Form of
AMENDED AND RESTATED
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
DAILY INCOME FUND
(the "Fund")
U.S. Treasury Portfolio
Money Market Portfolio
Municipal Portfolio
U.S. Government Portfolio
(the "Portfolios")
Institutional Class
Institutional Service Class
Investor Class
Short Term Income Shares Class
Retail Class
Pinnacle Class
Investor Service Class
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
October 30, 2000,
amended and restated on
July 20, 2006, September 21, 2006 and May 22, 2007
Xxxxx & Xxxx Distributors, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We hereby confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. In consideration of the agreements on your part herein contained and of
the payment by us to you of (i) a fee of $1 per year with respect to the
Institutional Class, Institutional Service Class, and Pinnacle Class shares of
each Portfolio (with the exception that the U.S. Government Portfolio does not
currently offer a Pinnacle Class) and (ii) a compensatory asset-based sales
charge in an amount not to exceed 0.20% for the Investor Class, 0.45% for the
Short Term Income Shares Class and the Investor Service Class and 0.65% for the
Retail Class of each Portfolio (with the exception that the U.S. Government
Portfolio does not currently offer a Short Term Income Shares Class), per annum,
of each referenced class shares' average daily net assets, and on the terms and
conditions set forth herein, on behalf of our Portfolios, we have agreed that
you shall be, for the period of this agreement, a distributor, as our agent, for
the unsold portion of such number of shares of our beneficial interest
Portfolios $.01 par value per share, as may be effectively registered from time
to time under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"). This agreement is being entered into pursuant to the
Amended and Restated Distribution and Service Plan (the "Plan") adopted by us in
accordance with Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the "1940 Act").
2. You may make payments from time to time from your fees payable hereunder
with respect to each applicable Class and your own resources and past profits
for the following purposes:
(a) to compensate Participating Organizations, with whom you have a
written contract, for providing assistance in distributing the
Institutional Service, Investor Class, Short Term Income Shares Class,
Retail Class and Investor Service Class shares, respectively;
(b) to pay the costs of printing and distributing each Portfolio's
prospectus to prospective investors; and
(c) to defray the cost of the preparation and printing of brochures
and other promotional materials, mailings to prospective shareholders,
advertising, and other promotional activities, including salaries and/or
commissions of sales personnel in connection with the distribution of the
Fund's shares.
The Distributor will in its sole discretion determine the amount of any
payments made by the Distributor pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however,
that no such payment will increase the amount which the Portfolio, on behalf of
any Class, is required to pay either the Distributor under this Agreement or the
Shareholder Servicing Agreement or to the Manager under the Investment
Management Contract, the Administrative Services Agreement, or otherwise.
3. We hereby agree that you will act as our agent, and hereby appoint you
our agent, to offer, and to solicit offers to subscribe to, the unsold balance
of shares of our beneficial interest as shall then be effectively registered
under the Act. All subscriptions for shares of the Portfolio's beneficial
interest obtained by you shall be directed to us for acceptance and shall not be
binding on us until accepted by us. You shall have no authority to make binding
subscriptions on our behalf. We reserve the right to sell shares of our
beneficial interest through other distributors or directly to investors through
subscriptions received by us at our principal office in New York, New York. The
right given to you under this agreement shall not apply to shares of our
beneficial interest issued in connection with (a) the merger or consolidation of
any other investment company with us, (b) our acquisition by purchase or
otherwise of all or substantially all of the assets or stock of any other
investment company, or (c) the reinvestment in shares of our beneficial interest
by our stockholders of dividends or other distributions or any other offering by
us of securities to our stockholders.
4. You will use your best efforts to obtain subscriptions to shares of our
beneficial interest upon the terms and conditions contained herein and in our
Prospectus, as in effect from time to time. You will send to us promptly all
subscriptions placed with you. We shall furnish you from time to time, for use
in connection with the offering of shares of our beneficial interest, such other
information with respect to us and shares of our beneficial interest as you may
reasonably request. We shall supply you with such copies of our Registration
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Statement and Prospectus, as in effect from time to time, as you may request.
Except as we may authorize in writing, you are not authorized to give any
information or to make any representation that is not contained in the
Registration Statement or Prospectus, as then in effect. You may use employees,
agents and other persons, at your cost and expense, to assist you in carrying
out your obligations hereunder, but no such employee, agent or other person
shall be deemed to be our agent or have any rights under this agreement. You may
sell our shares to or through qualified brokers, dealers and financial
institutions under selling and servicing agreements provided that no dealer,
financial institution or other person shall be appointed or authorized to act as
our agent without our written consent.
With respect to the Institutional Service Class, Investor Class, Short Term
Income Shares Class, Retail Class and Investor Service Class shares of our
Portfolios, you will arrange for organizations whose customers or clients are
shareholders of our corporation ("Participating Organizations") to enter into
agreements with you for the performance of shareholder servicing and related
administrative functions not performed by you or the Transfer Agent and for
providing distribution assistance with respect to those Classes. You may make
payments to Participating Organizations for performing shareholder servicing and
related administrative functions and distribution assistance with respect to our
Institutional Service Class, Investor Class, Short Term Income Shares Class,
Retail Class and Investor Service Class shares pursuant to written agreements
approved in form and substance by our Board of Trustees to be entered into by
you and the Participating Organizations. It is recognized that we shall have no
obligation or liability to you or any Participating Organization for any such
payments under the agreements with Participating Organizations. Our obligation
is solely to make payments to you under the this agreement (with respect to the
Institutional Service Class, Investor Class, Short Term Income Shares Class,
Retail Class and Investor Service Class shares) and to the Manager under the
Investment Management Contract and the Administrative Services Contract. All
sales of our shares effected through you will be made in compliance with all
applicable federal securities laws and regulations and the Constitution, rules
and regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
("NASD").
5. We reserve the right to suspend the offering of shares of our beneficial
interest at any time, in the absolute discretion of our Board of Trustees, and
upon notice of such suspension you shall cease to offer our shares hereunder.
6. Both of us will cooperate with each other in taking such action as may
be necessary to qualify our shares for sale under the securities laws of such
states as we may designate, provided, that you shall not be required to register
as a broker-dealer or file a consent to service of process in any such state
where you are not now so registered. Pursuant to the Investment Management
Contract in effect between us and the Manager, we will pay all fees and expenses
of registering shares of our beneficial interest under the Act and of
qualification of shares of our beneficial interest, and to the extent necessary,
our qualification under applicable state securities laws. You will pay all
expenses relating to your broker-dealer qualification.
7. We represent to you that our Registration Statement and Prospectus have
been carefully prepared to date in conformity with the requirements of the 1933
Act and the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") thereunder. We represent and warrant to you, as
of the date hereof, that our Registration
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Statement and Prospectus contain all statements required to be stated therein in
accordance with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and
regulations thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein are or
will be true and correct at the time indicated or the effective date as the case
may be; and that neither our Registration Statement nor our Prospectus, when
they shall become effective or be authorized for use, will include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading to a
purchaser of our shares. We will from time to time file such amendment or
amendments to our Registration Statement and Prospectus as, in the light of
future development, shall, in the opinion of our counsel, be necessary in order
to have our Registration Statement and Prospectus at all times contain all
material facts required to be stated therein or necessary to make any statements
therein not misleading to a purchaser of our shares. If we shall not file such
amendment or amendments within fifteen days after our receipt of a written
request from you to do so, you may, at your option, terminate this agreement
immediately. We will not file any amendment to our Registration Statement or
Prospectus without giving you reasonable notice thereof in advance; provided,
however, that nothing in this agreement shall in any way limit our right to file
such amendments to our Registration Statement or Prospectus, of whatever
character, as we may deem advisable, such right being in all respects absolute
and unconditional. We represent and warrant to you that any amendment to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus hereafter filed by us will be carefully
prepared in conformity within the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act
and the SEC's rules and regulations thereunder and will, when it becomes
effective, contain all statements required to be stated therein in accordance
with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and regulations
thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein will, when the same
shall become effective, be true and correct; and that no such amendment, when it
becomes effective, will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading to a purchaser of our shares.
8. We agree to indemnify, defend and hold you, and any person who controls
you within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act, free and harmless from and
against any and all claims, liabilities and expenses (including the cost of
investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities and any counsel
fees incurred in connection therewith) which you or any such controlling person
may incur, under the 1933 Act or the 1940 Act, or under common law or otherwise,
arising out of or based upon any alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in our Registration Statement or Prospectus in effect from time to
time or arising out of or based upon any alleged omission to state a material
fact required to be stated in either of them or necessary to make the statements
in either of them not misleading; provided, however, that in no event shall
anything herein contained be so construed as to protect you against any
liability to us or our security holders to which you would otherwise be subject
by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence in the
performance of your duties, or by reason of your reckless disregard of your
obligations and duties under this agreement. Our agreement to indemnify you and
any such controlling person is expressly conditioned upon our being notified of
any action brought against you or any such controlling person, such notification
to be given by letter or by telegram addressed to us at our principal office in
New York, New York, and sent to us by the person against whom such action is
brought within ten days after the summons or other first legal process shall
have been served. The failure so to notify us of any such action shall not
relieve us from any liability which we may have to the person against
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whom such action is brought other than on account of our indemnity agreement
contained in this paragraph 7. We will be entitled to assume the defense of any
suit brought to enforce any such claim, and to retain counsel of good standing
chosen by us and approved by you. In the event we do elect to assume the defense
of any such suit and retain counsel of good standing approved by you, the
defendant or defendants in such suit shall bear the fees and expenses of any
additional counsel retained by any of them; but in case we do not elect to
assume the defense of any such suit, or in case you, in good faith, do not
approve of counsel chosen by us, we will reimburse you or the controlling person
or persons named as defendant or defendants in such suit, for the fees and
expenses of any counsel retained by you or them. Our indemnification agreement
contained in this paragraph 7 and our representations and warranties in this
agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation
made by or on behalf of you or any controlling person and shall survive the sale
of any of our shares made pursuant to subscriptions obtained by you. This
agreement of indemnity will inure exclusively to your benefit, to the benefit of
your successors and assigns, and to the benefit of any of your controlling
persons and their successors and assigns. We agree promptly to notify you of the
commencement of any litigation or proceeding against us in connection with the
issue and sale of any of our shares.
9. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our several officers and
trustees, and any person who controls us within the meaning of Section 15 of the
1933 Act, free and harmless from and against any and all claims, demands,
liabilities, and expenses (including the cost of investigating or defending such
claims, demands or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in
connection therewith) which we, our officers or trustees, or any such
controlling person may incur under the 1933 Act or under common law or
otherwise, but only to the extent that such liability or expense incurred by us,
our officers or trustees or such controlling person shall arise out of or be
based upon any alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in
information furnished in writing by you to us for use in our Registration
Statement or Prospectus as in effect from time to time, or shall arise out of or
be based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact in connection with
such information required to be stated in the Registration Statement or
Prospectus or necessary to make such information not misleading. Your agreement
to indemnify us, our officers and trustees, and any such controlling person is
expressly conditioned upon your being notified of any action brought against us,
our officers or trustees or any such controlling person, such notification to be
given by letter or telegram addressed to you at your principal office in New
York, New York, and sent to you by the person against whom such action is
brought, within ten days after the summons or other first legal process shall
have been served. You shall have a right to control the defense of such action,
with counsel of your own choosing, satisfactory to us, if such action is based
solely upon such alleged misstatement or omission on your part, and in any other
event you and we, our officers or trustees or such controlling person shall each
have the right to participate in the defense or preparation of the defense of
any such action. The failure so to notify you of any such action shall not
relieve you from any liability which you may have to us, to our officers or
trustees, or to such controlling person other than on account of your indemnity
agreement contained in this paragraph 8.
10. We agree to advise you immediately:
(a) of any request by the SEC for amendments to our Registration Statement
or Prospectus or for additional information,
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(b) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of our Registration Statement or Prospectus or the initiation of
any proceedings for that purpose,
(c) of the happening of any material event which makes untrue any statement
made in our Registration Statement or Prospectus or which requires the making of
a change in either of them in order to make the statements therein not
misleading, and
(d) of all action of the SEC with respect to any amendments to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus.
11. This Agreement initially became effective on October 30, 2000, and
continued in effect until March 31, 2001, and thereafter for successive
twelve-month periods (computed from each April 1st), provided that such
continuation is specifically approved at least annually by vote of our Board of
Trustees and of a majority of those of our directors who are not interested
persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and have no direct or indirect financial
interest in the operation of the Plan or in any agreements related to the Plan,,
cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on this agreement.
This agreement may be terminated at any time, without the payment of any
penalty, (a) on sixty days' written notice to you (i) by vote of a majority of
our entire Board of Trustees, and by a vote of a majority of our Trustees who
are not interested persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and have no direct or
indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or in any agreements
related to the Plan, or (ii) by vote of a majority of our outstanding voting
securities, as defined in the Act, or (b) by you on sixty days' written notice
to us.
12. This Agreement may not be transferred, assigned, sold or in any manner
hypothecated or pledged by you and this Agreement shall terminate automatically
in the event of any such transfer, assignment, sale, hypothecation or pledge by
you. The terms "transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as used in this paragraph
shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing law and in applicable
rules or regulations of the SEC thereunder.
13. Except to the extent necessary to perform your obligations hereunder,
nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your right, the right of any
of your employees, officers or directors, who may also be a trustee, officer or
employee of ours, or of a person affiliated with us, as defined in the 1940 Act,
to engage in any other business or to devote time and attention to the
management or other aspects of any other business, whether of a similar or
nature, or to render services of any kind to another corporation, firm,
individual or association.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, will you kindly
so indicate by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy hereof.
Very truly yours,
DAILY INCOME FUND
U.S. Treasury Portfolio
Money Market Portfolio
Municipal Portfolio
U.S. Government Portfolio
By:
Name:
Title:
Accepted: October 30, 2000,
amended and restated on
July 20, 2006, September 21, 2006
and May 22, 2007
XXXXX & XXXX DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
