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AMERICAN HONDA RECEIVABLES CORP.,
as Depositor,
and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE,
as Owner Trustee
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
Dated December 16, 2003
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. General Definitions.........................................................1
Section 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions...............................................5
Section 1.03. Interpretive Provisions.....................................................5
ARTICLE TWO
ORGANIZATION
Section 2.01. Name........................................................................5
Section 2.02. Office......................................................................5
Section 2.03. Purposes and Powers.........................................................5
Section 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee................................................6
Section 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate .........................6
Section 2.06. Declaration of Trust........................................................7
Section 2.07. Liability of Owners.........................................................7
Section 2.08. Title to Trust Property.....................................................7
Section 2.09. Situs of Issuer.............................................................7
Section 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor ............................7
ARTICLE THREE
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
Section 3.01. Initial Ownership...........................................................9
Section 3.02. The Trust Certificates......................................................9
Section 3.03. Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates ..........................9
Section 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates................10
Section 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates ...................11
Section 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners......................................................12
Section 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses .................12
Section 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................12
Section 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent................................................12
Section 3.10. Definitive Trust Certificates..............................................13
Section 3.11. Repayment of Trust Certificates............................................13
ARTICLE FOUR
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters ....................13
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Section 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters ..........................14
Section 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy ...............................14
Section 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power..............................................14
Section 4.05. Majority Control...........................................................15
ARTICLE FIVE
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
Section 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account.............................................15
Section 5.02. Application of Trust Funds.................................................15
Section 5.03. Method of Payment..........................................................16
Section 5.04. No Segregation of Monies; No Interest......................................16
Section 5.05. Accounting and Reports to Owners, Internal Revenue Service and Others......16
ARTICLE SIX
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 6.01. General Authority..........................................................17
Section 6.02. General Duties.............................................................17
Section 6.03. Action Upon Instruction....................................................17
Section 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions.........18
Section 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions.................19
Section 6.06. Restrictions...............................................................19
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties............................................19
Section 7.02. Furnishing of Documents....................................................20
Section 7.03. Representations and Warranties of the Owner Trustee........................20
Section 7.04. Reliance, Advice of Counsel................................................21
Section 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity..........................................22
Section 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or Receivables.............22
Section 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes.........................22
ARTICLE EIGHT
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses..........................................23
Section 8.02. Indemnification............................................................23
Section 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee..............................................23
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ARTICLE NINE
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
Section 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement.............................................23
ARTICLE TEN
SUCCESSOR AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
Section 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee ................................25
Section 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee....................................25
Section 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee....................................................26
Section 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee...................................26
Section 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee .............................26
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.01. Supplements and Amendments.................................................28
Section 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owner .............................29
Section 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others............................................29
Section 11.04. Notices....................................................................29
Section 11.05. Severability...............................................................30
Section 11.06. Separate Counterparts......................................................30
Section 11.07. Successors and Assigns.....................................................30
Section 11.08. No Petition................................................................30
Section 11.09. No Recourse................................................................30
Section 11.10. Headings...................................................................30
Section 11.11. Governing Law..............................................................30
Section 11.12. Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid ...........................30
Section 11.13. Depositor Payment Obligation...............................................31
Section 11.14. Federal Tax Treatment......................................................31
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A - Form of Trust Certificate A-1
Exhibit B - Form of Seller Certificate B-1
Exhibit C - Form of Investment Letter C-1
Exhibit D - Form of Rule 144A Letter D-1
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This Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated December 16, 2003, is
among American Honda Receivables Corp., a California corporation, as depositor
(the "Depositor") and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, as owner trustee
(the "Owner Trustee").
WHEREAS, Honda Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust has been created
pursuant to a trust agreement, dated as of November 18, 2003 between the
Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the "Initial Trust Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto are entering into this amended and restated
trust agreement pursuant to which, among other things, the Initial Trust
Agreement will be amended and restated and $28,697,894.52, aggregate principal
amount of Asset Backed Certificates will be issued;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained,
and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which
are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. General Definitions. Whenever used herein, unless the context
otherwise requires, the following words and phrases shall have the following
meanings:
"Administration Agreement" means the administration agreement, dated as of
December 1, 2003, among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and
AHFC, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Administrator" means AHFC, as Administrator under the Administration
Agreement, and its successors in such capacity.
"Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same
may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"AHFC" means American Honda Finance Corporation, and its successors.
"AHRC" means American Honda Receivables Corp., and its successors.
"Applicants" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"Benefit Plan" means (i) an employee benefit plan (as such term is defined
in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA,
(ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity
whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in
the entity.
"Certificate Balance" means, with respect to any Trust Certificate, the
original certificate balance of such Trust Certificate minus all payments on
such Trust Certificate with respect to principal.
"Certificate Distribution Account" means the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 5.01.
"Certificate of Trust" means the Certificate of Trust filed for the Issuer
pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A to the Initial Trust Agreement.
"Certificate Rate" means 2.96% per annum calculated on the basis of a 360
day year of twelve 30 day months.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" means the register
maintained and the registrar (or any successor thereto) appointed pursuant to
Section 3.04.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Certificate is registered.
"Closing Date" means December 16, 2003.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its
successors.
"Corporate Trust Office" means, with respect to the Owner Trustee, the
principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at 1011 Centre
Road, Suite 200, Wilmington, Delaware 19805-1266 or at such other address as the
Owner Trustee may designate by notice to the Owners and, the Depositor, or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Owner Trustee at the address
designated by such successor Owner Trustee by notice to the Owners and the
Depositor.
"Depositor" means AHRC in its capacity as depositor hereunder.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, and its successors.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Expenses" means all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes,
claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable out of pocket costs,
expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any
kind and nature whatsoever.
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"Indemnified Parties" means the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns,
agents and any co-trustee.
"Indenture" means the indenture dated as of December 1, 2003 between the
Issuer and The Bank of New York, as indenture trustee.
"Investment Letter" means a letter delivered in connection with the
transfer of a Trust Certificate pursuant to Section 3.04(a), substantially in
the form of Exhibit C.
"Issuer" means the Honda Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust, and its
successors.
"Opinion of Counsel" means one or more written opinions of counsel, who may
be an employee of or counsel to the Seller, the Depositor or the Servicer, which
counsel shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or each
Rating Agency, as applicable.
"Original Certificate Balance" means $28,697,894.52.
"Original Contribution Amount" means $1,000.00.
"Owner" means each Holder of a Trust Certificate.
"Owner Trust Estate" means all right, title and interest of the Issuer in
and to the property and rights assigned to the Issuer pursuant to Article Two of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the
Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account, all other property of the
Issuer from time to time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the
Issuer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Administration
Agreement and all proceeds of the foregoing.
"Owner Trustee" means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, not in its
individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under this Agreement, and any
successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant
to Section 3.09.
"Payment Date" means the eighteenth calendar day of each month, commencing
January 2004, or if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding
Business Day; provided, however, that if any Class A-1 Notes are outstanding
after the Payment Date in December 2004, a payment of interest and principal on
the Class A-1 Notes only will be made on the Special Payment Date.
"Percentage Interest" means, as to any Trust Certificate, (i) the original
certificate balance for such Trust Certificate, as specified on the face
thereof, divided by (ii) the Original Certificate Balance; provided, that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite portion or percentage of the
Trust Certificates have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any other Basic Document, Trust
Certificates owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Certificates, the
Seller, the Servicer or any
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Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and deemed to be
excluded from the Certificate Balance (unless such Persons own 100% of the Trust
Certificates), except that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee and
Owner Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Trust Certificates
that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have actual knowledge of being
so owned shall be so disregarded. Trust Certificates so owned that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as included in the Certificate Balance if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee, as applicable, the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Trust Certificates and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor
upon the Trust Certificates, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of their
respective Affiliates. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee shall
incur any liability to any person in determining whether a pledgee has the right
to act with respect to such Trust Certificates.
"Record Date" means the day immediately preceding the Payment Date so long
as the securities are in book-entry form, and the last day of the month
preceding the Payment Date if the securities are issued in definitive form.
"Required Rating" means, with respect to any entity, that such entity (or
the parent of such entity) has a rating of at least BBB- by Standard & Poor's
and at least Baa3 by Moody's.
"Rule 144A Letter" means a letter delivered in connection with the transfer
of a Trust Certificate pursuant to Section 3.04(a), substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit D.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" means the sale and servicing agreement,
dated as of December 1, 2003, among the Issuer, the Depositor and AHFC, as
servicer, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Secretary of State" means the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Seller Certificate" means a certificate of transfer delivered in
connection with the transfer of a Trust Certificate pursuant to Section 3.04(a),
substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
"Special Payment Date" means January 7, 2005.
"Statutory Trust Statute" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del.C.(Section)3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to
time.
"Treasury Regulations" means regulations, including proposed or temporary
regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the beneficial interest
of an Owner in the Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
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Section 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Indenture,
as the case may be.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto
unless otherwise defined therein.
Section 1.03. Interpretive Provisions.
(a) For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein
include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular,
(ii) references to words such as "herein", "hereof" and the like shall refer to
this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular part, article or section
within this Agreement, (iii) references to a section such as "Section 1.01" and
the like shall refer to the applicable Section of this Agreement, (iv) the term
"include, and all variations thereof shall mean "include without limitation",
(v) the term "or" shall include "and/or" and (vi) the term "proceeds" shall have
the meaning set forth in the applicable UCC.
(b) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other document made
or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not defined in this
Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and accounting terms
partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document to
the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under
generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document
are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted
accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or in any
such certificate or other document shall control.
ARTICLE TWO
ORGANIZATION
Section 2.01. Name. The trust created hereby shall be known as the "Honda
Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust," in which name the Owner Trustee may
conduct the business of the Issuer, make and execute contracts and other
instruments and sue and be sued, to the extent herein provided.
Section 2.02. Office. The office of the Issuer shall be in care of the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address as the
Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Owners and the Depositor.
Section 2.03. Purposes and Powers.
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(a) The sole purpose of the Issuer is to conserve the Owner Trust Estate
and collect and disburse the periodic income therefrom for the use and benefit
of the Certificateholders, and in furtherance of such purpose to engage in the
following ministerial activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes and the Trust
Certificates;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, to purchase the Receivables, to fund the Reserve Fund and the
Yield Supplement Account, to pay the organizational, start-up and
transactional expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance to the Depositor
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Owner
Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute
to the Owners pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of
the Owner Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust
pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements,
that are necessary to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or
connected therewith; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such
other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the
Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Owners and the
Noteholders.
(b) The Issuer is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities.
The Issuer shall not engage in any activities other than in connection with the
foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement
or the other Basic Documents.
Section 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints
the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Issuer effective as of the date hereof, to
have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein, and the Owner Trustee
hereby accepts such appointment. The Owner Trustee may engage, in the name of
the Issuer or in its own name on behalf of the Issuer, in the activities of the
Issuer, make and execute contracts on behalf of the Issuer and sue on behalf of
the Issuer.
Section 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The
Depositor hereby reaffirms its sale, assignment, transfer and conveyance to the
Owner Trustee, as of the date of the Initial Trust Agreement, the sum of
$1,000.00 (the "Original Contribution Amount"). The Owner Trustee hereby
reaffirms its receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date of the Initial
Trust Agreement, of the Original Contribution Amount, which constituted the
initial Owner Trust Estate and shall be on or before the date hereof deposited
in the Certificate Distribution Account. On the date hereof the Owner Trustee is
hereby directed to withdraw the Original Contribution Amount from the
Certificate Distribution Account and transfer such sums to the
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Depositor via wire transfer to the Depositor's account from which the Original
Contribution Amount was received. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Issuer as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner
Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the
Owner Trustee.
Section 2.06. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that
it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions
set forth herein for the sole purpose of conserving the Owner Trust Estate and
collecting and disbursing the periodic income therefrom for the use and benefit
of the Owners, subject to the obligations of the Issuer under the Basic
Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Issuer constitute
a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute and that this Agreement
constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust. It is the intention
of the parties hereto that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, (i) so
long as there is a sole Owner, the Issuer shall be disregarded as an entity
separate from the owner, with the assets of the Issuer being the Receivables and
other assets held by the Issuer, the owner of the Receivables being the sole
Owner and the Notes being non-recourse debt of the sole Owner and (ii) if there
is more than one Owner, the Issuer shall be treated as a partnership for income
and franchise tax purposes, with the assets of the partnership being the
Receivables and other assets held by the Issuer and with the partners of the
partnership being the Owners and the Notes being debt of the partnership. The
parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities,
the Issuer will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns,
reports and other forms consistent with the characterization of the Issuer as
provided in the preceding sentence for such tax purposes. Effective as of the
date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set
forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Statute for the sole purpose and to the
extent necessary to accomplish the purpose of the Issuer as set forth in Section
2.03(a).
Section 2.07. Liability of Owners. The Owners shall be entitled to the same
limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the general corporation law of the State
of Delaware.
Section 2.08. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to the Owner Trust
Estate shall be vested at all times in the Issuer as a separate legal entity
except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case
title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a
separate trustee, as the case may be.
Section 2.09. Situs of Issuer. The Issuer will be located in the State of
Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Issuer shall be located in the states of Delaware or New York. The Issuer shall
not have any employees in any state other than Delaware; provided, however, that
nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having
employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by
the Issuer only in, and payments will be made by the Issuer only from, the
states of Delaware or New York. The only office of the Issuer will be at the
Corporate Trust Office.
Section 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
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(a) The Depositor has been duly organized and is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of California, with
power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such
properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had
at all relevant times, and has, power, authority and legal right to acquire, own
and sell the Receivables.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation
in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all
jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property or the conduct of
its business shall require such qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power and authority
to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with
the Owner Trustee as part of the Owner Trust Estate and the Depositor has duly
authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Issuer by all necessary
corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate action.
(d) This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Depositor, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, fraudulent conveyance or other similar
laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and by general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be
considered in a proceeding in equity or in law.
(e) The execution, delivery and performance by the Depositor of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, nor constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of incorporation
or bylaws of the Depositor, or conflict with or violate any of the material
terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time)
a default under, any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the
Depositor is a party or by which it is bound; nor result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any
such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic
Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the Depositor's knowledge,
any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any
federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties; which
breach, default, conflict, lien or violation would have a material adverse
effect on the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Depositor.
(f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the
Depositor's knowledge, threatened, before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Depositor or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Trust Certificates or the
consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (iii)
seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of, this Agreement.
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ARTICLE THREE
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
Section 3.01. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Issuer by the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the issuance of
the Trust Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the
Issuer.
Section 3.02. The Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates shall be
issued in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples thereof;
provided, however, that one Trust Certificate may be issued in such denomination
as required to include any residual amount. The Trust Certificates shall be
executed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer by manual or facsimile
signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee and shall have deemed to
have been validly issued when so executed and authenticated (as set forth in
Section 3.03 below). Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile
signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures were
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Owner Trustee, shall be validly
issued and binding obligations of the Issuer and entitled to the benefit of this
Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication
and delivery of such Trust Certificates.
A transferee of a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and
shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust
Certificate duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.04.
Section 3.03. Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates. On the
Closing Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause to be authenticated and delivered
upon the order of the Depositor, in exchange for the Receivables and the other
assets of the Issuer, simultaneously with the sale, assignment and transfer to
the Issuer of the Receivables, and the constructive delivery to the Issuer of
the Receivable Files and the other assets of the Issuer, Trust Certificates duly
authenticated by the Owner Trustee, in authorized denominations equaling in the
aggregate the Original Certificate Balance and evidencing the entire ownership
of the Issuer. No Trust Certificate shall entitle its Holder to any benefit
under this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on
such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or its authenticating
agent, by manual signature; and such authentication shall constitute conclusive
evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the date of their
authentication. Upon issuance, authentication and delivery pursuant to the terms
hereof, the Trust Certificates will be entitled to the benefits of this
Agreement. Whenever, in any Basic Document, a reference is made to
authentication by the Owner Trustee, such reference shall include authentication
by the Owner Trustee or its authenticating agent.
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Section 3.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates.
(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office
or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for
the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust
Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial
Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as
Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the
Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto.
The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or
listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be
made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or
is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such
state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance
upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to
assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Holder desiring to
effect such transfer and such Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify
to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a
Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the
case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A
Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that
such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and
an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made
pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel
and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Holder of a Trust Certificate and
any prospective transferee designated by any such Holder, information regarding
the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall
be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule
144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration
thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided
by Rule 144A. Each Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a
transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner
Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer
is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities
laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust
Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust
Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at
the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the
preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver
(or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust
Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original
certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any
authenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and
delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have
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received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not
cause the Issuer to be characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the
Notes for federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Holder, Trust
Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of
the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained
pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be
exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like
aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates
to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its
authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that
the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Trust
Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of a
Benefit Plan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the
prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a
Benefit Plan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the
Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and
promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be
promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu
thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in
accordance with its normal practice.
(g) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding
the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
Section 3.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates. If
(i) any mutilated Trust Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar,
or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate and (ii) there is delivered
to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as
may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice that such Trust Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute and the Owner Trustee or
its authenticating agent shall
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authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate in an
authorized denomination and of a like original certificate balance. In
connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this Section,
the Owner Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any
duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether
or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Certificate shall be found at any
time.
Section 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a Trust
Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar, any Paying Agent and any of their respective agents may treat the
Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered as the owner of such
Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section
5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent or any of their respective agents shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary.
Section 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.
The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the
Depositor, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a written
request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor, a list, in such form as the
Servicer or the Depositor may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If three or more
Certificateholders, or one or more Certificateholders evidencing not less than
51% of the Percentage Interests of the Trust Certificates (hereinafter referred
to as the "Applicants"), apply in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such
application states that the Applicants desire to communicate with other
Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under
the Trust Certificates, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days
after the receipt of such application, afford such Applicants access during
normal business hours to the current list of Certificateholders. Each Holder, by
receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to
hold any of the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee
accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of
the source from which such information was derived.
Section 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Trust shall maintain an
office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Owner Trustee or its agent in respect of the Trust
Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially
designates the office of its agent Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,
Corporate Trust and Agency Services, 60 Wall Street, 26th Floor, New York, New
York 10005 as its office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt
written notice to the Depositor and to the Certificateholders of any change in
the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
Section 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Sections 5.02 and 5.03 and shall report the amounts of such
distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent
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shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate
Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions referred to
above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if
the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall
have failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material
respect. The Owner Trustee initially appoints Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas as the Paying Agent and any co-paying agent chosen by the Paying Agent
that is acceptable to the Owner Trustee. Each Paying Agent shall be permitted to
resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner Trustee. In the
event that Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall no longer be the Paying
Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which
shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor
Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor
Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that,
as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will
hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust
for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall
be paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The
provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04, 8.01 and 8.02 shall apply to the Owner
Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall
act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent
appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall
include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
Section 3.10. Definitive Trust Certificates. The Trust zertificates, upon
original issuance, will be issued in definitive, fully registered form.
Section 3.11. Repayment of Trust Certificates. In the event of an optional
purchase pursuant to Section 8.01 (a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Trust Certificates will be prepaid in whole, but not in part, at an aggregate
prepayment price equal to the aggregate Certificate Balance of all the Trust
Certificates plus accrued interest thereon at the Certificate Rate.
ARTICLE FOUR
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 4.01. Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters.
Subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, with respect to the
following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless at least 30
days before the taking of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the
Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action and the Owners shall not
have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such
notice is given that such Owners have withheld consent or provided alternative
direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuer (except claims or
lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the Receivables) and the
compromise of any action,
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claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Issuer (except with respect to the
aforementioned claims or lawsuits for collection of the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Issuer to file an amendment to the Certificate of
Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Statutory Trust
Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially adversely affects the interests of the Owners;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration Agreement,
except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner
or add any provision that would not materially adversely affect the interests of
the Owners; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, paying agent for the Notes or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this
Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment
by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar
of its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
Section 4.02. Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters. Subject to
the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, the Owner Trustee shall not have
the power, except upon the direction of the Owners, to (i) remove the
Administrator pursuant to Section 1.09 of the Administration Agreement, (ii)
appoint a successor Administrator pursuant to Section 1.09 of the Administration
Agreement, (iii) remove the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, (iv) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents,
sell the Receivables after the termination of the Indenture, or (v) authorize
the merger or consolidation of the Issuer with or into any other statutory trust
or entity (other than in accordance with Section 3.10 of the Indenture). The
Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only
upon written instructions signed by the Owners.
Section 4.03. Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Issuer without the unanimous prior approval of all
Owners (including the Depositor) and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each
such Owner of a certificate certifying that such Owner reasonably believes that
the Issuer is insolvent.
Section 4.04. Restrictions on Owners' Power. The Owners shall not direct
the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such action or
inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee
under this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents or would be contrary to
the purpose of the Issuer as set forth in Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
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Section 4.05. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any
action that may be taken by the Owners under this Agreement may be taken by the
Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Percentage Interests evidenced by the Trust Certificates. Except as expressly
provided herein, any written notice of the Owners delivered pursuant to this
Agreement shall be effective if signed by Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing not less than a majority of the Percentage Interests evidenced by the
Trust Certificates at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE FIVE
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
Section 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account. The Owner Trustee, for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain (or shall cause
to be established and maintained) in the name of the Issuer an Eligible Account
(the "Certificate Distribution Account"), bearing a designation clearly
indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
The Issuer shall possess all right, title and interest in funds on deposit
from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in the proceeds
thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Certificate
Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner
Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time, the
Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Account, the Owner
Trustee (or the Depositor on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate
Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate
thereof) shall within ten Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed 30
calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent) establish a new
Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Account and shall transfer any
cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution Account. Monies
on deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account may be invested in Eligible
Investments upon the terms set forth in Section 4.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, as if the Certificate Distribution Account were an "Account".
Earnings on investments of funds in the Certificate Distribution Account shall
be paid to the Servicer as part of the Supplemental Servicing Fee and any losses
and investment expenses shall be charged against the funds in such account.
Section 5.02. Application of Trust Funds.
(a) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent will distribute to
Certificateholders, on the basis of the Percentage Interest evidenced by their
Trust Certificates, amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Section 4.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to
such Payment Date.
(b) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement or statements provided to the Owner Trustee by
the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Payment Date.
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(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Issuer's
payment (or allocations of income) to an Owner, such tax shall reduce the amount
otherwise distributable to the Owner in accordance with this Section. The Owner
Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise
distributable to the Owners sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is
legally owed by the Issuer (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner
Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding
payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such
proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to an Owner
shall be treated as cash distributed to such Owner at the time it is withheld by
the Issuer and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a
possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution, the
Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this paragraph (c).
Section 5.03. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c) respecting the
final payment upon retirement of each Trust Certificate, distributions required
to be made to Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each
Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date by wire transfer, in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Holder at a bank or other
entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall
have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date, or, if not, by check mailed
to such Certificateholder at the address of such Holder appearing in the
Certificate Register.
Section 5.04. No Segregation of Monies; No Interest. Subject to Sections
5.01 and 5.02, monies received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not be
segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be
prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
thereon.
Section 5.05. Accounting and Reports to Owners, Internal Revenue Service
and Others. The Owner Trustee shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) the
books of the Issuer on a fiscal year basis ending March 31 of each year and the
accrual method of accounting. In addition, the Issuer shall deliver to each
Owner such information, reports or statements as may be required by the Code and
applicable Treasury Regulations and as may be required to enable each Owner to
prepare its federal and state income tax returns. Consistent with the Issuer's
characterization for tax purposes, as disregarded as an entity separate from the
Owner, no federal income tax return shall be filed on behalf of the Issuer
unless either (i) the Owner Trustee shall receive an Opinion of Counsel that,
based on a change in applicable law occurring after the date hereof, the Code
requires such a filing or (ii) the Internal Revenue Service shall determine that
the Issuer is required to file such a return. Neither the Owner Trustee nor any
Certificateholder will, under any circumstances, and at any time, make an
election on IRS Form 8832 or otherwise, to classify the Trust as an association
taxable as a corporation for federal, state or any other applicable tax purpose.
In the event that the Issuer is required to file tax returns, the Owner Trustee
shall prepare or shall cause to be prepared any tax returns required to be filed
by the Issuer and shall remit such returns to the Depositor (or if the Depositor
no longer owns any Certificates, the Owner designated for such purpose by the
Depositor to the Owner Trustee in writing) at least five days before such
returns are due to be filed. The Depositor (or such designee Owner, as
applicable) shall promptly sign such returns and deliver such returns after
signature to the Owner
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Trustee and such returns shall be filed by the Owner Trustee with the
appropriate tax authorities. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the
Depositor (or such designee Owner, as applicable) be liable for any liabilities,
costs or expenses of the Issuer or the Noteholders arising out of the
application of any tax law, including federal, state, foreign or local income or
excise taxes or any other tax imposed on or measured by income (or any interest,
penalty or addition with respect thereto or arising from a failure to comply
therewith) except for any such liability, cost or expense attributable to any
act or omission by the Owner Trustee or the Depositor (or such designee Owner,
as applicable), as the case may be, in breach of its obligations under this
Agreement.
The Depositor is authorized and directed to execute on behalf of the
Issuer, and after execution to deliver to the Administrator for filing with the
Commission, all documents and forms required to be filed in accordance with
applicable law or the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission.
ARTICLE SIX
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 6.01. General Authority. Subject to the provisions and limitations
of Sections 2.03 and 2.06, the Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to
execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Issuer is to be a party and
each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by
the Basic Documents to which the Issuer is to be a party and any amendment or
other agreement, as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution
thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but
shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Issuer pursuant to
the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time
to take such action as the Administrator recommends with respect to the Basic
Documents.
Section 6.02. General Duties. Subject to the provisions and limitations of
Sections 2.03 and 2.06, it shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee to discharge
(or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the Issuer is a party and
to administer the Issuer in the interest of the Owners, subject to the Basic
Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have
discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the other Basic
Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee
hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held
liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its
obligations under the Administration Agreement.
Section 6.03. Action Upon Instruction.
(a) Subject to Article Four, in accordance with the terms of the Basic
Documents, the Owners may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the
management of the Issuer.
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Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the Owners
pursuant to Article Four.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or
under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to
result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or under
any other Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such
form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting
instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the
Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of
the Owners received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such
action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate
instruction within ten days of such notice (or within such shorter period of
time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the
circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from
taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall
have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application of
any provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document or any such
provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in
conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take
with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in
such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners
requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or
refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction
received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or
inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received
appropriate instruction within ten days of such notice (or within such shorter
period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary
under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain
from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Basic
Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall
have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
Section 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage,
make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any other Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
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responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public
office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any
Commission filing for the Issuer or to record this Agreement or any other Basic
Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost
and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any liens
(other than the lien of the Indenture) on any part of the Owner Trust Estate
that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee that are not
related to the ownership or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
Section 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions.
The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise
deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except in accordance with (i) the
powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Agreement, (ii) the Basic Documents and (iii) any document or instruction
delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.
Section 6.06. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action (i)
that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Issuer set forth in Section 2.03
or (ii) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would result in the
Issuer's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal or state income tax
purposes. The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that
would violate the provisions of this Section.
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts
the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with
respect to such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting
part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of this Agreement and the other
Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable
hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i)
for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence or (ii) in the
case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section
7.03 expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of
limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by the Owner Trustee;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Administrator or any Owner or Owners;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder
or under any other Basic Document if the
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Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured or provided to it;
(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any Basic Document, including the
principal of and interest on the Notes or the Trust Certificates;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the
Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no
event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to
any Owner, other than as expressly provided for in the Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of
the Administrator, the Seller, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the
Servicer under any Basic Document or otherwise, and the Owner Trustee shall have
no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Issuer under this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the
Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under
the Indenture or the Servicer or the Seller under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or any other Person under any of the Basic Documents; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this
Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any
of the Owners, unless such Owners have offered to the Owner Trustee security or
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby; the right of the Owner
Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any
other Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be answerable for other than its gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
Section 7.02. Furnishing of Documents.
The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the Owners, promptly upon receipt of a
written request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices,
requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any other instruments
furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
Section 7.03. Representations and Warranties of the Owner Trustee. The
Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor and the Owners,
that:
(a) it is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware; it has all requisite corporate power and
authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement;
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(b) it has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution
and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be executed and
delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver
this Agreement on its behalf; and
(c) neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Agreement, nor the
consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby, nor compliance by it
with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any federal or
Delaware, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking or trust powers
of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute any
default under its charter documents or bylaws; and
(d) this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Owner Trustee, enforceable against the Owner Trustee in accordance with its
terms, except as such enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, fraudulent conveyance or
other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and
by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall
be considered in a proceeding in equity or in law; and
(e) the execution, delivery and performance by the Owner Trustee of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, nor constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the charter documents or
bylaws of the Owner Trustee; nor result in the creation or imposition of any
Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture,
agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); and
(f) there are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the Owner
Trustee's actual knowledge, threatened, before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Owner Trustee or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement or (ii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and
adversely affect the performance by the Owner Trustee of its obligations under,
or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.
Section 7.04. Reliance, Advice of Counsel.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any
signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate,
report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine
and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner
Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or
other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force
and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of determination of which is not
specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof
rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the
treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or
matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner
Trustee, for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
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(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the
performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other
Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or
attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner
Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and
other skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it.
The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in
good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such
counsel, accountants or other such persons and not contrary to this Agreement or
any other Basic Document.
Section 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as otherwise
provided in this Article, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Delaware, solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its
individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee
by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic
Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction
thereof.
Section 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or
Receivables. The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other
than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on
the Trust Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor, and
the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The
Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Agreement, any other Basic Document or the Trust Certificates (other than the
signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the
Trust Certificates and the representations and warranties in Section 7.03) or
the Notes, or of any Receivable or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at
no time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the
legality, validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and
priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in any Financed
Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with
respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate
the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement or the
Noteholders under the Indenture, including, without limitation, the existence,
condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and
enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any
Receivable on any computer or other record thereof; the validity of the
assignment of any Receivable to the Issuer or of any intervening assignment; the
completeness of any Receivable; the performance or enforcement of any
Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer with any warranty or
representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the
accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any action of the
Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in
the name of the Owner Trustee.
Section 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The Owner
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the
Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions
with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
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ARTICLE EIGHT
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner Trustee shall
receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee, and upon the formation of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to be reimbursed by the Issuer for its other reasonable expenses
hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of
such agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may
employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its
duties hereunder.
Section 8.02. Indemnification. The Issuer shall be liable as primary
obligor for, and shall indemnify the Indemnified Parties from and against, any
and all Expenses which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted
against the Owner Trustee or any other Indemnified Party in any way relating to
or arising out of this Agreement, the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trust
Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction
of the Owner Trustee or any other Indemnified Party hereunder, except only that
the Issuer shall not be liable for or required to indemnify an Indemnified Party
from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of the matters described
in the third sentence of Section 7.01. The indemnities contained in this Section
shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the
termination of this Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or proceeding
for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's
choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Depositor (or if
the Depositor is no longer an owner, the designee of the Depositor), which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Section 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be deemed not to be a part of the Owner
Trust Estate immediately after such payment. Any amounts owing to the Owner
Trustee under this Agreement or the other Basic Documents shall constitute a
claim against the Owner Trust Estate.
ARTICLE NINE
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
Section 9.01. Termination of Trust Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (other than Article Eight) and the Issuer shall
terminate in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Statute and be
of no further force or effect upon the earlier to occur of (i) the purchase on
any Payment Date by the Servicer, or any successor Servicer, at its option,
pursuant to Section 8.01(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, of the Owner
Trust Estate other than the Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account,
(ii) the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property
or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture, the Sale and
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Servicing Agreement and Article Five or (iii) the Payment Date next succeeding
the month which is one year after the maturity or other liquidation of the last
Receivable and the disposition of any amount received upon liquidation of any
property remaining in the Owner Trust Estate. The bankruptcy, liquidation,
dissolution, death or incapacity of any Owner shall not (i) operate to terminate
this Agreement or the Issuer, (ii) entitle such Owner's legal representatives or
heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court
for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the Issuer or Owner Trust
Estate or (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the
parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither of the Depositor nor any
Owner shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Issuer.
(c) The outstanding Trust Certificates are subject to redemption in whole,
but not in part, pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
provided that the Issuer has available funds sufficient to pay the aggregate
Certificate Balance of all the Trust Certificates, together with accrued
interest at the Certificate Rate to but excluding the Payment Date. Notice of
any termination of the Issuer, specifying the Payment Date upon which
Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to the Paying Agent
for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the
Owner Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days
of receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given pursuant to
Section 8.01(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the Payment
Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall
be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office
of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final
payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Payment Date
is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of
the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The
Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than
the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates,
the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to Certificateholders amounts
distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.02. The Owner Trustee
shall promptly notify each Rating Agency upon the final payment of the Trust
Certificates.
(d) In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender
their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date
specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee
may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps,
to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust
Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other
assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Subject to applicable
escheat laws, any funds remaining in the Issuer after exhaustion of such
remedies shall be distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor, in its
capacities as Depositor and as Holder of such Certificate.
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(e) Upon the winding up of the Issuer and its termination, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with
Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute.
ARTICLE TEN
SUCCESSOR AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
Section 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times (i) maintain its principal place of business in the
State of Delaware, (ii) be authorized to exercise corporate trust powers, (iii)
have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, (iv) be subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and (v) have the
Required Rating. If such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least
annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or
examining authority, then for the purpose 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. In
case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.
Section 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee
may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by
giving written notice thereof to the Administrator. Upon receiving such notice
of resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner
Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall
be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner
Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition at the Issuer's expense
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by
the Administrator, or if at any time the Owner Trustee shall be legally unable
to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner
Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator
may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Administrator shall remove the Owner
Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the
Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written
instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee,
and shall pay all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and
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payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The
Administrator shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner
Trustee to each Rating Agency.
Section 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Administrator and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and such successor
Owner Trustee without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully
vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor
under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee.
The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses
deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies
held by it under this Agreement and the Administrator and the predecessor Owner
Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as
may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the
successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall
be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Administrator shall mail notice thereof to all
Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and each Rating
Agency. If the Administrator shall fail to mail such notice within ten days
after acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the
successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of
the Administrator.
Section 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any corporation
into which the Owner 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 Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without
the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any
of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01 and,
provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or
consolidation to each Rating Agency.
Section 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and
shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
approved by the Administrator and Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly
with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or
any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such
capacity, such title to the Trust or any part thereof and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts
as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable.
If the
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Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request to do so, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the
power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this
Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01, except that such co-trustee or
successor trustee shall have the Required Rating, and no notice of the
appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to
Section 10.03.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law,
be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon
the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the
Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are
to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Owner Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed
singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of
the Owner Trustee;
(b) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of
any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time
accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees,
as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions
of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of
the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in
its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or
separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this
Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to
the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the
Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a
copy thereof given to the Administrator.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new
or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.01. Supplements and Amendments.
(a) This Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto with prior written
notice to each Rating Agency, without the consent of any Securityholders, to
cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions in this Agreement or
for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided,
however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or
Certificateholder.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the parties
hereto, with prior written notice to each Rating Agency, with the consent of the
Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Percentage Interests evidenced by the Trust Certificates and, if such amendment
materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders, with the
consent of Holders (as such term is defined in the Indenture) of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such
amendment shall (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or
accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on Receivables or
distributions that shall be required to be made for the benefit of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders, (ii) increase or reduce any Interest Rate
or Certificate Rate or (iii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes or of the Percentage Interests evidenced by the Trust
Certificates required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of
the Holders of all the outstanding Notes and Trust Certificates affected
thereby.
(c) Prior to the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner
Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or
consent to the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and each Rating Agency.
(d) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder. It shall not be necessary for
the consent of Certificateholders, Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant
to this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or
consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of
Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic
Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by
Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner
Trustee may prescribe.
(e) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State.
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(f) In connection with the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or
any other basic Document to which the Issuer is a party and for which amendment
the Owner Trustee's consent is sought, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to
receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the execution of
such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement or such other Basic
Document, as the case may be, and that all conditions precedent in this
Agreement or such other Basic Document, as the case may be, for the execution
and delivery thereof by the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be,
have been satisfied. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
Section 11.02. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Owner. The Owner
shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Owners
shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided
ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles Five and Nine. No
transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of
the Owners to and in their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall
operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any
transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part
of the Owner Trust Estate.
Section 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Indemnified
Parties, the Depositor, the Owners, the Administrator and, to the extent
expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and
nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to
give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the
Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants,
conditions or provisions contained herein.
Section 11.04. Notices.
(a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the terms hereof,
all demands, notices and communications under this Agreement shall be in
writing, personally delivered, mailed by certified mail, return receipt
requested, or sent via facsimile transmission (followed by hard copy by
overnight delivery) and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt (i)
in the case of the Owner Trustee, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, at 1011
Centre Road, Suite 200, Wilmington, Delaware 19805-1266, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, (ii) in the case of the Depositor, to American Honda
Receivables Corp., 700 Van Ness Avenue, Building 300, Torrance, California
90501, Attention: President or (iii) as to either party, at such other address
as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the
time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.
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Section 11.05. Severability. If any one or more of the covenants,
agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason
whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms
shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions
or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or
enforceability of the other covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this
Agreement or of the Trust Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.
Section 11.06. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 11.07. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of the
Depositor and its permitted assigns, the Owner Trustee and its successors and
each Owner and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any
request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by an
Owner shall bind the successors and assigns of such Owner.
Section 11.08. No Petition. The Owner Trustee, by entering into this
Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, and the
Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this
Agreement, each hereby covenants and agrees that it will not at any time
institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution
against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any
United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any
other Basic Document.
Section 11.09. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust
Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Trust Certificates
represent beneficial interests in the Issuer only and do not represent interests
in or obligations of the Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer, the Administrator,
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates
and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may
be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Trust Certificates, this Agreement
or any other Basic Document.
Section 11.10. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections
herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any
of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 11.11. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 11.12. Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Issuer.
The interests represented by the Trust Certificates shall be nonassessable for
any losses or expenses of the Issuer or for any reason
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whatsoever, and, upon the authentication thereof by the Owner Trustee pursuant
to Section 3.03, 3.04 or 3.05, the Trust Certificates are and shall be deemed
fully paid.
Section 11.13. Depositor Payment Obligation. The Depositor shall be
responsible for payment of the Administrator's compensation under the
Administration Agreement and shall reimburse the Administrator for all expenses
and liabilities of the Administrator incurred thereunder. In addition, the
Depositor shall be responsible for the payment of all fees and expenses of the
Issuer and the Trustees paid by any of them in connection with any of their
obligations under the Basic Documents to obtain or maintain any required license
under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act and the Maryland Act (MD
Fin. Inst. Code Ann., Title 11, Subtitle 4).
Section 11.14. Tax Treatment. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything
herein to the contrary, all persons (and their respective employees,
representatives or other agents) may disclose to any and all persons, without
limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transaction
described herein and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax
analyses) that are provided to the recipient relating to such tax treatment and
tax structure. However, any such information relating to the tax treatment or
tax structure shall be required to be kept confidential to the extent necessary
to comply with any applicable securities laws.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of
the day and year first above written.
AMERICAN HONDA RECEIVABLES CORP.,
as Depositor
By: /s/ Y. Takahashi
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Name: Y. Takahashi
Title: President
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Elizabeth B. Ferry
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Name: Elizabeth B. Ferry
Title: Assistant Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE
OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM. IN ADDITION, THE TRANSFER OF THIS
CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN
SECTION 3.04 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THIS CERTIFICATE ISSUED (A COPY
OF WHICH TRUST AGREEMENT IS AVAILABLE FROM THE OWNER TRUSTEE UPON REQUEST),
INCLUDING RECEIPT BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE OF AN INVESTMENT LETTER IN WHICH THE
TRANSFEREE MAKES CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS.
NUMBER: R-1 Initial Certificate Balance: $[ ]
HONDA AUTO RECEIVABLES 2003-5 OWNER TRUST
[ ]% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Issuer, as defined below, the
property of which includes a pool of retail installment sale or conditional sale
contracts secured by new and used Honda and Acura motor vehicles.
(This Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of
American Honda Receivables Corp., American Honda Finance Corporation or any of
their respective affiliates.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT ____________________________ is the registered owner of
a 100 PERCENT nonassessable, fully-paid, undivided interest in the Honda Auto
Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust (the "Issuer"), formed by American Honda
Receivables Corp., a California corporation (the "Depositor").
The Issuer was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of November
18, 2003, as amended and restated by an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
dated December 16, 2003 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the
"Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Delaware, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"); a summary of certain of the
pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. Capitalized terms used herein
that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the
Trust Agreement.
This Trust Certificate is one of the duly authorized certificates
designated as "Asset Backed Certificates" (the "Trust Certificates"). Issued
under an Indenture dated as of December 1, 2003 (the "Indenture"), between the
Issuer and The Bank of New York, as indenture trustee, are four classes of Notes
designated as "Class A-1 1.14% Asset Backed Notes," "Class A-2
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1.57% Asset Backed Notes", "Class A-3 2.30% Asset Backed Notes" and "Class A-4
2.96% Asset Backed Notes" (collectively, the "Notes"). This Trust Certificate is
issued under and is subject to terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate, by
virtue of its acceptance thereof, assents and by which such Holder is bound. The
property of the Issuer includes, among other things, a pool of retail
installment sale or conditional sale contracts for new and used Honda and Acura
motor vehicles (collectively, the "Receivables"), all monies received on or in
respect of the Receivables on or after December 1, 2003, security interests in
the vehicles financed thereby, certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof,
proceeds from claims on certain insurance policies and certain other rights
under the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all proceeds
of the foregoing.
It is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the Certificateholder
that, solely for purposes of federal income, state and local income tax and any
other income taxes, the Issuer will be treated as a disregarded entity not
separate from the sole Certificateholder. The purchaser hereof, by acceptance of
the Trust Certificates, agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with
the above treatment for so long as it is the sole Owner.
Solely in the event the Trust Certificates are held by more than a single
Owner, it is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, solely for purposes of federal income, state and local
income and single business tax and any other income taxes, the Issuer will be
treated as a partnership and the Certificateholders will be treated as partners
in the partnership. The purchaser hereof and the other Certificateholders, by
acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat, and to take no action
inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates for such tax purposes
as partnership interests in the Issuer.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate, covenants
and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Depositor of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings ,
or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust
Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document.
Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the
Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the
above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency
maintained for the purpose by the Owner Trustee.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by
an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature, this Trust
Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND
THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer and not in
its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly executed.
HONDA AUTO RECEIVABLES 2003-5 OWNER TRUST
By: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of
the Trust
By:
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Authorized Signatory
OWNER TRUSTEE'S OR AUTHENTICATING AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY OR DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but not in its individual capacity but
solely as Authenticating Agent on solely as Owner Trust Trustee on
behalf of the behalf of the Trust
By:
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as Authenticating Agent
By: By:
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Authorized Signatory Authorized Signatory
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[REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE]
The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligations of, or an interest
in, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any of their respective
affiliates and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets,
except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement
or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is not
guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right
of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Receivables
(and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined by any Certificateholder upon
written request during normal business hours at the principal office of the
Depositor and at such other places, if any, designated by the Depositor.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at
any time by the parties thereto with the consent of the Holders of the Trust
Certificates and the Notes, each voting as a class, evidencing not less than a
majority of the Percentage Interests evidenced by the outstanding Trust
Certificates, or a majority of the outstanding principal balance of the Notes of
each such class. Any such consent by the Holder of this Trust Certificate shall
be conclusive and binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this Trust
Certificate and of any Trust Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Trust Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Trust Certificates.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is registrable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Owner Trustee, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by
the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Trust Certificates evidencing the same original
certificate balance in the Issuer will be issued to the designated transferee.
Except as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates are
issuable only as registered Trust Certificates. As provided in the Trust
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Trust
Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates evidencing the same
aggregate original certificate balance, as requested by the Holder surrendering
the same. No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this
Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none
of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
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The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the
Issuer created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to Certificateholders of
all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of
the Owner Trust Estate. The Servicer of the Receivables may at its option
purchase the Owner Trust Estate at a price specified in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other property of the Issuer
will effect early retirement of the Trust Certificates; provided, however, such
right of purchase is exercisable only as of the last day of any Collection
Period as of which the Pool Balance is less than or equal to 10% of the Original
Pool Balance.
The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by a Benefit Plan. By accepting
and holding this Trust Certificate, the Holder hereof shall be deemed to have
represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, any hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints __________________, attorney, to transfer said Trust
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
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Signature Guaranteed:
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NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the
registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Trust Certificate in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. Such
signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership
or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be
determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for,
STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
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[Seller]
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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE
1011 Centre Road, Suite 200
Wilmington, Delaware 19805-1266
Re: Honda Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust
Asset Backed Certificates
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Dear Sirs:
In connection with our disposition of the above-referenced Asset Backed
Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (i) we understand that the
Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), and are being transferred by us in a transaction that is
exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and (ii) we have not
offered or sold any Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Certificates
from, any person, or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with
respect thereto, in a manner that would be deemed, or taken any other action
which would result in, a violation of Section 5 of the Act.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By
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Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
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Seller
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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE
1011 Centre Road, Suite 200 Wilmington,
Delaware 19805-1266
Re: Honda Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust
Asset Backed Certificates
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Dear Sirs:
In connection with our acquisition of the above-referenced Asset Backed
Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (a) we understand that the
Certificates are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to
us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Act
and any such laws, (b) we are an "accredited investor," as defined in Regulation
D under the Act, and have such knowledge and experience in financial and
business matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
investments in the Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask
questions of and receive answers from the Seller concerning the purchase of the
Certificates and all matters relating thereto or any additional information
deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Certificates, (d) we are
acquiring the Certificates for investment for our own account and not with a
view to any distribution of such Certificates (but without prejudice to our
right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of the Certificates in
accordance with clause (f) below), (e) we have not offered or sold any
Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Certificates from, any person,
or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, or
taken any other action that would result in a violation of Section 5 of the Act
or any state securities laws, (f) we are not a Benefit Plan and (g) we will not
sell, or otherwise dispose of any Certificates unless (i) such sale, transfer or
other disposition is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under
the Act and in compliance with any state securities laws or is exempt from such
registration requirements and, if requested, we will at our expense provide an
Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the addresses of this certificate that such
sale, transfer or other disposition may be made pursuant to an exemption from
the Act, (ii) the purchaser or transferee of such Certificate has executed and
delivered to you a certificate to substantially the same effect as this
certificate and (iii) the purchaser or transferee has otherwise complied with
any conditions for transfer set forth in the Amended and Restated Trust
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Agreement dated as of December 16, 2003, between American Honda Receivables
Corp. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, as Owner Trustee.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By
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Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF RULE 144A LETTER
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Seller
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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE
1011 Centre Road, Suite 200 Wilmington,
Delaware 19805-1266
Re: Honda Auto Receivables 2003-5 Owner Trust
Asset Backed Certificates
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Dear Sirs:
In connection with our acquisition of the above-referenced Asset Backed
Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (a) we understand that the
Certificates are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to
us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Act
and any such laws, (b) we have such knowledge and experience in financial and
business matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
investments in the Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask
questions of and receive answers from the Seller concerning the purchase of the
Certificates and all matters relating thereto or any additional information
deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Certificates, (d) we have not,
nor has anyone acting on our behalf, offered, transferred, pledged, sold or
otherwise disposed of the Certificates or an interest in the Certificates, or
solicited any offer to buy, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the
Certificates or any interest in the Certificates from any person in any manner
or made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner, taken any other action that would constitute a distribution of the
Certificates under the Act or that would render the disposition of the
Certificates a violation of Section 5 of the Act or any state securities laws or
require registration pursuant thereto, and we will not act, or authorize any
person to act, in such manner with respect to the Certificates, (e) we are not a
Benefit Plan and (f) we are a "qualified institutional buyer" as that term is
defined in Rule 144A under the Act. We are aware that the sale to us is being
made in reliance on Rule 144A. We are acquiring the certificates for our own
account or for resale pursuant to Rule 144A and understand that such
certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person
reasonably believed to be a qualified institutional buyer that purchases for its
own account or for the account of a qualified
institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer
is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (ii) pursuant to another exemption
from registration under the Act.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF TRANSFEREE]
By
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Authorized Officer