EXHIBIT (4)-1
EXECUTION COPY
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HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION
and
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of June 22, 1998
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET*
Between
Provisions of Trust Indenture Act (as defined herein) and Indenture
dated as of June 22, 1998 between HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and PNC Bank, National
Association, Trustee:
SECTION OF THE ACT SECTION OF INDENTURE
310(a)(1) and (2)............................................................6.9
310(a)(3) and (4)...................................................Inapplicable
310(b)..............................................6.8 and 6.10(a), (b) and (d)
310(c)..............................................................Inapplicable
311(a)......................................................................6.14
311(b)......................................................................6.14
311(c)..............................................................Inapplicable
312(a)...............................................................4.1 and 4.2
312(b).......................................................................4.2
312(c).......................................................................4.2
313(a).......................................................................4.3
313(b)(1)...........................................................Inapplicable
313(b)(2)....................................................................4.3
313(c)................................................4.3, 5.11, 6.10, 6.11, 8.2
and 12.2
313(d).......................................................................4.3
314(a)...............................................................3.5 and 4.2
314(b)..............................................................Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2)...........................................................11.5
314(c)(3)...........................................................Inapplicable
314(d)..............................................................Inapplicable
314(e)......................................................................11.5
314(f)..............................................................Inapplicable
315(a), (c) and (d)..........................................................6.1
315(b)......................................................................5.11
315(e)......................................................................5.12
316(a)(1)...........................................................5.9 and 5.10
316(a)(2)...........................................................Not required
316(a) (last sentence).......................................................7.4
316(b).......................................................................5.7
317(a).......................................................................5.2
317(b)............................................................3.4(a) and (b)
318(a)......................................................................11.7
*This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS ..............................................1
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined ....................................1
"Affiliate" .............................................................2
"Authenticating Agent" ..................................................2
"Authorized Newspaper" ..................................................2
"Board of Directors" ....................................................2
"Board Resolution" ......................................................2
"Business Day" ..........................................................2
"Capital Stock" .........................................................3
"Commission" ............................................................3
"Common Equity" .........................................................3
"Company" ...............................................................3
"Company Order" .........................................................3
"Consolidated Tangible Assets" ..........................................3
"Corporate Trust Office" ................................................3
"Coupon" ................................................................4
"Covenant Defeasance" ...................................................4
"Depositary" ............................................................4
"Dollar" or "$" .........................................................4
"ECU" ...................................................................4
"Event of Default" ......................................................4
"Exchange Act" ..........................................................4
"Fair Value" ............................................................4
"Foreign Currency" ......................................................4
"Holder," "Holder of Securities," "Securityholder" ......................4
"Indenture" .............................................................4
"Indenture" .............................................................5
"IRS" ...................................................................5
"Judgment Currency" .....................................................5
"Maturity" ..............................................................5
"Non-U.S. Person" .......................................................5
"Officer's Certificate" .................................................5
"144A Global Security" ..................................................5
"Opinion of Counsel" ....................................................5
"Original Issue Date" ...................................................5
"Original Issue Discount Security" ......................................5
"Outstanding" ...........................................................6
"Paying Agent" ..........................................................6
"Periodic Offering" .....................................................6
"Person" ................................................................7
"PORTAL Market" .........................................................7
"Predecessor Security" ..................................................7
"principal" .............................................................7
"QIB" or "Qualified Institutional Buyer" ................................7
"Regular Record Date" ...................................................7
"Registered Global Security" ............................................7
"Registered Security" ...................................................7
"Regulation S" ..........................................................7
"Regulation S Global Security" ..........................................7
"Required Currency" .....................................................7
"Responsible Officer" ...................................................7
"Restricted Security" ...................................................8
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"Rule 144" ..............................................................8
"Rule 144A" .............................................................8
"Rule 144K" .............................................................8
"Securities Act" ........................................................8
"Significant Subsidiary" ................................................8
"Special Record Date" ...................................................8
"Stated Maturity" .......................................................8
"Subsidiary" ............................................................9
"Transfer Restriction Termination Date" .................................9
"Trustee" ...............................................................9
"Unregistered Security" .................................................9
"U.S. Government Obligations" ...........................................9
"Voting Stock" ......................................................... 9
"Yield to Maturity" .................................................... 9
ARTICLE 2 SECURITIES ................................................ 9
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally ...........................................10
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication ...........10
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series ......................11
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities .................14
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities ...................................17
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication .............................18
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest..18
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange .......................20
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities .27
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof ..........28
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities .....................................28
ARTICLE 3 COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY ..................................29
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest .........................29
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, Etc .................................30
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee ........31
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents .............................................31
SECTION 3.5 Compliance Certificates ...................................32
SECTION 3.6 Corporate Existence .......................................33
SECTION 3.7 Maintenance of Properties .................................33
SECTION 3.8 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims .........................33
SECTION 3.9 Luxembourg Publications ...................................34
SECTION 3.10 Usury Laws ................................................34
ARTICLE 4 SECURITYHOLDER LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Information
as to Names and Addresses of Securityholders ..............34
SECTION 4.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders ....35
SECTION 4.3 Reports by Trustee ........................................35
SECTION 4.4 Reports by Company ........................................35
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ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AN
SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined, Acceleration
of Maturity; Waiver of Default ............................36
SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment ........38
SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee;
Trustee May Prove Debt ....................................40
SECTION 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities ..................................42
SECTION 5.6 Application of Proceeds ...................................42
SECTION 5.7 Suits for Enforcement .....................................44
SECTION 5.8 Limitations on Suits by Security Holders ..................44
SECTION 5.9 Unconditional Right of Securityholders
to Institute Certain Suits ................................45
SECTION 5.10 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of
Proceedings ...............................................45
SECTION 5.11 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay
or Omission Not Waiver of Default .........................45
SECTION 5.12 Delay or Omission Not Waiver ..............................45
SECTION 5.13 Control by Holders of Securities ..........................46
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Past Defaults ...................................46
SECTION 5.15 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But
May Withhold in Certain Circumstances .....................47
SECTION 5.16 Right of Court to Require Filing of
Undertaking to Pay Costs ..................................47
SECTION 5.17 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws ..........................48
ARTICLE 6 CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE ....................................48
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the
Trustee; During Default; Prior to
Default ...................................................48
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee .............................50
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Disposition of Securities or
Application of Proceeds Thereof ...........................51
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities
or Coupons; Collections, Etc. .............................51
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee ....................................51
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of
Trustee and Its Prior Claim ...............................52
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's
Certificate, Etc .... .....................................52
SECTION 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential
Conflicting Interests for the Trustee .....................53
SECTION 6.9 Qualification of Trustee: Conflicting Interests ...........53
SECTION 6.10 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee ...............53
SECTION 6.11 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor Trustee . .......................................53
SECTION 6.12 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee ............55
SECTION 6.13 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business of Trustee .........................57
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SECTION 6.14 Preferential Collection of Claims
Against the Company .......................................57
SECTION 6.15 Appointment of Authenticating Agent .......................57
ARTICLE 7 CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS ............................59
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by
Securityholders ...........................................59
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and
of Holding of Securities ..................................60
SECTION 7.3 Holders to be Treated as Owners ...........................60
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding ........60
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken .......................61
ARTICLE 8. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES ...................................62
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Securityholders ........................................62
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders ...63
SECTION 8.4 Documents to be Given to Trustee ..........................65
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of
Supplemental Indentures ...................................66
ARTICLE 9 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc ..............................66
SECTION 9.2 Successor Entity Substituted ..............................67
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel To Be Given Trustee ....................67
ARTICLE 10 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE ................................67
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture ..................67
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds
Deposited for Payment of Securities ......................72
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent .................72
SECTION 10.4 Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by
Trustee and Paying Agent .................................72
SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations ................73
ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS .................................73
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers
and Directors of Company Exempt from
Individual Liability .....................................73
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole
Benefit of Parties and Holders of
Securities and Coupons ...................................73
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Company Bound by Indenture .....73
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Company, Trustee
and Holders of Securities and Coupons ....................74
SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of
Counsel; Statements to be Contained
Therein ..................................................74
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays ..........76
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SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture
with Trust Indenture Act .................................76
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern ...................................76
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts .............................................76
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings .......................................76
SECTION 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU ...............76
SECTION 11.12 Judgment Currency ........................................77
ARTICLE 12 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES SINKING FUNDS ...................78
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article .................................78
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions ................78
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption ..............80
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from
Eligibility for Selection for Redemption .................81
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds .....................81
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of June __, 1998, by and between HEALTHSOUTH
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and PNC BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the issuance, sale, execution and
delivery, from time to time, of its unsecured evidences of unsubordinated
indebtedness (hereinafter referred to as the "Securities"), without limit as to
principal amount, issuable in one or more series, the amount and terms of each
such series to be determined as hereinafter provided; and, to provide the terms
and conditions upon which the Securities are to be issued, authenticated and
delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Securities, when
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee as in
this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the
Company, and to constitute this Indenture a valid indenture and agreement
according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this
Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Securities have in all respects been
duly authorized; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and
agreement according to its terms have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the
holders thereof, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the
equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of
the Securities and of the coupons, if any, appertaining thereto as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined
The following terms (except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise clearly requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of
any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified
in this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"), or the
definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), are referred to in the Trust Indenture Act, including terms defined
therein by reference to the Securities Act (except as herein
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otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires), shall
have the meaning assigned to such terms in the Trust Indenture Act and in the
Securities Act as in effect from time to time. All accounting terms used herein
and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" means such accounting principles as
are generally accepted at the time of any computation unless a different time
shall be specified with respect to such series of Securities as provided for in
Section 2.3. The words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article have
the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as
the singular.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 under
the Securities Act or any successor provision.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.15.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper (which, in the case of The City of
New York, will, if practicable, be The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), in
the case of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the
"United Kingdom"), will, if practicable, be The Financial Times (London Edition)
and, in the case of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ("Luxembourg"), will, if
practicable, be the Luxemburger Wort) published in an official or common
language of the county of publication customarily published at least once a day
for at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in The
City of New York, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg, as applicable. If it shall
be impractical in the opinion of the Trustee to make any publication of any
notice required hereby in an Authorized Newspaper, any publication or other
notice in lieu thereof which is made or given with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Company or
any committee of such Board duly authorized to act on its behalf.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions, certified by
the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
or consented to by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means, with respect to any Security, a day other than any
day on which banking institutions in the city (or in any of the cities, if more
than one) in which amounts are payable, as specified in the form of
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such Security, are authorized or required by any applicable law or regulation to
be closed.
"Capital Stock" of any Person means any and all shares, rights to purchase,
warrants or options (whether or not currently exercisable); participation or
other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity (including,
without limitation, common stock, preferred stock and partnership and joint
venture interests) of such Person (excluding any debt securities that are
convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity).
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the
execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the
body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Equity" of any Person means all Capital Stock of such Person that
is generally entitled to (a) vote in the election of directors of such Person or
(b) if such Person is not a corporation, vote or otherwise participate in the
selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control
the management and policies of such Person.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor Person.
"Company Order" means a written statement, request or order of the Company
signed in its name by the chairman of the Board of Directors, the president, any
vice president or the treasurer of the Company.
"Consolidated Tangible Assets" of any Person as of any date means the total
assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries (excluding any assets that would be
classified as "intangible assets" under generally accepted accounting principles
("GAAP")) on a consolidated basis at such date, as determined in accordance with
GAAP, less all write-ups subsequent to the date of initial issuance of the
Securities in the book value of any asset owned by such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, as of the date of this Indenture,
located at 500 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY 40202, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration.
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"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to an Unregistered
Security.
"Covenant Defeasance" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.1(C).
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 2.7.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable
or issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 2.3 until a
successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more
than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any
such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Registered Global
Securities of that series.
"Dollar" or "$" means the coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised from time to
time by the European Monetary System of the European Community.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 5.1.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Fair Value" when used with respect to any Voting Stock means the fair
value as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of a country
other than the United States of America.
"Holder," "Holder of Securities," "Securityholder" or other similar terms
mean (a) in the case of any Registered Security, the person in whose name such
Security is registered in the Security Register kept by the Company for that
purpose in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) in the case of any
Unregistered Security, the bearer of such Security, or any Coupon appertaining
thereto, as the case may be.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered or,
if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented or
both, and
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shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities established
as contemplated hereunder.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered or,
if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented or
both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated hereunder.
"Interest Payment Date," means the Stated Maturity of an installment of
interest on such Security.
"IRS" means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of
the Treasury, or any successor entity.
"Judgment Currency" has the meaning set forth in Section 11.12.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which
the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein
provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call
for redemption or otherwise.
"Non-U.S. Person" means any person that is not a "U.S. person" as such term
is defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the chairman of the
Board of Directors, the president or any vice president or the treasurer of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with
Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for
in Section 11.5.
"144A Global Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(b)(i).
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel
who may be an employee of the Company or other counsel satisfactory to the
Trustee. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture
Act and include the statements provided for in Section 11.5.
"Original Issue Date" of any Security (or portion thereof) means the
earlier of (a) the date of such Security or (b) the date of any Security (or
portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or indirectly) on
registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that provides for an
amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
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payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.2.
"Outstanding" (except as otherwise provided in Section 7.4), when used with
reference to Securities, means, subject to the provisions of Section 7.4, as of
any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
under this Indenture, except
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of
which moneys or U.S. Government Obligations (as provided for in Section
10.1) in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have
been set aside, segregated and held in trust by the Company for the Holders
of such Securities (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent),
provided, that if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed
prior to the Maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been
given as herein provided, or provisions satisfactory to the Trustee shall
have been made for giving such notice; and
(c) Securities which shall have been paid or in substitution for which
other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to
the terms of Section 2.9 (except with respect to any such Security as to
which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is
held by a Person in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Company).
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration
of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from time
to time, the specific terms of which Securities, including, without limitation,
the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the Stated Maturity or
Maturities thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with respect thereto,
are to be determined
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by the Company or its agents upon the issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"PORTAL Market" means Private Offerings, Resales and Trading through
Automatic Linkages Market.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.4 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or any Security
or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium, if any,"
provided, however, that such inclusion of premium, if any, shall under no
circumstances result in the double counting of such premium for the purpose of
any calculation required hereunder.
"QIB" or "Qualified Institutional Buyer" means "Qualified Institutional
Buyer" as such term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated in Section 2.3.
"Registered Global Security" means a Security evidencing all or a part of a
series of Registered Securities, issued to the Depositary for such series in
accordance with Section 2.4, and bearing the legend prescribed in Section 2.4
and any other legend required by the Depositary for such series.
"Registered Security" means any Security registered on the Security
Register of the Company.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act, or any
successor provision.
"Regulation S Global Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(b).
"Required Currency" shall have the
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meaning set forth in Section 11.12 .
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means the
chairman of the board of directors, any vice chairman of the board of directors,
the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee,
any vice chairman of the executive committee, the president, any vice president
(whether or not designated by numbers or words added before or after the title
"Vice President"), the cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any trust officer,
an assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier,
any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other officer or
assistant officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to
those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers,
respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his
or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(b).
"Rule 144" means Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
"Rule 144A" means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
"Rule 144K" means Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in Section 7.4)
has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the case
may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 2.9.
"Significant Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary of the Company which at the
time of determination either (i) had tangible assets which, as of the Company's
most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet, constituted at least 5% of
Consolidated Tangible Assets as of such date, or (ii) had revenues for the
12-month period ending on the date of the Company's most recent quarterly
consolidated statement of income which constituted at least 5% of the Company's
total consolidated revenues for such period.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.7.
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"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any Person means (a) any corporation of which Common Equity
having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such
corporation is owned by such Person directly or through one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Person and (b) any entity other than a corporation in which
such Person, directly or indirectly, owns at least 50% of the Common Equity of
such entity and has the authority to manage such entity on a day-to-day basis.
"Transfer Restriction Termination Date" means the earlier of the first date
on which (i) the Securities of a series (other than such Securities acquired by
the Company or any Affiliate thereof since the issue date of such Securities)
may be sold pursuant to Rule 144K (or any successor provision) and (ii) all such
Securities have been exchanged or sold pursuant to an effective registration
statement.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first paragraph
hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article 6, shall also include any
successor trustee. "Trustee" shall also mean or include each Person who is then
a trustee hereunder and if at any time there is more than one such Person,
"Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the
trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
"Unregistered Security" means any Security other than a Registered
Security.
"U.S. Government Obligations" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
10.1(A).
"Voting Stock" means stock of any class or classes having general voting
power under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the board of
directors, managers or trustees of the corporation in question, provided, that,
for the purposes hereof, stock which carries only the right to vote
conditionally on the happening of an event shall not be considered voting stock
whether or not such event shall have happened.
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of securities,
calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if applicable, at the
most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and calculated in
accordance with accepted financial practice.
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ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally
The Securities of each series and the Coupons, if any, to be attached
thereto shall be substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this
Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to one or more Board
Resolutions (as set forth in a Board Resolution or, to the extent established
pursuant to but not set forth in a Board Resolution, an Officer's Certificate
detailing such establishment) or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have
imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends or
endorsements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be
required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant
thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general
usage, all as may be determined by the officers executing such Securities and
Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons.
The definitive Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and
Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons,
if any.
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
The Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory"
If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed with
respect to any series of Securities, then the Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication to be borne by the
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Securities of each such series shall be substantially as follows:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
[___________________________]
as Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory"
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. With respect to each
such series there shall be established in or pursuant to one or more Board
Resolutions (and to the extent established pursuant to but not set forth in a
Board Resolution, in an Officer's Certificate detailing such establishment) or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the initial
issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the designation of the Securities of the series, which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from the Securities of all other
series, and which may be part of a series of Securities previously issued;
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Section 2.8, 2.9, 2.11, 8.5 or 12.3);
(3) if other than Dollars, the coin or currency in which the
Securities of the series are denominated (including, but not limited to,
any Foreign Currency or ECU);
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the
series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue,
on which such interest shall be payable and (in the case of
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Registered Securities) on which a record shall be taken for the
determination of Holders to whom interest is payable and/or the method by
which such rate or rates or date or dates shall be determined;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any interest on
Securities of the series shall be payable, if other than as provided in
Section 3.2;
(7) the right, if any, of the Company to redeem Securities, in whole
or in part, at its option and the period or periods within which, the price
or prices at which and any terms and conditions upon which Securities of
the series may be so redeemed, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase or
repay Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory redemption,
sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof
and the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which and
any terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof in the case of Registered Securities, or $1,000 and $5,000 in the
case of Unregistered Securities, the denominations in which Securities of
the series shall be issuable;
(10) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;
(11) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities of the
series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the
principal of or interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable;
(12) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of the series
are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a
coin or currency other than that in which the Securities are denominated,
the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon
which, such election may be made;
(13) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index based
on a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities of the series
are denominated, the manner in which such
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amounts shall be determined;
(14) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as
Registered Securities (and if so, whether all or a portion of such
Securities will be issuable as Registered Global Securities) or
Unregistered Securities (with or without Coupons), or any combination of
the foregoing, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery
of Unregistered Securities or the payment of interest thereon and, if other
than as provided in Section 2.8, the terms upon which Unregistered
Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such
series and vice versa;
(15) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person who is
not a U.S. person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge
withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Company will have the option
to redeem the Securities of the series rather than pay such additional
amounts;
(16) if the Securities of the series are to be issuable in definitive
form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security
of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other
documents or satisfaction of other conditions, the form and terms of such
certificates, documents or conditions;
(17) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or paying agents,
transfer agents or registrars of any other agents with respect to the
Securities of such series;
(18) any other events of default or covenants with respect to the
Securities of such series;
(19) if the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or
exchangeable for any other security, the terms upon which any such
conversion or exchange may be effected; and
(20) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto
shall be substantially identical, except in the case of Registered Securities as
to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided by or pursuant to the
Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate referred to above or as set forth in
any indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and may be
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issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if
so provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolution, such Officer's
Certificate or in any indenture supplemental hereto.
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities.
The Company may deliver Securities of any series having attached thereto
appropriate Coupons, if any, executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication together with the applicable documents referred to below in this
Section 2.4, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such
Securities and Coupons, if any, to or upon the order of the Company (contained
in the Company Order referred to below in this Section) or pursuant to such
procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients as may be specified
from time to time by a Company Order. The maturity date, original issue date,
interest rate and any other terms of the Securities of such series and Coupons,
if any, appertaining thereto shall be determined by or pursuant to such Company
Order and procedures. If provided for in such procedures, such Company Order may
authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic
instructions from the Company or its duly authorized agent or agents, which
instructions, if oral, shall be promptly confirmed in writing. In authenticating
such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities under this
Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive (in the case of subparagraphs (2), (3) and (4) below only at or before
the time of the first request of the Company to the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of such series) and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected
in relying upon, the following enumerated documents unless and until such
documents have been superseded or revoked:
(1) a Company Order requesting such authentication and setting forth
delivery instructions if the Securities and Coupons, if any, are not to be
delivered to the Company, provided that, with respect to Securities of a
series subject to a Periodic Offering, (a) such Company Order may be
delivered by the Company to the Trustee prior to the delivery to the
Trustee of such Securities for authentication and delivery, (b) the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such series for original issue
from time to time, in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the
aggregate principal amount established for such series, pursuant to a
Company Order or pursuant to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be
specified from time to time by a Company Order, (c) the maturity date or
dates, original issue date or dates, interest rate or rates and any other
terms of Securities of such series shall be determined by a Company Order
or pursuant to such procedures and (d) if provided for in such procedures,
such Company Order may authorize authentication and
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delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the Company or
its duly authorized agent or agents, which instructions, if oral, shall be
promptly confirmed in writing;
(2) any Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate and/or executed
supplemental indenture referred to in Section 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to
which the forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, were
established;
(3) an Officer's Certificate setting forth the form or forms and terms
of the Securities and Coupons, if any, stating that the form or forms and
terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, have been established pursuant
to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and comply with this Indenture, and covering such
other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request; and
(4) At the option of the Company, either one or more Opinions of
Counsel, or a letter addressed to the Trustee permitting it to rely on one
or more Opinions of Counsel, substantially to the effect that:
(a) the form or forms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, have
been duly authorized and established in conformity with the provisions
of this Indenture;
(b) in the case of an underwritten offering, the terms of the
Securities have been duly authorized and established in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture, and, in the case of an offering
that is not underwritten, certain terms of the Securities have been
established pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officer's Certificate
or a supplemental indenture in accordance with this Indenture, and
when such other terms as are to be established pursuant t procedures
set forth in a Company Order shall have been established, all such
terms will have been duly authorized by the Company and will have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) such Securities and Coupons, if any, when executed by the
Company and authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture and delivered to and duly paid for by the
purchasers thereof, and subject to any conditions specified in such
Opinion of Counsel, will have been duly issued under this Indenture,
will be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture, and will be valid
and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their respective terms except as
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the enforceability thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally, (ii)
rights of acceleration, if any, and (iii) the availability of
equitable remedies may be limited by equitable principles of general
applicability and such counsel need express no opinion with regard to
the enforceability of Section 6.6 or of a judgment denominated in a
currency other than Dollars.
In rendering such opinions, any counsel may qualify any opinions as to
enforceability by stating that such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and
other similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and is subject
to general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such counsel may rely upon
opinions of other counsel (copies of which shall be delivered to the Trustee)
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, in which case the opinion shall state
that such counsel believes he and the Trustee are entitled so to rely. Such
counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual matters,
he has relied, to the extent he deems proper, upon certificates of officers of
the Company and its subsidiaries and certificates of public officials.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any
Securities under this section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel,
determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Company or if the
Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or board of trustees, executive
committee or a trust committee of directors or trustees shall determine that
such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders
or would affect the Trustee' own rights, duties or immunities under the
Securities, this Indenture or otherwise.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 2.3 that all or a
portion of the Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or
more Registered Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Company Order with
respect to such series, authenticate and deliver one or more Registered Global
Securities that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal
to the aggregate principal amount of al of the Securities of such series issued
in such form and not yet canceled, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary for such Registered Global Security or Securities or the nominee of
such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or
delivered or held pursuant to such Depositary's instructions and (iv) shall bear
a legend substantially to the following effect: "Unless and until it is
exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered form, this
Security may not be transferred except as
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a whole by the Depositary to the nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of
the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such
successor Depositary."
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.3 must, at the time of its
designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act and any other applicable statute or
regulation.
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities.
The Securities and each Coupon appertaining thereto, if any, shall be
signed on behalf of the Company by the chairman or vice chairman of its Board of
Directors or its president, or any executive (senior or other), a vice president
or its treasurer, under its corporate seal (except in the case of Coupons) which
may, but need not, be attested. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future such officers. The seal of the Company
may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed,
imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities. Typographical and other
minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of the seal or any such
signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Security that
has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the
Securities or Coupons, if any, shall cease to be such officer before the
Security or Coupon so signed (or the Security to which the Coupon so signed
appertains) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of
by the Company, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be authenticated and
delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security or Coupon
had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Security or Coupon may
be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the
execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be the proper officers of the
Company, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture
any such person was not such an officer.
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication.
Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the
manual signature of one of its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. No Coupon
shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or shall be valid and
obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the
Security to which such Coupon appertains shall have been duly executed by the
Trustee. The execution of such certificate by the Trustee upon
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any Security executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the
Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable as Registered Securities or
Unregistered Securities in denominations established as contemplated by Section
2.3 or, with respect to the Registered Securities of any series, if not so
established, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. If
denominations of Unregistered Securities of any series are not so established,
such Securities shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and $5,000. The
Securities of each series shall be numbered, lettered or otherwise distinguished
in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the officers of the Company
executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee, as evidenced
by the execution and authentication thereof.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
Each Unregistered Security shall be dated as provided in the Board Resolution
referred to in Section 2.3. The Securities of each series shall bear interest,
if any, from the date, and such interest shall be payable on the dates,
established as contemplated by Section 2.3.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose
name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. At the option of
the Company, interest on any Security may be paid by mailing a check to the
address of the Holder thereof as such address appears in the Securities
Register.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided
in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in
the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of
the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and
the date of
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the proposed payment, and a the same time the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the
proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid,
to each Holder at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not
less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons
in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and
shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following claus (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange.
(a) The Company will keep at each office or agency to be maintained for the
purpose as provided in Section 3.2 for each series of Securities a register or
registers (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or
agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 3.2 being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as the Company
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may prescribe, it will provide for the registration of Registered Securities of
such series and the registration of transfer of Registered Securities of such
series. Such Security Register shall be in written form in the English language
or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a
reasonable time. At all reasonable times such Security Register or registers
shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at any such office or agency to be maintained for the
purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a
new Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same series, maturity
date, interest rate and original issue date in authorized denominations for a
like aggregate principal amount.
Unregistered Securities (except for any temporary global Unregistered
Securities) and Coupons (except for Coupons attached to any temporary global
Unregistered Securities) shall be transferable by delivery.
At the option of the Holder thereof, Registered Securities of any series
(other than a Registered Global Security, except as set forth below) may be
exchanged for a Registered Security or Registered Securities of such series
having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of such Registered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the
Company that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.2
and upon payment, if the Company shall so require, of the charges hereinafter
provided. If the Securities of any series are issued in both registered and
unregistered form, at the option of the Holder thereof, except as otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 2.3, Unregistered Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of such series having authorized
denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such
Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the Company that shall
be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.2, with, in the case
of Unregistered Securities that have Coupons attached, all unmatured Coupons and
all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining, and upon payment, if the
Company shall so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. At the option of
the Holder thereof, if Unregistered Securities of any series, maturity date,
interest rate and original issue date are issued in more than one authorized
denomination, except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.3, such
Unregistered Securities may be exchanged for Unregistered Securities of such
series having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of such Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of
the Company that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section
3.2 or as specified pursuant to Section 2.3, with, in the case of Unregistered
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Securities that have Coupons attached, all unmatured Coupons and all matured
Coupons in default thereto appertaining, and upon payment, if the Company shall
so require, of the charges hereinafter provided. Registered Securities of any
series may not be exchanged for Unregistered Securities of such series unless
(1) otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.3 and (2) the Company has
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel that (x) the Company has received
from the IRS a ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has been a change in
the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that the
inclusion of terms permitting Registered Securities to be exchanged for
Unregistered Securities would result in no Federal income tax effect adverse to
the Company or to any Holder. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for
exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive. All Securities and Coupons, if any, surrendered upon any exchange or
transfer provided for in this Indenture shall be promptly canceled and disposed
of by the Trustee, and the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of disposition
thereof to the Company.
All Registered Securities presented for registration of transfer, exchange,
redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed, by
the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or
registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any
such transaction.
The Company shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a)
any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days preceding the first mailing
of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be redeemed or (b) any
Securities selected, called or being called for redemption, in whole or in part,
except, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof
not so to be redeemed.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.8, unless and until
it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered
form, a Registered Global Security representing all or a portion of the
Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of
such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by
such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series or
a nominee of such successor Depositary.
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If at any time the Depositary for any Registered Securities of a series
represented by one or more Registered Global Securities notifies the Company
that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Registered
Securities or if at any time the Depositary for such Registered Securities shall
no longer be eligible under Section 2.4, the Company shall appoint a successor
Depositary eligible under Section 2.4 with respect to such Registered
Securities. If a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.4 for such
Registered Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the
Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the
Company's election pursuant to Section 2.3 that such Registered Securities be
represented by one or more Registered Global Securities shall no longer be
effective and the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officer's Certificate for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such
series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized
denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Registered Global Security or Securities representing such Registered
Securities in exchange for such Registered Global Security or Securities.
The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the
Registered Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more Registered
Global Securities shall no longer be represented by a Registered Global Security
or Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon
receipt of any Officer's Certificate for the authentication and delivery of
definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities
of such series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized
denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Registered Global Security or Securities representing such Registered
Securities, in exchange for such Registered Global Security or Securities.
If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 2.3 with respect to
Securities represented by a Registered Global Security, the Depositary for such
Registered Global Security may surrender such Registered Global Security in
exchange in whole or in part for Securities of the same series in definitive
registered form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company and such
Depositary. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new Registered
Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations
as requested by such Person, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and
in exchange for such Person's beneficial interest in the Registered Global
Security; and
(ii) to such Depositary a new Registered Global
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Security in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Registered Global Security and the
aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities authenticated and
delivered pursuant to clause (i) above.
Upon the exchange of a Registered Global Security for Securities in
definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, such
Registered Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee or an agent of the
Company or the Trustee. Securities in definitive registered form without coupons
issued in exchange for a Registered Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.8
shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depositary for such Registered Global Security, pursuant to instructions from
its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or
an agent of the Company or the Trustee. The Trustee or such agent shall deliver
such Securities to or as directed by the Persons in whose names such Securities
are so registered.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
transfer or exchange.
Notwithstanding anything herein or in the terms of any series of Securities
to the contrary, none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or
the Trustee (any of which, other than the Company, shall rely on an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel) shall be required to exchange any
Unregistered Security for a Registered Security if such exchange would result in
Federal income tax consequences adverse to the Company (such as, for example,
the inability of the Company to deduct from its income, as computed for Federal
income tax purposes, the interest payable on the Unregistered Securities) under
then applicable United States Federal income tax laws.
(b)(i) Securities that are distributed to QIBs will be represented by a
global Security (the "144A Global Security"). Securities that are distributed to
Non-U.S. Persons will be represented by a global Security (the "Regulation S
Global Security"). Each of the 144A Global Security and the Regulation S Global
Security shall be referred to herein as a "Global Security." If Global
Securities are issued, transfers of interests in the Securities between the 144A
Global Security and the Regulation S Global Security will be made in accordance
with the standing instructions and procedures of the Depositary and its
participants and the Trustee shall make appropriate endorsements to reflect
increases or decreases in the principal amounts of such Global Securities to
reflect any such transfers.
Except as provided below, beneficial owners of a Security in global form
shall not be entitled to have certificates registered in their names, will not
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entitled to receive physical delivery of certificates in definitive form and
will not be considered Holders of such Securities in global form.
(ii) So long as the Securities are eligible for book-entry settlement, and
to the extent that Securities are held by QIBs or Non-U.S. Persons, as the case
may be, in a Global Security, or unless otherwise required by law, upon any
transfer of a definitive Security to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or to a
Non-U.S. Person in accordance with Regulation S, unless otherwise requested by
the transferor, and upon receipt of the definitive Security or Securities being
so transferred, together with a certification from the transferor that the
transfer is being made in compliance with Rule 144A or Regulation S, as the case
may be (or other evidence satisfactory to the Trustee), the Trustee shall make
an endorsement on any 144A Global Security or any Regulation S Global Security,
as the case may be, to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities represented by such Global Security, and the Trustee shall cancel
such definitive Security or Securities in accordance with the standing
instructions and procedures of the Depositary, the aggregate principal amount of
Securities represented by such Global Security to be increased accordingly;
provided that no definitive Security, or portion thereof, in respect of which
the Company or an Affiliate of the Company held any beneficial interest shall be
included in such Global Security until such definitive Security is freely
tradable in accordance with Rule 144(k); provided further that the Trustee
shall, at the written request of the Company, issue Securities in definitive
form upon any transfer of a beneficial interest in the Global Security to the
Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
Any Global Security may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text
thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Indenture as may be required by the Depositary, by the New York Stock
Exchange or by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. in order for
the Securities to be tradable on the PORTAL Market or as may be required for the
Securities to be tradable on any other market developed for trading of
securities pursuant to Rule 144A or required to comply with any applicable law
or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities
exchange upon which the Securities may be listed or traded or to conform with
any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or
restrictions to which any particular Securities are subject.
(iii) Each Security that bears or is required to bear the legend set forth
in this Section 2.8(b) (a "Restricted Security") shall be subject to the
restrictions on transfer provided in the legend set forth in this Section
2.8(b), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be waived by the written
consent of the Company, and the Holder of each Restricted Security, by such
Holder's acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by such restrictions on
transfer. As used in this Section
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2.8(b), the term "transfer" encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other
disposition of any Restricted Security.
Prior to the Transfer Restriction Termination Date, any certificate
evidencing a Security shall bear a legend in substantially the following form,
unless otherwise agreed by the Company (with written notice thereof to the
Trustee):
THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S.
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR
FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE
FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS
THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITE
INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT) ("INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A
U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IN AN OFFSHORE
TRANSACTION, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE
HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER
RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), RESELL
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY EXCEPT (A) TO
HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION (THE "COMPANY") OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(C) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR
TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE FOR THE SECURITIES A SIGNED
LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE
RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY (THE FORM OF
WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM SUCH TRUSTEE), (E) OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT
TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE
SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER
OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING
PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE
144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), THE HOLDER
MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF RELATING TO
THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE TRUSTEE FOR
THE SECURITIES. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR OR A PURCHASER WHO IS NOT A U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO
SUCH
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TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE FOR THE SECURITIES SUCH CERTIFICATIONS,
LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THE COMPANY OR THE TRUSTEE MAY
REASONABLY REQUIRE, TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO
AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED AFTER THE
EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED
HEREIN, THE TERMS "OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON"
HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
Following the Transfer Restriction Termination Date, any Security or
security issued in exchange or substitution therefor (other than Securities
acquired by the Company or any Affiliate thereof since the issue date of the
Securities) may upon surrender of such Security for exchange to the Security
Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.8, be exchanged
for a new Security or Securities, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount,
which shall not bear the restrictiv legend required by this Section 2.8(b).
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
In case any temporary or definitive Security or any Coupon appertaining to
any Security shall be mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company
in its discretion may execute and, upon the written request of any officer of
the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of the
same series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date, bearing a
number or other distinguishing symbol not contemporaneously outstanding, in
exchange and substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of
and in substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen with Coupons
corresponding to the Coupons appertaining to the Securities so mutilated,
defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen, or in exchange or substitution for the
Security to which such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon
appertained, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons so
mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a
substitute Security or Coupon shall furnish to the Company and to the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to indemnify and defend and to save each of them harmless and,
in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of
the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership
thereof, and in the case of mutilation or defacement shall surrender the
Security and related Coupons to th Trustee or such agent.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient
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to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee)
or its agent connected therewith. In case any Security or Coupon which has
matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall
become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may
instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the
same or the relevant Coupon (without surrender thereof except in the case of a
mutilated or defaced Security or Coupon), if the applicant for such payment
shall furnish to the Company and to the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
the Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them may require to save each
of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the
applicant shall also furnish to th Company and the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss
or theft of such Security or Coupons and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security or Coupon of any series issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security or
Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set
forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities or Coupons of such series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
All Securities and Coupons shall be held and owned upon the express condition
that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities and Coupons and shall preclude any and all other
rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter
enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable
instruments or other securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Destruction Thereof.
All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
registration of transfer or exchange, or for credit against any payment in
respect of a sinking or analogous fund, if any, if surrendered to the Company or
any agent of the Company or the Trustee or any agent of the Trustee, shall be
delivered to the Trustee or its agent for cancellation or, if surrendered to the
Trustee, shall be canceled by it; and no Securities or Coupons shall be issued
in lieu thereof except as expressl permitted by any of the provisions of this
Indenture. The Trustee or its agent shall dispose of canceled Securities and
Coupons held by it and deliver a certificate of disposition to the Company. If
the Company or its agent shall acquire any of the Securities or Coupons, such
acquisition shall not operate
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as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Securities or Coupons unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee or
its agent for cancellation.
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities for any series, the
Company may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary
Securities for such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise
reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary
Securities of any series shall be issuable as Registered Securities without
coupons, or as Unregistered Securities with or without coupons attached thereto,
of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive
Securities of such series but with such omissions, insertions and variations as
may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the
Company with the concurrence of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and
authentication thereof. Temporary Securities may contain such references to any
provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security
shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the
same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as
the definitive Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Company shall execute
and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary
Registered Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor
without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by the Company for that
purpose pursuant to Section 3.2 and, in the case of Unregistered Securities, at
any agency maintained by the Company for such purpose as specified pursuant to
Section 2.4, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such
temporary Securities of such series an equal aggregate principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series having authorized denominations and, in
the case of Unregistered Securities, having attached thereto any appropriate
Coupons. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of
such series, unless otherwise established pursuant to Section 2.3. The
provisions of this Section are subject to any restrictions or limitations on the
issue and delivery of temporary Unregistered Securities of any series that may
be established pursuant to Section 2.4 (including any provision that
Unregistered Securities of such series initially be issued in the form of a
single global Unregistered Security to be delivered to a depositary or agency
located outside the United States and the procedures pursuant to which
definitive or global Unregistered Securities of such series would be issued in
exchange for such temporary global Unregistered Security).
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ARTICLE 3
COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the
principal of, and interest on, if any, each of the Securities of such series
(together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such
Securities) at the place or places, at the respective time or times and in the
manner provided in such Securities and in the Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto and in this Indenture. The interest on Securities with Coupons attached
(together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such
Securities) shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several
Coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they
severally mature. If any temporary Unregistered Security provides that interest
thereon may be paid while such Security is in temporary form, the interest on
any such temporary Unregistered Security (together with any additional amounts
payable pursuant to the terms of such Security) shall be paid, as to the
installments of interest evidenced by Coupons attached thereto, if any, only
upon presentation and surrender thereof, and, as to the other installments of
interest, if any, only upon presentation of such Securities for notation thereon
of the payment of such interest, in each case subject to any restrictions that
may be established pursuant to Section 2.4. The interest, if any, on Registered
Securities (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms
of such Securities) shall be payable only to or upon the written order of the
Holders thereof and, at the option of the Company, may be paid by wire transfer
or by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of
such Holders at their last addresses as they appear on the Security Register of
the Company.
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payments, Etc.
So long as any Registered Securities are authorized for issuance pursuant
to this Indenture or are outstanding hereunder, the Company will maintain in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where the
Registered Securities of each series may be presented for payment, where the
Securities of each series may be presented for exchange as is provided in this
Indenture and, if applicable, pursuant to Section 2.4 and where the Registered
Securities of each series ma be presented for registration of transfer as in
this Indenture provided.
The Company will maintain one or more offices or agencies in a city or
cities located outside the United States (including any city in which such an
agency is required to be
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maintained under the rules of any stock exchange on which the Securities of such
series are listed) where the Unregistered Securities, if any, of each series and
Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto may be presented for payment. No payment
on any Unregistered Security or Coupon will be made upon presentation of suc
Unregistered Security or Coupon at an agency of the Company within the United
States nor will any payment be made by transfer to an account in, or by mail to
an address in, the United States unless pursuant to applicable United States
laws and regulations then in effect such payment can be made without tax
consequences adverse to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments in
Dollars of Unregistered Securities of any series and Coupons appertaining
thereto which are payable in Dollars may be made at an agency of the Company
maintained in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York if such payment in
Dollars at each agency maintained by the Company outside the United States for
payment on such Unregistered Securities is illegal or effectively precluded by
exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of any series, the Coupons appertaining thereto or
this Indenture may be served.
The Company will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of each
such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. In case the Company
shall fail to maintain any agency required by this Section to be located in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or shall fail to give such notice of
the location or for any change in the location of any of the above agencies,
presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more additional offices
or agencies where the Securities of a series and any Coupons appertaining
thereto may be presented for payment, where the Securities of that series may be
presented for exchange as provided in this Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.4
and where the Registered Securities of that series may be presented for
registration of transfer as in this Indenture provided, and the Company may from
time to time rescind any such designation, as the Company may deem desirable or
expedient; provided, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain the agencies provided for in
this Section. The Company shall give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any
such designation or rescission thereof.
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee.
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a
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vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in
Section 6.10, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with
respect to each series of Securities hereunder.
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents.
Whenever the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series, it will cause such Paying Agent to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree
with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series
(whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other
obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities of such series, or Coupons appertaining thereto,
if any, or of the Trustee;
(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company
(or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) to make any
payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series
when the same shall be due and payable; and
(c) that it will pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the
Trustee upon the Trustee's written request at any time during the
continuance of the failure referred to in the foregoing clause (b).
The Company will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or
interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any
failure to take such action.
If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent with respect to the
Securities of any series, it will, on or before each due date of the principal
of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside, segregate and hold
in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series or the
Coupons appertaining thereto a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest
so becoming due. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to
take such action.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, but subject to
Section 10.1, the Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a
satisfaction and discharge with respect to one or more or all series of
Securities hereunder, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the
Trustee all sums held in trust for any such series by the Company or any Paying
Agent hereunder, as required by this Section, such sums
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to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to
hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the provisions of
Sections 10.3 and 10.4.
SECTION 3.5 Compliance Certificates.
The Company will furnish to the Trustee on or before January 31 in each
year (beginning with January 31, 1999) a brief certificate (which need not
comply with Section 11.5) from the principal executive, financial or accounting
officer of the Company stating that in the course of the performance by the
signer of his or her duties as an officer of the Company he or she would
normally have knowledge of any default or non-compliance by the Company in the
performance of any covenants or conditions contained in this Indenture, stating
whether or not he or she has knowledge of any such default or non-compliance
and, if so, describing each such default or non- compliance of which the signer
has knowledge and the nature thereof.
SECTION 3.6 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 9, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence
and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company
and its Subsidiaries; provided, that the Company shall not be required to
preserve any such right, license or franchise, if, in the judgment of the
Company, the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Securityholders.
SECTION 3.7 Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will cause all properties used in or useful in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good
condition, repair, and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment
and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements,
betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may
be necessary, so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be
properly and advantageously conducted at all time except to the extent that the
Company may be prevented from so doing by circumstances beyond its control;
provided, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from
discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties, or
disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the judgment
of the Company desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or any
Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Securityholders.
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SECTION 3.8 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before
the same shall become delinquent: (a) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income,
profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary; and (b) all lawful claims
for labor, materials, and supplies, which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien
upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, that the Company
shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; and provided further
that the Company shall not be required to cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim if the Company shall determine that such
payment is not advantageous to the conduct of the business of the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the failure so to pay or discharge is
not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Securityholders.
SECTION 3.9 Luxembourg Publications.
In the event of the publication of any notice pursuant to Section 5.15,
6.11(a), 6.12, 8.2, 10.4 or 13.2, the party making such publication in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and London shall also, to the extent
that notice is required to be given to Holders of Securities of any series by
applicable Luxembourg law or stock exchange regulation, as evidenced by an
Officer's Certificate delivered to such party, make a similar publication in
Luxembourg.
SECTION 3.10 Usury Laws.
The Company covenants and agrees: (a) not to insist upon, or plead, or in
any manner whatsoever claim the benefit or the advantage of the usury law of any
jurisdiction against the Trustee or the Holders in connection with any claim,
action or proceeding which may be brought by the Trustee or the Holders in order
to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture; and (b) to resist any and
all efforts to compel the Company to claim the benefit or the advantage of the
usury law of any jurisdiction against the Trustee or the Holders in connection
with any claim, action or proceeding which may be brought by the Trustee or the
Holders in order to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture.
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ARTICLE 4
SECURITYHOLDER LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses of
Securityholders.
If and so long as the Trustee shall not be the Security Registrar for the
Securities of any series, the Company and any other obligor on the Securities
will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of the
Registered Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust
Indenture Act:
(a) semi-annually not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date
for the payment of interest on such Registered Securities, as hereinabove
specified, as of such record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to
Section 2.4 for non-interest bearing Registered Securities in each year;
and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in
writing, within thirty days after receipt by the Company of any such
request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished.
SECTION 4.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most
recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 4.1 and the
names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason
of any disclosure of information as to names
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and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 4.3 Reports by Trustee.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the
Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant
thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The
Company will notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
SECTION 4.4 Reports by Company.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to
Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries
thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and
in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that any such information,
documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, shall be filed with the Trustee within
15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined, Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of
Default.
"Event of Default" with respect to Securities of any series, wherever used
herein, means each one of the following events which shall have occurred and be
continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall
be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to
any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of
any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any of
the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and
payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
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(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal, or any
premium, on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall
become due and payable either at Maturity, upon any redemption, by
declaration or otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund installment as and when
the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities of
such series; or
(d) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any
other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the
Securities of such series or contained in this Indenture (other than a
covenant or agreement included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of
a series of Securities other than such series) for a period of 60 days
after the date on which written notice specifying such failure, stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder and demanding that the
Company remedy the same, shall have been given by registered or certified
mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee, or to the
Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of the series to which such
covenant or agreement relates; or
(e) default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any Subsidiary or under
any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by
which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for money borrowed
by the Company or any Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or
shall hereafter be created, if (i) such default results in such
indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date
on which it would otherwise become due and payable, (ii) the principal
amount of such indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any
other such indebtedness which has been so accelerated, aggregates
$25,000,000 or more at any one time outstanding and (iii) such indebtedness
is not discharged, or such acceleration is not rescinded or annulled,
within a period of 10 days after there shall have been given to the Company
by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at 25%
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each such affected
series then Outstanding hereunder a written notice specifying such default
and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be discharged or
cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled; or
(f) a court having jurisdiction in the premises
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shall enter a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary for any substantial part of its or their property or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of its or their affairs, and such decree or
order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(g) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a
voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law now or hereafter in effect, or consent to the entry of an order for
relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or consent to the
appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary or for any substantial part of it or their
property, or make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(h) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture,
Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate under which such series of
Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such series.
SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default described in clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (h)
of Section 5.1 (if the Event of Default under clause (d) or (h), as the case may
be, is with respect to less than all series of Securities then Outstanding)
occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, except for any
series of Securities the principal of which shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of each such affected series then Outstanding
hereunder (each such series voting as a separate class) by notice in writing to
the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the
entire principal (or, if the Securities of any such affected series are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such series) of all Securities of all such affected
series, and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration, the same shall become immediately
due and payable.
If an Event of Default described in clause (d) or (h) of Section 5.1 with
respect to all series of Securities then
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Outstanding, or an Event of Default described in clause (f) or (g) above occurs
and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, unless the principal
of all of the Securities shall have already become due and payable, either the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of all
of the Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class) by notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may
declare the entire principal (or, if the Securities of any series are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such series) of all of the Securities then
Outstanding, and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable
immediately, and upon such declaration, the same shall become immediately due
and payable.
The foregoing provisions are subject to the condition that if, at any time
after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of the Securities of any series (or of all the Securities, as the case
may be) shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or
decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as
hereinafter provided,
(A) the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(i) all matured installments of interest upon all the Securities
of each such series (or all the Securities, as the case may be); and
(ii) the principal of any and all Securities of each such series
(or of all the Securities, as the case may be) which shall have become
due otherwise than by acceleration; and
(iii) interest upon such principal and, to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on
overdue installments of interest, at the same rate as the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the Securities of each such series (or at the
respective rates of interest or Yields to Maturity of all the
Securities, as the case may be) to the date of such payment or
deposit; and
(iv) all amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6;
and
(B) all Events of Default under the Indenture, other than the
non-payment of the principal of Securities which shall have become due by
acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as
provided herein,
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then and in every such case the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of all the Securities of each such series, each such series voting as a
separate class (or of all the Securities, as the case may be, voting as a single
class), then Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee,
may waive all defaults with respect to each such series (or with respect to all
the Securities, as the case may be) and rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences, but no such waive or rescission and annulment shall extend to
or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent
thereon.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal of any
Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and declared due
and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and after such
declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for
all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be
due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of
the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such
acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all other amounts
owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such Original Issue
Discount Securities.
SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt .
The Company covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment
of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of any series when such
interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall have
continued for a period of 30 days, or (b) in case default shall be made in the
payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the Securities of any
series when the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon Maturity of
the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or by declaration or
otherwise, then upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee
for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series the whole amount
that then shall have become due and payable on all Securities of such series,
and such Coupons, for principal and interest, as the case may be (with interest
to the date of such payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue
installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to
Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the
Securities of such series); and in addition thereto, such further amount as
shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, and such
other amount due the Trustee under Section 6.6 in respect of Securities of such
series.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Company
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may pay the principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the
registered Holders, whether or not the Securities of such series be overdue.
SECTION 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claims.
In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name as trustee of an express trust, shall be
entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Company or other obligor upon the
Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated, all the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States Code or
any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Company or its property or such other obligor, or in
case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Company or
other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or property of the
Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed
or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall
have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of such series) owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities of any series, and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for amounts payable to the Trustee under Section 6.6)
and of the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to
the Company or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or
property of the Company or such other obligor; and
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the holders of the Securities of any series in any election of a
receiver, assignee, trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement,
reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings,
custodian or
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other person performing similar functions in respect of any such
proceedings; and
(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on their
behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other
similar official performing similar functions in respect of any such
proceedings is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make
payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent
to the making of payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the
Trustee its costs and expenses of collection and all other amounts due to
it pursuant to Section 6.6.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Securityholder in any such proceeding, except as aforesaid in clause (b).
SECTION 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under
any of the Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities,
may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities
of such series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities or the production
thereof in any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action
or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be awarded to
the Trustee for ratable distribution to the Holders of the Securities or Coupons
appertaining to such Securities in respect of which such action was taken, after
payment of all sums due to the Trustee under Section 6.6 in respect of such
Securities.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders
of the Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect to which
such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such
Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities parties to any such
proceedings.
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SECTION 5.6 Application of Proceeds.
Any moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of
any series shall be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by
the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on account of
principal or interest, upon presentation of the several Securities and Coupons
appertaining to such Securities in respect of which monies have been collected
and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing Securities of
such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented
Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if
fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such series
of Securities in respect of which monies have been collected, including all
amounts due to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section
6.6 in respect to such series of Securities;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in
respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be
then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such
series in default in the order of the Maturity of the installments on such
interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee and is permitted by applicable law) upon the
overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest
or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities)
specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the
persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in
respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be
then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and
unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal and interest,
with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that such
interest has been collected by the Trustee and is permitted by applicable
law) upon the overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate
of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and in case such
moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and
unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such
principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority
of principal over interest or Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield to
Maturity over principal, or of any
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installment of interest over any other installment of interest or of any
Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to
the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to
Maturity; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or any
other person lawfully entitled thereto.
SECTION 5.7 Suits for Enforcement.
In case an Event of Default has occurred, has not been waived and is
continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the
rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings
as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such
rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for
the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise o any power granted in this Indenture or to
enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this
Indenture or by law.
SECTION 5.8 Limitations on Suits by Security Holders.
No Holder of any Security of any series or of any Coupon appertaining
thereto shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this
Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in
bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture or such
Security, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian
or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder or thereunder,
unless (a) such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice
of an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series and of the
continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and (b) the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such affected series
then Outstanding (treated as a single class) shall have made written request
upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own name as
Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred therein or thereby, and (c) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt
of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute
any such action or proceeding, and (d) no direction inconsistent with such
written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.13;
it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker
and Holder of every Security or Coupon with every other taker and Holder and the
Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series or Coupons
appertaining to such Securities shall have any right in any manner whatever by
virtue or by availing of any
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provision of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the
rights of any other such taker or Holder of Securities or Coupons appertaining
to such Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference
to any other such taker or Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture
or any Security, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable
and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of the applicable series and
Coupons appertaining to such Securities. For the protection and enforcement of
the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee
shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 5.9 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any provision of
any Security, the right of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to receive
payment of the principal of and interest on such Security or Coupon on or after
the respective due dates expressed in such Security or Coupon or the applicable
redemption dates provided for in such Security, to convert such Securities of
any series in accordance with terms that may be established pursuant to Section
2.3, or to institute sui for the enforcement of any such payment on or after
such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of
such Holder.
SECTION 5.10 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in
every such case the Company and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to
their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers
of the Company, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no
such proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 5.11 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of
Default.
Except as provided in Section 5.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon
or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or Coupons is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy and every right and remedy
shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every
other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall
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not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate
right or remedy.
SECTION 5.12 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of Securities or
Coupons to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default
occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or
shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every power and remedy given by this Indenture, any
Security or law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or Coupons may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or, subject to Section 5.8, by the Holders of Securities or Coupons.
SECTION 5.13 Control by Holders of Securities.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of each series affected (with each such series voting as a separate class) at
the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series by this Indenture; provided, that such direction shall
not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this
Indenture and provided, further, that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.1)
the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if (a)
the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or
proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken; or (b) if the Trustee by its
board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors
or Responsible Officers of the Trustee shall determine in good faith that the
action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal
liability; or (c) if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the
actions or forbearances specified in or pursuant to such direction would be
unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all affected
series not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that
(subject to Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or
not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in its
discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Past Defaults.
Prior to the declaration of acceleration of the
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Maturity of any Securities as provided in Section 5.2, the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series (each series
voting as a separate class) at the time Outstanding with respect to which an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (voting as a single
class) may on behalf of the Holders of all such Securities waive any past
default or Event of Default described in Section 5.1 and its consequences,
except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected.
In the case of any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of all
such Securities shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively, and such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to
have been cured and not to have occurred for purposes of this Indenture; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.15 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain
Circumstances.
The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default with
respect to the Securities of any series, give notice of all defaults with
respect to that series known to the Trustee (i) if any Unregistered Securities
of that series are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by publication at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York and at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if
required by Section 3.9, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg)
and (ii) to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, unless in each
case such defaults shall have been cured before the mailing or publication of
such notice (the term "default" for the purpose of this Section being hereby
defined to mean any event or condition which is, or with notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default); provided, that, except in the case
of default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any of the
Securities of such series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment on
such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so
long as the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of
directors or trustees and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders of such series.
SECTION 5.16 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security or
Coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion
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require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of
Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the case of
any suit relating to or arising under clause (d) or (h) of Section 5.1 (if the
suit relates to Securities of more than one but less than all series), 10% in
aggregate principal amount of Securities then Outstanding and affected thereby,
or in the case of any suit relating to or arising under clause (d) or (h) (if
the suit under clause (d) or (h) relates to all the Securities then
Outstanding), (f) or (g) of Section 5.1, 10% in aggregate principal amount of
all Securities then Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder
for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any
Security on or after the due date expressed in such Security or any date fixed
for redemption.
SECTION 5.17 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder delay or impede the execution of any power
herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every
such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior
to Default.
Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of a particular series and after the curing or waiving of all Events
of Default which may have occurred with respect to such series, the Trustee
undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
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forth in this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities. In case an
Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a series has occurred and has
not been cured or waived, the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series
of Securities such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with
respect to such series of Securities, and use the same degree of care and skill
in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its own willful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such Events
of Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall be determined solely by the express
provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable
except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any
statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of
any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining
the pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders pursuant to Section 5.13 relating to the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any
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remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
The provisions of this Section 6.1 are in furtherance of and subject to
Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee.
In furtherance of and subject to the Trust Indenture Act, and subject to
Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate or any
other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate (unless
other evidence in respect thereof is specifically prescribed herein or in
the terms established in respect of any series); and any resolution of the
Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof
certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any written advice or any
Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection
in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon in accordance with such
advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;
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(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by
it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder and after
the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, the Trustee shall not be
bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note,
coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so
to do by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of all series affected then Outstanding; provided,
that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs,
expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such
investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to
the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture,
the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such expenses or
liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every
such investigation shall be paid by the Company or, if paid by the Trustee
or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys not regularly in its employ and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent
or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or
Application of Proceeds Thereof.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The
Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities or Coupons. The Trustee shall not be accountable
for the use or application by the Company of any of the Securities or of the
proceeds thereof.
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SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons; Collections,
Etc.
The Trustee or any agent of the Company or of the Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
or Coupons with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such
agent and may otherwise deal with the Company and receive, collect, hold and
retain collections from the Company with the same rights it would have if it
were not the Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 10.4 hereof, all moneys received by
the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust
for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law.
Neither the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be under
any liability for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim.
The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time,
and the Trustee shall be entitled to reasonable compensation (which shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust) and the Company covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the
Trustee and each predecessor trustee upon its request for all reasonable
expense, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of
all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ) except any such
expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith.
The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor trustee
for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder
and its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
against or investigating any claim of liability in the premises. The obligations
of the Company under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and
each predecessor trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each
predecessor trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute
additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture. Such additional indebtedness shall be a senior
claim to that of the Securities upon all property
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and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities or Coupons, and the
Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim.
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate, Etc.
Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the
trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a
matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established
by an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in
the absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full
warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the
provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting Interests for the
Trustee.
The following indentures are hereby specifically described for the purposes
of Section 310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act: this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of any other series.
SECTION 6.9 Qualification of Trustee: Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.10 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee.
The Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all times be a
corporation or banking association organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia,
that has (or, in the case of a corporation or banking association included in a
bank holding company system, whose related bank holding company has) a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and which is authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or
examination by Federal, state or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then
for the
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purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. In case at an time the Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
Section 6.11.
The provisions of this Section 6.10 are in furtherance of and subject to
Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.11 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee.
(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any
time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by giving
written notice of resignation to the Company and (i) if any Unregistered
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by giving notice of such
resignation to the Holders thereof, by publication at least once in an
Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section
3.9, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg), (ii) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing
notice of such resignation to the Holders thereof who have filed their names and
addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture
Act at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and (iii) by mailing
notice of such resignation to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered
Securities of each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on
the registry books. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall
promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable
series by written instrument in duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning
Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee or trustees. If no successor
trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to any series and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of
resignation, the resigning trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of the applicable
series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.12,
on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court
for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such
notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor
trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
Section 310(b) of the Trust
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Indenture Act with respect to any series of Securities after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at
least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.10 and Section 310(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act and shall fail to resign after written request therefor
by the Company or by any Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect
to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge
or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors
of the Company, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee
so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions
of Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Securityholder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six
months may on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the
appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series. Such court may
thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe,
remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of each series at the time outstanding may at any time remove
the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by
delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed
and to the Company the evidence provided for in Section 7.1 of the action
in that regard taken by the Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any
series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such
series pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.11 shall become
effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as
provided in Section 6.12.
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SECTION 6.12 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.11 shall execute
and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall
become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations
with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the
written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its
charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 10.4,
pay over to the successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder
and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any
such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall,
nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected
by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6.6.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of one
or more (but not all) series, the Company, the predecessor trustee and each
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series as to which the predecessor trustee is not retiring
shall continue to be vested in the predecessor trustee, and shall add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental
indenture shall constitute such trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that
each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate
indentures.
No successor trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall accept
appointment as provided in this Section 6.12 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.10.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this
Section 6.12, the Company shall give
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notice thereof (a) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then
Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by publication of such notice at least once
in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and
at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section
3.9, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg), (b) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the
Holders thereof who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act, by mailing such notice
to such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee (and the
Trustee shall make such information available to the Company for such purpose)
and (c) to the Holders of Registered Securities of each series affected, by
mailing such notice to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on
the registry books. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially
contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the
preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 6.11.
If the Company fails to give such notice within ten days after acceptance of
appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such
notice to be given at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 6.13 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of
Trustee.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be
the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided, that such corporation shall be
qualified under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act and eligible under the
provisions of Section 6.10 without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor
hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such
certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of
such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee
shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication
of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Securities of any series
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in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor o
successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 6.14 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.
If this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee
shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, excluding any
creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. A
Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated.
SECTION 6.15 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
As long as any Securities of a series remain Outstanding, the Trustee may,
by an instrument in writing, appoint with the approval of the Company an
authenticating agent (the "Authenticating Agent") which shall be authorized to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities, including Securities
issued upon exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption or pursuant
to Section 2.9. Securities of each such series authenticated by such
Authenticating Agent shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and
shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee. Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Securities of any series by the Trustee or to the Trustee's
Certificate of Authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
for such series and a Certificate of Authentication executed on behalf of the
Trustee by suc Authenticating Agent. Such Authenticating Agent shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America or of any State, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$45,000,000 (determined as provided in Section 6.10 with respect to the Trustee)
and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted, or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business
of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the authenticating Agent with
respect to all series of Securities for which it served as Authenticating Agent
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent. Any Authenticating Agent may at any
time, and if it shall cease to be eligible shall, resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company.
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Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or
in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.15 with respect to one or more
series of Securities, the Trustee shall upon receipt of a Company Order appoint
a successor Authenticating Agent and the Company shall provide notice of such
appointment to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 11.4. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon
acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all rights,
powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent. The Company agrees to pay
to the Authenticating Agent for such series from time to time reasonable
compensation. The Authenticating Agent for the Securities of any series shall
have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such at the
direction of the Trustee.
If an appointment is made with respect to one or more series pursuant to
this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
As Trustee
By
----------------------------,
As Authenticating Agent
By
-----------------------------
Authorized Officer
Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6 and 7.3 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.
ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
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consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or
all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of
Securityholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as
herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution
of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Article.
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities.
Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument by a
Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such
reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such
manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Securities shall
be proved by the Security Register or by a certificate of the registrar thereof.
SECTION 7.3 Holders to be Treated as Owners.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
deem and treat the person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon
the Security Register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security
(whether or not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation
of ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of
or on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this
Indenture, interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary. The Company, the Trustee and any agent
of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Unregistered Security
and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute owner of such Unregistered Security
or Coupon (whether or not such Unregistered Security or Coupon shall be overdue)
for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all
other purposes and neither the Company, the Trustee, nor any agent of the
Company or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such
payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to
the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the
liability for moneys payable upon any such Unregistered Security or Coupon.
If the Securities of any series are issued in the form of one or more
Global Securities, the Depository therefor may grant proxies to Persons having a
beneficial ownership in such Global
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Security or Securities for purposes of voting or otherwise responding to any
request for consent, waiver or other action which the Holder of such Security is
entitled to grant or take under this Indenture and the Trustee shall accept such
proxies for the purposes granted; provided that neither the Trustee nor the
Company shall have any obligation with respect to the grant of or solicitation
by the Depository of such proxies.
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action by Securityholders under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by
the Company or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such
determination is being made or by any person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or
any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is
being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose
of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether
the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such action only Securities
which the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with the Company or any other obligor on the Securities. In case of a
dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in
respect of any decision made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon
request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an
Officer's Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by
the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the
above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Trustee shall
be entitled to accept such Officer's Certificate as conclusive evidence of the
facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein
are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken.
At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as
provided in Section 7.1, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series,
as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action,
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any Holder of a Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to
be included among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have
consented to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust
Office and upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action
so far as concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by
the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued
in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof,
irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any
such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be,
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively
binding upon the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Securities
affected by such action.
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders.
The Company, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors
(which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such action and
may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined in
accordance with or pursuant to an Company Order), and the Trustee may from time
to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as
security for the Securities of one or more series any property or assets;
(b) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, or
successive successions, and the assumption by any such successor of the
covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant to Article 9;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Company and the Trustee shall
consider to be for the protection of the Holders of Securities or Coupons,
and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default
in any such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an
Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several
remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in
respect of any such additional
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covenant, restriction, condition or provision such supplemental indenture
may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period
may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults)
or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default
or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of
Default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of such series to waive such an Event of
Default;
(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any
supplemental indenture, or to make any other provisions as the Company may
deem necessary or desirable, provided, that no such action shall adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons;
(e) to establish the forms or terms of Securities of any series or of
the Coupons appertaining to such Securities as permitted by Sections 2.1
and 2.3;
(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of
the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements
of Section 6.12; or
(g) to provide for the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution
of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance,
transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder, but the
Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental indenture
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may
be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the Securities at the
time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 8.2.
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SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 7) of the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as one
class), the Company, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors
(which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such action and
may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined in
accordance with or pursuant to an Company Order), and the Trustee may, from time
to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in
force and effect at the date of execution thereof) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner
the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series or of the
Coupons appertaining to such Securities; provided, that no such supplemental
indenture shall (a) extend the final maturity of any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of
interest thereon or premium thereon, if any, or reduce any amount payable on
redemption thereof, or make the principal thereof (including any amount in
respect of original issue discount), or interest thereon payable in any coin or
currency other than that provided in the Securities and Coupons or in accordance
with the terms thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original
Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of
the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or the amount thereof provable in
bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.2, or alter the provisions of Section 11.11 or
11.12 or impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for
the payment thereof when due or, if the Securities provide therefor, any right
of repayment at the option of the Securityholder, in each case without the
consent of the Holder of each Security so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is
required for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders
of each Security so affected.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of Holders of Securities of such series, or of Coupons appertaining to
such Securities, with respect to such covenant or provision, shall be deemed not
to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any
other series or of the Coupons appertaining to such Securities.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of a resolution of
the Board of Directors (which resolution may
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provide general terms or parameters for such action and may provide that the
specific terms of such action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant
to a Company Order) certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the
Company authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon
the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of the
Securities as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 7.1,
the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental
indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the
Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such
supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee
shall give notice thereof (i) to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered
Securities of each series affected thereby, by mailing a notice thereof by
first-class mail to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the
Security Register, (ii) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected
thereby are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof who have filed their names
and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust
Indenture Act, by mailing a notice thereof by first-class mail to such Holders
at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and (iii) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected thereby are then Outstanding, to
all Holders thereof, by publication of a notice thereof at least once in an
Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section
3.9, at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in Luxembourg), and in each case
such notice shall set forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture. Any failure of the Company to give such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions
hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights,
obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the
Company and the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby shall
thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all
respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions
of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
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terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 8.4 Documents to be Given to Trustee.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive
an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that
any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article 8 complies with the
applicable provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as to any matter
provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action taken by
Securityholders. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new
Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Company,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of
such series then Outstanding.
ARTICLE 9
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc, Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any other Person, and the Company shall not permit any other Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(a) either the Company shall be the continuing corporation, or the
successor entity (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation
or into which the Company is merged or to which the properties and assets
of the Company substantially as an entity are transferred or leased shall
be a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or trust
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any
State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in
form satisfactory to the Trustee,
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all the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture;
and
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating
any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or a Subsidiary
as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the Company or
such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default, and
no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an
Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing.
SECTION 9.2 Successor Entity Substituted.
The successor entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed
to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the
Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor entity
had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter (except in the case of a
lease to another Person) the predecessor entity shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under th Indenture and the Securities and, in the
event of such conveyance or transfer, any such predecessor entity may be
dissolved and liquidated.
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel To Be Given Trustee.
The Trustee subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2 may receive
an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance, and any such assumption complies with the provisions
of this Article 9.
ARTICLE 10
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
(A) If at any time (i) the Company shall have paid or caused to be paid the
principal of and interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding
hereunder and all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (other than Securities
of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto which have been destroyed, lost
or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) as
and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (ii) the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series
theretofore authenticated and all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (other
than any Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto which shall
have been destroyed, lost or
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stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) or
(iii) in the case of any series of Securities where the exact amount (including
the currency of payment) of principal of and interest due on which can be
determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in clause (b) below,
(a) all the Securities of such series and all unmatured Coupons appertaining
thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have
become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within
one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and (b) the
Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust the entire amount in (i) cash (other than moneys
repaid by the Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Company in accordance with
Section 10.4), (ii) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on
which may only be made in Dollars, direct obligations of the United States of
America, backed by its full faith and credit ("U.S. Government Obligations"),
maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will
insure the availability of cash sufficient to pay at such Maturity or upon such
redemption, as the case may be, or (iii) a combination thereof, sufficient, in
the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay
(a) the principal and interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons
appertaining thereto on each date that such principal or interest is due and
payable and (b) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and
the Securities of such series; and if, in any such case, the Company shall also
pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then
this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights of
registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such Series and of
Coupons appertaining thereto and the Company's right of optional redemption, if
any, (ii) substitution of mutilated defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities or Coupons, (iii) rights of holders of Securities and Coupons
appertaining thereto to receive payments of principal thereof and interest
thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon
acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking
fund payments, if any, (iv) any optional redemption rights of such series of
Securities to the extent to be exercised to make such call for redemption within
one year, (v) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder, including those under Section 6.6, (vi) the rights of the Holders of
securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto as beneficiaries
hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all
or any of them, and (vii) the obligations of the Company under Section 3.2) and
the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officer's Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging
this Indenture; provided, that the rights of
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Holders of the Securities and Coupons to receive amounts in respect of principal
of and interest on the Securities and Coupons held by them shall not be delayed
longer than required by then applicable mandatory rules or policies of any
securities exchange upon which the Securities are listed. The Company agrees to
reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and
properly incurred and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter
reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this
Indenture or the Securities of such series.
(B) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of each series
unless specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, Officer's
Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto provided pursuant to Section 2.3.
In addition to discharge of the Indenture pursuant to the next preceding
paragraph, in the case of any series of Securities the exact amounts (including
the currency of payment) of principal of and interest due on which can be
determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in clause (a) below,
the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness
on all the Securities of such a series and the Coupons appertaining thereto on
the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) below, and the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series and
Coupons appertaining thereto shall no longer be in effect (except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such series and
of Coupons appertaining thereto and the Company's right of optional redemption,
if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities or Coupons, (iii) rights of Holders of Securities and Coupons
appertaining thereto to receive payments of principal thereof and interest
thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon
acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking
fund payments, if any, (iv) any optional redemption rights of such series of
Securities to the extent to be exercised to make such call for redemption within
one year, (v) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder, (vi) the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series and
Coupons appertaining thereto as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them and (vii)
the obligations of the Company under Section 3.2) and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall at the Company's request, execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same, if
(a) with reference to this provision the Company has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely
to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series and Coupons
appertaining thereto (i) cash in an amount, or (ii) in the case of any
series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars,
U.S. Government Obligations,
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maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as
will insure the availability of cash or (iii) a combination thereof,
sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered
to the Trustee, to pay (a) the principal and interest on all Securities of
such series and Coupons appertaining thereto on each date that such
principal or interest is due and payable and (b) any mandatory sinking fund
payments on the dates on which such payments are due and payable in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Securities of such
series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which the
Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
based on the fact that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been
published by, the IRS a ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has been
a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the
effect that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the
Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for United States Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be
subject to United States Federal income tax on the same amount and in the
same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if such
deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; and
(d) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this provision have
been complied with.
(C) The Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 3.6
and 9.1 and unless otherwise provided for in the Board Resolution, Officer's
Certificate or Indenture supplemental hereto establishing such series of
Securities, from all covenants and other obligations referred to in Section
2.3(18) or 2.3(19) with respect to such series of Securities, and any Coupons
appertaining thereto, outstanding on and after the date the conditions set forth
below are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"). For this purpose, such
covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of
any series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in
respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in such Section, whether
directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to such
Section or by reason of any reference in such Section to any
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other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply
shall not constitute an Event of Default under Section 5.1, but the remainder of
this Indenture and such Securities and Coupons shall be unaffected thereby. The
following shall be the conditions to application of this subsection C of this
Section 10.1:
(a) The Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited
with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated
solely to, the benefit of the holders of the Securities of such series and
coupons appertaining thereto, (i) cash in an amount, or (ii) in the case of
any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars,
U.S. Government Obligations maturing as to principal and interest at such
times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (iii)
a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the principal
and interest on all Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining
thereof and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the day on which
such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or
both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;
(c) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a
conflicting interest as defined in Section 6.9 and for purposes of the
Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the Company;
(d) Such covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(e) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause any Securities then
listed on any registered national securities exchange under the Exchange
Act to be delisted;
(f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the
Securities of such series and Coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for
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United States Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant
defeasance and will be subject to United States Federal income tax on the
same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred; and
(g) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by
this provision have been complied with.
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of
Securities.
Subject to Section 10.4, all moneys deposited with the Trustee (or other
trustee) pursuant to Section 10.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it to
the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of
such series and of Coupons appertaining thereto for the payment or redemption of
which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to
become due thereon fo principal and interest; but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.
In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent
under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities
shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and
thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such moneys.
SECTION 10.4 Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent.
Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for
the payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on any Security and
any series of Coupons attached thereto and not so applied but remaining
unclaimed under applicable law shall be transferred by the Trustee to the
appropriate Persons in accordance with applicable laws, and the Holder of such
Security of such series and of any Coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter
look only to such Persons for an payment which such Holder may be entitled to
collect and all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to
such moneys shall thereupon cease.
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SECTION 10.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 10.1 or the principal or interest received in
respect of such obligations.
ARTICLE 11
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of Company
Exempt from Individual Liability.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained
in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced
thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such, or against any past,
present or future stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or
of any successor, either directly or through the Company or any successor, under
any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of
any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such
liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the
Securities and the Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto by the Holders thereof
and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities and the Coupons
appertaining thereto.
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders
of Securities and Coupons.
Nothing in this Indenture, in the Securities or in the Coupons appertaining
thereto, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any Person
other than the parties thereto and their successors and the Holders of the
Securities or Coupons, if any, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all
such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto
and their successors and of the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any.
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Company Bound by Indenture.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and
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agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Company, Trustee and Holders of Securities
and Coupons.
Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required
or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders of
Securities or Coupons, if any, to or on the Company may be given or served by
being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise
specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address of the Company is
filed by the Company with the Trustee) to HEALTHSOUTH Corporation, One
HealthSouth Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35243 Attention: Secretary. Any notice,
direction, request or demand by the Company or any Holder of Securities or
Coupons, if any, to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class
mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another
address of the Trustee is filed by the Trustee with the Company) to 500 West
Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, Attention: Corporate Trust
Department.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Registered
Securities, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class mail, postage prepaid,
to each Holder entitled thereto, at his last address as it appears in the
Security Register. In any case where notice to such Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the
Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail
service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Company when such
notice is required to the given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture,
then any manner of giving such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
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SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be
Contained Therein.
Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent have been complied with, except that in
the case of any such application o demand as to which the furnishing of such
documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating
to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion
need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to
the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (b) a brief
statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are
based, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of
or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in
the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any
certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters or information with respect to which is in the possession of
the Company, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by
an officer of officers of the Company, unless such counsel knows that the
certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the matters
upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are
erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are
erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Company or of
counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the
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employ of the Company, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows
that the certificate or opinion of or representations with respect to the
accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based
as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know
that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants
filed with and directed to the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm
is independent.
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
If the date of Maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of
any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto or the date fixed for redemption
or repayment of any such Security or Coupon shall not be a Business Day, then
payment of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made
on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on
the date of Maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall
accrue for the period after such date.
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act.
If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies
or conflicts with duties imposed by, or with another provision (an "incorporated
provision") included in this Indenture by operation of Sections 310 to 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties or incorporated
provision shall control.
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern.
THIS INDENTURE AND EACH SECURITY AND COUPON SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A
CONTRACT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND FOR ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE
CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which
shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one
and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the
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construction hereof.
SECTION 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU.
Unless otherwise specified in an Officer's Certificate delivered pursuant
to Section 2.3 of this Indenture with respect to a particular series of
Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by
the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of
Securities of all series or all series affected by a particular action at the
time Outstanding and, at such time, there are Outstanding Securities of any
series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars (including
ECUs), then the principal amount of Securities of such series which shall be
deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that
amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange
Rate. For purposes of this Section 11.11, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the
noon Dollar buying rate in The New York City for cable transfers of that
currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; provided, in the
case of ECUs, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the rate of exchange determined by
the Commission of the European Communities (or any successor thereto) as
published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (such publication
or any successor publication, the "Journal"). If such Market Exchange Rate is
not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Trustee shall
use, in its sole discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or, in the case of ECUs, the rate of
exchange as published in the Journal, as of the most recent available date, or
quotations or, in the case of ECUs, rates of exchange from one or more major
banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of the currency in
question, which for purposes of the ECU shall be Brussels, Belgium, or such
other quotations or, in the case of ECU, rates of exchange as the Trustee shall
deem appropriate. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining
the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a series denominated
in a currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders
of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
All decisions and determinations of the Trustee regarding the Market
Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding
paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes and
irrevocably binding upon the Company and all Holders.
SECTION 11.12 Judgment Currency.
The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so
under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any
court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or
interest
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on the Securities of any series (the "Required Currency") into a currency in
which a judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the rate of
exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking
procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required
Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable
judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the rate
at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase
in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the
New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is
entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the
Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any
recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with
subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the
extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the
payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in
respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or
additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required
Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of
the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii)
shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under
this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, "New York Banking Day" means any
day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or day
on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required
by law or executive order to close.
ARTICLE 12
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any
series which are redeemable before their Maturity or to any sinking fund for the
retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3 for Securities of such series.
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions.
Notice of redemption to the Holders of Registered Securities of any series
to be redeemed as a whole or in part at the option of the Company shall be given
by mailing notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, at
least 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption
to such Holders of Securities of such series at their last addresses as they
shall appear upon the registry books.
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Notice of redemption to the Holders of Unregistered Securities to be redeemed as
a whole or in part, who have filed their names and addresses with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given by
mailing notice of such redemption, by first class mail, postage prepaid, at
least 30 days and not more than 60 prior to the date fixed for redemption, to
such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee (and, in the
case of any such notice given by the Company, the Trustee shall make such
information available to the Company for such purpose). Notice of redemption to
all other Holders of Unregistered Securities shall be published in an Authorized
Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in an Authorized
Newspaper in London (and, if required by Section 3.9, in an Authorized Newspaper
in Luxembourg), in each case, once in each of three successive calendar weeks,
the first publication to be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
date fixed for redemption. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not
the Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in
the notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption
as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of such Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify the principal
amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be redeemed, the
date fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or places of payment,
that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities
and, in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, of all Coupons
appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for redemption, that such
redemption is pursuant to th mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if
such be the case, that interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be
paid as specified in such notice and that on and after said date interest
thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue. In case
any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only the notice of redemption
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall
state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such
Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in principal amount equal
to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at the
option of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption
given as provided in this Section, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or
with one or more Paying Agents (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, set aside, segregate and holder in trust as provided in Section 3.4) an
amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption
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date all the Securities of such series so called for redemption at the
appropriate redemption price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed
for redemption. The Company will deliver to the Trustee at least 70 days prior
to the date fixed for redemption, or such shorter period as shall be acceptable
to the Trustee, an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount
of Securities to be redeemed. In case of a redemption at the election of the
Company prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee, prior to the giving of any notice of
redemption to Holders pursuant to this Section, an Officer's Certificate stating
that such restriction has been complied with.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee
shall select, in such manner as it shall deemed appropriate and fair, in its
sole discretion, Securities of such series to be redeemed in whole or in part.
Securities may be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities of such series
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such series
selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any series shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.
If notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or
portions of Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on
the date and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption
price, together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on
and after said date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such
Securities at the redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date)
interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption
shall cease to accrue, and the unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto
shall be void, and, except as provided in Sections 6.5 and 10.4, such Securities
shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any
benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no
right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption
price thereof and unpaid interest to the date fixe for redemption. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in
said notice, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing
after the date fixed for redemption, said Securities or the specified portions
thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable redemption
price, together with
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interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption; provided, that
payment of interest becoming due on or prior to the date fixed for redemption
shall be payable in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, to the
Holders of the Coupons for such interest upon surrender thereof, and in the case
of Registered Securities, to the Holder of such Registered Securities registered
as such on the relevant record date, subject to the terms and provisions of
Section 2.3 and 2.7 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly provided for,
bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security) borne by
such Security.
If any Security with Coupons attached thereto is surrendered for redemption
and is not accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the date fixed
for redemption, the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by
the Company and the Trustee, if there be furnished to each of them such security
or indemnity as they may require to save each of them harmless.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of
such series, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for
Redemption.
Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for selection for redemption
if they are identified by registration and certificate number in an Officer's
Certificate delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on
which notice of redemption may be given as being owned of record and
beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by, either (a) the Company or
(b) an entity specifically identified in such written statement as directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with the Company.
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of
the Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
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terms of the Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment." The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is
herein referred to as the "sinking fund payment date."
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment
with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Company may at its option
(a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore purchased or
otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the mandatory sinking
fund) by the Company or receive credit for Securities of such series (not
previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except as
aforesaid) by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant
to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking fund payments (not
previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or (c) receive credit for
Securities of such series (not previously so credited) redeemed by the Company
through any optional redemption provision contained in the terms of such series.
Securities so delivered or credited shall be received or credited by the Trustee
at the sinking fund redemption price specified in such Securities.
On or before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund payment date for
any series, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate
(which need not contain the statements required by Section 11.5) (a) specifying
the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of
cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit of Securities of such series and
the basis for such credit, (b) stating that none of the Securities of such
series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in the
payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have
occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing and (d)
stating whether or not the Company intends to exercise its right to make an
optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so, specifying
the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Company intends to
pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any Securities
of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the Trustee in
order for the Company to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid which have
not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such Officer's
Certificate (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee).
Such Officer's Certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the
Trustee the Company shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash
payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Company, on or before any
such 60th day, to deliver such Officer's Certificate and Securities specified in
this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on
and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Company (i) that the
mandatory sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely
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in cash without the option to deliver or credit Securities of such series in
respect thereof and (ii) that the Company will make no optional sinking fund
payment with respect to such series as provided in this Section.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or both) to
be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus any unused
balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall exceed $50,000
(or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency or ECU) or a lesser sum in
Dollars (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency or ECU) if the
Company shall so request with respect to the Securities of any particular
series, such cash shall be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment
date to the redemption of Securities of such series at the sinking fund
redemption price together with accrued interest to the date fixed for
redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any
Foreign Currency or ECU) or less and the Company makes no such request then it
shall be carried over until a sum in excess of $50,000 (or the equivalent
thereof in any Foreign Currency or ECU) is available. The Trustee shall select,
in the manner provided in Section 12.2, for redemption on such sinking fund
payment date a sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to
absorb said cash, as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the
Company) inform the Company of the serial numbers of the Securities of such
series (or portions thereof) so selected. Securities shall be excluded from
eligibility for redemption under this Section if they are identified by
registration and certificate number in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the
Trustee at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund payment date as being owned
of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by, either (a)
the Company or (b) an entity specifically identified in such Officer's
Certificate as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with the Company. The Trustee, in the name and
at the expense of the Company (or the Company, if it shall so request the
Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such
series to be given in substantially the manner provided in Section 12.2 (and
with the effect provided in Section 12.3) for the redemption of Securities of
such series in part at the option of the Company. The amount of any sinking fund
payments not so applied or allocated to the redemption of Securities of such
series shall be added to the next cash sinking fund payment for such series and,
together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions
of this Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the Stated Maturity
date of the Securities of any particular series (or earlier, if such maturity is
accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption of particular
Securities of such series shall be applied, together with other moneys, if
necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of, and
interest on, the Securities of such series at Maturity.
On or before each sinking fund payment date, the
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Company shall pay to the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the
payment of all interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities
to be redeemed on the next following sinking fund payment date.
The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities of a
series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of redemption of Securities
for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the continuance of a
default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any Event of Default
except that, where the giving of notice of redemption of any Securities shall
theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall redeem or cause to be redeemed
such Securities, provided that it shall have received from the Company a sum
sufficient for such redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking
fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall
occur, and any moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the
continuance of such default or Event of Default be deemed to have been collected
under Article 5 and held for the payment of all such Securities. In case such
Event of Default shall have been waived as provided in Section 5.14 or the
default cured on or before the sixtieth day preceding the sinking fund payment
date in any year, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date in accordance with this Section to the redemption of
such Securities.
[Signature page follows]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed and attested as of the date first written above.
HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION
By: /s/ MICHAEL D. MARTIN
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Michael D. Martin
Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer
Attest:
By: /s/ WILLIAM W. HORTON
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Assistant Secretary PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Trustee
By: /s/ DAVID G. METCALF
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Name: David G. Metcalf
Title: Vice President
Attest:
By: /s W. MICHAEL HANKS
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W. Michael Hanks
Vice President
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STATE OF ALABAMA )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON )
On the 22nd day of June, 1998, before me personally came Michael D.
Martin, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is
EVP, CFO and Treasurer of HEALTHSOUTH Corporation, one of the corporations
described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal
of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate
seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL] /s/ KATHY P. JONES
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Notary Public
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STATE OF KENTUCKY )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON )
On the 22nd day of June, 1998, before me personally came David G. Metcalf,
to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is Vice
President of PNC Bank, National Association, one of the corporations described
in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said
corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal;
that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL] /s/ W. MICHAEL HANES
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Notary Public
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