EXHIBIT 4.1
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NIPSCO CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.
AND
NIPSCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
TO
CHEMICAL BANK,
Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of February 1, 1996
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Providing for Issuance of Subordinated Debt Securities in Series
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NIPSCO Capital Markets, Inc.
NIPSCO Industries, Inc.
Reconciliation and Tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and
Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1996
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section(s)
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(S)310(a)(1).......................................... 609
(a)(2).......................................... 609
(a)(3).......................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4).......................................... Not Applicable
(a)(5).......................................... 609
(b)............................................. 608, 610
(c)............................................. Not Applicable
(S)311(a)............................................. 613
(b)............................................. 613
(c)............................................. 613
(S)312(a)............................................. 701, 702(a)
(b)............................................. 702(a)
(c)............................................. 702(b)
(S)313(a)............................................. 703(a)
(b)............................................. 703(b)
(c)............................................. 703(c)
(d)............................................. 703(c)
(S)314(a)............................................. 704
(a)(4).......................................... 101, 1009
(b)............................................. Not Applicable
(c)(1).......................................... 102
(c)(2).......................................... 102
(c)(3).......................................... Not Applicable
(d)............................................. Not Applicable
(e)............................................. 102
(f)............................................. Not Applicable
(S)315(a)............................................. 601
(b)............................................. 602
(c)............................................. 601
(d)............................................. 601
(e)............................................. 514
(S)316(a)(1)(A)....................................... 502, 512
(a)(1)(B)....................................... 513
(a)(2).......................................... Not Applicable
(b)............................................. 508
(c)............................................. 104
(S)317(a)(1).......................................... 503
(a)(2).......................................... 504
(b)............................................. 1003
(S)318(a)............................................. 108
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NOTE: This Reconciliation and Tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND INDUSTRIES..................................... 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.............................................. 2
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions..................... 9
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee................... 9
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates............................ 10
SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Company and Industries........ 12
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.................. 13
SECTION 107. Language of Notices, etc................................. 14
SECTION 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act........................ 14
SECTION 109. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents................. 14
SECTION 110. Successors and Assigns................................... 14
SECTION 111. Separability Clause...................................... 14
SECTION 112. Benefits of Indenture.................................... 14
SECTION 113. Governing Law............................................ 14
SECTION 114. Legal Holidays........................................... 15
SECTION 115. Appointment of Agent for Service......................... 15
SECTION 116. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements............ 15
SECTION 117. Execution in Counterparts................................ 16
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.......................................... 16
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.......... 17
SECTION 203. Securities in Global Form................................ 17
SECTION 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities..................... 17
SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Bearer Securities..................... 18
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES AND THE SUPPORT AGREEMENT
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series........................... 18
SECTION 302. Denominations.................................................. 21
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating................. 21
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities........................................... 24
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange............ 25
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities............... 28
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved................. 29
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.......................................... 31
SECTION 309. Cancellation................................................... 32
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest........................................ 32
SECTION 311. Form of Certification by a Person Entitled to Receive a Bearer
Security..................................................... 32
SECTION 312. Support Agreement.............................................. 33
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................ 34
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money..................................... 35
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.................................................. 36
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment................. 37
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.......................................................... 39
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................... 39
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
or Coupons....................................................... 40
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected..................................... 41
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits................................................ 41
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest..................................................... 42
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies................................. 42
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative..................................... 42
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SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver................................ 43
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities............................ 43
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults..................................... 43
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs....................................... 44
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws............................ 44
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities......................... 44
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.......................................... 46
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee................................... 46
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...... 47
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities......................................... 47
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust......................................... 48
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.............................. 48
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests..................... 49
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility..................... 49
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........... 49
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...................... 51
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. 52
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........... 52
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent......................... 52
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE, COMPANY AND INDUSTRIES
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.................................................................. 54
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders...... 55
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.......................................... 55
SECTION 704. Reports by Company and Industries........................... 55
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company and Industries May Consolidate, Etc., Only on
Certain Terms............................................................ 56
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted........................... 57
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SECTION 803. Assumption by Industries............................. 57
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders... 58
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders...... 59
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures................. 60
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.................... 61
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.................. 61
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures... 61
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.......... 61
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency..................... 62
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust... 63
SECTION 1004. Additional Amounts.................................. 64
SECTION 1005. Corporate Existence................................. 65
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties........................... 65
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................... 66
SECTION 1008. Limitations on Dividends, Repurchases and Sinking
Fund Payments..................................... 66
SECTION 1009. Statement by Officers as to Default................. 66
SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants......................... 67
SECTION 1011. Support Agreement................................... 67
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article............................ 67
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee............... 68
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed... 68
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption................................ 68
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price......................... 69
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date............... 70
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part......................... 70
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ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article................................ 71
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities... 71
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund............... 72
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1301. Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called............... 72
SECTION 1302. Call Notice and Place of Meeting........................ 72
SECTION 1303. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.................... 73
SECTION 1304. Quorum; Action.......................................... 73
SECTION 1305. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment
of Meetings........................................... 74
SECTION 1306. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings......... 75
SECTION 1307. Action Without Meeting.................................. 75
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.......... 75
SECTION 1402. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Default on Senior
Indebtedness.......................................... 76
SECTION 1403. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution; Bankruptcy;
Liquidation........................................... 76
SECTION 1404. Subrogation............................................. 77
SECTION 1405. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination..................... 78
SECTION 1406. Notice to the Trustee................................... 79
SECTION 1407. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness...... 79
SECTION 1408. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness 80
SECTION 1409. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness Not Impaired... 80
SECTION 1410. Effect of Satisfaction and Discharge of the Indenture... 80
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS,
DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES
SECTION 1501. Liability Solely Corporate................. 81
Signatures................................................. 82
Support Agreement......................................... Exhibit A
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INDENTURE, dated as of February 1, 1996 among NIPSCO Capital Markets, Inc.,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana
(herein called the ``Company''), having its principal office at 5265 Hohman
Avenue, Hammond, Indiana 46320, NIPSCO Industries, Inc., a corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana (herein called
``Industries''), having its principal office at 5265 Hohman Avenue, Hammond,
Indiana 46320 and Chemical Bank, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, having its principal corporate trust office
at 450 West 33rd Street, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10001, as Trustee
(herein called the ``Trustee'').
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND INDUSTRIES
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the ``Securities''), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided.
Industries has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture
and has previously entered into a Support Agreement, dated April 4, 1989, as
amended as of May 15, 1989, December 10, 1990 and February 14, 1991 (as such
Agreement may be hereafter amended, modified or supplemented from time to time
in accordance with its terms and the provisions of this Indenture, the ``Support
Agreement''), with the Company, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A,
pursuant to which Industries has agreed to ensure the timely payment of
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on Debt (as defined in the
Support Agreement), provided that no holder of such Debt shall have recourse
against the stock or assets of Northern Indiana Public Service Company, an
Indiana corporation (``Northern Indiana''), or any interest of the Company or
Industries therein.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company and Industries, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission promulgated thereunder that are required to be part of this Indenture
and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by such provisions.
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 ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) 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;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America 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 in the United States
of America at the date of such computation;
(4) the words "herein," "hereof," "hereto" 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; and
(5) the word "or" is always used inclusively (for example, the
phrase "A or B" means "A or B or both," not "either A or B but not
both").
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles are defined in those
Articles.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has the
meaning specified in Section 104.
"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.
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"Authenticating Agent" means any Person or Persons authorized by the
Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate one or more series of
Securities.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, in an official language of the
country of publication or in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of
general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is used or in
the financial community of such place. Where successive publications are
required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be
made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the
foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day in the place of
publication.
"Bearer Security" means any Security in the form for Bearer Securities
established pursuant to Section 201 which is payable to bearer and shall bear
the legend specified in Section 205.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or
Industries, as the case may be, or any duly authorized committee thereof.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company or
Industries, as the case may be, 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.
"Business Day," when used with respect to a particular location specified
in the Securities or this Indenture, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which state or national banks in such
location are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, 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.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the
date of the execution of this Indenture is located at 450 West 33rd Street, 15th
Floor, New York, New York 10001.
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"Corporation" includes any corporation, association, company or business
trust.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"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 Global Securities, a
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301 or any
successor clearing agency registered under such Act as contemplated by Section
305, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Depositary" as
used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Depositary with
respect to the Securities of such series.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender
for the payment of public and private debts.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Global Security" means a Security bearing the legend specified in
Section 204 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depositary for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such
Depositary or nominee.
"Holder," when used with respect to any Security, means in the case of a
Registered Security the Person in whose name the Security is registered in the
Security Register and in the case of a Bearer Security the bearer thereof and,
when used with respect to any coupon, means the bearer thereof.
"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 301.
"Industries" means the Person named as "Industries" 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
``Industries'' shall mean such successor corporation.
"Interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after 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 installment 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.
"Northern Indiana" has the meaning stated in the second recital of this
Indenture.
"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 Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Corporate Secretary or
an Assistant Corporate Secretary, of the Company or Industries, as the case may
be, that complies with the requirements of Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture
Act and is delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company or Industries, as the case may be, who shall be
acceptable to the Trustee, that complies with the requirements of Section 314(c)
of the Trust Indenture Act.
"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 502.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities for whose payment or redemption 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 and any coupons thereto appertaining, 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; and
(c) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 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;
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provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have been given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are
present at a meeting of Holders of Securities for quorum purposes, Securities
owned by the Company, Industries or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company, Industries 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 or waiver or upon any such
determination as to the presence of a quorum, only Securities which 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,
Industries or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company, Industries or of such other obligor.
"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.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
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 301.
"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 Section 306 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.
"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.
"Registered Security" means any Security established pursuant to Section
201 which is registered in the Security Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of any series means the date specified for
that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
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"Request" or "Order" means a written request or order signed in the
name of the Company or Industries, as the case may be, by its Chairman of the
Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, its Controller, an Assistant Controller, its Corporate Secretary or
an Assistant Corporate Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means the
chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or any
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman
of the trust committee, the president, any Vice President, the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any
assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller
or any assistant controller 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; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more
than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, "Securities," with
respect to any such Person, shall mean Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to
which such Person is not Trustee.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of, and premium, if any, and
interest on and any other payment due pursuant to any of the following, whether
outstanding at the date of execution of this Indenture or thereafter incurred,
created or assumed: (a) all indebtedness of the Company evidenced by notes,
debentures, bonds or other securities sold by the Company for money (other than
the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities) , (b) all indebtedness of others
of the kinds described in the preceding clause (a) assumed by or guaranteed in
any manner by the Company or in effect guaranteed by the Company through an
agreement to purchase, contingent or otherwise, and (c) all renewals, extensions
or refundings of indebtedness of the kinds described in either of the preceding
clauses (a) and (b) unless, in the case of any particular indebtedness, renewal,
extension or refunding, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or the
assumption or guarantee of the same expressly provides that such indebtedness,
renewal, extension or refunding is not superior in right of payment to or is
pari passu with the Securities. Such Senior Indebtedness shall continue to be
Senior Indebtedness and entitled to the benefits of the subordination provisions
set forth in Article Fourteen of this Indenture irrespective of any amendment,
modification or waiver of any term of such Senior Indebtedness, other than an
amendment or modification to the instrument creating or evidencing the same in
order expressly to
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provide that such indebtedness, renewal, extension or refunding or the
assumption or guarantee of the same is no longer superior in right of payment to
or is pari passu with the Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by Industries or by one or more
other Subsidiaries, or by Industries and one or more other Subsidiaries. For
the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock which ordinarily
has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so
long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any
contingency.
"Support Agreement" has the meaning stated in the second recital of this
Indenture.
"Support Obligations" means the obligations of Industries under the
Support Agreement.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended,
and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular provision
thereof shall mean such Act or provision, as the case may be, as amended or
replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time to time by rules or
regulations adopted by the Commission under or in furtherance of the purposes of
such Act or provision, as the case may be.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more
than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"United States" means the United States of America (including the States
and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas
subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States Federal
income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual,
a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign
partnership one or more of the members
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of which is, for United States Federal income tax purposes, a foreign
corporation, a non-resident alien individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary
of a foreign estate or trust.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company, Industries 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."
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company or Industries, as the case
may be, to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture,
the Company or Industries, as the case may be, 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 such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) 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;
(3) 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
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. 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
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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 or Industries 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 or
Industries, as the case may be, stating that the information with respect to
such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or Industries, as the
case may be, 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 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, 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. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made,
given or taken by Holders may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by
the record of Holders of Securities voting in favor thereof, either in person or
by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities
duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article Thirteen, or a
combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record. Except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments or record are delivered to the Trustee and, where
it is hereby expressly required, to the Company and Industries. Such instrument
or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Holders signing such instrument or instruments and so voting at any such
meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or writing, or of the holding
by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the
Company and Industries, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The
record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 1306.
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Without limiting the generality of this Section 104, unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a Depositary that
is a Holder of a Global Security, may make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies
duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a Depositary that is a
Holder of a Global Security may give its proxy or proxies to the Depositary's
participants or the beneficial owners of interests in any such Global Security,
as the case may be, through such Depositary's standing instructions and
customary practices.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company may, in the
circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, fix any day as the record
date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Securities of any series
entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on any action, authorized or
permitted to be given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series. If not
set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder of Securities of
such series made by any Person in respect of any such action, or in the case of
any such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote
shall be the 30th day prior to such first solicitation or vote, or, if later,
the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to
Section 701, as the case may be. With regard to any record date for action to be
taken by the Holders of one or more series of Securities, only the Holders of
Securities of such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall
be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.
The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining the
Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any permanent Global Security
held by a Depositary and who are entitled under the procedures of such
Depositary to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in
writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or
taken by Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record
date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date. No such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be valid or effective
if made, given or taken more than 90 days after such record date.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(c) The principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by
any Person executing any such instrument or writing as a Holder of Securities,
and the date of his holding the same, may be proved by the production of such
Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust
company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at
the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary,
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or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may
be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person executing such
instrument or writing as a Holder of Securities, if such certificate or
affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee, the Company
and Industries may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues
until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in
respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is
produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is
surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security
is no longer Outstanding.
(d) The fact and date of execution of any such instrument or writing, the
authority of the Person executing the same, the principal amount and serial
numbers of Bearer Securities held by the Person so executing such instrument or
writing and the date of holding the same may also be proved in any other
reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient; and the Trustee may in any
instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in
this Section.
(e) The principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
election, waiver or other action by 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, the
Company or Industries in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Security.
SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Company and Industries.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election,
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,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder of a Security or by the Company or
Industries 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 Department, or
(2) the Company or Industries, as the case may be, by the Trustee or
by any Holder of a Security shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or Industries, as the case may
be, addressed to the attention of its Corporate Secretary, at 5265 Hohman
Avenue, Hammond, Indiana 46320, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or Industries, as the
case may be.
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SECTION 106. Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event:
(1) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Registered
Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
Holder of a Registered Security 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; and
(2) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer
Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York
and, if the Securities of such series are then listed on The Stock Exchange
of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and such stock exchange
shall so require, in London and, if the Securities of such series are then
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such stock exchange shall so
require, in Luxembourg and, if the Securities of such series are then
listed on any other stock exchange outside the United States and such stock
exchange shall so require, in any other required city outside the United
States or, if not practicable, in Europe on a Business Day at least twice,
the first such publication to be not earlier than the earliest date and not
later than the latest date prescribed for the giving of such notice.
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. In any case where notice
to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to
mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular
Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any
notice by publication to Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided above.
In case by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided
above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given
with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in
any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice mailed to
Holders of Registered Securities as provided above.
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 of
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Securities 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.
SECTION 107. Language of Notices, etc.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
SECTION 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with any duties
under any required provision of the Trust Indenture Act imposed hereon by
Section 318(c) thereof, such required provision shall control.
SECTION 109. 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 110. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and
Industries shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 111. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons 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 112. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or the Securities or coupons, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, their successors
hereunder and the Holders of Securities and coupons, any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 113. Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES AND COUPONS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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SECTION 114. 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 (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities
or coupons) 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 on the amount so payable for
the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be.
SECTION 115. Appointment of Agent for Service.
By the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company and Industries
hereby appoint the Trustee as their agent upon which process may be served in
any legal action or proceeding which may be instituted in any Federal or State
court in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, arising out of or
relating to the Securities, the coupons or this Indenture. Service of process
upon such agent at the office of such agent at 450 West 33rd Street, 15th Floor,
New York, New York 10001, Attention: Corporate Trust Department (or such other
address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as may be the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee), and written notice of said service to
the Company and Industries by the Person serving the same addressed as provided
in Section 105, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process
upon the Company and Industries in any such legal action or proceeding, and the
Company and Industries hereby submit to the jurisdiction of any such court in
which any such legal action or proceeding is so instituted. Such appointment
shall be irrevocable so long as the Holders of Securities or coupons shall have
any rights pursuant to the terms thereof or of this Indenture until the
appointment of a successor by the Company and Industries with the consent of the
Trustee and such successor's acceptance of such appointment. The Company and
Industries further agree to take any and all action, including the execution and
filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to
continue such designation and appointment of such agent or successor.
By the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Trustee hereby agrees
to act as such agent and undertakes promptly to notify the Company and
Industries of receipt by it of service of process in accordance with this
Section.
SECTION 116. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt
agreement of the Company, Industries or any Affiliate of either. No such
indenture, loan or debt agreement may be used to interpret this Indenture.
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SECTION 117. Execution in 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 TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Registered Securities, if any, of each series, the Bearer Securities,
if any, of each series and related coupons and the Global Securities, if any,
issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in such form as shall be established
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company 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 the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by
their execution of the Securities or coupons. If the forms of Securities or
coupons of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution of the Company, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall
be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of
the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Order of the Company contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or coupons.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
form set forth in this Article or Article Six.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, the Securities of each series shall be issuable in
global and registered form without coupons. If so provided as contemplated by
Section 301, the Securities of a series also shall be issuable in bearer form,
with or without interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, 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 or coupons.
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SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
Subject to Section 614, the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall
be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
CHEMICAL BANK
as Trustee
By: __________________________
Authorized Officer
SECTION 203. Securities in Global Form.
If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, any such Security
may provide that it or any number of such Securities shall represent the
aggregate amount of all Outstanding Securities of such series (or such lesser
amount as is permitted by the terms thereof) from time to time endorsed thereon
and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect
exchanges. Any endorsement of any Security in global form to reflect the
amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights of
Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made in such
manner and by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the
Order of the Company to be delivered pursuant to Sections 303 or 304 with
respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable,
Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent
global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons
specified therein or in the applicable Order of the Company. If the Order of
the Company pursuant to Sections 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is,
delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in global
form shall be in writing but need not be accompanied by or contained in an
Officers' Certificate and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
SECTION 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form, or in such other form that is
acceptable to the Depositary and the Trustee:
"Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in
definitive registered form, this Security may not be transferred except as a
whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the
Depositary to the Depositary or
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another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary."
SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Bearer Securities.
Any Bearer Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
"Any United States person who holds this Security will be subject to
limitations under the United States income tax laws, including the limitation
provided in Sections 165(j) and 1287(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended."
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES AND THE SUPPORT AGREEMENT
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company, and set forth
in an Officers' Certificate of the Company, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any
series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish
the Securities of the series from Securities of all other series issued by
the Company);
(2) 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 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the
series is payable;
(4) the right, if any, to extend the date or dates on which the
principal of the Securities of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, or any method by which such rate or rates shall be
determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the
Interest Payment Dates on which
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such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest
payable on Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the right, if any, to extend the interest payment periods and the
duration of such extension;
(7) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest, if any, on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(8) whether Securities of such series may be redeemed, and if so, 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;
(9) 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;
(10) whether Bearer Securities of the series are to be issuable;
(11) if Bearer Securities of the series are to be issuable, whether
interest in respect of any portion of a temporary Bearer Security in global
form (representing all of the Outstanding Bearer Securities of the series)
payable in respect of an Interest Payment Date prior to the exchange of
such temporary Bearer Security for definitive Securities of the series
shall be paid to any clearing organization with respect to the portion of
such temporary Bearer Security held for its account and, in such event, the
terms and conditions (including any certification requirements) upon which
any such interest payment received by a clearing organization will be
credited to the Persons entitled to interest payable on such Interest
Payment Date;
(12) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series, any
temporary Bearer Security in global form and any Global Securities shall be
dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security of
the series to be issued;
(13) the denominations in which Registered Securities of the series,
if any, shall be issuable if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, and the denominations in which Bearer Securities
of the series, if any, shall be issuable if other than the denomination of
$5,000;
(14) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in
which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, on the
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Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than the currency of
the United States of America);
(15) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with
reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
(16) 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
502;
(17) any Events of Default or covenants of the Company or Industries
pertaining to the Securities of the series in addition to the Events of
Default set forth in Section 501 and the covenants set forth in Article Ten
hereof;
(18) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person who is
a United States Alien in respect of taxes or similar charges withheld or
deducted and, if so, whether the Company will have the option to redeem
such Securities rather than pay such additional amounts;
(19) whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in whole
or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, if so, (a) the
Depositary with respect to such Global Security or Securities and (b) the
circumstances under which beneficial owners of interests in any such Global
Security may exchange such interest for Securities of the same series and
of like tenor and of any authorized form and denomination, and the
circumstances under which any such exchange may occur, if other than as set
forth in Section 305;
(20) if any of such Securities are to be issued in global form and are
to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon
exchange of a temporary Security) only upon receipt of certain certificates
or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and
terms of such certificates, documents, or conditions; and
(21) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and the coupons appertaining to Bearer
Securities of such series, if any, shall be substantially identical except, in
the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in
such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
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If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant
to a Board Resolution of the Company, a copy of an appropriate record of such
action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the
delivery of the Officers' Certificate of the Company setting forth the terms of
the series. Such Board Resolution may provide general terms or parameters for
Securities of the series and may provide that the specific terms of particular
Securities of such series, and the Persons authorized to determine such terms or
parameters, may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to the Order of the
Company referred to in the third paragraph of Section 303.
SECTION 302. Denominations.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, the Registered Securities of each series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof and the
Bearer Securities of each series, if any, shall be issuable in the denomination
of $5,000.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate
seal reproduced thereon attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its
Assistant Corporate Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities may be manual or facsimile. Coupons shall bear the facsimile
signature of the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
Securities and coupons 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 on behalf
of the Company to the Trustee for authentication by the Trustee together with an
Order of the Company for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and
the Trustee in accordance with such Order shall authenticate and deliver such
Securities; provided, however, that, in connection with its original issuance, a
Bearer Security may be delivered only outside the United States and only if the
Trustee shall have received from the person entitled to receive such Bearer
Security a certificate in the form required by Section 311. The maturity dates,
original issue dates, interest rates and any other terms of the Securities of
such series shall be determined by or pursuant to such Order and procedures. If
provided for in such procedures, such Order may authorize authentication and
delivery pursuant to oral instructions from the
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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 Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a) through
315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon:
(a) the Board Resolution of the Company or indenture supplemental
hereto establishing the form of the Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 201 and the terms of the Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 301;
(b) an Officers' Certificate pursuant to Sections 201 and 301 and
complying with Section 102;
(c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 102 stating,
(i) that the forms of such Securities and coupons, if any, have
been established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company
or by an indenture supplemental hereto, as permitted by Section 201
and in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(ii) that the terms of such Securities have been established by
or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company or by an indenture
supplemental hereto, as permitted by Section 201 and Section 301 and
in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(iii) that such Securities, together with the coupons
appertaining thereto, if any, have been duly authorized, executed,
authenticated, issued and delivered and constitute valid and legally
binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided
by the Support Agreement and the Indenture, enforceable in accordance
with their respective terms, except to the extent that the enforcement
of such obligations may be subject to bankruptcy laws or insolvency
laws or other similar laws and to the exercise of judicial discretion
in accordance with general principles of equity;
(iv) that all laws and requirements in respect of the execution
and delivery of the Securities have been complied with; and
(v) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request.
With respect to each issuance of Securities of a series established in
accordance with the final paragraph of Section 301, the Trustee may conclusively
rely on the documents and opinion delivered in connection with the initial
issuance thereof pursuant to Sections 201
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and 301 and this Section 303, as applicable (unless revoked by superseding
comparable documents or opinions), as to the authorization of the Board of
Directors of any Securities delivered hereunder, the form thereof and the
legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability thereof.
With respect to Securities of a series established in accordance with the
final paragraph of Section 301, if the form and general terms of the Securities
of such series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board
Resolutions of the Company or by an indenture supplemental hereto, as permitted
by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a)
through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, in addition to the foregoing documents and Opinion of Counsel, or in lieu
of clause (iii) above, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Securities have
been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed by the Company and
completed and authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture and
issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with any applicable distribution
agreement, will have been duly issued under the Indenture and will constitute
valid and legally binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits
provided by the Support Agreement and the Indenture, enforceable in accordance
with their respective terms, except to the extent that the enforcement of such
obligations may be subject to bankruptcy laws or insolvency laws or other
similar laws and to the exercise of judicial discretion in accordance with
general principles of equity.
If such forms or terms have been so established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution of the Company or by an indenture supplemental hereto as permitted by
Sections 201 and 301, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to
authenticate and deliver any Securities of such series:
(i) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such
action may not lawfully be taken;
(ii) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, executive
committee or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee in good faith determines that such action would expose the Trustee
to personal liability to Holders of any outstanding series of Securities;
or
(iii) if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will
affect the Trustee's own rights, duties and immunities under the Securities
and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 301 that the Securities
of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more
Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with this Section and the Order of the Company with respect to such
series, authenticate and deliver one or more Global
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Securities in permanent form that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated
in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series to be represented by such Global Security or
Securities, (ii) shall be registered, if in registered form, in the name of the
Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or the nominee of such
Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or
pursuant to such Depositary's instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend as
required by Section 204.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
Each Global Security, each Bearer Security and any temporary Bearer Security in
global form shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated by Section
301.
No Security or coupon 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. Except as permitted by Section 306 or 307, the
Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all
appurtenant coupons for interest then matured and paid or payment duly provided
for, have been detached and canceled.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company
may execute, and upon an Order of the Company 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, in registered form or, if authorized, in bearer form with one or
more coupons or without coupons, 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.
Such temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, which shall be
exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, 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
(accompanied by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor (at
an office or agency of the Company in the case of Bearer Securities) a like
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series
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of authorized denominations and of like tenor; provided, however, that no
definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Registered Security; and provided, further, that no definitive Bearer Security
shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security unless the
Trustee shall have received from the Person entitled to receive the definitive
Bearer Security a certificate in the form required by Section 311. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series, including temporary
Securities in global form, shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange .
The Company shall cause to be kept at one of its offices or agencies
designated pursuant to Section 1002 a register (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 Registered
Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities. Said office or agency is
hereby appointed the Security Registrar for the purpose of registering
Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of
any series at the office or agency in a Place of Payment maintained for such
purpose for such 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 Registered Securities of the same series, Stated
Maturity and original issue date, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series (except a
Global Security representing all or a portion of such series) may be exchanged
for Registered Securities of the same series, Stated Maturity and original issue
date, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or
agency.
At the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series, Stated Maturity and
original issue date, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured coupons and all
matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer
Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or matured
coupon or coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the Bearer
Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company and the
Trustee in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or coupons,
or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company
and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they
may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter
the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been
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made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment;
provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered Security
of the same series after the close of business at such office or agency on (i)
any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date
and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related
proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date of payment, as the case may be.
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 Registered 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 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, to register the transfer of
or to exchange Securities of any series during a period of 15 Business Days
immediately preceding the date notice is given identifying the serial numbers of
the Securities of that series called for redemption, or (ii) to issue, to
register the transfer of or to exchange any Registered Security so selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security
being redeemed in part, or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for
redemption except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered
Security of that series, provided that such Registered Security shall be
immediately surrendered for redemption with written instruction for payment
consistent with the provisions of this Indenture.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant
to this Section 305 or Sections 304, 306, 906 or 1107 for Securities registered
in the name of, and a transfer of a Global Security of any series may be
registered to, any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or
its nominee only if:
(i) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time
such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor Depositary is
not appointed by the Company within 60 days;
(ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Order of the
Company that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable and the transfer
thereof so registrable; or
(iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default
or an event which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would
constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series.
Upon the occurrence in respect of any Global Security of any series of any one
or more of the conditions specified in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of the
preceding sentence or such other conditions as may be specified as contemplated
by Section 301 for such series, then without unnecessary delay, but in any event
not later than the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged,
the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities of that series in
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global
Security, executed by the Company.
On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged,
such Global Securities shall be surrendered from time to time by the Depositary
and in accordance with instructions given to the Trustee and the Depositary
(which instructions shall be in writing but need not be contained in or
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel), as shall be specified in the Order of the Company with respect thereto
to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in
whole or in part, for definitive Securities of the same series without service
charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in
exchange for each portion of such surrendered Global Security, a like aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such Global Security to be
exchanged which (unless the Securities of the series are not issuable both as
Bearer Securities and as Registered Securities, in which case the definitive
Securities exchanged for the Global Security shall be issuable only in the form
in which the Securities are issuable, as specified as contemplated by Section
301) shall be in the form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any
combination thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof;
provided, however, that no such exchanges may
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occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 Business Days
before any selection of Securities of that series to be redeemed and ending on
the relevant Redemption Date; and provided, further, that (unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301) no Bearer Security delivered in
exchange for a portion of a Global Security shall be mailed or otherwise
delivered to any location in the United States.
Promptly following any such exchange in part, such Global Security shall be
returned by the Trustee to the Depositary in accordance with the instructions of
the Company referred to above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange
for any portion of a Global Security after the close of business at the office
or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date for such
Security and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the next
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date for such Security and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed
date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, interest
shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment,
as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but shall be payable
on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be,
only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such Global
Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining to it 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, Stated Maturity and original issue date, and of like tenor
and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding,
with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the
surrendered Security.
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 or coupon
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 Security or coupon has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen),
a new Security of the same series, Stated Maturity and original issue date, and
of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to
such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to which such
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing
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a new Security, pay such Security or coupon; provided, however, that payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and any interest on Bearer Securities shall,
except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or
agency located outside the United States; and provided, further, that, with
respect to any such coupons, interest represented thereby (but not any
additional amounts payable as provided in Section 1004), shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
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, with its coupons, if any, issued pursuant
to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, or in
exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains,
shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company,
whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its coupons, if any,
or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and any such new Security and coupons, if any, shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Securities of that series and their coupons, if any, 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 or coupons.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any Registered 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. Interest, if any, is paid on Bearer Securities to holders of
coupons. In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in exchange for
a Registered Security of such series after the close of business (at an office
or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular Record Date and
before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the
coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable
on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of
such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Any interest on any Registered 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
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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 (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the 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 Registered 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 provided in
this clause. 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 Registered Securities of such series at the address of
such Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days
prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in
the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be
published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of
Payment, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the
establishment of 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 Registered 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 (2). In case a Bearer Security of any series is
surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series
in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of
business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date
for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such proposed date of payment
and Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment
in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer
Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
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(2) 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 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any authorized agent of the Company or
the Trustee may deem and treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security
is registered as the absolute owner of such Registered Security for the purpose
of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee
nor any authorized agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by any
notice to the contrary.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon as the
absolute owner of such Security or coupon for the purpose of receiving payment
thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or
not such Security or coupon be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its
behalf by a Depositary (or its nominee) shall have any rights under this
Indenture with respect to such Global Security or any Security represented
thereby, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee, and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global Security or any
Security represented thereby for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company,
the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or
payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security
or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such
beneficial ownership interests.
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SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities and coupons 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 the Trustee. 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 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 and coupons held by the
Trustee shall be destroyed and certification of their destruction delivered to
the Company, unless by an Order the Company shall direct that canceled
Securities be returned to it.
The repayment of any principal amount of Securities pursuant to such option
of the Holder to require repayment of Securities before their Stated Maturity,
for purposes of this Section 309, shall not operate as a payment, redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until
the Company, at its option, shall deliver or surrender the same to the Trustee
with an Order that such Securities be canceled.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities
of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 311. Form of Certification by a Person Entitled to Receive a Bearer
Security.
Whenever any provision of this Indenture or the form of Security
contemplates that certification be given by a Person entitled to receive a
Bearer Security, such certification shall be provided substantially in the form
of the following certificate, with only such changes as shall be approved by the
Company:
[Form of Certificate to Be Given By
Person Entitled to Receive Bearer Security]
Certificate
____________________
This is to certify that the above-captioned Security is not being acquired
by or on behalf of a United States person, or for offer to resell or for resale
to a United States person, or, if a beneficial interest in the Security is being
acquired by a United States person, that such person is a financial institution
or is acquiring through a financial
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institution, that the Security is held by a financial institution that has
agreed in writing to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B)
or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder and that such person or financial institution is not purchasing for
offer to resell or for resale within the United States. If this certificate is
being provided by a clearing organization, it is based on statements provided to
it by its member organizations. As used herein, "United States" means the
United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia),
its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction, and
"United States person" means any citizen or resident of the United States, any
corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the
laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof and any estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation
regardless of its source. If the undersigned is a dealer, the undersigned
agrees to obtain a similar certificate from each person entitled to delivery of
any of the above-captioned Securities in bearer form purchased from it;
provided, however, that, if the undersigned has actual knowledge that the
information contained in such a certificate is false, the undersigned will not
deliver a Security in temporary or definitive bearer form to the person who
signed such certificate notwithstanding the delivery of such certificate to the
undersigned.
We undertake to advise you by telecopy if the above statement as to
beneficial ownership is not correct on the date of delivery of the above-
captioned Securities in bearer form as to all of such Securities.
We understand that this certificate is required in connection with certain
tax legislation in the United States. If administrative or legal proceedings
are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or
would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a
copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: _________________
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SECTION 312. Support Agreement.
Holders of Securities and coupons and the Trustee are entitled to the
benefits of the Support Agreement available to Lenders (as defined in the
Support Agreement), it being understood and agreed that the Securities and
coupons constitute Debt (as defined in the Support Agreement) for purposes of
the Support Agreement.
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon a Request of the Company 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 any right to receive
additional amounts, as provided in Section 1004), and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when:
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered and
all coupons appertaining thereto (other than (i) coupons appertaining to
Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and
maturing after such exchange, whose surrender is not required or has been
waived as provided in Section 305, (ii) Securities and coupons which have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 306, (iii) coupons appertaining to Securities called
for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date, whose
surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106, and (iv) Securities
and coupons 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 1003) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or
(iii) 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 (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust dedicated
solely for such purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the
entire indebtedness on such Securities and coupons not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if
any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of
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Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) in the event that the Company has deposited funds with the Trustee
pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) above, at the time of such deposit, (A) no
default in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment
due on any Senior Indebtedness shall have occurred and be continuing, (B)
no acceleration of the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness shall have
occurred because of a default (unless such acceleration shall have been
subsequently revoked, in accordance with the instrument evidencing such
Senior Indebtedness, or such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in
full or payment therefor shall have been duly provided) and (C) no other
event with respect to any Senior Indebtedness shall have occurred and be
continuing which, after the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both,
would permit the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf
of such holders to accelerate the maturity of such Senior Indebtedness;
(3) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
of the Company 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.
In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the
Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to
Securities of all series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions
thereto are met. In the event there are two or more Trustees hereunder, then
the effectiveness of any such instrument shall be conditioned upon receipt of
such instruments from all Trustees hereunder.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company and Industries to the Trustee under Section 607, the
obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if
money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of
clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Sections 305,
306, 402, 1002 and 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provision of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the coupons
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
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principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has
been deposited with the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from
other funds, except to the extent required by law.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. 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):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of any interest (including any
additional amounts due under Section 1004 as specified therein) upon any
Security of that series when it becomes due and payable and continuance of
such default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal (including
any additional amounts due under Section 1004 as specified therein) of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) the Company defaults in the deposit of any sinking fund payment,
when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) the Company or Industries defaults in the performance or breach of
any covenant or warranty of the Company or Industries, as the case may be,
in this Indenture or the Support Agreement (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 or pursuant to this Indenture solely for the benefit of one or more
series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 30 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company and Industries by the Trustee,
or to the Company, Industries and the Trustee by the Holders of at least
25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, 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;
provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge
of such default unless either (A) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
assigned to the Corporate Trust Department (or any successor division or
department of the Trustee) shall have actual knowledge of such default, or
(B) the
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Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or from
any Holder of Outstanding Securities of that series; or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in respect of any of the Company, Industries or
Northern Indiana 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 any of the Company, Industries or
Northern Indiana a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
petition by one or more Persons other than the Company, Industries,
Northern Indiana or any of their Affiliates seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of any of the
Company, Industries or Northern Indiana under any applicable Federal or
State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or other similar official for any of the Company,
Industries or Northern Indiana or for any substantial part of the property
of any of the Company, Industries or Northern Indiana, or ordering the
liquidation or winding up of the affairs of any of the Company, Industries
or Northern Indiana, 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
(6) the commencement by any of the Company, Industries or Northern
Indiana of a 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 it
in a 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 to the appointment of or taking possession by a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar
official in respect of it or any substantial part of its property, or the
making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or its
admission in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or its taking of corporate action in furtherance of any such
action; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of
that series.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default 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 33% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or,
if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities,
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such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that
series) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company and Industries (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,
Industries and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(1) The Company or Industries has paid or deposited with the Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series;
(B) 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 rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities; and
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities; and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the
Trustee under Section 607;
and
(2) 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 513.
No such rescission and annulment shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if:
(1) 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
(2) 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 and coupons, the whole amount then due and payable on
such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest,
with interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue
interest, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable, 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, and
any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 607.
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, Industries (pursuant to its Support Obligations) 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
(subject to the limitations set forth in the Support Agreement), Industries
(subject to the limitations set forth in the Support Agreement) 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 and any
related coupons 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 the
Support Agreement, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. 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, Industries or any other obligor
upon the Securities or the property of the Company, Industries or of such other
obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of
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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 or Industries for the payment of
overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise:
(i) 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 and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Trustee
under Section 607) and of the Holders of Securities and coupons allowed in
such judicial proceeding; and
(ii) 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 of Securities and coupons 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 of Securities and coupons, 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 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a Security
or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or coupon in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or
Coupons.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture, the Support Agreement
or the Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Securities or coupons 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 and coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
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SECTION 506. 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 or coupons, as the case
may be, 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 Section
607;
SECOND: Subject to the provisions of Article Fourteen, to the payment
of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities and coupons 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 and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest,
respectively; and
THIRD: To the Company or Industries, as the case may be.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series or any related coupons 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:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than a majority 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;
(3) 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;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) 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 the Outstanding Securities of that series;
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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 or the Support Agreement 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 or the Support Agreement, except in the manner herein or therein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, (1) the Holder of
any Security or coupon shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest on such Security or payment of such coupon on
the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security or coupon (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 or
affected without the consent of such Holder; and (2) the Holder of any Security
or coupon shall be considered a Lender (as defined in the Support Agreement) and
shall have all rights of a Lender set forth therein.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted any
proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture or the Support
Agreement 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,
Industries, the Trustee and the Holders of Securities and coupons shall be
restored severally and respectively to their former 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 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the last paragraph
of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons 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.
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SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or
coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default 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 of Securities or coupons may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or coupons, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities.
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:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture, expose the Trustee to personal liability or be unduly
prejudicial to Holders not joined therein; and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any related coupons waive any past default
hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series; or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine 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.
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SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security or
coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court
may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits
and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder of any Security or coupon
for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security or the payment of any coupon 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 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
Each of the Company and Industries 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 law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force which may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the
Company and Industries (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.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of any series:
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform, with respect to Securities of
such series, such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth
in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
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(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may, with
respect to Securities of such series, 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 with respect to Securities of any series
has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise, with respect to
Securities of such series, 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:
(1) This subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) 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;
(3) 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 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
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend
or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not 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.
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SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after 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 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, notice of
all such defaults 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 501(4)
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 would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of
such series.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act:
(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, coupon, 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 or Industries mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Request or Order and any
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company or Industries shall 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 of Securities of any series 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, coupon, 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 or Industries, personally or by agent or attorney;
and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys 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.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication) and in any coupons 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, the Support Agreement or of
the Securities or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities
and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in a
Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company
are true and accurate, subject to the qualifications set forth therein. 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 605. 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 coupons and, subject
to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act, may otherwise deal with
the Company, Industries or an Affiliate of either 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 606. 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 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company and Industries agree:
(1) 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);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, 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 and any Authenticating Agent),
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to
its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence, willful misconduct
or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of 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.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an
Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6), the expenses and the
compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any bankruptcy law. As security for the performance of the
obligations of the Company and Industries under this Section the Trustee shall
have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or
collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on particular Securities.
The Company's obligations under this Section 607 and any lien arising hereunder
shall survive the resignation or removal of any Trustee, the discharge of the
Company's obligations pursuant to Article Four of this Indenture and/or the
termination of this Indenture. Nothing in Article Fourteen shall apply to the
right of the Trustee to receive any amounts due under or pursuant to this
Section 607.
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SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of Section 310(b) or any other provision of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the
manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act
and this Indenture.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any
State or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, or any other person permitted by the Trust Indenture Act
to act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and
that has a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section
310(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000, is subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia authority
and is not otherwise ineligible under Section 310(a)(5) of the Trust Indenture
Act. If such Corporation 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 Corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 610. 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 611.
(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 and
Industries. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 611 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, the Company and
Industries.
(d) If at any time:
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(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written
request by the Company and Industries or by any Holder of a Security who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months; or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall
fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company and Industries
or by any such Holder; or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged
a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property
shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of
the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (i) the Company and Industries by Board Resolutions may
remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section
315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and
all other similarly situated Holders, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all 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 and Industries, by Board
Resolutions, 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 Section 611. 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, Industries 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 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company and Industries. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company and
Industries or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 611, any Holder of a Security 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
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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 Registered
Securities, if any, of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register and, if Securities of such Series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, by publishing notice of such event once in an Authorized Newspaper
in each Place of Payment located outside the United States. 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 611. 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, Industries 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 and Industries or on the request of the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights,
powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor 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,
Industries, 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
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such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company and Industries or
on the request of 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, subject nevertheless to its lien
provided for in Section 607, 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 and Industries
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 (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 612. 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 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 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company or
Industries (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of Section 311 and any other provision of the Trust
Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company or
Industries (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding 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 exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, 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
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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 (computed in accordance with Section 310(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture
Act) of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal, State or District of Columbia 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 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 the 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 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 (i) mail written notice
of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Registered Securities, if any, of the series with respect to which such
Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register, and (ii) if Securities of the series are issuable as Bearer
Securities, publish notice of such appointment at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper in the place where such successor Authenticating Agent has its
principal office if such office is located outside the United States. 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.
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The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments in accordance with the
provisions of Section 607.
The provisions of Sections 308, 604 and 605 shall be applicable to each
Authenticating Agent.
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 herein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
CHEMICAL BANK
As Trustee
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
By:
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE, COMPANY AND INDUSTRIES
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
In accordance with Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Company
will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than June 1 and December 1, in each year,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing all
the information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its
Paying Agents other than the Trustee, as to the names and addresses of the
Holders of Securities as of the preceding May 15 or November 15, as the
case may be, 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;
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provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is Security Registrar for any
particular series of Securities issuable only as Registered Securities, no such
list need be furnished with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it pursuant
to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor
Industries nor the Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names
and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with Section 312 of the
Trust Indenture Act, 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 312(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May
15 following the first issuance of Securities pursuant to Section 301, if
required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall
transmit, pursuant to Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report
dated as of such May 15 with respect to any of the events specified in said
Section 313(a) which may have occurred since the later of the immediately
preceding May 15 and the date of this Indenture.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit the reports required by Section 313(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified therein.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the manner and
to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company and Industries.
The Company and Industries, pursuant to Section 314(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act, shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company or
Industries 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 or
Industries may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section
13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
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of 1934; or, if the Company or Industries 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, as
amended, 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;
(2) 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 and Industries with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(3) transmit, within 30 days after the filing thereof with the
Trustee, to the Holders of Securities, in the manner and to the extent
provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of
any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company and Industries May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms.
Neither the Company nor Industries shall consolidate with or merge into any
other Corporation or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) the Corporation formed by any such consolidation or into which it
is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which
leases, its properties and assets substantially as an entirety shall be a
Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly
assume, in the case of the Company, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the Securities; in
the case of the Company or Industries, the performance of every covenant of
this Indenture on the part of the Company or Industries, as applicable; and
in the case of Industries, all the obligations under the Support Agreement
to be performed or observed;
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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, would become an
Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
(3) the Company or Industries, as applicable, has delivered to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease complies
with this Section 801 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with.
SECTION 802. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation by the Company or Industries with or merger by
the Company or Industries into any other Corporation or any conveyance,
transfer or lease of either the Company's or Industries' properties and
assets substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the
successor Corporation formed by such consolidation or into which it is
merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed
to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the
Company or Industries, as applicable, under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such successor Corporation had been named as the Company or
Industries, as applicable, herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a
lease, the predecessor Corporation shall be relieved of all obligations
and covenants under this Indenture, the Securities and, in the case of
Industries, the Support Agreement.
SECTION 803. Assumption by Industries or Subsidiary.
Industries or a Subsidiary may directly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory
to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on
all the Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and the performance of
every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed. Upon any such assumption, Industries or such Subsidiary shall succeed
to and be substituted for and may exercise every right and power of the Company
under this Indenture with the same effect as if Industries or such Subsidiary
had been named as the Company herein and the Company shall be released from its
liability as obligor on the Securities; provided that, in the case of such
assumption by a Subsidiary, the Support Agreement is modified so that references
to the Company and its Debt therein are changed to, or modified to include,
references to such Subsidiary and its Debt (including the Securities). No such
assumption shall be permitted unless Industries has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate of Industries and an Opinion of Counsel for Industries,
each stating that such assumption and supplemental indenture comply with this
Article, that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with and, in the event of assumption by a
Subsidiary, that Industries' obligations under this Indenture and the Support
Agreement (modified as aforesaid) remain in full force and effect.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the
Company and Industries, when authorized by Board Resolutions, 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:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Corporation to the Company
or Industries and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company or Industries, as the case may be, herein and in the Securities
and coupons; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company and Industries 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 Industries; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to
change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal (or
premium, if any) on Registered Securities or of principal (or premium, if
any) or any interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Registered Securities
to be exchanged for Bearer Securities or to permit the issuance of
Securities in uncertificated form, provided any such action shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series
or any related coupons in any material respect; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only
when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the
execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit
of such provision; or
(6) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any
related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(7) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series, to contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the
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rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and to add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary
to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by
more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(8) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or 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
or any related coupons in any material respect; or
(9) to effect assumption by Industries or a Subsidiary pursuant to
Section 803; or
(10) to conform this Indenture to any amendment of the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION 902. 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, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company,
Industries and the Trustee, the Company and Industries, when authorized by Board
Resolutions, 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 modifying
in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series and any
related coupons under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security or coupon affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or of 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 change the method of calculating
the rate of interest thereon, or change any obligation of the Company to
pay additional amounts pursuant to Section 1004 (except as contemplated by
Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), 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 502, or change any Place of Payment in the United States 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 modify
the provisions of this Indenture with
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respect to the subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the
Holders; or
(2) 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 reduce the requirements of Section 1304 for quorum or voting;
or
(3) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office or
agency in each Place of Payment, or any obligation of the Company to
maintain an office or agency outside the United States pursuant to Section
1002; or
(4) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1010, 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 of a Security or coupon with respect to changes
in the references to ``the Trustee'' and concomitant changes in this
Section and Section 1009, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance
with the requirements of Sections 611(b) and 901(8).
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 of Securities 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.
The Company and Industries shall have the right to set a record date for
the solicitation of any consents under this Article Nine, which record date
shall be set in accordance with Section 104.
SECTION 903. 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 315 of the Trust Indenture Act) 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.
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The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties, immunities or
liabilities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. 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
and of any coupons appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
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 TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. 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 the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the
terms of the Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture.
Any interest due on Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other than
additional amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section 1004 in respect of
principal of (or premium, if any, on) such a Security, shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of the several coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature.
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SECTION 1002. 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 (but, except as
otherwise provided below, unless such Place of Payment is located outside the
United States, not Bearer Securities) 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 initially hereby appoints the Trustee, its office or agency for each of
said purposes. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the
Company will maintain, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an
office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series which is located outside
the United States where Securities of such series and the related coupons may be
presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any additional
amounts payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1004);
provided, however, that if the Securities of such series are listed on The Stock
Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland or the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United States and
such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a Paying Agent
in London or Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United
States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of such series are listed
on such exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee 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
in respect of any series of Securities or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with
the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders of Securities of that
series may be made and notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that
series and the related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment
(including payment of any additional amounts payable on Bearer Securities of
that series pursuant to Section 1004) at the place specified for the purpose
pursuant to Section 301 or, if no such place is specified, at the main office of
the Trustee in London, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent
to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
No payment of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall be
made at any office or agency of the Company in the United States or by check
mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account
maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, payment
of principal of and any premium and interest in U.S. dollars (including
additional amounts payable in respect thereof) on any Bearer Security may be
made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York if (but only if) payment of the full amount of such
principal, premium, interest or additional amounts at all offices outside the
United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this
Indenture is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other
similar restrictions.
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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
designations; 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 in accordance with the requirements set forth above for
Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other
than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities
of that series; and
(3) 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.
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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 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
terms 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 sums.
Any sums deposited with the Trustee 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 Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security or
any coupon appertaining thereto 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 an
Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment or mailed to each such Holder,
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
or mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to
the Company.
SECTION 1004. Additional Amounts.
If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of any series or any
coupon appertaining thereto additional amounts as provided therein. Whenever in
this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any
series or any related coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or
exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include
mention of the payment of additional amounts provided for in this Section to the
extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be payable
in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express
mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable) in any provisions
hereof shall not be construed as excluding additional amounts in those
provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect
to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear
interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal (and
premium, if any) is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest if there has been any change
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with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers'
Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal
Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers'
Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents
whether such payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the
Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series
or the related coupons who are United States Aliens without withholding for or
on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the
Securities of that series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such
Officers' Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to
be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities or coupons and the
Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the additional amounts
required by this Section. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and
any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part
arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in
reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.
SECTION 1005. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and its rights (charter and statutory) and franchises.
Subject to Article Eight, (1) Industries will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and that of its subsidiary Northern Indiana and its rights (charter
and statutory) and franchises and those of Northern Indiana; provided, however,
that Industries shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise of
Northern Indiana if, in the judgment of Industries, the preservation thereof is
no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of Northern Indiana and the
loss thereof would not be disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders
of Securities, and (2) Industries will continue to own, directly or indirectly,
all of the outstanding common stock of Northern Indiana.
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.
Each of the Company and Industries will cause all properties used or useful
in the conduct of its business, and Industries will cause all properties used or
useful in the business of the Subsidiaries, to be maintained and kept in good
condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment
and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements,
betterments and improvements thereof, all as may be necessary so that the
business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously
conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall
prevent Industries from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of
such properties or disposing of them if such discontinuance or disposal is, in
the judgment of Industries, desirable in the
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conduct of its business or the business of the Subsidiaries and not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders of Securities.
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
Each of the Company and Industries will pay or discharge or cause to be
paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes,
assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it and, in the case
of Industries, any of the Subsidiaries, or upon the income, profits or property
of the Company, Industries or any of the Subsidiaries, and (2) all lawful claims
for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien
upon the property of the Company, Industries or any of the Subsidiaries;
provided, however, that none of the Company, Industries or any of the
Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability
or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 1008. Limitations on Dividends, Repurchases and Sinking Fund Payments.
If there shall have occurred any event that would, with the giving of
notice or the passage of time, or both, constitute an Event of Default under the
Indenture or the Company shall have given notice of its election to extend an
interest payment period of a series of the Securities as provided in the Board
Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto providing for the issuance of such
series of the Securities and such period, or any extension thereof, shall be
continuing, neither the Company nor Industries shall, until such Event of
Default shall have been cured or waived in accordance with this Indenture or
shall have ceased to exist and all interest accrued on such series of the
Securities during an extended interest payment period shall have been paid in
full, (i) declare, set aside or pay any dividend or distribution on any shares
of any class or series of its capital stock, except for dividends or
distributions in shares of its capital stock or in rights to acquire shares of
its capital stock, (ii) repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, or make any
sinking fund payment for the purchase or redemption of, any shares of any class
or series of its capital stock (except by conversion into or exchange for shares
of its capital stock and except for a redemption, purchase or other acquisition
by Industries of shares of its capital stock made for the purpose of an employee
incentive plan or benefit plan of Industries or any of its Subsidiaries), (iii)
make any liquidation payment with respect to any shares of any class or series
of its capital stock, (iv) make any payment of interest, principal or premium,
if any, on or repay, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or make any sinking
fund payment for the purchase or redemption of any debt securities issued by the
Company that rank pari passu with or junior to the Securities, or (v) make any
guarantee payment with respect to any of the foregoing.
SECTION 1009. Statement by Officers as to Default.
(a) Each of the Company and Industries will deliver to the Trustee, within
120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date
hereof, a certificate, signed by the principal executive officer, principal
financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company or Industries,
as the case may be, stating whether or not
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to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company or Industries, as the
case may be, is in default in the performance and observance of any of the
terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period
of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company or
Industries shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and
status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
(b) The Company or Industries, as applicable, will deliver to the Trustee,
within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which
after notice or lapse of time would become an Event of Default pursuant to
clause (4) of Section 501.
SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company and Industries may omit in any particular instance to comply
with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1006 and 1007 with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term,
provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and Industries and
the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 1011. Support Agreement.
Each of the Company and Industries covenants and agrees for the benefit of
each series of Securities that (1) it will perform its respective obligations
under the Support Agreement, and (2) it will not agree to any amendment or
termination of the Support Agreement as in effect on the date of this Indenture,
except in accordance with the terms of the Support Agreement as in effect on the
date of this Indenture.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series) in
accordance with this Article.
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SECTION 1102. 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
the Securities of any series, with the same issue date, interest rate, Stated
Maturity and other terms, 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 in writing of such Redemption
Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.
In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the expiration of any
restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of the Company
which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such Securities, the
Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing
compliance with such restriction or condition.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series 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 (other than Securities of such series held by the Company), 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 integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Registered
Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of that series. Unless otherwise provided in the
Securities of a series, partial redemptions must be in an amount not less than
$1,000,000 principal amount of Securities.
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 1104. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 106
to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date.
All notices of redemption shall state:
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(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) 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,
(4) 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,
(5) the place or places where such Securities, together in the case
of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if any,
maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of
the Redemption Price, and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
With respect to any notice of redemption of Securities at the election of the
Company, unless, upon the giving of such notice, such Securities shall be deemed
to have been paid in accordance with Section 401, such notice may state that
such redemption shall be conditional upon the receipt by the Trustee, on or
prior to the date fixed for such redemption, of money sufficient to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Securities and
that if such money shall not have been so received such notice shall be of no
force or effect and the Company shall not be required to redeem such Securities.
In the event that such notice of redemption contains such a condition and such
money is not so received, the redemption shall not be made and within a
reasonable time thereafter notice shall be given, in the manner in which the
notice of redemption was given, that such money was not so received and such
redemption was not required to be made. A notice of redemption published as
contemplated by Section 106 need not identify particular Registered Securities
to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company, and any notice of non-satisfaction of a condition for redemption as
aforesaid, 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.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to 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 1003) an amount of
money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest, if any, on, all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
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SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, and the conditions, if
any, set forth in such notice having been satisfied, 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, in the case of an
unconditional notice of redemption, the Company shall default in the payment of
the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear
interest and the coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities
so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon
surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice,
together with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the
Redemption Date, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption
Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided,
however, that installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest (at an office or agency
located outside the United States except as otherwise provided in Section 1002);
and provided, further, that installments of interest on Registered Securities
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 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be accompanied
by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security may
be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face
amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or
coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to
them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any
Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall
surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect
of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder
shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that
interest represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside of the United
States except as otherwise provided in Section 1002.
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 1107. 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 with
respect to any Registered Security, 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
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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, Stated Maturity
and 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.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, if a Global
Security is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Depositary in global form, without service
charge, a new Global Security in a denomination equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Global Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.
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 301 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 1202. 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 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than
any previously called for redemption), together in the case of any Bearer
Securities of such series with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto, and
(2) 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 such Securities have not been previously so
credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by
the Trustee at the Redemption
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Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the
sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.
SECTION 1203. 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 that series, 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 1202 and stating the basis for such credit and that such
Securities have not previously been so credited 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
1103 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 1104. Such
notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made
upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1301. Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called.
If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, a meeting of
Holders of Securities of such series may be called at any time and from time to
time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series.
SECTION 1302. Call Notice and Place of Meeting.
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of
any series for any purpose specified in Section 1301, to be held at such time
and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in
London as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting
and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be
given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 nor more than 180
days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the
Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of
Securities of such series for
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any purpose specified in Section 1301, by written request setting forth in
reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting
within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to
cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders
of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be,
may determine the time and the place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, or in London for such meeting and may call such meeting for such
purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1303. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of
such series, or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for
a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such
Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to
speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons
entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the
Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 1304. Quorum; Action.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of
Holders of Securities of such series. In the absence of a quorum within 30
minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if
convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved.
In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10
days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of
such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such
adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days
as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
adjourned meeting. Except as provided by Section 1305(d), notice of the
reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section
1302(a), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days
prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of
the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as
provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution presented
to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present
as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any
resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture
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expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified
percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned
meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related coupons,
whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
SECTION 1305. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Securities of such series in regard to proof of the holding of
Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other
matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding
of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the
appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104.
Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies,
regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof
specified in Section 104 or other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1302(b), in which
case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting,
as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A
permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by
vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall
be entitled to one vote for each $100 principal amount of Securities of such
series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast
or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not
Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The
chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a
Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called
pursuant to Section 1302 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time
to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series
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represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without
further notice.
SECTION 1306. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in
triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1302 and, if
applicable, Section 1304. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated
SECTION 1307. Action Without Meeting.
In lieu of a vote of Holders at a meeting as hereinbefore contemplated in
this Article, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action may be made, given or taken by Holders by written
instruments as provided in Section 104.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities issued
hereunder, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, and for
purposes of Section 508 consents, that all Securities shall be issued subject to
the provisions of this Article Fourteen, and each Holder of a Security, whether
upon original issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees
to be bound by such provisions. The payment of the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on all Securities issued hereunder shall, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and junior in right of
payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, whether
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outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred. No provision
of this Article Fourteen shall prevent the occurrence of any default or Event of
Default hereunder.
SECTION 1402. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Default on Senior Indebtedness.
In the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment
of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due on any Senior
Indebtedness continuing beyond the period of grace, if any, specified in the
instrument evidencing such Senior Indebtedness, unless and until such default
shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, and in the event
that the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness has been accelerated because of a
default, unless and until such acceleration shall have been revoked in
accordance with the instrument evidencing such Senior Indebtedness or such
Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, then no payment shall be made
by the Company with respect to the principal (including redemption and sinking
fund payments) of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be
received by the Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the preceding
paragraph of this Section 1402, such payment shall be held in trust for the
benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior
Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the extent
that the holders of Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or
representatives or a trustee) notify the Trustee within 90 days of such payment
of the amounts then due and owing on Senior Indebtedness, and only the amounts
specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be paid to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness.
SECTION 1403. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution; Bankruptcy;
Liquidation.
Upon any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
creditors upon any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due or to become due upon all
Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof provided for
in money in accordance with its terms, before any payment is made on account of
the principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities; and upon any
such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization, any payment by the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled, except for
the provisions of this Article Fourteen, shall be paid by the Company or by any
receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other person
making such payment or distribution, or by the Holders of the Securities or by
the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or it, directly to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the
respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holders, as calculated by
the
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Company) or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or
trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any
Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may
appear, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full, in money
or money's worth, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution
to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution
is made to the Holders of Securities or to the Trustee.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, prohibited by the foregoing shall be received by the
Trustee before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, or provision is made for
such payment in money in accordance with its terms, such payment or distribution
shall be held in trust for the benefit of and shall be paid over or delivered to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives,
or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any
instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their
respective interests may appear, as calculated by the Company, for application
to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent
necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full in money in accordance with its
terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
For purposes of this Article Fourteen, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other Corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which
is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article Fourteen with
respect to the Securities to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at
the time be outstanding; provided that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is assumed
by the new Corporation, if any, resulting from such reorganization or
readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of the Senior Indebtedness are
not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or
readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
Company into, another Corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of the
Company following the conveyance or transfer of its property as an entirety, or
substantially as an entirety, to another Corporation upon the terms and
conditions provided for in Article Eight hereof shall not be deemed a
dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this
Section 1403 if such other Corporation shall, as part of such consolidation,
merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions stated in Article
Eight hereof. Nothing in Article Fourteen shall apply to the right of the
Trustee to receive any amounts due under or pursuant to Section 607.
SECTION 1404. Subrogation.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the rights
of the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash,
property or securities of the
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Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full; and, for
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the
Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article Fourteen, and no payment over pursuant to the
provisions of this Article Fourteen, to or for the benefit of the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as
between the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to
or on account of the Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions
of this Article Fourteen are and are intended solely for the purposes of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on the one hand,
and the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
Nothing contained in this Article Fourteen or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the
Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional,
to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable
in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative
rights of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than
the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein
prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article Fourteen of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received
upon the exercise of any such remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article Fourteen, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601,
and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or
decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any such
dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending
or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidation trustee,
agent or other person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the
Trustee or to the Holders of the Securities, for the purposes of ascertaining
the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article Fourteen.
SECTION 1405. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security, by such Holder's acceptance thereof, authorizes
and directs the Trustee on such Holder's behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article Fourteen and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
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SECTION 1406. Notice to the Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer
of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of any fact known to the Company
which would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee or
Paying Agent in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this
Article Fourteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article Fourteen or
any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any
payment of monies to or by the Trustee or Paying Agent in respect of the
Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article Fourteen, unless and until
a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof
at the Corporate Trust Office from the Company or a holder or holders of Senior
Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and before the receipt of any such
written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be
entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however,
that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this
Section 1406 at least three Business Days prior to the date upon which by the
terms hereof any money may become payable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such money and to
apply the same to the purposes for which they were received, and shall not be
affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it within three
Business Days prior to such date.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled to
rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself
to be the holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of such holder)
to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Indebtedness
or a trustee on behalf of any such holder or holders. In the event that the
Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect
to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article Fourteen, the Trustee may
request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent
to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution
and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article
Fourteen, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any
payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such
Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 1407. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article Fourteen with respect to any Senior Indebtedness at
the time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
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SECTION 1408. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, the
Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and
obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article Fourteen, and no
implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee
shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, and, subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall
not be liable to any holder of such Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or
deliver to the Holders of the Securities, the Company or any other Person money
or assets to which any holder of the Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by
virtue of this Article Fourteen or otherwise.
SECTION 1409. Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness Not Impaired.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time or in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company,
as the case may be, or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such
holder, or by any non-compliance by the Company, as the case may be, with the
terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge
thereof that any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without
the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities,
without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article Fourteen or
the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner,
place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter,
Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior
Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which
Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise
deal with property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Indebtedness;
(iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior
Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against
the Company and any other Person.
SECTION 1410. Effect of Satisfaction and Discharge of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, upon the execution
and delivery by the Trustee to the Company of instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture with respect to one or more series
of Securities in accordance with Section 401, any funds deposited with the
Trustee in trust pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) of Section 401 shall cease to be
subject to the provisions of this Article Fourteen.
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS,
DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES
SECTION 1501. Liability Solely Corporate.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on any Securities, or any part thereof, or for any
claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, or of the indebtedness
represented thereby, or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement under this
Indenture, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee,
as such, past, present or future of the Company or Industries or of any
predecessor or successor Corporation (either directly or through the Company,
Industries or a predecessor or successor Corporation of either of them),
whether by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law, or by
the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly
agreed and understood that this Indenture and all the Securities are solely
corporate obligations, and that no personal liability whatsoever shall attach
to, or be incurred by, any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or
employee, past, present or future, of the Company or Industries or of any
predecessor or successor Corporation of either of them, either directly or
indirectly through the Company, Industries or any predecessor or successor
Corporation of either of them, because of the indebtedness hereby authorized or
under or by reason of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained
in this Indenture or in any of the Securities or to be implied herefrom or
therefrom, and that any such personal liability is hereby expressly waived and
released as a condition of, and as part of the consideration for, the execution
of this Indenture and the issuance of the Securities; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 1501 shall be interpreted to relieve Industries of its
corporate obligations set forth in this Indenture by virtue of it being a
stockholder of the Company.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
NIPSCO CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.
[SEAL] By: ____________________________________
Name: Jerry M. Springer
Attest: Title: Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
__________________________________
NIPSCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
[SEAL] By: ____________________________________
Name: Stephen P. Adik
Attest: Title: Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer
__________________________________
CHEMICAL BANK, TRUSTEE
[SEAL] By: ____________________________________
Name:
Attest: Title:
By: _______________________________
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