KENNAMETAL INC., AS ISSUER TO
Exhibit 4.5
KENNAMETAL INC.,
AS ISSUER
AS ISSUER
TO
AS TRUSTEE
Form of
Senior Debt
Indenture
Senior Debt
Indenture
DATED AS OF , 20
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST
INDENTURE ACT OF 1939, AS AMENDED
AND INDENTURE, DATED AS OF , 20
INDENTURE ACT OF 1939, AS AMENDED
AND INDENTURE, DATED AS OF , 20
TRUST INDENTURE | ||||
ACT SECTION | INDENTURE SECTION | |||
Section 310 | (a)(1) | 6.9 | ||
(a)(2) | 6.9 | |||
(a)(3) | Not Applicable | |||
(a)(4) | Not Applicable | |||
(b) | 6.8, 6.10 | |||
Section 311 | (a) | 6.13 | ||
(b) | 6.13 | |||
Section 312 | (a) | 7.1, 7.2 (a) | ||
(b) | 7.2 (b) | |||
(c) | 7.2 (c) | |||
Section 313 | (a) | 7.3 (a) | ||
(b) | Not Applicable | |||
(c) | 7.3 (a), 7.3 (b) | |||
(d) | 7.3 (b) | |||
Section 314 | (a) | 7.4 | ||
(b) | Not Applicable | |||
(c)(1) | 1.2 | |||
(c)(2) | 1.2 | |||
(c)(3) | Not Applicable | |||
(d) | Not Applicable | |||
(e) | 1.2 | |||
Section 315 | (a) | 6.1 (a) | ||
(b) | 6.2 | |||
(c) | 6.1 (b) | |||
(d) | 6.1 (c) | |||
(d)(1) | 6.1 (a), 6.1 (c) | |||
(d)(2) | 6.1 (c) | |||
(d)(3) | 6.1 (c) | |||
(e) | 5.14 | |||
Section 316 | (a)(1)(A) | 5.12 | ||
(a)(1)(B) | 5.2, 5.13 | |||
(a)(2) | Not Applicable | |||
(b) | 5.8 | |||
Section 317 | (a)(1) | 5.3 | ||
(a)(2) | 5.4 | |||
(b) | 10.9 | |||
Section 318 | (a) | 1.7 |
NOTE: THIS RECONCILIATION AND TIE SHALL NOT, FOR ANY PURPOSE, BE DEEMED TO BE A PART OF THIS
INDENTURE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION |
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§ 1.1. Definitions |
1 | |||
Act |
2 | |||
Affiliate |
2 | |||
Authenticating Agent |
2 | |||
Bankruptcy Law |
2 | |||
Board of Directors |
2 | |||
Board Resolution |
2 | |||
Business Day |
2 | |||
Capitalized Lease Obligation |
2 | |||
Capital Stock |
3 | |||
Commission |
3 | |||
Common Depositary |
3 | |||
Company |
3 | |||
Company Request |
3 | |||
Company Order |
3 | |||
Corporate Trust Office |
3 | |||
Covenant Defeasance |
3 | |||
Currency Agreement |
3 | |||
Custodian |
3 | |||
Default |
4 | |||
Defaulted Interest |
4 | |||
Defeasance |
4 | |||
Dollars |
4 | |||
Event of Default |
4 | |||
Exchange Act |
4 | |||
GAAP |
4 | |||
Holder |
4 | |||
Security holder |
4 | |||
Indebtedness |
4 | |||
Indenture |
5 | |||
Interest |
5 | |||
Interest Payment Date |
5 | |||
Interest Swap Obligations |
5 | |||
Lien |
5 | |||
Maturity |
5 | |||
Officer |
5 | |||
Officer’s Certificate |
5 | |||
Original Issue Discount Security |
6 | |||
Outstanding |
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Paying Agent |
6 | |||
Person |
6 | |||
Place of Payment |
7 | |||
Redemption Date |
7 | |||
Redemption Price |
7 | |||
Registered Security |
7 | |||
Regular Record Date |
7 | |||
Responsible Officer |
7 | |||
Securities |
7 | |||
Significant Subsidiary |
7 | |||
Special Record Date |
7 | |||
Stated Maturity |
7 | |||
Subsidiary |
8 | |||
Trust Indenture Act |
8 | |||
Trustee |
8 | |||
U.S. Depositary |
8 | |||
U.S. Government Obligations |
8 | |||
Vice President |
9 | |||
§ 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions |
9 | |||
§ 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee |
9 | |||
§ 1.4. Acts of Holders |
10 | |||
§ 1.5. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company |
11 | |||
§ 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver |
11 | |||
§ 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act |
12 | |||
§ 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents |
12 | |||
§ 1.9. Successors and Assigns |
12 | |||
§ 1.10. Separability Clause |
12 | |||
§ 1.11. Benefits of Indenture |
13 | |||
§ 1.12. Governing Law |
13 | |||
§ 1.13. Legal Holidays |
13 | |||
§ 1.14. No Recourse Against Others |
13 | |||
ARTICLE 2 SECURITY FORMS |
13 | |||
§ 2.1. Forms Generally |
13 | |||
§ 2.2. Form of Face of Security |
14 | |||
§ 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security |
16 | |||
§ 2.4. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication |
21 | |||
§ 2.5. Securities in Global Form |
22 | |||
§ 2.6. CUSIP Number |
22 | |||
§ 2.7. Form of Legend for the Securities in Global Form |
23 | |||
ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES |
23 | |||
§ 3.1. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series |
23 | |||
§ 3.2. Denominations |
25 |
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§ 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating |
26 | |||
§ 3.4. Temporary Securities |
28 | |||
§ 3.5. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange |
28 | |||
§ 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities |
30 | |||
§ 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved |
31 | |||
§ 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners |
32 | |||
§ 3.9. Cancellation |
33 | |||
§ 3.10. Computation of Interest |
33 | |||
ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
33 | |||
§ 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture |
33 | |||
§ 4.2. Application of Trust Money |
34 | |||
ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES |
35 | |||
§ 5.1. Events of Default |
35 | |||
§ 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment |
37 | |||
§ 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee |
37 | |||
§ 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
38 | |||
§ 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities |
39 | |||
§ 5.6. Application of Money Collected |
39 | |||
§ 5.7. Limitation on Suits |
40 | |||
§ 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest |
40 | |||
§ 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies |
41 | |||
§ 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative |
41 | |||
§ 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver |
41 | |||
§ 5.12. Control by Holders |
41 | |||
§ 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults |
42 | |||
§ 5.14. Undertaking for Costs |
42 | |||
ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE |
42 | |||
§ 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee |
43 | |||
§ 6.2. Notice of Defaults |
43 | |||
§ 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee |
43 | |||
§ 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities |
45 | |||
§ 6.5. May Hold Securities |
45 | |||
§ 6.6. Money Held in Trust |
45 | |||
§ 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursement |
45 | |||
§ 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests |
46 | |||
§ 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility |
46 | |||
§ 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor |
46 | |||
§ 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor or Additional Trustees |
48 | |||
§ 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business |
49 | |||
§ 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company |
49 | |||
§ 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent |
49 |
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ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY |
52 | |||
§ 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders |
52 | |||
§ 7.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders |
52 | |||
§ 7.3. Reports by Trustee |
53 | |||
§ 7.4. Reports by Company |
53 | |||
ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER |
54 | |||
§ 8.1. When Company May Merge, Etc |
54 | |||
§ 8.2. Opinion of Counsel |
55 | |||
§ 8.3. Successor Corporation Substituted |
55 | |||
ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
55 | |||
§ 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders |
55 | |||
§ 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
57 | |||
§ 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures |
58 | |||
§ 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
58 | |||
§ 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act |
58 | |||
§ 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures |
58 | |||
ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS |
59 | |||
§ 10.1. Payments of Securities |
59 | |||
§ 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency |
59 | |||
§ 10.3. Corporate Existence |
59 | |||
§ 10.4. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims |
60 | |||
§ 10.5. Compliance Certificates |
60 | |||
§ 10.6. Commission Reports |
60 | |||
§ 10.7. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws |
61 | |||
§ 10.8. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust |
61 | |||
ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES |
62 | |||
§ 11.1. Applicability of Article |
62 | |||
§ 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee |
63 | |||
§ 11.3. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed |
63 | |||
§ 11.4. Notice of Redemption |
63 | |||
§ 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price |
64 | |||
§ 11.6. Securities Payable on Redemption Date |
64 | |||
§ 11.7. Securities Redeemed in Part |
65 | |||
ARTICLE 12 SINKING FUNDS |
65 | |||
§ 12.1. Applicability of Article |
65 | |||
§ 12.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities |
66 |
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§ 12.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund |
66 | |||
ARTICLE 13 DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE |
66 | |||
§ 13.1. Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
66 | |||
§ 13.2. Defeasance and Discharge |
67 | |||
§ 13.3. Covenant Defeasance |
67 | |||
§ 13.4. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
68 | |||
§ 13.5. Deposited Money and Government Obligations To Be Held In Trust |
69 | |||
ARTICLE 14 MISCELLANEOUS |
70 | |||
§ 14.1. Miscellaneous |
70 |
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Senior Debt Indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of , 20 , between KENNAMETAL
INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
(herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at World Headquarters, 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxx, X.X. Xxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000 and , a banking
corporation as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for
the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of
indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this
Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance
with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all
Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
§
1.
§ 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly
or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with GAAP;
(4) the word “Including” (and with the correlative meaning “Include”) means including, without
limiting the generality of, any description following such term; and
(5) the words “Herein,” “Hereof” and “Hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that Article.
“Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
“Affiliate” means another Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with such first Person. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and
“under common control with”), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise.
“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief
of debtors.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company; provided, however, that when
the context refers to actions or resolutions of the Board of Directors, then the term “Board of
Directors” shall also mean any duly authorized committee of the Board of Directors of the Company
or Officer authorized to act with respect to any particular matter to exercise the power of the
Board of Directors of the Company.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full
force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of
Payment are authorized or obligated by law or regulation to close.
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” means an obligation that is required to be classified and
accounted for as a capitalized
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lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation shall
be the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with such principles; and the
Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under
such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the lessee without
payment of a penalty.
“Capital Stock” of any Person shall mean any and all shares, interests, participations or
other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any
preferred stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Common Depositary” has the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture
until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor corporation.
“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of
the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, its Controller, an Assistant Controller, its Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee at which,
at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the
date hereof is located at , New York, New York.
“Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 13.3.
“Currency Agreement” shall mean any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or
other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries against fluctuations in currency values.
“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar
official under any Bankruptcy Law.
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“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an
Event of Default.
“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.
“Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 13.2.
“Dollars” and “$” means lawful money of the United States of America.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time,
and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“GAAP” means such accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States of
America as of the date of any computation required hereunder.
“Holder” or “Security holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, at any date, any of the following, without
duplication, (i) any liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (A) for borrowed money
(whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only to
a portion thereof), (B) evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument or (C) for the
payment of money relating to a Capitalized Lease Obligation or other obligation (whether issued or
assumed) relating to the deferred purchase price of property; (ii) all conditional sale obligations
and all obligations under any title retention agreement (even if the rights and remedies of the
seller under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such
property), but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business; (iii)
all obligations for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance
or similar credit transaction other than entered into in the ordinary course of business; (iv) all
indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such indebtedness has an existing
right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on any asset or property (including,
without limitation, leasehold interests and any other tangible or intangible property) of such
Person, whether or not such indebtedness is assumed by such Person or is not otherwise such
Person’s legal liability; provided, that if the obligations so secured have not been assumed in
full by such Person or are otherwise not such Person’s legal liability in full, the amount of such
indebtedness for the purposes of this definition shall be limited to the lesser of the amount of
such indebtedness secured by such Lien; (v) all indebtedness of others
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(including all interest and
dividends on any Indebtedness or preferred stock of any other Person for the payment of which is)
guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by such Person or that is otherwise its legal liability or
which such Person has agreed contingently to supply or advance funds; and (vi) obligations in
respect of Currency Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 3.1.
“Interest,” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms
bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
“Interest Payment Date,” when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of
an installment of interest on such Security.
“Interest Swap Obligations” shall mean the obligations of any Person pursuant to any interest
rate swap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement
designed to protect such Person or any of its Subsidiaries against fluctuations in interest rates.
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien, charge or
adverse claim affecting title or resulting in an encumbrance against real or personal property or a
security interest of any kind (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof other than a lease which is not a Capitalized
Lease Obligation.)
“Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of
such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided,
whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, any
Senior or Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the
Controller, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Officer and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel
for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
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“Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than
the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.
“Outstanding,” when used with respect to Securities or Securities of any series, means, as of
the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, except: (i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation; (ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other
than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; (iii) Securities which
have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have
been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such
Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company; and (iv) Securities which have been defeased pursuant to Section
13.2; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver hereunder, (a) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that
shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be that portion of the principal amount
thereof that could be declared to be due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and
the continuation thereof pursuant to the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security as of the
date of such determination and (b) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed
not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned
which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to
the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and
that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of
the Company or of such other obligor.
“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company. The Company may act as
Paying Agent with respect to any Securities issued hereunder.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust,
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unincorporated organization, government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.
“Place of Payment,” when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or
places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series
are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
“Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Security of any series to be redeemed, means
the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption Price,” when used with respect to any Security of any series to be redeemed, means
the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
“Registered Security” means any Security issued hereunder and registered in the Security
Register.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities
of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1.
“Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee
in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
“Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more
particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
“Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section
3.5.
“Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company possessing assets
(including the assets of its own Subsidiaries but without regard to the Company or any other
Subsidiary) having a book value, in the aggregate, equal to not less than 10% of the book value of
the aggregate assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.
“Stated Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal
thereof or interest thereon, means the date
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specified in such Security as the fixed date
on which
the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
“Subsidiary” of any Person means (i) any Person of which more than 50% of the total voting
power of shares of capital stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to
vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled,
directly or indirectly, by any Person or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries of that Person
or a combination thereof, and (ii) any partnership, joint venture or other Person in which such
Person or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof has
the power to control by contract or otherwise the board of directors or equivalent governing body
or otherwise controls such entity.
“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in force at the
date as of which this Indenture was executed; provided, however, that in the event that such Act is
amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to
the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
“U.S. Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in
whole or in part in the form of one or more permanent global Securities, the
Person designated as U.S. Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1, which must be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act until a successor U.S. Depositary shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “U.S.
Depositary” shall mean or include each Person who is then a U.S. Depositary hereunder, and if at
any time there is more than one such Person, “U.S. Depositary” shall mean the U.S. Depositary with
respect to the Securities of that series.
“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United
States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations
of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United
States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and
credit of the United States of America which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof or otherwise subject to prepayment, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a New York Clearing House bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment or interest on or principal of
any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a
depository receipt, provided that
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(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to
make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt or from any
amount held by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment
of interest on or principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.
“Vice President,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title
“vice president”.
§ 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any
provision of this Indenture, other than an action permitted by Sections 2.5 and 7.4 hereof, the
Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such
application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
§ 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by
the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document,
but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to
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some matters and one or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to
such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Officer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters,
upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer knows, or in
the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such
certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers of the Company stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company,
unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
§ 1.4. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one
or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is
hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the
Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or
of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or
other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution
is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may
also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
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(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the
Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every
Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company
in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the
Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such
record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be
deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the
Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such
authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective
unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six
months after the record date.
§ 1.5. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or
filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee and received by the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in
the first paragraph of this Indenture, attention: Secretary, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
§ 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice
shall be deemed sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Security expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at
his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier
than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of
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such notice. In any case where notice to
Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so
mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other
Holders or the validity of the proceedings to which such notice relates. Where this Indenture or
any Security provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with
the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver required or permitted
under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may be in
an official language of the country of publication.
§ 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such
required provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any
provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision
shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or shall be excluded, as the case may be.
§ 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
§ 1.9. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
§ 1.10. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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§ 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
§ 1.12. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws (other than the choice of law provisions) of the State of New York.
§ 1.13. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any
Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if
any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day or on such other day as may be set out in the Officer’s Certificate pursuant to
Section 3.1 at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue
for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as
the case may be.
§ 1.14. No Recourse Against Others.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any
liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any
claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Security
holder, by accepting a Security, waives and releases all such
liability. Such waivers and releases are part of the consideration for the issuance of the
Securities.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
§ 2
§ 2.1. Forms Generally.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or
in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and
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such legends or endorsements placed
thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by
their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall
be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee
at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 for the authentication
and delivery of such Securities.
The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in
this Article.
The definitive Securities shall be photocopied, printed, lithographed or engraved on steel
engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers
executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
§ 2.2. Form of Face of Security.
(If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert—FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 1272
OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), THE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE
DISCOUNT (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1273 (a) (1) OF THE CODE AND TREASURY REGULATION SECTION
1.1273-l(a) WITH RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY IS , THE ISSUE PRICE (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY
REGULATION SECTION 1.1273-2) OF THIS SECURITY IS , THE ISSUE DATE (AS DEFINED IN SECTION
1275(a)(2) OF THE CODE AND TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.1273-2) OF THIS SECURITY IS AND
THE YIELD TO MATURITY OF THIS SECURITY IS ).
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No. | ($) |
Kennametal Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under
the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to , or
registered assigns, the principal sum of $ on . (If the Security is to bear
interest prior to Maturity, insert —, and to pay interest thereon from or from the
most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
(semi-annually) (quarterly) (monthly) in arrears on and in each year,
commencing _, at the rate of % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment (If applicable insert—, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of % per annum on any overdue principal and
premium and on any overdue installment of interest). The interest so payable, and punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the of
(whether or not a Business Day), as the case maybe, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any
such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.)
(If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert—The principal of this
Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon
acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this
Security shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in
payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for. Interest on any
overdue principal shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on any overdue principal that is
not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such
demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and
such interest shall also be payable on demand.)
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Payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and (if applicable, insert—any such)
interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose in , in Dollars (if applicable, insert—; provided, however, that at the option of
the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register).
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at
this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to
on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its
corporate seal.
Dated: | Kennametal Inc. | |||||||||
By: | ||||||||||
Attest: |
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(SEAL) |
§ 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called
the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as
of , 20 (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and
(herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee
under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the
series designated on the face hereof (limited in aggregate principal amount to $ ). (If
applicable, insert—The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30
nor more than 45 days’ notice by first class mail, (if applicable, insert—(1) on in any
year commencing with the year and ending with the year through operation of the
sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2))
at any time (on or after ,), as a whole or in part, at the election
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of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount):
If redeemed (on or before , %, and if redeemed) during the 12-month period
beginning of the years indicated, Year Redemption Price
Year
Redemption Price and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of
the sinking fund or otherwise)) with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable
to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.)
(If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not
less than 30 nor more than 45 days’ notice by first class mail, (1) on in any year
commencing with the year and ending with the year through operation of the sinking fund for
this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any
time (on or after ), as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the
Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as
percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below:
If redeemed during a 12-month period beginning of the years indicated, Redemption
Price for Redemption Price for Redemption Through Redemption Otherwise Operation of the Than
Through Operation Year Sinking Fund of the Sinking Fund and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal
to % of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through
operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption
Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at
the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided
in the Indenture.)
(Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to redeem any Securities of
this series as contemplated by (clause (2) of) the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in
anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys
borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted
financial practice) of less than % per annum.)
(The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on in each year beginning with
the year and ending with the year of (not less than) $ ((“mandatory sinking
fund”) and not more than $ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series.) (Securities of
this series acquired or redeemed by the
Company otherwise than through (mandatory) sinking fund payments may be credited
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against
subsequent (mandatory) sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made—in the (inverse) order
in which they become due.)
(In the event of redemption of this Security in part only a new Security or Securities of this
series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the
cancellation hereof.)
(If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If any Event of Default
with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the
Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.) (If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If
an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an
amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner
and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal — insert formula for
determining the amount.) Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that
the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in
respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series
shall terminate.
This Security is a senior unsecured obligation of the Company and will rank pari passu in
right of payment with all other senior unsecured obligations of the Company.
This Security is subject to Defeasance as described in the Indenture. The Indenture may be
modified by the Company and the Trustee without consent of any Holder with respect to certain
matters as described in the Indenture. In addition, the Indenture permits, with certain exceptions
as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the
Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of
such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and
certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the Holder of this Security shall bind such Holder and all future Holders of this Security and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture
shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay
the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate,
and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security
for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the
same Stated Maturity and aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of ($1,000) and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a
like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be
overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company to, among other
things, merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell, assign, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of its properties or assets (If other covenants are applicable pursuant to the
provisions of Section 3.1, insert here). All such covenants and limitations are subject to a
number of important qualifications and exceptions. The Company must report periodically to the
Trustee on compliance with the covenants in the Indenture.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any
liability for any obligations of the Company under this Security or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by
accepting a Security, waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of
the consideration for the issuance of this Security.
(If applicable, insert — Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures (“CUSIP”), the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on
the Securities of this series as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities of this series. No
representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Securities of this series and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.)
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All capitalized terms used in this Security without definition which are defined in the
Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Security, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this
Security to
and irrevocably appoint
agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another
to act for him.
Dated: |
Your Signature: | |
Signature Guaranty: |
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Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number:
§ 2.4. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
as Trustee | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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§ 2.5. Securities in Global Form.
If Securities of a series are issuable in global form, as contemplated by Section 3.1, then,
notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.2, any such Security shall represent such of the
Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall
represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be
reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount,
or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be
made in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified
therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3 or Section
3.4. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.3 and, if applicable, Section 3.4, the Trustee shall
deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions
given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company
Order pursuant to Section 3.3 or 3.4 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by
the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form
shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion
of Counsel.
The provisions of Section 3.9 shall apply to any Security represented by a Security in global
form if such Security was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the
Trustee the Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with
Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in
the principal amount of Securities represented thereby.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 2.1 and 3.7, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1, payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on any Security
in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.8 and except as provided in the preceding
paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee shall treat a
Person as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent
global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Holder of such permanent global
Security.
§ 2.6. CUSIP Number.
The Company in issuing Securities of any series may use a “CUSIP” number, and, if so, the
Trustee may use the CUSIP number in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders
of such series; provided, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number printed on the notice or on the Securities of such
series, and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Securities, and any such redemption shall not
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be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP number of any series of Securities.
§ 2.7. Form of Legend for the Securities in Global Form.
Any Security in global form authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in
substantially the following form:
“This Security is in global form within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to
and is registered in the name of a Common Depositary or a U.S. Depositary. Unless and until it is
exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in certificated form, this Security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Common Depositary or a U.S. Depositary or by a nominee of the
Common Depositary or a nominee of the U.S. Depositary as the case may be.”
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
§ 3.
§ 3.1. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of
any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the
series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series
pursuant to Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6 or 11.7);
(3) whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in permanent global form with or
without coupons and, if so, (i) whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global
security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if
other than in the manner provided in Section 3.5, and (ii) the name of the Common Depositary (as
defined in Section 3.4) or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be, with respect to any global
security;
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(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest (including
reset rates, if any, and the method by which such rate will be determined), if any, the date or
dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest
shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
and, if applicable to such series of Securities, the basis points and United States Treasury
rate(s) and any other rates or other methods to be used in calculating the reset rate;
(6) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
Securities of the series shall be payable and where the Company will maintain an office or agency
where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange and the place or places
where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of Securities and the Indenture may be
made;
(7) the right of the Company, if any, to defer any payment of principal of, premium, or
interest on the Securities of the series, and the maximum length of any such deferral period which
shall not exceed the Stated Maturity for the final installment of principal on the Securities of
such series;
(8) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which the currency or currency
units and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or
in part, at the option of the Company, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(9) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase Securities of the series
pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currency units and
the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in
whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation, and, where applicable, the obligation of the Company
to select the Securities to be redeemed;
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the
denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(11) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of
Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.2;
(12) any additions, modifications or deletions in the Events of Default with respect to
Securities of the series, if any, other than those set forth herein;
(13) if either or both of Section 13.2 and Section 13.3 shall be inapplicable to the
Securities of the series (provided that if no such inapplicability shall
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be specified, then both Section 13.2 and Section 13.3 shall be applicable to the Securities of
the series);
(14) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies or units based on or related to
currencies in which the Securities of such series shall be denominated and in which payments or
principal of, and any premium and interest on, such Securities shall or may by payable;
(15) additions, modifications or deletions of the Company’s covenants with respect to
Securities of the series, if any, other than those set forth herein;
(16) any index or indices used to determine the amount of payments of principal of any
premium, if any, on such securities and the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(17) if other than the Trustee, the identity of the Registrar and any Paying Agent;
(18) the appointment of a Person as a Trustee which meets the requirements of Section 6.9 with
respect to Securities of the series;
(19) any index or indices used to determine the amounts of payments of principal of an
premium, if any, on the Securities and the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(20) the terms and conditions of any obligation or right of the Company or a Holder to
exchange or convert Securities into other securities;
(21) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions
of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination
and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in
such Officer’s Certificate or in any such Indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of
the Officer’s Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner for determining, the terms of the
Securities of such series.
§ 3.2. Denominations.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in such
denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 3.1. In the absence
of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities
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of such
series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
§ 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its
Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal
reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of
any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. The seal of the Company may be
in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced
on the Securities. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of the
seal or any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any security that has
been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the
proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any
of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and make such
Securities available for delivery. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been
established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1,
in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this
Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to
Sections 315(a) through (d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as
permitted by Section 2.1, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of
this Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution
as permitted by Section 3.1, that such terms have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by the
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effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law); and
(d) that no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with
any court or any governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company is required for
the execution and delivery of such Securities by the Company, except such as have been obtained
(except that no opinion need be expressed as to state securities or Blue Sky laws).
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to
authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect
the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise
in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, or in the written opinion of counsel
to the Trustee (which counsel may be an employee of the Trustee) such authentication may not
lawfully be made or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the immediately preceding paragraph, if
all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary
to deliver the Officer’s Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Company
Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph at
or prior to the time of authentication of each security of such series if such documents are
delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first security of such
series to be issued.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.1 that the Securities of a series are to
be issued in the form of one or more global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect to the
authentication and delivery of such series, authenticate and deliver one or more global Securities
that (i) shall be in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate principal amount specified in such
Company Order, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Common Depositary or U.S. Depositary, as
the case may be, therefor or its nominee, and (iii) shall be made available for delivery by the
Trustee to such depositary or pursuant to such depositary’s instruction.
Each depositary designated pursuant to Section 3.1 must, at the time of its designation and at
all times while it serves as depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and
any other applicable statute or regulation.
Unless otherwise provided for in the form of security, each security shall be dated the date
of its authentication.
No security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose unless there appears on such security a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate
upon any security shall be conclusive evidence,
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and the only evidence, that such security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and
is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
§ 3.4. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and
upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary
Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which
they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form,
representing all or a portion of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3.5), if temporary Securities of any series are issued,
the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the
temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment
for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor. Until so exchanged,
the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form, any such temporary global
Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered to the office of a depositary or
common depositary (the “COMMON DEPOSITARY”) for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial
owners of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may direct).
§ 3.5. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register
(the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place
of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of registration of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby
appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of
Securities as herein provided.
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Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any security of any series at the office or
agency of the Company in Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of
the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and
Stated Maturity, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities which the Holder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1,
any permanent global security shall be exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If the
beneficial owners of interests in a permanent global security are entitled to exchange such
interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another
authorized form and denomination, as specified and as subject to the conditions contemplated by
Section 3.1, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on
which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive
Securities of that series in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
permanent global security, executed by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Securities shall be surrendered from time to
time by the Common Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be, and in accordance with
instructions given to the Trustee and the Common Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may
be (which instructions shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 1.2 or be accompanied
by an Opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the
Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for
definitive Securities of the same series without charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery, in exchange for each portion of such surrendered permanent global security,
a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such permanent global security to be exchanged
which shall be in the form of the Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such
exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of
the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under
Section 11.3 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing. Promptly following
any such exchange in part, such permanent global Security shall be returned by the Trustee to the
Common Depositary or the U.S. Depositary, as the case may be, or such other Common Depositary or
U.S. Depositary referred to above in accordance with the written instructions of the Company
referred to above. If a Security in the form specified for such series is issued in exchange for
any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at the office or agency
where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
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business at
such office or agency on the relevant Interest
Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such
office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the
case may be, such interest or Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date
or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such security in the form specified
for such series, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as
the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent
global Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid obligation, of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if
so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly
executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Securities to be transferred or exchanged, no service charge
shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 9.6 or 11.7 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange
Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the
day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption
under Section 11.3 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
except the unredeemed portion of any security being redeemed in part.
§ 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and
of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction
of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such
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Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to
become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay
such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected
therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all
other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Securities.
§ 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date shall be paid at the Place of Payment to the Person in whose name that
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest, except that at the option of the Company payment may be made
(i) except in the case of a global Security by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address appears in the Securities Registrar or (ii) by transfer to an account
maintained by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities Registrar provided that
proper transfer instructions have been received by the Regular Record Date.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose
names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at
the close of business on a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.
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The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Section
3.7 provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date
of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of
the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date
and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the Security
Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment
of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Section 3.7,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this
Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such
other Security.
§ 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is
registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest on such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or
payments made on account of beneficial ownership interest of a Security in global form, or for
maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial
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ownership interest.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Security in global form, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company or the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any U.S. Depositary or Common
Depositary (or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Security in global form or impair,
as between such U.S. Depositary or Common Depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such
Security in global form, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the right
of such U.S. Depositary or Common Depositary (or its nominee) as holder of such Security in global
form.
§ 3.9. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or
for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any
time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities shall be held by the Trustee and may be
destroyed (and, if so destroyed, certification of their destruction shall be delivered to the
Company upon its request, unless, by a Company Order, the Company shall direct that cancelled
Securities be returned to it).
§ 3.10. Computation of Interest.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series,
interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
§ 4.
§ 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for or in the form of
Security for such series), when the Trustee, upon Company Request and at the expense of the
Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
(1) either
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(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which
have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6
and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated
and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such
trust, as provided in Section 10.8) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of
the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on
such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company;
and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the
Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating
Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and
the last paragraph of Section 10.8 shall survive.
§ 4.2. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.8, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the
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principal
(and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received
by the Trustee.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
§ 5.
§ 5.1. Events of Default.
“EVENT OF DEFAULT,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or to be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree
or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of interest or any sinking fund payment on any
Security of that series when such interest becomes due and payable and the default continues for a
period of 60 days; provided, however, that if the Company is permitted by the terms of the
Securities of the applicable series to defer the payment in question, the date on which such
payment is due and payable shall be the date on which the Company is required to make payment
following such deferral, if such deferral has been elected pursuant to the terms of the Securities;
or
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security of that series when the same becomes due and payable at Maturity, upon redemption
(including redemptions under Article 11), by declaration or otherwise; provided, however, that if
the Company is permitted by the terms of the Securities of the applicable series to defer the
payment in question, the date on which such payment is due and payable shall be the date on which
the Company is required to make payment following such deferral, if such deferral has been elected
pursuant to the terms of the Securities; or
(3) the Company fails to observe or perform in any material respect any of its other
covenants, warranties or agreements in the Securities of that series or in this Indenture (other
than a covenant, agreement or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere
in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture
solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and the failure to observe
or perform continues for the period and after the notice specified in the last paragraph of this
Section; or
(4) any event of default, as defined in any other indenture, mortgage, or instrument under
which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any Indebtedness of the
Company (whether such Indebtedness now exists or
shall hereafter be created or incurred) shall occur and shall consist of default in the
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payment of such Indebtedness at the maturity thereof (after giving effect to any applicable grace
period) or shall result in Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the
date on which it would otherwise become due and payable, and such default in payment is not cured
or such acceleration shall not be rescinded or annulled within 30 days after written notice to the
Company from the Trustee or to the Company and to the Trustee from the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series at the time outstanding; provided that
it shall not be an Event of Default if the principal amount of Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness represented by Securities issued pursuant to this Indenture) which is not paid at
maturity or the maturity of which is accelerated is less than or equal to $25 million provided
further that if, prior to a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the Securities of that
series or the entry of judgment in favor of the Trustee in a suit pursuant to Section 5.3, such
default shall be remedied or cured by the Company or waived by the holders of such Indebtedness,
then the Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been
thereupon remedied, cured or waived without further action upon the part of either the Trustee or
any of the Holders of the Securities of that series, and provided further, that, subject to
Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any such default unless
written notice of such default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company, by a holder or
an agent of a holder of any such Indebtedness, by the trustee then acting under any indenture or
other instrument under which such default shall have occurred, or by the Holders of at least five
percent in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series at the time Outstanding; or
(5) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law (A) commences a
voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to itself, (B) consents to the
entry of a judgment, decree or order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding
under any Bankruptcy Law, (C) consents to or acquiesces in the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, (D) applies for, consents to or acquiesces in the appointment of
or taking possession by a Custodian of the Company or for any material part of its property, (E)
makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (F) takes any corporate action in
furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or otherwise, any of the foregoing; or
(6) (i) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or order for relief in
respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law which shall
(A) approve as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition in respect of the Company, (B) appoint a Custodian of the Company or for any material
part of its property, or (C) order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, and such judgment,
decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or (ii)
any bankruptcy or insolvency petition or application is filed, or any bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding is commenced against the Company and such petition, application or proceeding is not
dismissed within 60 days; or (iii) a warrant of attachment is issued against any material portion
of the property of the Company which is not released within 60 days of service; or
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(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
A Default under clause (3) above is not an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series notify
the Company of the Default and the Company does not cure the Default within 90 days after receipt
of the notice. The notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that the
notice is a “Notice of Default.” When a Default under clause (3) above is cured within such 90-day
period, it ceases.
§ 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series (other than an Event of
Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.1) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by
notice in writing to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series by notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee, may
declare the unpaid principal of and accrued interest to the date of acceleration (or, if the
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) on all the Outstanding Securities of that
series to be due and payable immediately and, upon any such declaration, the Outstanding Securities
of that series (or specified principal amount) shall become and be immediately due and payable.
If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.1 occurs, all unpaid
principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series (or specified
principal amount) shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of that series.
Upon payment of all such principal and interest, all of the Company’s obligations under the
Securities of that series and (upon payment of the Securities of all series) this Indenture shall
terminate, except obligations under Section 6.7.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series by
notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration and its consequences if (i) all existing Events
of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal and interest of the Securities of that
series that has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived,
(ii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of
interest and overdue principal that has become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration have been paid, (iii) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of
a court of competent jurisdiction and (iv) all payments due to the Trustee and any predecessor
Trustee under Section 6.7 have been made.
§ 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if:
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(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security of any series when such
interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security
of any series at the Maturity thereof, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for
the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and
on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the reasonable costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of
the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein,
or to secure any other proper remedy.
§ 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other
obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective
of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any) and
interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim
for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
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and advances of the Trustee, its agent and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the
making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to
or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
§ 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and
enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof
in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in
respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
§ 5.6. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of the Securities of
any series shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest,
upon presentation of the Securities in respect of which moneys have been collected and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7 applicable to such
series;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Securities of such series in respect of which or for the benefit of which
such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on such Securities of such series for principal (and premium, if any)
and interest, respectively; and
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Third: To the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this
Section 5.6. At least fifteen (15) days before such record date, the Trustee shall mail to each
Holder and the Company a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be
paid.
§ 5.7. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or
trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity
has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during
such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series; it being understood and intended that no one or more of Holders of Securities of
any series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such
Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or
to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal
and ratable benefit of all Holders of Securities of the affected series.
§ 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest. |
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired
without the consent of such Holder.
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§ 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has
been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to
any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and
remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding has been
instituted.
§ 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of
any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
§ 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right
or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by
this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
§ 5.12. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with
respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not
inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to Section 6.1, the Trustee need not take any action which might involve the
Trustee in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders not joining therein.
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§ 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series may by written notice to the Trustee on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of
such series waive any Default or Event of Default with respect to such series and its consequences,
except a Default or Event of Default
(1) in respect of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or other provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series
affected.
(3) Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of Default shall cease to exist and shall be
deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture and the Securities of such series;
but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
§ 5.14. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit
of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company,
to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders,
holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
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§ 6.
§ 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee’s duties and
responsibilities under this Indenture shall be governed by Section 3.15(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and is known to the Trustee,
the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and shall use the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) None of the provisions of Section 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be excluded from
this Indenture.
§ 6.2. Notice of Defaults.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give to all Holders of Securities of such series, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default or Event of
Default known to the Trustee, unless such Default or Event of Default shall have been cured or
waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in the payment
of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee
shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the
executive committee or directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine
that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series.
§ 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced
by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or
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omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith
on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion
of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in
it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity to its reasonable
satisfaction against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in
compliance with such request or direction;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any
series and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default which may have occurred, the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, approval or other paper or document, or the books and records of the Company,
unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable
time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making
of such investigation is not, in the opinion of the Trustee, reasonably assured to the Trustee by
the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to so proceeding; the
reasonable expense of every such investigation shall be paid by the Company or, if paid by the
Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with
due care by it hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(i) except in connection with compliance with Section 310 or Section 311 of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Trustee shall only be charged with knowledge of Responsible Officers.
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§ 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee or any
Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
§ 6.5. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities and, subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar
or such other agent.
§ 6.6. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder (including amounts held by the Trustee as Paying
Agent) need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed upon in writing with the Company.
§ 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered
by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the
compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request
for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability,
damage, claim or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon or determined or measured by
the income of the Trustee), incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out
of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its
powers or duties hereunder.
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When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1(5) or Section 5.1(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and
expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses
of administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law.
The provisions of this Section 6.7 shall survive this Indenture and the resignation or removal
of any Trustee hereunder.
§ 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee shall be disqualified only where such disqualification is required by Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the
Commission the application referred to in the second to last paragraph of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
§ 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee
under Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $5,000,000 subject to supervision or examination by federal or State authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. Neither the Company nor
any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the
Company may serve as Trustee. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article.
§ 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by
giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
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(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months; or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign after
written request here for by the Company or by any such Holder of a Security who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months; or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent
or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect
to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder who has
been a bona fide Holder of a security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the
Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees
with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and
that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year
after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company
and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance
of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company with respect to such Securities. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or
the Holders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
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(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
§ 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor or Additional Trustees.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring
Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a Trustee or a successor with respect to the
Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, any retiring Trustee and each Trustee
or a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and
deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each Trustee or a successor Trustee shall accept
such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each Trustee or a successor Trustee all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of any retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such Trustee or a successor Trustee relates, (2) if any retiring
Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be
deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of any
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which any retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in any retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to
or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood
that nothing herein or in such supplemental Indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of
the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate
and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the
execution and delivery of such
supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such Trustee or a successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of any retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such Trustee or a successor Trustee relates; but,
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on request of the Company or any
Trustee or a successor Trustee, any such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver
to such Trustee or a successor Trustee all property and money held by any such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of any
such Trustee or successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all
such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may
be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under the Trust Indenture Act.
§ 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which
the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In
case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in
office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may
adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if
such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
§ 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, excluding any
creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. A Trustee who has
resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the
extent indicated therein.
§ 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee may appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of, and subject to the direction of, the
Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.6, and Securities so authenticated
shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
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include authentication and
delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of
not less than $5,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or State authority.
If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If
at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate
agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee
and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by
giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names
and addresses appear in the security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance
of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No
successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this
Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:
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Form of Authenticating Agent’s
Certificate of Authentication
Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
As Trustee | ||||||
By: | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
§ 7.
§ 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than January 1 and July 1 in each year, a list, in such form as
the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of the preceding
December 15 or June 15, as the case may be; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the
receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not
more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the
Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished; provided,
however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to
be furnished.
§ 7.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names
and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.1
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as “applicants”) apply in writing to the
Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security
for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application
states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or
other communication which such applicants propose to transmit then the Trustee shall, within five
Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 7.2(a); or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders whose names and addresses
appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.2(a),
and as to the approximate cost of mailing to
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such Holders the form of proxy or other communication,
if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information, the
Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to each Holder whose name and
address appears in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
7.2(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or
provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after
such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a
copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders or would be in
violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If
the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written
statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after
the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all objections so sustained have been met and shall enter
an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Holders with
reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the
Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and
the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of
the Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which such information
was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material
pursuant to a request made under Section 7.2(b).
§ 7.3. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after 15 of each year commencing with the year 20___, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act, a brief report dated as of 15, if required by and in compliance with Section
313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by
the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and
with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
§ 7.4. Reports by Company.
The Company shall:
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(1) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is required to file the same with
the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the
Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
or, if the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of
said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act
in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be
prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports
with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as
may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations;
(3) furnish to the Trustee, on or before May 1 of each year, a brief certificate from the
principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his
or her knowledge of the Company’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this
Indenture. For purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without regard to
any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Indenture. Such certificate need
not comply with Section 1.2.
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, LEASE, SALE OR TRANSFER
§ 8.
§ 8.1. When Company May Merge, Etc.
The Company shall not consolidate, or merge with or into any other corporation (whether or not
the Company shall be the surviving corporation), or sell, assign, transfer or lease or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as
an entirety to any Person or group of affiliated Persons, in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, unless:
(1) either the Company shall be the continuing Person or the Person (if other than the
Company) formed by such consolidation or with which or into which the Company is merged or the
Person (or group of affiliated Persons) to which all or substantially all the properties and assets
of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety are sold, assigned, transferred or
leased shall be a corporation, partnership or trust or other entity organized and existing under
the laws of the United States of
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America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, all the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and
(2) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or series of related
transactions, no Event of Default, and no Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of
time or both, would become and Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.
§ 8.2. Opinion of Counsel.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the proposed transaction(s) covered by
Section 8.1 an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the transaction(s) and
such supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the
consummation of the transaction(s) under this Indenture have been met.
§ 8.3. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company into an other corporation
or any lease, sale, assignment, or transfer of all or substantially all of the property and assets
of the Company in accordance with Section 8.1, the successor corporation formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the successor corporation or affiliated group
of corporations to which such lease, sale, assignment, or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor corporation or corporations had been named as the Company
herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor corporation or corporations
shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and in
the event of such conveyance or transfer, except in the case of a lease, any such predecessor
corporation may be dissolved and liquidated.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
§ 9.
§ 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without notice to or the consent of any Holders of a series of Securities, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of
the following purposes:
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(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company and the assumption by any
such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series
of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or any series of Securities;
or
(4) to add or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be
necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not
registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture, provided that any such
change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any
series created prior to the execution of such supplemental Indenture which is entitled to the
benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.1
and 3.1; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a Trustee or a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any
of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of
Section 6.11(b); or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency or to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein; or
(10) to make any change that does not materially adversely affect the interests of the Holders
of Securities of such series; or
(11) to qualify, or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.
Upon request of the Company, accompanied by a Board Resolution authorizing the execution of
any such supplemental indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in (and
subject to the last sentence of) Section 9.3, the Trustee shall
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join with the Company in the execution of any supplemental indenture authorized or permitted
by the terms of this Indenture.
§ 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
shall, subject to Section 9.3, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such
series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or
interest on, any security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon
or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or extend the time for payment thereof, or
reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount security that would be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or
change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any security or any premium or
the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after
the Redemption Date);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the
consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
Defaults or Events of Default hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture; or
(3) change the redemption provisions (including Article Eleven) hereof in a manner adverse to
such Holder; or
(4) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 5.13, except to increase any such
percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided,
however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to
changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section, or the deletion
of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 6.11(b) and 9.1(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provisions of this
Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series
of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with
respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be
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deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other
series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular
form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve
the substance thereof.
§ 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
The Trustee shall sign any supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article, subject
to the last sentence of this Section 9.3. In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created
by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1)
shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
§ 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental Indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated
and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
§ 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
§ 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in
form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by
the Company and authenticate and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of
such series.
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ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
§ 10.
§ 10.1. Payments of Securities.
With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will duly and punctually pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities in accordance with their terms
and this Indenture, and will duly comply with all the other terms, agreements and conditions
contained in, or made in the Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.
§ 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment where Securities may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment, where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the Trustee
as set forth in Section 1.5 hereof.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where
the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to
time rescind such designations. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
Unless otherwise set forth in, or pursuant to, a Board Resolution or indenture supplemental
hereto with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby initially designates the
Corporate Trust Office as such office of the Company.
§ 10.3. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 8 hereof, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and that of each of its
Subsidiaries and the rights (charter and statutory) of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided,
however, that (a) the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or
franchise or the corporate existence of any of its Subsidiaries if the Board of Directors, or the
board of directors of the Subsidiary concerned, as the case may be, shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries and that the loss thereof is not materially disadvantageous to the Holders, and
(b) nothing herein contained shall prevent any Subsidiary of the Company from liquidating or
dissolving, or merging into, or consolidating with the Company (provided that the Company shall be
the continuing or
surviving corporation) or with any one or more Subsidiaries if the Board of Directors or
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the
board of directors of the Subsidiary concerned, as the case may be, shall so determine.
§ 10.4. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall
become delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed
upon the Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any
Subsidiary material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and (2) all lawful claims
for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a material lien upon the
property of the Company or any Subsidiary material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be
paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or
validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate
provision has been made.
§ 10.5. Compliance Certificates.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 10 days after the occurrence thereof,
notice of any acceleration which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would be an Event
of Default within the meaning of Section 5.1(4) hereof.
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee forthwith upon becoming aware of a Default or
Event of Default (but in no event later than 10 days after the occurrence of each Default or Event
of Default that is continuing), an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Default
or Event of Default and the action that the Company proposes to take with respect thereto and the
specific section or sections of this Indenture in connection with which such Default or Event of
Default has occurred.
§ 10.6. Commission Reports.
(a) So long as the Securities remain outstanding, the Company shall cause its annual report to
shareholders and any other financial reports furnished by it to shareholders generally, to be
mailed to the Holders at their addresses appearing in the register of Securities maintained by the
Security Registrar in each case at the time of such mailing or furnishing to shareholders. If the
Company is not required to furnish annual reports to its shareholders pursuant to the Exchange Act,
the Company shall cause its financial statements, including any notes thereto and, with respect to
annual reports, an auditors’ report by an accounting firm of established national reputation and a
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” to be so
filed with the Trustee and mailed to the Holders within 90 days after the end of each of the
Company’s fiscal years and within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each
fiscal year.
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(b) The Company shall provide the Trustee with a sufficient number of copies of all reports
and other documents and information that the Company may be required to deliver to the Holders
under this Section 10.6.
§ 10.7. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time
insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will actively resist any and all
efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury
law or other law, which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the
principal of and/or interest on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all
benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
§ 10.8. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any
Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and
premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure to so act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities (other than the Trustee)
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
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(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or
interest on the Securities of that series; and
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay,
to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in
trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any security of any
series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof unless any abandoned
property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee of such Paying Agent, before being required to make any
such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in New York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
§ 11.
§ 11.1. Applicability of Article.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable
in accordance with their terms in whole or in part (provided Securities issued in denominations
larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part only in integral multiples of
$1,000) and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of
any series) in accordance with this Article.
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§ 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution.
In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any
series, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the
case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption
provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
the Trustee with an Officer’s Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
§ 11.3. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to
be redeemed shall be selected not more than 90 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee,
from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, substantially
pro rata, by lot or by any other method as the Trustee considers fair and appropriate and that
complies with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such
Securities are listed, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to
the lesser of the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or $50 per
Security, and any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series
of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series;
provided that in case the Securities of such series have different terms and maturities, the
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company and the Company shall give notice
thereof to the Trustee.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of the Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed
or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has
been or is to be redeemed.
§ 11.4. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed,
at this address appearing in the security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
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(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular
Securities to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each
such security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and
after said date;
(5) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price;
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;
(7) the CUSIP number, if any, of the Securities to be redeemed; and
(8) unless otherwise provided as to a particular series of Securities, if at the time of
publication or mailing of any notice of redemption the Company shall not have deposited with the
Trustee or Paying Agent and/or irrevocably directed the Trustee or Paying Agent to apply, from
money held by it available to be used for the redemption of Securities, an amount in cash
sufficient to redeem all of the Securities called for redemption, including accrued interest to the
Redemption Date, such notice shall state that it is subject to the receipt of the redemption moneys
by the Trustee or Paying Agent before the Redemption Date (unless such redemption is mandatory) and
such notice shall be of no effect unless such moneys are so received before such date.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be
given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of
the Company.
§ 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.98) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and
(except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
§ 11.6. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall,
on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from
and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to
bear interest. Upon surrender of any such security for redemption in accordance with said
notice, such security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together
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with accrued
interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant
Regular or Special Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Redemption Date at the rate prescribed in the Security.
§ 11.7. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at an office or agency
of the Company at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and Stated
Maturity, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount
equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the security so
surrendered.
ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
§ 12.
§ 12.1. Applicability of Article.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities
of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series is herein referred to as a “Mandatory Sinking Fund Payment,” and any payment in excess of
such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as
an “Optional Sinking Fund Payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to redemption as provided in Section 12.2.
Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as
provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.
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§ 12.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Securities of a series (other than any Securities previously
called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been (i)
previously cancelled pursuant to Section 3.9 or delivered for cancellation or (ii) redeemed either
at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application
of permitted Optional Sinking Fund Payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case
in satisfaction of all or any part of any Mandatory Sinking Fund Payment with respect to the
Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided
for by the terms of such series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so
credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited at the principal amount for such purpose
by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such Mandatory Sinking Fund Payment shall be
reduced accordingly.
§ 12.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities,
the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next
ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which
is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 12.2
and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days
before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed
upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner
provided in Section 11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities
shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.6 and 11.7.
ARTICLE 13
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
§ 13.
§ 13.1. Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance.
Unless pursuant to Section 3.1 provision is made for the inapplicability of either or both of
(a) Defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 13.2 or (b) Covenant Defeasance of the
Securities of a series under Section 13.3, then the provisions of such Section or Sections, as the
case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article, shall be applicable to the
Securities of such series, and the Company may at its option by
Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Securities of such series, elect to have
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either Section 13.2 (unless inapplicable) or Section 13.3 (unless inapplicable) be applied to the
Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the applicable conditions set forth
below in this Article.
§ 13.2. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 13.1 to defease the Outstanding
Securities of a particular series, the Company shall be discharged from its obligations with
respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the date the applicable conditions set
forth in Section 13.4 are satisfied (hereinafter, “Defeasance”). Defeasance shall mean that the
Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the
Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such
Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same); provided,
however, that the following rights, obligations, powers, trusts, duties and immunities shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of
Outstanding Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund provided for in
Section 13.4, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such
Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to such
Securities under Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 10.1, 10.2 and 10.8, (C) the rights, powers, trusts,
duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with
this Article, the Company may exercise its option with respect to Defeasance under this Section
13.2 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option with respect to Covenant Defeasance under
Section 13.3 in regard to the Securities of such series.
§ 13.3. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 13.1 to obtain a Covenant
Defeasance with respect to the Outstanding Securities of a particular series, the Company shall be
released from its obligations under this Indenture (except its obligations under Sections 3.4, 3.5,
3.6, 5.6, 5.9, 6.10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8) with respect to the Outstanding Securities of
such series on and after the date the applicable conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied
(hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”). Covenant Defeasance shall mean that, with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in this Indenture (except its
obligations under Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.6, 5.9, 6.10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8), whether
directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein or by reason of any reference to
any other provision herein or in any other document, and such omission to comply shall not
constitute an Event of Default under Section 5.1(4) with respect to Outstanding Securities of such
series, and the remainder of this Indenture and of the Securities of such series shall be
unaffected thereby.
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§ 13.4. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to Defeasance under Section 13.2 and Covenant Defeasance
under Section 13.3 with respect to the Outstanding Securities of a particular series:
(1) the Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited (and in the case of
Defeasance such deposit shall have been made 121 days prior to Defeasance with the Trustee (or
another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.9 who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it), under the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Trustee, as trust funds in trust for the purpose
of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to,
the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (A) Dollars in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government
Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms will provide, not later than the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, after payment of all federal, state
and local taxes or other charges or assessments in respect thereof payable by the Trustee, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by
the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium,
if any, on) and each installment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Outstanding Securities of such series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of
principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable
to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are due and payable
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities.
(2) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit,
and no Default or Event of Default under clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.1 hereof shall occur and be
continuing, at any time during the period ending on the 31st day after the date of such deposit (it
being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such
period).
(3) Such deposit, Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a
party or by which it is bound.
(4) In the case of an election with respect to Section 13.2, the Company shall have delivered
to the Trustee either (A) a ruling directed to the Trustee received from the Internal Revenue
Service to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and
will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times
as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred or (B) an Opinion of Counsel, based
on a
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ruling published by the Internal Revenue Service or on a change in the applicable federal
income tax law since the date of this Indenture, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series
will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such
Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred.
(5) In the case of an election with respect to Section 13.3, the Company shall have delivered
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel or a ruling directed to the Trustee received from the Internal
Revenue Service to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will
not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant
Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred.
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional
terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith
pursuant to Section 3.1.
(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either the Defeasance
under Section 13.2 or the Covenant Defeasance under Section 13.3 (as the case may be) have been
complied with.
§ 13.5. Deposited Money and Government Obligations To Be Held In Trust.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.8, all money and Government
Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying
trustee—collectively for purposes of this Section 13.5, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 13.4 in
respect of the Outstanding Securities of a particular series shall be held in trust and applied by
the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and
to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, but such money
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed
on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 13.4 or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof, other than any such tax, fee or other charge
which by law is for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver to pay to
the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or
Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 13.4 which, in the opinion of a
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nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required
to be deposited for the purpose for which such money or Government Obligations were deposited.
ARTICLE 14
MISCELLANEOUS
§ 14.
§ 14.1. Miscellaneous.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
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