis
compounded semi-annually) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental
payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such arrangement
(including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the
option of the lessor, be extended) after excluding all amounts required to be
paid on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water
and utility rates and similar charges. In the case of any such lease which may
be terminated by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such net amount shall
also include the amount of such penalty, but no rent shall be considered as
required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it
may be so terminated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall not be deemed
to be any Attributable Debt in respect of a sale and leaseback arrangement if
(i) such arrangement involves property of a type to which Section 10.04 does not
apply, (ii) the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary would be entitled pursuant
to the provisions of Section 10.04(a) to issue, assume or guarantee Debt (as
defined in said Section 10.04(a)), secured by a mortgage upon the property
involved in such arrangement without equally and ratably securing the
Securities, or (iii) the greater of the proceeds of such arrangement or the fair
market value of the property so leased has been applied or credited in
accordance with clause (b) of Section 10.05.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the board of directors of the Company or
any duly authorized committee of that board.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
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"BUSINESS DAY," when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
to close.
"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 of this instrument such Commission is not existing
and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor corporation.
"COMPANY REQUEST" or "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or
a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"CONSOLIDATED NET TANGIBLE ASSETS" means the aggregate amount of assets
(less applicable reserves) of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
after deducting therefrom (a) all current liabilities (excluding any such
liabilities deemed to be Funded Debt), (b) all goodwill, trade names,
trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like
intangibles, and (c) all investments in any Subsidiary other than a Consolidated
Subsidiary, in all cases computed in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles and which under generally accepted accounting principles
would appear on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries. For purposes of the foregoing, the term "investment in any
Subsidiary other than a Consolidated Subsidiary" shall mean all evidences of
indebtedness, capital stock, other securities, obligations or indebtedness of
any Subsidiary other than a Consolidated Subsidiary owned or held by or owed to
the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary, except an evidence of indebtedness,
an account receivable or an obligation or indebtedness on open account resulting
directly from the sale of goods or merchandise or services for fair value in the
ordinary course of business by the Company or the Consolidated Subsidiary to a
Subsidiary other than a Consolidated Subsidiary.
"CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY" means each Subsidiary other than any Subsidiary
the accounts of which (i) are not required by generally accepted accounting
principles to be consolidated with those of the Company for financial reporting
purposes, (ii) were not consolidated with those of the Company in the Company's
then most recent annual report to stockholders and (iii) are not intended by the
Company to be consolidated with those of the Company in its next annual report
to stockholders; provided, however, that the term "Consolidated Subsidiary"
shall not include (a) any Subsidiary which is principally engaged in (i) owning,
leasing, dealing in or developing real property, or (ii) purchasing or financing
accounts receivable, making loans, extending credit or other activities of a
character conducted by a finance company or (b) any Subsidiary, substantially
all of the
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business, properties or assets of which were acquired after [date of Indenture]
(by way of merger, consolidation, purchase or otherwise), unless the Board of
Directors thereafter designates such Subsidiary a Consolidated Subsidiary.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the office of the Trustee in Chicago,
Illinois at which at any particular time corporate trust business shall be
principally administered. At the date of execution of this Indenture the address
of the Corporate Trust Office is Bank One Plaza, Suite IL1-0126, Chicago, IL
60670-0126.
"CORPORATION" includes corporations, associations, companies and business
trusts.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"DEPOSITARY" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable
or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more permanent global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.01, which must be a clearing agency registered under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and if at any time there is more than one such
Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any such series
shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"FUNDED DEBT" means all indebtedness having a maturity of more than 12
months from the date of the determination thereof or having a maturity of less
than 12 months but by its terms being renewable or extendible at the option of
the borrower beyond 12 months from the date of such determination (a) for money
borrowed or (b) incurred in connection with the acquisition of any real or
personal property, stock, debt or other assets (to the extent that any of the
foregoing acquisition indebtedness is represented by any notes, bonds,
debentures or similar evidences of indebtedness), and for the payment of which
the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary is directly or contingently liable,
or which is secured by any property of the Company or any Consolidated
Subsidiary.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall
include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated
by Section 3.01.
"INTEREST," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only upon Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE," when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
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"MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which
the principal of such Security or an instalment of principal becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and
delivered to the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel
for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY" means any Security which 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 5.02.
"OUTSTANDING," used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption (a) money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent
(other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of
such Securities or (b) U.S. Government Obligations as contemplated by Section
4.02 in the necessary amount have been theretofore deposited with the Trustee
(or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.09) in trust for
the Holders of such Securities in accordance with Section 4.03; provided that,
if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities as to which defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 4.02 and not reinstated pursuant to Section 4.04; and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect
of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it
that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such
Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as
of any date (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security
which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal
thereof which would be due and
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payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date
pursuant to Section 5.02, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable
at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount
of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as
specified or determined as contemplated by Section 3.01, (C) the principal
amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency
units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar
equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by
Section 3.01, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a
Security described in clause (A) or (B) of this paragraph, of the amount
determined as provided in such clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company
or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Subsidiary of the Company or of
such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be
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 Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"PARTNERSHIP" means any joint venture, partnership or participation by
which the Company with one or more Persons forms a business arrangement to own
or acquire tangible personal property for the purpose of financing such property
and allocating rights to profits and liabilities for losses, and establishing
obligations, among the Company and such Persons relating to such financing.
"PAYING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"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 Company 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.
"PLACE OF PAYMENT," when used with respect to the Securities of any series,
means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under
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Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"PRINCIPAL PROPERTY" means any manufacturing plant, research or engineering
facility owned or leased by the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary which is
located within the United States of America or Puerto Rico, except any such
plant or facility which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, is not of
material importance to the total business conducted by the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries as an entirety.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer within the Corporate Trustee Administration Department, including any
vice president, any assistant secretary, any trust officer or assistant trust
officer, or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also
means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
"SECURITIES" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture
and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture.
"SECURITY REGISTER" and "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 3.05.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"STATED MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security or any instalment
of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such
Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"SUBSIDIARY" means any corporation of which at least a majority of the
outstanding stock having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a
majority of the board of directors of such corporation (excluding in the
computation of such percentage stock of any class or classes of such corporation
which has or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency) is at the time owned by the
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Company, or by one or more Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more
Subsidiaries.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "TRUSTEE" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that if
at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect
to the Securities of any series shall mean only the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as
in force on the date on which this instrument was executed provided, however,
that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also
include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of
interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such
custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that
(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt for
any amount received by the custodian with respect to the U.S. Government
Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of the U.S.
Government Obligation.
"VICE PRESIDENT," when used with respect to the Company 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 "vice president."
"YIELD TO MATURITY" means the yield to maturity on a series of Securities,
calculated at the time of issuance of such series of Securities, or if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series and
calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificates And Opinions.
Unless otherwise provided herein, upon any application or request by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such counsel all
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such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with and, unless otherwise
provided herein, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion, other than the Officers' Certificate called
for by Section 10.07, with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, 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, in the opinion of each such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.03. Form Of Documents Delivered To Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.04. Acts Of Holders.
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(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an 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 and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. If any Securities are
denominated in coin or currency other than that of the United States, then for
the purposes of determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Securities have taken any action with respect to the Securities of
more than one series as herein described, the principal amount of such
Securities shall be deemed to be that amount of United States dollars that could
be obtained for such principal amount on the basis of the spot rate of exchange
into United States dollars for the currency in which such Securities are
denominated (as evidenced to the Trustee by an Officers' Certificate) as of the
date the taking of such action by the Holders of such requisite principal amount
is evidenced to the Trustee as provided in the immediately preceding sentence.
Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "ACT" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by
a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing,
or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any
other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc., To Trustee And Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
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(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with
the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Company and the Holders by the Trustee; or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it
at 21001 Van Born Road, Taylor, Michigan 48180 or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.06. Notice To Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. 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.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of
any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 1.07. Conflict With Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
Section 1.08. Effect Of Headings And Table Of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.09. Successors And Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
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Section 1.10. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11. Benefits Of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the Parties hereto, any Authenticating Agent, any
Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar and their successors hereunder and the
Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 1.12. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to any
conflicts of laws principles therein.
Section 1.13. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then, unless otherwise specified in such Security, payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date
or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date
or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
Section 1.14. Counterparts.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.01. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth
in Exhibit A, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution 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 such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed
thereon as may be required to comply with any law
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or any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with the rules of any
securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may consistently
herewith be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced
by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.
Section 2.02. Securities In Permanent Global Form.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.01 that the Securities
of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in permanent global form, then
notwithstanding Section 3.01(g) and the provisions of Section 3.02, any such
Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as
shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate
amount of Outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and that the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to
time be reduced or increased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security
in permanent global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in
the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the
Trustee or the Security Registrar in such manner and upon instructions given by
such Person or Persons as shall be specified in such Security in permanent
global form or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.03 or . Subject to the provisions of Section 3.03 and, if applicable,
Section 3.04, the Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deliver and redeliver
any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given
by the Person or Persons specified in such Security or in the applicable Company
Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 3.03 or 3.04 has been, or
simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to
endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a global Security shall be in writing
but need not comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an
Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, provided that the form of
permanent global Security to be endorsed, delivered or redelivered has
previously been covered by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last sentence of Section 3.03 shall only apply to any
Security represented by a Security in permanent global form if such Security was
never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee or
the Security Registrar the Security in permanent global form together with
written instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and need not be
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to
the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby,
together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section
3.03.
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Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the
Securities evidenced thereby, every Security in permanent global form
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITARY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR ITS NOMINEE AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE, ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable In Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. All Securities issued under this
Indenture shall constitute unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the
Company and shall rank pari passu with all of the Company's other unsecured and
unsubordinated obligations.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 3.03,
set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any series
(a) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the
series which 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
3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to
Section 3.03 of the Indenture, shall have not been issued and sold by the
Company and are therefore deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder);
(c) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the
series is payable;
(d) the Person to whom any interest on any Security of the series shall be
payable if other than as set forth in Section 3.07; the rate or rates at which
any Securities of the series shall bear interest or the manner of calculation of
such rate or rates, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall
accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on
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which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(e) the place or places where the principal of and any premium or interest
on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(f) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at 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 Company and, if other than by a Board
Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the
Securities shall be evidenced;
(g) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase Securities
of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the
option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
shall be redeemed or purchased in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(h) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof, the
denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(i) 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 5.02;
(j) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any
specified part, shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 4.02 or Section 10.06
(and in the case of defeasance pursuant to Section 10.06, the negative or
restrictive covenants that shall be subject to such defeasance) or both Sections
and if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the
Company to defease those securities shall be evidenced;
(k) whether the Securities of the series are to be issuable in whole or in
part in permanent global form, without coupons, and, if so, (i) the form of any
legend or legends which shall be borne by any such permanent global Security in
addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 2.02, (ii) any circumstances
in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause 3.05(a) in which such
permanent global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities
registered, and in which any transfer of such permanent global Security in whole
or in part may be registered, in the name of Persons other than the Depositary
for such permanent global Security or a nominee thereof and (iii) the Depositary
with respect to any such permanent global Security or Securities;
(l) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in which
payment of the principal of, and any premium and interest on, the Securities of
the series shall be payable if other than the currency of the United States of
America;
(m) if the principal of, or any premium or interest on, any Securities of
the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder
thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in
which such Securities are
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stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the
principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such
election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and
conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or
the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
(n) if the amount of payments of principal of, or any premium or interest
on, the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or
pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(o) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates
prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the
principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose
thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be
due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall
be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in
any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount
shall be determined);
(p) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any
Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the
requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due
and payable pursuant to Section 5.01;
(q) whether and under what circumstances the Company 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 Company will have the option to redeem such
Securities rather than pay such additional amounts;
(r) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or paying agents, transfer
agents or registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of such
series;
(s) if the Securities of any series may be converted into or exchanged for
stock or other securities or other property of the Company or other entities,
the terms upon which such series may be converted or exchanged, any specific
terms relating to the adjustment thereof and the period during which such
Securities may be so converted or exchanged;
(t) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article 10
which applies to any Securities of the series; and
(u) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 9.01(e)).
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 the
Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth in
the Officers'
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Certificate that established the form of the Securities of such series 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 in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, such Officers' Certificate
or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant
to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Section 3.02. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without
coupons and, except for any Security issuable in permanent global form, in such
denominations as shall be specified in accordance with . In the absence of such
provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such
series, other than a Security issuable in permanent global form, shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof.
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery And Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, its President, one of its Vice Presidents or its Treasurer,
attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of
any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with the applicable
documents referred to below in this Section, and the Trustee shall thereupon
authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon the order of the Company
(contained in the Company 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 a Company Order. The maturity date, original
issue date, interest rate and any other terms of the Securities of such series
shall be determined by or pursuant to such Company Order and procedures. If
provided for in such procedures, such Company Order may authorize authentication
and delivery pursuant to oral instructions from the Company 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
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Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive (in the case of
subparagraphs 3.03(ii), 3.03(iii) and 3.03(iv) below, only at or before the time
of the first request of the Company to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of
such series) and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, unless and until such documents have been superseded or revoked:
(i) a Company Order requesting such authentication and setting forth
delivery instructions if the Securities are not to be delivered to the
Company, provided that, with respect to Securities of a series subject to a
Periodic Offering, (a) such Company Order may be delivered by the Company
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, if
any, established for such series, pursuant to a Company Order or pursuant
to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be specified from time to
time by a Company 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 a Company Order or pursuant to such
procedures and (d) if provided for in such procedures, such Company Order
may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic
instructions from the Company or its duly authorized agent or agents, which
oral instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing;
(ii) any Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate and/or executed
supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.01 and 3.01 by or pursuant
to which the forms and terms of the Securities were established;
(iii) an Officers' Certificate setting forth the form or forms and (to
the extent established) the terms of the Securities, stating that the form
or forms and any such terms of the Securities have been established
pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 3.01 and comply with this Indenture, and
covering such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request; and
(iv) At the option of the Company, either an Opinion of Counsel, or a
letter addressed to the Trustee permitting to it rely on an Opinion of
Counsel, substantially to the effect that:
(A) the forms of the Securities have been duly authorized and
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(B) if all of the terms of the Securities of such series have
been established, the terms of the Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company and established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture, and, in the case of all other offerings,
certain terms of the Securities have been established pursuant to a
Board Resolution, an Officers' Certificate or a supplemental indenture
in accordance with this Indenture, and when such other terms as are to
be established pursuant to
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procedures set forth in a Company Order shall have been established,
all such terms will have been duly authorized by the Company and will
have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(C) when the Securities have been executed by the Company and
authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture and delivered to and duly paid for by the purchasers
thereof, they will have been duly issued under this Indenture and will
be valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable
in accordance with their respective terms, and will be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture; and
(D) the execution and delivery by the Company of, and the
performance by the Company of its obligations under, the Securities
will not contravene any provision of applicable law or the certificate
of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or, to the best of such
counsel's knowledge, any agreement or other instrument binding upon
the Company or any of its subsidiaries that is material to the Company
and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, or, to the best of
such counsel's knowledge, any judgment, order or decree of any
governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the
Company or any subsidiary, and no consent, approval or authorization
of any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by
the Company of its obligations under the Securities, except such as
are specified and have been obtained and such as may be required by
the securities or blue sky laws of the various states in connection
with the offer and sale of the Securities.
In rendering such opinions, such counsel may qualify any opinions as to
enforceability by stating that such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, moratorium and other similar laws
affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and is subject to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law). Such counsel may rely upon opinions of other
counsel (copies of which shall be delivered to the Trustee), who shall be
counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, in which case the opinion shall
state that such counsel believes he and the Trustee are entitled so to rely.
Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual
matters, he has relied, to the extent he deems proper, upon certificates of
officers of the Company and its subsidiaries and certificates of public
officials.
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 Company 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.
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Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for any Security, interest
on the each Security will accrue from the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing and subject, in the case of a Security in
permanent global form, to Section 2.02, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not
comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
directing such cancellation and stating that such Security has never been issued
and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall
be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall
never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.04. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company
may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities of such series.
Section 3.05. Registration, Registration Of Transfer And Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the
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Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as
the "SECURITY REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it
may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and
transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed "SECURITY REGISTRAR"
for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series
at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees one or more new Securities of the same
series of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and of like tenor.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a
like aggregate principal amount and of like tenor, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are
so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section 11.03 and ending
at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the
transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
The provisions of Clauses (a) - (g) below shall apply only to permanent
global Securities:
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(a) Each permanent global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall
be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such permanent global
Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee
thereof or custodian therefor, and each such permanent global Security shall
constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, no permanent
global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered,
and no transfer of a permanent global Security in whole or in part may be
registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such
permanent global Security or a nominee thereof unless (i) the Depositary
notifies the Company pursuant to Clause 3.05(c) of this Section that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such permanent global Security
or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) if the Company in its sole
discretion determines pursuant to Clause 3.05(d) of this Section that such
permanent global Security shall be so exchangeable or transferrable and executes
and delivers to the Security Registrar a Company Order providing that such
permanent global Security shall be so exchangeable or transferrable, (iii) any
event shall have occurred and be continuing which, after notice or lapse of
time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of the series of which such permanent global Security is a part or (iv) there
shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition or in lieu of the foregoing
as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 3.01.
(c) Subject to Clause 3.05(a) above, any exchange of a permanent global
Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all
Securities issued in exchange for a permanent global Security or any portion
thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such permanent
global Security shall direct. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to or as
directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
(d) If at any time the Depositary for any Securities of a series
represented by one or more global Securities notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Securities or if at any
time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company shall appoint a
successor Depositary with respect to such Securities. If a successor Depositary
for such Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the
Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility (and in any
event before the Depositary surrenders such global Security for exchange), the
Company's election that such Securities be represented by one or more global
Securities shall no longer be effective and the Company shall 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.
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(e) The Company 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 Company 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, 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.
(f) Subject to Clause 3.05(a) above, 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
Company and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Company 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 denomination 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
(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 3.05(f)(i) above.
Upon the exchange of a global Security for Securities in definitive
registered form, in authorized denominations, such global Security shall be
canceled by the Trustee.
(g) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a permanent global Security or
any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 3.04, 3.06, 9.06
or 11.07 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and
shall be, a permanent global Security, unless such Security is registered in the
name of a Person other than the Depositary for such permanent global Security or
a nominee thereof.
Section 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost And Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a
new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and
any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such
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Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company 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.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.07. Payment Of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to
any Security, interest on such Security which is payable, and is punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest; provided that if that Security or its Predecessor Security was
originally issued on a date after a Regular Record Date and before the following
Interest Payment Date, the first payment of interest on such Security will be
made on the Interest Payment Date following the next succeeding Regular Record
Date. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for any
Security, interest payable at Maturity (other than on a date which is an
Interest Payment Date) will be paid to the same Person to whom the principal
amount of this Security is payable.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "DEFAULTED INTEREST") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the
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payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the
date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed
payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided.
Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10
days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after
the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name
and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at his
address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause 3.07(b).
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given
by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
Section 3.09. Cancellation.
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All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may
deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the
Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.
Section 3.10. Computation Of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for any
Security, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.01. Satisfaction And Discharge Of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
(except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(x) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.06 and (y) Securities for
whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated
and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.03) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(A) have become due and payable, or
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or
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(C) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of (A), (B) or (C) above has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, for principal, and any premium or interest,
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date,
as the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Sections 4.03(b) and 6.07, the
obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause
4.01(a)(ii), the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.03 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive.
Section 4.02. Defeasance Of Securities Of Any Series.
Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to any
Security, then notwithstanding Section 4.01, the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Outstanding Securities of
any series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in
subparagraph 4.02(d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates
to such Outstanding Securities, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee,
at the expense of the Company, shall at Company Request, execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same) (hereinafter called "DEFEASANCE"), except as
to:
(a) the rights of Holders of Securities to receive, from the trust funds
described in subparagraph 4.02(d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and
any premium or interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series on the
Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and
(ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments
applicable to Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are
due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and such
Securities;
(b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under
Sections 3.05, 3.06, 4.03, 10.02 and 10.03; and
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(c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder;
provided that the following conditions have been satisfied:
(d) with reference to this provision, the Company has irrevocably deposited
or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust funds for the
purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of that
series, (i) money in an amount, or (ii) U.S. Government Obligations which
through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance
with their terms will provide not later than one day before the due date of any
payment referred to in clause (A) or (B) of this subparagraph 4.02(d) money in
an amount, or (iii) a combination thereof, sufficient, 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 for such purposes, (A) the principal
of and any premium or interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series on
the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest on
the Redemption Date, as the case may be, and (B) any mandatory sinking fund
payments or analogous payments applicable to Securities of such series on the
day on which such payments are due and payable, each in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture and of such Securities;
(e) such Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that series to have a conflicting interest as defined in Section
6.08 and for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities
of any series;
(f) such Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument
to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(g) such Defeasance would not cause any Outstanding Security of such series
then listed on any nationally recognized securities exchange to be then delisted
as a result thereof;
(h) no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time would
become an Event of Default with respect to Securities of the series shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period
ending on the 91st day after such date;
(i) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel based on
the fact that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by,
the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has
been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the
effect that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities
of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at
the same times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and
discharge had not occurred;
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(j) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating
that (i) such deposit, defeasance and discharge would not cause any outstanding
Security of such series then listed on any nationally recognized securities
exchange to be delisted as a result thereof; and (ii) and that such Defeasance
would not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an
investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended from time to time;
(k) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that after the 91st day 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, except
that if a court were to rule under any such law in any case or proceeding that
the trust funds remained property of the Company, no opinion is given as to the
effect of such laws on the trust funds except the following: (A) assuming such
trust funds remained in the Trustee's possession prior to such court ruling to
the extent not paid to Holders of Securities, the Trustee will hold, for the
benefit of such Holders, a valid and perfected security interest in such trust
funds that is not avoidable in bankruptcy or otherwise, and (B) such Holders
will be entitled to receive adequate protection of their interests in such trust
funds if such trust funds are used; and
(l) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for
relating to the Defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied
with.
Section 4.03. Application Of Trust Funds; Indemnification.
(a) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01, all money and U.S.
Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.02 or
Section 10.06 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S.
Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.02 or
Section 10.06 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying
Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto of the
principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has
been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund
payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Section 4.02 or Section 10.06,
as the case may be.
(b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax,
fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 4.02 or Section 10.06 or the interest and
principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or
on behalf of Holders.
(c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon
Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided
in Section 4.02 or 10.06 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to
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the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount which then would have been
required to be deposited for the purpose for which such money or U.S. Government
Obligations were deposited or received.
Section 4.04. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with Section 4.02 or 10.06 with respect to any Securities by reason
of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application or upon the occurrence of
an Event of Default, then the obligations under this Indenture and such
Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to
Section 4.02 or 10.06 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had
occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such
time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in
trust pursuant to Section 4.03 with respect to such Securities in accordance
with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
(if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the
money so held in trust.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
Section 5.01. Events Of Default.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any
series, means any one of the following events (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 interest upon any Security of that series
when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of
30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by
the terms of a Security of that series; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of
the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in
whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the
benefit of a series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of
such default or breach for a period
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of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each 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) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the Company under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(f) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under
any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in
respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the
consent by it to the filing of such petition or the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator
or similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property,
or the making by it of any assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of
any such action; or
(g) any events of default provided with respect to Securities of that
series.
Section 5.02. Acceleration Of Maturity; Rescission And Annulment.
If an Event of Default described in clause 5.01(a), 5.01(b), 5.01(c),
5.01(d) or 5.01(g) with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of such series (each such series voting as a separate class in the case of an
Event of Default under clause 5.01(a), 5.01(b), 5.01(c) or 5.01(g), and all such
series voting as one class in the case of such an Event of Default under clause
5.01(d)) may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such Securities) of all of the Securities of such
series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company
(and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such
principal amount (or specified amount)
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shall become immediately due and payable. If any Event of Default described in
clause 5.01(d) with respect to all series of Securities then Outstanding, or any
Event of Default described in clause 5.01(e) or 5.01(f) occurs and is
continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
25% in aggregate principal amount of all the Outstanding Securities (voting as
one class) may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such Securities) of all the Securities then
Outstanding to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration
such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and
payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay
(i) the overdue interest on all Securities of the series,
(ii) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that
series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the interest rate or rates prescribed
in such Securities,
(iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed for overdue interest
in such Securities, and
(iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustees, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due under Section
6.07;
and
(b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series other
than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which have
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived
as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.03. Collection Of Indebtedness And Suits For Enforcement By
Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
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(a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when
such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of
30 days, or
(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security at the Maturity thereof
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate
or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities and, in addition thereto, such
further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, other than those incurred due
to the Trustee's bad faith or negligence.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs Of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities 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 the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements
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and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed
in such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holders hereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession Of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any
such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision
for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
Section 5.06. Application Of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium,
if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if
fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under this
Indenture; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected ratably without preference or priority of any kind according
to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, respectively.
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Section 5.07.Limitation On Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with
such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and
offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to
the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of all Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture,
except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of
all of such Holders.
Section 5.08. Unconditional Right Of Holders To Receive Principal, Premium
And Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.07)
interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.09. Restoration Of Rights And Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former
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positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and
the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10. Rights And Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section
3.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders 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..
Section 5.11. Delay Or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default which shall have
occurred and shall be continuing shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12. Control By Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series 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, provided that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with
this Indenture,
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) the Trustee shall have the right to decline any direction with respect
to which a Responsible Officer reasonably determines such direction will cause
the Trustee to incur any liability for which it shall not have been adequately
indemnified pursuant to Section 5.07.
Section 5.13. Waiver Of Past Defaults.
The Holders of (i) not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series (each such series voting as a separate
class) may on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series waive any
past default or Event of Default described in clause 5.01(d) which relates to
less than all series of Outstanding Securities
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or described in clause 5.01(g) with respect to such series and its consequences,
or (ii) not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities affected thereby (voting as one class) may on behalf of the Holders
of all the Outstanding Securities affected thereby waive any past default or
Event of Default described in said clause 5.01(d) which relates to all such
Outstanding Securities and its consequences, except in any such case a default
(a) in the payment of the principal of, or any premium or interest on, any
Security of such series, or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 9
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14. Undertaking For 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
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
Section 5.15. Waiver Of Usury, Stay Or Extension Law.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension of law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
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ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.01. Certain Duties And Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions 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) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection 6.01(a);
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, determined as provided in Section 5.12, 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 with respect to the Securities of such
series; and
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
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(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 6.02. Notice Of Defaults.
Within 90 days after receipt by the Trustee of written notice of the
occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series
the Trustee shall transmit in the manner and to the extent provided in Section
7.03(d), notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series or in the payment of any sinking fund
installment with respect to 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 Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such
notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series; and
provided, further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 5.01(d) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to
Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For
the purpose of this Section, the term "DEFAULT," means any event which is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of such series.
Section 6.03. Certain Rights Of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness 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 or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem
it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in reliance thereon;
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(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of
the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered
to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts
or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to
make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; and
(i) The Trustee's immunities and protections from liability and its rights
to compensation and indemnification in connection with the performance of its
duties under this Indenture shall extend to the Trustee's officers, directors,
agents and employees. Such immunities and protections and right to
indemnification, together with the Trustee's right to compensation, shall
survive the Trustee's resignation or removal and final payment of the
Securities.
Section 6.04. Not Responsible For Recitals Or Issuance Of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee or any
Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.05. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections
6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent.
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Section 6.06. Money Held In Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company.
Section 6.07. Compensation And Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all
services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by
any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(b) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with
any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expenses,
disbursements or advances as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith;
(c) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the
trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder; and
(d) The Trustee shall have, and is hereby granted, a first priority lien on
all monies, securities and collateral (other than monies held in trust by the
Trustee for the purpose of paying the principal, premium, if any, and interest
on any specific Securities) held by or on behalf of the Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture for payment or reimbursement to the Trustee of its fees, expenses and
any other monies payable to it hereunder.
Section 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interest.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities of any series,
it shall, within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such conflicting
interest, either eliminate such conflicting interest or resign with respect to
the Securities of that series in the manner and with the effect hereinafter
specified in this Article.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions
of Subsection 6.08(a) with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall, within 10 days after the expiration of such 90-day period, transmit by
mail to all Holders of Securities of that series, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, notice of such failure.
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Section 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000 subject to supervision or examination by Federal or
State authority and having its Corporate Trust Office in any State in the United
States of America or in the District of Columbia. If such corporation publishes
or files reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said 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 or filed. If at any time the Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article.
Section 6.10. Resignation And Removal; Appointment Of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of
one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities
of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.08(a) after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
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then, in any such case, (A) the Company, by a Board Resolution, may remove the
Trustee with respect to the applicable series of Securities, or (B) subject to
Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of any
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 with respect to such series of Securities and the appointment of
a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting,
or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect
to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution,
shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the
Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of
such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance
with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, any
Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security 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 appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of
a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate
Trust Office.
Section 6.11. Acceptance Of Appointment By Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee but, on the request of
the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment
of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring
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to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring
Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee
all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall
contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) 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 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
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of
such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in
paragraph 6.11(a) or 6.11(b), as the case may be.
(d) No such successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation Or Succession To Business.
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
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the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified
and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities
shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office,
any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating
Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so
authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection Of Claims.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any other obligor).
Section 6.14. Appointment Of Authenticating Agent.
At any time the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with
respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon
original issue, exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof
or pursuant to Section 3.06, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof
or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such
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corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or such Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of
such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee,
By
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as Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Officer
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ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LIST AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.01. Company To Furnish Trustee Names And Addresses Of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of the date of such list,
and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished, excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 7.02. Preservation Of Information; Communications To Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders of Securities of any series (herein referred
to as "APPLICANTS") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security of such series
for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and
such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Holders of such series or with Holders of all other series of Securities with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such Securities and is
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five business
days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders of
such series of Securities or Holders of all other series of Securities
whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time
by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), and as to the
approximate cost of mailing to the Holders of such series of Securities or
the Holders of all series of Securities the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder of such series of Securities or of all series of Securities
or of all series of Securities whose name
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and address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 7.02(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness
after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or
provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within
five days after such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file
with the Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a
written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such
mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the relevant Holders or would
be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the
basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon
the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order
refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order
sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have
been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of
such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of
such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be
relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
in accordance with Section 7.02(b), regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 7.02(b).
Section 7.03. Reports By Trustee.
(a) If required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, within 60
days after May 15 of each year commencing with the year 2001, so long as any of
the Securities are outstanding, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Holders, as provided in subsection 7.03(c), a brief report dated as of such May
15 with respect to any of the following events which may have occurred within
the previous 12 months (but if no such event has occurred within such period no
report need by transmitted):
(i) any change to its eligibility under Section 6.09 or the creation
of or any material change to its qualifications under Section 6.08;
(ii) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made
by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such report,
and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge,
prior to that of the Securities, on any property or funds held or collected
by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may
elect) to report such advances if such advances so remaining unpaid
aggregate not more than one-half of one percent of the principal amount of
the Securities Outstanding of such series on the date of such report;
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(iii) any change to the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all
other indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of such
report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in Section 6.13;
(iv) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically in the
possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(v) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(vi) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its duties
hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion
materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of a default,
notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee in accordance
with Section 6.02.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as provided in
subsection 7.03(c), a brief report with respect to the character and amount of
any advances (and if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of
the last report transmitted pursuant to Subsection 7.03(a) (or if no such report
has yet been so transmitted, since the date of execution of this instrument) for
the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to
that of the Securities, on property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee
and which it has not previously reported pursuant to this Subsection, except
that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances
if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate 10% or less of the
principal amount of the Securities Outstanding of such series at such time, such
report to be transmitted within 90 days after such time.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted by mail:
(i) to all Holders of Securities, as the names and addresses of such
Holders appear in the Security Register as of a date not more than fifteen
days prior to the mailing thereof;
(ii) to such holders of Securities of any series as have, within two
years preceding such transmission, filed their names and addresses with the
Trustee for such series for that purpose; and
(iii) except in the case of reports pursuant to subsection 7.03(b), to
all Holders of Securities whose names and addresses have been received by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01.
(d) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are
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listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the
Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 7.04. Reports By Company.
The Company shall:
(a) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is required to
file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the
information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of
the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations
prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
or, if the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the
Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information,
documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security listed and registered
on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(b) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company
with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time
to time by such rules and regulations; and
(c) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in
the Security Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee,
to such Holders of Securities as have, within the two years preceding such
transmission, filed their names and addresses with the Trustee for that purpose
and Holders of securities whose names and addresses have been furnished to or
received by the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.02(a) such summaries of any
information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant
to paragraphs 7.04(a) and 7.04(b) as may be required by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only On Certain Terms.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.03, nothing contained in this
Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger
of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations, or successive
consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors
shall be a party or parties or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of all or
substantially all of the property of the Company
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to any other corporation authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided,
that in any such case, (i) either the Company shall be the continuing
corporation, or the successor corporation (if other than the Company) shall be a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or a State thereof and such corporation shall expressly assume the due
and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, 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 by the Company by supplemental indenture satisfactory
to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such corporation, and
(ii) the Company 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 and shall not
immediately thereafter have outstanding any secured Debt (as defined in Section
10.04) not expressly permitted by the provisions of Section 10.04 unless the
provisions of Section 8.03 shall previously have been complied with.
Section 8.02. Successor Corporation To Be Substituted For Company.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance (other than a
conveyance by way of lease) and upon any such assumption by the successor
corporation, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for
the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of
the first part, and the Company thereupon shall be relieved of any further
liability or obligation hereunder or upon the Securities and may thereupon or at
any time thereafter be dissolved, wound up or liquidated. Such successor
corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own
name or in the name of Masco Corporation, any or all of the Securities issuable
hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent; and upon the order of such
successor corporation (instead of the Company) and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver any Securities which
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company
to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication, and any
Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed
and delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for that purpose. All
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 the case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, such
change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 8.03. Securities To Be Secured In Certain Events.
If, upon any such consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any
other corporation, or upon any sale or conveyance of the property of the Company
as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any other corporation, any
Principal Property or
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any shares of stock or indebtedness of any Consolidated Subsidiary owning any
Principal Property owned immediately prior thereto would thereupon become
subject to any mortgage (as defined in Section 10.04), unless the Company could
create such mortgage pursuant to Section 10.04 without equally and ratably
securing the Securities, the Company, prior to or simultaneously with such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, will secure the Securities
outstanding hereunder, equally and ratably with any other obligation of the
Company or any such Subsidiary then entitled thereto, prior to the Debt (as
defined in Section 10.04) secured by such mortgage.
Section 8.04. Evidence To Be Furnished To The Trustee.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and 6.03, may
receive and rely upon an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that any consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and any
such assumption complies with the provisions of this Article 8.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent Of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into
one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and
in the Securities; or
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders
of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the
benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are
expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender
any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(c) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders
of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are
to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit
of the relevant series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company; or
(d) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities
in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or
without interest coupons, or permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in
uncertificated form; or
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(e) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture
in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition,
change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to Securities of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to
the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of such
Securities with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only
when there is no such Security Outstanding; or
(f) to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of Sections 8.03
or otherwise; or
(g) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted
by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; or
(h) 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 and facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or
(i) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture;
provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series in any material respect.
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent Of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture voting as one class, by Act of said Holders delivered to
the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
and the Trustee may 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 modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under the
Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the
redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue
Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, or change any
Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any
premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or
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(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any
waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 5.13, except to
increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall
not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in
the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section, or the
deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
6.11(b) and 9.01(h).
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 the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.03. Execution Of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but 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.
Section 9.04. Effect Of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.05. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.06. Reference In Securities To Supplemental Indentures.
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Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required
by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
Section 10.01. Payment Of Principal, Premium And Interest.
The Company 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 premium, if any) and any interest on each of the Securities of
that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
Section 10.02. Maintenance Of Office Or Agency.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture
may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee and
the Holders of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations and surrenders of Securities of that series and notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and
the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designation; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in
any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency
in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee and the Holders of any
such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such
other office or agency.
Section 10.03. Money For Securities Payments To Be Held In Trust.
(a) If the Company 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
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deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 10.03:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on
the Securities of such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by
the Company 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;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Company (or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to make
any payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any,
on the Securities of such series when the same shall be due and payable;
and
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
(b) If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent it will,
on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on the Securities of any series, set aside, segregate and hold
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay
such principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due and will notify
the Trustee of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company
(or by any other obligor under the Securities of such series) to make any
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the
Securities of such series when the same shall become due and payable.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee (except pursuant to Section 4.02 or
10.06) or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of
any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and
premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the
Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged
from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an
unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, 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 Company cause to
be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily
published on each Business
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Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City 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
Company.
Section 10.04. Limitations On Liens.
(a) The Company will not, nor will it permit any Consolidated Subsidiary
to, issue, assume or guarantee any debt for money borrowed or any Funded Debt
(hereinafter in this Article 10 referred to as "DEBT"), secured by a mortgage,
security interest, pledge, lien or other encumbrance (mortgages, security
interests, pledges, liens and other encumbrances being hereinafter called a
"MORTGAGE" or "MORTGAGES") upon any Principal Property or upon any shares of
stock or indebtedness of any Consolidated Subsidiary which owns or leases a
Principal Property (whether such Principal Property, shares of stock or
indebtedness are now owned or hereafter acquired) without in any such case
effectively providing concurrently with the issuance, assumption or guaranty of
any such Debt that the Securities (together with, if the Company shall so
determine, any other indebtedness of or guaranteed by the Company or such
Consolidated Subsidiary ranking equally with the Securities and then existing or
thereafter created) shall be secured equally and ratably with such Debt;
provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to Debt
secured by
(i) mortgages on property, shares of stock or indebtedness of any
corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Consolidated
Subsidiary;
(ii) mortgages on property existing at the time of acquisition of such
property by the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary, or mortgages to
secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price of such
property upon the acquisition of such property by the Company or a
Consolidated Subsidiary or to secure any Debt incurred by the Company or
Consolidated Subsidiary prior to, at the time of, or within 120 days after
the later of the acquisition, the completion of construction (including any
improvements on an existing property) or the commencement of commercial
operation of such property, which Debt is incurred for the purpose of
financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof or construction or
improvements thereon; provided, however, that in the case of any such
acquisition, construction or improvement, the mortgage shall not apply to
any property theretofore owned by the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary,
other than any property on which the property so constructed or the
improvement is located or to which the property so constructed or the
improvement is appurtenant;
(iii) mortgages securing Debt of a Consolidated Subsidiary owing to
the Company or to another Consolidated Subsidiary;
(iv) mortgages on property of a corporation existing at the time such
corporation is merged or consolidated with the Company or a Consolidated
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Subsidiary or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of the
properties of a corporation or firm as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety to the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary; provided, however,
that no such mortgage shall extend to any other Principal Property of the
Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary or to any shares of capital stock or
any indebtedness of any Consolidated Subsidiary which owns or leases a
Principal Property;
(v) mortgages on property of the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary
in favor of the United States of America or any State thereof, or any
department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision of the
United States of America or any State thereof, or in favor of any other
country, or any political subdivision thereof, to secure partial, progress,
advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or statute (including
Debt of the pollution control or industrial revenue bond type) or to secure
any indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of
the purchase price or the cost of construction of the property subject to
such mortgages; or
(vi) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions,
renewals or replacements) in whole or in part of mortgages existing at the
date of this Indenture, or any mortgage referred to in the foregoing
clauses (i) through (v), inclusive, provided, however, that the principal
amount of Debt secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of
Debt so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement, and
that such extension, renewal or replacement shall be limited to all or a
part of the property which secured the mortgage so extended, renewed or
replaced (plus improvements on such property).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.04, the
Company may, and may permit any Consolidated Subsidiary to, issue, assume or
guarantee Debt secured by a mortgage not excepted by clauses (i) through (vi) of
paragraph (a) above without equally and ratably securing the Securities,
provided, however, that the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt then
outstanding, plus the aggregate principal amount of the Debt then being issued,
assumed, or guaranteed, and the aggregate amount of the Attributable Debt in
respect of sale and lease-back arrangements, shall not exceed 5% of Consolidated
Net Tangible Assets, determined as of a date not more than 90 days prior
thereto.
Section 10.05. Limitation On Sale And Leaseback.
The Company will not, nor will it permit any Consolidated Subsidiary to,
enter into any arrangement with any person providing for the leasing by the
Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary of any Principal Property (whether such
Principal Property is now owned or hereafter acquired) (except for leases for a
term of not more than three years and except for leases between the Company and
a Consolidated Subsidiary or between Consolidated Subsidiaries), which property
has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Consolidated
Subsidiary to such person, unless (a) the Company or such Subsidiary would be
entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section
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10.04, to issue, assume or guarantee Debt secured by a mortgage upon such
property at least equal in amount to the Attributable Debt in respect of such
arrangement without equally and ratably securing the Securities or (b) the
Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary, within 120 days of the effective date of
any such arrangement, applies an amount equal to the greater of the net proceeds
of the sale of the Principal Property leased pursuant to such arrangement or the
fair market value of the Principal Property so leased at the time of entering
into such arrangement (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company)
to the retirement (other than any mandatory retirement or by way of payment at
maturity) of Funded Debt of the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary (other
than Funded Debt owned by the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary and other
than Funded Debt subordinated in the payment of principal or interest to the
Securities and except that no Security shall be retired if such retirement of
Securities pursuant to this provision would be prohibited by the resolutions or
supplemental indentures referred to in Section 3.01), provided, however, that in
lieu of applying all or any part of such net proceeds or fair market value to
such retirement, the Company may at its option (i) deliver to the Trustee
Securities theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company, or (ii)
receive credit for Securities theretofore redeemed pursuant to the resolutions
or supplemental indentures referred to in Section 3.01 hereof, which Securities
have not theretofore been made the basis for the reduction of a sinking fund
payment pursuant to Article 12 or applied in lieu of retiring Funded Debt
pursuant hereto. If the Company shall so deliver Securities to the Trustee (or
receive credit for Securities so delivered), the amount of cash which the
Company shall be required to apply to the retirement of Funded Debt pursuant to
this Section 10.05 shall be reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such Securities.
Section 10.06. Defeasance Of Certain Obligations.
The Company may omit to comply, on or after the date the conditions set
forth in subsections (a) to (f) of this Section 10.06 are satisfied, with any
term, provision or condition set forth in any negative or restrictive covenant
of the Company applicable to the Securities of such series (hereafter called
"COVENANT DEFEASANCE") that is specified pursuant to Section 3.01(j), if
(a) With reference to this Section 10.06, the Company has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust funds
for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities of that series, (i) money in an amount, or (ii) U.S. Government
Obligations which through the payment of interest and principal in respect
thereof in accordance with their terms will provide not later than one day
before the due date of any payment referred to in clause (A) or (B) of this
subparagraph 10.06(a) money in an amount, or (iii) a combination thereof,
sufficient, 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 for
such purposes, (A) the principal of and any premium or interest on the
Outstanding Securities of that series on the Stated Maturity of such principal
or installment of principal or interest or the Redemption Date, as the case may
be, and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable
to
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Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are due and payable,
each in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities;
(b) Such Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that series to have a conflicting interest as defined in
Section 6.08 and for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the
Securities of any series;
(c) Such Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(d) Such Defeasance would not cause any Outstanding Security of such series
then listed on any nationally recognized securities exchange to be then delisted
as a result thereof;
(e) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time would
become an Event of Default with respect to Securities of that series shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period
ending on the 91st day after such date;
(f) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating
that (i) Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income,
gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and
Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount
and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if
such deposit and Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; (ii) such Covenant
Defeasance would not cause any outstanding Security of such series then listed
on any nationally recognized securities exchange to be delisted as a result
thereof; and (iii) such deposit would not result in the trust arising from such
deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended from time to time;
(g) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that after the 91st day 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, except
that if a court were to rule under any such law in any case or proceeding that
the trust funds remained property of the Company, no opinion is given as to the
effect of such laws on the trust funds except the following: (A) assuming such
trust funds remained in the Trustee's possession prior to such court ruling to
the extent not paid to Holders of Securities, the Trustee will hold, for the
benefit of such Holders, a valid and perfected security interest in such trust
funds that is not avoidable in bankruptcy or otherwise, and (B) such Holders
will be entitled to receive adequate protection of their interests in such trust
funds if such trust funds are used; and
(h) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been
complied with.
Section 10.07. Certificate Of Officers Of The Company.
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On or before April 1 of each year beginning with the year 2001, so long as
Securities of any series are Outstanding hereunder, the Company will file with
the Trustee an Officers' Certificate, one of the signers of which shall be the
principal financial officer, the principal accounting officer or the principal
executive officer of the Company, stating whether or not to the best knowledge
of the signer thereof the Company is in default in the performance and
observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture,
and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the
nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. For purposes of this
paragraph, any such default shall be determined without regard to any period of
grace or requirement of notice provided in this Indenture.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.01. Applicability Of Article.
Any Securities that are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be
redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for any Securities) in accordance with this
Article.
Section 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice To Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by
a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall
be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of
the tenor, if applicable, of the Securities to be redeemed, and of the principal
amount of Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities
prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the
terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with
such restriction.
Section 11.03. Selection By Trustee Of Securities To Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless
all of the Securities of a specified tenor are to be redeemed), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that
series or any multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such
series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series. If less than all of the Securities of such series and
of a specified tenor are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the
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Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not
previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities 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 shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 11.04. Notice Of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at this address appearing in the
Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date,
(b) the Redemption Price,
(c) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,
(d) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and
payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest
thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price, and
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
The notice of redemption mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given whether or not the Holder receives
such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in
the notice to the Holder of any Security shall not affect the validity of the
proceeding for the redemption of any other Security.
Section 11.05. Deposit Of Redemption Price.
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Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed
on that date.
Section 11.06. Securities Payable On Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to
be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest), such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as
such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their
terms and the provisions of Section 3.07.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid,
bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the
Security.
Section 11.07. Securities Redeemed In Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a
Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of
any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered. If a Security in permanent global form is so
surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Depositary for such Security in permanent global form, without
service charge to the Holder, a new Security in permanent global form in a
denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security in permanent global form so surrendered.
ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.01. Applicability Of Article.
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The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series.
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." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such
series.
Section 12.02. Satisfaction Of Sinking Fund Payments With Securities.
The Company (a) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than
any previously called for redemption) and (b) may apply as a credit Securities
of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company
pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted
optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each
case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect
to the Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of
such Securities as provided for by the terms of such Series; provided that the
Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The
Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by
the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities to be so
redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of
such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 12.03. Redemption Of Securities For Sinking Fund.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that
series pursuant to Section 12.02 stating that such Securities have not been
previously used as a credit against any sinking fund payment and will also
deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days
before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the
Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner
specified in Section 11.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be
given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 11.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections
11.05, 11.06 and 11.07.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
MASCO CORPORATION
By /s/ Richard G. Mosteller
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Title: Senior Vice President - Finance
Attest: /s/ John R. Leekley
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Senior Vice President -
General Counsel
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By /s/ Benita A. Pointer
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Title: Account Executive
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK (THE "U.S.
DEPOSITARY"), TO MASCO CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER
ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITARY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS
NOMINEE, ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR
TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.]
[If the Security is an original issue discount security for tax purposes
and is not "publicly offered" within the meaning of Treasury Regulation
1.1275-1(h), insert -- For purposes of Sections 1271-1275 of the United States
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the issue price of this Security is
_____, the amount of original issue discount is _____, the issue date is
________, 20__ and the yield to maturity is _____]
MASCO CORPORATION
[Title of Security]
No. ____ $___________
CUSIP No. _________
Masco Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
of Delaware (herein called the "COMPANY," which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to ______________________________, or registered assigns,
the principal sum of ________________________________ Dollars on
___________________________ [If the Security is to bear interest prior to
Maturity, insert--, and to pay interest thereon from _______ or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, semi-annually on _______ and _______ in each year, commencing _____, at the
rate of __% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for
payment [If applicable, insert --, and (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of __% per annum on any
overdue principal and premium and on any overdue installment of interest]. The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be
the ____ or ____ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such
Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities
of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series
may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as
more fully provided in said Indenture. [Interest on the Securities shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.]
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert--The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear
interest at the rate of __% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such
default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly
provided for. Interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand
shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from
the date of such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has
been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on
demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable
insert, --any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts [if applicable, insert--; provided, however, that at the option of the
Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
A-2
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
A-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
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MASCO CORPORATION
By
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Attest:
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FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Date of Authentication:
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Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee
By
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Authorized Officer
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FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "SECURITIES"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of ____________ (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the "TRUSTEE," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one
of the series designated on the face hereof [, limited in aggregate principal
amount to $ _____].
[If applicable, insert--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, [if applicable, insert --
(1) on ___________ in any year commencing with the year _________ and ending
with the year ______________ through operation of the sinking fund for this
series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at
any time [on or after __________, 20____], as a whole or in part, at the
election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as
percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [on or before __________ __,
____%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning _______________ of
the years indicated,
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert--(whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on __________ in any
year commencing with the year ______ and ending with the year ______ through
operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for
redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of
the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or
after __________], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the
Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking
fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table
below: If redeemed during the 12 month period beginning ____________ of the
years indicated,
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Redemption Price For Redemption Price For
Redemption Through Redemption Otherwise Than
Operation of the Through Operation of the
Year Sinking Fund Sinking Fund
- ---- -------------------- -------------------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to __________
redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [clause (2) of] the
preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation
by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an
interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted
financial practice) of less than ____% per annum.]
[The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ______ in
each year beginning with the year __________ and ending with the year _________
of [not less than] $________ [("MANDATORY SINKING FUND") and not more than
$___________] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series.
[Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than
through [mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent
[mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made--in the inverse
order in which they become due.]
[In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security
or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in
the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the
entire indebtedness of this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, in
each case upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth
therein, which provisions apply to this Security.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, -- If an Event
of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, -- If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount
shall be equal to--insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i)
of the amount of principal so
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declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and
overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of
the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of this
series shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security herein provided, and at the times, place and rate, and
in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this
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series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount,
will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $___ and any multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of
this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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Exhibit 4.b.i(i)
RESOLUTIONS OF THE PRICING COMMITTEE
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
MASCO CORPORATION
MARCH 8, 2001
WHEREAS, Masco Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company") the
Company has filed Registration Statements (Nos. 33-56043 and 333-40122) on Form
S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are in effect;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to create a series of securities under the
Indenture dated as of February 12, 2001 (as amended to the date hereof, the
"Indenture"), with Bank One Trust Company, National Association, (the
"Trustee"), providing for the issuance from time to time of unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of this Company
("Securities") in one or more series under such Indenture; and
WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in these resolutions and not otherwise
defined are used with the same meaning ascribed to such terms in the Indenture;
THEREFORE RESOLVED, that there is established a series of Securities under
the Indenture, the terms of which shall be as follows:
1. The Securities of such series shall be designated as the "6-3/4%
Notes Due March 15, 2006."
2. The aggregate principal amount of Securities of such series which
may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture is limited to Eight
Hundred Million Dollars ($800,000,000), except for Securities of such
series authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such series pursuant to
Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 of the Indenture.
3. The date on which the principal of the Securities of such series
shall be payable is March 15, 2006.
4. The Securities of such series shall bear interest from March 14,
2001 at the rate of 6-3/4% per annum, payable semi-annually on March 15 and
September 15 of each year commencing on September 15, 2001 until the
principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. The March 1 or
September 1 (whether or not a business day), as the case may be, next
preceding each such interest payment date shall be the "record date" for
the determination of holders to whom interest is payable.
5. The Securities shall be issued initially in the form of global
securities registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The
Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), and will be held by the Trustee as
custodian for DTC. The Securities shall be subject to the procedures of DTC
and will not be issued in definitive registered form.
6. The principal of and interest on the Securities of such series
shall be payable at the office or agency of this Company maintained for
such purpose in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency
designated by the Company, for such purpose pursuant to the Indenture.
7. The Securities of such series shall be subject to redemption in
whole or in part prior to maturity, at the Company's option, at a
redemption price established in accordance with current market practice,
substantially as follows: the redemption price shall be equal to the
greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities plus accrued
interest to the redemption date, or (ii) the sum of the present values of
the remaining principal amount and scheduled payments of interest on the
Notes to be redeemed (other than accrued interest to the redemption date),
discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis at the appropriate
treasury rate plus 25 basis points plus accrued interest to the redemption
date.
8. The Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) and any integral multiples thereof.
9. The Securities shall be issuable at a price such that this Company
shall receive $793,592,000 after an underwriting discount of $4,800,000.
10. The Securities shall be subject to defeasance and discharge and to
defeasance of certain obligations as set forth in the Indenture.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Securities of such series are declared to be
issued under the Indenture and subject to the provisions hereof;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice
President of the Company is authorized to execute, on the Company's behalf and
in its name, and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company is
authorized to attest to such execution and under the Company's seal (which may
be in the form of a facsimile of the Company's seal), $800,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of such series (and in addition Securities to
replace lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed Securities and Securities required
for exchange, substitution or transfer, all as provided in the Indenture) in
fully registered form in substantially the form of the note filed as an exhibit
to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-40122), but with
such changes and insertions therein as are appropriate to conform the Securities
to the terms set forth herein or otherwise as the respective officers executing
the Securities shall approve and as are not inconsistent with these resolutions,
such
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approval to be conclusively evidenced by such officer's execution and delivery
of such Securities, and to deliver such Securities to the Trustee for
authentication, and the Trustee is authorized and directed thereupon to
authenticate and deliver the same to or upon the written order of this Company
as provided in the Indenture;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the signatures of the Company officers so authorized
to execute the Securities of such series may be the manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future authorized officers and may be imprinted
or otherwise reproduced thereon, and the Company for such purpose adopts each
facsimile signature as binding upon it notwithstanding the fact that at the time
the respective Securities shall be authenticated and delivered or disposed of,
the individual so signing shall have ceased to hold such office;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated,
Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., McDonald Investments,
Inc. and Wachovia Securities, Inc. are appointed underwriters for the issuance
and sale of the Securities of such series, and the Chairman of the Board, the
President or any Vice President of the Company is authorized, in the Company's
name and on its behalf, to execute and deliver an Underwriting Agreement,
substantially in the form heretofore approved by the Company's Board of
Directors, with such underwriters, with such changes and insertions therein as
are appropriate to conform such Underwriting Agreement to the terms set forth
herein or otherwise as the officer executing such Underwriting Agreement shall
approve and as are not inconsistent with these resolutions, such approval to be
conclusively evidenced by such officer's execution and delivery of the
Underwriting Agreement;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bank One Trust Company, National Association, the
Trustee under the Indenture, is appointed trustee for Securities of such series,
and as Agent of this Company for the purpose of effecting the registration,
transfer and exchange of the Securities of such series as provided in the
Indenture, and the corporate trust office of Bank One Trust Company, National
Association in Chicago, Illinois is designated pursuant to the Indenture as the
office or agency of the Company where such Securities may be presented for
registration, transfer and exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
this Company in respect of the Securities and the Indenture may be served;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bank One Trust Company, National Association is
appointed Paying Agent of this Company for the payment of interest on and
principal of the Securities of such series, and the corporate trust office of
Bank One Trust Company, National Association, is designated, pursuant to the
Indenture, as the office or agency of the Company where Securities may be
presented for payment; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, that each of the Company's officers is authorized and
directed, on behalf of the Company and in its name, to do or cause to be done
everything such officer deems advisable to effect the sale and delivery of the
Securities of such series pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and otherwise
to carry out the Company's
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obligations under the Underwriting Agreement, and to do or cause to be done
everything and to execute and deliver all documents as such officer deems
advisable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Underwriting
Agreement and the execution, authentication and delivery of such Securities
(including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, delivery to the
Trustee of the Securities for authentication and of requests or orders for the
authentication and delivery of Securities).
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UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK (THE "U.S.
DEPOSITARY"), TO MASCO CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER
ENTITY AS IS REQUIRED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY),
ANY TRANSFERM PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL IN ASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
MASCO CORPORATION
6-3/4% Notes Due 2006
No. 1 $400,000,000
CUSIP No. 574599AU0
Masco Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
of Delaware (herein called the "COMPANY," which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
Four Hundred Million Dollars on March 15, 2006, and to pay interest thereon from
March 14, 2001 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on March 15 and September 15
in each year, commencing September 15, 2001, at the rate of 6 3/4% per annum,
until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest
so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name
this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such
Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in said Indenture. Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of
a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on
this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;
provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be
made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: March 14, 2001
MASCO CORPORATION
By /s/ Richard G. Mosteller
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Richard G. Mosteller
Senior Vice President - Finance
Attest /s/ Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.
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Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.
Vice President and Secretary
FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Date of Authentication: March 14, 2001
Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee
By
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Authorized Officer
REVERSE OF SECURITY
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "SECURITIES"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of February 12, 2001 (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the "TRUSTEE," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one
of the series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate
principal amount to $800,000,000.
The Notes will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any
time or in part from time to time (each, a "REDEMPTION DATE") at a redemption
price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of their principal amount plus accrued
interest to the Redemption Date and (ii) the sum, as determined by the
Independent Investment Banker, of the present values of the principal amount and
the remaining scheduled payments of interest on the Notes to be redeemed
(exclusive of interest accrued to such Redemption Date), discounted from the
scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25
basis points plus accrued but unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due
and payable on an interest payment date falling on or prior to the relevant
Redemption Date will be payable to the holders of such Notes registered as such
at the close of business on the relevant record date according to their terms
and the provisions of the Indenture.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY ISSUE" means the United States Treasury security
selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the
time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the
remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY PRICE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the
average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date,
after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations.
"INDEPENDENT INVESTMENT BANKER" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER" means (a) each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Smith Incorporated and Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. and their respective
successors, unless either of them ceases to be a primary U.S. Government
securities dealer in New York City (a "PRIMARY TREASURY DEALER"), in which case
the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (b) any other
Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER QUOTATIONS" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date for the Notes, the average, as
determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount)
quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m.
New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
"TREASURY RATE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per
annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable
Treasury Issue, calculated on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption
Date using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage
of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury price for such
Redemption Date.
This Security will be subject to defeasance and discharge and to defeasance
of certain obligations as set forth in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or
waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security herein provided, and at the times, place and rate, and
in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series,
of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of
this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK (THE "U.S.
DEPOSITARY"), TO MASCO CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER
ENTITY AS IS REQUIRED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE U.S. DEPOSITARY),
ANY TRANSFERM PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL IN ASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
MASCO CORPORATION
6-3/4% Notes Due 2006
No. 2 $400,000,000
CUSP No. 574599AU0
Masco Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
of Delaware (herein called the "COMPANY," which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
Four Hundred Million Dollars on March 15, 2006, and to pay interest thereon from
March 14, 2001 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on March 15 and September 15
in each year, commencing September 15, 2001, at the rate of 6 3/4% per annum,
until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest
so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name
this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such
Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in said Indenture. Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of
a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on
this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;
provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be
made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
MASCO CORPORATION
Dated: March 14, 2001 By /s/ Richard G. Mosteller
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Richard G. Mosteller
Senior Vice President - Finance
Attest /s/ Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.
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Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.
Vice President and Secretary
FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Date of Authentication: March 14, 2001
Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee
By Authorized Officer
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REVERSE OF SECURITY
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "SECURITIES"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of February 12, 2001 (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the "TRUSTEE," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one
of the series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate
principal amount to $800,000,000.
The Notes will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any
time or in part from time to time (each, a "REDEMPTION DATE") at a redemption
price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of their principal amount plus accrued
interest to the Redemption Date and (ii) the sum, as determined by the
Independent Investment Banker, of the present values of the principal amount and
the remaining scheduled payments of interest on the Notes to be redeemed
(exclusive of interest accrued to such Redemption Date), discounted from the
scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-thy months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25
basis points plus accrued but unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due
and payable on an interest payment date falling on or prior to the relevant
Redemption Date will be payable to the holders of such Notes registered as such
at the close of business on the relevant record date according to their terms
and the provisions of the Indenture.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY ISSUE" means the United States Treasury security
selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to
the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the
time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the
remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY PRICE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the
average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date,
after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations.
"INDEPENDENT INVESTMENT BANKER" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER" means (a) each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Smith Incorporated and Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. and their respective
successors, unless either of them ceases to be a primary U.S. Government
securities dealer in New York City (a "PRIMARY TREASURY DEALER"), in which case
the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (b) any other
Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER QUOTATIONS" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date for the Notes, the average, as
determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount)
quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m.
New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
"TREASURY RATE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per
annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable
Treasury Issue, calculated on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption
Date using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage
of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury price for such
Redemption Date.
This Security will be subject to defeasance and discharge and to defeasance
of certain obligations as set forth in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or
waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60
days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the
enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon
on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security herein provided, and at the times, place and rate, and
in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series,
of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of
this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.