EXHIBIT 4.2
EXECUTION COPY
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
between
AFS FUNDING TRUST
Seller
and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE
Owner Trustee
Dated as of August 9, 2002
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS.........................................................................1
SECTION 1.1. Capitalized Terms...........................................................1
SECTION 1.2. Other Definitional Provisions...............................................3
ARTICLE II. ORGANIZATION.......................................................................4
SECTION 2.1. Name........................................................................4
SECTION 2.2. Office......................................................................4
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers.........................................................4
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee................................................5
SECTION 2.5. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate................................5
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust........................................................5
SECTION 2.7. Title to Trust Property.....................................................5
SECTION 2.8. Situs of Trust..............................................................6
SECTION 2.9. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.............................6
SECTION 2.10. Covenants of the Certificateholder..........................................7
SECTION 2.11. Federal Income Tax Treatment of the Trust...................................7
SECTION 2.12. Funding Corp. Assignment....................................................8
ARTICLE III. CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTEREST..............................................8
SECTION 3.1. Initial Ownership...........................................................8
SECTION 3.2. The Certificate.............................................................8
SECTION 3.3. Authentication of Certificate...............................................8
SECTION 3.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificate........................9
SECTION 3.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.......................... 9
SECTION 3.6. Persons Deemed Certificateholders..........................................10
SECTION 3.7. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................10
SECTION 3.8. Disposition in Whole But Not in Part.......................................10
SECTION 3.9. ERISA Restrictions.........................................................10
ARTICLE IV. VOTING RIGHTS AND OTHER ACTIONS...................................................11
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Holder with Respect to Certain Matters.....................11
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholder with Respect to Certain Matters................11
SECTION 4.3. Restrictions on Certificateholder's Power..................................11
SECTION 4.4. Rights of Security Insurer.................................................12
ARTICLE V. AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE..............................................12
SECTION 5.1. General Authority..........................................................12
SECTION 5.2. General Duties.............................................................13
SECTION 5.3. Action upon Instruction....................................................13
SECTION 5.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions.........14
SECTION 5.5. No Action Except under Specified Documents or Instructions.................14
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SECTION 5.6. Restrictions...............................................................14
ARTICLE VI. CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE......................................................15
SECTION 6.1. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties............................................15
SECTION 6.2. Furnishing of Documents....................................................16
SECTION 6.3. Representations and Warranties.............................................16
SECTION 6.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel................................................16
SECTION 6.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity..........................................17
SECTION 6.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificate or Receivables....................17
SECTION 6.7. Owner Trustee May Own Notes................................................18
SECTION 6.8. Payments from Owner Trust Estate...........................................18
SECTION 6.9. Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions......................................18
ARTICLE VII. COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE....................................................18
SECTION 7.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses..........................................18
SECTION 7.2. Indemnification............................................................18
SECTION 7.3. Payments to the Owner Trustee..............................................19
SECTION 7.4. Non-recourse Obligations...................................................19
ARTICLE VIII. TERMINATION OF
TRUST AGREEMENT..................................................19
SECTION 8.1. Termination of
Trust Agreement.............................................19
ARTICLE IX. SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES............................20
SECTION 9.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee.................................20
SECTION 9.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee....................................21
SECTION 9.3. Successor Owner Trustee....................................................21
SECTION 9.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee...................................22
SECTION 9.5. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee..............................22
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS......................................................................23
SECTION 10.1. Supplements and Amendments.................................................23
SECTION 10.2. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Certificateholder..................24
SECTION 10.3. Limitations on Rights of Others............................................25
SECTION 10.4. Notices....................................................................25
SECTION 10.5. Severability...............................................................25
SECTION 10.6. Separate Counterparts......................................................25
SECTION 10.7. Assignments; Security Insurer..............................................26
SECTION 10.8. No Recourse................................................................26
SECTION 10.9. Headings...................................................................26
SECTION 10.10. GOVERNING LAW..............................................................26
SECTION 10.11. Servicer...................................................................26
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A FORM OF CERTIFICATE
EXHIBIT B FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
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This AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of August 9,
2002 between AFS FUNDING TRUST, a
Delaware business trust, as assignee of AFS
Funding Corp. (the "SELLER"), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
DELAWARE, a
Delaware banking corporation, as Owner Trustee, amends and restates in its
entirety that certain
Trust Agreement dated as of July 23, 2002 between AFS
Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation ("FUNDING CORP."), and the Owner Trustee
(the "ORIGINAL
TRUST AGREEMENT").
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. CAPITALIZED TERMS. For all purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
"AMERICREDIT" shall mean AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc.
"AGREEMENT" shall mean this
Trust Agreement, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
"ASSIGNMENT" means the Assignment dated as of October 19, 1999, by
Funding Corp. to the Seller.
"BASIC DOCUMENTS" shall mean this Agreement, the Certificate of
Trust, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Spread Account Agreement, the
Spread Account Agreement Supplement, the Insurance Agreement, the Assignment,
the Indenture, the Swap Agreement and the other documents and certificates
delivered in connection therewith, each of which shall also be an "Underlying
Transaction Document" as defined in the Second Amended and Restated
Trust
Agreement of the Depositor, dated as of August 15, 2002.
"BENEFIT PLAN" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.9.
"BUSINESS TRUST STATUTE" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 DEL. CODE Section 3801 ET SEQ. as the same may be amended from
time to time.
"CERTIFICATE" means a trust certificate evidencing the beneficial
interest of a Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A attached hereto.
"CERTIFICATEHOLDER" or "HOLDER" shall mean the person in whose name
a Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register, initially the Seller.
"CERTIFICATE OF TRUST" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in the
form of Exhibit B to be filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the
Business Trust Statute.
"CERTIFICATE REGISTER" and "CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR" shall mean the
register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.4.
"CODE" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" shall mean, with respect to the Owner
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at
E.A. Delle Donne Corporate Center, Xxxxxxxxxx Building, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx
000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, with a copy of all notices and other documents
to be also furnished to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 000 Xxxxx Xxx,
Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Agency, Structured
Finance, 6th floor, or at such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate
by notice to the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Owner Trustee (the address of which the successor owner trustee will
notify the Depositor).
"DEPOSITOR" shall mean the Seller in its capacity as Depositor
hereunder.
"DISTRIBUTION DATE" shall have the meaning set forth in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
"ERISA" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.9.
"EXPENSES" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
7.2.
"INDEMNIFIED PARTIES" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 7.2.
"INDENTURE" shall mean the Indenture dated as of August 9, 2002,
among the Issuer and Bank One, NA, as Trust Collateral Agent and Trustee, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"OWNER TRUST ESTATE" shall mean all right, title and interest of
the Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time
to time in the Trust Accounts and all other property of the Trust from time to
time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Spread Account Agreement.
"OWNER TRUSTEE" shall mean Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Delaware, a
Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner
trustee under this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.
"RECORD DATE" shall mean with respect to any Distribution Date, the
close of business on the last Business Day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" shall mean, with respect to the Owner
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Administration office of the
Owner Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of the Trust and
also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter
is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of August 9, 2002, among the Trust, the Seller, AmeriCredit
Financial Services, Inc. and the Trust Collateral Agent, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
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"SECRETARY OF STATE" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State
of
Delaware.
"SECURITY INSURER" shall mean Financial Security Assurance Inc., or
its successor in interest.
"SPREAD ACCOUNT" shall mean the Series Spread Account established
and maintained pursuant to the Spread Account Agreement.
"SPREAD ACCOUNT AGREEMENT" shall mean the Spread Account Agreement,
dated as of December 1, 1994, as amended and restated as of May 11, 1998, as
amended as of October 25, 1999, as further amended as of May 22, 2000 and as
further amended and restated as of November 29, 2000, and the Series 2002-C
Spread Account Agreement Supplement dated as of August 9, 2002, among AFS
Funding Trust, the Security Insurer, and the Trust Collateral Agent, as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms
thereof.
"SWAP AGREEMENT" means the ISDA Master Agreement dated August 21,
2002 between the Trust and the Swap Provider, including the Schedule thereto,
the Credit Support Annex thereto, the Confirmation relating to the Class A-3
Notes, and together with any replacement swap agreement thereafter approved by
the Insurer; PROVIDED, that no additional swap agreement shall be a "Swap
Agreement" under the Basic Documents for so long as the Swap Agreement is
outstanding without the prior, written consent of the Swap Provider
"SWAP PROVIDER" means Credit Suisse First Boston International,
together with any replacement Swap Provider thereafter approved by the Insurer.
"TREASURY REGULATIONS" shall mean regulations, including proposed
or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to
specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"TRUST" shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
"TRUST COLLATERAL AGENT" shall mean, initially, Bank One, NA, in
its capacity as collateral agent, including its successors in interest, until
and unless a successor Person shall have become the Trust Collateral Agent
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and thereafter "Trust Collateral
Agent" shall mean such successor Person.
SECTION 1.2. OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS.
(a) Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have
the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not
defined therein, in the Spread Account Agreement or in the Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
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(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings
given to them under generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the
date of this Agreement or any such certificate or other document, as applicable.
To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in
any such certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of
such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions
contained in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document shall
control.
(d) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of
similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a
whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
shall mean "including without limitation."
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable
to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine
as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
ARTICLE II.
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.1. NAME. There is hereby formed a trust to be known as
"AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2002-C," in which name the Owner
Trustee may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and
other instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. OFFICE. The office of the Trust shall be in care of
the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address as the
Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholder.
SECTION 2.3. PURPOSES AND POWERS.
(a) The purpose of the Trust is, and the Trust shall have the
power and authority, to engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the
Certificate pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell the Notes;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes, to fund the
Spread Account and to pay the organizational, start-up and transactional
expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance to the Depositor pursuant to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the
Trust Estate to the Trust Collateral Agent pursuant to the Indenture for
the benefit of the Security Insurer
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and the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders and to hold, manage
and distribute to the Certificateholder pursuant to the terms of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the
Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the
foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in
such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation
of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the
Certificateholder and the Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 2.4. APPOINTMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Depositor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5. INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OF TRUST ESTATE. The
Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from Funding Corp. of the sum
of $1,000 which contribution shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate.
Funding Corp. acknowledges that such contribution has been transferred to, and
is being held by, Bank One, NA, as agent for the Trust in an account established
by Bank One, NA, on behalf of the Trust, which contribution shall constitute the
initial Trust Estate. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the
Trust as they may arise.
SECTION 2.6. DECLARATION OF TRUST. The Owner Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to
the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Holder, subject
to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention
of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a business trust under the
Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the governing
instrument of such business trust. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner
Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and to the
extent not inconsistent herewith, in the Business Trust Statute with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Owner Trustee shall file the
Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State.
The Holder shall not have any personal liability for any liability
or obligation of the Trust.
SECTION 2.7. TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY.
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(a) Legal title to all the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at
all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where applicable law in
any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be
vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be
vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case
may be.
(b) The Holder shall not have legal title to any part of the
Trust Property. The Holder shall be entitled to receive distributions with
respect to its undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with
Article VIII. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title
or interest by the Certificateholder of its ownership interest in the Owner
Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder
or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal
title to any part of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.8. SITUS OF TRUST. The Trust will be located and
administered in the State of
Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner
Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of
Delaware or the
State of New York. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or
New York and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New York.
The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner
Trustee, the Servicer or any agent of the Trust from having employees within or
without the State of Delaware. The only office of the Trust will be at the
Corporate Trust Office located in Delaware.
SECTION 2.9. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR. The
Depositor makes the following representations and warranties on which the Owner
Trustee relies in accepting the Owner Trust Estate in trust and issuing the
Certificate and upon which the Security Insurer relies in issuing the Note
Policy.
(a) ORGANIZATION AND GOOD STANDING. The Depositor is duly
organized and validly existing as a Delaware business trust with power and
authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties
are currently owned and such business is presently conducted and is proposed to
be conducted pursuant to this Agreement and the Basic Documents.
(b) DUE QUALIFICATION. It is duly qualified to do business, is
in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in all
jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property, the conduct of
its business and the performance of its obligations under this Agreement and the
Basic Documents requires such qualification.
(c) POWER AND AUTHORITY. The Depositor has the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the
Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be
sold and assigned to and deposited with the Trust and the Depositor has duly
authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary
action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been
duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary action.
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(d) NO CONSENT REQUIRED. No consent, license, approval or
authorization or registration or declaration with, any Person or with any
governmental authority, bureau or agency is required in connection with the
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the Basic Documents,
except for such as have been obtained, effected or made.
(e) NO VIOLATION. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not
conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under the
trust
agreement of the Depositor, or any material indenture, agreement or other
instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it is bound; nor result
in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to
the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than
pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the
Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor
of any court or of any Federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency
or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or
its properties.
(f) NO PROCEEDINGS. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending or, to its knowledge threatened against it before any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over it or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of
this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, (B) seeking to prevent the
issuance of the Certificate or the Notes or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, (C)
seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect
its performance of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of,
this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, or (D) seeking to adversely affect
the federal income tax or other federal, state or local tax attributes of the
Certificate.
SECTION 2.10. COVENANTS OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDER. The
Certificateholder agrees:
(a) to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Certificate
of which the Holder is the beneficial owner and of this Agreement, including any
supplements or amendments hereto and to perform the obligations of a Holder as
set forth therein or herein, in all respects as if it were a signatory hereto.
This undertaking is made for the benefit of the Trust, the Owner Trustee and the
Security Insurer; and
(b) until the completion of the events specified in Section
8.1(d), not to, for any reason, institute proceedings for the Trust to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution of bankruptcy
or insolvency proceedings against the Trust, or file a petition seeking or
consenting to reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law
relating to bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Trust or a
substantial part of its property, or cause or permit the Trust to make any
assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or admit in writing its inability
to pay its debts generally as they become due, or declare or effect a moratorium
on its debt or take any action in furtherance of any such action.
SECTION 2.11. FEDERAL INCOME TAX TREATMENT OF THE TRUST.
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(a) For so long as the Trust has a single owner for federal
income tax purposes, it will, pursuant to Treasury Regulations promulgated under
section 7701 of the Code, be disregarded as an entity distinct from the
Certificateholder for all federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, for federal
income tax purposes, the Certificateholder will be treated as (i) owning all
assets owned by the Trust, (ii) having incurred all liabilities incurred by the
Trust, and (iii) all transactions between the Trust and the Certificateholder
will be disregarded.
(b) Neither the Owner Trustee nor any Certificateholder will,
under any circumstances, and at any time, make an election on IRS Form 8832 or
otherwise, to classify the Trust as an association taxable as a corporation for
federal, state or any other applicable tax purpose.
(c) In the event that the Trust has two equity owners for
federal income tax purposes, the Trust will be treated as a partnership. At any
such time that the Trust has two equity owners, this Agreement will be amended,
in accordance with Section 10.1 herein, and appropriate provisions will be added
so as to provide for treatment of the Trust as a partnership.
SECTION 2.12. FUNDING CORP. ASSIGNMENT. For good and valuable
consideration, the sufficiency of which Funding Corp. hereby acknowledges,
Funding Corp. hereby transfers to the Seller any and all right, title and
interest of Funding Corp. in the Trust as of the date hereof, including but not
limited to the right to enter into this Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement as
Depositor, as envisioned by Part 3 of the Original Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III.
CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTEREST
SECTION 3.1. INITIAL OWNERSHIP. Upon the formation of the Trust
by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.5 and until the
issuance of the Certificate to the initial Certificateholder, the Depositor
shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust.
SECTION 3.2. THE CERTIFICATE. The Certificate shall be executed
on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer
of the Owner Trustee. A Certificate bearing the manual or facsimile signatures
of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and
entitled to the benefit of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals
or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication
and delivery of such Certificate or did not hold such offices at the date of
authentication and delivery of such Certificate. A transferee of a Certificate
shall become a Certificateholder, and shall be entitled to the rights and
subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder, upon due
registration of such Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Section
3.4.
SECTION 3.3. AUTHENTICATION OF CERTIFICATE. Concurrently with the
sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate to be executed on
behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of
the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any vice
president, its treasurer or any assistant treasurer without further corporate
action by the
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Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Certificate shall entitle its holder
to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless
there shall appear on such Certificate a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee
or Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as the Owner Trustee's authentication
agent, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute conclusive
evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. The Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.
SECTION 3.4. REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF
CERTIFICATE. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.7, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Certificate and of transfers
and exchanges of the Certificate as herein provided. Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas shall be the initial Certificate Registrar.
The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent
with the name and address of the Certificateholder on the Closing Date. Upon any
transfers of the Certificate, the Certificate Registrar shall notify the Trust
Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by
facsimile, on the day of such transfer.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of the Certificate at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.7, the Owner Trustee shall
execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name
of the designated transferee, a new Certificate dated the date of authentication
by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent.
A Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by
the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such
signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership
or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP")
or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the
Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the
Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of the Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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
Certificate.
SECTION 3.5. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN CERTIFICATES.
If (a) any mutilated Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate
Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and (b) there
shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and (unless
an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing) the Security Insurer,
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security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then in the absence of notice that such Certificate shall have been acquired by
a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute
and the Owner Trustee, or Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as the Owner
Trustee's authenticating agent, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new
Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of an ownership interest in the Trust, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found
at any time.
SECTION 3.6. PERSONS DEEMED CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. Every Person by
virtue of becoming a Certificateholder in accordance with this Agreement shall
be deemed to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. Prior to due presentation
of the Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar and the Security Insurer and any agent of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Security Insurer, may treat the
person in whose name any Certificate shall be registered in the Certificate
Register as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving
distributions pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or
the Security Insurer nor any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or the Security Insurer shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Owner Trustee
shall maintain in New York, an office or offices or agency or agencies where the
Certificate may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and
where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the
Certificate and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially
designates Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 000 Xxxxx Xxx, 0xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000, as its principal corporate trust office for such
purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor,
the Certificateholder and (unless an Insurer Default shall have occurred and be
continuing) the Security Insurer of any change in the location of the
Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.8. DISPOSITION IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART. The
Certificate may be transferred in whole but not in part. Any attempted transfer
of the Certificate that would divide the ownership of the Trust Estate shall be
void. The Certificate is only transferable (i) to an Affiliate of AmeriCredit
Corp. whose stock has been pledged to the Security Insurer or (ii) to another
entity with the prior written consent of the Security Insurer in its sole
discretion. The Owner Trustee shall cause any Certificate issued to contain a
legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE, EXCEPT UNDER THE LIMITED
CONDITIONS SPECIFIED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT."
SECTION 3.9. ERISA RESTRICTIONS. The Certificate may not be
acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan
(as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) that is subject to Section 4975
of the Code, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include assets of
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a plan described in (i) or (ii) above by reason of such plan's investment in the
entity (each, a "BENEFIT PLAN"). By accepting and holding its beneficial
ownership interest in its Certificate, the Holder thereof shall be deemed to
have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
ARTICLE IV.
VOTING RIGHTS AND OTHER ACTIONS
SECTION 4.1. PRIOR NOTICE TO HOLDER WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS. With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take
action unless at least 30 days before the taking of such action, the Owner
Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholder in writing of the proposed
action and the Certificateholder shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in
writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that the
Certificateholder has withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Business Trust Statute or unless such amendment would not materially and
adversely affect the interests of the Holder);
(b) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture
in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture
in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially adversely affects the interest of the Certificateholder; or
(d) except pursuant to Section 12.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the amendment, change or modification of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or defect or to amend or supplement any
provision in a manner that would not materially adversely affect the interests
of the Certificateholder.
The Owner Trustee shall notify the Certificateholder in writing of any
appointment of a successor Note Registrar or Trust Collateral Agent within five
Business Days after receipt of notice thereof.
SECTION 4.2. ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDER WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction
of the Certificateholder or the Security Insurer in accordance with the Basic
Documents, to (a) remove the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
pursuant to Section 9.2 thereof or (b) except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, sell the Receivables after the termination of the Indenture. The
Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only
upon written instructions signed by the Certificateholder and the furnishing of
indemnification satisfactory to the Owner Trustee by the Certificateholder.
SECTION 4.3. RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATEHOLDER'S POWER.
(a) The Certificateholder shall not direct the Owner Trustee to
take or refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be
contrary to any obligation of the Trust
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or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents or would
be contrary to Section 2.3 nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow
any such direction, if given.
(b) The Certificateholder shall not have any right by virtue or
by availing itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit,
action, or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this
Agreement or any Basic Document, unless the Certificateholder is the Instructing
Party pursuant to Section 5.3 and unless the Certificateholder previously shall
have given to the Owner Trustee a written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as provided in this Agreement, and also unless
Certificateholder shall have made written request upon the Owner Trustee to
institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Owner Trustee under
this Agreement and shall have offered to the Owner Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred therein or thereby, and the Owner Trustee, for 30 days after its
receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or
refused to institute any such action, suit, or proceeding, and during such
30-day period no request or waiver inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Owner Trustee pursuant to and in compliance with this Section
or Section 5.3. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this
Section, the Certificateholder and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to such
relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 4.4. RIGHTS OF SECURITY INSURER. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary in the Basic Documents, without the prior written consent of the
Security Insurer (so long as no Insurer Default shall have occurred and be
continuing), the Owner Trustee shall not (i) remove the Servicer, (ii) initiate
any claim, suit or proceeding by the Trust or compromise any claim, suit or
proceeding brought by or against the Trust, other than with respect to the
enforcement of any Receivable or any rights of the Trust thereunder, (iii)
authorize the merger or consolidation of the Trust with or into any other
business trust or other entity (other than in accordance with Section 3.10 of
the Indenture) or (iv) amend the Certificate of Trust.
ARTICLE V.
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.1. GENERAL AUTHORITY.
(a) The Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and
deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is named as a party and each
certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the
Basic Documents to which the Trust is named as a party and any amendment
thereto, in each case, in such form as the Depositor shall approve as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof, and on behalf of the
Trust, to direct the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver Class A-1
Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $235,000,000, Class A-2 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $315,000,000, Class A-3 Notes in the aggregate
principal amount of $480,000,000 and Class A-4 Notes in the aggregate principal
amount of $270,000,000. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is
authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the
Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized
from time to time to
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take such action as the Instructing Party recommends with respect to the Basic
Documents so long as such activities are consistent with the terms of the Basic
Documents.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust any
applicable tax returns of the Trust, unless applicable law requires a
Certificateholder to sign such documents.
SECTION 5.2. GENERAL DUTIES. It shall be the duty of the Owner
Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
to administer the Trust in the interest of the Holder, subject to the Basic
Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have
discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Servicer has agreed in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Trust or the Owner
Trustee hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not
be liable for the default or failure of the Servicer to carry out its
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 5.3. ACTION UPON INSTRUCTION.
(a) Subject to Article IV and the terms of the Spread Account
Agreement, the Security Insurer (so long as an Insurer Default shall not have
occurred and be continuing) or the Certificateholder (if an Insurer Default
shall have occurred and be continuing) (the "INSTRUCTING PARTY") shall have the
exclusive right to direct the actions of the Owner Trustee in the management of
the Trust, so long as such instructions are not inconsistent with the express
terms set forth herein or in any Basic Document. The Instructing Party shall not
instruct the Owner Trustee in a manner inconsistent with this Agreement or the
Basic Documents.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to
result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice
(in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Instructing Party requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction of the Instructing Party received, the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the
Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten days of
such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be
specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may,
but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not
inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be
in the best interests of the Certificateholder, and shall have no liability to
any Person for such action or inaction.
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(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document or any such
provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in
conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take
with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in
such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Instructing
Party requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or
refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction
received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or
inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received
appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter
period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary
under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain
from taking such action, not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the
Certificateholder, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or
inaction.
SECTION 5.4. NO DUTIES EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR
IN INSTRUCTIONS. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 5.3; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any Commission filing for the Trust or to
record this Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless
agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as
may be necessary to discharge any Liens on any part of the Owner Trust Estate
that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee (solely in its
individual capacity) and that are not related to the ownership or the
administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 5.5. NO ACTION EXCEPT UNDER SPECIFIED DOCUMENTS OR
INSTRUCTIONS. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents
and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 5.3.
SECTION 5.6. RESTRICTIONS. The Owner Trustee shall not take any
action (a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.3 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would
result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for Federal income tax
purposes. The Certificateholder shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take
action that would violate the provisions of this Section.
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ARTICLE VI.
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES. The Owner Trustee
accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder
with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it constituting
part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents and this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or
under any Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i) for its own willful
misconduct, bad faith or negligence, (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty contained in Section 6.3 expressly made by the Owner
Trustee, (iii) for liabilities arising from the failure of the Owner Trustee to
perform obligations expressly undertaken by it in the last sentence of Section
5.4 hereof, (iv) for any investments issued by the Owner Trustee or any branch
or affiliate thereof in its commercial capacity or (v) for taxes, fees or other
charges on, based on or measured by, any fees, commissions or compensation
received by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and
subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made by a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of
the Instructing Party, the Servicer or the Certificateholder;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder
or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect
of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof
by the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Certificate, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event
assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to the Security Insurer,
Trustee, Trust Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Noteholder or to any
Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the Basic
Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Security Insurer, the Trustee, the Trust Collateral Agent or
the Servicer under any of the Basic
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Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or
liability to perform the obligations under this Agreement or the Basic Documents
that are required to be performed by the Trustee under the Indenture or the
Trust Collateral Agent or the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in
relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or
direction of the Instructing Party or the Certificateholder, unless such
Instructing Party or Certificateholder has offered to the Owner Trustee security
or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner
Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any
Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not
be answerable for other than its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct in
the performance of any such act.
SECTION 6.2. FURNISHING OF DOCUMENTS. The Owner Trustee shall
furnish to the Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written request
therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands,
certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the
Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The Owner Trustee
hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, the Holder and the Security
Insurer (which shall have relied on such representations and warranties in
issuing the Note Policy), that:
(a) It is a Delaware banking corporation, duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It
has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform
its obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the
execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this
Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby
nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene
any federal or Delaware state law, governmental rule or regulation governing the
banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on
it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or by-laws or any
indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or
by which any of its properties may be bound.
SECTION 6.4. RELIANCE; ADVICE OF COUNSEL.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in
acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent,
order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by
it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties.
The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of
directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence
that
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such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full
force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of
which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all
purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice
president or by the treasurer, secretary or other authorized officers of the
relevant party, as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute
full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken
by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder
and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or
attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner
Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and
other skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it.
The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in
good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such
counsel, accountants or other such persons and according to such opinion not
contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 6.5. NOT ACTING IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY. Except as
provided in this Article VI, in accepting the trust hereby created Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Delaware acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its
individual capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee
by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic
Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction
thereof.
SECTION 6.6. OWNER TRUSTEE NOT LIABLE FOR CERTIFICATE OR
RECEIVABLES. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificate (other than
the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificate)
shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor and the Owner Trustee assumes
no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any
Basic Document or of the Certificate (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificate) or the Notes, or of
any Receivable or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and
enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of any security
interest created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of
any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of
the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed
to Certificateholder under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the
Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership
of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance
thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer or other
record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or
of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the
performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor,
the Servicer or any other Person with any warranty or representation made under
any Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such
warranty or representation or any action of the Trustee or the Servicer or any
subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
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SECTION 6.7. OWNER TRUSTEE MAY OWN NOTES. The Owner Trustee in
its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of the
Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Trustee and the Servicer in banking
transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee,
including acting as owner trustee of the Depositor.
SECTION 6.8. PAYMENTS FROM OWNER TRUST ESTATE. All payments to be
made by the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents to
which the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party shall be made only from the
income and proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate and only to the extent that the
Owner Trust shall have received income or proceeds from the Owner Trust Estate
to make such payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Delaware, or any successor thereto, in its individual capacity, shall
not be liable for any amounts payable under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents to which the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party.
SECTION 6.9. DOING BUSINESS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Delaware or any successor thereto, nor the Owner Trustee shall be
required to take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of
Delaware if the taking of such action will, even after the appointment of a
co-trustee or separate trustee in accordance with Section 9.5 hereof, (i)
require the consent or approval or authorization or order of or the giving of
notice to, or the registration with or the taking of any other action in respect
of, any state or other governmental authority or agency of any jurisdiction
other than the State of Delaware; (ii) result in any fee, tax or other
governmental charge under the laws of the State of Delaware becoming payable by
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware (or any successor thereto); or (iii)
subject Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware (or any successor thereto) to
personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware for
causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the consummation of the
transactions by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware (or any successor thereto)
or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE VII.
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. OWNER TRUSTEE'S FEES AND EXPENSES. The Owner Trustee
shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon before the date hereof between AmeriCredit and the Owner
Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the
Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives,
experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the
exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder and under the
Basic Documents. AmeriCredit Corp. shall be jointly and severally liable for the
fees and expenses owing to the Owner Trustee under this Section 7.1.
SECTION 7.2. INDEMNIFICATION. The Depositor shall be liable as
primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its officers,
directors, successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the
"INDEMNIFIED PARTIES") from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all
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reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees
and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, "EXPENSES") which
may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner
Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this
Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of
the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder,
except only that the Depositor shall not be liable for or required to indemnify
the Owner Trustee from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of the
matters described in the third sentence of Section 6.1. The indemnities
contained in this Section and the rights under Section 7.1 shall survive the
resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this
Agreement. In any event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity
will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's choice of legal
counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Depositor which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld. AmeriCredit Corp. shall be jointly and severally
liable for the indemnification duties and obligations of the Depositor which are
described in this Section 7.2.
SECTION 7.3. PAYMENTS TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE. Any amounts paid to
the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VII shall be deemed not to be a part
of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
SECTION 7.4. NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATIONS. Notwithstanding anything
in this Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee agrees in its
individual capacity and in its capacity as Owner Trustee for the Trust that all
obligations of the Trust to the Owner Trustee individually or as Owner Trustee
for the Trust shall be with recourse to the Owner Trust Estate only and
specifically shall be without recourse to the assets of the Holder.
ARTICLE VIII.
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 8.1. TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT.
(a) This Agreement and the Trust shall terminate in accordance
with Section 3808 of the Business Trust Statute and be of no further force or
effect upon the latest of (i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last
Receivable (including the purchase by the Servicer at its option or by the
Seller at its option of the corpus of the Trust as described in Section 10.1 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement) and the subsequent distribution of amounts in
respect of such Receivables as provided in the Basic Documents, or (ii) the
payment to the Certificateholder of all amounts required to be paid to it
pursuant to this Agreement and the payment to the Security Insurer of all
amounts payable or reimbursable to it pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the rights to indemnification under Section
7.2 and the rights under Section 7.1 shall survive the termination of the Trust.
The Seller or the Servicer shall promptly notify the Owner Trustee and the
Security Insurer of any prospective termination pursuant to this Section. The
bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of the
Certificateholder, shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the
Trust, nor (y) entitle the Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to
claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a
partition or winding up of all or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate
nor (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties
hereto.
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(b) Neither the Depositor nor the Certificateholder shall be
entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the
Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholder shall surrender the
Certificate to the Trust Collateral Agent for payment of the final distribution
and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to the
Certificateholder mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such
termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 10.1(c) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to
which final payment of the Certificate shall be made upon presentation and
surrender of the Certificate at the office of the Trust Collateral Agent therein
designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment, (iii) that the Record
Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments
being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificate at the office
of the Trust Collateral Agent therein specified and (iv) interest will cease to
accrue on the Certificate. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Trust
Collateral Agent at the time such notice is given to the Certificateholder. Upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificate, the Trust Collateral Agent shall
cause to be distributed to the Certificateholder amounts distributable on such
Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
In the event that the Certificateholder shall not surrender the
Certificate for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the
above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a second written
notice to the Certificateholder to surrender the Certificate for cancellation
and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within one year
after the second notice all the Certificate shall not have been surrendered for
cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an
agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the Certificateholder concerning
surrender of its Certificate, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the
funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds
remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed,
subject to applicable escheat laws, by the Owner Trustee to the Holder.
(d) Upon the completion of the winding up of the Trust in
accordance with Section 3808 of the Business Trust Statute and its termination,
the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing
a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
ARTICLE IX.
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 9.1. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR OWNER TRUSTEE. The
Owner Trustee shall at all times be a corporation (i) satisfying the provisions
of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; (ii) authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers; (iii) having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authorities; and (iv) acceptable to the Security Insurer in its sole discretion,
so long as an Insurer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing. If such
corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital
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and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect specified in Section 9.2.
SECTION 9.2. RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF OWNER TRUSTEE. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor, the Security Insurer and the
Servicer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall
promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate,
one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee
and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, provided that the Depositor shall
have received written confirmation from each of the Rating Agencies that the
proposed appointment will not result in an increased capital charge to the
Security Insurer by either of the Rating Agencies. If no successor Owner Trustee
shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee or the
Security Insurer may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 9.1 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Depositor, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Depositor with the consent of the Security Insurer (so
long as an Insurer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing) may remove
the Owner Trustee. If the Depositor shall remove the Owner Trustee under the
authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Depositor shall promptly
appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy
of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed,
one copy to the Security Insurer and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee and
payment of all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of
a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section
shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 9.3 and payment of all fees and expenses owed
to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide notice of such
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 9.3. SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEE. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 9.2 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Depositor, the Servicer, the Security Insurer and to its predecessor Owner
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if
originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon
payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under
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this Agreement; and the Depositor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably
be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor
Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in
this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee
shall be eligible pursuant to Section 9.1.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Section, the Servicer shall mail notice of the successor of
such Owner Trustee to the Certificateholder, the Trustee, the Noteholders and
the Rating Agencies. If the Servicer shall fail to mail such notice within 10
days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the
successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of
the Servicer.
SECTION 9.4. MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE. Any
corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, provided such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 9.1,
without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part
of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided further that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or
consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 9.5. APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE TRUSTEE.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by
the Owner Trustee and the Security Insurer to act as co-trustee, jointly with
the Owner Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part
of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such
title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Servicer and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the
Servicer shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee subject, unless an
Insurer Default shall have occurred and be continuing, to the approval of the
Security Insurer (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) shall have
the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this
Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
trustee pursuant to Section 9.1 and no notice of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 9.3.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
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(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is
not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such
act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which
any particular act or acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event
such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of
title to the Trust or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall
be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee,
but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable
by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this
Agreement; and
(iii) the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any
time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or
co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Servicer and the Security Insurer.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 10.1. SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS.
(a) This Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner
Trustee, with the prior written consent of the Security Insurer (so long as an
Insurer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing) and with prior
written notice to the Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholder, (i) to cure any ambiguity or defect or
(ii) to correct, supplement or modify any provisions in this Agreement;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel which may be based
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upon a certificate of the Servicer, adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time, with
the prior written consent of the Security Insurer (so long as an Insurer Default
shall not have occurred and be continuing) by the Depositor and the Owner
Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating Agencies, to the extent such
amendment materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders,
with the consent of the Noteholders evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, and the consent of the Certificateholder (which
consent of any Holder of a Certificate or Note given pursuant to this Section or
pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and
binding on such Holder) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing
in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, subject to the express rights of the Security Insurer
under the Basic Documents, no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any
manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of
payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made for
the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder or (b) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificate
Balance required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the
Holders of all the outstanding Notes and the Certificateholder.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the
Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to the Certificateholder, the Trustee and each of the
Rating Agencies.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholder, the
Noteholders or the Trustee pursuant to this Section to approve the particular
form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such
consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such
consents (and any other consents of the Certificateholder provided for in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of
the execution thereof by Certificateholder shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe. Promptly after the execution of
any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the
filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement and that all conditions precedent to
the execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which
affects the Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 10.2. NO LEGAL TITLE TO OWNER TRUST ESTATE IN
CERTIFICATEHOLDER. The Certificateholder shall not have legal title to any part
of the Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholder shall be entitled to receive
distributions in accordance with Article VIII. No transfer, by operation of law
or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Certificateholder to and in
its ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this
Agreement
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or the trust hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the
transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 10.3. LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS. The provisions of
this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor,
the Certificateholder, the Servicer and, to the extent expressly provided
herein, the Security Insurer, the Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in
this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any
other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust
Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or
provisions contained herein.
SECTION 10.4. NOTICES.
(a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the
terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon
receipt personally delivered, delivered by overnight courier or mailed first
class mail or certified mail, in each case return receipt requested, and shall
be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt, if to the Owner Trustee,
addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; if to the Depositor, addressed to AFS
Funding Trust, c/o Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, as Owner Trustee, E.A.
Delle Donne Corporate Center, Xxxxxxxxxx Building, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000,
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust, with a copy to AFS
Funding Trust, c/o AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as Administrator, 000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention: Chief Financial
Officer; if to the Security Insurer, addressed to Security Insurer, Financial
Security Assurance Inc., 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention:
Transaction Oversight Department, Telex No.: (000) 000-0000, Confirmation: (212)
826-0100, Telecopy Nos.: (000) 000-0000, (000) 000-0000 (in each case in which
notice or other communication to Financial Security refers to an Event of
Default, a claim on the Note Policy or with respect to which failure on the part
of Financial Security to respond shall be deemed to constitute consent or
acceptance, then a copy of such notice or other communication should also be
sent to the attention of the General Counsel and the Head-Financial Guaranty
Group "URGENT MATERIAL ENCLOSED"); or, as to each party, at such other address
as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of the Holder. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this
Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not
the Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 10.5. SEVERABILITY. Any provision of this Agreement that
is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.6. SEPARATE COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall
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be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and
the same instrument.
SECTION 10.7. ASSIGNMENTS; SECURITY INSURER. This Agreement shall
inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their
respective successors and permitted assigns.
SECTION 10.8. NO RECOURSE. The Certificateholder by accepting a
Certificate acknowledges that the Certificate represents a beneficial interest
in the Trust only and do not represent interests in or obligations of the
Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the Trustee, the Security Insurer or
any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties or their
assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement,
the Certificate or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 10.9. HEADINGS. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 10.10. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND
REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.
SECTION 10.11. SERVICER. The Servicer is authorized to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust all such
documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions as it shall
be the duty of the Trust or Owner Trustee to prepare, file or deliver pursuant
to the Basic Documents. Upon written request, the Owner Trustee shall execute
and deliver to the Servicer a limited power of attorney appointing the Servicer
the Trust's agent and attorney-in-fact to prepare, or cause to be prepared,
execute and deliver all such documents, reports, filings, instruments,
certificates and opinions.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized as of the day and year first above written.
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE,
as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
AFS FUNDING TRUST,
By: AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.,
as Administrator
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President, Structured Finance
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED TO:
AMERICREDIT CORP.,
Solely with respect to Sections 7.1 and 7.2
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President, Finance
AFS FUNDING CORP.
Solely with respect to Section 2.12
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President, Finance
[Amended and Restated Trust Agreement]
EXHIBIT A
NUMBER
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SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE,
EXCEPT UNDER THE LIMITED CONDITIONS
SPECIFIED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT
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ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a beneficial ownership interest in certain distributions of the
Trust, as defined below, the property of which includes a pool of retail
installment sale contracts secured by new or used automobiles, vans or light
duty trucks and sold to the Trust by AFS Funding Trust
(THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF AFS FUNDING
TRUST OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT DESCRIBED BELOW.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT AFS Funding Trust is the registered owner of a
nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership interest in certain
distributions of AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2002-C (the "TRUST")
formed by AFS Funding Trust, a Delaware business trust (the "SELLER").
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is the Certificate referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
DELAWARE DELAWARE
not in its individual not in its individual
capacity but solely as capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee or Owner Trustee
By DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST
COMPANY AMERICAS
by:
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Authenticating Agent
by:
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The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of July 23,
2002, as amended and restated as of August 9, 2002 (the "TRUST AGREEMENT"),
between the Seller and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, as owner trustee
(the "OWNER TRUSTEE"), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which
is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This is the duly authorized Certificate designated as "ASSET BACKED
CERTIFICATE" (herein called the "CERTIFICATE"). Also issued under the Indenture,
dated as of August 9, 2002, among the Trust, Bank One, NA, as trustee and
indenture collateral agent, are four classes of Notes designated as "CLASS A-1
1.71250% ASSET BACKED NOTES" (the "CLASS A-1 NOTES"), "CLASS A-2 1.94% ASSET
BACKED NOTES" (the "CLASS A-2 NOTES"), "CLASS A-3 FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED
NOTES" (the "CLASS A-3 NOTES") and "CLASS A-4 3.55% ASSET BACKED NOTES" (the
"CLASS A-4 NOTES" and together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes,
and the Class A-3 Notes, the "NOTES"). This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which
Trust Agreement the holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance
hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. The property of the Trust
includes a pool of retail installment sale contracts secured by new and used
automobiles, vans or light duty trucks (the "RECEIVABLES"), all monies due
thereunder on or after Cutoff Date, security interests in the vehicles financed
thereby, certain bank accounts and the proceeds thereof, proceeds from claims on
certain insurance policies and certain other rights under the Trust Agreement
and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all right, to and interest of the Seller
in and to the Purchase Agreement dated as of August 9, 2002 among AmeriCredit
Financial Services, Inc. and the Seller and all proceeds of the foregoing.
The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to
receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are subordinated to the
rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture and the Trust Agreement, as applicable.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in the Trust
Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the
Certificateholder without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate or
the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust
Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this
Certificate at the office or agency maintained for the purpose by the Owner
Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by
an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature, this
Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in
its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
AMERICREDIT AUTOMOBILE RECEIVABLES
TRUST 2002-C
By: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
DELAWARE
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
Dated: August 21, 2002 By:
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(Reverse of Certificate)
The Certificate does not represent an obligation of, or an interest in, the
Seller, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any Affiliates of any of them and no
recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement, the
Indenture or the Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not
guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right
of payment to certain collections with respect to the Receivables, all as more
specifically set forth herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of
each of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined
during normal business hours at the principal office of the Seller, and at such
other places, if any, designated by the Seller, by any Certificateholder upon
written request.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Seller under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Seller and the Owner Trustee
with the consent of the Note Majority and the Certificateholder. Any such
consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on
such Holder and on all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate
issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Trust
Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances,
without the consent of the Certificateholder.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the
Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by
the Owner Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, accompanied
by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee
and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such
holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon a new Certificate
evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the
designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the
Trust Agreement is Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. No service charge will
be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee
or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Security Insurer and any agent of the Owner Trustee
or the Security Insurer may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee,
the Security Insurer nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the
Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to the Certificateholder
of all amounts required to be paid to it pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of
the Trust. The Seller or the Servicer of the Receivables may at its option
purchase the corpus of the Trust at a price specified in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other property of the Trust
will effect
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early retirement of the Certificate; however, such right of purchase is
exercisable, subject to certain restrictions, only as of the last day of any
Collection Period as of which the Pool Balance is 10% or less of the Original
Pool Balance.
The Certificate may not be acquired by (a) an employee benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I
of ERISA, (b) a plan (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) that is
subject to subject to Section 4975 or (c) any entity whose underlying assets
include assets of a plan described in (a) or (b) above by reason of such plan's
investment in the entity (each, a "BENEFIT PLAN"). By accepting and holding this
Certificate, the Holder hereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted
that it is not a Benefit Plan.
The recitals contained herein shall be taken as the statements of the
Depositor or the Servicer, as the case may be, and the Owner Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Certificate or of any
Receivable or related document.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by an
authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual or facsimile signature, this
Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
______________________________ Attorney to transfer said Certificate on the
books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated: *
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Signature
Guaranteed: *
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* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Certificate in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements
include membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature
guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
OF
AMERICREDIT AUTOMOBILE RECEIVABLES TRUST 2002-C
THIS Certificate of Trust of AMERICREDIT AUTOMOBILE RECEIVABLES
TRUST 2002-C (the "TRUST") is being duly executed and filed on behalf of the
Trust by the undersigned, as trustee, to form a business trust under the
Delaware Business Trust Act (12 DEL. C. Section 3801 ET SEQ.) (the "ACT").
1. NAME. The name of the business trust formed by this
Certificate of Trust is "AMERICREDIT AUTOMOBILE RECEIVABLES TRUST 2002-C."
2. DELAWARE TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the
trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware is Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Delaware, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective
upon filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this
Certificate of Trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
DELAWARE, not in its
individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Trust
By:
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Name:
Title:
