Common use of Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes Clause in Contracts

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.

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Samples: Limited Guarantee (Amerco /Nv/)

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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2024-A in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or any placement agent or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2022-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note, Class C Note Register at all reasonable times or Class D Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note, Class C Note or Class D Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Issuer shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Corporate Trust Office, a register (the “Note Register”"NOTE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes shall be provided. A note registrar (which may be the Trustee) (in such capacity, the "NOTE REGISTRAR") shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Registered Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Registered Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrarsNote Registrar shall initially be the Trustee. Any reference in the Indenture this Agreement to the Note Registrar shall include any co-note registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. U.S. Bank National Association The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Note Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Note Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Note Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Note Registrar upon 30 thirty (30) days’ written ' notice to the Issuers Issuer and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association such Note Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Note Registrar until the Issuers have Trustee has appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than Note Registrar (which may be the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding Trustee) reasonably acceptable to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agencyIssuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Note at the any office or agency of the RegistrarNote Registrar maintained for such purpose, if subject to any transfer restrictions contained in the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) applicable Series Supplement, one or more new Registered Notes (of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount shall execute and, after the Issuers have be executed, the Trustee shall authenticate authenticated and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholderdelivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any a Registered Noteholder, subject to the provisions of this Section 2.5 and any restrictions contained in the applicable Series Supplement, Registered Notes (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Registered Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Notes, including Registered Notes received in exchange for Bearer Notes, may not be exchanged for Bearer Notes. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Note, subject to applicable laws and regulations, Bearer Notes may be exchanged for other Bearer Notes or Registered Notes (of the same Series and Class) of authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Notes to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Note Registrar maintained for such purposelocated outside the United States. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so Each Bearer Note surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of pursuant to this Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveattached thereto all unmatured Coupons. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the IssuersIssuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement, and the Indentureapplicable Series Supplement, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 2.5(a) notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Note Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment in full of with respect to the Note. Whenever any Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided are so surrendered for exchange, subject to any restrictions contained in the applicable Series Supplement, no the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (in the case of Bearer Notes, outside the United States) the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee or the Note Registrar duly executed by the Noteholder or the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Notesexchange. All Notes (together with any Coupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes Note upon its exchange in full for Definitive definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the IssuersIssuer. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency referred to in the applicable Series Supplement was received with respect to each portion of such the Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplementdefinitive Notes. The Issuers Issuer shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement, the Indenture Series Supplements and the Notes.

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Samples: Master Indenture and Servicing Agreement (Cendant Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Indenture Trustee shall cause to be kept keep at its Corporate Trust Office books for the office or agency to be maintained by a registration and transfer agent and registrar (of the “Registrar”), a register Notes (the “Note Register”). The Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its registrar (the “Note Registrar”) and transfer agent to keep such books and make such registrations and transfers as are hereinafter set forth in whichthis Section 205 and also authorizes and directs the Indenture Trustee to provide a copy of such registration record to the Manager upon its request. The names and addresses of, subject and the principal amounts (and stated interest) owing to, the Noteholders and all transfers of, and the names and addresses of the transferee of, all Notes will be registered in such Note Register. The Person in whose name any Note is so registered shall be deemed and treated as the owner and Noteholder thereof for all purposes of this Indenture, and none of the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar or the Issuer shall be affected by any notice or knowledge to the contrary. (b) Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on any Note shall be payable on each Payment Date only to the Person that was the Noteholder thereof on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on each Note shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee in immediately available funds in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time for payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision in any Note to the contrary, if so requested by the Noteholder by written notice (given at least ten (10) days prior to the applicable Payment Date) to the Indenture Trustee, all amounts payable to such reasonable regulations Noteholder may be paid either (i) by crediting the amount to be distributed to such Noteholder to an account maintained by such Noteholder with the Indenture Trustee or by transferring such amount by wire to such other bank in the United States, including a Federal Reserve Bank, as it may prescribeshall have been specified in such notice, for credit to the Registrar account of such Noteholder maintained at such bank, or (ii) by mailing a check to such address as such Noteholder shall provide for have specified in such notice, in either case without any presentment or surrender of such Note to the registration Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Notes of each Series Indenture Trustee (unless otherwise provided except in the applicable Series Supplementcase of final payment). (d) and of transfers and exchanges of All payments on the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar shall be paid to the Noteholders by wire transfer of immediately available funds for receipt prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrarsrelated Payment Date. Any reference in such payments received by the Indenture to the Registrar shall include Noteholders after 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association day shall be permitted considered to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to have been received on the Issuers and the Trusteenext succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until if the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than Issuer has deposited the required funds with the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice close of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding business one (1) Business Day prior to the corporate agency business of Payment Date, then the Registrar Issuer shall continue be deemed to be have made such payment at the Registrar without time so required on such date. Notwithstanding the execution or filing of any paper foregoing or any further act on provision in any Note to the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (andcontrary, if so specified in requested by the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt registered Noteholder by written notice to the Indenture Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of all amounts payable to such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes registered Noteholder may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes paid by mailing a check to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer address as such Noteholder shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes specified in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.notice, 8 737897515 20654080

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Samples: Indenture (Triton International LTD)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to 19914942.3 whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2014-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over 19914942.3 its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note Register at all reasonable times or Class B Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note or Class B Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is 19914942.3 not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, or a plan or other arrangement subject to be any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Registrar without Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the execution Code, or filing a non-exempt violation of any paper Similar Law. The purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein shall be deemed to, or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that, it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any Series assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of NotesTitle I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to any provision under any Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other city designated securities law. Any transfer in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in St. Xxxx, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each, a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2024-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2018-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required Seller to register the transfer Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or exchange with any Note assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to include “plan assets” of any Series for such plan, or a period plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full ERISA or Section 4975 of the Notes Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Note or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax interest therein will not constitute or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of result in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate ERISA or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each Section 4975 of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesCode, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers 20510355.11 and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2015-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the 20510355.11 Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee shall have that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the right to inspect United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the corporate agency Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the Registrar shall continue United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Registrar without Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the execution Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or filing any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any paper previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified interest in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Retained Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) or cause an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change interest in the location of such office Retained Notes to be marketed, on or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at through an “established securities market” within the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements meaning of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a7704(b)(1) of the New York UCC are metCode and any Treasury regulations thereunder, each Issuer including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall execute and, after certify to the Issuers have executedSeller, the Trustee shall authenticate Servicer, and (if the Registrar is different than the Indenture Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver prior to the Noteholder, in the name any delivery or Transfer to it of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new any Retained Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed bythat it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by such other documents it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes2.3(a).

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2020-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Wxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Wxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2013-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note Register at all reasonable times or Class B Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note or Class B Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, or a plan or other arrangement subject to be any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Registrar without Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the execution Code, or filing a non-exempt violation of any paper Similar Law. The purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein shall be deemed to, or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that, it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any Series assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of NotesTitle I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to any provision under any Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other city designated securities law. Any transfer in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2023-5 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall cause to be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained of a registrar appointed by a transfer agent and registrar the Indenture Trustee (the "Note Registrar”), ") a register (the "Note Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Office of the Note Registrar shall initially be located at Wells Fargo Center, Sixth and Marquette, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479, XXXN: Corporate Trust Services (CMBS) -- XXXX 0000-X, X.X., XXX # X9303-121 (and thereafter be such other addrxxx xx xxx Note Registrar may designate by notice to the Issuer, the Certificate Insurer and the Indenture Trustee, if different). The Indenture Trustee is hereby initially appointed (and hereby agrees to act in accordance with the terms hereof) as Note Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers Indenture Trustee may appoint one appoint, by a written instrument delivered to the Issuer and the Certificate Insurer, any other bank or more co-registrars. Any reference in trust company to act as Note Registrar under such conditions as the Indenture to Trustee may prescribe, provided that the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation Indenture Trustee shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform relieved of any of its duties or responsibilities hereunder as Note Registrar until by reason of such appointment. If the Issuers have appointed a Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed in accordance with the terms hereof, the successor trustee shall immediately succeed to its predecessor's duties as Note Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarThe Issuer, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, Certificate Insurer and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times upon reasonable prior notice, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, rely conclusively upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction the Note Registrar as to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global information set forth in the Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesRegister.

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Samples: Indenture (U S Restaurant Properties Inc)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers may, at their own expense, appoint any Person with appropriate experience as a securities registrar to act as Note Registrar hereunder; provided, that in the absence of any other Person appointed in accordance herewith acting as Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee agrees to act in such capacity in accordance with the terms hereof. The Note Registrar shall cause be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Indenture Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05(b), and 11.05(c) shall apply to the Note Registrar to the same extent that they apply to the Indenture Trustee and with the same rights of recovery. Any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) may at any time resign by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuers. The Issuers may at any time terminate the agency of any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) by giving written notice of termination to such Note Registrar, with a copy to the Servicer. At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in Issuers, the Servicer and the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding rely conclusively upon a certificate of the Note Registrar as to the corporate agency business information set forth in the Note Register. Upon written request of any Noteholder of record made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under the Indenture (which request must be accompanied by a copy of the Registrar shall continue communication that the Noteholder proposes to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trusteetransmit), the Issuers and Note Registrar, within 30 days after the Noteholders of any change in the location receipt of such office request, must afford the requesting Noteholder access during normal business hours to, or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the requesting Noteholder a copy of, the most recent list of Noteholders held by the Note Registrar. Every Noteholder, by receiving such access, agrees with the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Note Registrar nor the Indenture Trustee will be held accountable in the name any way by reason of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in disclosure of any authorized denominations, of information as to the same Class names and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option addresses of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes regardless of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for source from which such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency information was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesderived.

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Samples: Crown Castle International Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall cause to be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The offices of the Note Registrar shall be initially located (as of the Closing Date) at 100 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Asset-Backed Securities Trust Services Group-CARS CNI-2 L.P., Series 2003-1. The Indenture Trustee is hereby initially appointed Registrar (and hereby agrees to act in accordance with the terms hereof) as “Note Registrar” for the purposes purpose of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers Indenture Trustee may appoint one appoint, by a written instrument delivered to the Issuer, any other bank or more co-registrars. Any reference in trust company to act as Note Registrar under such conditions as the predecessor Indenture Trustee may prescribe, provided that the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation Trustee shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform relieved of any of its duties or responsibilities hereunder by reason of such appointment. If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed in accordance with the terms hereof, the successor trustee shall immediately succeed to its predecessor’s duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Note Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarThe Issuer, the Issuers will give Property Manager, the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, Special Servicer and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, rely conclusively upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction the Note Registrar as to the Issuersinformation set forth in the Note Register. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates Upon written request of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received any Noteholder made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to each portion their rights under this Indenture, the Note Registrar shall promptly furnish such Noteholder with a list of such Global the other Noteholders of record identified in the Note exchanged for Definitive Notes Register at the time of the request. The Indenture Trustee is hereby initially appointed (and hereby agrees to act in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, terms hereof) as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesBook-Entry Custodian.

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Samples: Indenture (Capital Automotive Reit)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Issuer shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Corporate Trust Office, a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes shall be provided. A note registrar (which may be the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee) (in such capacity, the “Note Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Registered Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Registered Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more Note Registrar shall initially be the Indenture Trustee and any co-registrarsnote registrar chosen by the Issuer and acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Any reference in the this Indenture to the Note Registrar shall include any co-note registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. U.S. Bank National Association The Indenture Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Note Registrar if the Indenture Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Note Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Indenture in any material respect. Any Note Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Note Registrar upon 30 thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Issuers Issuer and the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association such Note Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Note Registrar until the Issuers have Indenture Trustee has appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than Note Registrar (which may be the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding Indenture Trustee) reasonably acceptable to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agencyIssuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Note at the any office or agency of the RegistrarNote Registrar maintained for such purpose, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) one or more new Registered Notes (of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount shall execute and, after the Issuers have be executed, the Trustee shall authenticate authenticated and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholderdelivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any a Registered Noteholder, subject to the provisions of this Section 2.05, Registered Notes (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Registered Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Notes, including Registered Notes received in exchange for Bearer Notes, may not be exchanged for Bearer Notes. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Note, subject to applicable laws and regulations, Bearer Notes may be exchanged for other Bearer Notes or Registered Notes (of the same Series and Class) of authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Notes to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Note Registrar maintained for such purposelocated outside the United States. Whenever Each Bearer Note surrendered pursuant to this Section shall have attached thereto all unmatured Coupons; provided, that any Notes of any Series are Bearer Note so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Payment Date or Distribution Date after the Expected Principal Payment Date need not have executedattached the Coupon relating to such Payment Date or Distribution Date (in each case, as specified in the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveapplicable Indenture Supplement). All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the IssuersIssuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 2.05(a) notwithstanding, the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Note. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (in full the case of Bearer Notes, outside the United States) the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of such Seriestransfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar duly executed by the Noteholder or the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Notesexchange. All Notes (together with any Coupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Issuer as confirmed in writing by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes Note upon its exchange in full for Definitive definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the IssuersIssuer. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency referred to in the applicable Indenture Supplement was received with respect to each portion of such the Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplementdefinitive Notes. The Issuers Issuer shall execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Notes and Registered Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Indenture Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the this Indenture and the Notes.

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Samples: Master Indenture (Compucredit Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Issuer may, at its own expense, appoint any Person with appropriate experience as a securities registrar to act as Note Registrar hereunder; provided, that in the absence of any other Person appointed in accordance herewith acting as Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee agrees to act in such capacity in accordance with the terms hereof. The Note Registrar shall cause be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Indenture Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05(b), and 11.05(c) shall apply to the Note Registrar to the same extent that they apply to the Indenture Trustee and the same rights of recovery. Any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) may at any time resign by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuer. The Issuer may at any time terminate the agency of any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) by giving written notice of termination to such Note Registrar, with a copy to the Servicer. At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in Issuer, the Servicer and the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding rely conclusively upon a certificate of the Note Registrar as to the corporate agency business information set forth in the Note Register. Upon written request of any Noteholder of record made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under the Indenture (which request must be accompanied by a copy of the Registrar shall continue communication that the Noteholder proposes to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trusteetransmit), the Issuers and Note Registrar, within 30 days after the Noteholders of any change in the location receipt of such office request, must afford the requesting Noteholder access during normal business hours to, or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the requesting Noteholder a copy of, the most recent list of Noteholders held by the Note Registrar. Every Noteholder, by receiving such access, agrees with the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Note Registrar nor the Indenture Trustee will be held accountable in the name any way by reason of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in disclosure of any authorized denominations, of information as to the same Class names and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option addresses of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes regardless of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for source from which such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency information was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesderived.

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Samples: American Tower Corp /Ma/

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2018-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required Seller to register the transfer Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or exchange with any Note assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to include “plan assets” of any Series for such plan, or a period plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full ERISA or Section 4975 of the Notes Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such SeriesNote or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. Unless otherwise provided in If the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer purchaser or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment transferee of a sum sufficient to cover Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with interest therein is a “Benefit Plan Investor, then at any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled time when regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-21, as modified April 8, 2016, is applicable, by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion acceptance of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes interest in such amounts Note, it will be deemed to acknowledge and at such times as are necessary agree that the person making the decision to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.make

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; providedinitial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue be the Note Registrar so long as it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to perform its duties the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Note Registrar, the Issuers will give Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Trustee prompt written notice Borough of the appointment of such Registrar and of the locationManhattan, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2017-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, if so specified except in connection with the applicable Series Supplement for any Series initial Transfer of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where the Retained Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the TrusteeRetained Noteholders, the Issuers and Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the Noteholders number of any change in the location of such office or agencyTargeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and request by a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Retained Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to receivesuch requesting Retained Noteholder. All Notes issued upon any registration Opinions of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be Counsel required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a1) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2021-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2023-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2014-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note Register at all reasonable times or Class B Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note or Class B Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, or a plan or other arrangement subject to be any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Registrar without Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the execution Code, or filing a non-exempt violation of any paper Similar Law. The purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein shall be deemed to, or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that, it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any Series assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of NotesTitle I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to any provision under any Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other city designated securities law. Any transfer in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a1) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2021-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2020-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2020-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a XXX, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2017-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required Seller to register the transfer Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or exchange with any Note assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to include “plan assets” of any Series for such plan, or a period plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full ERISA or Section 4975 of the Notes Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Note or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax interest therein will not constitute or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of result in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate ERISA or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each Section 4975 of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesCode, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2019-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrarsIndenture Trustee shall be the initial Note Registrar. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Wxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2012-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Note Register at all reasonable times or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that, with respect to the corporate agency business source of funds to be used by such transferee to acquire such Note or any interest therein (the “Source”) either (a) such Source is not, and is not directly or indirectly acting for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan or other arrangement subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan” to which Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code applies, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to be the Registrar without the execution or filing any provision of any paper federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) the acquisition and holding of such Notes or interest therein by such Source will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a violation of Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrarother securities law. The Registrar shall maintain Any transfer in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers may, at their own expense, appoint any Person with appropriate experience as a securities registrar to act as Note Registrar hereunder; provided, that in the absence of any other Person appointed in accordance herewith acting as Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee agrees to act in such capacity in accordance with the terms hereof. The Note Registrar shall cause be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Indenture Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05(b), and 11.05(c) shall apply to the Note Registrar to the same extent that they apply to the Indenture Trustee and the same rights of recovery. Any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) may at any time resign by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuers. The Issuers may at any time terminate the agency of any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) by giving written notice of termination to such Note Registrar, with a copy to the Servicer and the Issuers. At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in Issuers, the Servicer and the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding rely conclusively upon a certificate of the Note Registrar as to the corporate agency business information set forth in the Note Register. Upon written request of any Noteholder of record made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under the Indenture (which request must be accompanied by a copy of the Registrar shall continue communication that the Noteholder proposes to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trusteetransmit), the Issuers and Note Registrar, within 30 days after the Noteholders of any change in the location receipt of such office request, must afford the requesting Noteholder access during normal business hours to, or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the requesting Noteholder a copy of, the most recent list of Noteholders held by the Note Registrar. Every Noteholder, by receiving such access, agrees with the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Note Registrar nor the Indenture Trustee will be held accountable in the name any way by reason of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in disclosure of any authorized denominations, of information as to the same Class names and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option addresses of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes regardless of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for source from which such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency information was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesderived.

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Samples: Crown Castle International Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2018-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Issuer may, at its own expense, appoint any Person with appropriate experience as a securities registrar to act as Note Registrar hereunder; provided, that in the absence of any other Person appointed in accordance herewith acting as Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee agrees to act in such capacity in accordance with the terms hereof. The Note Registrar shall cause be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Indenture Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05(b), and 11.05(c) shall apply to the Note Registrar to the same extent that they apply to the Indenture Trustee and with the same rights of recovery. Any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) may at any time resign by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuer. The Issuer may at any time terminate the agency of any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) by giving written notice of termination to such Note Registrar, with a copy to the Servicer. At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in Issuer, the Servicer and the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding rely conclusively upon a certificate of the Note Registrar as to the corporate agency business information set forth in the Note Register. Upon written request of any Noteholder of record made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under the Indenture (which request must be accompanied by a copy of the Registrar shall continue communication that the Noteholder proposes to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trusteetransmit), the Issuers and Note Registrar, within 30 days after the Noteholders of any change in the location receipt of such office request, must afford the requesting Noteholder access during normal business hours to, or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the requesting Noteholder a copy of, the most recent list of Noteholders held by the Note Registrar. Every Noteholder, by receiving such access, agrees with the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Note Registrar nor the Indenture Trustee will be held accountable in the name any way by reason of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in disclosure of any authorized denominations, of information as to the same Class names and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option addresses of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes regardless of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for source from which such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency information was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesderived.

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Samples: Indenture (American Tower Corp /Ma/)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; providedinitial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue be the Note Registrar so long as it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to perform its duties the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Note Registrar, the Issuers will give Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Trustee prompt written notice Borough of the appointment of such Registrar and of the locationManhattan, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (andYork, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice agreeing to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute to it, and deliver otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee or is not the Note Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as are necessary to enable each the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Trustee Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2015-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture and Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the Notesnumber of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial 23919155.5 Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2017-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until withheld based upon the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice reasonable belief of the appointment Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of such Registrar and Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the valid obligations restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and registrations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debtTransfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon each such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to noted on the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesRegister.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Trustee shall cause to be kept at the its Corporate Trust Office, such office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (in accordance with the “Registrar”), provisions of Section 11.21 a register (the "Note Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Registrar Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall initially appointed Registrar for be the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more Trustee, together with any co-registrars. Any transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Trustee and acceptable to the Servicer, and any reference in the this Indenture to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. U.S. Bank National Association The provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03 and 11.05 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar, for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may revoke the appointment of and remove any Person serving as Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Person failed to perform its obligations under this Indenture in any material respect. Any Person serving as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' (60 days' during the Wind Down Period) written notice to the Issuers Issuer, the Servicer and the TrusteeInsurer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Issuer and the Insurer. If no successor Transfer Agent and Registrar shall have been appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days (60 days during the Wind Down Period) after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association such Person shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor RegistrarTransfer Agent and Registrar has been appointed in accordance with this paragraph, and such successor has assumed its duties under this Indenture. If a Person other than It is intended that the Trustee registration of Notes which is appointed by described in this Section 6.03 comply with the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice registration requirements contained in Section 163 of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agencyInternal Revenue Code. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the any office or agency of the RegistrarTransfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute andexecute, after the Issuers have executed, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholderdeliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, Notes (of the same Class Series) in authorized denominations of like tenor. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Supplement relating to any Series of Notes and a like aggregate principal amount. At subject to Section 6.11, Notes may, at the option of any an Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes (of the same Series in Series) of authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amounttenor, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purposeagency. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute andexecute, after the Issuers have executed, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholderdeliver, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by, by the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee. Each Holder must satisfy the transfer restrictions set forth in the applicable Notes. Each Note shall be registered at all times as herein provided, and (ii) accompanied any transfer or exchange of such Note will be valid for purposes hereunder only upon registration of such transfer or exchange by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, Transfer Agent and Registrar as provided herein. Payments on any Distribution Date shall be made to Holders of record on the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such SeriesRecord Date. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of the Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or exchange, or for payment, shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.

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Samples: Indenture and Security Agreement (Ag Services of America Inc)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Note Registrar. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. shall be the Note Registrar so long as it is hereby initially appointed acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the purposes account of registering a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the Notes and transfers and exchanges transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes as or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2023-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein providedthat relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). The Issuers No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may appoint one or more co-registrarsbe Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any reference attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture to Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless Indenture Trustee of the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to consent of each of the Issuers Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrarsIndenture Trustee shall be the initial Note Registrar. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Wxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2012-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Note Register at all reasonable times or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that, with respect to the corporate agency business source of funds to be used by such transferee to acquire such Note or any interest therein (the “Source”) either (a) such Source is not, and is not directly or indirectly acting for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan or other arrangement subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan” to which Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code applies, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to be the Registrar without the execution or filing any provision of any paper federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) the acquisition and holding of such Notes or interest therein by such Source will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a violation of Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrarother securities law. The Registrar shall maintain Any transfer in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Trustee, as agent for Issuer, shall keep, or shall cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (in accordance with the “Registrar”)provisions of SECTION 11.15, a register in written form or capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time (the “Note Register”"NOTE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the Registrar "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is Issuer hereby initially appointed appoints Trustee as the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar. Issuer, or Trustee as agent for Issuer, may revoke the appointment as Transfer Agent and Registrar for and remove the purposes of registering then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee or Issuer (as applicable) determines in its sole discretion that the Notes then-acting Transfer Agent and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein providedRegistrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Issuers may appoint one or more cothen-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' prior written notice to the Issuers Trustee, Issuer and the TrusteeServicer; provided, however, PROVIDED that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Issuers have Trustee has appointed a successor Registrar. If a Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to Issuer and the Person other than the so appointed has given Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice that it accepts the appointment. The provisions of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee SECTIONS 11.1 through 11.5 shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding apply to the corporate agency business of the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue as if all references to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified "Trustee" in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series provisions of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for SECTIONS 11.1 through 11.5 were references to the Transfer Agent and Registrar. It is intended that the registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to Notes that is described in this Section comply with the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change registration requirements contained in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency Section 163 of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesInternal Revenue Code.

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Samples: Indenture and Servicing Agreement (Vertis Inc)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2019-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note Register at all reasonable times or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the corporate agency business fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to be the Registrar without the execution or filing include “plan assets” of any paper such plan, or a plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note or interest therein will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. If the purchaser or transferee of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any further act on the part of any Issuer interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice a Plan subject to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the TrusteeSimilar Law, then the Registrar shall) deliver fiduciary of the Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject to Similar Law will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that none of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, or the Initial Purchasers or any of their affiliates, or the Backup Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Trust Collateral Agent has acted or will act as a fiduciary to the Noteholder, Benefit Plan Investor or plan subject Similar Law in connection with its investment in the name Notes. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; providedinitial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue be the Note Registrar so long as it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to perform its duties the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Note Registrar, the Issuers will give Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Trustee prompt written notice Borough of the appointment of such Registrar and of the locationManhattan, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2016-2 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, if so specified except in connection with the applicable Series Supplement for any Series initial Transfer of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where the Retained Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the TrusteeRetained Noteholders, the Issuers and Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the Noteholders number of any change in the location of such office or agencyTargeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and request by a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Retained Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to receivesuch requesting Retained Noteholder. All Notes issued upon any registration Opinions of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be Counsel required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notes.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers may, at their own expense, appoint any Person with appropriate experience as a securities registrar to act as Note Registrar hereunder; provided that in the absence of any other Person appointed in accordance herewith acting as Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee agrees to act in such capacity in accordance with the terms hereof. The Note Registrar shall cause be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Indenture Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05(b), and 11.05(c) shall apply to the Note Registrar to the same extent that they apply to the Indenture Trustee and the same rights of recovery. Any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) may at any time resign by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuers. The Issuers may at any time terminate the agency of any Note Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 2.02(a) by giving written notice of termination to such Note Registrar, with a copy to the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee. At all times during the term of this Indenture, there shall be kept maintained at the office or agency to be maintained by of the Note Registrar a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”), a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Note Registrar may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in Issuers, the Servicer and the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and the Trustee; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register or to obtain a copy thereof at all reasonable times times, and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding rely conclusively upon a certificate of the Note Registrar as to the corporate agency business information set forth in the Note Register. Upon written request of any Noteholder of record made for purposes of communicating with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under the Indenture (which request must be accompanied by a copy of the Registrar shall continue communication that the Noteholder proposes to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trusteetransmit), the Issuers and Note Registrar, within 30 days after the Noteholders of any change in the location receipt of such office request, must afford the requesting Noteholder access during normal business hours to, or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the requesting Noteholder a copy of, the most recent list of Noteholders held by the Note Registrar. Every Noteholder, by receiving such access, agrees with the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Note Registrar nor the Indenture Trustee shall be held accountable in the name any way by reason of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in disclosure of any authorized denominations, of information as to the same Class names and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option addresses of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes regardless of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for source from which such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency information was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesderived.

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Samples: Crown Castle International Corp

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrarsIndenture Trustee shall be the initial Note Registrar. Any reference in In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture to Trustee notifies the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers Transferor and the Trustee; provided, however, Note Insurer that such resignation shall not be effective and U.S. Bank National Association shall continue it is unable to perform its duties act as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the Note Registrar, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the locationTransferor shall appoint another bank or trust company, and any change having an office or agency located in the locationBorough of Manhattan, of the Registrar, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice prior to the TrusteeTermination Date, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office Note Insurer, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. No sale, pledge or agency. Upon surrender for registration of other transfer of any a Class B Note at shall be made unless such sale, pledge or other transfer is (I)(A) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the office 1933 Act, (B) for so long as the Class B Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A that purchases for its own account or agency for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (C) pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Registrar1933 Act, if and (II) to a Person that satisfies the requirements of Section 2.6(bparagraph (a)(2)(i) and Section 8-401(aor (a)(2)(ii) of Rule 3a-7 as then in effect or any successor rule under the New York UCC are metInvestment Company Act of 1940, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the as amended and any applicable state securities and blue sky laws. The Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name may require an opinion of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes counsel to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver delivered to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed it in connection with any transfer of the Class B Notes pursuant to clauses (A) or exchange (C) above. Under no circumstances may an institutional "accredited investor" within Regulation D of Notesthe Securities Act take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a book- entry Class B Note if such purchaser is not a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined under Rule 144A under the Securities Act. If definitive Class B Notes are issued, the Class B Notes may not be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person unless (A) the transferee of the Class B Note certifies in a certificate to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee that such Person is a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A under the 1933 Act or (B) the transferee of the Class B Note delivers to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer an opinion of counsel that such transfer is permitted pursuant to clause (A) or (C) above. All Notes surrendered for registration opinions of counsel required in connection with any transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. The No transfer of a Class B Note shall be made to any Person unless the Indenture Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver has received a certificate of destruction from such transferee, in form and substance acceptable to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state Indenture Trustee, to the effect that such transferee (a) is not a certificate Plan, and is not acting on behalf of or certificates investing the assets of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received a Plan or (b) is acquiring a Class B Note and is entitled to exemptive relief pursuant to a Department of Labor prohibited transaction class exemption with respect to each portion its acquisition and continued holding of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series SupplementClass B Note. The Issuers preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above shall execute not be an expense of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Transferor but shall be borne by the transferee. Each transferee of a beneficial ownership interest in a book-entry Class B Note shall be deemed to have made one of the foregoing representations by its acquisition of such Class B Note. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Class B Notes under the 1933 Act or any other securities law. Any transfer in violation of the provisions of this Section 2.3 shall be void ab initio. The Class B Notes shall bear legends stating that they have not been registered under the Securities Act and deliver are subject to the Trustee or the Registrarrestrictions on transfer described in this Section 2.3(a). By purchasing a Class B Note, as applicable, Notes in each purchaser shall be deemed to have agreed to such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesrestrictions on transfer.

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Samples: United Fidelity Finance LLC

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2013-1 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a) and to such other restrictions as shall be set forth in the investment letter, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, executed by the purchasing Retained Noteholder. Successive registrations and registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall be noted on the Note Register. No Transfer of the Retained Notes will be effective and U.S. Bank National Association the Transfer Agent and Note Registrar shall continue not register such Transfer, unless the Assignee has delivered an investment letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed Indenture Trustee. Any purported Transfer or registration of Transfer of a successor RegistrarRetained Note in violation of the preceding sentence shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Assignee. If a Person other than Each Assignee shall certify to the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Seller to register the Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Note Register at all reasonable times or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding warrant that, with respect to the corporate agency business source of funds to be used by such transferee to acquire such Note or any interest therein (the “Source”) either (a) such Source is not, and is not directly or indirectly acting for, on behalf of or with any assets of, an employee benefit plan or other arrangement subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan” to which Section 4975 of the Registrar shall continue Code applies, or a plan or other arrangement that is subject to be the Registrar without the execution or filing any provision of any paper federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or the Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) the acquisition and holding of such Notes or interest therein by such Source will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a violation of Similar Law. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee is obligated to register the Notes under the Securities Act or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrarother securities law. The Registrar shall maintain Any transfer in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency violation of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full of the Notes of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge 2.3 shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the Notesvoid ab initio.

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Samples: Indenture (Credit Acceptance Corp)

Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. (a) The Issuers Note Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Registrar”)Section 2.7, a register (the “Note Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Registrar Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Notes of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement) and of for transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purposes of registering the Notes and transfers and exchanges of the Notes as herein provided. The Issuers may appoint one or more co-registrars. Any reference in the Indenture to the Registrar shall include any co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be permitted to resign the initial Note Registrar. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the Note Registrar so long as Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice it is acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder. In the event that, subsequent to the Issuers Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Seller that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Seller shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. If at any time the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Note Registrar shall make available to the Indenture Trustee ten (10) days prior to each Distribution Date and at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request the names and addresses of the Holders as they appear in the Note Register. No sale, conveyance, assignment, hypothecation, pledge, participation, or any other transfer (each a “Transfer”) of a Note shall be made unless such Transfer is (A) for so long as the such Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a Person the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) solely with respect to initial investors in such Note, made in a transfer exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, to a Person that is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (7) of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities 22670589.4 Act (an “Institutional Accredited Investor”) that purchases for its own account or for the account or accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor. No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person (other than Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2016-3 in the initial offering, which shall not be subject to any of the transfer restrictions set forth herein that relate specifically to each initial purchaser) except in accordance with this Section 2.3(a). No portion of the Retained Notes or any interest therein may be Transferred to any Person (each, an “Assignee”), unless the Assignee shall have executed and delivered the certifications referred to in this Section 2.3 and, except in connection with the initial Transfer of the Retained Notes to the Retained Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has received a Tax Opinion with respect to such Transfer. Any attempted Transfer that would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five shall be void. Upon request by a Retained Noteholder, the number of Targeted Holders shall be disclosed to such requesting Retained Noteholder. All Opinions of Counsel required in connection with any transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. Only upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the written consent of each of the Seller and the TrusteeServicer to such Transfer shall the Retained Notes (or such portion thereof) be transferred upon the Note Register; provided, however, that such resignation consent shall not only be effective withheld based upon the reasonable belief of the Seller or the Servicer that such Transfer may cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five. Such Transfers of all or any portion of the Retained Notes shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.3(a). Successive registrations and U.S. Bank National Association registrations of Transfers as aforesaid may be made from time to time as desired, and each such registration shall continue be noted on the Note Register. Each Assignee shall certify to perform its duties as Registrar until the Issuers have appointed a successor Registrar. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuers as the RegistrarSeller, the Issuers will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the RegistrarServicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it is, for federal income tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Retained Notes may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) (a) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (b) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person. Each Assignee also shall agree that it will furnish to the Person from whom it is acquiring any interest in the Retained Notes, the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will agree to furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee. Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee that it has not acquired and it will not Transfer any interest in the Retained Notes, or cause an interest 22670589.4 in the Retained Notes to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. In addition, any Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee, prior to any delivery or Transfer to it of any Retained Notes, (i) that it is not and will not become (and that, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”), or (ii) that if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Retained Notes, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it. Each initial purchaser of an interest in the Retained Notes acknowledges that the Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of its certifications described in this Section 2.3(a). Each Assignee shall certify to the Seller, the Servicer, and the Indenture Trustee (i) that it has purchased its interest in the Retained Notes for investment only and not with a view to any public distribution thereof and (ii) that it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in all or any portion of the Retained Notes, except in compliance with the Securities Act and other applicable laws and only (1) to the Seller, (2) pursuant to Rule 144A to a person who it reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB, whom it has informed that such offer, sale or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (3) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to a person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor in a transaction meeting such exemption purchasing for its own account or one or more accounts of an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance upon such exemption. No Retained Noteholders will have the right to inspect require the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Registrar shall continue to be the Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any Issuer or such Registrar. The Registrar shall maintain in The City of New York (and, if so specified in the applicable Series Supplement for any Series of Notes, any other city designated in such Series Supplement) an office or offices or agency or agencies where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Registrar initially designates its corporate trust office located at 100 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office for such purposes. The Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Issuers and the Noteholders of any change in the location of such office or agency. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Registrar, if the requirements of Section 2.6(b) and Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same Class and a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of any Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Notes of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the New York UCC are met, each Issuer shall execute and, after the Issuers have executed, the Trustee shall authenticate and (if the Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Registrar shall) deliver to the Noteholder, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Hxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion signature guarantee, and (ii) accompanied by such other documents as the Trustee may require. The preceding provisions of this Section 2.6 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required Seller to register the transfer Retained Notes or any other securities under the Securities Act or any other securities laws. The purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note or any interest therein shall be deemed to, or in the case of a purchaser or transferee of each Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note that is an Institutional Accredited Investor shall, represent and warrant that either (a) it is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring such Note or interest therein for, on behalf of or exchange with any Note assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets are deemed to include “plan assets” of any Series for such plan, or a period plan or other arrangement subject to any provision under any federal, state, local or other laws or regulations that are substantively similar to Section 406 of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment in full ERISA or Section 4975 of the Notes Code (“Similar Law”), or (b) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Note or exchange of Notes, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax interest therein will not constitute or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Registrar and disposed of result in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy any Global Notes upon its exchange in full for Definitive Notes and shall deliver a certificate non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of destruction to the Issuers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate ERISA or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency was received with respect to each portion of such Global Note exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with the applicable Series Supplement. The Issuers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Registrar, as applicable, Notes in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable each Section 4975 of the Trustee and the Registrar to fulfill its responsibilities under the Indenture and the NotesCode, or a non-exempt violation of Similar Law.

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Samples: Credit Acceptance Corp

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