Common use of CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE Clause in Contracts

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities Debentures of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01Section 801. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Consolidations and Mergers Permitted. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations other entity (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation or entity (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) and authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, (i) upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property and (ii) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, sale, transfer or otherwise all or substantially all of the Company's property shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01Section 12.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer sale or other disposition of all conveyance (or substantially all successive sales or conveyances) of the property and assets of the Company (or of its successor or successors successors) as an entirety, entirety or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successorsCompany) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, and the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, sale or conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each seriesDebentures, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by indenture supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) hereto, satisfactory in form to the Trustee Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity corporation formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such propertyproperty and assets. In the event of any such sale or conveyance the predecessor Company may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION Section 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities Debentures of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such each series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company Corporation with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the CompanyCorporation), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company Corporation or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company Corporation or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company Corporation or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, and the Company Corporation hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the CompanyCorporation, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity corporation formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company Corporation shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01Section 801. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Consolidations and Mergers Permitted.Section 801. Consolidations and Mergers Permitted. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all the assets or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each seriesDebentures, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such assets or property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.0112.01. Unless a Company Order or may Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. Subject to any modification contained in any indenture supplemental indenture establishing a hereto under which any series of Securities provides otherwiseis issued and subject to the provisions of Section 12.02, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer sale or other disposition conveyance of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entiretyCompany, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successorsCompany) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, that upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, sale or conveyance, transfer other than a consolidation or other dispositionmerger in which the Company is the continuing corporation, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) , and interest interest, if any, on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each seriesSecurities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to and in such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity corporation (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such property; and provided further that the Company or such successor corporation, as the case may be, shall not immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or condition.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Consolidations or Mergers of Company Order and Sales or supplemental indenture establishing a series -------------------------------------------------------- Conveyances of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Property of Company. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in ----------------------------------- any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.to

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing CONSOLIDATIONS OR MERGERS OF COMPANY AND SALES OR CONVEYANCES OF PROPERTY OF COMPANY. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.to

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities Notes of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities Debentures of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such each series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing 10.01 Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, (a) the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity Company formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such propertyproperty and (b) the corporation or corporations formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person or Persons which acquire by conveyance or transfer, or which lease, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a Person or Persons organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity Company formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01801. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS PERMITTED. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, (a) the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity Company formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity corporation which shall have acquired such propertyproperty and (b) the corporation or corporations formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person or Persons which acquire by conveyance or transfer, or which lease, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a Person or Persons organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE. SECTION 10.01. Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing CONSOLIDATIONS OR MERGERS OF COMPANY AND SALES OR CONVEYANCES OF PROPERTY OF COMPANY. Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.