Exhibit 4.7
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BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
TO
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF ____________________
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BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
Indenture, dated
TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
ss. 310(a)(1).............................................................. 609
(a)(2).............................................................. 609
(a)(3).............................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(4).............................................................. Not Applicable
(b)................................................................. 608
610
ss. 311(a)................................................................. 613(a)
(b)................................................................. 613(b)
(b)(2).............................................................. 703(a)(2)
703(b)
ss. 312(a)................................................................. 701
702(a)
(b)................................................................. 702(b)
(c)................................................................. 702(c)
ss. 313(a)................................................................. 703(a)
(b)................................................................. 703(b)
(c)................................................................. 703(a), 703(b)
(d)................................................................. 704
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Note: This reconciliation and the shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
TRUST INDENTURE
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
ss. 314(a)................................................................ 704
(b)................................................................ Not Applicable
(c)(1)............................................................. 102
(c)(2)............................................................. 102
(c)(3)............................................................. Not Applicable
(d)................................................................ Not Applicable
(e)................................................................ 102
ss. 315(a)................................................................ 601(a)
(b)................................................................ 602
703(a)(6)
(c)................................................................ 601(b)
(d)................................................................ 601(c)
(d)(1)............................................................. 601(a)(1)
(d)(2)............................................................. 601(c)(2)
(d)(3)............................................................. 601(c)(3)
(e)................................................................ 514
ss. 316(a)................................................................ 101
(a)(1)(A).......................................................... 502
512
(a)(1)(B).......................................................... 513
(a)(2)............................................................. Not Applicable
(b)................................................................ 508
ss. 317(a)(1)............................................................. 503
(a)(2)............................................................. 504
(b)................................................................ 1003
ss. 318(a)................................................................ 107
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
INDENTURE...................................................................................
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY.....................................................................
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS..................................................................
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.........................................
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.......................................
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS..............................................................
SECTION 105. NOTICES. ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY........................................
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER....................................................
SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT............................................
SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.....................................
SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.......................................................
SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE..........................................................
SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE........................................................
SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW................................................................
SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS...............................................................
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY..............................................................
SECTION 202. FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.....................................................
SECTION 203. FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY..................................................
SECTION 204. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION..............................
SECTION 205. FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES.........................................
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
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SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.........................................
SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS................................................................
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING...............................
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.........................................................
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE..........................
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.............................
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED...............................
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS........................................................
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION.................................................................
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST......................................................
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE OF SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES..........
SECTION 402. DEFEASANCE OF SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES......................................
SECTION 403. APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; INDEMNIFICATION.................................
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT...........................................................
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT..........................
SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.............
SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM............................................
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.................
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED..............................................
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS.........................................................
SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST...
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES..........................................
SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE..............................................
SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER................................................
SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS..........................................................
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.....................................................
SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.......................................................
SECTION 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS............................................
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.........................................
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS..........................................................
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE...................................................
SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES......................
SECTION 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.........................................................
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.........................................................
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT..............................................
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.....................................
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR...........................
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR......................................
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.................
SECTION 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY...........................
SECTION 614. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.........................................
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS...................
SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS......................
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE..........................................................
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY..........................................................
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC................................................
SECTION 802. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED...........................................
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS..........................
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.............................
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SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.......................................
SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...........................................
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.........................................
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..........................
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANT
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL; PREMIUM AND INTEREST..................................
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.............................................
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST...........................
SECTION 1004. STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE..................................................
SECTION 1005. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.........................................................
SECTION 1006. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.................................................
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE....................................................
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.......................................
SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED...........................
SECTION 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION........................................................
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.................................................
SECTION 1106. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.......................................
SECTION 1107. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.................................................
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE....................................................
SECTION 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.......................
SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND...................................
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
SURBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 1301. SECURITIES SUBORDINATE TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS...............................
SECTION 1302. PAYMENT OVER OF PROCEEDS UPON DISSOLUTION...................................
SECTION 1304. NO PAYMENT WHEN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS IN DEFAULT..............................
SECTION 1305. PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT.............................................
SECTION 1306. SUBROGATION TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.....................
SECTION 1307. PROVISIONS SOLELY TO DEFINE RELATIVE RIGHTS.................................
SECTION 1308. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.........................................
SECTION 1309. NO WAIVER OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS.......................................
SECTION 1310. NOTICE TO TRUSTEE...........................................................
SECTION 1311. RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT..............
SECTION 1312. TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS....................
SECTION 1313. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS;
PRESERVATION OF TRUSTEE'S RIGHTS............................................
SECTION 1314. ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENT..........................................
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INDENTURE
INDENTURE, dated as of [_________ __], [1999], between BOISE CASCADE
CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
state of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office
at One Jefferson Square, Boise, Idaho 83728, and ,
a trust company (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as
are generally accepted at the date of such computation; and
(4) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that
Article.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly.
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise and
the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company,
the Executive Committee of such board, or any other committee authorized by such
board to act hereunder.
"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 by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
to close.
"Capital Stock," as applied to the stock of any corporation, means the
capital stock of every class whether now or hereafter authorized, regardless of
whether such capital
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stock shall be limited to a fixed sum or percentage with respect to the rights
of the holders thereof to participate in dividends and in the distribution of
assets upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of such corporation.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or, if at
any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing
and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor corporation.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or
a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in the
Borough of Manhattan. The City of New York, New York, at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be administered. As of the date of this
Indenture, the office of the Trustee at which its corporate trust business is
conducted is located at [______________________________].
"Debt", with respect to any Person, means (i) all indebtedness of such
Person for borrowed money, whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the
whole of the assets of the borrower or only to a portion thereof, and including
all indebtedness evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other securities sold
for money, (ii) all indebtedness of such Person incurred or assumed in the
acquisition of any business, real property or other assets, except goods and
materials acquired in the ordinary course of the conduct of the acquirer's usual
business, (iii) all capital lease obligations of such Person, (iv) hedging
obligations of such Person, (v) guarantees by such Person of indebtedness of a
type described in the preceding four clauses (i) through (iv) of any other
person, and (vi) renewals, extensions, refundings, deferrals, restructurings,
amendments and modifications of any such indebtedness (including, without
limitation, exchange offers), obligation or guarantee of such Person.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
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"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable
or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, specified for that purpose, as contemplated by Section 301, with
respect to the Securities of such Series.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Global Security" means a Security bearing the legend required by Section
205 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the Depositary
for such series or its nominee and registered in the name of such Depositary or
nominee.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall
include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated
by Section 301.
"Interest" when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which
the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered
to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel who may be an
employee of the Company or other counsel who shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which by its terms
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof.
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"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date
of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities or portions thereof for whose payment or redemption
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside
and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities, provided that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made, and provided further, that Securities for whose
payment or redemption money or U.S. Government Obligations have been
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 or 402 of this Indenture
shall be deemed Outstanding for all purposes of this Indenture until their
Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be, or until otherwise
determined not to be Outstanding pursuant to clauses(i) and (iii) hereof;
and
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser
in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded
and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which
the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding
if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's
right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of
the Company or of such other obligor. In determining whether the Holders of
the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities 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
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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 on such date pursuant to Section 502.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or whether a
quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Securities (i) the principal amount
of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding
shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of
the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of a Security in denominated
in a foreign currency or currencies, including composite currencies, shall be
the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal
amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Account Security, the U.S. dollar
equivalent on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount
determined as provided in (i) above) of such Security, and (iii) Securities
owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to
be Outstanding except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, or upon any such determination as to the presence of
a quorum, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that
the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Payment Blockage Period" has the meaning stated in Section 1303.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any series,
means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series are payable.
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"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Proceeding" has the meaning stated in Section 1302.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust
business;
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture
and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means any Debt incurred, assumed or guaranteed by the
Company, whether presently outstanding or incurred, assumed or guaranteed in the
future, including (i) the principal of, and premium, if any, on such Debt, (ii)
interest on such Debt, including interest accruing after the filing of a
petition initiating any Proceeding pursuant to any bankruptcy law, but only to
the extent allowed or permitted to the Holder of such Debt against the
bankruptcy or any other insolvency estate of the Company in such Proceeding,
(iii) any accrued original issue discount on such Debt, (iv) other amounts due
on or in connection with such Debt, and (v) all renewals, extensions and
refundings of any such Debt; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the following shall not
constitute Senior Indebtedness: Debt issued under the junior indenture (i) any
other Debt which expressly provides (x) that such Debt shall not be senior in
right of payment to the Securities, (ii) any Debt of the Company in respect of
the Securities, (iii) any Debt or liability for compensation to employees, for
goods or materials purchased in the ordinary course of business or for services,
(iv) any Debt of the Company to any Subsidiary for money borrowed or advance
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from such Subsidiary, and (v) any liability for federal, state, local or other
taxes owed or owing by the Company.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or
more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries.
For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock which ordinarily
has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so
long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any
contingency.
"Trust" shall mean each of Boise Cascade Trust I, Boise Cascade Trust
II, and Boise Cascade Trust III, as applicable, each a Delaware business trust
or any other similar trust created for the purpose of issuing preferred
securities in connection with the issuance of Securities under this Indenture.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided in
Section 905.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean
such successor Trustee.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged, or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof. U.S. Government
Obligations shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust
company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a
specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government
Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository
receipt; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (except as required by law) such custodian is
not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of
such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of
the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or
principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
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"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons may certify or give an opinion as to
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other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such
matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representation by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver under the Indenture,
the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be
counted in making such determination and that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to the amount of the principal
thereof that could be declared to be due and payable upon acceleration
under Section 502 pursuant to the terms of such Original Issue Discount
Security at the time the taking of such action by the Holders of such
requisite principal amount is evidenced to the Trustee.
(b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
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Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in
the manner provided in this Section.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the
individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the
execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity
other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall
also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person
executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the
Trustee deems sufficient.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register or by a certificate of the Security Registrar.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Security.
SECTION 105. NOTICES. ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company
addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the
first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.
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Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register. not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. Any notice mailed in the manner prescribed by this
Indenture shall be deemed to have been given whether or not received by any
particular Holder. 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.
If for any reason it shall be impossible to make publication of any notice
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, New York, when such publication is required to be given pursuant to
any provision of this Indenture, then such manner of publication or notification
as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
publication of such notice.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of
any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
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SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the
Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be
made at such Place of Payment on such date. but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect
as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated
Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may
be.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth
in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each
case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities.
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The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
form set forth in this Article.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.
SECTION 202. FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.
[IF THE SECURITY IS AN ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY, INSERT --FOR
PURPOSES OF SECTION [1273] OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954,
AS AMENDED, THE ISSUE PRICE OF THIS SECURITY IS % OF ITS PRINCIPAL AMOUNT AND
THE ISSUE DATE IS , 19 -- OR CORRESPONDING LEGEND APPROPRIATE AT THE
TIME OF ISSUANCE.]
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BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
...........% ............... DUE ..........................
(Hereinafter "Securities")
No...................... $................................
BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company," which term includes any
successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received, hereby promises to pay to , or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Dollars on [IF THE SECURITY IS TO BEAR
INTEREST PRIOR TO MATURITY, INSERT--, and to pay interest thereon from
or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on and in
each year, commencing , at the rate of % per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT--,
at the rate of % per annum on any overdue principal and premium and (to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be permitted by applicable law)
on any overdue interest]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be the or (whether or not a Business Day), as
the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest
not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than
10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in
said Indenture.]
[IF THE SECURITY IS NOT TO BEAR INTEREST PRIOR TO MATURITY, INSERT--The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear
interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be permitted by applicable law), which shall accrue from the date
of such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made
or
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duly provided for. Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on
demand. Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand
shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the payment
of such interest shall be permitted by applicable law), which shall accrue from
the date of such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has
been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on
demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [IF APPLICABLE,
INSERT--any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency
of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, New York, or
at the option of the Holder of this Security, at the office or agency of the
Company in Boise, Idaho, so long as the Company shall maintain an office in
Boise for such purpose, in such coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts; PROVIDED, HOWEVER that at the option of the Company payment of interest
may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such address shall appear in the Security Register.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in
the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payments to the prior payment
in full of all Senior Indebtedness (as defined in the Indenture), and this
Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect
thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and
shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his
behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his acceptance hereof, waives
all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein
and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now
outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon
said provisions.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
By ...................................
Attest:
..............................................
SECTION 203. FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the
Company issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture,
dated as of [________ __], [1999] (herein called the "Indenture"), between
the Company and , as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee"
which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the
Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on
the face hereof, [limited in aggregate principal amount to $ , except as
otherwise provided in the Indenture].
[IF APPLICABLE, INSERT--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30-days' prior notice by mail, [IF APPLICABLE,
INSERT--(1) on in any year commencing with the year
and ending with the year through operation of
the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the
principal amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after
, 19 ], as a whole or from time to time in part, at the
election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as
percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [on or before
, %, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period
beginning of the years indicated,
YEAR REDEMPTION YEAR REDEMPTION
PRICE PRICE
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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption, [IF APPLICABLE, INSERT--(whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]
[IF APPLICABLE, INSERT--The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30-days' prior notice by mail, (1) on in
any year commencing with the year and ending with the year
through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the
Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below,
and (2) at any time [on or after ], as a whole or from time to time in
part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption
otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages
of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the
12-month period beginning of the years indicated,
YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE REDEMPTION PRICE FOR
FOR REDEMPTION REDEMPTION OTHERWISE
THROUGH OPERATION OF THAN THROUGH OPERATION
THE SINKING FUND OF THE SINKING FUND
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
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[Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ,
redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [Clause (2) of] the
preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation
by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an
interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted
financial practice) of less than % per annum.]
[The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on in
each year beginning with the year and ending with the year of
[not less than] $ [("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than $
] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities
of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through
[mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [mandatory]
sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made--in the inverse order in
which they become due.]
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or
Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof
will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[IF THE SECURITY IS NOT AN ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY,--If an Event
of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[IF THE SECURITY IS AN ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY,--If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the indenture. Such amount
shall be equal to--INSERT FORMULA FOr DETERMINING THE AMOUNT. Upon payment (i)
of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on
any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's
obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any,
on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture
also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities, or in some cases of any one or
more series of Securities, at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Securities, or such one or more series of Securities, to waive compliance by
the Company with certain provisions
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of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their
consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or
in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent
or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security at the time, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.
In the event of the merger or consolidation of the obligor on the
Securities into, or of the transfer of its assets substantially as an entirety
to, a successor corporation, such successor corporation shall assume payment of
the Securities and performance of every covenant of the Indenture on the part of
the predecessor corporation to be performed, and shall be substituted for the
predecessor corporation under the Indenture; and in the event of any such
transfer, such predecessor corporation shall be discharged from all obligations
and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and
liquidated, all as more fully set forth in the Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company in any Place of Payment duly endorsed by, or accompanied
by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the
Trustee and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $ and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof
for all purposes,
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whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee
nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 204. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein and referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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, as Trustee
By...............................
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
SECTION 205. FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES.
Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form or such other form as may be
determined pursuant to Section 201:
'This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a
nominee of a Depositary. This Global Security is exchangeable for Securities
registered in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only
in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and no transfer of this
Security (other than a transfer of this Security as a whole by the Depositary to
a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary
or another nominee of the Depositary) may be registered except in such limited
circumstances.'
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.
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The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303,
set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of any Securities of any series,
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish
the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any
Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall
be payable, if other than 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;
(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,
the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the
Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and any interest on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which
and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or prices at
which, the period or periods within which
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and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be
issuable;
(10) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502;
(11) if Section 401(c) is inapplicable to the Securities of the
series;
(12) if Section 402 is inapplicable to the Securities of the series;
(13) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in
which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on
Securities of the series shall be payable if other than the currency of the
United States of America and the manner of determining the equivalent
thereof in the currency of the United States of America for the purposes of
the definition of "Outstanding" in Section 101;
(14) if the amount of payments of principal of and any premium or
interest on Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
index, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(15) if the principal of and any premium or interest on the Securities
of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder
thereof, in a currency or currencies, including composite currencies, other
than that or those in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the
currency or currencies in which payment of the principal of and any premium
and interest on Securities of such series as to which such election is made
shall be payable, and the periods within which and the terms and conditions
upon which such election is to be made;
(16) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or
in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, if so, the
Depositary for such Global Security or Securities; and
(17) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture), including but not
limited to the dates for furnishing names and addresses for Securities
which are not interest bearing pursuant to Section 701(a).
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All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as
to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the
Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the
Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant
to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the initial authentication of Securities
of that series.
SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without
coupons in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section
301. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any
series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate
seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant
Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be
manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) that the form of such Securities has been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
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(b) that the terms of such Securities have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other
laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the
issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or
otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and this Section 303, if all
Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not
be necessary to deliver the Officers Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required
pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the time of authentication
of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to
the time of authentication and delivery upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued and, if such other documents reasonably
apply to the authentication and delivery of such other Security.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the
Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement
stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for
all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
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Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company
may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities of such series.
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept at its office in Boise, Idaho,
designated pursuant to Section 1002, a register (being herein sometimes referred
to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations
as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of
Securities and of transfers of Securities.
The Company initially shall act as "Security Registrar" at such office for
the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided. If at any time the Company shall determine not to act as Security
Registrar or shall fail to maintain a Security Register, the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to maintain a Security Register and to act as
Security Registrar. At all reasonable times, the Security Register shall be open
for inspection by the Trustee.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series
at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall
cancel the surrendered Security, record the transaction in the Security Register
and either issue or cause to be issued one or more new Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and tenor or, at the direction of the Trustee, an Authenticating Agent or any
other agent acceptable to the Trustee, credit the proper principal amount of
such Securities to the account of the Person entitled thereto maintained in the
Security Register. Upon request, the Company shall issue or cause to be
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issued one or more new Securities of the same series, of authorized
denominations and of an aggregate principal amount requested, up to the amount
held in the account of such person.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a
like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Securities to
be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Company, the Security Registrar or the
Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and the Security Registrar duly
executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Sections 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending
at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the
transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant
to this Section 305 for Securities registered in the names of Persons other than
the Depositary for such series or its nominee if, but only if, (i) such
Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for such Global Security or at any time ceases to be a clearing
agency registered as such under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
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amended, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order
that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event or Default with respect to the Securities of
such series. And Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding
sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as such
Depositary shall direct.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, a Global Security
may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such Global
Security to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to
such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary.
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, in
exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding shall be
executed, authenticated and delivered.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and
any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company may execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. In case any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become
due and payable and the Holder has complied with the provisions of the second
paragraph of this Section, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing
a new Security, pay or authorize the payment of such Security without surrender
thereof except in the case of a mutilated Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and another expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture
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equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series
duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any 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.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to
such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee
shall fix a Special Record Date for the Payment of such Defaulted Interest
which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by
the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall
promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name
and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to
be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of
such series at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not less
than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed
payment of
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such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and
shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant
to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if
any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its
behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect
to such Global Security, and such Depositary shall be treated by the Company,
the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such
Global Security for all purposes whatsoever.
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION.
All Securities surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall,
if surrendered to any Person other than the Security Registrar, be delivered to
the Security Registrar and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at
any time deliver to the Security Registrar, or if the Company is acting in such
capacity to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent, for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may deliver to the Trustee (or
any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold,
and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
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Security Registrar, the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent. No Securities shall
be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as
provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All
cancelled Securities held by the Security Registrar, the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities
of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE OF SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES.
The Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness on all the Securities of a series, the provisions of this Indenture
(except as to (i) remaining rights of registration of transfer, substitution and
exchange of the series of Securities, (ii) rights of Holders under Section 508
to receive payments of principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, the
Securities, and other rights, duties and obligations of the Holders of
Securities of any series with respect to the amounts, if any, deposited with the
Trustee with respect to that series, (iii) if applicable, remaining obligations
of the Company to make mandatory sinking fund payments and (iv) the rights,
obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder) as it relates to such
Securities shall no longer be in effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the
Company, shall, upon Company Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging
the same if:
(a)(l) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306
and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable under this Indenture in respect of the Securities of such series;
and
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(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction of the entire
indebtedness on all Securities of any such series and the discharge of
the Indenture as it relates to such Securities have been complied with;
or
(b)(l) all Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or (ii) will
become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (iii)
are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense of the Company;
(2) the condition described in paragraph (1) of Section 402 has
been satisfied;
(3) the conditions described in paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3) of
this Section 401 have been satisfied; and
(4) the Company has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the satisfaction, discharge and defeasance contemplated by this
Section 401 will not violate the then applicable rules of, or any related
undertaking of the Company to, any nationally-recognized securities
exchange on which Securities of that series are listed; or
(c) Except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301:
(1) the conditions referred to or described in paragraphs
(b)(2), (b)(3) and (b)(4) of this Section 401 have been satisfied;
(2) no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse
of time would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of the deposit referred to in paragraph (1) of
Section 402 or on the 91st day after the date of such deposit;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that should that condition fail to be satisfied on
or before such 91st day, the Trustee shall promptly, upon satisfactory
receipt of evidence of such failure, return such deposit to the
Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel of a nationally-recognized independent tax counsel to the
effect that Holders of the Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a
result of such deposit and the satisfaction, discharge and defeasance
contemplated by this paragraph (c) of this Section 401 and will be
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subject to Federal income tax in the same amounts and in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
deposit and defeasance had not occurred.
SECTION 402. DEFEASANCE OF SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES.
The Company may, except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301,
omit to comply with Section 301, Section 304, Section 801 (except paragraph (1))
and Section 1004 of this Indenture and paragraphs (3) and (4) of Section 501 of
this Indenture shall not apply, as all of such provisions relate to Securities
of any series, so long as the Securities of such series remain Outstanding and,
thereafter, all provisions of this Indenture in respect of such Securities shall
no longer be in effect except the Company's and the Trustee's rights and
obligations under Sections 403, 603, 607 and 1003, and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company shall, upon Company Request, execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same if:
(1) The Company has deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose (A) money in an amount, or
(B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide on
or before the due date of any payment in respect of such series of
Securities money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient,
after payment, based on then applicable law, of all Federal, state and
local taxes in respect thereof payable, in the opinion of a
nationally-recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and each instalment of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest on the Outstanding Securities
of that series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or instalment of
principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or
analogous payments or payments pursuant to any call for redemption
applicable to Securities of such series on the day on which such payments
are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and of
such Securities;
(2) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time
would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on
the date of such deposit;
(3) The interest of the Holders in such deposit shall have been duly
perfected under the applicable provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(4) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and
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(5) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section
have been complied with.
SECTION 403. APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; INDEMNIFICATION.
(a) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003,
all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 401 or 402 and all money received by the Trustee in
respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee, shall be
held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the
Securities of the respective series for which such deposit was made and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium,
if any) and interest for whose payment such money and U.S. Government
Obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee as
contemplated by Section 401 or 402.
(b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any
tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government
Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 401 or 402 or the interest and
principal received in respect of such obligations, other than any such tax,
fee or other charge payable by or on behalf of Holders. The Company shall
be entitled to prompt notice of an assessment or the commencement of any
proceeding for which indemnification may be sought under this Section 403
and, at its election, to contest such assessment or to participate in,
assume the defense of, or settle such proceeding.
(c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time
upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or money held by it as
provided in Section 401 or 402 which, in the opinion of a
nationally-recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess
of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited
for the purpose for which such obligations or money were deposited or
received.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
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"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any
series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that
series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for
a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty
of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this
Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than that
series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days
after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company
by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least
25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice
specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
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(4) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in
the premises adjudging the Company as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving
as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or any other applicable federal or state law, or appointing
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance
of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(5) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated as
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the
Federal Bankruptcy Act or any other applicable federal or state law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the
making by it of any assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the
taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such
action; or
(6) The Trust shall have voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved,
wound-up its business or otherwise terminated its existence except in
connection with (i) the distribution of securities to holders of trust
securities in liquidation of their interests in such Trust, (ii) the
redemption of all of the outstanding trust securities of such Trust or
(iii) certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted
by the amended declaration of such Trust.
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of
that series.
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
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If an Event of Default described in Section 501(1), (2) or (7) with respect
to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing,
then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the
principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in
the terms of that series) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and
payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), and upon any such declarations such principal amount (or
specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
If an Event of Default described in Section 501(3), (4), (5), (6) or (7)
occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of
not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare
the principal amount (or, if any of the Outstanding Securities are Original
Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be
specified in the terms of those Original Issue Discount Securities) of all of
the Outstanding Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become
immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to all
Securities or with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before
a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the
Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of all Outstanding Securities or of the Outstanding Securities
of that series, as the case may be, by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if (1) the
Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that
series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor
in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue interest at the rate prescribed therefor in such Securities,
and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
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(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of that
series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be permitted by applicable law, interest on
any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto,
such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of such series by such appropriate
judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
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SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or
interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal
(and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and
of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding;
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable
or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and
(iii) unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, to vote
on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or
other person performing similar functions;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding except, as aforesaid, for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or
other person performing similar functions.
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or
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the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such
proceeding instituted by the Trustee: shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision
for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium,
if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if
fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee under Section 607;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium if any) and interest on the Securities in respect
of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if
any) and interest, respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute a
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of such
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Trustee hereunder;
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(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of any series of
Securities shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the
rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority
or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable
benefit of all of such Holders.
SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND
INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307)
interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such
Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued
or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or
to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter
all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though
no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section
306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders is intended to
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be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to
the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right
and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right
or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee
or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be
deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of
such series, PROVIDED that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture,
(2) subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall have
the right to decline to follow such direction if the Trustee shall
determine that such direction would be unduly prejudicial to any Holders
not joining in giving said direction or would involve the Trustee in any
personal liability, and
(3) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. The Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of
the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default
hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, or
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(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in
its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 515. 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 has been enacted.
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the require meets
of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements
of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as
a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series,
determined as provided in Section
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512, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under the Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect
to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit or cause to be
transmitted by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder
known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series,
the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding
of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series;
and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that in the case of any default of the character
specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such
notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event
which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of such series.
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers' Certificate or
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
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other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order or as
otherwise expressly provided herein and any resolution of the Board of
Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other
evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad
faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this indenture at the request or direction
of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry
or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it
shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within
the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
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SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee or any
Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Trustee, in its individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject
to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.
Money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust hereunder need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
or any Paying Agent shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee
of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in performance of its duties under
or with respect to this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation
and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any
such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
misconduct, bad faith or negligence; and
(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee, any predecessor trustee or their
agents for, and to hold each of them harmless against, any loss, liability
or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on the part of the
person seeking such
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indemnity, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts or the performance of their duties
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against
any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of their powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under
this Section the Trustee shall have a claim prior to the Securities upon all
property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held
in trust for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
Securities.
SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest, as
defined in this Section, it shall, within 90 days after ascertaining that
it has such conflicting interest, either eliminate such conflicting
interest or resign in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section, the Trustee shall, within 10
days after the expiration of such 90-day period, transmit or cause to be
transmitted by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in
the Security Register, notice of such failure.
(c) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed to
have a conflicting interest, with respect to the Securities of any series,
if
(1) the Trustee is trustee under another indenture under which
any other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in
any other securities, of the Company are outstanding, unless such
other indenture is a collateral trust indenture under which the only
collateral consists of Securities issued under this Indenture,
PROVIDED that there shall be excluded from the operation of this
paragraph the indenture dated as of [________ __], [1999], between
the Company and Trustee pursuant to which the Company issued its
[___________________________________________] and this Indenture
with respect to the Securities of any series other than that series
or any indenture or indentures under which other securities, or
certificates of interest or participation in other securities, of
the Company are outstanding, if
(i) this Indenture and such other indenture or indentures
are wholly unsecured and such other indenture or indentures are
hereafter qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, unless the
Commission shall have found and declared by order pursuant to
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Section 305(b) or Section 307(c) of the Trust Indenture Act that
differences exist between the provisions of this Indenture and
the provisions of such other indenture or indentures which are so
likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to make it
necessary in the public interest or for the protection of
investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under
this Indenture and such other indenture or indentures, or
(ii) the Company shall have sustained the burden of proving,
on application to the Commission and after opportunity for
hearing thereon, that trusteeship under this Indenture and such
other indenture or indentures is not so likely to involve a
material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the
public interest or for the protection of investors to disqualify
the Trustee from acting as such under one of such indentures;
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers is
an obligor upon the Securities or an underwriter for the Company;
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is directly or
indirectly controlled by or is under direct or indirect common control
with the Company or an underwriter for the Company;
(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers is
a director, officer, partner, employee, appointee or representative of
the Company, or of an underwriter (other than the Trustee itself) for
the Company who is currently engaged in the business of underwriting,
except that (i) one individual may be a director or an executive
officer, or both, of the Trustee and a director or an executive
officer, or both, of the Company but may not be at the same time an
executive officer of both the Trustee and the Company; (ii) if and so
long as the number of directors of the Trustee in office is more than
nine, one additional individual may be a director or an executive
officer, or both, of the Trustee and a director of the Company; and
(iii) the Trustee may be designated by the Company or by any
underwriter for the Company to act in the capacity of transfer agent,
registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or
depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to the
provisions of paragraph (1) of this Subsection, to act as trustee,
whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(5) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by the Company or by any director, partner
or
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executive officer thereof, or 20% or more of such voting securities is
beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or more of such persons;
or 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is beneficially
owned either by an underwriter for the Company or by any director,
partner or executive officer thereof, or is beneficially owned,
collectively, by any two or more such persons;
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), (i) 5% or more of the voting
securities, or 10% or more of any other class of security, of the
Company not including the Securities issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee is
also trustee, or (ii) 10% or more of any class of security of an
underwriter for the Company;
(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 5% or more of the voting
securities of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns
10% or more of the voting securities of, or controls directly if or
indirectly or is under direct or indirect common control with, the
Company;
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 10% or more of any class of
security of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns 50%
or more of the voting securities of the Company; or
(9) the Trustee owns, on May 15 in any calendar year, in the
capacity of executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos
trustee, guardian, committee or conservator, or in any other similar
capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more of the voting securities, or of
any class of security, of any person, the beneficial ownership of a
specified percentage of which would have constituted a conflicting
interest under paragraph (6), (7) or (8) of this Subsection. As to any
such securities of which the Trustee acquired ownership through
becoming executor, administrator or testamentary trustee of an estate
which included them, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall
not apply, for a period of two years from the date of such
acquisition, to the extent that such securities included in such
estate do not exceed 25% of such voting securities or 25% of any such
class of security. Promptly after May 15 in each calendar year, the
Trustee shall make a check of its holdings of such securities in any
of the
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above-mentioned capacities as of such May 15. lf the Company fails to
make payment in full of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any of the Securities when and as the same becomes due and
payable, and such failure continues for 30 days thereafter, the
Trustee shall make a prompt check of its holdings of such securities
in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of the date of the
expiration of such 30-day period, and after such date, notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, all such securities so
held by the Trustee, with sole or joint control over such securities
vested in it, shall, but only so long as such failure shall continue,
be considered as though beneficially owned by the Trustee for the
purposes of paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this Subsection.
The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9), inclusive,
of this Subsection shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership
of such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or
sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this Subsection.
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this Subsection
only, (i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only such
securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not include
any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an obligation to
repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust companies or banking
firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in any such note or
evidence of indebtedness; (ii) an obligation shall be deemed to be "in default"
when a default in payment of principal shall have continued for 30 days or more
and shall not have been cured; and (iii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to be
the owner or holder of (A) any security which it holds as collateral security,
as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in default as defined in
clause (ii) above, or (B) any security which it holds as collateral security
under this Indenture, irrespective of any default hereunder, or (C) any security
which it holds as agent for collection, or as custodian, escrow agent or
depositary, or in any similar representative capacity.
(d) For the purposes of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter," when used with reference to the
Company, means every person who, within three years prior to the time
as of which the determination is made, has purchased from the Company
with a view to, or has offered or sold for the Company in connection
with, the distribution of any security of the Company outstanding at
such time, or has participated or has had a direct or indirect
participation in any such undertaking, or has participated or has had
a participation in the direct or indirect underwriting of any such
undertaking, but such term shall not
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include a person whose interest was limited to a commission from an
underwriter or dealer not in excess of the usual and customary
distributors' or sellers' commission.
(2) The term "director" means any director of a corporation or
any individual performing similar functions with respect to any
organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
(3) The term "person" means an individual, a corporation, a
partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, an
unincorporated organization or a government or political subdivision
thereof. As used in this paragraph, the term "trust" shall include
only a trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or
beneficiaries are evidenced by a security.
(4) The term "voting security" means any security presently
entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote in the direction or
management of the affairs of a person, or any security issued under or
pursuant to any trust, agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or
trustees or agent or agents for the owner or holder of such security
are presently entitled to vote in the direction or management of the
affairs of a person.
(5) The term "Company" means an obligor upon the Securities.
(6) The term "executive officer" means the president, every vice
president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary and the
treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily performing
similar functions with respect to any organization whether
incorporated or unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of
the board of directors.
(e) The percentages of voting securities and other securities
specified in this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the
following provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities of the
Trustee, the Company or any other person referred to in this Section
(each of whom is referred to as a "person" in this paragraph) means
such amount of the outstanding voting securities of such person as
entitles the holder or holders thereof to cast such specified
percentage of the aggregate votes which the holders of all the
outstanding voting securities of such person are entitled to cast in
the direction or management of the affairs of such person.
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(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities of a person
means such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities of the
class outstanding.
(3) The term "amount," when used in regard to securities, means
the principal amount if relating to evidences of indebtedness, the
number of shares if relating to capital shares and the number of units
if relating to any other kind of security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held by or for
the account of the issuer. The following securities shall not be
deemed outstanding within the meaning of this definition:
(i) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund relating
to securities of the issuer of the same class;
(ii) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund relating
to another class of securities of the issuer, if the obligation
evidenced by such other class of securities is not in default as
to principal or interest or otherwise;
(iii) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as security
for an obligation of the issuer not in default as to principal or
interest or otherwise; and
(iv) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by the
issuer thereof;
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same class as another
security if both securities confer upon the holder or holders thereof
substantially the same rights and privileges; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that,
in the case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of which are
issued under a single indenture, differences in the interest rates or
maturity dates of various series thereof shall not be deemed
sufficient to constitute such series different classes and PROVIDED,
FURTHER, that, in the case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness,
differences in the interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not
be deemed sufficient to constitute them securities of different
classes, whether or not they are issued under a single indenture.
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
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There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least $100,000,000 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 said
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to
the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608(a) after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or
by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or
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control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose
of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security 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.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause,
the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall
be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee,
the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of
such appointment, become the successor Trustee and supersede the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee shall have been
so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the
manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of
a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, subject to Section 514, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of
its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights,
powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its prior claim, if any, provided for
in Section
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607. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any
and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to
such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
(a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be
or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured,
of the Company within four months prior to a default, as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a default, then,
unless and until such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart
and hold in a special account for the benefit of the Trustee individually,
the Holders of the Securities and the holders of other indenture
securities, as defined in Subsection (c) of this Section:
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due
and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal or
interest, effected after the beginning of such four-month period and
valid as against the Company and its other creditors, except any such
reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition of any property
described in paragraph (2) of this Subsection, or from the exercise of
any right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised if a
petition in bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Company upon
the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claims
as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition
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thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such four-month period,
or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if disposed
of, SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the rights, if any, of the Company and its
other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the
Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on
account of any such claim by any Person (other than the Company)
who is liable thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide
sale of any such claim by the Trustee to a third Person, and
(iii) distributions made in cash, securities or other property in
respect of claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable state law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held
by it as security for any such claim, if such property was so
held prior to the beginning of such four-month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent
of the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it
as security for any such claim, if such claim was created after
the beginning of such four-month period and such property was
received as security therefor simultaneously with the creation
thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving
that at the time such property was so received the Trustee had no
reasonable cause to believe that a default, as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section, would occur within four months;
or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph
(B) or (C), against the release of any property held as security
for such claim as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the case
may be, to the extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted
after the beginning of such four-month period for property held as security
at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of
the property released, have the same status as the property released, and,
to the extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is
created in renewal of or in substitution for or for the
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purpose of repaying or refunding any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as
such creditor, such claim shall have the same status as such pre-existing
claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
among the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
securities in such manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of
other indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from such
special account and payments of dividends on claims filed against the
Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable state law, the same
percentage of their respective claims, figured before crediting to the
claim of the Trustee anything on account of the receipt by it from the
Company of the funds and property in such special account and before
crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee and the Holders and the
holders of other indenture securities dividends on claims filed against the
Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable state law, but after
crediting thereon receipts on account of the indebtedness represented by
their respective claims from all sources other than from such dividends and
from the funds and property so held in such special account. As used in
this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term "dividends" shall
include any distribution with respect to such claim, in bankruptcy or
receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable state law, whether such distribution is made
in cash, securities or other property, but shall not include any such
distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim.
The court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for
reorganization is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion among
the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities, in
accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property
held in such special account and proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such
apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to the provisions of this
paragraph due consideration in determining the fairness of the
distributions to be made to the Trustee and the Holders and the holders of
other indenture securities with respect to their respective claims, in
which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value
of any securities or other property held in such special account or as
security for any such claim, or to make a specific allocation of such
distributions as between the secured and unsecured portions of such claims,
or otherwise to apply the provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical
formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such four-month period shall be subject to the provisions of this
Subsection as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any
Trustee has resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such
four-month period, it shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection
if and only if the following conditions exist:
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(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would
have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such four-month
period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within four months after such resignation or removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection (a) of
this Section a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one year
or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of
competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture, for the purpose of
preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien
of this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders
at the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in the
capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or depositary, or
other similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction, as defined in Subsection (c) of
this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Company; and
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall
within the classification of self-liquidating paper, as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section only:
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(1) the term "default" means any failure to make payment in full
of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities or upon the
other indenture securities when and as such principal or interest
becomes due and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" means securities upon
which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any other indenture
(i) under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which contains
provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this Section,
and (iii) under which a default exists at the time of the
apportionment of the funds and property held in such special account;
(3) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which
full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven days
after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or
other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, bill of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares
or merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the
security is received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation
of the creditor relationship with the Company arising from the making,
drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange,
acceptance or obligation;
(5) the term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities; and
(6) the term "Federal Bankruptcy Act" means the Bankruptcy Act or
Title 11 of the United States Code.
SECTION 614. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may
appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of
Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf and subject to the
direction of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof and to cancel
Securities pursuant to Section 309, and Securities so authenticated shall be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and
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obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. The
Trustee hereby initially appoints the Idaho First National Bank as an
Authenticating Agent in Boise, Idaho. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof
or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by federal, state or District of Columbia
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or case at any time such Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall mail or cause to be mailed written notice of
such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.
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The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 607.
While an appointment with respect to one or more series is in effect
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein and referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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, as Trustee
By..................................
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
OR
[______________________________], as
Authenticating Agent for the Trustee
By..................................
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) not later than 15 days after each Regular Record Date, in the case
of Securities that are interest bearing, and on each date determined
pursuant to Section 301 in the case of Securities that are not interest
bearing, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities as of such Regular
Record Date or as of such other date, as the case may be, and
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(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished;
EXCLUDING from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar, if so acting.
SECTION 702. 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 of each series of
Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as
provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by
the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar, if so acting. The
Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants")
apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable
proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at
least six months preceding the date of such application, and such
application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee
shall, within five business days after the receipt of such application, at
its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), and as
to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy
or other communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail, or cause to be mailed, to each Holder whose name and
address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 702(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable
promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and
of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses
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of mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee shall
mail, or cause to be mailed, to such applicants and file with the
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written
statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing
would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders or would be in
violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis
of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon
the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of
an order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall
find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so
sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee
shall mail, or cause to be mailed, copies of such material to all such
Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the
renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any
obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any
agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from
which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made
under Section 702(b).
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the year
[____], the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of
such date with respect to:
(1) its eligibility under Section 609 and its qualifications
under Section 608, or in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge
it has continued to be eligible and qualified under said Sections, a
written statement to such effect;
(2) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof)
made by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such
report, and for the reimbursement of which it asserts or may assert a
claim or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on any property or
funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee
shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if such
advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the
principal amount of the Securities Outstanding on the date of such
report;
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(3) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all other
indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of
such report, with a brief description of any property held as
collateral security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a
creditor relationship arising in any manner described in Section
613(b)(2), (3), (4) or (6);
(4) the property and funds, if any, physically in the possession
of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(5) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(6) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its
duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its
opinion materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of
a default, notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the
Trustee in accordance with Section 602.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit, or cause to be transmitted, by mail to
all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register,
a brief report with respect to the character and amount of any advances
(and if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the
making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of the last
report transmitted pursuant to Subsection (a) of this Section (or if no
such report has yet been so transmitted, since the date of execution of
this instrument) for the reimbursement of which it asserts or may assert a
claim or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on property or funds held
or collected by it as Trustee and which it has not previously reported
pursuant to this Subsection, except that the Trustee shall not be required
(but may elect) to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid
at any time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of the Securities
Outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted within 90 days
after such time.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The
Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY.
The Company shall:
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(1 ) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may
be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the
Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with the
Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which
may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 in respect of a security listed and registered on a national
securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission,
such additional information, documents and reports with respect to
compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(3) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the filing
thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents
and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs
(1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
SECTION 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation
or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to
any Person unless:
(1) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer
the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall
be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States
of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form
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satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on all the Securities and the
performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company
to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to 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; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger,
conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with.
SECTION 802. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other
corporation, or any conveyance or transfer by the Company of its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section
801, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer 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
corporation had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such
conveyance or transfer, the Company (which term shall for this purpose mean the
Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this Indenture or any
successor corporation which shall theretofore become such in the manner
described in Section 801) shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants
under the Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into
one or more indentures supplemental hereto for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company
and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company
herein and in the Securities; or
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(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be
for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to add an additional Event of Default with respect to all
Securities or any series of Securities (and if such Event of Default is
applicable to less than all series of Securities, stating that such Event
of Default is applicable solely to such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of
Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal,
and with or without interest coupons; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
PROVIDED that any such change or elimination shall become effective only
when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the
execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit
of such provision; or
(6) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture, provided such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material
respect.
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
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(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of the principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon
the redemption thereof, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin
or currency in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon
is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case
of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or reduce the amount of
the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 502, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Sections 513 or
1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture,
when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute a valid and binding
obligation of the Company in accordance with its terms. The Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
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SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities of each series affected thereby theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required
by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series without charge to the
Holders.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the
terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture
may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location and any change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office
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or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
Until changed by the Company in accordance with this Indenture, the Company
will maintain a Place of Payment at the Corporate Trust Office.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies in or outside any Place of Payment where the Securities of one or
more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may
from time to time rescind such designations; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for
Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in
the location of any such other office or agency. The office of the Company in
Boise, Idaho, is hereby initially designated as such an office.
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a
sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so
becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so
to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other
than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the
benefit of
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the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of
that series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for three
years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, in The City of New York, New York,
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication,
any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the
Company.
SECTION 1004. STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year, a written statement signed by the Chairman of the Board, the
President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Controller or an Assistant Controller of the Company, stating, as to each signer
thereof, that:
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(1) a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of
performance under this Indenture has been made under his supervision, and
(2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review, the Company is
not in default in the fulfillment of any of its obligations under this
Indenture, or specifying each such default known to him and the nature and
status thereof.
SECTION 1005. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence.
SECTION 1006. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term,
provision or condition set forth in Sections 1002 to 1005, inclusive, with
respect to the Securities of any series, if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term,
provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of
the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in
full force and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated in Section 301 for Securities of any series) in
accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all
the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of
the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the case of
any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in
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this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate evidencing compliance with such restrictions.
SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected prior to the Redemption
Date by the Trustee or the Security Registrar with the approval of the Trustee,
from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for
redemption, by such method as the Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that
series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities
of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series.
The party selecting the Securities to be redeemed shall promptly notify the
parties to this Indenture in writing of the Securities selected for redemption
and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the
principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the
Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, to the
Redemption Date,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to
be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption,
the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,
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(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and accrued
interest will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed
and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after
said date,
(5) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be presumed
conclusively to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice; and failure duly to give such notice by mail, or any defect in such
notice, to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in
part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any
other Security.
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
Prior to the opening of business on any Redemption Date, the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as
its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003)
an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the
Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date. In the event of any failure on
the part of the Company to deposit such money prior to any Redemption Date, the
Trustee shall not use any monies or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with
it pursuant to Sections 401 or 402 for the payment of any Redemption Price,
unless originally deposited for such purpose.
SECTION 1106. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to
be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified plus accrued interest, and from and after
such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption
Price and accrued interest) such Securities-shall cease to bear interest. Upon
surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice,
such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together
with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption
Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Regular
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Record Date or Special Record Date according to their terms and the provisions
of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid,
bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the
Security.
SECTION 1107. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a
Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company, the Trustee and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered; PROVIDED, that if a Global Security is
so surrendered, such new Security so issued shall be a new Global Security in a
denomination equal to the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Global
Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of
Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking
fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of
Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such
series.
Section 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.
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The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than
any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities
of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company
pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted
optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each
case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect
to the Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of
such Securities as provided for by the terms of such series; PROVIDED that such
Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be
received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price
specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking
fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 90 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for
that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any,
which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series
pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to
be so delivered. Not less than 60 days before each such sinking fund payment
date the Trustee shall select or cause to be selected the Securities to be
redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section
1103 and not less than 30 days before each sinking fund payment date cause
notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense
of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been
duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and
in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1301. SECURITIES SUBORDINATE TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article, the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest on each and all of the Securities are
hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness (whether outstanding on the date
hereof or hereafter created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed), and that the
subordination is for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness and that
no payment on account of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities and no acquisition of, or payment on account of any sinking fund for,
the Securities may be made unless full payment of all amounts then due for
principal, premium, if any, and interest then due on all Senior Indebtedness by
reason of the maturity thereof (by lapse of time,
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acceleration or otherwise) has been made or duly provided for in cash or in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1302. PAYMENT OVER OF PROCEEDS UPON DISSOLUTION, ETC.
Upon any distribution of the Company's assets in connection with any
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether
voluntary or involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings
(each such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), or
upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or otherwise: (i) all Senior
Indebtedness (including without limitation all interest accruing on or after the
filing of any petition in bankruptcy relating to the Company at the relevant
contractual rate, whether or not such claim for post-petition interest is
allowed in such Proceeding) must be paid in full in cash before the Holders of
the Securities are entitled to any payments or distributions of any kind or
character (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or
deliverable by reason of the payment of any other Debt of the Company (including
the Securities) subordinated to the payment of the Securities), and (ii) any
payment or distribution of the Company's assets of any kind or character,
whether in cash, securities or other property, which would otherwise (but for
these subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the
Securities shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness (or their representative or trustee) in accordance with the
priorities then existing among such holders until all Senior Indebtedness shall
have been paid in full in cash before any payment or distribution is made to the
Holders of the Securities.
In the event that notwithstanding the subordination provisions set forth
herein, any payment or distribution of assets of any kind or character is made
on the Securities at a time when the respective payment is not permitted to be
made as a result of the subordination provisions described above and before all
Senior Indebtedness is paid in full in cash, the Trustee or the holders of the
Securities receiving such payment will be required to pay over such payment or
distribution to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
For the purposes of this Article only, the words "any payment or
distribution of any kind or character" shall not be deemed to include shares of
stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company
or any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or
readjustment which securities are subordinated in right of payment to all then
outstanding Senior Indebtedness to substantially the same extent as the
Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of
the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the
liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale of all or
substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to another Person
upon the terms and conditions set forth in
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Article 8 shall not be deemed a Proceeding for the purposes of this Section if
the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
the Person which acquires by sale such properties and assets as an entirety, as
the case may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, or sale comply
with the conditions set forth in Article Eight.
SECTION 1303. PAYMENT BLOCKAGE UPON ACCELERATION OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS, ETC.
During the continuance of any event of default with respect to any Senior
Indebtedness pursuant to which the maturity thereof may be accelerated, upon the
occurrence of (a) receipt by the Trustee of written notice from the holders of a
majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Indebtedness or their
representative, or (b) if such event of default results from the acceleration of
the Securities, the date of such acceleration, no such payment may be made by
the Company upon or in respect of the Securities for a period ("Payment Blockage
Period") commencing on the earlier of the date of receipt of such notice or the
date of such acceleration and ending 179 days thereafter (unless such Payment
Blockage Period shall be terminated by written notice to the Trustee from the
holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative who delivered such notice); provided,
however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event will
a Payment Blockage Period extend beyond 179 days from the date on which such
Payment Blockage Period was commenced; provided further, that not more than one
Payment Blockage Period may be commenced with respect to the Securities during
any period of 360 consecutive days. For all purposes of this Section, no event
of default which existed or was continuing on the date of the commencement of
any Payment Blockage Period with respect to the Senior Indebtedness initiating
such Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for the
commencement of a second Payment Blockage Period by the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative whether or not within a period of 360
consecutive days unless such event of default shall have been cured or waived
for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make
any payment to the Trustee or any Holder of the Securities prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the
time of such payment, have been made known, as set forth in Section 1310, to the
Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment
shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with respect
to which Section 1302 would be applicable.
SECTION 1304. NO PAYMENT WHEN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS IN DEFAULT.
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In the event and during the continuation of any default in the payment of
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or any other amounts owing
with respect to, any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes due and payable
or in the event any judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any
such default, then, unless and until such default shall have been cured or
waived or shall have ceased to exist, no payment or distribution of any kind or
character, whether in cash, properties or Securities shall be made by the
Company on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on
the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities
by the Company or any Subsidiary.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any default
in payment of principal of or interest on any Senior Indebtedness; provided that
no failure to give such a notice shall have any effect whatsoever on the
subordination provisions described herein.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make
any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of the Securities prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the
time of such payment, have been made known as set forth in Section 1310, to the
Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment
shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with respect
to which Section 1302 would be applicable.
SECTION 1305. PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any
of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the
pendency of any Proceeding referred to in Section 1302 or under the conditions
described in Sections 1303 and 1304, from making payments at any time of
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities, or (b) except
with respect to the payment over provisions of this Article, the application by
the Trustee of any money deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on
account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities
or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such
application by the Trustee, the Trustee did not have knowledge that such payment
would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 1306. SUBROGATION TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, or the provision
for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner
satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the
Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the
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payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders
of all indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to
Senior Indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the
Securities are subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders
of such Senior Indebtedness) to the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and
securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of
the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article, and no payments pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee,
shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior
Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or
distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1307. PROVISIONS SOLELY TO DEFINE RELATIVE RIGHTS.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose
of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand
and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing contained in
this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to
or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the Holders of the Securities,
the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay to
the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms, or (b) affect the relative rights against the
Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than
their rights in relation to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, or (c) prevent
the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture including, without
limitation, filing and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights,
if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive
cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or
such Holder.
SECTION 1308. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.
Each Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary
or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
SECTION 1309. NO WAIVER OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS.
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No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or
be otherwise charged with.
SECTION 1310. NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact
known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless
and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a person representing itself as a holder of Senior Indebtedness or
from any trustee, agent or representative therefor.
SECTION 1311. RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article 6, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which a Proceeding is pending,
or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee,
custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making
such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of
Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and
other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the
amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent
thereto or to this Article.
SECTION 1312. TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and,
subject to the provisions of Section 6, shall not be liable to the holder of any
Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Holders, the Company, or
any other Person, cash, property or securities to which any holder of Senior
Indebtedness shall be entitled to by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 1313. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS; PRESERVATION
OF TRUSTEE'S RIGHTS.
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The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may at
any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and, subject to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act,
nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such
holder.
SECTION 1314. ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been
appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as
used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires)
be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning
as fully for all intent and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this
Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee.
* * *
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
By..................................................
TREASURER
[SEAL]
Attest:
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Assistant Secretary
[NAME OF TRUSTEE]
By..................................................
VICE PRESIDENT
[SEAL]
Attest:
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY
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STATE OF IDAHO )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF ADA )
On the day of , [1999], before
me personally came to me known, who, being by me duly
sworn, did depose and say that he is , Treasurer of
Boise Cascade 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.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
STATE OF IDAHO
State of New York )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the day of , [1999],
before me personally came to me known, who, being by me duly
sworn, did depose and say that he is a Vice President of ,
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.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
STATE OF NEW YORK
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