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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST Series 1998-A
(Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. - Originator)
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 333-1245 38-3295857
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(State or other juris- (Commission File Number) (IRS Employer
diction of incorporation I.D. No.)
The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48121
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code 313-322-3000
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Item 5. Other Events
In connection with the issuance, by Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust
1998-A (the "Trust") of Asset Backed Securities pursuant to the Prospectus
dated February 17, 1998 and the Prospectus Supplement dated February 19, 1998
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to its Rule
424(b)(2), Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. is filing the exhibits listed
below to this Current Report on Form 8-K which are incorporated by reference
herein.
Item 7. Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits
EXHIBITS
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Filing
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Exhibit 4.1 Conformed copy of the Indenture Filed with
dated as of February 1, 1998 between this Report.
the Trust and Indenture Trustee.
Exhibit 4.2 Conformed copy of the Amended and Filed with
Restated Trust Agreement dated as this Report.
of February 1, 1998 between FCARTLP
and PNC Bank, Delaware.
Exhibit 8.1 Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Filed with
Meagher & Flom LLP with respect to this Report.
certain federal income tax matters.
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Filing
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Exhibit 8.2 Opinion of J. D. Bringard, General Filed with
Counsel of Ford Credit relating to this Report.
certain Michigan tax matters.
Exhibit 23.1 Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP (included as part
of Exhibit 8.1).
Exhibit 23.2 Consent of J.D. Bringard, General
Counsel of Ford Credit (included
as part of Exhibit 8.2).
Exhibit 99.1 Conformed copy of the Sale and Filed with
Servicing Agreement dated as of this Report.
February 1, 1998 among FCARTLP,
Ford Credit and the Trust.
Exhibit 99.2 Conformed copy of the Administration Filed with
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998 this Report.
among Ford Credit, as administrator,
the Indenture Trustee and the Trust.
Exhibit 99.3 Conformed copy of the Purchase Filed with
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998 this Report.
between Ford Credit and FCARTLP.
Exhibit 99.4 Appendix A - Defined Terms. Filed with
this Report.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized on the date indicated.
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P.
(Registrant)
By: Ford Credit Auto Receivables
Two, Inc., General Partner
Date: March 5, 1998 By:/s/R. P. Conrad
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Assistant Secretary
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit 4.1 Conformed copy of the Indenture
dated as of February 1, 1998 between
the Trust and Indenture Trustee.
Exhibit 4.2 Conformed copy of the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement dated as of
February 1, 1998 between FCARTLP and PNC
Bank, Delaware.
Exhibit 8.1 Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP with respect to
certain federal income tax matters.
Exhibit 8.2 Opinion of J. D. Bringard, General
Counsel of Ford Credit, relating to
certain Michigan tax matters.
Exhibit 23.1 Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP (included as part
of Exhibit 8.1).
Exhibit 23.2 Consent of J.D. Bringard, General
Counsel of Ford Credit (included
as part of Exhibit 8.2).
Exhibit 99.1 Conformed copy of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998
among FCARTLP, Ford Credit and the
Trust.
Exhibit 99.2 Conformed copy of the Administration
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998
among Ford Credit, as administrator,
the Indenture Trustee and the Trust.
Exhibit 99.3 Conformed copy of the Purchase Agreement
dated as of February 1, 1998 between
Ford Credit and FCARTLP.
Exhibit 99.4 Appendix A - Defined Terms.
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EXHIBIT 4.1
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INDENTURE
between
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A,
as Issuer
and
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of February 1, 1998
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE(1)
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TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310 (a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11
(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.10
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.(2)
(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8;6.11
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
311 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
312 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
313 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(b)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3
314 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1
315 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5;11.5
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13
316 (a) (last sentence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8
(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.11
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.12
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A
317 (a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3
318 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.7
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(1) Note: This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be part of this Indenture.
(2) N.A. means Not Applicable.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS, USAGE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE . . . . . . 3
SECTION 1.1. Definitions and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SECTION 1.2. Incorporation by Reference of Trust
Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SECTION 2.1. Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SECTION 2.2. Execution, Authentication and Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SECTION 2.3. Temporary Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.4. Tax Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SECTION 2.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange . . . . . 6
SECTION 2.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 2.7. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 2.8. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest . . . . 11
SECTION 2.9. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.10. Release of Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.11. Book-Entry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.12. Notices to Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 2.13. Definitive Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 2.14. Authenticating Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.3. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.4. Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 3.5. Protection of Indenture Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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SECTION 3.6. Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 3.7. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables . . . . . 23
SECTION 3.8. Negative Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 3.9. Annual Statement as to Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms . . . . . 27
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.17. Further Instruments and Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 3.18. Restricted Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 3.19. Notice of Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 3.20. Removal of Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 4.2. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of Notes . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 4.3. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 4.4. Repayment of Monies Held by Note Paying Agent . . . . . . . . 35
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 5.1. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . . . . . . 38
SECTION 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 5.4. Remedies; Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 5.5. Optional Preservation of the Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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SECTION 5.6. Limitation of Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 5.7. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and
Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.8. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.9. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.11. Control by Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 5.13. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.15. Action on Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations . . . . . . 50
ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 6.1. Duties of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 6.2. Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 6.3. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 6.4. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 6.5. Notice of Defaults; Insolvency or Dissolution of Depositor or
General Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 6.6. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 6.7. Compensation and Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 6.8. Replacement of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 6.9. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate
Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer . . . . . . . 62
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ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 7.1. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 7.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders . . 64
SECTION 7.3. Reports by Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 7.4. Reports by Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.1. Collection of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.2. Trust Accounts and Payahead Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 8.3. General Provisions Regarding
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 8.4. Release of Indenture Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 8.5. Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders . . . . 74
SECTION 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders . . . . . 76
SECTION 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SECTION 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SECTION 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SECTION 9.6. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . 79
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SECTION 10.1. Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SECTION 10.2. Form of Redemption Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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SECTION 10.3. Notes Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
SECTION 11.1. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. . . . . . . . . . 82
SECTION 11.2. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee . . . . . . 84
SECTION 11.3. Acts of Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
SECTION 11.4. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating
Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
SECTION 11.5. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION 11.6. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions . . . . . . . . . . 88
SECTION 11.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
SECTION 11.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.9. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.10. Separability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.11. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.12. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.13. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SECTION 11.14. Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SECTION 11.15. Recording of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SECTION 11.16. Trust Obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SECTION 11.17. No Petition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SECTION 11.18. Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
EXHIBIT A-1 FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1-1
EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2-1
EXHIBIT A-3 FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3-1
EXHIBIT A-4 FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4-1
EXHIBIT A-5 FORM OF CLASS B NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5-1
EXHIBIT B FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
EXHIBIT C FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1
SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SA-1
APPENDIX A Definitions and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AA-1
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INDENTURE, dated as of February 1, 1998, (as from time to time
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this "Indenture")
between FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A, a Delaware business trust, as
Issuer, and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a New York corporation, as trustee and
not in its individual capacity (in such capacity, the "Indenture Trustee").
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party
and for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Issuer's Class A-1
5.545% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed
Notes (the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class
A-3 Notes"), Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes,
the "Class A Notes") and Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes"
and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"):
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing
Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders, all of the
Issuer's right, title and interest in, to and under, whether now owned or
existing or hereafter acquired or arising, (a) the Receivables; (b) with
respect to Precomputed Receivables, monies due thereunder on or after the
Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect to Simple Interest
Receivables, monies due or received thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date
(including in each case any monies received prior to the Cutoff Date that are
due on or after the Cutoff Date and were not used to reduce the principal
balance of the Receivable); (c) the security interests in the Financed Vehicles
granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the
Issuer in the Financed Vehicles; (d) rights to receive proceeds with respect to
the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit
disability, or other insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors;
(e) Dealer Recourse; (f) all of the Seller's rights to the Receivable Files;
(g) the Trust Accounts and all amounts, securities, investments and other
property deposited in or credited to any of the foregoing and all proceeds
thereof; (h) the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (i) all of the Seller's rights
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Agreement, including the right of the Seller to cause Ford Credit to repurchase
Receivables from the Seller; (j) payments and proceeds with respect to the
Receivables held by the Servicer; (k) all property (including the right to
receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable
repurchased by the Servicer or purchased by the Seller); (l) rebates of
premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other items
financed under the Receivables in effect as of the Cutoff Date; and (m) all
present and future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in
respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all
proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the
foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion thereof, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts,
accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit
accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and
every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and
other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in
the proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the
Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to
secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in
this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and agrees to perform its
duties required in this Indenture to the best of its ability to the end that
the interests of the Noteholders may be adequately and effectively protected.
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS, USAGE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1. Definitions and Usage. Except as otherwise
specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms
used but not otherwise defined herein are defined in Appendix A hereto, which
also contains rules as to usage that shall be applicable herein.
SECTION 1.2. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"indenture securities" shall mean the Notes.
"indenture security holder" shall mean a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" shall mean this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" shall mean the
Indenture Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities shall mean the Issuer and
any other obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined in
the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission
rule have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
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ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1. Form. (a) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes, together
with the Indenture Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3,
Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5, respectively, 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 such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as
evidenced by their execution thereof. Any portion of the text of any Note may
be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on
the face of the Note.
(b) The definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with
or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing
such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
(c) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3,
Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5 are part of the terms of this Indenture and are
incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 2.2. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. (a) The
Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized
Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be
manual or facsimile.
(b) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind
the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
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(c) The Indenture Trustee shall, upon Issuer Order, authenticate
and deliver Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount
of $647,000,000, Class A-2 Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal
amount of $535,000,000, Class A-3 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $691,500,000, Class A-4 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 and Class B Notes for original issue
in an aggregate principal amount of $80,500,000. The aggregate principal
amount of Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes
and Class B Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed those respective
amounts except as provided in Section 2.6.
(d) The Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in minimum
denominations of $1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
(e) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.3. Temporary Notes. (a) Pending the preparation of
definitive Notes, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are
issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this
Indenture as the officers executing the temporary Notes may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such temporary Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer shall cause definitive
Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive
Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the
Issuer to be maintained as provided in
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Section 3.2, without charge to the Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation
of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal
amount of definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged,
the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.4. Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this
Indenture, and the Notes shall be issued, with the intention that, for federal,
State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes shall qualify as
indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. The Issuer,
by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a
Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable
Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income
and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
SECTION 2.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange. (a) The Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the "Note
Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the
registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially shall be
the "Note Registrar" for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of
Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an
appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar. If a Person other than the
Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, (i) the Issuer
shall give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of
such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the
Note Register, (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the
Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and (iii)
the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed
on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names
and addresses of the Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such
Notes.
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(b) No transfer of any Class B Note shall be permitted,
recognized or recorded unless the prospective transferee of such Class B Note
shall provide a letter in the form of Exhibit C to the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Note Registrar, in which such prospective transferee shall
represent the following:
(i) It is, and each account (if any) for which it is purchasing
the Class B Notes is, a Person who is (A) a citizen or resident of the
United States, (B) a corporation or partnership organized in or under
the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, (C)
an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for United
States tax purposes, regardless of its source, (D) a trust if a U.S.
court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of
such trust and one or more Persons meeting the conditions of clause (A),
(B), (C) or (E) of this paragraph (i) has the authority to control all
substantial decisions of the trust or (E) a Person not described in
clauses (A) through (D) above whose ownership of the Class B Notes is
effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or business
within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and who
provides the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer with an IRS Form 4224 (and
such other certifications, representations, or opinions of counsel as
may be requested by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer).
(ii) It understands that any purported transfer of any Class B
Note (or any interest therein) to any Person who does not meet the
conditions of paragraph (i) above shall be null and void, and the
purported transferee in any such purported transfer shall not be
recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a Noteholder of a Class B
Note for any purpose.
(iii) It agrees that if it determines to transfer any of the
Class B Notes it will cause its proposed transferee to provide to the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar a letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereof or such other written
statement as the Indenture Trustee shall prescribe.
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(c) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at
the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2,
if the requirements of Section 8-401(1) of the UCC are met the Issuer shall
execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall
obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes of the same Class in any authorized
denomination, of a like aggregate principal amount.
(d) At the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for
other Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such
office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the
requirements of Section 8-401(1) of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute,
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate, and the Noteholder shall obtain from
the Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder making such exchange is
entitled to receive.
(e) All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(f) Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
duly executed by, the Noteholder thereof or such Noteholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar and (ii)
accompanied by such other documents or evidence as the Indenture Trustee may
require.
(g) No service charge shall be made to a Noteholder for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer 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
Notes, other than exchanges
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pursuant to Section 2.3 or 9.6 not involving any transfer.
(h) The preceding provisions of this Section 2.5
notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make and the Note
Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for
redemption or of any Note for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the
Distribution Date for any payment with respect to such Note.
(i) Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the
Class A-4 Notes are not transferable unless the transferor thereof delivers to
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and the Note Registrar (1) an Opinion of
Counsel stating the circumstances and conditions upon which such Class A-4
Notes may be transferred and that the purported transfer complies with such
circumstances and conditions, (2) such other evidence acceptable to the Issuer
and the Administrator that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and other applicable laws or (3) to the Issuer or its
Affiliates, in each case in accordance with all applicable laws of the United
States and securities and blue sky laws of the States of the United States. In
addition to the foregoing, the transferor of any Class A-4 Note shall deliver
to the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and the Note Registrar an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that the purported transfer would not, after giving
effect to the integration requirements of the Securities Act, require
registration of the Class A-4 Notes under the Securities Act; provided, however,
that no such Opinion of Counsel shall be required if the Depositor consents in
writing to such registration of the Class A-4 Notes under the Securities Act.
The Class A-4 Notes will bear a legend substantially to the effect of the
foregoing.
SECTION 2.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. (a) If
(i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the
Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee
such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the
Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a
protected purchaser, as defined in Section 8-303 of the UCC, and provided that
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the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute,
and upon Issuer Request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Note, a replacement Note of the same Class; provided, however, that if any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or
within seven (7) days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for
redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption
Date without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement
Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to
the preceding sentence, a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of
which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note,
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such
replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or
any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such
replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a
protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense
incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.
(b) Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section
2.6, the Issuer may require the payment by the Noteholder of such Note of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
(c) Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.6
in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued
hereunder.
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(d) The provisions of this Section 2.6 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 Notes.
SECTION 2.7. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment
for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and
any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose
name any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of
such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest,
if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 2.8. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted
Interest. (a) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes,
the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes shall accrue interest at the Class A-
1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate and the
Class B Rate, respectively, as set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit
A-3, Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5, respectively, and such interest shall be due
and payable on each Distribution Date as specified therein, subject to Section
3.1. Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note
that is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable
Distribution Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one
or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners pursuant
to Section 2.13, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the
name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially,
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such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payment shall be made by wire transfer in
immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee, and
except for the final installment of principal payable with respect to such Note
on a Distribution Date, Redemption Date or the applicable Final Scheduled
Distribution Date, which shall be payable as provided below. The funds
represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance
with Section 3.3.
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in installments
on each Distribution Date as provided in the forms of Notes set forth in
Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5 hereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of each Class
of Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously paid, on the date on which
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if the Indenture
Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2. All
principal payments on each Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders of such Class entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall notify
the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the
Record Date preceding the Distribution Date on which the Issuer expects that
the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note shall be paid.
Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such final
Distribution Date and shall specify that such final installment shall be
payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the
place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such in-
stallment. Notices in connection with redemption of Notes shall be mailed to
Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2.
(c) If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the
Notes, the Issuer shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted
interest to the extent lawful) at the applicable Note Interest Rate on the
Distribution Date following such default. The Issuer shall pay such defaulted
interest to the Persons who are Noteholders on the Record Date for such
following Distribution Date.
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SECTION 2.9. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any
Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at
any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by
the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 2.9, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention
or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by
an Issuer Order that they be destroyed or returned to it and so long as such
Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by
the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.10. Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.1
and the terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuer Request
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1) or an Opinion
of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA
does not require any such Independent Certificates. If the Commission shall
issue an exemptive order under TIA Section 304(d) modifying the Owner Trustee's
obligations under TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1), subject to Section 11.1
and the terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture in accordance with the conditions and
procedures set forth in such exemptive order.
SECTION 2.11. Book-Entry Notes. The Class A-1 Notes, the Class
A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, upon original issuance, shall be issued in
the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be
delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or
on behalf of, the Issuer. The Book-Entry Notes shall be registered initially
on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of
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the initial Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner thereof shall receive a
Definitive Note (as defined below) representing such Note Owner's interest in
such Note, except as provided in Section 2.13. Unless and until definitive,
fully registered Notes (the "Definitive Notes") have been issued to such Note
Owners pursuant to Section 2.13:
(i) the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall be in full
force and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall
be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of
this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and
interest on the Book-Entry Notes and the giving of instructions
or directions hereunder) as the sole Noteholder, and shall have
no obligation to the Note Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section
2.11 conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the
provisions of this Section 2.11 shall control;
(iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Note Owners and
the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants
pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement. Unless and until
Definitive Notes are issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section
2.13, the initial Clearing Agency shall make book-entry transfers
among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit
payments of principal of and interest on the Book-Entry Notes to
such Clearing Agency Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions
to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Noteholders
of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding, the Clearing Agency shall be
deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Note
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Owners and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or
representing, respectively, such required percentage of the
beneficial interest in the Notes Outstanding and has delivered
such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or
other communication to the Noteholders of Book-Entry Notes is required under
this Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to the
Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.13, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such
notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders of Book-
Entry Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note
Owners.
SECTION 2.13. Definitive Notes. The Class A-4 Notes and the
Class B Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more typewritten Notes
representing Definitive Notes, to be delivered to the purchasers thereof or
their respective nominees, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. If (i) the
Administrator advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with
respect to the Book-Entry Notes and the Administrator is unable to locate a
qualified successor, (ii) the Administrator, at its option, advises the
Indenture Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of
Default or an Event of Servicing Termination, Note Owners of Book-Entry Notes
evidencing beneficial interests aggregating not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Book-Entry Notes Outstanding advise the Indenture
Trustee and the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-
entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of
the Note Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners and the
Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of
Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by
the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall
execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in
accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Issuer,
the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be
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liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely
on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance
of Definitive Notes to Note Owners, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the
holders of such Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
SECTION 2.14. Authenticating Agents. (a) The Indenture Trustee
may appoint one or more Persons (each, an "Authenticating Agent") with power to
act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication of Notes
in connection with issuance, transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.2, 2.3,
2.5, 2.6 and 9.6, as fully to all intents and purposes as though each such
Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by those Sections to
authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the
authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section
2.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of Notes "by the Indenture
Trustee."
(b) Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent,
shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, without the
execution or filing of any further act on the part of the parties hereto or
such Authenticating Agent or such successor corporation.
(c) Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.
The Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such
Authenticating Agent and the Owner Trustee. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, the Indenture Trustee may appoint a
successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of any such
appointment to the Owner Trustee.
(d) The Administrator agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent
from time to time reasonable compen-
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sation for its services. The provisions of Sections 2.9 and 6.4 shall be
applicable to any Authenticating Agent.
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ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer
shall duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the
Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Without
limiting the foregoing and subject to Section 8.2, on each Distribution Date
the Issuer shall cause to be paid all amounts on deposit in the Collection
Account and the Principal Distribution Account with respect to the Collection
Period preceding such Distribution Date and deposited therein pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any
Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be
considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all
purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer shall
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and
where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and
this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the
Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer
shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and
of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If, at any time,
the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and
the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all
such surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION 3.3. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. (a) As
provided in Sections 8.2 and 5.4(b), all payments of amounts due and payable
with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the
Trust Accounts and the Payahead Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer
by the Indenture Trustee or by another Note Paying Agent, and no amounts so
withdrawn
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from the Trust Accounts and the Payahead Account for payments of Notes shall be
paid over to the Issuer, except as provided in this Section 3.3.
(b) On or before each Distribution Date and Redemption Date, the
Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Collection Account an
aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the Notes,
such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto,
and (unless the Note Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly
notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
(c) The Issuer shall cause each Note Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument
in which such Note Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if
the Indenture Trustee acts as Note Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject
to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such Note Paying Agent shall:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts
due with respect to the Notes 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 and pay such
sums to such Persons as herein provided;
(ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by
the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) of which it has
actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made
with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such
default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee,
forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust
by such Note Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a Note Paying Agent and
forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in
trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet
the standards required to be met by a Note
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Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code and any
State or local tax law with respect to the withholding from any
payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding
taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable
reporting requirements in connection therewith.
(d) The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by
Issuer Order direct any Note Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all
sums held in trust by such Note Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held
by such Note Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Note Paying Agent to
the Indenture Trustee, such Note Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
(e) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds,
any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Note Paying Agent in trust for
the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed
for two (2) years after such amount has become due and payable shall be
discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Request; and the
Noteholder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor,
look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the
amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or
such Note Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Note Paying Agent, before
being required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense and direction
of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the
English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty
(30) days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such
money then remaining shall be repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee
shall also adopt and
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employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means
of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing
notice of such repayment to Noteholders whose Notes have been called but have
not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due
and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture
Trustee or of any Note Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each
such Noteholder).
SECTION 3.4. Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full effect
its existence, rights and franchises as a business trust under the laws of the
State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or
becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States of
America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence,
rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in
which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other
instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.5. Protection of Indenture Trust Estate. The Issuer
shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments
hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments
of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action
necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest
(and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more
effectively the purposes hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity
of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Indenture Trust
Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders in such
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Indenture Trust Estate against the claims of all Persons.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-
fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or other
instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.5; provided,
however, that the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to file any
such financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required
to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.5.
SECTION 3.6. Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate. (a) On the
Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has
been taken with respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto, and any other requisite documents, and with
respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect and make effective the
lien and security interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such
action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is
necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.
(b) On or before April 30 in each calendar year, beginning in
1998, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken
with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents
and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements and any other action that may be required by law as is
necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture
and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the opinion of such
counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien and security
interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing,
re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto
and any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements that shall, in the opinion of such
counsel, be required to
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maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until April 30 in the
following calendar year.
SECTION 3.7. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of
Receivables. (a) The Issuer shall not take any action and shall use its best
efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any
Person from any of such Person's material covenants or obligations under any
instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate or that would
result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge
of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or
agreement, except as expressly provided in this Indenture and the other Basic
Documents.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties
by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of
the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. Initially, the
Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the
Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.
(c) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other Basic
Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Trust
Estate, including, but not limited to, filing or causing to be filed all
financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed under the
UCC by the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in
accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein.
Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the Issuer shall not waive,
amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic Document or any provision
thereof without the consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding.
(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of an
Event of Servicing Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies
thereof and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuer is
taking in respect of such default. If
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an Event of Servicing Termination shall arise from the failure of the Servicer
to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuer shall take all reasonable
steps available to it to remedy such failure.
(e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of
termination to the Servicer of the Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to
Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Servicer's resignation
in accordance with the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer
shall appoint a successor servicer (the "Successor Servicer") meeting the
requirements of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such Successor Servicer
shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to
the Indenture Trustee. In the event that a Successor Servicer has not been
appointed at the time when the Servicer ceases to act as Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the
Successor Servicer. If the Indenture Trustee shall be legally unable to act as
Successor Servicer, it may appoint, or petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Servicer. The Indenture Trustee may
resign as the Servicer by giving written notice of such resignation to the
Issuer and in such event shall be released from such duties and obligations,
such release not to be effective until the date a new servicer enters into a
servicing agreement with the Issuer as provided below. Upon delivery of any
such notice to the Issuer, the Issuer shall obtain a new servicer as the
Successor Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Any Successor
Servicer (other than the Indenture Trustee) shall (i) be an established
institution having a net worth of not less than $100,000,000 and whose regular
business shall include the servicing of automotive receivables and (ii) enter
into a servicing agreement with the Issuer having substantially the same
provisions as the provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement applicable to
the Servicer. If, within thirty (30) days after the delivery of the notice
referred to above, the Issuer shall not have obtained such a new servicer, the
Indenture Trustee may appoint, or may petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Servicer. In connection with any such
appointment, the Indenture Trustee may make such arrangements for the
compensation of such successor as it and such successor shall agree,
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subject to the limitations set forth below and in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and, in accordance with Section 8.2 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Issuer shall enter into an agreement with such successor for the
servicing of the Receivables (such agreement to be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the Indenture Trustee shall succeed
to the Servicer's duties as servicer of the Receivables as provided herein, it
shall do so in its individual capacity and not in its capacity as Indenture
Trustee and, accordingly, the provisions of Article VI hereof shall be
inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its duties as the successor to the
Servicer and the servicing of the Receivables. In case the Indenture Trustee
shall become successor to the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as Servicer any one of its
Affiliates; provided that the Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as the
Servicer, shall be fully liable for the actions and omissions of such Affiliate
in such capacity as Successor Servicer.
(f) Upon any termination of the Servicer's rights and powers
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify
the Indenture Trustee. As soon as a Successor Servicer is appointed by the
Issuer, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee of such appointment,
specifying in such notice the name and address of such Successor Servicer.
(g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the
assignment granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights
of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer hereby agrees that it shall not,
without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree
to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender
of, the terms of any Collateral (except to the extent otherwise provided in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or the other Basic Documents).
SECTION 3.8. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
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(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the
Trust Agreement, the Purchase Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any
of the properties or assets of the Issuer, including those
included in the Indenture Trust Estate, unless directed to do so
by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the
principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other
than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code)
or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by
reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon the
Trust or the Indenture Trust Estate;
(iii) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part; or
(iv) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this
Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to
be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged,
or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or
obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except
as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien,
charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other
encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created
on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the assets of
the Issuer, including those included in the Indenture Trust
Estate, or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics' liens and
other liens that arise by operation of law, in each case on any
of the Financed Vehicles and arising solely as a result of an
action or omission of the related Obligor) or (C) permit the lien
of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority (other
than with respect to any such tax, mechanics' or other lien)
security interest in the Indenture Trust Estate.
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SECTION 3.9. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer
shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each
calendar year (commencing with the year 1998), an Officer's Certificate
stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such
year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made
under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge,
based on such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions
and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if
there has been a default in its compliance with any such
condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such
Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms. (a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other
Person, unless:
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due
and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all
Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing;
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(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been
satisfied with respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel
(and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture
Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have any
material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or
any Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and
security interest created by this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange
Act).
(b) Other than as specifically contemplated by the Basic
Documents, the Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or
assets, including those included in the Indenture Trust Estate, to any Person,
unless:
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer
the properties and assets of the Issuer the conveyance or
transfer of which is hereby restricted shall (A) be a United
States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws
of the United States of America or any State, (B) expressly
assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal
of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of
every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C)
expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that all
right, title and
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interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and
subordinate to the rights of Noteholders, (D) unless otherwise
provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer against and from
any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this
Indenture and the Notes, and (E) expressly agrees by means of
such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of
Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings with
the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the
Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been
satisfied with respect to such transaction;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel
(and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture
Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have any
material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or
any Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and
security interest created by this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange
Act).
SECTION 3.11. Successor or Transferee. (a) Upon any
consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the
Person formed by or
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surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed
to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the
Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been
named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and
properties of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuer shall be
released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or
performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon
the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that the Issuer
is to be so released.
SECTION 3.12. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in
any business other than financing, acquiring, owning and pledging the
Receivables in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the Basic
Documents and activities incidental thereto.
SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur,
assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any
indebtedness except for the Notes and the Certificates.
SECTION 3.14. Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall cause
the Servicer to comply with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including
Sections 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and 4.9 and Article VII thereof.
SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.
Except as contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic Documents, the
Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly
or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another's
payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or
otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or
indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own,
purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock,
obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any
capital contribution to, any other Person.
SECTION 3.16. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make
any expenditure (by long-term or
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operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.17. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall execute and deliver such further
instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper
to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.18. Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not,
directly or indirectly, (i) make any distribution (by reduction of capital or
otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to
the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or
otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of
the Issuer or to the Servicer or the Administrator, (ii) redeem, purchase,
retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or
security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such
purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, (x)
payments to the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders and the Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to
the extent funds are available for such purpose under, this Indenture and the
other Basic Documents and (y) payments to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 2(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement. The Issuer shall not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection
Account or the Principal Distribution Account except in accordance with this
Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 3.19. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall
give the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of
each Event of Default hereunder and of each default on the part of any party to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Purchase Agreement with respect to any
of the provisions thereof.
SECTION 3.20. Removal of Administrator. For so long as any
Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without
cause unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied in
connection therewith.
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ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except
as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to
receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.3,
3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities
of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 4.3), and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all
or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of
the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, when:
(A) either
(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.6 and (ii)
Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and
thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation have become due and payable and the Issuer has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with
the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or
obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which
will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust
for such purpose, in an amount sufficient without reinvestment to
pay and discharge the
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entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to
the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the applicable
Final Scheduled Distribution Date or Redemption Date (if Notes
shall have been called for redemption pursuant to Section
10.1(a)), as the case may be, and all fees due and payable to the
Indenture Trustee;
(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder and under any of the other Basic Documents by
the Issuer;
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by
the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an Independent Certificate from
a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the
applicable requirements of Section 11.1(a) and, subject to
Section 11.2, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with; and
(D) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that the satisfaction and discharge of
the Notes pursuant to this Section 4.1 will not cause any
Noteholder to be treated as having sold or exchanged any of its
Notes for purposes of Section 1001 of the Code.
Upon the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture pursuant to this Section
4.1, at the request of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver
to the Owner Trustee a certificate of a Trustee Officer stating that all
Noteholders have been paid in full and stating whether, to the best knowledge
of such Trustee Officer, any claims remain against the Issuer in respect of the
Indenture and the Notes.
SECTION 4.2. Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of Notes.
(a) Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in subsection
(b) below, the Issuer shall be deemed
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to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding
Notes, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such Notes, shall
no longer be in effect (and the Indenture Trustee, at the expense of the
Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to
(i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to
receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.2,
3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the rights, obligations and
immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the
Indenture Trustee under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 4.3), and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries
hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee
payable to all or any of them.
(b) The satisfaction, discharge and defeasance of the Notes
pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 4.2 is subject to the satisfaction
of all of the following conditions:
(i) the Issuer has deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably (except as provided in Section 4.4) with the Indenture
Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Noteholders, which, through
the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance
with their terms will provide, not later than one day prior to the due
date of any payment referred to below, money in an amount sufficient, in
the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on the outstanding Notes, for principal thereof and
interest thereon to the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes that
have become due and payable) or to the maturity of such principal and
interest, as the case may be;
(ii) such deposit will not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute an event of default under, any other
agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is bound;
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(iii) no Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or on the
ninety-first (91st) day after such date;
(iv) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the satisfaction, discharge and
defeasance of the Notes pursuant to this Section 4.2 will not cause any
Noteholder to be treated as having sold or exchanged any of its Notes
for purposes of Section 1001 of the Code; and
(v) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent relating to the defeasance contemplated by this
Section 4.2 have been complied with.
SECTION 4.3. Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited
with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Sections 4.1 and 4.2 shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Note Paying
Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Noteholders of the
particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have been
deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon
for principal and interest, but such monies need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or required by law.
SECTION 4.4. Repayment of Monies Held by Note Paying Agent. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect
to the Notes, all monies then held by any Note Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such
Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be
held and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such Note Paying Agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.
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ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.1. Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever
used herein, means the occurrence of any one of the following events (whatever
the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or 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):
(i) default in the payment of any interest on any Note
when the same becomes due and payable on each Distribution Date,
and such default shall continue for a period of five (5) days or
more; provided that a default in the payment of interest on the
Class B Notes shall not be an Event of Default until the
principal amount of the outstanding Class A-4 Notes has been
reduced to zero; or
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of or any
installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes
due and payable; or
(iii) default in the observance or performance of any
material covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this
Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the
observance or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section
5.1 specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty
of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or
other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the
time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall
continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in
respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period
of sixty (60) days or in the case of a materially incorrect
representation and warranty thirty (30) days, after
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there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less
than 25% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, a
written notice specifying such default or incorrect
representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(iv) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the
Issuer or any substantial part of the Indenture Trust Estate in
an involuntary case under any applicable federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the
Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trust Estate,
or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer's
affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or
(v) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case
under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by
the Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary
case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer to the
appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trust
Estate, or the making by the Issuer of any general assignment for
the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer generally
to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any
action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within five (5) days after
the occurrence thereof, written
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notice in the form of an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the
giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under
clause (iii) above, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes
to take with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every
such case the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less
than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding may declare
all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the
Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any
such declaration the unpaid principal amount of such Notes, together with
accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall
become immediately due and payable.
(b) At any time after a declaration of acceleration of maturity
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the amount due has
been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article
V, the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, by written notice to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all payments of principal of and interest on
all Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder
or upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such
acceleration had not occurred; and
(B) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture
Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its
agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
the principal of the Notes
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that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured
or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Indenture Trustee. (a) The Issuer covenants that if (i)
default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of five (5)
days, or (ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of or any
installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable,
the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture
Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the
overdue principal and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be
legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest at the applicable
Note Interest Rate borne by the Notes and in addition thereto such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Indenture Trustee and its agents, attorneys and counsel.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts
upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due
and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and
may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes and
collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or
other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or
decreed to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4, in its
discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall
deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific
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enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or
legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or
by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or
any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership
interest in the Indenture Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the
United States Code or any other applicable federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in
bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official
shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property
or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial
Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the
creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture
Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due
and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole
amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of
the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances and disbursements made, by the
Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except
as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders
allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations,
to vote on behalf of the Noteholders in any election of a
trustee, a
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standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any
such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to pay all amounts
received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the
Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders allowed in any
judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and
its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Indenture Trustee and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee
shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to
the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances and disbursements made, by the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of
negligence or bad faith, and any other amounts due the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.7.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Noteholder or to authorize
the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any
such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in
bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the
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possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other
Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or Proceedings instituted by
the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses,
disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, shall be
for the ratable benefit of the Noteholders in respect of which such judgment
has been recovered.
(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and
also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture
Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders, and it shall not be
necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.4. Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more
of the following (subject to Section 5.5):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee
of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then
payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect
thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any
judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any other
obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to
the Indenture Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the
UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce
the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders; and
(iv) sell the Indenture Trust Estate or any portion
thereof or rights or interest
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therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise
liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than
an Event of Default described in Section 5.1(i) or (ii) and other than if
required to sell the Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to the Trust Agreement as
a result of the occurrence of an Insolvency Event or a dissolution with respect
to the Seller or the General Partner, unless (x)(A) the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing 100% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding consent
thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to pay in
full the principal of and the accrued interest on the outstanding Notes or (C)
the Indenture Trustee determines (but shall have no obligation to make such
determination) that the Indenture Trust Estate will not continue to provide
sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as
they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable,
and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding and (y) with respect to an Event of Default described in Section
5.1(iii), (A) the Certificateholders of all outstanding Certificates consent
thereto or (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to pay
in full the principal of and accrued interest on the outstanding Notes and
Certificates. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to
clauses (x)(B), (x)(C) and (y)(B) above, the Indenture Trustee may, but need
not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or
accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed
action and as to the sufficiency of the Indenture Trust Estate for such
purpose.
(b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property
pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property in the
following order:
(i) first, to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under
Section 6.7;
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(ii) second, to the Servicer for due and unpaid Servicing
Fees;
(iii) third, to Noteholders of the Class A Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A Notes in respect of
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A Notes for
interest;
(iv) fourth, to Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-1 Notes for principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on the Class A-1 Notes for principal,
until the principal amount of the outstanding Class A-1 Notes is
reduced to zero;
(v) fifth, to Noteholders of the Class A-2 Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-2 Notes for principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on the Class A-2 Notes for principal,
until the principal amount of the outstanding Class A-2 Notes is
reduced to zero;
(vi) sixth, to Noteholders of the Class A-3 Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-3 Notes for principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on the Class A-3 Notes for principal,
until the principal amount of the outstanding Class A-3 Notes is
reduced to zero;
(vii) seventh, to Noteholders of the Class A-4 Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-4 Notes for principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on the Class A-4 Notes for principal,
until the principal amount of the outstanding Class A-4 Notes is
reduced to zero;
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(viii) eighth, to Noteholders of the Class B Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class B Notes in respect of
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes for
interest;
(ix) ninth, to Noteholders of the Class B Notes for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class B Notes for principal,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes for principal,
until the principal amount of the outstanding Class B Notes is
reduced to zero; and
(x) tenth, to the Issuer for amounts required to be
distributed to the Certificateholders pursuant to the Trust
Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to
Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.4. At least fifteen (15) days before
such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder and the Indenture
Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount
to be paid.
SECTION 5.5. Optional Preservation of the Receivables. If the
Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2 following an
Event of Default, and such declaration and its consequences have not been
rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to
maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate and apply proceeds as if
there had been no declaration of acceleration; provided, however, that funds on
deposit in the Collection Account (including funds, if any, deposited therein
from the Reserve Account and the Payahead Account) shall be applied in
accordance with such declaration of acceleration in the manner specified in
Section 4.6(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. It is the desire of the
parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds
for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture
Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to
maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate. In determining
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whether to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture
Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent
investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Indenture
Trust Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.6. Limitation of Suits. No Noteholder 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:
(a) such Noteholder has previously given written notice
to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25%
of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have made
written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such
Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Noteholder or Noteholders have offered to the
Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such
request;
(d) the Indenture Trustee for sixty (60) days after its
receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed
to institute such Proceedings; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such sixty-day
period by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Noteholders 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
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any other Noteholders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other Noteholders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except
in the manner herein provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders,
each evidencing less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what
action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Indenture.
SECTION 5.7. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive
Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this
Indenture, any Noteholder shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on
its Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or
in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such
right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Noteholder.
SECTION 5.8. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder 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 Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any
determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 5.9. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the
Noteholders 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
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of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or
omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder to exercise any right or
remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such
right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default
or any acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or
by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee
or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.11. Control by Noteholders. The Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee
with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Indenture Trustee; provided that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
of law or with this Indenture;
(b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.4, any
direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the
Indenture Trust Estate shall be by Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding;
(c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been
satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the
Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to such Section 5.5, then any
direction to the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders of Notes
evidencing less than 100% of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate shall
be of no force and effect; and
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(d) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action
deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent
with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section 5.11,
subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it
determines might involve it in costs or expenses for which it would not be
adequately indemnified or expose it to personal liability or might materially
adversely affect or unduly prejudice the rights of any Noteholders not
consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration
of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.2,
the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding may waive any past Default or Event of Default
and its consequences except a Default (a) in the payment of principal of or
interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision
hereof that cannot be amended, supplemented or modified without the consent of
each Noteholder. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and
rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred,
for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.
SECTION 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Noteholder by such Noteholder's 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 Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the
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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 5.13 shall not
apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit
instituted by any Noteholder or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in
the aggregate more than 10% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or
(c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of
principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates
expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any
time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance
of this Indenture, and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants
that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 5.15. Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to
seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be
affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or
with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any
rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be
impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the
Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of
the Indenture Trust Estate or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money
or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance
with Section 5.4(b).
SECTION 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations. (a) Promptly following a request
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from the Indenture Trustee to do so, and at the Administrator's expense, the
Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request
to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Seller and the
Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in
connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or by the Seller and Ford
Credit, as applicable, of each of their obligations under or in connection with
the Purchase Agreement, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers
and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, as the case may be, to
the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the
transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller, the Servicer or
Ford Credit thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions
or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller or the Servicer of
each of their obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by the
Seller or Ford Credit of each of their obligations under the Purchase
Agreement.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, and at the direction (which direction shall be in
writing or by telephone, confirmed in writing promptly thereafter) of the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the principal amount
of the Notes Outstanding shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers,
privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Seller or the Servicer under or
in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or against the Seller or
Ford Credit under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement, including the
right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance
by the Seller, the Servicer or Ford Credit, as the case may be, of each of their
obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice,
direction, approval, extension, or waiver under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or the Purchase Agreement, as the case may be, and any right of the
Issuer to take such action shall be suspended.
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ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. Duties of Indenture Trustee. (a) If an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise
the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of
care and skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person's own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such
duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee
and, if required by the terms of this Indenture, conforming to
the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that the
Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for
its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph
(b) of this Section 6.1;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by a Trustee Officer unless
it is proved
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that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section
5.11.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on
any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing
with the Issuer.
(e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms
of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it.
(g) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1 and to the provisions of
the TIA.
(h) The Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
any Event of Default unless either (1) a Trustee Officer shall have actual
knowledge of such Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Event of
Default shall have been given to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 6.2. Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The Indenture
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 or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the
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proper Person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matters
stated in any such document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting,
it may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take
in good faith in reliance on an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or
powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part
of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee
appointed with due care by it hereunder.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers; provided, however, that such action or omission by
the Indenture Trustee does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad
faith.
(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the
advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this
Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection
from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such
counsel.
(f) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture or to honor
the request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this Indenture
unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the reasonable costs, expenses, disbursements,
advances and liabilities which might be incurred by it, its agents and its
counsel in compliance with such request or direction.
(g) Any request or direction of the Issuer mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request.
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SECTION 6.3. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The
Indenture Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee.
Any Note Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent
hereunder may do the same with like rights.
SECTION 6.4. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture
Trustee (i) shall not be responsible for, and makes no representation as to,
the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes and (ii) shall not be
accountable for the Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, or responsible
for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in
connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes (all of which shall be
taken as statements of the Issuer) other than the Indenture Trustee's
certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.5. Notice of Defaults; Insolvency or Dissolution of
Depositor or General Partner. (a) If a Default occurs and is continuing and
if it is known to a Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of such Default within ninety (90)
days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal
of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the mandatory
redemption provisions of such Note), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the
notice if and so long as a committee of its Trustee Officers in good faith
determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Noteholders.
(b) If the Indenture Trustee receives notice from the Owner
Trustee of the occurrence of an Insolvency Event or a dissolution with respect
to the Depositor or the General Partner pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Trust
Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the
Noteholders of the occurrence of such event. If the Indenture Trustee receives
notice from the Owner Trustee pursuant to such Section 9.2 that the requisite
percentages of Noteholders, Certificateholders and holders of interests, if
any, in the Reserve Account disapprove of the liquidation of the Receivables
and termination of the Trust pursuant to such Section 9.2, the Indenture
Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer,
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shall (i) appoint an entity acceptable to Ford Credit to acquire an interest in
the Trust and to act as substitute "general partner" of the Trust for federal
income tax purposes and (ii) obtain an Opinion of Counsel that the Trust will
not thereafter be classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation for federal income tax and Applicable Tax State
purposes. If the Indenture Trustee is unable to locate such an entity or
obtain such Opinion of Counsel within ninety (90) days after the date of the
applicable Insolvency Event or dissolution, the Indenture Trustee shall so
notify the Owner Trustee promptly in writing. Upon termination of the Trust
pursuant to such Section 9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall, if so directed by
the Owner Trustee, sell the assets of the Trust (other than the Trust Accounts
and each Certificate Distribution Account) in a commercially reasonable manner
and on commercially reasonable terms. The proceeds of such a sale of the
assets of the Trust shall be treated as collections of Receivables under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and deposited in the Collection Account and the
Notes and Certificates shall be paid in accordance with Section 4.6 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 6.6. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders. Upon
delivery to the Indenture Trustee by the Servicer of such information prepared
by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement as
may be required to enable each Noteholder to prepare its federal and State
income tax returns, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver such information to the
Noteholders.
SECTION 6.7. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Issuer shall,
or shall cause the Administrator to, pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services. The Indenture Trustee's
compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an
express trust. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to,
reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the
compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable
compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture
Trustee's agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer shall, or shall
cause the Administrator to, indemnify
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the Indenture Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss,
liability or expense (including attorneys' fees) incurred by it in connection
with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties
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. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and
the Administrator promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.
Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator
shall not relieve the Issuer or the Administrator of its obligations hereunder.
The Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to, defend any such claim,
and the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall, or
shall cause the Administrator to, pay the fees and expenses of such counsel.
Neither the Issuer nor the Administrator need reimburse any expense or
indemnity against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture
Trustee through the Indenture Trustee's own willful misconduct, negligence or
bad faith.
(b) The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall survive the resignation or removal of the
Indenture Trustee and the discharge of this Indenture. When the Indenture
Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section
5.1(iv) or (v) with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to consti-
tute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any
other applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
SECTION 6.8. Replacement of Indenture Trustee. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee, and no appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee, shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8 and
payment in full of all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section
6.7. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer.
The Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding may remove the Indenture Trustee without cause
by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer and may
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appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture
Trustee if:
(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section
6.11;
(ii) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the
Indenture Trustee;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of
the Indenture Trustee or its property; or
(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of
acting.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event
being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall
promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
(b) Any successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written
acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the
Issuer. Thereupon, if all sums due the retiring Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.7 have been paid in full, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee
shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under
this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its
succession to Noteholders. If all sums due the retiring Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid in full, the retiring Indenture Trustee
shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the
successor Indenture Trustee.
(c) If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within
sixty (60) days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the
retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing
not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes Outstanding may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Indenture Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee fails to
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comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder who has been a bona fide Noteholder
for at least six (6) months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor
Indenture Trustee.
(d) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.8, the obligations of the Issuer and the
Administrator under Section 6.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring
Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.9. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. (a) If the
Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all
or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another
corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee
corporation or banking association without any further act shall be the
successor Indenture Trustee; provided that such corporation or banking
association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.11. The
Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies with prior written notice
of any such transaction.
(b) In case at the time such successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated
but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such
Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may
authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in
the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee. In all such cases such
certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in
this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall
have.
SECTION 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate
Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Indenture Trust Estate may at the time be
located, the Indenture Trustee
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shall have the power and may execute and deliver an instrument to appoint one
or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or
separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person
or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title
to the Indenture Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section 6.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and
trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-
trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to
Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required under Section 6.8.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred
or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or
imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee
and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee shall not be
authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee
joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of
any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be
performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of
title to the Indenture Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any
such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by
such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction
of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
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(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate
trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every
instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this
Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-
trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the
estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly
with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject
to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision
of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or
affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be
filed with the Indenture Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time
constitute the Indenture Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power
and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under
or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate
trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be
removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest
in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law,
without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture
Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section 310(a). The
Indenture Trustee or its parent shall have a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of
condition and shall have a long-term debt rating of investment grade by each of
the Rating Agencies or shall otherwise be acceptable to each of the Rating
Agencies. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).
Within ninety (90) days after ascertaining the occurrence of an Event of
Default which shall not have been cured or waived, unless authorized by the
Commis-
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sion, the Indenture Trustee shall resign with respect to the Class A Notes
and/or the Class B Notes in accordance with Section 6.8 of this Indenture, and
the Issuer shall appoint a successor Indenture Trustee for one or both of such
Classes, as applicable, so that there will be separate Indenture Trustees for
the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes. In the event the Indenture Trustee
fails to comply with the terms of the preceding sentence, the Indenture Trustee
shall comply with clauses (ii) and (iii) of TIA Section 310(b).
In the case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Indenture
Trustee with respect to any Class of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.11, the
Issuer, the retiring Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture Trustee with
respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Indenture Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary
or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, the successor
Indenture Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of the Class to which the
appointment of such successor Indenture Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring
Indenture Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture
Trustee with respect to the Notes of each Class as to which the retiring
Indenture Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the Indenture
Trustee and (iii) 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 Indenture Trustee, it being understood
that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such
Indenture Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Indenture
Trustee shall be a trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Indenture
Trustee; and upon the removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided herein.
SECTION 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer.
The Indenture Trustee shall
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comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in
TIA Section 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed
shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.
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ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
SECTION 7.1. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and
Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to
the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five (5) days after each Record Date, a
list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Noteholders as of such Record Date and (b) at such
other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within thirty (30)
days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form
and content as of a date not more than ten (10) days prior to the time such
list is furnished; provided, however, that (i) so long as the Indenture Trustee
is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished and (ii)
no such list shall be required to be furnished with respect to Noteholders of
Book-Entry Notes.
SECTION 7.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Noteholders. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form
as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Noteholders
contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as
provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by
the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee
may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.1 upon
receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b)
with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or
under the Notes. Upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of any request by three
or more Noteholders or by one or more Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less
than 25% of the Notes Outstanding to receive a copy of the current list of
Noteholders (whether or not made pursuant to TIA Section 312(b)), the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly notify the Administrator thereof by providing to the
Administrator a copy of such request and a copy of the list of Noteholders
produced in response thereto.
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(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar
shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 7.3. Reports by Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within fifteen (15)
days after the Issuer 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) that the Issuer may be required to
file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission
in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time
to time by the Commission such additional information, documents
and reports with respect to compliance by the Issuer with the
conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required
from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in
TIA Section 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents
and reports required to be filed by the Issuer pursuant to
clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.3(a) and by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
(b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of
the Issuer shall correspond to the calendar year.
SECTION 7.4. Reports by Indenture Trustee. (a) If required by
TIA Section 313(a), within sixty (60) days after each May 15, beginning with
May 15, 1998, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required
by TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of
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such date that complies with TIA Section 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also
shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).
(b) A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to
Noteholders shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and
each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall
notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock
exchange.
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ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
SECTION 8.1. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and
shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of
any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to
or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture and the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money
received by it as provided in this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any
default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement
or instrument that is part of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee
may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or
performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate
Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim
a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed
thereafter as provided in Article V.
SECTION 8.2. Trust Accounts and Payahead Account. (a) On or
prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to establish and
maintain the Trust Accounts and the Payahead Account as provided in Sections
4.1 and 4.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) On or before each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall
deposit all Available Collections with respect to the Collection Period
preceding such Distribution Date in the Collection Account as provided in
Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or
before each Distribution Date, all amounts required to be withdrawn from the
Reserve Account and deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 4.5
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee
from the Reserve Account and deposited to the Collection Account.
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on
the information contained in the Servicer's Certificate delivered on or before
the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale
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and Servicing Agreement) shall make the following withdrawals from the
Collection Account and make deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent
of funds on deposit in the Collection Account with respect to the Collection
Period preceding such Distribution Date (including funds, if any, deposited
therein from the Reserve Account and the Payahead Account), in the following
order of priority:
(i) first, to the Servicer, the Servicing Fee and all
unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of Class A Notes, the
Accrued Class A Note Interest; provided that if there are not sufficient
funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued Class A Note
Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the payment of such
interest on the Class A Notes on a pro rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Principal Distribution Account, the
First Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of Class B Notes, the
Accrued Class B Note Interest; provided that if there are not sufficient
funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued Class B Note
Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the payment of such
interest on the Class B Notes on a pro rata basis;
(v) fifth, to the Principal Distribution Account, the
Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(vi) sixth, to the Certificate Interest Distribution
Account, the Accrued Class C Certificate Interest;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Interest Distribution
Account, the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest;
(viii) eighth, to the Reserve Account, the amount, if
any, required to reinstate the amount
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in the Reserve Account up to the Specified Reserve Balance;
(ix) ninth, to the Principal Distribution Account, the
Regular Principal Distribution Amount; and
(x) tenth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on deposit
in the Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period
preceding such Distribution Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence and
during the continuation of an Event of Default which has resulted in an
acceleration of the Notes or following an Insolvency Event or a dissolution
with respect to the Seller or the General Partner, the Indenture Trustee shall
transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the
application of clauses (i) and (ii) above to the Principal Distribution Account
to the extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all the Notes to
zero, and the Certificateholders will not receive any distributions of
principal or interest until the principal amount and accrued interest on all
the Notes has been paid in full.
(d) On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on
the information contained in the Servicer's Certificate delivered on or before
the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement) shall withdraw the funds on deposit in the Principal
Distribution Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such
Distribution Date and make distributions and payments in the following order of
priority:
(i) first, to the Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-1 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-1 Notes on a pro rata
basis;
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(ii) second, to the Noteholders of the Class A-2 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class A-2 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-2 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-2 Notes on a pro rata
basis;
(iii) third, to the Noteholders of the Class A-3 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class A-3 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-3 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-3 Notes on a pro rata
basis;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of the Class A-4 Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class A-4 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-4 Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-4 Notes on a pro rata
basis;
(v) fifth, to the Noteholders of the Class B Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class B Notes has been paid in full; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount of the
outstanding Class B Notes in full, the amounts available shall be
applied to the payment of principal on the Class B Notes on a pro rata
basis;
(vi) sixth, to the Certificate Principal Distribution
Account, in reduction of the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates, until the Certificate Balance of the Class C Certificates
has been reduced to zero;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Principal Distribution
Account, in reduction of the
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Certificate Balance of the Class D Certificates, until the Certificate
Balance of the Class D Certificates has been reduced to zero; and
(viii) eighth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on
deposit in the Principal Distribution Account.
SECTION 8.3. General Provisions Regarding Accounts. (a) So
long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
all or a portion of the funds in the Collection Account, the Payahead Account
and the Reserve Account shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee at the
direction of the Servicer in Permitted Investments as provided in Sections 4.1
and 4.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. All income or other gain (net of
losses and investment expenses) from investments of monies deposited in the
Collection Account, the Payahead Account and the Reserve Account shall be
withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee from such accounts (but only under the
circumstances set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement in the case of the
Reserve Account) and distributed as provided in Sections 4.1 and 4.7 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Servicer shall not direct the Indenture
Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in
any of the Trust Accounts unless the security interest Granted and perfected in
such account will continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds
of such sale, in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in
connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such
investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee, to such effect.
(b) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not
in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust
Accounts or in the Payahead Account resulting from any loss on any Permitted
Investment included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture
Trustee's failure to make payments on such Permitted Investments issued by the
Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as
trustee, in accordance with their terms.
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(c) If (i) the Servicer shall have failed to give investment
directions for any funds on deposit in the Collection Account, the Payahead
Account or the Reserve Account to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m. New York
Time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee)
on the Business Day preceding each Distribution Date or (ii) to the knowledge
of a Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee, a Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes
shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2 or (iii)
if such Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of
Default, amounts collected or receivable from the Indenture Trust Estate are
being applied in accordance with Section 5.4 as if there had not been such a
declaration, then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent
practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Collection Account, the Payahead
Account or the Reserve Account, as the case may be, in one or more Permitted
Investments described in clause (b) of the definition thereof.
SECTION 8.4. Release of Indenture Trust Estate. (a) Subject to
the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7, the Indenture
Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall,
execute instruments to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or
convey the Indenture Trustee's interest in the same, in a manner and under
circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture.
No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as
provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture
Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent
or see to the application of any monies.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no
Notes Outstanding and all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section
6.7 have been paid in full, release any remaining portion of the Indenture
Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release
to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in
the Trust Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien
of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.4(b) only upon receipt of an
Issuer Request accompanied
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by an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA)
Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1)
meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1.
(c) Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, acknowledges
that from time to time the Indenture Trustee shall release the lien of this
Indenture on any Receivable to be sold to (i) the Seller in accordance with
Section 2.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) to the Servicer in
accordance with Section 3.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 8.5. Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall
receive at least seven (7) days notice when requested by the Issuer to take any
action pursuant to Section 8.4(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments
involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, except in connection
with any action contemplated by Section 8.4(c), as a condition to such action,
an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps
required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to
the taking of such action have been complied with and such action will not
materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the rights of the
Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture; provided,
however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an
opinion as to the fair value of the Indenture Trust Estate. Counsel rendering
any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy
and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture
Trustee in connection with any such action.
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ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Noteholders. (a) Without the consent of the Noteholders but with prior notice
to the Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized
by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or
more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property
at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to
assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any
property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this
Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this Indenture additional
property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the
applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer,
and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Noteholders, or to surrender any right or power
herein conferred upon the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any
supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with
respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or
under any
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supplemental indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of the Indenture; provided that such action shall not
materially adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders;
(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the
appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the
Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration
of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the
requirements of Article VI; or
(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of
this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to affect the
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any
similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this
Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly required by
the TIA.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further
appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuer Order, may, also without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with
prior notice to the Rating Agencies, 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 (other than the modifications set forth in Section 9.2)
the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that (i)
such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect
in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder, (ii) the Rating Agency
Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such action and (iii) such
action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be
characterized for federal or any then
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Applicable Tax State income tax purposes as an association taxable as a
corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the federal or any
then Applicable Tax State income taxation of any Notes Outstanding or
outstanding Certificates or any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
SECTION 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Noteholders. The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuer Order, also may, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and with the
consent of the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, by Act of such Noteholders delivered
to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, 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 modifying
in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided,
however, that (i) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with
respect to such action and (ii) such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal or any
then Applicable Tax State income tax purposes as an association taxable as a
corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the federal or any
then Applicable Tax State income taxation of any Notes Outstanding or
outstanding Certificates or any Noteholder or Certificateholder; and provided,
further, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Noteholder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(i) change the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or the
date of payment of any installment of principal of or interest on
any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest
rate thereon or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, change
the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of
collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Indenture
Trust Estate to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes,
or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in
which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the
right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of
this Indenture requiring the application of funds available
therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any
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such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date);
(ii) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding, the consent of the Noteholders of which is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of
the Noteholders of which is required for any waiver of compliance
with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain Defaults or
Events of Default hereunder and their consequences provided for
in this Indenture;
(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to
the definition of the term "Outstanding";
(iv) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding required to direct the Indenture Trustee to
sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to Section
5.4 if the proceeds of such sale or liquidation would be
insufficient to pay the principal amount and accrued but unpaid
interest on the Notes and the Certificates;
(v) modify any provision of this Indenture specifying a
percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes
necessary to amend this Indenture or the other Basic Documents
except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide
that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the other
Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent
of the Noteholder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;
(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in
such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any
payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any
Distribution Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation) or to affect the
rights of the Noteholders to the benefit of any provisions
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for the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained herein; or
(vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or
on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any
part of the Indenture Trust Estate or, except as otherwise
permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this
Indenture on any such collateral at any time subject hereto or
deprive any Noteholder of the security provided by the lien of
this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion or upon receipt of an Opinion of
Counsel determine whether or not any Notes would be affected by any
supplemental indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon the
Noteholders of all Notes, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and
delivered hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such
determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this
Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance
thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.2, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Noteholders of the Notes to which such
amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general
terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the
Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not,
however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental
indenture.
SECTION 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the
trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental
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indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions
precedent to the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture have
been satisfied. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to,
enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee's
own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
SECTION 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this
Indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective
rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities
under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders
shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all
respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions
of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant
to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act
as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.6. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture
Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in
the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental
indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and
delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for outstanding Notes.
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ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 10.1. Redemption. (a) The Class A-4 Notes and the
Class B Notes are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, at the
direction of the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.1 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, on any Distribution Date on which the Servicer exercises its option
to purchase the assets of the Issuer pursuant to such Section 9.1, and the
amount paid by the Servicer shall be treated as collections of Receivables and
applied to pay the unpaid principal amount of the Notes and the Aggregate
Certificate Balance of the Certificates plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon. The Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish the Rating Agencies and the
Noteholders notice of such redemption. If the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B
Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1(a), the Servicer or the
Issuer shall furnish notice of such election to the Indenture Trustee not later
than forty (40) days prior to the Redemption Date and the Issuer shall deposit
by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Redemption Date with the Indenture
Trustee in the Collection Account the Redemption Price of the Class A-4 Notes
and the Class B Notes to be redeemed, whereupon all such Class A-4 Notes and
Class B Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date.
(b) In the event that the assets of the Issuer are sold pursuant
to Section 9.2 of the Trust Agreement, all amounts on deposit in the Collection
Account and the Principal Distribution Account shall be paid to the Noteholders
up to an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the Notes and all
accrued and unpaid interest thereon. If the amounts in the Collection Account
and the Principal Distribution Account are to be paid to Noteholders pursuant
to this Section 10.1(b), the Servicer or the Issuer shall, to the extent
practicable, furnish notice of such event to the Indenture Trustee not later
than forty (40) days prior to the Redemption Date, whereupon all such amounts
shall be payable on the Redemption Date.
SECTION 10.2. Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption
under Section 10.1(a) shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class
mail, postage
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prepaid, or by facsimile mailed or transmitted promptly following receipt of
notice from the Issuer or Servicer pursuant to Section 10.1(a), but not later
than thirty (30) days prior to the applicable Redemption Date, to each
Noteholder as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding the
applicable Redemption Date, at such Noteholder's address or facsimile number
appearing in the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price (which shall be the office or
agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section
3.2); and
(iv) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price
will become due and payable upon each such Note and that interest
thereon shall cease to accrue for and after said date.
Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of
redemption, or any defect therein, to any Noteholder shall not impair or affect
the validity of the redemption of any other Note.
SECTION 10.3. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes to be
redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.2 (in
the case of redemption pursuant to Section 10.1(a)), shall on the Redemption
Date become due and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless the Issuer
shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue
on the Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest
is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a)
Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to
the Indenture Trustee (i) 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, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the
opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate
from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements
of this Section 11.1, 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, 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 signatory of such certificate or
opinion has read or has caused to be 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 signatory,
such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable such signatory 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
signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
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(b)(i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property
or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the
release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture,
the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.1(a) or
elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such deposit) to
the Issuer of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so
deposited.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating
the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in
clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture
Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the
fair value to the Issuer of the securities to be so deposited and
of all other such securities made the basis of any such
withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then-current
fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates
delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is
ten percent (10%) or more of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, but such a certificate need not be furnished with
respect to any securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof
to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer's Certificate
is less than $25,000 or less than one percent (1%) of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be
released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also
furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate
certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such
release) of the property or securities proposed to be released
and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed
release will not
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impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the
provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating
the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in
clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same
matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of
all other property, other than property as contemplated by clause
(v) below or securities released from the lien of this Indenture
since the commencement of the then-current calendar year, as set
forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above and this
clause (iv), equals ten percent (10%) or more of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding, but such certificate need not be
furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if
the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer's
Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent (1%) of
the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding.
(v) Notwithstanding Section 2.10 or any other provisions
of this Section 11.1, the Issuer may, without compliance with the
requirements of the other provisions of this Section 11.1, (A)
collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables and
Financed Vehicles as and to the extent permitted or required by
the Basic Documents and (B) make cash payments out of the Trust
Accounts and the Payahead Account as and to the extent permitted
or required by the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.2. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.
(a) 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 some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to
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other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such
matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the
Issuer 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 such officer's
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an
Authorized Officer 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 Servicer, the Seller, the Administrator or the
Issuer, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Servicer, the Seller, the Administrator or the Issuer, or
in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion
or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, comments, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
(d) Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any
application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided
that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of
such application, or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term
hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting
of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as
the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in
such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such
application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The
foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's
right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained
in any such document as provided in Article VI.
SECTION 11.3. Acts of Noteholders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in
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and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed
by such Noteholders 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 Indenture
Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied herein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Noteholders
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 Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this
Section 11.3.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Noteholder of any Notes shall bind the
Noteholder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered
to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether
or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.
SECTION 11.4. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and
Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted
by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders is to
be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder, the
Servicer, the Administrator or the Issuer shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
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filed in writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at its
Corporate Trust office; or
(ii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any
Noteholder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in
writing and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer
addressed to: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, in care of
PNC Bank, Delaware, 222 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware
19801, Attention: Michael B. McCarthy, with a copy to the
Administrator at The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48121,
Attention: Secretary, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer or
the Administrator. The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice
received by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be in writing,
personally delivered, telecopied or mailed by certified mail, return receipt
requested, to (i) in the case of Moody's, at the following address: Moody's
Investors Service, Inc., ABS Monitoring Department, 99 Church Street, New York,
New York 10007, (ii) in case of Standard & Poor's, at the following address:
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, 26 Broadway (15th Floor), New York, New
York 10004, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department and (iii) in the
case of Fitch, at the following address: Fitch IBCA, Inc., 1201 East 7th
Street, Powell, Wyoming 82435, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance.
SECTION 11.5. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. (a) Where this
Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such
event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed
to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to
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other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided
shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.
(b) Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by any 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 Noteholders shall be filed with the
Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
(c) In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service
as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be
impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is
required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any
manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
(d) Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating
Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or
obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute
a Default or Event of Default.
SECTION 11.6. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the
contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Noteholder providing
for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Note Paying
Agent to such Noteholder, that is different from the methods provided for in
this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee shall
cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such
agreements.
SECTION 11.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof
that is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by any of the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required or deemed provision shall
control.
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The provisions of TIA Sections 310 through 317 that impose duties
on any Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein
unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this
Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.
SECTION 11.8. 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.
SECTION 11.9. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the
Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and
agents.
SECTION 11.10. Separability. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Notes 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.
SECTION 11.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the
parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders, and any
other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest
in any part of the Indenture Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on
which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
SECTION 11.13. Governing Law. This Indenture shall be construed
in accordance with the laws of the
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State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions.
SECTION 11.14. Counterparts. This Indenture 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.
SECTION 11.15. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is
subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such
recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other
counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any
other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy
granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.16. Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken,
directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual
capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may
have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the
Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacities), and
except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to
the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock,
unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to
such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any
duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be
subject to, and
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entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI, VII and
VIII of the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 11.17. No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering
into this Indenture, and each Noteholder or Note Owner, by accepting a Note or,
in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, hereby covenant
and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Seller, the
General Partner or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller,
the General Partner or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under
any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection with
any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the other Basic
Documents.
SECTION 11.18. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, with
reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture
Trustee, during the Issuer's normal business hours, to examine all the books of
account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and
extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified
public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts
with the Issuer's officers, employees, and Independent certified public
accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably
requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives to
hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be
required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are
unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have
caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers,
thereunto duly authorized and duly attested, all as of the day and year first
above written.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
By: /s/ Michael B. McCarthy
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Name: Michael B. McCarthy
Title: Vice President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual
capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ Michael A. Smith
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Name: Michael A. Smith
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A-1
[FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $647,000,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 34527RAS2
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS A-1 5.545% ASSET BACKED NOTES
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or
registered assigns, the principal sum of SIX HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN MILLION
DOLLARS payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result
obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $647,000,000
(the original face amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is
$647,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable to Noteholders of
Class A-1 Notes on such Distribution Date from the Principal Distribution
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1
of the Indenture dated
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as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified and in effect, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase
Manhattan Bank, a New York corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity
the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the February 1999 Distribution
Date (the "Class A-1 Final Scheduled Distribution Date"). Capitalized terms
used but not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which
also contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum
shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid
or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding
on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of
principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain
limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note
will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the previous
Distribution Date on which interest has been paid (or, in the case of the
initial Distribution Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding such
Distribution Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of actual days
elapsed and a 360-day year. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall
be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the
Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and
payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set
forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully
set forth on the face of this Note.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on
the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By:
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Authorized Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class A-1 Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: February 26, 1998
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Issuer, designated as its Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A- 1
Notes") which, together with the Issuer's Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3
Notes"), Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes , the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3
Notes, the "Class A Notes") and Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B
Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"), are issued under the
Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations
thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes
are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured
by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The Class A-1 Notes are senior in right of payment to the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes, each as and to the
extent provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing March 16, 1998.
As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the Class A-1 Final Scheduled
Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal
amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the Notes to be immediately due
and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All
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principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note on each Distribution Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person whose name appears as the
Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners, with
respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of
the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such payments will be made without requiring that
this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any
payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted
hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture,
for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note
on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder
hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed
or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Distribution Date, and the amount
then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest
at the Class A-1 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations
set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note
Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note
Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of the same Class in authorized
denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for
any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may
be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in
the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees
that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or
employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual
capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such
Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law,
for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution for
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stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call
owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Seller, the General Partner or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller, the General Partner or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for federal, State and local income, and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the
Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each
Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be
deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day
of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture)
is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture
at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the principal amount
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of the Notes Outstanding, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by
the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of
this Note and of any Note 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 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture
Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the
Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.
The term "Issuer", as used in this Note, includes any successor
to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations
as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its
conflicts of law provisions.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its individual capacity, PNC Bank, Delaware, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors
or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had
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to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest on this Note or
performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency,
loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in
the Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
- --------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints _________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
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Signature Guaranteed
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
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EXHIBIT A-2
[FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $535,000,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 34527RAT0
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS A-2 5.60% ASSET BACKED NOTES
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or
registered assigns, the principal sum of FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result
obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $535,000,000
(the original face amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is
$535,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable to Noteholders of
Class A-2 Notes on such Distribution Date from the Principal Distribution
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-2 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1
of the Indenture dated
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as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified and in effect, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase
Manhattan Bank, a New York corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity
the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the July 2000 Distribution Date
(the "Class A-2 Final Scheduled Distribution Date"). Capitalized terms used
but not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also
contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum
shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid
or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding
on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of
principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain
limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note
will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the fifteenth day of
the calendar month immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, in the
case of the initial Distribution Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding
the fifteenth day of the following calendar month. Interest will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the
Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and
payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set
forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully
set forth on the face of this Note.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on
the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By:
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Authorized Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class A-2 Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: February 26, 1998
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Issuer, designated as its Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A- 2
Notes") which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3
Notes"), Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes,
the "Class A Notes") and Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes"
and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"), are issued under the
Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations
thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes
are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-2 Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured
by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The Class A-2 Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes
and senior in right of payment to the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and
the Class B Notes, each as and to the extent provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing March 16, 1998.
As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the Class A-2 Final Scheduled
Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal
amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the Notes to be immediately due
and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All
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principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note on each Distribution Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person whose name appears as the
Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners, with
respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of
the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such payment will be made without requiring that
this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any
payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted
hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture,
for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note
on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder
hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed
or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Distribution Date, and the amount
then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest
at the Class A-2 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations
set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note
Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note
Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of the same Class in authorized
denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for
any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may
be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in
the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees
that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or
employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual
capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such
Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law,
for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution for
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stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call
owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Seller, the General Partner or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller, the General Partner or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for federal, State and local income, and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the
Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each
Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be
deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day
of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture)
is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture
at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the principal amount
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of the Notes Outstanding, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by
the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of
this Note and of any Note 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 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture
Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the
Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.
The term "Issuer", as used in this Note, includes any successor
to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations
as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its
conflicts of law provisions.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its individual capacity, PNC Bank, Delaware, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors
or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had
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to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest on this Note or
performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency,
loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in
the Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
- --------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints _________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
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Signature Guaranteed
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
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EXHIBIT A-3
[FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE]
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $691,500,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 34527RAU7
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS A-3 5.65% ASSET BACKED NOTES
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or
registered assigns, the principal sum of SIX HUNDRED NINETY-ONE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal
to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is
$691,500,000 (the original face amount of this Note) and the denominator of
which is $691,500,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable to
Noteholders of Class A-3 Notes on such Distribution Date from the Principal
Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3 Notes pursuant to
Section 3.1
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of the Indenture dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the "Indenture"), between the
Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York corporation, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that the
entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
October 2001 Distribution Date (the "Class A-3 Final Scheduled Distribution
Date"). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in Article I
of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be
applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum
shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid
or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding
on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of
principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain
limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note
will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the fifteenth day of
the calendar month immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, in the
case of the initial Distribution Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding
the fifteenth day of the following calendar month. Interest will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the
Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and
payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set
forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully
set forth on the face of this Note.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on
the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By:
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Authorized Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class A-3 Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: February 26, 1998
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Issuer, designated as its Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3
Notes") which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2
Notes"), Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes,
the "Class A Notes") and Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes"
and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"), are issued under the
Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations
thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes
are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-3 Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured
by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The Class A-3 Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A-1 Notes
and the Class A-2 Notes and are senior in right of payment to the Class A-4
Notes and the Class B Notes, each as and to the extent provided in the Inden-
ture.
Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing March 16, 1998.
As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the Class A-3 Final Scheduled
Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal
amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the Notes to be immediately due
and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All
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principal payments on the Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note on each Distribution Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person whose name appears as the
Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners, with
respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of
the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such payments will be made without requiring that
this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any
payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted
hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture,
for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note
on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder
hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed
or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Distribution Date, and the amount
then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest
at the Class A-3 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations
set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note
Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note
Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of the same Class in authorized
denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for
any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may
be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in
the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees
that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or
employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual
capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such
Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law,
for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution for
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stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call
owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Seller, the General Partner or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller, the General Partner or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for federal, State and local income, and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the
Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each
Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be
deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day
of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture)
is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture
at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the principal amount
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of the Notes Outstanding, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by
the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of
this Note and of any Note 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 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture
Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the
Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.
The term "Issuer", as used in this Note, includes any successor
to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations
as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its
conflicts of law provisions.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its individual capacity, PNC Bank, Delaware, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors
or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had
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to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest on this Note or
performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency,
loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in
the Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints _________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
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Signature Guaranteed
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
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EXHIBIT A-4
[FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE]
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY
STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS NOTE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE UNLESS THE
TRANSFEROR THEREOF DELIVERS TO THE ISSUER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, AND THE NOTE
REGISTRAR (1) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL STATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS
UPON WHICH SUCH NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED AND THAT THE PURPORTED TRANSFER
COMPLIES WITH SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS, (2) SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE
ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER AND THE ADMINISTRATOR THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR (3) TO THE
ISSUER OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS
OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE
UNITED STATES. IN ADDITION TO THE FOREGOING, NO TRANSFER OF ANY CLASS A-4
NOTES MAY BE MADE IF SUCH TRANSFER WOULD, AFTER GIVING EFFECT TO THE
INTEGRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, REQUIRE REGISTRATION OF THE
CLASS A-4 NOTES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, UNLESS FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO L.P. CONSENTS TO SUCH REGISTRATION.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $300,000,000
No. R-1
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS A-4 5.70% ASSET BACKED NOTES
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to FORD MOTOR CREDIT
COMPANY, or registered assigns, the principal sum
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of THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS payable on each Distribution Date in an amount
equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of
which is $300,000,000 (the original face amount of this Note) and the
denominator of which is $300,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any,
payable to Noteholders of Class A-4 Notes on such Distribution Date from the
Principal Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class A-4 Notes
pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from
time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the
"Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York
corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee");
provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on the earlier of the June 2002 Distribution Date (the
"Class A-4 Final Scheduled Distribution Date") and the Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.1(a) of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains
rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum
shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid
or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding
on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of
principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain
limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note
will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the fifteenth day of
the calendar month immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, in the
case of the initial Distribution Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding
the fifteenth day of the following calendar month. Interest will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the
Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and
payable on this Note as
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provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set
forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully
set forth on the face of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on
the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By:
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Authorized Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class A-4 Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: February 26, 1998
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Issuer, designated as its Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4
Notes") which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2
Notes"), Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes,
the "Class A Notes") and Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes"
and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"), are issued under the
Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations
thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes
are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class A-4 Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured
by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The Class A-4 Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A-1
Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes and are senior in right of
payment to the Class B Notes, each as and to the extent provided in the Inden-
ture.
Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing March 16, 1998.
As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class A-4
Final Scheduled Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1(a) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on
which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the
Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided
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in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4 Notes
shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note on each Distribution Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person whose name appears as the
Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners, with
respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of
the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such payments will be made without requiring that
this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any
payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted
hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture,
for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note
on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder
hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed
or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Distribution Date, and the amount
then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture
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Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest
at the Class A-4 Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B
Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, in the manner and to the
extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
The transfer of this Note is subject to the restrictions on
transfer specified on the face hereof and to the other limitations set forth in
the Indenture. Subject to the satisfaction of such restrictions and
limitations, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or
agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note
Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of the same Class in authorized
denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for
any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may
be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in
the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees
that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent,
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officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or
assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual
capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that
any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent
provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid
capital contribution for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay
any installment or call owing to such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Seller, the General Partner or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller, the General Partner or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for federal, State and local income, and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the
Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each
Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be
deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day
of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture)
is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture
at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Noteholder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and
of any Note 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 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend
or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of the Noteholders.
The term "Issuer", as used in this Note, includes any successor
to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations
as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its
conflicts of law provisions.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its individual capacity, PNC Bank, Delaware, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors
or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of
them for, the payment of principal or of interest on this Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency,
loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in
the Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
- --------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints _________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
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Signature Guaranteed
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
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EXHIBIT A-5
[FORM OF CLASS B NOTE]
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE
LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
REGISTERED $________________
No. R-____ CUSIP NO. 34527RAV5
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS B 5.95% ASSET BACKED NOTES
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
"Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____________, or
registered assigns, the principal sum of ___________ DOLLARS payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $__________ (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $80,500,000 by (ii) the aggregate
amount, if any, payable to Noteholders of Class B Notes on such Distribution
Date from the Principal Distribution Account in respect of principal on the
Class B Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of February 1,
1998 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in
effect, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a
New York corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the October 2002 Distribution
Date (the "Class B Final Scheduled Distribution Date") and the Redemption Date,
if any, pursuant to Section 10.1(a) of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used
but not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also
contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum
shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid
or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding
on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of
principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain
limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note
will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the fifteenth day of
the calendar month immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, in the
case of the initial Distribution Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding
the fifteenth day of the following calendar month. Interest will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the
Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and
payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set
forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully
set forth on the face of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on
the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set
forth below.
Date: February 26, 1998
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement
By:
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Authorized Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class B Notes designated above and referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Date: February 26, 1998
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Issuer, designated as its Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes"
and, together with the Class A Notes referred to below, the "Notes") which,
together with the Issuer's Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1
Notes"), Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3
5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes") and Class A-4 5.70% Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes"), are issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Class B Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by
the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture. The
Class B Notes are subordinated in right of payment to the Class A Notes as and
to the extent provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class B Notes will be payable on each
Distribution Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Distribution
Date" means the fifteenth day of each month, or, if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing March 16, 1998.
As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal
amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class B
Final Scheduled Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1(a) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on
which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have declared the
Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2
of the Indenture. All principal payments
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on the Class B Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled
thereto.
Payments of interest on this Note on each Distribution Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person whose name appears as the
Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the
Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire
transfer in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a
bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder
shall have provided to the Note Registrar appropriate written instructions at
least five (5) Business Days prior to such Distribution Date and such
Noteholder's Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than
$1,000,000, or, if not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date;
provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners, with
respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of
the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee. Such payments will be made without requiring that
this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal
amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any
payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted
hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture,
for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note
on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder
hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed
or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Distribution Date, and the amount
then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.
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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest
at the Class B Rate to the extent lawful.
As provided in the Indenture, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B
Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, in the manner and to the
extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations
set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note
Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note
Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of the same Class in authorized
denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for
any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may
be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer
or exchange.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in
the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees
that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
each in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or
employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual
capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, except as any such
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Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law,
for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution for stock,
unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to
such entity.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the
case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by
accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Noteholder or Note Owner will
not at any time institute against the Seller, the General Partner or the
Issuer, or join in any institution against the Seller, the General Partner or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the
Indenture or the other Basic Documents.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued
with the intention that, for federal, State and local income, and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the
Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each
Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be
deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income, single
business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day
of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture)
is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture
at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Noteholders of
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Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders
of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Noteholder
of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and
of any Note 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 Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend
or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the
consent of the Noteholders.
The term "Issuer", as used in this Note, includes any successor
to the Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain
circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders under the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations
as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its
conflicts of law provisions.
No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture, shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
The Class B Notes may not be acquired by or on behalf of a Person
other than (A) a citizen or resident of the United States, (B) a corporation or
partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or
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any political subdivision thereof, (C) an estate the income of which is
includible in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless of its
source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary supervision
over the administration of such trust and one or more Persons meeting the
conditions of this paragraph has the authority to control all substantial
decisions of the trust or (E) a Person not described in clauses (A) through (D)
above whose ownership of the Class B Notes is effectively connected with such
Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within the
meaning of the Code) and who provides the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer with
an IRS Form 4224 (and such other certifications, representations, or opinions
of counsel as may be requested by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer).
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its individual capacity, PNC Bank, Delaware, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors
or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of
them for, the payment of principal or of interest on this Note or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by
his acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the
Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency,
loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in
the Indenture or in this Note.
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ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints _________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: */
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Signature Guaranteed
*/
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
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EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT]
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER]
[Date]
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A,
as Issuer
The Chase Manhattan Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and
as Note Registrar
450 West 33rd Street
New York, New York 10001
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of the Class B 5.95% Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A (the
"Issuer"), a trust formed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P., we confirm
that:
1. We are, and each account (if any) for which we are purchasing
the Class B Notes is, a person who is (A) a citizen or resident of the United
States, (B) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the
United States or any political subdivision thereof, (C) an estate the income of
which is includible in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless
of its source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary
supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more Persons
meeting the conditions of clause (A), (B), (C) or (E) of this paragraph 1 has
the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (E) a Person
not described in clauses (A) through (D) above whose ownership of the Class B
Notes is effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or
business within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and who
provides the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer with an IRS Form 4224 (and such
other certifications, representations, or opinions of counsel as may be
requested by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer).
2. We understand that any purported transfer of any Class B Note
(or any interest therein) to any person who does not meet the conditions of
paragraph 1
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above shall be null and void, and the purported transferee in any such
purported transfer shall not be recognized by the Issuer or any other person as
a Noteholder of a Class B Note for any purpose.
3. We agree that if we determine to transfer any of the Class B
Notes we will cause our proposed transferee to provide to the Indenture
Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Issuer a letter substantially in the form
of this letter.
You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized
to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any
administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By:
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Name:
Title:
Securities To Be Purchased:
$ principal amount of Class B Notes
Annex A attached hereto lists the name of the account and principal amount of
Class B Notes purchased for each account (if any) for which we are purchasing
Class B Notes.
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SCHEDULE A
Schedule of Receivables
[Provided to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing]
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APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
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EXHIBIT 4.2
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
between
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P.
as Depositor,
and
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
as Owner Trustee
Dated as of February 1, 1998
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION OF THE TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.2. Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SECTION 2.5. Capital Contribution of Owner
Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SECTION 2.7. Liability of the Depositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of
the Depositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 2.11. Federal Income Tax Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ARTICLE III
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
SECTION 3.1. Initial Beneficial Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 3.2. Capital Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 3.3. The Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 3.4. Authentication of Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 3.5. Registration of Certificates;
Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.7. Persons Deemed Owners of
Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.8. Access to List of Certificate-
holders' Names and Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 3.9. Maintenance of Office or
Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 3.10. Appointment of Certificate
Paying Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 3.11. Certain Rights of Depositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Certificate-
holders with Respect to
Certain Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholders with
Respect to Certain Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholders with
Respect to Bankruptcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificate-
holders' Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 4.5. Majority Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1. Establishment of Certificate
Distribution Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 5.2. Application of Trust Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 5.3. Method of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.4. No Segregation of Monies; No
Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.5. Accounting and Reports to
Noteholders, Certificate-
holders, Internal Revenue
Service and Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 5.6. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ARTICLE VI
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. General Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 6.2. General Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 6.5. No Action Except Under Specified
Documents or Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
ARTICLE VII
REGARDING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual
Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Receivables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 7.7. Bank May Own Certificates and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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ARTICLE VIII
COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and
Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 8.3. Payments to Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 9.2. Dissolution upon Insolvency or Dissolution of Depositor or
General Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 9.3. Prepayment of Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ARTICLE X
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 11.2. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Certificateholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.3. Limitation on Rights of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.4. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 11.5. Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 11.6. Separate Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 11.7. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 11.8. No Petition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 11.9. No Recourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 11.10. Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 11.11. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
EXHIBIT A Form of Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
EXHIBIT B Form of Certificate of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
EXHIBIT C Form of Investment Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1
EXHIBIT D Form of Investment Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-1
EXHIBIT E Form of Investment Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E-1
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EXHIBIT F Form of Rule 144A Transferor
Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-1
EXHIBIT G Form of Certificate of Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-1
APPENDIX A Definitions and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AA-1
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of February 1,
1998 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in
effect, this "Agreement"), between FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership, as Depositor, having its principal executive
office at The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48121; and PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
a Delaware banking corporation (the "Bank"), not in its individual capacity but
solely as trustee under this Agreement (in such capacity, the "Owner Trustee"),
having its principal corporate trust office at 222 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington,
Delaware 19801.
WHEREAS, the parties hereto intend to amend and restate that
certain Trust Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998, between the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual
covenants herein contained, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may
otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are
defined in Appendix A hereto, which also contains rules as to usage that shall
be applicable herein.
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ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION OF THE TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known
as "Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A", in which name the Owner Trustee may
conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in
care of the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other
address in the State of Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written
notice to the Certificateholders and the Depositor.
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the
Trust is, and the Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage in the
following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, and the
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell the Notes and the
Certificates upon the written order of the Depositor;
(ii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the
Certificates, to fund the Reserve Account, to pay the organizational,
start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust, and to pay the
balance to the Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iii) to pay interest on and principal of the Notes and
distributions on the Certificates;
(iv) to Grant the Owner Trust Estate (other than the
Certificate Distribution Account and the proceeds thereof) to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture;
(v) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is to be a party;
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(vi) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish
the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(vii) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to
engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions
to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The
Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the
foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor
hereby appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the
date hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5. Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. As
of February 1, 1998, the Depositor sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed and
set over to the Owner Trustee the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of such date, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor
shall pay the organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall,
upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for
any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee. On the Closing Date, the
Depositor shall convey to the Trust the Trust Property and the Owner Trustee
shall convey to the Depositor the Notes and the Certificates.
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to
the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the
Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic
Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that (i) the Trust
constitute a business trust under the Business Trust Statute and that this
Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such
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business trust and (ii) for income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall
be treated as a partnership, with the assets of the partnership being the
Receivables and other assets held by the Trust, the partners of the partnership
being the Certificateholders and the Depositor and the Notes constituting
indebtedness of the partnership. The parties agree that, unless otherwise
required by the appropriate tax authorities, the Depositor, on behalf of the
Trust, will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns,
reports and other forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as a
partnership for such tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner
Trustee shall have the rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the
Business Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
The Owner Trustee has filed the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of
State.
SECTION 2.7. Liability of the Depositor. (a)
Notwithstanding Section 3803 of the Business Trust Statute, the Depositor in
its capacity as the holder of the interests described in Section 3.11 shall be
liable directly to, and will indemnify each injured party for, all losses,
claims, damages, liabilities and expenses of the Trust (including Expenses, to
the extent that the assets of the Trust that would remain if all of the Notes
were paid in full would be insufficient to pay any such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or expenses, or to the extent that such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities and expenses in fact are not paid out of the Owner Trust
Estate) that the Depositor would be liable for if the Trust were a partnership
under the Limited Partnership Act in which the Depositor were a general
partner; provided, however, that the Depositor shall not be liable to or
indemnify Noteholders or Note Owners for any losses incurred by Noteholders or
Note Owners in their capacity as holders of or beneficial owners of interests
in limited recourse debt secured by the Owner Trust Estate or be liable to or
indemnify Certificateholders for any losses incurred by the Certificateholders
if such losses would nevertheless have been incurred if the Certificates were
limited recourse debt secured by the Owner Trust Estate. In addition, any
third-party creditors of the Trust, or the arrangement between the Depositor
and the Trust (other than in connection with the obligations described in the
preceding sentence for which the Depositor
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shall not be liable), shall be deemed third-party beneficiaries of this
paragraph.
(b) No Certificateholder other than the Depositor to the
extent set forth in paragraph (a) of this Section 2.7, shall have any personal
liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust.
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to the
entirety of the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as
a separate legal entity, except where applicable law in any jurisdiction
requires title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee
or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner
Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located and
administered in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the
Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware
or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state
other than the State of Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall
restrict or prohibit the Bank or the Owner Trustee from having employees within
or without the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only
in Delaware or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from
Delaware or New York. The only office of the Trust will be at the Corporate
Trust Office in the State of Delaware.
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee
that:
(a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a
limited partnership in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as
such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a
foreign limited partnership in good standing, and has obtained all necessary
licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease
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of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms, and the Depositor has full
power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to,
and deposited with, the Trust, and the Depositor has duly authorized such sale
and assignment and deposit to the Trust; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Depositor.
(d) This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding
obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against the Depositor in accordance
with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship, receivership, liquidation and
other similar laws and to general equitable principles.
(e) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, the Certificate of
Limited Partnership or the Limited Partnership Agreement, or any indenture,
agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it
is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any lien upon any of its
properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other
instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law
or, to the best of the Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation
applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties.
(f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to
the Depositor's best knowledge, threatened before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Depositor or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other Basic Documents, the Notes or the
Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the
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Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, (iii)
seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of, this Agreement or (iv) which might adversely affect the
federal income tax attributes, or Applicable Tax State franchise or income tax
attributes, of the Notes and the Certificates.
(g) The representations and warranties of the Depositor in
Section 3.1 of the Purchase Agreement are true and correct.
SECTION 2.11. Federal Income Tax Matters. The
Certificateholders acknowledge that it is their intent and that they understand
it is the intent of the Depositor and the Servicer that, for purposes of
federal income, state and local income and franchise tax and any other income
taxes, the Trust will be treated as a partnership and the Certificateholders
and the Depositor will be treated as partners in that partnership. The
Depositor hereby agrees and the Certificateholders by acceptance of a
Certificate agree to such treatment and each agrees to take no action
inconsistent with such treatment. For purposes of federal income, State and
local income and franchise tax and any other income taxes each month:
(a) amounts paid to any Certificateholder pursuant to
Section 5.2(a)(i) shall be treated as a guaranteed payment within the
meaning of Section 707(c) of the Code;
(b) to the extent the characterization provided for in
paragraph (a) of this Section 2.11 is not respected, gross ordinary
income of the Trust for such month as determined for federal income
tax purposes shall be allocated among the Certificate-holders of each
Class of Certificates as of the Record Date occurring within such
month, in proportion to their ownership of the Aggregate Certificate
Balance on such date, in an amount up to the sum of (i) the Accrued
Class C Certificate Interest or Accrued Class D Certificate Interest,
as applicable, for such Class for such month, (ii) the portion of
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the market discount on the Receivables accrued during such month that
is allocable to the excess, if any, of the aggregate Initial
Certificate Balance of such class of Certificates over the initial
aggregate issue price of such Class of Certificates and (iii) any
amount expected to be distributed to the Certificateholders of such
Class pursuant to Sections 4.6(c) and (d) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement (to the extent not previously allocated pursuant to this
paragraph (b)) to the extent necessary to reverse any net loss
previously allocated to Certificateholders of such Class (to the
extent not previously reversed pursuant to this clause (iii)); and
(c) thereafter all remaining net income of the Trust
(subject to the modifications set forth below) for such month as
determined for federal income tax purposes (and each item of income,
gain, credit, loss or deduction entering into the computation thereof)
shall be allocated to the Depositor, to the extent thereof.
If the gross ordinary income of the Trust for any month is insufficient for the
allocations described in paragraph (b) above, subsequent gross ordinary income
shall first be allocated to make up such shortfall before any allocation
pursuant to paragraph (c) above. Net losses of the Trust, if any, for any
month as determined for federal income tax purposes (and each item of income,
gain, credit, loss or deduction entering into the computation thereof) shall be
allocated to the Depositor to the extent the Depositor, in its capacity as
"general partner," is reasonably expected to bear the economic burden of such
net losses, and any remaining net losses shall be allocated among the
Certificateholders as of the Record Date occurring within such month in
proportion to their ownership of the Aggregate Certificate Balance on such
Record Date. The Depositor is authorized to modify the allocations in this
paragraph if necessary or appropriate, in its sole discretion, for the
allocations to fairly reflect the economic income, gain or loss to the
Depositor or the Certificateholders or as otherwise required by the Code.
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ARTICLE III
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
SECTION 3.1. Initial Beneficial Ownership. Upon the
formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section
2.5 and until the issuance of the Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole
beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION 3.2. Capital Accounts. (a) The Owner Trustee shall
establish and maintain a separate bookkeeping account (a "Capital Account") for
the Depositor and each Certificateholder. The initial balance of the Capital
Account for (i) each Certificateholder shall be the amount initially paid for
such Certificateholder's Certificates and (ii) the Depositor shall be (x) the
fair market value of the Receivables minus (y) the proceeds of the sale of
Notes and Certificates net of the Reserve Initial Deposit. The Capital Account
of the Depositor or each Certificateholder shall also be increased by (i) the
dollar amount of any additional cash contributions made by the Depositor or
such Certificateholder, as the case may be, (ii) the fair market value of any
property (other than cash) contributed to the Trust by the Depositor or such
Certificateholder, as the case may be (net of any liabilities to which the
property is subject), and (iii) allocations to the Depositor or such
Certificateholder, as the case may be, of income and gain (including income
exempt from tax). The Capital Account of the Depositor or each
Certificateholder shall be decreased by (i) the dollar amount of any cash
distributions made to the Depositor or such Certificateholder, as the case may
be, (ii) the fair market value of any property (other than cash) distributed to
the Depositor or such Certificateholder, as the case may be (net of any
liabilities to which the property is subject), (iii) allocations to the
Depositor or such Certificateholder, as the case may be, of loss or deductions
(or items thereof), and (iv) any allocations of expenditures of the Trust
described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement to the contrary, the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.2
regarding the maintenance of Capital Accounts shall be construed so as to
comply with the provisions of the Treasury Regulations promulgated
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pursuant to Section 704 of the Code. The Depositor is hereby authorized to
modify these provisions to the minimum extent necessary to comply with such
regulations.
SECTION 3.3. The Certificates. The Class C Certificates and
the Class D Certificates shall each be issued in one or more registered,
definitive, physical certificates, in the form set forth in Exhibit A and
Exhibit B, respectively, in denominations of at least $20,000 and in integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. No Certificate may be sold,
transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of (any
such act, a "Transfer") to any Person except in accordance with the provisions
of Section 3.5 and any attempted Transfer in violation of Section 3.5 shall be
null and void (each a "Void Transfer").
The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by
manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee.
Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to
sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the
benefits of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of
authentication and delivery of such Certificates.
If Transfer of the Certificates is permitted pursuant to
Section 3.5, a transferee of a Certificate shall become a Certificateholder,
and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee's acceptance of a Certificate
duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.5.
SECTION 3.4. Authentication of Certificates. Concurrently
with the initial sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Class C Certificates, in
an aggregate principal balance equal to the Initial Certificate Balance of such
Class C Certificates, and the Class D Certificates, in an aggregate principal
balance equal to the Initial Certificate Balance of such Class D Certificates,
to be executed on behalf of the Trust,
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authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor,
signed by the chairman of the board, the president, any executive vice
president, any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the
treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the General Partner, without further
action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Certificate shall
entitle its Certificateholder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be
valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Certificate a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A
or Exhibit B, as applicable, attached hereto executed by the Owner Trustee by
manual signature; such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that
such Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
All Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.
SECTION 3.5. Registration of Certificates; Transfer and
Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause
to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.9, a
Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Trust shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of
Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. The Bank shall be
the initial Certificate Registrar. No Transfer of a Certificate shall be
recognized except upon registration of such Transfer in the Certificate
Register.
(b) No Transfer of any Class C Certificate shall be
permitted, recognized or recorded unless the prospective transferee of such
Class C Certificate shall provide a letter in the form of Exhibit C hereof to
the Trust, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, in which such
prospective transferee shall represent the following:
(i) It is not, and each account (if any) for which it is
purchasing the Class C Certificates is not, (A) an employee benefit
plan, as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I
of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that
is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as
defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, State or
local law which is, to a material extent, similar to
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the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code,
(D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of
a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department of
Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under
ERISA) or (E) a person investing "plan assets" of any such plan
(including without limitation, for purposes of this clause (E), any
insurance company general account, but excluding any entity registered
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).
(ii) It is, and each account (if any) for which it is
purchasing the Class C Certificates is, a Person who is (A) a citizen
or resident of the United States, (B) a corporation or partnership
organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof, (C) an estate the income of which is includible
in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless of its
source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary
supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more
Persons meeting the conditions of clause (A), (B), (C) or (E) of this
paragraph (ii) has the authority to control all substantial decisions
of the trust or (E) a Person not described in clauses (A) through (D)
above whose ownership of the Class C Certificates is effectively
connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or business within the
United States (within the meaning of the Code) and who provides the
Owner Trustee and the Depositor with an IRS Form 4224 (and such other
certifications, representations, or opinions of counsel as may be
requested by the Owner Trustee or the Depositor).
(iii) It understands that any purported Transfer of any Class
C Certificate (or any interest therein) to any Person who does not
meet the conditions of paragraphs (i) and (ii) above shall be a Void
Transfer, and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer shall not be
recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a Certificateholder for
any purpose.
(iv) It agrees that if it determines to Transfer any of the
Class C Certificates it will cause
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its proposed transferee to provide to the Trust, the Owner Trustee and
the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of
Exhibit C hereof or such other written statement as the Depositor
shall prescribe.
(c) Each Class D Certificate shall bear a legend to the
following effect unless determined otherwise by the Administrator (as certified
to the Owner Trustee in an Officer's Certificate) and the Owner Trustee
consistent with applicable law:
"THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR UNDER
ANY STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE
HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER
APPLICABLE LAWS, AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
("RULE 144A") TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER, WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"), PURCHASING FOR
ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN
EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE, OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE
CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS
EXHIBIT F TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE
CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT
D TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), SUBJECT TO THE
RECEIPT BY THE TRUST, THE INITIAL PURCHASER AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF
SUCH EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST AND THE INITIAL PURCHASER THAT SUCH
REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRUST AGREEMENT
AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, (3) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
"ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR
(7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE
RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN
THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT E TO
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THE TRUST AGREEMENT OR (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUST, THE INITIAL PURCHASER AND
THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST AND
THE INITIAL PURCHASER THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE
LAWS, OR (4) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND
BLUE SKY LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED STATES."
As a condition to the registration of any Transfer of a Class
D Certificate, the prospective transferee of such a Class D Certificate shall
be required to represent in writing to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar and the Initial Purchaser the following:
(i) It understands that no subsequent Transfer of
the Class D Certificates is permitted unless it causes its proposed
transferee to provide to the Trust, the Certificate Registrar and the
Initial Purchaser a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit D or
Exhibit E hereof, as applicable, or such other written statement as
the Depositor shall prescribe.
(ii) It is not (A) an employee benefit plan, as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA,
(B) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject
to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in
Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, State or local law
which is, to a material extent, similar to the provisions of Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose
underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment
in the entity (within the meaning of Department of Labor Regulation 29
C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or (E) a person
investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without
limitation, for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company
general account, but excluding any entity registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).
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(iii) It is a person who is (A) a citizen or
resident of the United States, (B) a corporation or partnership
organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof, (c) an estate the income of which is includible
in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless of its
source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary
supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more
persons described in clause (A), (B), (C) or (E) of this paragraph
(iii) has the authority to control all substantial decisions of the
trust or (E) a person not described in clauses (A) though (D) of this
paragraph (iii) whose ownership of the Class D Certificates is
effectively connected with such person's conduct of a trade or
business within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and
who provides the Trust and the Depositor with an IRS Form 4224 (and
such other certifications, representations, or opinions of counsel as
may be requested by the Trust or the Depositor).
(iv) It understands that any purported Transfer of
any Class D Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention of
any of the restrictions and conditions contained in this Section will
be a Void Transfer, and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer
will not be recognized by the Trust or any other person as a
Certificateholder for any purpose.
(d) By acceptance of any Class D Certificate, the
Certificateholder thereof specifically agrees with and represents to the
Depositor, the Trust and the Certificate Registrar, that no Transfer of such
Class D Certificate shall be made unless the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and any applicable State securities laws are complied with, or
such Transfer is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities
Act because the Transfer satisfies one of the following:
(i) such Transfer is in compliance with Rule 144A
under the Securities Act ("Rule 144A"), to a transferee who the
transferor reasonably believes is a Qualified Institutional Buyer that
is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a
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Qualified Institutional Buyer and to whom notice is given that such
Transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A under the Securities
Act and (x) the transferor executes and delivers to the Trust and the
Certificate Registrar, a Rule 144A transferor certificate
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit F and (y) the transferee
executes and delivers to the Trust and the Certificate Registrar an
investment letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.
(ii) after the appropriate holding period, such
Transfer is pursuant to an exemption from registration under the
Securities Act provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act and the
transferee, if requested by the Trust, the Certificate Registrar or
the Initial Purchaser, delivers an Opinion of Counsel in form and
substance satisfactory to the Trust and the Initial Purchaser; and
(iii) such Transfer is to an institutional accredited
investor as defined in rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D
promulgated under the Securities Act in a transaction exempt from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, such Transfer is in
accordance with any applicable securities laws of any State of the
United States or any other jurisdiction, and such investor executes
and delivers to the Trust and the Certificate Registrar an investment
letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E.
(e) The Owner Trustee shall make available to the
prospective transferor and transferee of a Class D Certificate information
requested to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A (the
"Rule 144A Information"). The Rule 144A Information shall include any or all
of the following items requested by the prospective transferee:
(i) the private placement memorandum relating to the
Class D Certificates dated February 19, 1998, and any amendments or
supplements thereto;
(ii) each statement delivered to Certificateholders
pursuant to Section 5.2(b) on each Distribution Date preceding such
request; and
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(iii) such other information as is reasonably
available to the Owner Trustee in order to comply with requests for
information pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
None of the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner
Trustee is under an obligation to register any Class D Certificate under the
Securities Act or any other securities law.
(f) Upon surrender for registration of Transfer of any
Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.9 and upon
compliance with any provisions of this Agreement relating to such Transfer, the
Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in
authorized denominations of a like Class and aggregate amount dated the date of
authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option
of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates
of authorized denominations of a like Class and aggregate amount upon surrender
of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant
to Section 3.9.
Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, duly
executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
with such signature guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange
or a commercial bank or trust company. Each Certificate surrendered for
registration of Transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary
practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any Transfer or
exchange of Certificates.
The preceding provisions of this Section 3.5 notwithstanding,
the Owner Trustee shall not make and the
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Certificate Registrar need not register any Transfer or exchange of
Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date
for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
SECTION 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Certificate shall be surrendered to the
Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence
to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and
(b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
harmless, then, in the absence of notice that such Certificate shall have been
acquired by a protected purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust
shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for, or in lieu of, any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate a
new Certificate of like Class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 3.6, the Owner Trustee or
the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
therewith. Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.6 shall
constitute conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found
at any time.
SECTION 3.7. Persons Deemed Owners of Certificates. Prior to
due presentation of a Certificate for registration of Transfer, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any Certificate Paying Agent may treat
the Person in whose name any Certificate shall be registered in the Certificate
Register as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving
distributions pursuant to Section 5.2 and for all other purposes whatsoever,
and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Certificate
Paying Agent shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.8. Access to List of Certificate-holders' Names and
Addresses. The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Servicer and the Depositor, or to the Indenture Trustee, within fifteen (15)
days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a written
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request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor, or the Indenture Trustee,
as the case may be, a list, in such form as the requesting party may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most
recent Record Date. If three or more Certificateholders or one or more
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the
Aggregate Certificate Balance apply in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such
application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under
the Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the
communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee
shall, within five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such application,
afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list
of Certificateholders. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Depositor,
the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the
disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
SECTION 3.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner
Trustee shall maintain in the State of Delaware, an office or offices or agency
or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of Transfer
or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in
respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner
Trustee initially designates PNC Bank, Delaware, 222 Delaware Avenue,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Attention: Michael B. McCarthy as its principal
corporate trust office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt
written notice to the Depositor and to the Certificateholders of any change in
the location of the Certificate Registrar or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.10. Appointment of Certificate Paying Agent. The
Certificate Paying Agent shall make distributions to Certificateholders from
each Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.2 and shall report
the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Certificate Paying
Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from each Certificate
Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions
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referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the
Certificate Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion
that the Certificate Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations
under this Agreement in any material respect. The Certificate Paying Agent
shall initially be the Owner Trustee, and any co-paying agent chosen by the
Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Certificate
Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days' written notice to the Owner Trustee. In
the event that the Bank shall no longer be the Certificate Paying Agent, the
Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Certificate Paying Agent
(which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such
successor Certificate Paying Agent or any additional Certificate Paying Agent
appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an
instrument in which such successor Certificate Paying Agent or additional
Certificate Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that as Certificate
Paying Agent, such successor Certificate Paying Agent or additional Certificate
Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the
Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The
Certificate Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee
and upon removal of a Certificate Paying Agent such Certificate Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The
provisions of Sections 7.1, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.1 shall apply to the Owner Trustee
also in its role as Certificate Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee
shall act as Certificate Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any
other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the
Certificate Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context
requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.11. Certain Rights of Depositor. The Depositor
shall be entitled to any amounts not needed on any Distribution Date to make
payments on the Notes or the Certificates or to make deposits to the Reserve
Account pursuant to Section 4.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and to
receive amounts remaining in the Reserve Account following the payment in full
of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate
Balance and of all other amounts owing or to
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be distributed hereunder or under the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement to Noteholders and Certificateholders and the termination of the
Trust. The Depositor may not Transfer any such rights unless it shall have
received an Opinion of Counsel that such Transfer shall not cause the Trust to
be classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation.
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ARTICLE IV
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Certificateholders with Respect
to Certain Matters. With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee
shall not take action unless, (I) at least thirty (30) days before the taking
of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders
and the Rating Agencies in writing of the proposed action and (II)
Certificate-holders holding not less than a majority of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior
to the 30th day after such notice is given that such Certificateholders have
withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any material claim or lawsuit by
the Trust (except claims or lawsuits brought by the Servicer in
connection with the collection of the Receivables) and the settlement
of any material action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the
Trust (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or lawsuits
for collection by the Servicer of the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed
under the Business Trust Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is
required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental
indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not
required and such amendment materially adversely affects the interests
of the Certificateholders;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or the Administration Agreement, except to cure
any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner or
to add any provision that would not materially adversely
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affect the interests of the Certificateholders; or
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a
successor Note Registrar, Note Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee, or
pursuant to this Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or
the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Note Paying Agent
or Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its obligations under
the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to
Certain Matters. The Owner Trustee may not, except upon the occurrence of an
Event of Servicing Termination subsequent to the payment in full of the Notes
and in accordance with the written direction of Certificateholders holding not
less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, (a) remove the
Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to Article VIII
thereof, (b) appoint a successor Servicer pursuant to Article VIII of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, (c) remove the Administrator under the Administration
Agreement pursuant to Section 9 thereof or (d) appoint a successor Administrator
pursuant to Section 9 of the Administration Agreement.
SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to
Bankruptcy. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary
proceeding in bankruptcy relating to the Trust unless the Notes have been paid
in full and each Certificateholder (other than the Depositor) approves of such
commencement in advance and delivers to the Owner Trustee a certificate
certifying that such Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is
insolvent.
SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power. The
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any
obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the
other Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.3, nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
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SECTION 4.5. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided
herein, any action that may be taken by the Certificateholders under this
Agreement may be taken by the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not
less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance. Except as expressly
provided herein, any written notice of the Certificateholders delivered
pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Certificateholders
of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.
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ARTICLE V
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.1. Establishment of Certificate Distribution
Account. Pursuant to Section 4.1(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, there
has been established and there shall be maintained two segregated trust
accounts, each in the name of "PNC Bank, Delaware, as Owner Trustee" at a
Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution (which shall initially be
the corporate trust department of the Bank), which shall be designated as the
"Certificate Interest Distribution Account" and the "Certificate Principal
Distribution Account," respectively (each of the Certificate Interest
Distribution Account and the Certificate Principal Distribution Account, a
"Certificate Distribution Account"). Except as expressly provided in Section
3.10, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and
control of the Owner Trustee. All monies deposited from time to time in each
Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement
shall be applied as provided in the Basic Documents. In the event that either
Certificate Distribution Account is no longer to be maintained at the corporate
trust department of the Bank, the Servicer shall, with the Owner Trustee's
assistance as necessary, cause such Certificate Distribution Account to be
moved to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten
(10) Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar
days as to which each Rating Agency may consent). Each Certificate
Distribution Account will be established and maintained pursuant to an account
agreement which specifies New York law as the governing law.
SECTION 5.2. Application of Trust Funds. (a) On each
Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall, based on the information contained
in the Servicer's Certificate delivered on the relevant Determination Date
pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement:
(i) withdraw the amounts deposited into the
Certificate Interest Distribution Account pursuant to Section
4.6(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement on or prior to such
Distribution Date and make or cause to be made distributions
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and payments in the following order of priority:
(1) first, to the Certificateholders of
Class C Certificates, an amount equal to the Accrued
Class C Certificate Interest, provided that if there
are not sufficient funds available to pay the entire
amount of the Accrued Class C Certificate Interest,
the amounts available shall be applied to the payment
of such interest on the Class C Certificates on a pro
rata basis;
(2) second, to the Certificateholders of
Class D Certificates, an amount equal to the Accrued
Class D Certificate Interest; provided that if there
are not sufficient funds available to pay the entire
amount of the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest,
the amounts available shall be applied to the payment
of such interest on the Class D Certificates on a pro
ratabasis; and
(3) third, to the Depositor, any funds
remaining on deposit in the Certificate Interest
Distribution Account.
(ii) withdraw the amounts deposited into the
Certificate Principal Distribution Account pursuant to
Section 4.6(c) and (d) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement on
or prior to such Distribution Date and make or cause to be
made distributions and payments in the following order of
priority:
(1) first, to the Certificateholders of the
Class C Certificates in reduction of the Certificate
Balance of the Class C Certificates, until the
Certificate Balance of the Class C Certificates has
been reduced to zero; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to reduce the Certificate
Balance of the Class C Certificates to zero, the
amounts available shall be applied to the reduction
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of the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates on a pro rata basis;
(2) second, to the Certificateholders of
the Class D Certificates in reduction of the
Certificate Balance of the Class D Certificates,
until the Certificate Balance of the Class D
Certificates has been reduced to zero; provided that
if there are not sufficient funds available to reduce
the Certificate Balance of the Class D Certificates
to zero, the amounts available shall be applied o the
reduction of the Certificate Balance of the Class D
Certificates on pro rata basis; and
(3) third, to the Depositor, any funds
remaining on deposit in the Certificate Principal
Distribution Account.
(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall, or
shall cause the Certificate Paying Agent to, send to each Certificateholder as
of the related Record Date the statement provided to the Owner Trustee by the
Servicer pursuant to Section 4.9 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with
respect to such Distribution Date.
(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the
Trust's payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax
shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to such Certificateholder in
accordance with this Section 5.2. The Owner Trustee and each Certificate
Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise
distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any
such withholding tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization
shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate
proceedings, and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed
with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to
such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to
the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding
tax is payable with respect to a distribution
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(such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Certificateholder), the Owner Trustee
may, in its sole discretion, withhold such amounts in accordance with this
paragraph (c). In the event that a Certificateholder wishes to apply for a
refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably
cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such
Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of-pocket
expenses incurred.
SECTION 5.3. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.1(c),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution
Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record
Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of
such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities
therefor, if (i) such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate
Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five (5) Business Days
prior to such Distribution Date and such Certificateholder's Certificates in
the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or (ii) such
Certificateholder is the Depositor or, if not, by check mailed to such
Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the
Certificate Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final distribution in
respect of any Certificate (whether on the applicable Final Scheduled
Distribution Date or otherwise) will be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of such Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that
purpose by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 3.9.
SECTION 5.4. No Segregation of Monies; No Interest. Subject
to Sections 5.1 and 5.2, monies received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need
not be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law, the
Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and may be deposited under such
general conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not
be liable for any interest thereon.
SECTION 5.5. Accounting and Reports to Noteholders,
Certificateholders, Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee
shall, based on information provided by or on behalf of the Depositor, (a)
maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the
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Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver
(or cause to be delivered) to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the
Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required
(including Schedule K-1) to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its
federal and State income tax returns, (c) file (or cause to be filed) such tax
returns relating to the Trust (including a partnership information return, IRS
Form 1065), and make such elections as may from time to time be required or
appropriate under any applicable State or federal statute or rule or regulation
thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's characterization as a partnership for
federal income tax purposes, (d) cause such tax returns to be signed in the
manner required by law and (e) collect (or cause to be collected) any
withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section 5.2(c) with
respect to income or distributions to Certificateholders. The Owner Trustee
shall elect under Section 1278 of the Code to include in income currently any
market discount that accrues with respect to the Receivables. The Owner
Trustee shall not make the election provided under Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.6. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner. (a)
The Depositor, as general partner for income tax purposes, shall prepare (or
cause to be prepared) and sign, on behalf of the Trust, the tax returns of the
Trust.
(b) The Depositor shall be designated the "tax matters
partner" of the Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7)(A) of the Code and
applicable Treasury Regulations.
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ARTICLE VI
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is
authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the
Trust is to be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an
exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a
party and any amendment or other agreement, in each case, in such form as the
Depositor shall approve, as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's
execution thereof and the Depositor's execution of this Agreement, and to
direct the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver (i) Class A-1 Notes in
the aggregate principal amount of $647,000,000, (ii) Class A-2 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $535,000,000, (iii) Class A-3 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $691,500,000, (iv) Class A-4 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 and (v) Class B Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $80,500,000. In addition to the foregoing, the
Owner Trustee is authorized to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant
to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to
time to take such action on behalf of the Trust as is permitted by the Basic
Documents and which the Servicer or the Administrator recommends with respect
to the Basic Documents, except to the extent that this Agreement expressly
requires the consent of Certificateholders for such action.
SECTION 6.2. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the
Owner Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its
responsibilities pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which the Trust is a party and to administer the Trust in the
interest of the Certificateholders, subject to the lien of the Indenture and in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the other Basic Documents.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have
discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic
Documents to the extent the Administrator is required in the Administration
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge such duty of the Owner Trustee or
the Trust hereunder or under any other Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to
carry
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out its obligations under the Administration Agreement. Except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation to
administer, service or collect the Receivables or to maintain, monitor or
otherwise supervise the administration, servicing or collection of the
Receivables.
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to
Article IV, and in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the
Certificateholders may, by written instruction, direct the Owner Trustee in the
management of the Trust.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any
action hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action
is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is
contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise
contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide
between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of
this Agreement or any other Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly
give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to
the Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction of the Certificateholders received, the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the
Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10)
days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be
specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may,
but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not
inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem
to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no
liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document or
any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be,
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in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to
take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give
notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Certificateholders requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner
Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such
instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such
action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have
received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or within
such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or
may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty
to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best
interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person
for such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement
or in Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of,
or otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain
from taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated
hereby to which the Owner Trustee or the Trust is a party, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Agreement or in any document or written
instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other
Basic Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public
office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any
Commission filing for the Trust or to record this Agreement or any other Basic
Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost
and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any lien
(other than the lien of the Indenture) on any part of the Owner Trust Estate
that results from actions
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by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee that are not related to the ownership
or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.5. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose
of or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the
Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the other
Basic Documents to which the Trust or the Owner Trust is a party and (iii) in
accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.3.
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take
any action (a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.3 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would
(i) affect the treatment of the Notes as indebtedness for federal income or
Applicable Tax State income or franchise tax purposes, (ii) be deemed to cause
a taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income or Applicable Tax State
income or franchise tax purposes or (iii) cause the Trust or any portion
thereof to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation for federal income or Applicable Tax State income or
franchise tax purposes. The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner
Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.6.
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ARTICLE VII
REGARDING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner
Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties
hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually
received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of
this Agreement to which the Trust or Owner Trustee is a party and the other
Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable
hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i)
for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence or (ii) in the case of
the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.3
expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of
limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error
of judgment made by a responsible officer of the Owner Trustee;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the
instructions of any Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the
Depositor, the Administrator or the Servicer;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic
Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of
its rights or powers hereunder or under any other Basic Document if
the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be
liable for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic
Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes or
amounts distributable on the Certificates;
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(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in
respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the
due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the form, character,
genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust
Estate or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the
other Basic Documents, other than the certificate of authentication on
the Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or
incur any liability, duty, or obligation to any Noteholder or to any
Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in
the other Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default
or misconduct of the Servicer, the Administrator, the Depositor or the
Indenture Trustee under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise and
the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the
obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the other Basic
Documents that are required to be performed by the Administrator under
the Administration Agreement, the Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement,
or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement
or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any other Basic
Document, at the request, order or direction of any of the
Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have offered to the
Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the
costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner
Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform
any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any other
Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be answerable for other than its willful misconduct, bad
faith or negligence in the performance of any such act.
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SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee
shall furnish to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written
request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests,
demands, certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished
to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties. The Owner
Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware. It has all requisite corporate power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to
authorize the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this
Agreement will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this
Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated
hereby nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof
will contravene any federal or Delaware State law, governmental rule
or regulation governing the banking or trust powers of the Owner
Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute any
default under its charter documents or by-laws or any indenture,
mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or
by which any of its properties may be bound.
SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Owner
Trustee may rely upon, shall be protected in relying upon, and shall incur no
liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice,
resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond, or
other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be
signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a
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certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing
body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has
been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect.
As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is not
specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof
rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the
treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact
or matter and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner
Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts
hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly
or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any
of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or
misconduct of such agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have
been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult
with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected with
reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such
Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or any other Basic Document.
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as
provided in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created, the Bank
acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and
all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall
look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or
Receivables. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than
the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificates)
shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor,
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and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.
The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of
this Agreement, of any other Basic Document or of the Certificates (other than
the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificates) or
the Notes, or of any Receivable or related documents. The Owner Trustee and
the Bank shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with
respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the
perfection and priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in
any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or
for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability
to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this
Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture, including, without
limitation: the existence, condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle;
the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and
contents of any Receivable on any computer or other record thereof; the
validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or any intervening
assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the performance or enforcement
of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer with any
warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related
document, or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation or any action
of the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator or the Servicer or any subservicer
taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.7. Bank May Own Certificates and Notes. The Bank,
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Servicer, the
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee in banking transactions with the same
rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
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ARTICLE VIII
COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner
Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as
have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to and
reimbursed by the Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such
agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in
connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties
hereunder. Such amounts shall be treated for tax purposes as having been
contributed to the Trust by the Depositor and the tax deduction for such
amounts shall be allocated to the Depositor.
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification. The Depositor shall be liable
as prime obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Bank and their
respective successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the
"Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable
costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, "Expenses") which
may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner
Trustee, the Bank or any Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising
out of this Agreement, the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the
administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner
Trustee hereunder; provided that the Depositor shall not be liable for or
required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or
resulting from (i) the Indemnified Party's own willful misconduct, bad faith or
negligence, or (ii) the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained
in Section 7.3 expressly made by the Indemnified Party. The indemnities
contained in this Section 8.2 shall survive the resignation or termination of
the Owner Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. In the event of any
claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this
Section 8.2, the Owner Trustee's
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choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Depositor,
which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
SECTION 8.3. Payments to Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid to
the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a
part of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement. (a) This
Agreement (other than the provisions of Article VIII) shall terminate and be of
no further force or effect and the Trust shall dissolve, (i) upon the maturity
or other liquidation of the last remaining Receivable and the disposition of
any amounts received upon such maturity or liquidation, (ii) upon the payment
to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders of all amounts required to be
paid to them pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and Article V or (iii) at the time provided in Section 9.2. Any
Insolvency Event, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity with respect to
any Certificateholder, other than the Depositor as described in Section 9.2,
shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor (y) entitle
such Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting
or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up
of all or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate nor (z) otherwise affect
the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto. Upon
dissolution of the Trust, the Owner Trustee shall wind up the business and
affairs of the Trust as required by Section 3808 of the Business Trust Statute.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.1(a), neither the
Depositor nor any Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate
the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying
the Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their
Certificates to the Certificate Paying Agent for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to
Certificateholders mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice of
such termination from the Servicer, stating (i) the Distribution Date upon or
with respect to which final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Certificate
Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment
(after reservation of sums sufficient to pay all claims and obligations, if
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any, known to the Owner Trustee and payable by the Trust) and (iii) that the
Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable,
payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at
the office of the Certificate Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner
Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the
Owner Trustee) and the Certificate Paying Agent at the time such notice is
given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates, the Certificate Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to
Section 5.2. Upon the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture, and receipt
of a certificate from the Indenture Trustee stating that all Noteholders have
been paid in full and that the Indenture Trustee is aware of no claims
remaining against the Trust in respect of the Indenture and the Notes, the
Owner Trustee, in the absence of actual knowledge of any other claim against
the Trust, shall be deemed to have made reasonable provision to pay all claims
and obligations (including conditional, contingent or unmatured obligations)
for purposes of Section 3808(e) of the Business Trust Statute.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not
surrender their Certificates for cancellation within six (6) months after the
date specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall
give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender
their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with
respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner
Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate
steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of
their Certificates and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and
other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Subject to
applicable escheat laws, any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of
such remedies shall be distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor.
(d) Upon final distribution of any funds remaining in the
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled
by filing a certificate
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of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions
of Section 3810(c) of the Business Trust Statute.
SECTION 9.2. Dissolution upon Insolvency or Dissolution of
Depositor or General Partner. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3808
of the Business Trust Statute, in the event that an Insolvency Event or a
dissolution shall occur with respect to the Depositor or the General Partner,
the Receivables shall be sold and this Agreement and the Trust shall be
terminated in accordance with Section 9.1 ninety (90) days after the date of
such Insolvency Event or the event giving rise to such dissolution, unless,
before the end of such 90-day period, the Owner Trustee shall have received
written instructions from (a) the Certificateholders (other than the Depositor)
of each Class of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Balance of such Class and a majority of the right to receive
distributions in respect of interest on the Certificate Balance of such Class
(including in each case the Certificate Balance of Certificates owned by the
Servicer and any of its Affiliates other than the Depositor), (b) the
Noteholders (other than the Depositor) of each Class of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the principal amount of the outstanding Notes of such
Class and a majority of the right to receive interest on the outstanding Notes
of such Class (including in each case the Notes owned by the Servicer and any
of its Affiliates other than the Depositor), with each of the Class A-1 Notes,
the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B
Notes treated as a separate Class of Notes for this purpose, and (c) holders of
other interests, if any (the existence of which interests the Administrator
will have advised the Owner Trustee in writing), in the Reserve Account (other
than the Depositor) having interests with a value not less than a majority of
the value of all interests in the Reserve Account (other than any such
interests held by the Depositor), to the effect that each such party
disapproves of the liquidation of the Receivables and termination of the Trust
and in connection therewith the Indenture Trustee (i) appoints an entity
acceptable to Ford Credit to acquire an interest in the Trust and to act as
substitute "general partner" of the Trust for federal income tax purposes and
(ii) obtains an Opinion of Counsel that the Trust will not thereafter be
classified as an association
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(or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income
tax and Applicable Tax State purposes. Promptly after the occurrence of any
Insolvency Event or dissolution with respect to the Depositor or the General
Partner, (A) the Depositor shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee written notice of such Insolvency Event, (B) the Owner Trustee shall,
upon the receipt of such written notice from the Depositor, give prompt written
notice to the Certificateholders, holders of interests, if any, in the Reserve
Account and the Indenture Trustee, of the occurrence of such event, (C) the
Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of written notice of such Insolvency
Event or dissolution from the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, give prompt
written notice to the Noteholders of the occurrence of such event, and (D) the
Owner Trustee shall, upon receipt of written instructions from the applicable
percentages of Noteholders, Certificateholders and holders of interests, if
any, in the Reserve Account disapproving of liquidation and termination, give
prompt written notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that
any failure to give a notice required by this sentence shall not prevent or
delay, in any manner, a termination of the Trust pursuant to the first sentence
of this Section 9.2. Upon a termination pursuant to this Section 9.2, the
Owner Trustee shall direct the Indenture Trustee promptly to sell the assets of
the Trust (other than the Trust Accounts and the Certificate Distribution
Account) in a commercially reasonable manner and on commercially reasonable
terms. The proceeds of such a sale of the assets of the Trust shall be treated
as collections of Receivables under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
deposited in the Collection Account and the Notes and Certificates shall be
paid in accordance with Section 4.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 9.3. Prepayment of Certificates. (a) The
Certificates shall be prepaid in whole, but not in part, at the direction of
the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on
any Distribution Date on which the Servicer exercises its option to purchase
the assets of the Trust pursuant to said Section 9.1, and the amount paid by
the Servicer shall be treated as collections of Receivables and applied to pay
the unpaid principal amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance
plus accrued and unpaid interest (including any overdue interest) thereon. The
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Servicer shall furnish the Rating Agencies and the Certificateholders notice of
such prepayment. If the Certificates are to be prepaid pursuant to this
Section 9.3(a), the Servicer shall furnish notice of such election to the Owner
Trustee not later than twenty (20) days prior to the Prepayment Date and the
Trust shall deposit by 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the Prepayment Date
in the Certificate Distribution Account the Prepayment Price of the
Certificates to be redeemed, whereupon all such Certificates shall be due and
payable on the Prepayment Date.
(b) Notice of prepayment under Section 9.3(a) shall be given
by the Owner Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile
mailed or transmitted immediately following receipt of notice from the Trust or
Servicer pursuant to Section 9.3(a), but not later than ten (10) days prior to
the applicable Prepayment Date, to each Certificateholder as of the close of
business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Prepayment Date, at such
Certificateholder's address or facsimile number appearing in the Certificate
Register.
All notices of prepayment shall state:
(i) the Prepayment Date;
(ii) the Prepayment Price; and
(iii) the place where such Certificates are to be
surrendered for payment of the Prepayment Price (which
shall be the office or agency of the Owner Trustee to be
maintained as provided in Section 3.9).
Notice of prepayment of the Certificates shall be given by the Owner Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Trust. Failure to give notice of
prepayment, or any defect therein, to any Certificateholder shall not impair or
affect the validity of the prepayment of any other Certificate.
(c) Following notice of prepayment as required by Section
9.3(b), the Certificates shall on the Prepayment Date be paid by the Trust at
the Prepayment Price and (unless the Trust shall default in the payment of the
Prepayment Price) no interest shall accrue on the Prepay-
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ment Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is
calculated for purposes of calculating the Prepayment Price. Following payment
in full of the Prepayment Price, this Agreement and the Trust shall terminate.
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ARTICLE X
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee.
The Owner Trustee shall at all times (i) be a corporation satisfying the
provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; (ii) be authorized
to exercise corporate trust powers; (iii) have a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000 and shall be subject to supervision or examination by
federal or state authorities; and (iv) shall have (or shall have a parent that
has) a long-term debt rating of investment grade by each of the Rating Agencies
or be otherwise acceptable to the Rating Agencies. If such corporation shall
publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for
the purpose of this Section 10.1, 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. In case at any time the
Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 10.1, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect specified in Section 10.2.
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The
Owner Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby
created by giving written notice thereof to the Administrator. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a
successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to
the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so
appointed and have accepted appointment within thirty (30) days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee; provided, however, that such right to appoint or to petition for the
appointment of any such successor shall in no event relieve the resigning Owner
Trustee from any obligations otherwise imposed on it under the Basic Documents
until such successor has in fact assumed such appointment.
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If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.1 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Administrator, or if at any time the Owner
Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or if at any time an Insolvency Event
with respect to the Owner Trustee shall have occurred and be continuing, then
the Administrator may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Administrator shall
remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding
sentence, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by
written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the
successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner
Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of
this Section 10.2 shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by
the successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.3, payment of all fees and
expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee and the filing of a certificate of
amendment to the Certificate of Trust if required by the Business Trust
Statute. The Administrator shall provide notice of such resignation or removal
of the Owner Trustee to the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders and each of the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner
Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.2 shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Administrator and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment under this Agreement. Upon the resignation or
removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee becoming effective pursuant to Section
10.2, such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties, and
obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if
originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall, upon
payment of its fees and expenses, deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement, and the
Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such
instruments and do such
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other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and
confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties, and
obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as
provided in this Section 10.3 unless, at the time of such acceptance, such
successor Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Section 10.3, the Administrator shall mail notice of the
successor of such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies. If the Administrator shall
fail to mail such notice within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment
by the successor Owner Trustee, the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such
notice to be mailed at the expense of the Administrator.
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any
corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall, without the execution or filing of any
instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, be the successor of the Owner
Trustee hereunder; provided that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to
Section 10.1; and provided further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of
such merger or consolidation to the Rating Agencies not less than fifteen (15)
days prior to the effective date thereof.
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and
shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons
approved by the Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner
Trustee, or separate
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trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in
such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Owner Trust Estate, or any
part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 10.5, such
powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Administrator and the
Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall
not have joined in such appointment within fifteen (15) days after the receipt
by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to
make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement
shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee
pursuant to Section 10.1 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or
separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.3.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties, and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised
or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or
co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or
co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Owner
Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law
of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be
performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties,
and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at
the direction of the Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under
this Agreement; and
(iii) the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly
may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate
trustee or co-trustee.
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Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate
trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every
instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this
Agreement and the conditions of this Article X. Each separate trustee and
co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with
the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either
jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein,
subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every
provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability
of, or affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall
be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority,
to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect
of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments. (a) This
Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior
written notice to the Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or
supplement any provisions in this Agreement inconsistent with any other
provision of this Agreement or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement;
provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or
Certificateholder; and provided further that an Opinion of Counsel shall be
furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that
such amendment (A) will not materially adversely affect the federal or any
Applicable Tax State income or franchise taxation of any outstanding Note or
Certificate, or any Noteholder or Certificateholder and (B) will not cause the
Trust to be taxable as a corporation for federal or any Applicable Tax State
income or franchise tax purposes.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by
the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies, with the consent of (i) the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less
than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding and (ii) the
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the
Aggregate Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (i)
increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the
timing of, or change the allocation or priority of, collections of payments on
Receivables or distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of
the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding
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and the Aggregate Certificate Balance required to consent to any such
amendment, without the consent of all the Noteholders and Certificateholders
affected thereby; and provided further, that an Opinion of Counsel shall be
furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that
such amendment (A) will not materially adversely affect the federal or any
Applicable Tax State income or franchise taxation of any outstanding Note or
Certificate, or any Noteholder or Certificateholder and (B) will not cause the
Trust to be taxable as a corporation for federal or any Applicable Tax State
income or franchise tax purposes.
(c) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or
consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance
of such amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee
and each of the Rating Agencies.
(d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of
Certificateholders, the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Section 11.1 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or
consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of
Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic
Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by
Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the
Owner Trustee may prescribe.
(e) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such
amendment with the Secretary of State.
(f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement
or the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
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(g) In connection with the execution of any amendment to this
Agreement or any amendment to any other agreement to which the Trust is a
party, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely
upon an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment is authorized or
permitted by the Basic Documents and that all conditions precedent in the Basic
Documents for the execution and delivery thereof by the Trust or the Owner
Trustee, as the case may be, have been satisfied.
SECTION 11.2. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in
Certificateholders. The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to
receive distributions with respect to their beneficial interests therein only
in accordance with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or
otherwise, of any right, title, or interest of the Certificateholders to and in
their beneficial interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate
this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an
accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner
Trust Estate.
SECTION 11.3. Limitation on Rights of Others. Except for
Section 2.7, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the
Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Administrator, the Certificateholders, the
Servicer and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee
and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement (other than Section 2.7),
whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or
in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions
contained herein.
SECTION 11.4. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly
specified or permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and
shall be deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three (3)
Business Days after mailing if mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid
(except that notice to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual
receipt by the Owner Trustee), if to the Owner Trustee, addressed to the
Corporate Trust Office; if to the Depositor, addressed to
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Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. at the address of its principal executive
office first above written; or, as to each party, at such other address as
shall be designated by such party in a written notice to each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any
notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the
Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.5. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement
that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.6. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.7. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of,
the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and its successors and each Certificateholder
and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request,
notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a
Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such
Certificateholder.
SECTION 11.8. No Petition. The Owner Trustee (not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee), by entering into this
Agreement, and each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, hereby
covenant and agree that they will not, until after the Notes have been paid in
full, institute against the
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Depositor, the General Partner or the Trust, or join in any institution against
the Depositor, the General Partner or the Trust of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates, the Notes,
this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.9. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder, by
accepting a Certificate, acknowledges that such Certificateholder's
Certificates represent beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not
represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the General Partner,
the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or
any Affiliate thereof, and no recourse may be had against such parties or their
assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement,
the Certificates or the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.10. Headings. The headings of the various
Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall
not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder shall be determined
in accordance with such laws.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO L.P., as Depositor
By: FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO, INC.,
as General Partner
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Michael B. McCarthy
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Name: Michael B. McCarthy
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF CLASS C CERTIFICATE]
NUMBER $________
R-_____ CUSIP NO. 34527RAW3
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS DISTRIBUTABLE AS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST
AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE
AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS C 6.20% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a beneficial interest in the property of the Trust, as defined
below, which property includes a pool of motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts, secured by security interests in the motor vehicles financed
thereby, conveyed to Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. by Ford Motor Credit
Company and conveyed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. to the Trust.
The property of the Trust has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture to secure the payment of the Notes issued thereunder.
(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Ford Motor
Credit Company, Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. or any of their
respective Affiliates, except to the extent described below.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT __________ is the registered owner of
___________ DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial interest in Class C
Certificates of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A (the "Trust") formed by
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
"Depositor"). The Class C Certificates have an aggregate Initial Certificate
Balance of $46,000,000 and bear interest at a rate of 6.20% per annum (the
"Class C Rate").
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OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class C Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
Dated: February 26, 1998
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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The Trust was created pursuant to an Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the "Trust Agreement"), by
and between the Depositor and PNC Bank, Delaware, not in its individual
capacity but solely as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent
not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Class C 6.20% Asset Backed Certificates" (herein called the
"Class C Certificates") which, together with the Certificates designated as
"Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates" (the "Class D Certificates" and,
together with the Class C Certificates, the "Certificates") are issued under
and are subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement,
to which Trust Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of
the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound.
Also issued under the Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to
time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the
"Indenture"), between the Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture
trustee (in such capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"), are the Notes designated
as "Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes", "Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes",
"Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes", "Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes" and
"Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes" (collectively, the "Notes"). The property of
the Trust includes (i) a pool of motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts for new and used automobiles and light trucks and certain rights and
obligations thereunder (the "Receivables"); (ii) with respect to Precomputed
Receivables, all monies due thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date and, with
respect to Simple Interest Receivables, all monies due or received thereunder
on or after the Cutoff Date; (iii) the security interests in the Financed
Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest
of the Trust in the Financed Vehicles; (iv) rights to proceeds from claims on
certain physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance
policies, if any, covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (v) Dealer
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Recourse; (vi) all of the Seller's rights to the Receivable Files; (vii) such
amounts as from time to time may be held in one or more accounts maintained
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect,
the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"), by and among the Trust, the Depositor, as
seller (in such capacity, the "Seller"), and Ford Motor Credit Company, as
servicer (the "Servicer"), including the Reserve Account; (viii) the Seller's
rights under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (ix) the Seller's rights under
the Purchase Agreement; (x) payments and proceeds with respect to the
Receivables held by the Servicer; (xi) all property (including the right to
receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable
repurchased by the Servicer or purchased by the Seller); (xii) rebates of
premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other items
financed under the Receivables in effect as of the Cutoff Date; and (xiii) any
and all proceeds of the foregoing. THE RIGHTS OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THE
FOREGOING PROPERTY OF THE TRUST HAVE BEEN PLEDGED TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO
SECURE THE PAYMENT OF THE NOTES.
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the
fifteenth day of each month or, if such fifteenth day is not a Business Day,
the next Business Day (each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing March 16, 1998,
to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of
business on the last day of the preceding month (the "Record Date") such
Certificateholder's percentage interest in the amount to be distributed to
Class C Certificateholders on such Distribution Date; provided, however, that
principal will be distributed to the Class C Certificateholders on each
Distribution Date on (to the extent of funds remaining after all classes of the
Notes have been paid in full) and after the date on which all classes of the
Notes have been paid in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the
occurrence and during the continuation of an event of default under the
Indenture which has resulted in an acceleration of the Notes or following
certain events of insolvency or a dissolution with respect to the Depositor or
the General Partner, no distributions of principal or interest will be made on
the Certificates
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until all principal and interest on the Notes has been paid in full.
THE HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT
ITS RIGHTS TO RECEIVE DISTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT OF THIS CERTIFICATE ARE
SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE NOTEHOLDERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE SALE AND
SERVICING AGREEMENT, THE INDENTURE AND THE TRUST AGREEMENT.
It is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local
franchise and income tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be treated
as a partnership and the Certificateholders (including the Depositor) will be
treated as partners in that partnership. The Depositor and the other
Certificateholders by acceptance of a Certificate agree to treat, and to take
no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax
purposes as partnership interests in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate,
covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder will not, until after the
Notes have been paid in full, institute against the Depositor, the General
Partner or the Trust, or join in any institution against the Depositor, the
General Partner or the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United
States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Notes, the Certificates, the Trust Agreement or any
of the other Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in
the Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Paying Agent by
wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the
Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate
or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the
Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this
Certificate at
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the office or agency maintained for the purpose by the Owner Trustee in
Wilmington, Delaware.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have
been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual
signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the Certificateholder hereof to
any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be
valid for any purpose.
This Certificate shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of Delaware and the obligations, rights and remedies of the
parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust
and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Class C Certificate to be
duly executed.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER
TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE]
The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Depositor, the General Partner, the Servicer, the
Administrator, the Owner Trustee or any Affiliates of any of them and no
recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly set forth or contemplated herein, in the Trust Agreement or in the
other Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any
governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to
certain collections with respect to the Receivables (and certain other
amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. A registration statement, which includes the Trust
Agreement as an exhibit thereto, has been filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission with respect to the Notes and the Class C Certificates.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the
consent of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders evidencing not less than
a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding and the Aggregate
Certificate Balance, respectively. Any such consent by the Certificateholder
of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder
and on all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate
issued upon the registration of Transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this
Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of any of the
Certificateholders.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Transfer of the Certificates are registrable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of Transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by PNC Bank, Delaware in its
capacity as Certificate Registrar, or by any successor Certificate Registrar,
in Wilmington, Delaware, accompanied by a written instrument
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of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be
issued to the designated transferee.
The Certificates are issuable as registered Certificates
without coupons in denominations of at least $20,000 and in integral multiples
of $1,000 in excess thereof. Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of like Class and authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate denomination, as requested by the Certificateholder surrendering the
same. No service charge will be made for any such registration of Transfer or
exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of
the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose
name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
The Certificates may not be acquired by or on behalf of (A) an
employee benefit plan, as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to
Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that
is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in
Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, state or local law which is, to
a material extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department
of Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or
(E) a person investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without
limitation, for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general
account, but excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended).
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In addition, the Certificates may not be acquired by or on
behalf of a Person other than (A) a citizen or resident of the United States,
(B) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United
States or any political subdivision thereof, (C) an estate the income of which
is includible in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless of its
source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary supervision
over the administration of such trust and one or more Persons meeting the
conditions of this paragraph has the authority to control all substantial
decisions of the trust or (E) a Person not described in clauses (A) through (D)
above whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected with such
Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within the
meaning of the Code) and who provides the Owner Trustee and the Depositor with
an IRS Form 4224 (and such other certifications, representations, or opinions
of counsel as may be requested by the Owner Trustee or the Depositor).
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust
Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate (i) upon the maturity
or other liquidation of the last remaining Receivable and the disposition of
any amounts received upon such maturity or liquidation or (ii) upon the payment
to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders of all amounts required to be
paid to them pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and upon such termination any remaining assets of the
Trust shall be distributed to the Depositor. The Servicer of the Receivables
may at its option purchase the assets of the Trust at a price specified in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other
property of the Trust will effect early retirement of the Notes and the
Certificates; however, such right of purchase is exercisable only as of the
last day of any Collection Period as of which the Pool Balance is less than or
equal to 10% of the Initial Pool Balance.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
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transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature Guaranteed:
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
it appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank
or trust company.
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EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF CLASS D CERTIFICATE]
NUMBER $________
R-_____ Private Placement
No. 34527RAX1
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES
OR BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY
PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE
DEPOSITOR THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE
LAWS, AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A")
TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER, WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH
CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE, OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE
CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS
EXHIBIT F TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE
CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT
D TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), SUBJECT TO THE
RECEIPT BY THE TRUST, THE INITIAL PURCHASER AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF
SUCH EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST AND THE INITIAL PURCHASER THAT SUCH
REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRUST AGREEMENT
AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, (3) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
"ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR
(7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE
RECEIPT BY THE TRUST AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN
THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT E TO THE TRUST AGREEMENT OR (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE
TRUST, THE INITIAL PURCHASER AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF SUCH OTHER
EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST AND THE INITIAL PURCHASER THAT SUCH REOFFER,
RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE
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SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, OR (4) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ITS
AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF
THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED
STATES.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS DISTRIBUTABLE AS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST
AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE
AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
CLASS D 7.50% ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a beneficial interest in the property of the Trust, as defined
below, which property includes a pool of motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts, secured by security interests in the motor vehicles financed
thereby, conveyed to Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. by Ford Motor Credit
Company and conveyed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. to the Trust.
The property of the Trust has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture to secure the payment of the Notes issued thereunder.
(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Ford Motor
Credit Company, Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. or any of their
respective Affiliates, except to the extent described below.)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT __________ is the registered owner of
___________ DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial interest in Class D
Certificates of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A (the "Trust") formed by
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
"Depositor"). The Class D Certificates have an aggregate Initial Certificate
Balance of $46,000,000 and bear interest at a rate of 7.50% per annum (the
"Class D Rate").
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OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class D Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
Dated: February 26, 1998
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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The Trust was created pursuant to an Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the "Trust Agreement"), by
and between the Depositor and PNC Bank, Delaware, not in its individual
capacity but solely as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent
not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates" (herein called the
"Class D Certificates") which, together with the Certificates designated as
"Class C 6.20% Asset Backed Certificates" (the "Class C Certificates" and,
together with the Class D Certificates, the "Certificates") are issued under
and are subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement,
to which Trust Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of
the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound.
Also issued under the Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to
time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the
"Indenture"), between the Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture
trustee (in such capacity, the "Indenture Trustee"), are the Notes designated
as "Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes", "Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes",
"Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes", "Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes" and
"Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes" (collectively, the "Notes"). The property
of the Trust includes (i) a pool of motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts for new and used automobiles and light trucks and certain rights and
obligations thereunder (the "Receivables"); (ii) with respect to Precomputed
Receivables, all monies due thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date and, with
respect to Simple Interest Receivables, all monies due or received thereunder
on or after the Cutoff Date; (iii) the security interests in the Financed
Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest
of the Trust in the Financed Vehicles; (iv) rights to proceeds from claims on
certain physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance
policies, if any, covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (v) Dealer Recourse;
(vi) all of the Seller's rights to the Receivable Files; (vii) such amounts as
from time to time may
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be held in one or more accounts maintained pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the "Sale and Servicing
Agreement"), by and among the Trust, the Depositor, as seller (in such
capacity, the "Seller"), and Ford Motor Credit Company, as servicer (the
"Servicer"), including the Reserve Account; (viii) the Seller's rights under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (ix) the Seller's rights under the Purchase
Agreement; (x) payments and proceeds with respect to the Receivables held by
the Servicer; (xi) all property (including the right to receive Liquidation
Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable repurchased by the
Servicer or purchased by the Seller); (xii) rebates of premiums and other
amounts relating to insurance policies and other items financed under the
Receivables in effect as of the Cutoff Date; and (xiii) any and all proceeds of
the foregoing. THE RIGHTS OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THE FOREGOING PROPERTY OF
THE TRUST HAVE BEEN PLEDGED TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF
THE NOTES.
Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the
fifteenth day of each month or, if such fifteenth day is not a Business Day,
the next Business Day (each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing March 16, 1998,
to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of
business on the last day of the preceding month (the "Record Date") such
Certificateholder's percentage interest in the amount to be distributed to
Class D Certificateholders on such Distribution Date; provided, however, that
principal will be distributed to the Class D Certificateholders on each
Distribution Date on (to the extent of funds remaining after all classes of the
Notes and the Class C Certificates have been paid in full) and after the date
on which all classes of the Notes and the Class C Certificates have been paid
in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence and during
the continuation of an event of default under the Indenture which has resulted
in an acceleration of the Notes or following certain events of insolvency or a
dissolution with respect to the Depositor or the General Partner, no
distributions of principal or interest will be made on the Certificates until
all principal and interest on the Notes has been paid in full.
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THE HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT
ITS RIGHTS TO RECEIVE DISTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT OF THIS CERTIFICATE ARE
SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE NOTEHOLDERS AND THE CLASS C
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, THE
INDENTURE AND THE TRUST AGREEMENT.
It is the intent of the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and local
franchise and income tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be treated
as a partnership and the Certificateholders (including the Depositor) will be
treated as partners in that partnership. The Depositor and the other
Certificateholders by acceptance of a Certificate agree to treat, and to take
no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax
purposes as partnership interests in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate,
covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder will not, until after the
Notes have been paid in full, institute against the Depositor, the General
Partner or the Trust, or join in any institution against the Depositor, the
General Partner or the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United
States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Notes, the Certificates, the Trust Agreement or any
of the other Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in
the Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Paying Agent by
wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the
Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate
or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the
Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this
Certificate at the office or agency maintained for the purpose by the Owner
Trustee in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have
been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual
signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the Certificateholder hereof to
any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be
valid for any purpose.
This Certificate shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of Delaware and the obligations, rights and remedies of the
parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust
and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Class D Certificate to be
duly executed.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER
TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
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[REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE]
The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Depositor, the General Partner, the Servicer, the
Administrator, the Owner Trustee or any Affiliates of any of them and no
recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly set forth or contemplated herein, in the Trust Agreement or in the
other Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any
governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to
certain collections with respect to the Receivables (and certain other
amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. A registration statement, which includes the Trust
Agreement as an exhibit thereto, has been filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission with respect to the Notes and the Class C Certificates.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the
consent of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders evidencing not less than
a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding and the Aggregate
Certificate Balance, respectively. Any such consent by the Certificateholder
of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder
and on all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate
issued upon the registration of Transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in
lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this
Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of any of the
Certificateholders.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Transfer of the Certificates are registrable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of Transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by PNC Bank, Delaware in its
capacity as Certificate Registrar, or by any successor Certificate Registrar,
in Wilmington, Delaware, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the holder
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hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
or more new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee.
The Certificates are issuable as registered Certificates
without coupons in denominations of at least $20,000 and in integral multiples
of $1,000 in excess thereof. Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of like Class and authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate denomination, as requested by the Certificateholder surrendering the
same. No service charge will be made for any such registration of Transfer or
exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of
the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose
name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
The Certificates may not be acquired by or on behalf of (A) an
employee benefit plan, as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to
Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that
is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in
Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, state or local law which is, to
a material extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department
of Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or
(E) a person investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without
limitation, for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general
account, but excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended).
In addition, the Certificates may not be acquired by or on
behalf of a Person other than (A) a citizen or resident of the United States,
(B) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the
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United States or any political subdivision thereof, (C) an estate the income of
which is includible in gross income for United States tax purposes, regardless
of its source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary supervi-
sion over the administration of such trust and one or more Persons meeting the
conditions of this paragraph has the authority to control all substantial
decisions of the trust or (E) a Person not described in clauses (A) through (D)
above whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected with such
Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within the
meaning of the Code) and who provides the Owner Trustee and the Depositor with
an IRS Form 4224 (and such other certifications, representations, or opinions
of counsel as may be requested by the Owner Trustee or the Depositor).
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust
Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate (i) upon the maturity
or other liquidation of the last remaining Receivable and the disposition of
any amounts received upon such maturity or liquidation or (ii) upon the payment
to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders of all amounts required to be
paid to them pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and upon such termination any remaining assets of the
Trust shall be distributed to the Depositor. The Servicer of the Receivables
may at its option purchase the assets of the Trust at a price specified in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other
property of the Trust will effect early retirement of the Notes and the
Certificates; however, such right of purchase is exercisable only as of the
last day of any Collection Period as of which the Pool Balance is less than or
equal to 10% of the Initial Pool Balance.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing
_______________________________________________________________ Attorney to
transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature Guaranteed:
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*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
it appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be
guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank
or trust company.
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER - CLASS C CERTIFICATES]
[Date]
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A,
as Issuer
PNC Bank, Delaware,
as Owner Trustee and
as Certificate Registrar
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of the Class C 6.20% Asset
Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
(the "Issuer"), a trust formed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. (the
"Depositor" or "Seller"), we confirm that:
1. We are not, and each account (if any) for which we are
purchasing the Certificates is not, (A) an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA")) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section
4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), that
is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in
Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, state or local law which is, to
a material extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department
of Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or
(E) a person investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without
limitation, for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general
account, but excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended).
2. We are, and each account (if any) for which we are
purchasing the Certificates is, a person who is (A) a citizen or resident of
the United States, (B) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the
laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, (C) an estate
the income of which is includible in gross income for United States tax
purposes, regardless of its source, (D) a trust if a U.S. court is able to
exercise primary supervision over the administration
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of such trust and one or more Persons meeting the conditions of clause (A),
(B), (C) or (E) of this paragraph 2 has the authority to control all
substantial decisions of the trust or (E) a Person not described in clauses (A)
through (D) above whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected
with such Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States
(within the meaning of the Code) and who provides the Issuer and the Depositor
with an IRS Form 4224 (and such other certifications, representations, or
opinions of counsel as may be requested by the Issuer or the Depositor).
3. We understand that any purported resale, transfer,
assignment, participation, pledge, or other disposal of (any such act, a
"Transfer") of any Certificate (or any interest therein) to any person who does
not meet the conditions of paragraphs 1 and 2 above shall be null and void
(each, a "Void Transfer"), and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer
shall not be recognized by the Issuer or any other person as a
Certificateholder for any purpose.
4. We agree that if we determine to Transfer any of the
Certificates we will cause our proposed transferee to provide to the Issuer and
the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of this letter.
You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably
authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in
any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By:
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Name:
Title:
Securities To Be Purchased:
$ principal balance of Certificates
Annex A attached hereto lists the name of the account and principal balance of
Certificates purchased for each account (if any) for which we are purchasing
Certificates.
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EXHIBIT D
[FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER - CLASS D CERTIFICATES
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER]
[Date]
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
as Issuer
PNC Bank, Delaware
as Owner Trustee and
Certificate Registrar
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
as Initial Purchaser in connection with
the Private Placement Memorandum referred to below
Asset Backed Operations
85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
Re: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of the Class D 7.50% Asset
Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
(the "Issuer"), a trust formed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. (the
"Depositor"), we confirm that:
1. We have received a copy of the Private Placement Memorandum
(the "Private Placement Memorandum") dated February 19, 1998, relating to
the Certificates and such other information as we deem necessary in order
to make our investment decision. We understand that the Private Placement
Memorandum speaks only as of its date and that the information contained
therein may not be correct or complete as of any time subsequent to such
date.
2. We agree to be bound by the restrictions and conditions set
forth under the heading "Notice to Investors" in the Private Placement
Memorandum and the undersigned agrees to the bound by, and not to resell,
transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of (any such
act, a "Transfer") the Certificates
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except in compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
3. We understand that no subsequent Transfer of the Certificates
is permitted unless we cause our proposed transferee to provide to the
Issuer, the Certificate Registrar and the Initial Purchaser a letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit B or Exhibit C to the Private
Placement Memorandum, as applicable, or such other written statement as
the Depositor shall prescribe.
4. We are a "qualified institutional buyer" (within the meaning of
Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a "QIB") and we are acquiring the
Certificates for our own account or for a single account (which is a QIB)
as to which we exercise sole investment discretion.
5. We are not (A) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section
3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA")) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
"Code") that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental
plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, State
or local law which is, to a material extent, similar to the provisions of
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose
underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in
the entity (within the meaning of Department of Labor Regulation 29
C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or (E) a person
investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without limitation,
for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general account,
but excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended).
6. We are a person who is (i) a citizen or resident of the United
States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws
of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, (iii) an
estate the income of which is includible in gross income for United
States tax purposes, regardless of its source, (iv) a trust if a U.S.
court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of
such trust and one or more persons described in clauses (i) to (iii)
above or clause (v) below has the authority to control all substantial
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decisions of the trust or (v) a person not described in clauses (i) to
(iv) above whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected
with such person's conduct of a trade or business within the United
States (within the meaning of the Code) and who provides the Issuer and
the Depositor with a Form 4224 (and such other certifications,
representations, or opinions of counsel as may be requested by the Issuer
or the Depositor).
7. We understand that any purported Transfer of any Certificate
(or any interest therein) in contravention of the restrictions and
conditions above will be null and void (each, a "Void Transfer"), and the
purported transferee in a Void Transfer will not be recognized by the
Issuer or any other person as a Certificateholder for any purpose.
You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized
to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any
administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By:
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Name:
Title:
Securities To Be Purchased:
$ principal amount of Certificates
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EXHIBIT E
[FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER - CLASS D CERTIFICATES
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR]
[Date]
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
as Issuer
PNC Bank, Delaware
as Owner Trustee and
Certificate Registrar
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
as Initial Purchaser in connection with
the Private Placement Memorandum referred to below
Asset Backed Operations
85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
Re: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of the Class D 7.50% Asset
Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
(the "Issuer"), a trust formed by Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. (the
"Depositor"), we confirm that:
1. We have received a copy of the Private Placement Memorandum
(the "Private Placement Memorandum") dated February 19, 1998, relating to
the Certificates and such other information as we deem necessary in order
to make our investment decision. We understand that the Private Placement
Memorandum speaks only as of its date and that the information contained
therein may not be correct or complete as of any time subsequent to such
date.
2. We agree to be bound by the restrictions and conditions set
forth under the heading "Notice to Investors" in the Private Placement
Memorandum and the undersigned agrees to the bound by, and not to resell,
transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise
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dispose of (any such act, a "Transfer") the Certificates except in
compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
3. We understand that no subsequent Transfer of the Certificates
is permitted unless we cause our proposed transferee to provide to the
Issuer, the Certificate Registrar and the Initial Purchaser a letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit B or Exhibit C to the Private
Placement Memorandum, as applicable, or such other written statement as
the Depositor shall prescribe.
4. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in
Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and we are
acquiring the Certificates for our own account.
5. We are not (A) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section
3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA")) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
"Code") that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (C) a governmental
plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, State
or local law which is, to a material extent, similar to the provisions of
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose
underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in
the entity (within the meaning of Department of Labor Regulation 29
C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) or (E) a person
investing "plan assets" of any such plan (including without limitation,
for purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general account,
but excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended).
6. We are a person who is (i) a citizen or resident of the United
States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws
of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, (iii) an
estate the income of which is includible in gross income for United
States tax purposes, regardless of its source, (iv) a trust if a U.S.
court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of
such trust and one or more persons described in clauses (i) to (iii)
above or clause (v) below has the authority to control all substantial
decisions of the trust or (v) a person not described
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in clauses (i) to (iv) above whose ownership of the Certificates is
effectively connected with such person's conduct of a trade or business
within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and who
provides the Issuer and the Depositor with a Form 4224 (and such other
certifications, representations, or opinions of counsel as may be
requested by the Issuer or the Depositor).
7. We understand that any purported Transfer of any Certificate
(or any interest therein) in contravention of the restrictions and
conditions above will be null and void (each, a "Void Transfer"), and the
purported transferee in a Void Transfer will not be recognized by the
Issuer or any other person as a Certificateholder for any purpose.
You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized
to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any
administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By:
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Name:
Title:
Securities To Be Purchased:
$ principal amount of Certificates
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF RULE 144A TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE -
CLASS D CERTIFICATES
[Date]
PNC Bank, Delaware
as Owner Trustee and
Certificate Registrar
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Re: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is to notify you as to the transfer of $ [*] in denomination of Class
D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto
Owner Trust 1998-A (the "Issuer").
The undersigned is the holder of the Certificates and with this notice
hereby deposits with the Owner Trustee $ [*] in denomination of Certificates
and requests that Certificates of the same class in the same aggregate
denomination be issued, executed and authenticated and registered to the
purchaser on , 199 , as specified in the Trust Agreement dated as of
February 1, 1998 relating to the Certificates, as follows:
Name: Denominations:
Address:
Taxpayer I.D. No:
The undersigned represents and warrants that the undersigned (i) reasonably
believes the purchaser is a "qualified institutional buyer," as defined in Rule
144A under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), (ii) such purchaser has
acquired the Certificates in a transaction effected in accordance with the
exemption from the registration requirements of the Act provided by Rule 144A,
(iii) if the purchaser has purchased the Certificates for an account for which
it is acting as fiduciary or agent, such account is a qualified institutional
buyer and (iv) the purchaser is acquiring Certificates for its own account
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or for an institutional account for which it is acting as fiduciary or agent.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF HOLDER OF CERTIFICATES]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[*] authorized denomination
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EXHIBIT G
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRUST]
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
This Certificate of Trust of FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST
1998-A (the "TRUST"), dated as of February 1, 1998, is being duly executed and
filed by PNC Bank, Delaware, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee, to
form a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. Code,
Section 3801 et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby
is FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of
the trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware is PNC Bank, Delaware, 222
Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of
the Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above
written.
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as owner trustee under a Trust
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998
By:
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Name:
Title:
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APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
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EXHIBIT 8.1
February 26, 1998
To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
Re: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
Asset Backed Notes
Ladies and Gentlemen:
You have requested our opinion as to certain federal income
tax consequences in connection with the issuance of the Class A-1 5.545% Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), the Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-2 Notes"), the Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3
Notes"), the Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, and the Class A-3
Notes, the "Class A Notes"), the Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B
Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"), the Class C 6.20%
Asset Backed Certificates (the "Class C Certificates") and the Class D 7.50%
Asset Backed Certificates (the "Class D Certificates" and, together with the
Class C Certificates, the "Certificates") by Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust
1998-A (the "Trust") pursuant to the terms of, (a) with respect to the Notes,
an Indenture dated as of February 1, 1998 (the "Indenture") between the Trust
and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"),
and (b) with respect to the Certificates, an Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998 (the "Trust Agreement") between Ford
Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. (the "Seller") and PNC Bank, Delaware, as
Owner Trustee (the "Owner Trustee"). The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes,
the Class A-3 Notes and the Class B Notes (collectively, the "Offered Notes")
will be sold to the underwriters (the "Note Underwriters") who are named in
Schedule I pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the "Note Underwriting
Agreement") between the Seller and Goldman, Sachs & Co. ("Goldman Sachs"), as
representatives of the several Note Underwriters. The Class A-4 Notes will be
purchased directly from the Seller by Ford Motor Credit Company ("Ford
Credit"). The Class C Certificates will be sold to Goldman Sachs, as Class C
Certificate
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 2
underwriter (the "Certificate Underwriter" and, together with the Note
Underwriters, the "Underwriters" ) pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the
"Certificate Underwriting Agreement") between the Seller and Goldman Sachs. A
portion of the Class D Certificates will be sold to Goldman Sachs, as Initial
Purchasers (the "Initial Purchaser") pursuant to a certificate purchase
agreement (the "Certificate Purchase Agreement") between the Seller and Goldman
Sachs and the remaining portion of the Class D Certificates will initially be
retained by the Seller.(1)
The rights of the holders of the Class A Notes (the "Class A
Noteholders") will be senior to the rights of the holders of the Class B Notes
(the "Class B Noteholders" and, together with the Class A Noteholders, the
"Noteholders"). The rights of the Noteholders will be senior to the rights of
the holders of the Certificates (the "Certificateholders"). The rights of the
Class C Certificates (the "Class C Certificateholders") will be senior to the
rights of the holders of the Class D Certificates (the "Class D
Certificateholders"). Each payment period, the Seller will be entitled to
receive any remaining portion of funds on deposit in the Collection Account
after (i) the Total Required Payment has been made, (ii) the Reserve Account's
balance has been restored, if necessary, to the Specified Reserve Balance and
(iii) the Regular Principal Distribution Amount has been deposited into the
Principal Distribution Account. The Seller will at all times hold the right to
receive all such excess amounts.
You have asked us whether, for federal income tax purposes,
the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes will be characterized as debt and
whether the Trust will be classified as an association (or publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation. In rendering our opinion, we have
examined and relied upon the registration statement for the Offered Notes and
the Class C Certificates on Form S-3,
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(1) Terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
the Indenture (as defined above).
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 3
Registration No. 333-40421, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") on January 20, 1998 (the "Registration Statement"), including the
prospectus dated February 17, 1998 as supplemented by the prospectus supplement
dated February 19, 1998 included therein (the "Prospectus"), the Indenture, the
Trust Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such other documents as
we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion set forth
below, and we have assumed that the parties to such documents will comply with
the terms thereof, that such documents are not amended and that such documents
are enforceable in accordance with their respective terms. In connection
therewith, we note that you will receive an opinion from this firm regarding
such enforceability.
In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all
signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the
conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified
or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter
documents. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein which
were not independently established or verified, we have relied upon statements,
representations, and certifications of officers and other representatives of
the Seller, the Servicer, the Underwriters, and others including certain
calculations performed by Goldman Sachs. In addition, our opinion is premised
on the accuracy of the facts set forth in the Prospectus and the facts set
forth in the representations referred to in the Prospectus.
In rendering our opinion, we have also considered and relied
upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), administrative
rulings, judicial decisions, Treasury Regulations, and such other authorities
as we have deemed appropriate. The statutory provisions, Treasury Regulations,
interpretations, and other authorities upon which our opinion is based are
subject to change, and such changes could apply retroactively. In addition,
there can be no assurance that positions contrary to those stated in our
opinion will not be taken by the Internal Revenue Service.
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 4
I. Federal Income Tax Characterization of the Notes.
Whether the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes are debt or
equity interests in the Trust Property is determined both by the terms of the
Notes and by whether the "substantial incidents of ownership" of the Trust
Property have been transferred to the Noteholders. See, Watts Copy Systems,
Inc. v. Commissioner, 67 TCM 2480, 2483 (1994); Coulter Electronics, Inc. v.
Commissioner, 59 TCM 350 (1990), aff'd, 943 F.2d 1318 (11th Cir. 1991); United
Surgical Steel Co. v. Commissioner, 54 T.C. 1215 (1970), acq., 1971-2 C.B. 3;
Town & Country Food Co. v. Commissioner, 51 T.C. 1049 (1969), acq., 1969-2
C.B. xxv; GCM 39567 (June 10, 1986); and GCM 39584 (December 3, 1986). Thus,
the most important considerations are: (i) whether the Noteholders bear the
burdens of ownership of the Trust Property, (ii) whether the Noteholders have
any of the benefits of ownership of the Trust Property, and (iii) whether the
terms of the Notes have features which are more characteristic of debt than of
equity. As discussed below, the Class A Noteholders do not obtain, and the
Class B Noteholders should not be viewed as obtaining, the benefits and burdens
of ownership of the Trust Property.
A. The Benefits and Burdens of the Trust Property are Retained by
the Seller.
1. Burdens of Ownership. The principal burden of
ownership with respect to the Trust Property is the risk of loss arising from
shortfalls in the payments on the Receivables. As described below, the
transaction pursuant to which the Notes are issued has been structured so that
the risk of loss is borne by the Seller and the holders of the Certificates.
The Class A Notes will initially be supported by the Class B
Notes and the Certificates which, together, have a face amount equal to 7.5% of
the initial Pool Balance, and the principal of which will not be paid until the
Class A Notes are paid in
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 5
full.(2) The Class B Notes will be supported by the Certificates having a face
amount equal to 4% of the initial Pool Balance, the principal of which will not
be paid until the Notes are paid in full. The Notes (and the Certificates)
will also be supported by the Reserve Account, which may be drawn upon to make
required payments of principal and interest to Noteholders, and which will
initially be funded by a portion of the proceeds of the Notes and Certificates
in the amount of $11,500,061, or .5% of the initial Pool Balance. Thus, the
initial total credit enhancement supporting the Class A Notes is equal to 8% of
the initial Pool Balance, and the initial total credit enhancement supporting
the Class B Notes is equal to 4.5% of the initial Pool Balance. In addition,
the Notes will have the benefit, on each payment date, of the "spread" as is
further discussed below.
On each Distribution Date, any shortfalls in amounts available
to make required payments of principal and interest to Noteholders will first
be absorbed by the portion of the monthly payments from the Receivables which
are attributable to the "spread" between the income from the Receivables (less
certain Trust expenses) and the weighted average rate on the Notes and the
Certificates (the "Spread"). In such a case, and in general, the rights of the
Class B Noteholders will be subordinate to the rights of the Class A
Noteholders (the rights of the holders of each Class of Class A Notes are pari
passu with the rights of the holders of each other Class of Class A Notes).
Any amounts remaining in the Collection Account after giving effect to the
payment of the Total Required Payment and depositing amounts in the Reserve
Account to the extent necessary to replenish it to the Specified Reserve
Balance will first be applied to retire the Class A-1 Notes in full.
Thereafter, amounts remaining in the Collection Account are to be deposited in
the Principal Distribution Account to the extent of the Regular Principal
Distribution Amount which amount will equal the amount necessary to permit
payments of principal to the Noteholders in an amount
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2 The initial aggregate face amount of the Notes and the Certificates will
equal 102% of the Initial Pool Balance (the "Over-issuance").
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 6
sufficient to cause the then Pool Balance to exceed the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Notes and the Certificate Balance generally by the
difference between (i) 1% of the Pool Balance and (ii) the Specified Reserve
Balance. Thus, amounts otherwise distributable to the Seller will be applied
to establish and maintain a "cushion" of 1% (including the Reserve Account) of
the Pool Balance in addition to the credit enhancement of (i) with respect to
the Class A Notes, 7.5% of the initial Pool Balance (provided by the Class B
Notes and the Certificates), and (ii) with respect to the Class B Notes, 4% of
the initial Pool Balance (provided by the Certificates). Based on calculations
provided by Goldman Sachs (calculated using the pricing prepayment assumption
and historic loss levels) the excess of the Pool Balance over the outstanding
amount of the Class A Notes at the end of one year will have increased to 12.3%
of the then Pool Balance and at the end of two years will have increased to
approximately 23.5% of the then Pool Balance, while the overcollateralization
supporting the Class B Notes (i.e., the excess of the Pool Balance over the
outstanding amount of the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes) at the end of
one year will have increased to 6.5% of the then Pool Balance and at the end of
two years such overcollateralization will have increased to approximately 12.5%
of the then Pool Balance.
While the Indenture permits interest to be paid on the
Certificates ahead of principal on the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes in
some circumstances, such right will be curtailed in any period in which the
aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class A Notes is greater than
the current Pool Balance.
Based on the amounts of credit support and
overcollateralization described above, the Class A-1 Notes will be given a
rating in the highest short-term rating category, the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes will be given a rating in the highest
long-term rating category and the Class B Notes will be given a rating of "A"
or their respective equivalents from at least two nationally recognized rating
agencies. These investment grade ratings indicate a very high likelihood that
all interest and principal will be timely paid with respect to the Notes
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 7
and that the Noteholders do not bear any significant risk of loss associated
with ownership of the Trust Property (although, obviously the risk of loss with
respect to the Class B Notes is greater than the risk associated with the Class
A Notes).
2. Benefits of Ownership. The primary benefits of
ownership of the Trust Property are the payments due from Obligors with respect
to the Receivables. If market interest rates for comparable receivables
decrease in relation to the yield on the Receivables, the Receivables will
increase in value. The Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement together provide that the rate of return to the Noteholders
is, for each of the Classes of the Notes, a fixed rate set at the time of the
pricing of the Notes and the Seller receives the remaining proceeds from the
Receivables (after payment of fixed costs including interest on the
Certificates). Thus the economic return to a Noteholder is the result not of
any change in the value of the Receivables but rather reflects the rate of
interest payable on a fixed rate debt instrument.
As described above, the Seller retains an ownership interest
in the Trust Property in the form of the right to receive, on a periodic basis,
amounts not used to make payments on the Notes or Certificates and, upon
payment in full of the Notes and Certificates, any Receivables remaining in the
Trust.(3)
3. Default Rights. In the event that the Trust defaults
in the payment of any interest (however, a default in the payment of interest
on the Class B Notes will not constitute an Event of Default until all of the
Class A Notes have been
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3 The Over-issuance will cause the value of this interest to be less than
the net present value of the Spread by an amount equal to 2% of the
initial Pool Balance. Nevertheless, the net present value of the Seller's
interest in the Spread (determined at a discount rate of 8%) equals
approximately 1.4% of the Initial Pool Balance.
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 8
paid in full) and such default is not remedied within five days, or the Trust
defaults in the payment of the full amount of the principal or any installment
of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable, an Event of
Default will occur and either the Indenture Trustee or the holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the outstanding amount of the Notes
may declare all of the Notes, including interest accrued and unpaid, to be
immediately due and payable (however, if an Event of Default occurs, the Class
B Noteholders will not have any right to direct or to consent to any actions by
the Indenture Trustee until the Class A Notes have been paid in full). Upon
such a declaration, the Indenture Trustee could sell the Trust Property and the
proceeds therefrom would be applied to pay the Noteholders to the extent of the
outstanding amount and any accrued and unpaid interest, before making any
payments to Certificateholders.
B. Other Factors.
A number of other factors support the conclusion that the
Class A Notes are, in substance, debt and that the Class B Notes should also be
considered debt. The Notes are denominated as indebtedness and the Seller and
the Noteholders, by their purchase of the Notes, will agree to treat the Notes
for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Trust. The terms of the Receivables differ materially from the terms of
the Notes with regard to their respective interest rates. Moreover, Goldman
Sachs has informed us that the Receivables will have a weighted average life of
2.21 years (based on the pricing prepayment assumption). On the other hand,
the Notes, of which there will be four classes, will have weighted average
lives of 0.33 years for the Class A-1 Notes, 1.01 years for the Class A-2
Notes, 1.90 years for the Class A-3 Notes, 2.89 years for the Class A-4 Notes,
and 3.52 years for the Class B Notes (based on the pricing prepayment
assumption). The Trust will retain control and possession of the Receivables.
The Servicer is responsible for servicing, collection and administration of the
Receivables and will bear all costs and expenses incurred in connection with
such activities,
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 9
although an amount to compensate the Servicer for collection activity is
permitted by the Sale and Servicing Agreement to be periodically withdrawn by
the Servicer from the assets otherwise held by the Trust for the benefit of the
Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Noteholders, has the
right to inspect the documentation with respect to the Receivables that the
Servicer will maintain on behalf of the Trust, a right which is common in loan
transactions. The foregoing additional factors support the conclusion that the
transaction described in the Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to the Notes constitutes an issuance of debt.
Moreover, the substance of the transaction is consistent with the
characterization of the Notes as debt.
Based on and subject to the foregoing, although there are no
authorities involving closely comparable situations, in our opinion the Class A
Notes will be treated as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes.
The Class B Notes are subordinate to the Class A Notes, and
are supported, as described above, by less credit enhancement than the Class A
Notes. In addition, the rights of holders of Class B Notes as creditors are
limited while the Class A Notes are outstanding. For these reasons, the Class
B Notes could be viewed as bearing certain burdens of ownership of the
Receivables. However, despite the foregoing factors, the Class B Notes are
rated "A" or its equivalent by at least two nationally recognized rating
agencies evidencing a high degree of certainty that they will be repaid (and
thus do not bear any expected risk of losses with respect to the Receivables).
In addition, the Class B Notes do not receive any benefits of ownership of the
Receivables. Accordingly, while the issue is not free from doubt, in our
opinion the Class B Notes should be characterized as indebtedness for federal
income tax purposes.
II. Federal Income Tax Characterization of the Trust.
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 10
The Certificates are denominated as equity interests in the
Trust, and the Seller and the Certificateholders, in purchasing the
Certificates, agree to treat the Trust as a partnership for federal income tax
purposes, with the partners being the Seller and the Certificateholders. The
Seller will at all times, possess the right to receive all of the Trust
Property not used to pay the Notes and Certificates.
Although, in some respects, the Trust is similar to trusts
established to hold collateral pledged as security in connection with lending
transactions, because the Trust will issue and distribute the Certificates to
third parties, and no opinion of counsel is sought that such Certificates are
debt, the Trust must be viewed as an entity whose characterization will be
determined under Sections 7701 or 7704 and applicable Treasury Regulations
promulgated thereunder.(4)
Section 7704 of the Code provides that, subject to certain
exceptions, a partnership the interests in which are (i) traded on an
established securities market or (ii) readily tradable on a secondary market
(or the substantial equivalent thereof) will be treated as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes. Section 7704(c), however, excepts certain
publicly traded partnerships ("PTPs") from treatment as a corporation for tax
purposes if they have sufficient passive-type income. Specifically, Section
7704(c) provides that a PTP shall not be treated as a corporation for tax
purposes if 90 percent or more of its gross income consists of "qualifying
income." Qualifying income is defined by Section 7704(d) to include interest
and any gain from the sale or disposition of a capital asset. The Trust's sole
source of income will derive from interest paid with regard to and gain
resulting from the disposition of the Receivables.
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4 Unless otherwise indicated, all "Section" references hereinafter shall be
to the Code.
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 11
We note that Section 7704(d)(2) disqualifies from the category
of otherwise "qualifying income" interest that is derived in the conduct of a
"financial or insurance business." In our view, because the Indenture Trustee,
Owner Trustee and Servicer cannot manage the assets of the Trust in any
ordinary sense, and in particular, cannot sell the Receivables (except in the
event of an Event of Default or dissolution of the Trust) and cannot acquire
additional assets, the Trust should not be found to be carrying on a financial
business. However, the Service has not provided guidance as to what
constitutes a financial or insurance business and accordingly our conclusion is
based on our interpretation of the statutory language of Section 7704 and not
on authorities construing the statute. Accordingly, we believe that since the
Trust should not be found to be engaged in a financial business the interest
received on the Receivables will constitute qualifying income.
Accordingly, the Trust would qualify for the Section 7704(c)
exception to the PTP rules and would not be taxable as a corporation
thereunder, assuming that it otherwise would qualify as a partnership for
federal income tax purposes.
"Eligible entities" (i.e.,entities not explicitly classified
as a corporation under Treas. Reg. Section 301.7701-2(b)) with at least two
members are, by default, treated as partnerships for federal income taxation
purposes. Treas. Reg. Section 301.7701-3(b). The Trust, which is a business
trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware pursuant to the Trust
Agreement, may not be treated as a trust for federal income taxes because it
may not be "simply an arrangement to protect or conserve [the Trust Property]
for beneficiaries". Treas Reg. Section 301.7701-4(b). Therefore, because the
Trust is not included in the list of corporate entities described in Treas.
Reg. 301.7701-2(b), it will be treated as a partnership for federal income tax
purposes under Treas. Reg. Section 301.7701-3(b), if it (i) is not a trust for
federal income tax purposes and (ii) is treated as having multiple owners. In
such a case, in our opinion the Trust will not be classified as an association
or a PTP taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
February 26, 1998
Page 12
III. Federal Tax Matters in Prospectus
Based on and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that,
under present law, the discussions presented under the captions "SUMMARY -- Tax
Status" and "CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES" in the Prospectus,
although general in nature, to the extent that they address matters of federal
income tax law or legal conclusions with respect thereto, are correct in all
material respects.
* * *
We express no opinion with respect to the matters addressed in
this opinion other than as set forth above, and this opinion is not to be used,
circulated, quoted or otherwise referred to for any other purpose without prior
written consent in each instance. We disclaim any obligation to update this
opinion letter for events occurring or coming to our attention after the date
hereof.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
Flom LLP
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Schedule A
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P.
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
c/o PNC Bank, Delaware,
as Owner Trustee
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
The Chase Manhattan Bank,
as Indenture Trustee
Corporate Trust Administration
450 West 33rd Street, 15th floor
New York, New York 10001-2697
Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
as Representatives of the several Note Underwriters,
as Certificate Underwriter and as Initial Purchaser
85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
25 Broadway
New York, New York 10004
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
99 Church Street
New York, New York 10007
Fitch IBCA, Inc.
One State Street Plaza
New York, New York 10004
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EXHIBIT 8.2
[FORD LOGO]
[FORD LETTERHEAD]
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P.
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
Re: Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
I do hereby confirm that the statements set forth in the Prospectus
dated February 17, 1998, as supplemented by Prospectus Supplement dated
February 19, 1998 under the caption "Summary-Tax Status" as they relate to
Michigan state tax matters and in the Prospectus Supplement under the caption
"Certain State Tax Consequences," to the extent they constitute matters of law
or legal conclusions with respect thereto, have been prepared, reviewed or
caused to be reviewed by me and are correct in all material respects.
I consent to the reference to me under the captions "Certain State Tax
Consequences" in the Prospectus Supplement and "Legal Opinions" in the
Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Jerry D. Bringard
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EXHIBIT 99.1
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SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
by and among
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A,
as Issuer,
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P.,
as Seller
and
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY,
as Servicer
Dated as of February 1, 1998
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE II
TRUST PROPERTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.1. Conveyance of Trust Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.2. Representations and Warranties of the
Seller as to the Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 2.3. Repurchase upon Breach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
SECTION 2.4. Custody of Receivable Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.5. Duties of Servicer as Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 2.6. Instructions; Authority to Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.7. Custodian's Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.8. Effective Period and Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES AND TRUST PROPERTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 3.1. Duties of Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 3.2. Collection of Receivable Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 3.3. Realization Upon Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 3.4. [Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 3.5. Maintenance of Security Interests in
Financed Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.6. Covenants of Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.7. Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 3.8. Servicer Fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 3.9. Servicer's Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 3.10. Annual Statement as to Compliance;
Notice of Event of Servicing Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 3.11. Annual Independent Certified Public
Accountant's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 3.12. Access to Certain Documentation and
Information Regarding Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 3.13. Servicer Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;
STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 4.1. Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 4.2. Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 4.3. Application of Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 4.4. Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 4.5. Additional Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 4.6. Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 4.7. Reserve Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 4.8. Net Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 4.9. Statements to Noteholders and
Certificateholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
ARTICLE V
[Intentionally Omitted]
ARTICLE VI
THE SELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties of
Seller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.2. Liability of Seller; Indemnities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 6.3. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption
of the Obligations of, Seller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 6.4. Limitation on Liability of Seller and
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 6.5. Seller May Own Notes or Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
ARTICLE VII
THE SERVICER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 7.1. Representations of Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 7.2. Indemnities of Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 7.3. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption
of the Obligations of, Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 7.4. Limitation on Liability of Servicer and
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 7.5. Delegation of Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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SECTION 7.6. Ford Credit Not to Resign as Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 7.7. Servicer May Own Notes or Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
ARTICLE VIII
SERVICING TERMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 8.1. Events of Servicing Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 8.2. Appointment of Successor Servicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 8.3. Repayment of Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 8.4. Notification to Noteholders and
Certificateholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 8.5. Waiver of Past Events of Servicing
Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 9.1. Optional Purchase of All Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 9.2. Succession Upon Satisfaction and Discharge
of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 10.1. Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 10.2. Protection of Title to Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 10.3. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.4. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.5. Severability of Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.6. Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.7. Further Assurances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.8. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.9. Third-Party Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 10.10. Actions by Noteholders or
Certificateholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 10.11. Agent for Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 10.12. No Bankruptcy Petition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 10.13. Limitation of Liability of Owner
Trustee and Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 10.14. Third-Party Beneficiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 10.15. Savings Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SA-1
SCHEDULE B Location of Receivable Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SB-1
APPENDIX A Definitions and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AA-1
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SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect,
this "Agreement"), by and among FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A (the
"Issuer"), a Delaware business trust, FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership, as seller (the "Seller"), and FORD MOTOR CREDIT
COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, as servicer (the "Servicer").
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to acquire a portfolio of
receivables arising in connection with motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts generated by Ford Motor Credit Company in the ordinary course of its
business and conveyed to the Seller;
WHEREAS, the Seller is willing to convey such receivables to
the Issuer; and
WHEREAS, Ford Motor Credit Company is willing to service such
receivables on behalf of the Issuer;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual covenants herein contained, and other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereto, intending to be legally bound, agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may
otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are
defined in Appendix A hereto, which also contains rules as to usage that shall
be applicable herein.
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ARTICLE II
TRUST PROPERTY
SECTION 2.1. Conveyance of Trust Property. In consideration
of the Issuer's delivery to, or upon the order of, the Seller of the Notes and
the Certificates in an aggregate principal amount equal to approximately 102%
of the Initial Pool Balance, the Seller does hereby irrevocably transfer,
assign and otherwise convey to the Issuer without recourse (subject to the
obligations herein) all right, title and interest of the Seller, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, in and to the Trust Property. The transfer,
assignment and conveyance made hereunder shall not constitute and is not
intended to result in an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the
Seller to the Obligors, the Dealers or any other Person in connection with the
Receivables and the other Trust Property or any agreement, document or
instrument related thereto.
SECTION 2.2. Representations and Warranties of the Seller as
to the Receivables. The Seller makes the following representations and
warranties as to the Receivables on which the Issuer shall be deemed to have
relied in accepting the Receivables. Such representations and warranties speak
as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, but shall survive the
transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Receivables to the Issuer and the
pledge thereof to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture.
(i) Characteristics of Receivables. Each Receivable (a)
shall have been originated in the United States of America by a Dealer for the
retail sale of a Financed Vehicle in the ordinary course of such Dealer's
business, shall have been fully and properly executed by the parties thereto,
shall have been purchased by the Seller from Ford Credit, which in turn shall
have purchased such Receivable from such Dealer under an existing dealer
agreement with Ford Credit, and shall have been validly assigned by such Dealer
to Ford Credit, which in turn shall have been validly assigned by Ford Credit
to the Seller in accordance with its terms, (b) shall have created or shall
create a valid, subsisting, and enforceable first priority security interest in
favor of Ford
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Credit in the Financed Vehicle, which security interest has been assigned by
Ford Credit to the Seller, which in turn shall be assignable by the Seller to
the Issuer, (c) shall contain customary and enforceable provisions such that
the rights and remedies of the holder thereof shall be adequate for realization
against the collateral of the benefits of the security, (d) shall provide for
level monthly payments (provided that the payment in the first or last month in
the life of the Receivable may be minimally different from the level payment)
that fully amortize the Amount Financed by maturity and yield interest at the
Annual Percentage Rate, (e) shall provide for, in the event that such contract
is prepaid, a prepayment that fully pays the Principal Balance, and (f) is a
Precomputed Receivable or a Simple Interest Receivable.
(ii) Schedule of Receivables. The information set forth in
the Schedule of Receivables shall be true and correct in all material respects
as of the opening of business on the Cutoff Date, and no selection procedures
believed to be adverse to the Noteholders or the Certificateholders shall have
been utilized in selecting the Receivables from those receivables which meet
the criteria contained herein. The computer tape or other listing regarding
the Receivables made available to the Issuer and its assigns (which computer
tape or other listing is required to be delivered as specified herein) is true
and correct in all respects.
(iii) Compliance with Law. Each Receivable and the sale of
the Financed Vehicle shall have complied at the time it was originated or made
and at the execution of this Agreement shall comply in all material respects
with all requirements of applicable federal, State, and local laws, and
regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, usury laws, the Federal
Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Federal Trade
Commission Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Federal Reserve Board's
Regulations B and Z, and State adaptations of the National Consumer Act and of
the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and other consumer credit laws and equal
credit opportunity and disclosure laws.
(iv) Binding Obligation. Each Receivable shall represent the
genuine, legal, valid, and binding
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payment obligation in writing of the Obligor, enforceable by the holder thereof
in accordance with its terms subject to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors'
rights generally.
(v) No Government Obligor. None of the Receivables shall be
due from the United States of America or any State or from any agency,
department, or instrumentality of the United States of America or any State.
(vi) Security Interest in Financed Vehicle. Immediately
prior to the transfer, assignment and conveyance thereof, each Receivable shall
be secured by a validly perfected first security interest in the Financed
Vehicle in favor of Ford Credit as secured party or all necessary and
appropriate actions shall have been commenced that would result in the valid
perfection of a first security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of
Ford Credit as secured party.
(vii) Receivables in Force. No Receivable shall have been
satisfied, subordinated, or rescinded, nor shall any Financed Vehicle have been
released from the lien granted by the related Receivable in whole or in part.
(viii) No Waiver. No provision of a Receivable shall have
been waived.
(ix) No Defenses. No right of rescission, setoff,
counterclaim, or defense shall have been asserted or threatened with respect to
any Receivable.
(x) No Liens. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, no
liens or claims shall have been filed for work, labor, or materials relating to
a Financed Vehicle that shall be liens prior to, or equal or coordinate with,
the security interest in the Financed Vehicle granted by the Receivable.
(xi) No Default. Except for payment defaults continuing for
a period of not more than thirty (30) days as of the Cutoff Date, no default,
breach, violation, or event permitting acceleration under the terms of any
Receivable shall have occurred; and no continuing condition that with notice or
the lapse of time would constitute
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a default, breach, violation, or event permitting acceleration under the terms
of any Receivable shall have arisen; and Ford Credit shall not waive any of the
foregoing.
(xii) Insurance. Ford Credit, in accordance with its
customary procedures, shall have determined that the Obligor has obtained or
agreed to obtain physical damage insurance covering the Financed Vehicle.
(xiii) Title. It is the intention of the Seller that the
transfer and assignment herein contemplated constitute an absolute transfer of
the Receivables from the Seller to the Issuer and that the beneficial interest
in and title to the Receivables not be part of the Seller's estate in the event
of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any
bankruptcy law. No Receivable has been conveyed, transferred, assigned, or
pledged by the Seller to any Person other than the Issuer. Immediately prior
to the transfer and assignment herein contemplated, the Seller had good and
marketable title to each Receivable free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances,
security interests, and rights of others and, immediately upon the transfer
thereof, the Issuer shall have good and marketable title to each Receivable,
free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances, security interests, and rights of
others; and the transfer has been perfected under the UCC.
(xiv) Valid Assignment. No Receivable shall have been
originated in, or shall be subject to the laws of, any jurisdiction under which
the transfer, assignment and conveyance of such Receivable under this Agreement
or pursuant to transfers of the Notes or the Certificates shall be unlawful,
void, or voidable. The Seller has not entered into any agreement with any
account debtor that prohibits, restricts or conditions the assignment of any
portion of the Receivables.
(xv) All Filings Made. All filings (including, without
limitation, UCC filings) necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Issuer a
first perfected ownership interest in the Receivables, and to give the
Indenture Trustee a first perfected security interest therein, shall have been
made.
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(xvi) Chattel Paper. Each Receivable constitutes "chattel
paper" as defined in the UCC.
(xvii) One Original. There shall be only one original
executed copy of each Receivable.
(xviii) New and Used Vehicles. Approximately 70.0% of the
aggregate Principal Balance of the Receivables, constituting 62.2% of the
number of Receivables, as of the Cutoff Date, represent vehicles financed at
new vehicle rates, and the remainder of the Receivables represent vehicles
financed at used vehicle rates.
(xix) Amortization Type. By aggregate Principal Balance as
of the Cutoff Date, approximately 26.1% of the Receivables constitute
Precomputed Receivables and 73.9% of the Receivables constitute Simple Interest
Receivables.
(xx) Origination. Each Receivable shall have an origination
date on or after January 1, 1996.
(xxi) Maturity of Receivables. Each Receivable shall have an
original maturity of not greater than sixty (60) months.
(xxii) Minimum Annual Percentage Rate. Each Receivable shall
have an Annual Percentage Rate equal to or greater than 7.75%.
(xxiii) Scheduled Payments. Each Receivable shall have a
first Scheduled Payment due, in the case of Precomputed Receivables, or a first
scheduled due date, in the case of Simple Interest Receivables, on or prior to
February 28, 1998 and no Receivable shall have a payment that is more than
thirty (30) days overdue as of the Cutoff Date.
(xxiv) Location of Receivable Files. The Receivable Files
shall be kept at one or more of the locations listed in Schedule B hereto.
(xxv) No Extensions. The number of Scheduled Payments, in
the case of Precomputed Receivables, and the number of scheduled due dates, in
the case of Simple Interest Receivables, shall not have been extended on any
Receivable on or before the Cutoff Date.
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(xxvi) Rating Agencies. The rating agencies rating the Notes
and the Class C Certificates are Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch and the
rating agencies rating the Class D Certificates are Standard & Poor's and
Fitch.
(xxvii) Agreement. The representations and warranties of the
Seller in Section 6.1 are true and correct.
(xxviii) No Receivables Originated in Alabama or
Pennsylvania. No Receivable shall have been originated in Alabama or
Pennsylvania.
SECTION 2.3. Repurchase upon Breach. The Seller, the
Servicer, the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, shall inform the
other parties to this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee and Ford Credit
promptly, in writing, upon the discovery of any breach of the Seller's
representations and warranties made by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.2.
Unless the breach shall have been cured by the last day of the second
Collection Period following the discovery, the Indenture Trustee shall enforce
the obligation of the Seller under this Section 2.3, and, if necessary, the
Seller or the Indenture Trustee shall enforce the obligation of Ford Credit
under the Purchase Agreement, to repurchase any Receivable materially and
adversely affected by the breach as of such last day (or, at the Seller's
option, the last day of the first Collection Period following the discovery).
In consideration of the purchase of the Receivable, the Seller shall remit the
Purchase Amount, in the manner specified in Section 4.5. The sole remedy of
the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders with respect to a breach of the Seller's representations and
warranties pursuant to Section 2.2 shall be to require the Seller to repurchase
Receivables pursuant to this Section 2.3 or to enforce the obligation of Ford
Credit to the Seller to repurchase such Receivables pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement. Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee shall have any
duty to conduct an affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of any
condition requiring the repurchase of any Receivable pursuant to this Section
2.3 or the eligibility of any Receivable for purposes of this Agreement.
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SECTION 2.4. Custody of Receivable Files. To assure uniform
quality in servicing the Receivables and to reduce administrative costs, the
Issuer, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, hereby revocably
appoints the Servicer, and the Servicer hereby accepts such appointment, to act
as the agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee as custodian of the
following documents or instruments, which are hereby constructively delivered
to the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture,
with respect to each Receivable:
(i) The original of the Receivable.
(ii) The original credit application fully executed
by the Obligor or a photocopy thereof or a record thereof on a
computer file or disc or on microfiche.
(iii) The original certificate of title or such
documents that the Servicer or Ford Credit shall keep on file, in
accordance with its customary procedures, evidencing the security
interest of Ford Credit in the Financed Vehicle.
(iv) Any and all other documents (including any
computer file or disc or microfiche) that the Servicer or the Seller
shall keep on file, in accordance with its customary procedures,
relating to a Receivable, an Obligor, or a Financed Vehicle.
The Servicer shall provide an Officer's Certificate to the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee confirming that the Servicer has received on
behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee all the documents and
instruments necessary for the Servicer to act as the agent of the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee for the purposes set forth in this Section 2.4, including
the documents referred to herein, and the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee are
hereby authorized to rely on such Officer's Certificate.
SECTION 2.5. Duties of Servicer as Custodian.
(a) Safekeeping. The Servicer shall hold the Receivable
Files for the benefit of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and maintain such
accurate and complete
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accounts, records, and computer systems pertaining to each Receivable File as
shall enable the Servicer and the Issuer to comply with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, and the Indenture Trustee to comply with the
terms and conditions of the Indenture. In performing its duties as custodian
the Servicer shall act with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and
attention that the Servicer exercises with respect to the receivable files
relating to all comparable automotive receivables that the Servicer services
for itself or others. In accordance with its customary practices with respect
to its retail installment sale contracts, the Servicer shall conduct, or cause
to be conducted, periodic audits of the Receivable Files held by it under this
Agreement, and of the related accounts, records, and computer systems, in such
a manner as shall enable the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee to verify the
accuracy of the Servicer's record keeping. The Servicer shall promptly report
to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee any failure on its part to hold the
Receivable Files and maintain its accounts, records, and computer systems as
herein provided and promptly take appropriate action to remedy any such
failure. Nothing herein shall be deemed to require an initial review or any
periodic review by the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee of
the Receivable Files.
(b) Maintenance of and Access to Records. The Servicer shall
maintain each Receivable File at one of its offices specified in Schedule B to
this Agreement, or at such other office as shall be specified to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee by written notice not later than ninety (90) days after
any change in location. The Servicer shall make available to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee or their duly authorized representatives, attorneys, or
auditors a list of locations of the Receivable Files, the Receivable Files, and
the related accounts, records, and computer systems maintained by the Servicer
at such times as the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall instruct.
(c) Release of Documents. Upon written instructions from the
Indenture Trustee, the Servicer shall release any document in the Receivable
Files to the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee's agent or the Indenture
Trustee's designee, as the case may be, at such place or places as the
Indenture Trustee may designate,
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as soon thereafter as is practicable. Any document so released shall be
handled by the Indenture Trustee with due care and returned to the Servicer for
safekeeping as soon as the Indenture Trustee or its agent or designee, as the
case may be, shall have no further need therefor.
SECTION 2.6. Instructions; Authority to Act. All instructions
from the Indenture Trustee shall be in writing and signed by an Authorized
Officer of the Indenture Trustee, and the Servicer shall be deemed to have
received proper instructions with respect to the Receivable Files upon its
receipt of such written instructions.
SECTION 2.7. Custodian's Indemnification. The Servicer as
custodian shall indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee for any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, compensatory damages,
payments, costs, or expenses of any kind whatsoever that may be imposed on,
incurred, or asserted against the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee as the result of any improper act or omission in any way relating to
the maintenance and custody by the Servicer as custodian of the Receivable
Files; provided, however, that the Servicer shall not be liable (i) to the
Issuer for any portion of any such amount resulting from the willful
misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee or the Issuer, (ii) to the Owner Trustee for any portion of any such
amount resulting from the willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence of the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Issuer and (iii) to the Indenture
Trustee for any portion of any such amount resulting from the willful
misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee or the Issuer.
SECTION 2.8. Effective Period and Termination. The Servicer's
appointment as custodian shall become effective as of the Cutoff Date and shall
continue in full force and effect until terminated pursuant to this Section
2.8. If Ford Credit shall resign as Servicer in accordance with the provisions
of this Agreement or if all of the rights and obligations of the Servicer shall
have been terminated under Section 8.1, the appointment of the Servicer as
custodian hereunder may be terminated by the Indenture Trustee, or by the
Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the principal amount of
the Notes Outstanding or, with the consent of Noteholders
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of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, by the Owner Trustee or by Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, in the same
manner as the Indenture Trustee or such Securityholders may terminate the
rights and obligations of the Servicer under Section 8.1. As soon as
practicable after any termination of such appointment, the Servicer shall
deliver the Receivable Files and the related accounts and records maintained by
the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture Trustee's agent at such
place or places as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably designate.
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ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF
RECEIVABLES AND TRUST PROPERTY
SECTION 3.1. Duties of Servicer. The Servicer shall manage,
service, administer, and make collections on the Receivables with reasonable
care, using that degree of skill and attention that the Servicer exercises with
respect to all comparable receivables that it services for itself or others.
The Servicer's duties shall include collection and posting of all payments,
responding to inquiries of Obligors on such Receivables, investigating
delinquencies, sending payment coupons to Obligors, reporting tax information
to Obligors, accounting for collections, furnishing monthly and annual
statements to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with respect to
distributions, and making Advances pursuant to Section 4.4. The Servicer shall
follow its customary standards, policies, and procedures in performing its
duties as Servicer. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf
of itself, the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders, the Certificateholders, or any of them, any and all instruments of
satisfaction or cancellation, or partial or full release or discharge, and all
other comparable instruments, with respect to such Receivables or to the
Financed Vehicles securing such Receivables. If the Servicer shall commence a
legal proceeding to enforce a Receivable, the Owner Trustee (in the case of a
Receivable other than a Purchased Receivable) shall thereupon be deemed to have
automatically assigned, solely for the purpose of collection, such Receivable
to the Servicer. If in any enforcement suit or legal proceeding it shall be
held that the Servicer may not enforce a Receivable on the ground that it shall
not be a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce the Receivable,
the Owner Trustee shall, at the Servicer's expense and direction, take steps to
enforce the Receivable, including bringing suit in its name or the names of the
Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, or any of them.
The Owner Trustee shall furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney and
other documents reasonably necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to
carry out its servicing and administrative duties hereunder. The Servicer, at
its
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expense, shall obtain on behalf of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee all
licenses, if any, required by the laws of any jurisdiction to be held by the
Issuer or the Owner Trustee in connection with ownership of the Receivables,
and shall make all filings and pay all fees as may be required in connection
therewith during the term hereof.
SECTION 3.2. Collection of Receivable Payments. The Servicer
shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the
terms and provisions of the Receivables as and when the same shall become due
and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all
comparable receivables that it services for itself or others. Subject to
Sections 3.6(iii) and (iv), the Servicer may grant extensions, rebates, or
adjustments on a Receivable; provided, however, that if the Servicer extends
the date for final payment by the Obligor of any Receivable beyond the Final
Scheduled Maturity Date, it shall promptly purchase the Receivable in the
manner provided in Section 3.7. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any
late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary
course of servicing a Receivable.
SECTION 3.3. Realization Upon Receivables. On behalf of the
Issuer, the Servicer shall use reasonable efforts, consistent with its
customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership
of the Financed Vehicle securing any Receivable as to which the Servicer shall
have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. The Servicer shall
follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem
necessary or advisable in its servicing of comparable receivables, which may
include reasonable efforts to realize upon any Dealer Recourse and selling the
Financed Vehicle at public or private sale. The foregoing shall be subject to
the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have
suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the
repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine
in its discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the
Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses.
SECTION 3.4. [Reserved].
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SECTION 3.5. Maintenance of Security Interests in Financed
Vehicles. The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing
procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the
security interest created by each Receivable in the related Financed Vehicle.
The Issuer hereby authorizes the Servicer to take such steps as are necessary
to re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other
reason.
SECTION 3.6. Covenants of Servicer. The Servicer shall not
(i) release the Financed Vehicle securing each such Receivable from the
security interest granted by such Receivable in whole or in part except in the
event of payment in full by or on behalf of the Obligor thereunder or
repossession, (ii) impair the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders in the Receivables, (iii) change the Annual Percentage Rate
with respect to any Receivable, or (iv) modify the Amount Financed or the total
number of Scheduled Payments (in the case of a Precomputed Receivable) or the
total number of originally scheduled due dates (in the case of a Simple
Interest Receivable).
SECTION 3.7. Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach. The
Seller, the Servicer or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, shall inform the
other parties to this Agreement promptly, in writing, upon the discovery of any
breach pursuant to Section 3.2, 3.5 or 3.6. Unless the breach shall have been
cured by the last day of the second Collection Period following such discovery
(or, at the Servicer's election, the last day of the first following Collection
Period), the Servicer shall purchase any Receivable materially and adversely
affected by such breach as determined by the Indenture Trustee (which shall
include any Receivable as to which a breach of Section 3.6 has occurred). In
consideration of the purchase of such Receivable, the Servicer shall remit the
Purchase Amount in the manner specified in Section 4.5. For purposes of this
Section 3.7, the Purchase Amount shall consist in part of a release by the
Servicer of all rights of reimbursement with respect to Outstanding Advances on
the Receivable. The sole remedy of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with respect to a
breach pursuant to Section 3.2, 3.5 or 3.6 shall be to
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require the Servicer to purchase Receivables pursuant to this Section 3.7.
SECTION 3.8. Servicer Fee. The Servicer shall be entitled to
any interest earned on the amounts deposited in the Collection Account and the
Payahead Account during each Collection Period plus all late fees, prepayment
charges (including, in the case of a Receivable that provides for payments
according to the "Rule of 78's" and that is prepaid in full, the difference
between the Principal Balance of such Receivable (plus accrued interest to the
date of prepayment) and the principal balance of such Receivable computed
according to the "Rule of 78's"), and other administrative fees and expenses or
similar charges allowed by applicable law with respect to Receivables during
each Collection Period (the "Supplemental Servicing Fee"). The Servicer also
shall be entitled to the Servicing Fee, as provided herein.
SECTION 3.9. Servicer's Certificate. (a) On or about the
tenth day of each calendar month, the Servicer shall deliver to the Owner
Trustee, each Note Paying Agent and Certificate Paying Agent, the Indenture
Trustee and the Seller, with a copy to the Rating Agencies, a Servicer's
Certificate containing all information (including all specific dollar amounts)
necessary to make the transfers and distributions pursuant to Sections 4.3,
4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 for the Collection Period preceding the date of such
Servicer's Certificate, together with the written statements to be furnished by
the Owner Trustee to Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.9 and by the
Indenture Trustee to the Noteholders pursuant to Section 4.9 hereof and Section
6.6 of the Indenture. Receivables purchased or to be purchased by the Servicer
or the Seller shall be identified by the Servicer by the Seller's account
number with respect to such Receivable (as specified in the Schedule of
Receivables).
(b) On or about the fifth (but in no event later than the
tenth) calendar day of each calendar month, the Servicer shall deliver to the
respective underwriters of the Notes and the Certificates the Note Pool Factor
for each Class of Notes and the Certificate Pool Factor for each Class of
Certificates as of the close of business on the Distribution Date occurring in
that month.
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SECTION 3.10. Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of
Event of Servicing Termination. (a) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency on or before April 30 of
each year beginning April 30, 1998, an Officer's Certificate, dated as of
December 31 of the preceding calendar year, stating that (i) a review of the
activities of the Servicer during the preceding 12-month (or shorter) period
and of its performance under the Agreement has been made under such officer's
supervision and (ii) to the best of such officer's knowledge, based on such
review, the Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement
throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any
such obligation, specifying each such default known to such officer and the
nature and status thereof. A copy of such Officer's Certificate and the report
referred to in Section 3.11 may be obtained by any Certificateholder by a
request in writing to the Owner Trustee, or by any Noteholder or Person
certifying that it is a Note Owner by a request in writing to the Indenture
Trustee, in either case addressed to the applicable Corporate Trust Office.
Upon the telephone request of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall
promptly furnish the Owner Trustee a list of Noteholders as of the date
specified by the Owner Trustee.
(b) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency promptly after having obtained
knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days
thereafter, written notice in an Officer's Certificate of any event which with
the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Servicing Termination under Section 8.1. The Seller shall deliver to the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency promptly after having
obtained knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days
thereafter, written notice in an Officer's Certificate of any event which with
the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Servicing Termination under clause (ii) of Section 8.1
SECTION 3.11. Annual Independent Certified Public
Accountant's Report. The Servicer shall cause a firm of independent certified
public accountants, who may also render other services to the Servicer or to
the
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Seller or to Ford Credit, to deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee on or before April 30 of each year beginning April 30, 1998 with
respect to the prior calendar year a report addressed to the Board of Directors
of the Servicer and to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, to the
effect that such firm has audited the financial statements of the Servicer and
issued its report thereon and that such audit (1) was made in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards, (2) included tests relating to
automotive loans serviced for others in accordance with the requirements of the
Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers (the "Program"), to the
extent the procedures in such Program are applicable to the servicing
obligations set forth in this Agreement, and (3) except as described in the
report, disclosed no exceptions or errors in the records relating to automobile
and light truck loans serviced for others that such firm is required to report
under the Program.
The report will also indicate that the firm is independent of
the Servicer within the meaning of the Code of Professional Ethics of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
SECTION 3.12. Access to Certain Documentation and Information
Regarding Receivables. The Servicer shall provide to the Certificateholders,
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders access to the Receivable Files in
such cases where the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders shall be required by applicable statutes or regulations to review
such documentation. Access shall be afforded without charge, but only upon
reasonable request and during the normal business hours at the respective
offices of the Servicer. Nothing in this Section 3.12 shall affect the
obligation of the Servicer to observe any applicable law prohibiting disclosure
of information regarding the Obligors, and the failure of the Servicer to
provide access to information as a result of such obligation shall not
constitute a breach of this Section 3.12. The Servicer shall provide such
information with respect to the Receivables as the Rating Agencies may
reasonably request, including as soon as practicable a periodic report of the
aggregate principal balance of Receivables which become Liquidated Receivables
during each Collection Period.
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SECTION 3.13. Servicer Expenses. The Servicer shall be
required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities
hereunder, including fees and disbursements of the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee, independent accountants, taxes imposed on the Servicer and
expenses incurred in connection with distributions and reports to Noteholders
and Certificateholders.
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ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;
STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
SECTION 4.1. Accounts. (a) The Servicer shall, prior to the
Closing Date, establish and maintain a segregated trust account in the name
"The Chase Manhattan Bank as Indenture Trustee, as secured party from Ford
Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A", at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution (which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The
Chase Manhattan Bank), which shall be designated as the "Collection Account".
Initially, the Collection Account shall be account number C-27269 and shall
include any successor or replacement accounts thereto. The Collection Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee;
provided, that the Servicer may make deposits to and direct the Indenture
Trustee in writing to make withdrawals from the Collection Account in
accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents. The Collection Account will
be established and maintained pursuant to an account agreement which specifies
New York law as the governing law. In addition, the Collection Account shall
be established and maintained at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution which agrees in writing that for so long as the Notes are
outstanding it will comply with entitlement orders (as defined in Article 8 of
the UCC) originated by the Indenture Trustee without further consent of the
Issuer. All monies deposited from time to time in the Collection Account shall
be held by the Indenture Trustee as secured party for the benefit of the
Noteholders and, after payment in full of the Notes, as agent of the Owner
Trustee and as part of the Trust Property. All deposits to and withdrawals
from the Collection Account shall be made only upon the terms and conditions of
the Basic Documents.
If the Servicer is required to remit collections pursuant to
the first sentence of Section 4.2, all amounts held in the Collection Account
shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules and regulations, be
invested, as directed in writing by the Servicer, by the bank or trust company
then maintaining the Collection Account in Permitted Investments that mature
not later than the Business Day immediately prior to the Distribution Date for
the Collection Period to
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which such amounts relate and such Permitted Investments shall be held to
maturity. All interest and other income (net of losses and investment
expenses) on funds on deposit in the Collection Account shall be withdrawn from
the Collection Account at the written direction of the Servicer and shall be
paid to the Servicer. In the event that the Collection Account is no longer to
be maintained at the corporate trust department of The Chase Manhattan Bank,
the Servicer shall, with the Indenture Trustee's or Owner Trustee's assistance
as necessary, cause the Collection Account to be moved to a Qualified
Institution or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten (10) Business Days (or
such longer period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as to which each
Rating Agency may consent).
(b) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain an administrative subaccount within the Collection Account at the
bank or trust company then maintaining the Collection Account, which subaccount
shall be designated as the "Principal Distribution Account". The Principal
Distribution Account is established and maintained solely for administrative
purposes.
(c) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain two segregated trust accounts, each in the name "PNC Bank,
Delaware as Owner Trustee" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution (which shall initially be the corporate trust department of PNC
Bank, Delaware), which shall be designated as the "Certificate Interest
Distribution Account" and the "Certificate Principal Distribution Account",
respectively. Each Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole
dominion and control of the Owner Trustee. All monies deposited from time to
time in each Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to this Agreement and
the Indenture shall be held by the Owner Trustee as part of the Trust Property
and shall be applied as provided in the Basic Documents. In the event that
either Certificate Distribution Account is no longer to be maintained at the
corporate trust department of PNC Bank, Delaware, the Servicer shall, with the
Owner Trustee's assistance as necessary, cause such Certificate Distribution
Account to be moved to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust Institution
within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed thirty (30)
calendar days as to which each Rating Agency may
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consent). Each Certificate Distribution Account will be established and
maintained pursuant to an account agreement which specifies New York law as the
governing law.
(d) The Servicer shall, prior to the Closing Date, establish
and maintain a segregated trust account in the name of "The Chase Manhattan
Bank as Indenture Trustee" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution (which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The
Chase Manhattan Bank), which shall be designated as the "Payahead Account".
The Payahead Account shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Obligors.
The Payahead Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the
Indenture Trustee; provided that the Servicer may make deposits to and direct
the Indenture Trustee in writing to make withdrawals from the Payahead Account
in accordance with the Basic Documents. The Payahead Account shall not be a
part of the Trust Property. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Payahead
Account shall be made only upon the terms and conditions of the Basic
Documents.
If the Servicer is required to remit collections pursuant to
the first sentence of Section 4.2, all amounts held in the Payahead Account
shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules and regulations, be
invested, as directed in writing by the Servicer, by the bank or trust company
then maintaining the Payahead Account in Permitted Investments that mature not
later than the Business Day immediately prior to the Distribution Date for the
Collection Period to which such amounts relate and such Permitted Investments
shall be held to maturity. All interest and other income (net of losses and
investment expenses) on funds on deposit in the Payahead Account shall be
withdrawn from the Payahead Account at the direction of the Servicer and shall
be paid to the Servicer. In the event that the Payahead Account is no longer
to be maintained at the corporate trust department of The Chase Manhattan Bank,
the Servicer shall, with the Indenture Trustee's or Owner Trustee's assistance
as necessary, cause the Payahead Account to be moved to a Qualified Institution
or a Qualified Trust Institution within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer
period not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as to which each Rating Agency
may consent).
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(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (d) above and of
Section 4.6(a)(ii), for so long as (i) Ford Credit is the Servicer, (ii) the
rating of Ford Credit's short-term unsecured debt is at least P-1 by Moody's,
is at least A-1 by Standard & Poor's and is at least F-1 by Fitch and (iii) no
Event of Servicing Termination shall have occurred (each, a "Monthly Remittance
Condition"), Payaheads need not be remitted to and deposited in the Payahead
Account but instead may be remitted to and held by the Servicer. So long as
each Monthly Remittance Condition is satisfied, the Servicer shall not be
required to segregate or otherwise hold separate any Payaheads remitted to the
Servicer as aforesaid but shall be required to remit Payaheads to the
Collection Account in accordance with Section 4.6(a)(i). At any time as any
Monthly Remittance Condition is not satisfied, the Servicer shall deposit in
the Payahead Account the amount of any Payaheads then held or received by it
(which amount shall be at least equal to the Payahead Balance as of the close
of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Collection Period).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Monthly Remittance Condition is not
satisfied the Servicer may utilize, with respect to Payaheads, an alternative
remittance schedule (which may include the remittance schedule utilized by the
Servicer before the Monthly Remittance Condition became unsatisfied), if the
Servicer provides to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee written
confirmation from each Rating Agency that such alternative remittance schedule
will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal by such Rating Agency of the
ratings then assigned to the Notes and the Certificates. The Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any event or
circumstance under clause (iii) of the first sentence of this Section 4.1(e)
that would require remittance of the Payaheads to the Payahead Account unless
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee has received notice of such event or
circumstance from the Seller or the Servicer in an Officer's Certificate or
from the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding or from the Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance or unless a
Trustee Officer in the Corporate Trust Office with knowledge hereof and
familiarity herewith has actual knowledge of such event or circumstance.
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SECTION 4.2. Collections. The Servicer shall remit to the
Collection Account within two (2) Business Days of the receipt thereof (i) all
payments by or on behalf of the Obligors (including Payaheads on the
Receivables and Rule of 78's Payments, but excluding Purchased Receivables) and
(ii) all Liquidation Proceeds, both as collected during the Collection Period.
Ford Credit, so long as it is acting as the Servicer, may make remittances of
collections on a less frequent basis than that specified in the immediately
preceding sentence. It is understood that such less frequent remittances may
be made only on the specific terms and conditions set forth below in this
Section 4.2 and only for so long as such terms and conditions are fulfilled.
Accordingly, notwithstanding the provisions of the first sentence of this
Section 4.2, the Servicer shall remit collections received during a Collection
Period to the Collection Account in immediately available funds on the Business
Day preceding the related Distribution Date (or, with the prior consent of the
Rating Agencies, on the related Distribution Date) but only for so long as each
Monthly Remittance Condition is satisfied. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a
Monthly Remittance Condition is not satisfied the Servicer may utilize an
alternative remittance schedule (which may include the remittance schedule
utilized by the Servicer before the Monthly Remittance Condition became
unsatisfied), if the Servicer provides to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee written confirmation from each Rating Agency that such alternative
remittance schedule will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal by such
Rating Agency of the ratings then assigned to the Notes and the Certificates.
The Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of any event or circumstance under clause (iii) of the definition of
Monthly Remittance Condition that would require remittance by the Servicer to
the Collection Account within two Business Days of receipt as aforesaid unless
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee has received notice of such event or
circumstance from the Seller or the Servicer in an Officer's Certificate or
from the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding or from the Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance or a Trustee
Officer in the Corporate Trust Office with knowledge hereof or familiarity
herewith has actual knowledge of such event or circumstance.
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For purposes of this Article IV the phrase "payments by or on behalf of
Obligors" shall mean payments made by Persons other than the Servicer or by
other means.
SECTION 4.3. Application of Collections. For the purposes of
this Agreement, as of the close of business on the last day of each Collection
Period, all collections for the Collection Period with respect to each
Receivable (other than a Purchased Receivable) shall be applied by the Servicer
as follows:
Payments by or on behalf of the Obligor which are not late fees,
prepayment charges, or other administrative fees and expenses, or
similar charges which constitute the Supplemental Servicing Fee shall
be applied first to reduce Outstanding Advances made with respect to
such Receivable, as described in Sections 4.4(a) and (b) below. Next,
any excess shall be applied (i) in the case of Simple Interest
Receivables, to interest and principal on the Receivable in accordance
with the Simple Interest Method and (ii) in the case of Precomputed
Receivables, to the Scheduled Payment with respect to such Receivable
and any remaining excess (except for partial prepayments which cause a
reduction in the Obligor's periodic payment to below the Scheduled
Payment as of the Cutoff Date) shall be added to the Payahead Balance,
and shall be applied to prepay the Precomputed Receivable but only if
the sum of such excess and the previous Payahead Balance shall be
sufficient to prepay the Precomputed Receivable in full, otherwise
such excess shall constitute a Payahead, and shall increase the
Payahead Balance.
SECTION 4.4. Advances. (a) As of the close of business on
the last day of each Collection Period, if the payments by or on behalf of the
Obligor on a Precomputed Receivable (other than a Purchased Receivable) after
application under Section 4.3 shall be less than the Scheduled Payment, whether
as a result of any extension granted to the Obligor or otherwise, the Payahead
Balance, if any, with respect to such Receivables shall be applied by the
Indenture Trustee to the
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extent of the shortfall, and such Payahead Balance shall be reduced
accordingly. Next, subject to the following sentence, the Servicer shall make
an advance of any remaining shortfall (such amount, a "Precomputed Advance").
The Servicer will be obligated to make a Precomputed Advance in respect of a
Precomputed Receivable only to the extent that the Servicer, in its sole
discretion, shall determine that the Precomputed Advance shall be recoverable
from subsequent collections or recoveries on any Precomputed Receivable. With
respect to each Precomputed Receivable, the Precomputed Advance shall increase
Outstanding Precomputed Advances. Outstanding Precomputed Advances shall be
reduced by subsequent payments by or on behalf of the Obligor, collections of
Liquidation Proceeds and payments of the Purchase Amount.
If the Servicer shall determine that an Outstanding
Precomputed Advance with respect to any Precomputed Receivable shall not be
recoverable, the Servicer shall be reimbursed from any collections made on
other Receivables in the Trust, and Outstanding Precomputed Advances with
respect to such Precomputed Receivable shall be reduced accordingly.
(b) As of the close of business on the last day of each
Collection Period, the Servicer shall advance an amount equal to the amount of
interest due on the Simple Interest Receivables at their respective APRs for
the related Collection Period (assuming the Simple Interest Receivables pay on
their respective due dates) minus the amount of interest actually received on
the Simple Interest Receivables during the related Collection Period (such
amount, a "Simple Interest Advance"). With respect to each Simple Interest
Receivable, the Simple Interest Advance shall increase Outstanding Simple
Interest Advances. If such calculation results in a negative number, an amount
equal to such negative number shall be paid to the Servicer and the amount of
Outstanding Simple Interest Advances shall be reduced by such amount. In
addition, in the event that a Simple Interest Receivable becomes a Liquidated
Receivable, Liquidation Proceeds with respect to a Simple Interest Receivable
attributable to accrued and unpaid interest thereon (but not including interest
for the then current Collection Period) shall be paid to the Servicer to reduce
Outstanding Simple Interest Advances, but only to the extent of any Outstanding
Simple Interest Advances. The Servicer shall not make
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any advance in respect of principal of Simple Interest Receivables.
If the Servicer shall determine that an Outstanding Simple
Interest Advance with respect to any Simple Interest Receivable shall not be
recoverable, the Servicer shall be reimbursed from any collections made on
other Receivables in the Trust, but only to the extent that such Outstanding
Simple Interest Advance represents accrued and unpaid interest on such Simple
Interest Receivable. Outstanding Simple Interest Advances with respect to such
Simple Interest Receivable shall be reduced by the amount of such
reimbursement.
(c) In the event that an Obligor shall prepay a Receivable in
full, if the related contract did not require such Obligor to pay a full
month's interest, for the month of prepayment, at the APR, the Servicer shall
make an unreimbursable advance of the amount of such interest.
SECTION 4.5. Additional Deposits. (a) The Servicer shall
deposit in the Collection Account the aggregate Advances pursuant to Sections
4.4(a) and (b) and the aggregate advances pursuant to Section 4.4(c). The
Servicer and the Seller shall deposit in the Collection Account the aggregate
Purchase Amounts with respect to Purchased Receivables and the Servicer shall
deposit therein all amounts to be paid under Section 9.1. All such deposits
with respect to a Collection Period shall be made, in immediately available
funds, on the Business Day preceding the Distribution Date (or, with the prior
consent of the Rating Agencies, on the Distribution Date) related to such
Collection Period.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall on the Distribution Date
relating to each Collection Period make withdrawals from the Reserve Account
(i) first, in an amount equal to the Reserve Account Release Amount, (ii)
second, in an amount equal to the amount (if positive) calculated by the
Servicer pursuant to the second sentence of Section 4.6(b) and (iii) third, in
an amount equal to the amount (if positive) calculated by the Servicer pursuant
to the third sentence of Section 4.6(b) and, in each case, shall deposit such
funds into the Collection Account.
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SECTION 4.6. Distributions. (a) On each Distribution Date,
the Indenture Trustee shall cause to be made the following transfers and
distributions in the amounts set forth in the Servicer's Certificate for such
Distribution Date:
(i) From the Payahead Account, or from the Servicer
in the event the provisions of Section 4.1(e) above are applicable, to
the Collection Account, in immediately available funds, (x) the
portion of Payaheads constituting Scheduled Payments or prepayments in
full, required by Sections 4.3 and 4.4(a), and (y) the Payahead
Balance, if any, relating to any Purchased Receivable.
(ii) From the Collection Account to the Payahead
Account, or to the Servicer in the event the provisions of Section
4.1(e) above are applicable, in immediately available funds, the
aggregate Payaheads required by Section 4.3 for the Collection Period
related to such Distribution Date.
(iii) From the Collection Account to the Servicer,
in immediately available funds, repayment of Outstanding Advances
pursuant to Sections 4.4(a) and (b).
(b) Prior to each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall on or
before each Determination Date calculate the Available Collections, the Reserve
Account Release Amount, the Available Funds, the Servicing Fee and all unpaid
Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods, if any, the Accrued Class A Note
Interest, the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued Class B
Note Interest, the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued
Class C Certificate Interest, the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest and the
Regular Principal Distribution Amount. In addition, the Servicer shall
calculate on or before each Determination Date the difference, if any, between
the Total Required Payment and the Available Funds and, pursuant to Section
4.5(b), the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw funds from the Reserve Account in
the amount of such difference (if positive). On or before the Determination
Date immediately preceding the Final Scheduled Distribution Date with respect
to any Class of Notes or either Class of Certificates, the Servicer shall
calculate the
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difference, if any, between (i) the amount required to pay such Class of Notes
or such Class of Certificates in full in accordance with the priorities set
forth in Sections 4.6(c) and (d), and (ii) the sum of the Available Funds plus
the amount withdrawn from the Reserve Account in accordance with the preceding
sentence, and pursuant to Section 4.5(b), the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw
funds from the Reserve Account in the amount of such difference (if positive).
(c) On each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall instruct
the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer's
Certificate delivered on or before the related Determination Date pursuant to
Section 3.9), to make the following withdrawals from the Collection Account and
make deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent of funds on deposit in
the Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such
Distribution Date (including funds, if any, deposited therein from the Reserve
Account pursuant to Section 4.5(b) and from the Payahead Account pursuant to
this Section 4.6), in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the Servicer, the Servicing Fee and
all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of Class A Notes,
the Accrued Class A Note Interest; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued
Class A Note Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the
payment of such interest on the Class A Notes on a pro rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Principal Distribution Account,
the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of Class B Notes,
the Accrued Class B Note Interest; provided that if there are not
sufficient funds available to pay the entire amount of the Accrued
Class B Note Interest, the amounts available shall be applied to the
payment of such interest on the Class B Notes on a pro rata basis;
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(v) fifth, to the Principal Distribution Account,
the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount;
(vi) sixth, to the Certificate Interest Distribution
Account, the Accrued Class C Certificate Interest;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Interest
Distribution Account, the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest.
(viii) eighth, to the Reserve Account, the amount,
if any, required to reinstate the amount in the Reserve Account up to
the Specified Reserve Balance;
(ix) ninth, to the Principal Distribution Account,
the Regular Principal Distribution Amount; and
(x) tenth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on
deposit in the Collection Account with respect to the Collection
Period preceding such Distribution Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence and
during the continuation of an Event of Default which has resulted in an
acceleration of the Notes or following an Insolvency Event or a dissolution
with respect to the Seller or the General Partner, the Servicer shall instruct
the Indenture Trustee to transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection
Account remaining after the application of clauses (i) and (ii) above to the
Principal Distribution Account to the extent necessary to reduce the principal
amount of all the Notes to zero, and the Certificateholders will not receive
any distributions of principal or interest until the principal amount and
accrued interest on all the Notes has been paid in full.
(d) On each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall instruct
the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer's
Certificate delivered on or before the related Determination Date pursuant to
Section 3.9), to withdraw the funds on deposit in the Principal Distribution
Account with respect to the Collection
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Period preceding such Distribution Date and make distributions and payments in
the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes
in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount
of the outstanding Class A-1 Notes in full, the amounts available
shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-1 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(ii) second, to the Noteholders of the Class A-2
Notes in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-2 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount
of the outstanding Class A-2 Notes in full, the amounts available
shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-2 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(iii) third, to the Noteholders of the Class A-3
Notes in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-3 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount
of the outstanding Class A-3 Notes in full, the amounts available
shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-3 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(iv) fourth, to the Noteholders of the Class A-4
Notes in reduction of principal until the principal amount of the
outstanding Class A-4 Notes has been paid in full; provided that if
there are not sufficient funds available to pay the principal amount
of the outstanding Class A-4 Notes in full, the amounts available
shall be applied to the payment of principal on the Class A-4 Notes on
a pro rata basis;
(v) fifth, to the Noteholders of the Class B Notes in
reduction of principal until the principal amount of the outstanding
Class B Notes has been
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paid in full; provided that if there are not sufficient funds
available to pay the principal amount of the outstanding Class B Notes
in full, the amounts available shall be applied to the payment of
principal on the Class B Notes on a pro rata basis;
(vi) sixth, to the Certificate Principal Distribution
Account, in reduction of the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates, until the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates has been reduced to zero;
(vii) seventh, to the Certificate Principal
Distribution Account, in reduction of the Certificate Balance of the
Class D Certificates, until the Certificate Balance of the Class D
Certificates has been reduced to zero; and
(viii) eighth, to the Seller, any funds remaining on
deposit in the Principal Distribution Account.
SECTION 4.7. Reserve Account. (a) (i) The Seller shall,
prior to the Closing Date, establish and maintain an account in the name "The
Chase Manhattan Bank as Indenture Trustee, as secured party from Ford Credit
Auto Owner Trust 1998-A" at a Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust
Institution (which shall initially be the corporate trust department of The
Chase Manhattan Bank), which shall be designated as the "Reserve Account" (the
Reserve Account, together with the Collection Account (including the Principal
Distribution Account), the "Trust Accounts"). The Reserve Account shall be
under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee; provided, that
the Servicer may make deposits to the Reserve Account in accordance with the
Basic Documents. The Reserve Account will be established and maintained
pursuant to an account agreement which specifies New York law as the governing
law. In addition, the Reserve Account shall be established and maintained at a
Qualified Institution or Qualified Trust Institution which agrees in writing
that for so long as the Notes are outstanding it will comply with entitlement
orders (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) originated by the Indenture Trustee
without further consent of the Issuer. On the Closing Date, the Seller shall
deposit the Reserve Initial Deposit into the Reserve Account from the net
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proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Certificates. The Reserve Account
and all amounts, securities, investments, financial assets and other property
deposited in or credited to the Reserve Account (such amounts, the "Reserve
Account Property") shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as secured party for
the benefit of the Noteholders and, after payment in full of the Notes, as
agent of the Owner Trustee and as part of the Trust Property, and all deposits
to and with- drawals from therefrom shall be made only upon the terms and
conditions of the Basic Documents.
The Reserve Account Property shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, rules and regulations, be invested, as directed in writing by
the Seller, by the bank or trust company then maintaining the Reserve Account
in Permitted Investments that mature not later than the Business Day preceding
the next Distribution Date, and such Permitted Investments shall be held to
maturity. All interest and other income (net of losses and investment
expenses) on funds on deposit in the Reserve Account shall be deposited
therein. In the event the Reserve Account is no longer to be maintained at the
corporate trust department of The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Servicer shall,
with the Indenture Trustee's or Owner Trustee's assistance as necessary, cause
the Reserve Account to be moved to a Qualified Institution or a Qualified Trust
Institution within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed
thirty (30) calendar days as to which each Rating Agency may consent).
(ii) With respect to Reserve Account Property:
(A) any Reserve Account Property that is a
"financial asset" as defined in Section 8- 102(a)(9)
of the UCC shall be physically delivered to, or
credited to an account in the name of, the Qualified
Institution or Qualified Trust Institution
maintaining the Reserve Account in accordance with
such institution's customary procedures such that
such institution establishes a "securities
entitlement" in favor of the Indenture Trustee with
respect thereto; and
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(B) any Reserve Account Property that is
held in deposit accounts shall be held solely in the
name of the Indenture Trustee at one or more
depository institutions having the Required Rating
and each such deposit account shall be subject to the
exclusive custody and control of the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have sole
signature authority with respect thereto.
(iii) Except for any deposit accounts specified in clause
(ii)(B) above, the Reserve Account shall only be invested in
securities or in other assets which the Qualified Institution or
Qualified Trust Institution maintaining the Reserve Account agrees to
treat as "financial assets" as defined in Section 8- 102(a)(9) of the
UCC.
(b) If the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.4 determines on or
before any Determination Date that it is required to make an Advance and does
not do so from its own funds, the Servicer shall promptly instruct the
Indenture Trustee in writing to withdraw funds, in an amount specified by the
Servicer, from the Reserve Account and deposit them in the Collection Account
to cover any shortfall. Such payment shall be deemed to have been made by the
Servicer pursuant to Section 4.4 for purposes of making distributions pursuant
to this Agreement, but shall not otherwise satisfy the Servicer's obligation to
deliver the amount of the Advances to the Indenture Trustee, and the Servicer
shall within two Business Days replace any funds in the Reserve Account so
used.
(c) Following the payment in full of the aggregate principal
amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance and of all other
amounts owing or to be distributed hereunder or under the Indenture or the
Trust Agreement to Noteholders and Certificateholders and the termination of
the Trust, any remaining Reserve Account Property shall be distributed to the
Seller.
SECTION 4.8. Net Deposits. For so long as (i) Ford Credit
shall be the Servicer, (ii) the Servicer shall be entitled pursuant to Section
4.2 to remit collections on a monthly basis rather than within two Business
Days of receipt, and (iii) the Servicer shall be
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entitled pursuant to Section 4.1(e) to retain Payaheads rather than deposit
them in the Payahead Account, Ford Credit may make the remittances pursuant to
Sections 4.2 and 4.5 above, net of amounts to be distributed to Ford Credit
pursuant to Section 4.6(c). Nonetheless, the Servicer shall account for all of
the above described remittances and distributions except for the Supplemental
Servicing Fee in the Servicer's Certificate as if the amounts were deposited
and/or transferred separately.
SECTION 4.9. Statements to Noteholders and
Certificateholders. On each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall provide to
the Indenture Trustee (with copies to the Rating Agencies and each Note Paying
Agent) for the Indenture Trustee to forward to each Noteholder of record as of
the most recent Record Date and to the Owner Trustee (with copies to the Rating
Agencies and to each Certificate Paying Agent) for the Owner Trustee to forward
to each Certificateholder of record as of the most recent Record Date a
statement based on information in the Servicer's Certificate furnished pursuant
to Section 3.9, setting forth for the Collection Period relating to such
Distribution Date the following information as to the Notes and the
Certificates to the extent applicable:
(i) the amount of such distribution allocable to
principal allocable to the Notes and to the Certificates;
(ii) the amount of such distribution allocable to
interest allocable to the Notes and the Certificates;
(iii) the amount of such distribution allocable to
draws from the Reserve Account, if any;
(iv) the Pool Balance as of the close of business on
the last day of the preceding Collection Period;
(v) the Specified Overcollateralization Amount and
the Specified Credit Enhancement Amount as of such Distribution Date;
(vi) the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the
Servicer with respect to the related Collection
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Period and the amount of any unpaid Servicing Fees and the change in
such amount from that of the prior Distribution Date;
(vii) the amounts of the Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall and the Certificateholders' Interest Carryover
Shortfall, if any, on such Distribution Date and the change in such
amounts from the preceding Distribution Date;
(viii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
each Class of Notes, the Note Pool Factor for each Class of Notes, the
Certificate Balance of each Class of Certificates and the Certificate
Pool Factor for each Class of Certificates as of such Distribution
Date;
(ix) the balance of the Reserve Account on such
Distribution Date, after giving effect to distributions made on such
Distribution Date and the change in such balance from the preceding
Distribution Date;
(x) the amount of the aggregate Realized Losses, if
any, with respect to the related Collection Period;
(xi) the aggregate Purchase Amount of Receivables
repurchased by the Seller or purchased by the Servicer, if any, with
respect to the related Collection Period; and
(xii) the amount of Advances, if any, on such
Distribution Date (stating separately the amount of Precomputed
Advances and Simple Interest Advances).
Each amount set forth on the Distribution Date statement
pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (vi) or (vii) above shall be expressed as a
dollar amount per $1,000 of original principal amount or original Certificate
Balance of a Note or a Certificate, as applicable.
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ARTICLE V
[Intentionally Omitted]
ARTICLE VI
THE SELLER
SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties of Seller. The
Seller makes the following representations and warranties on which the Issuer
is deemed to have relied in acquiring the Trust Property. The representations
and warranties speak as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and
shall survive the conveyance of the Trust Property to the Issuer and the pledge
thereof by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Seller shall have
been duly organized and shall be validly existing as a limited partnership in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority
to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties shall be
currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all
relevant times, and shall have, power, authority, and legal right to acquire
and own the Receivables.
(b) Due Qualification. The Seller shall be duly qualified to
do business as a foreign limited partnership in good standing, and shall have
obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require
such qualifications.
(c) Power and Authority. The Seller shall have the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Basic Documents
to which it is a party and to carry out their terms. The Seller shall have
full power and authority to convey and assign the property to be conveyed and
assigned to and deposited with the Issuer and has duly authorized such
conveyance and assignment to the Issuer by all necessary action; and the
execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which it is a party
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shall have been duly authorized by the Seller by all necessary action.
(d) Valid Conveyance; Binding Obligation. This Agreement
shall evidence a valid transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Receivables
and the other Trust Property conveyed by the Seller to the Issuer hereunder,
enforceable against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller; and this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the Seller is a party
constitute legal, valid, and binding obligations of the Seller, enforceable
against the Seller in accordance with their terms, subject, as to
enforceability, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
conservatorship, receivership, liquidation and other similar laws and to
general equitable principles.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the
Seller is a party and the fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof will not
conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, nor
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under,
the Certificate of Limited Partnership or Limited Partnership Agreement, any
indenture, agreement, or other instrument to which the Seller is a party or by
which the Seller is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any lien
upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture,
agreement, or other instrument; nor violate any law or, to the best of the
Seller's knowledge, any order, rule, or regulation applicable to the Seller of
any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency, or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or its
properties.
(f) No Proceedings. To the Seller's best knowledge, there
are no proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened, before any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over the Seller or its properties: (i) asserting the
invalidity of this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other Basic Documents,
the Notes or the Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the
Notes or the Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic
Documents,
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(iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely
affect the performance by the Seller of its obligations under, or the validity
or enforceability of, this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other Basic
Documents, the Notes or the Certificates, or (iv) relating to the Seller and
which might adversely affect the federal or Applicable Tax State income,
excise, franchise or similar tax attributes of the Notes or the Certificates.
SECTION 6.2. Liability of Seller; Indemnities. The Seller
shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations
specifically undertaken by the Seller under this Agreement, and hereby agrees
to the following:
(a) The Seller shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee from and against any taxes
that may at any time be asserted against any such Person with respect to, and
as of the date of, the conveyance of the Receivables to the Issuer or the
issuance and original sale of the Notes and the Certificates, including any
sales, gross receipts, general corporation, tangible personal property,
privilege, or license taxes (but, in the case of the Issuer, not including any
taxes asserted with respect to ownership of the Receivables or federal or other
Applicable Tax State income taxes arising out of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents) and costs and expenses in
defending against the same.
(b) The Seller shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders from and against any loss, liability or expense incurred by
reason of (i) the Seller's willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence (other
than errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties under this Agreement,
or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this
Agreement and (ii) the Seller's violation of federal or State securities laws
in connection with the registration or the sale of the Notes or the
Certificates.
(c) The Seller shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee
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and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from and against
all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages and liabilities arising out of or
incurred in connection with the acceptance or performance of the trusts and
duties contained herein and in the Trust Agreement, in the case of the Owner
Trustee, and in the Indenture, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, except to
the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage or liability: (i) in
the case of the Owner Trustee, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad
faith or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Owner Trustee or, in
the case of the Indenture Trustee, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad
faith or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Indenture Trustee;
or (ii) in the case of the Owner Trustee shall arise from the breach by the
Owner Trustee of any of its representations or warranties set forth in Section
7.3 of the Trust Agreement or (iii) in the case of the Indenture Trustee shall
arise from the breach by the Indenture Trustee of any of its representations
and warranties set forth in the Indenture.
(d) The Seller shall pay any and all taxes levied or assessed
upon all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
(e) Indemnification under this Section 6.2 shall survive the
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and the
termination of this Agreement and shall include, without limitation, reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation. If the Seller shall
have made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section 6.2 and the Person to
or on behalf of whom such payments are made thereafter shall collect any of
such amounts from others, such Person shall repay such amounts to the Seller,
without interest.
SECTION 6.3. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
Obligations of, Seller. Any Person (i) into which the Seller may be merged or
consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to
which the Seller shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the
Seller, or (iv) more than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned directly or
indirectly by Ford Motor Company, which Person in any of the foregoing cases
executes an agreement of assumption to perform
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every obligation of the Seller under this Agreement, will be the successor to
the Seller under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any document
or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement;
provided, however, that (x) the Seller shall have delivered to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel each stating that such merger, conversion, consolidation or succession
and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section 6.3 and that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Agreement relating to such
transaction have been complied with and (y) the Seller shall have delivered to
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either (A)
stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and
continuation statements and amendments thereto have been executed and filed
that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee, respectively, in the Receivables and the other Trust
Property, and reciting the details of such filings, or (B) stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and
protect such interest. The Seller shall provide notice of any merger,
conversion, consolidation, or succession pursuant to this Section 6.3 to the
Rating Agencies. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
execution of the foregoing agreement of assumption and compliance with clauses
(x) or (y) above shall be conditions to the consummation of the transactions
referred to in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above.
SECTION 6.4. Limitation on Liability of Seller and Others.
The Seller and any officer or employee or agent of the Seller may rely in good
faith on the advice of counsel or on any document of any kind, prima facie
properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Seller shall not be under any obligation to appear in,
prosecute, or defend any legal action that shall not be incidental to its
obligations under this Agreement, and that in its opinion may involve it in any
expense or liability.
SECTION 6.5. Seller May Own Notes or Certificates. The
Seller, and any Affiliate of the Seller, may in its individual or any other
capacity become the owner or pledgee of Notes or Certificates with the same
rights as it would have if it were not the Seller or an Affiliate
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thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the other Basic
Documents. Except as set forth herein or in the other Basic Documents, Notes
and Certificates so owned by or pledged to the Seller or any such Affiliate
shall have an equal and proportionate benefit under the provisions of this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents, without preference, priority, or
distinction as among all of the Notes and Certificates.
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ARTICLE VII
THE SERVICER
SECTION 7.1. Representations of Servicer. The Servicer makes
the following representations on which the Issuer is deemed to have relied in
acquiring the Trust Property. The representations speak as of the execution
and delivery of this Agreement and shall survive the conveyance of the Trust
Property to the Issuer and the pledge thereof by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer shall have
been duly organized and shall be validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of its incorporation, with power and
authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties
shall be currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at
all relevant times, and shall have, power, authority, and legal right to
acquire, own, sell, and service the Receivables and to hold the Receivable
Files as custodian on behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
(b) Due Qualification. The Servicer shall be duly qualified
to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing, and shall have
obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business (including the
servicing of the Receivables as required by this Agreement) shall require such
qualifications.
(c) Power and Authority. The Servicer shall have the power
and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which it is a party and to carry out their terms, and the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which it is a party shall have been duly authorized by the
Servicer by all necessary corporate action.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement and the other Basic
Documents to which the Servicer is a party constitute legal, valid, and binding
obligations of the Servicer, enforceable against the Servicer in accordance
with their terms, subject, as to enforceability, to
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applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship,
receivership, liquidation and other similar laws and to general equitable
principles.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the
Servicer is a party and the fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof shall
not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of,
nor constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under, the articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Servicer, or any
indenture, agreement, or other instrument to which the Servicer is a party or
by which it shall be bound, nor result in the creation or imposition of any
lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture,
agreement, or other instrument (other than this Agreement); nor violate any law
or, to the best of the Servicer's knowledge, any order, rule, or regulation
applicable to the Servicer of any court or any federal or State regulatory
body, administrative agency, or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or
investigations pending, or, to the Servicer's best knowledge, threatened,
before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties: (i)
asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other
Basic Documents, the Notes or the Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the
issuance of the Notes or the Certificates or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other
Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might
materially and adversely affect the performance by the Servicer of its
obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement, the
Inden- ture, any of the other Basic Documents, the Notes or the Certificates,
or (iv) relating to the Servicer and which might adversely affect the federal
or Applicable Tax State income, excise, franchise or similar tax attributes of
the Notes or the Certificates.
SECTION 7.2. Indemnities of Servicer. The Servicer shall be
liable in accordance herewith only to
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the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken by the Servicer under
this Agreement, and hereby agrees to the following:
(a) The Servicer shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless
the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the
Certificateholders and the Seller from and against any and all costs, expenses,
losses, damages, claims and liabilities, arising out of or resulting from the
use, ownership or operation by the Servicer or any Affiliate thereof of a
Financed Vehicle.
(b) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee from and against any
taxes that may at any time be asserted against any such Person with respect to
the transactions contemplated herein or in the other Basic Documents, if any,
including, without limitation, any sales, gross receipts, general corporation,
tangible personal property, privilege, or license taxes (but, in the case of
the Issuer, not including any taxes asserted with respect to, and as of the
date of, the conveyance of the Receivables to the Issuer or the issuance and
original sale of the Notes and the Certificates, or asserted with respect to
ownership of the Receivables, or federal or other Applicable Tax State income
taxes arising out of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
other Basic Documents) and costs and expenses in defending against the same.
(c) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, the
Certificateholders and the Seller from and against any and all costs, expenses,
losses, claims, damages, and liabilities to the extent that such cost, expense,
loss, claim, damage, or liability arose out of, or was imposed upon any such
Person through, the negligence, willful misfeasance, or bad faith (other than
errors in judgment) of the Servicer in the performance of its duties under this
Agreement or any other Basic Document to which it is a party, or by reason of
reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement or any
other Basic Document to which it is a party.
(d) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee,
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as applicable, from and against all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages,
and liabilities arising out of or incurred in connection with the acceptance or
performance of the trusts and duties contained herein and in the other Basic
Documents, if any, except to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim,
damage, or liability: (i) shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith,
or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee, as applicable; (ii) relates to any tax other than the taxes
with respect to which either the Seller or the Servicer shall be required to
indemnify the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, as applicable; (iii) in
the case of the Owner Trustee, shall arise from the Owner Trustee's breach of
any of its representations or warranties set forth in Section 7.3 of the Trust
Agreement or, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, from the Indenture
Trustee's breach of any of its representations or warranties set forth in the
Indenture; or (iv) in the case of the Indenture Trustee, shall arise out of or
be incurred in connection with the performance by the Indenture Trustee of the
duties of a successor Servicer hereunder.
For purposes of this Section 7.2, in the event of the
termination of the rights and obligations of Ford Credit (or any successor
thereto pursuant to Section 8.2) as Servicer pursuant to Section 8.1, or a
resignation by such Servicer pursuant to this Agreement, such Servicer shall be
deemed to continue to be the Servicer pending appointment of a successor
Servicer (other than the Indenture Trustee) pursuant to Section 8.2.
Indemnification under this Section 7.2 by Ford Credit (or any
successor thereto pursuant to Section 8.2) as Servicer, with respect to the
period such Person was (or was deemed to be) the Servicer, shall survive the
termination of such Person as Servicer or a resignation by such Person as
Servicer as well as the termination of this Agreement or the resignation or
removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and shall include
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation. If the
Servicer shall have made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section 7.2
and the recipient thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, the
recipient shall promptly repay such amounts to the Servicer, without interest.
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SECTION 7.3. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
Obligations of, Servicer. Any Person (i) into which the Servicer may be merged
or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation
to which the Servicer shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the
Servicer, or (iv) so long as Ford Credit acts as Servicer, any corporation more
than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by Ford
Motor Company, which Person in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement
of assumption to perform every obligation of the Servicer under this Agreement,
will be the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that (x) the Servicer shall have
delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such merger,
conversion, consolidation, or succession and such agreement of assumption
comply with this Section 7.3 and that all conditions precedent provided for in
this Agreement relating to such transaction have been complied with and (y) the
Servicer shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all
financing statements and continuation statements and amendments thereto have
been executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the
interest of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, respectively, in the
Receivables, and reciting the details of such filings, or (B) stating that, in
the opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and
protect such interests. The Servicer shall provide notice of any merger,
conversion, consolidation or succession pursuant to this Section 7.3 to the
Rating Agencies. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
execution of the foregoing agreement or assumption and compliance with clauses
(x) and (y) above shall be conditions to the consummation of the transactions
referred to in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) above.
SECTION 7.4. Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others.
(a) Neither the Servicer nor any of the directors or officers or employees or
agents of the Servicer shall be under any liability to the Issuer, the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders, except as provided under this Agreement,
for any action taken or for
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refraining from the taking of any action pursuant to this Agreement or for
errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect
the Servicer or any such Person against any liability that would otherwise be
imposed by reason of willful misfeasance or bad faith in the performance of
duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this
Agreement, or by reason of negligence in the performance of its duties under
this Agreement (except for errors in judgment). The Servicer and any director,
officer or employee or agent of the Servicer may rely in good faith on any
Opinion of Counsel or on any Officer's Certificate of the Seller or certificate
of auditors believed to be genuine and to have been signed by the proper party
in respect of any matters arising under this Agreement.
(b) Except as provided in this Agreement, the Servicer shall
not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute, or defend any legal action
that shall not be incidental to its duties to service the Receivables in
accordance with this Agreement, and that in its opinion may involve it in any
expense or liability; provided, however, that the Servicer may undertake any
reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this
Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties to this Agreement and the
interests of the Noteholders and Certificateholders under this Agreement. In
such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action and any liability
resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Servicer.
SECTION 7.5. Delegation of Duties. So long as Ford Credit
acts as Servicer, the Servicer may at any time without notice or consent
delegate substantially all its duties under this Agreement to any corporation
more than 50% of the voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by
Ford Motor Company. The Servicer may at any time perform specific duties as
servicer under the Agreement through sub-contractors; provided that no such
delegation or subcontracting shall relieve the Servicer of its responsibilities
with respect to such duties as to which the Servicer shall remain primarily
responsible with respect thereto.
SECTION 7.6. Ford Credit Not to Resign as Servicer. Subject
to the provisions of Section 7.3, Ford Credit shall not resign from the
obligations and duties
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hereby imposed on it as Servicer under this Agreement except upon determination
that the performance of its duties under this Agreement shall no longer be
permissible under applicable law. Notice of any such determination permitting
the resignation of Ford Credit shall be communicated to the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee at the earliest practicable time (and, if such
communication is not in writing, shall be confirmed in writing at the earliest
practicable time) and any such determination shall be evidenced by an Opinion
of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee concurrently with or promptly after such notice. No such resignation
shall become effective until the Indenture Trustee or a successor Servicer
shall have (i) taken the actions required by the last paragraph of Section 8.1,
(ii) assumed the responsibilities and obligations of Ford Credit in accordance
with Section 8.2 and (iii) become the Administrator under the Administration
Agreement pursuant to Section 9 thereof.
SECTION 7.7. Servicer May Own Notes or Certificates. The
Servicer, and any Affiliate of the Servicer, may, in its individual or any
other capacity, become the owner or pledgee of Notes or Certificates with the
same rights as it would have if it were not the Servicer or an Affiliate
thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the other Basic
Documents. Except as set forth herein or in the other Basic Documents, Notes
and Certificates so owned by or pledged to the Servicer or such Affiliate shall
have an equal and proportionate benefit under the provisions of this Agreement,
without preference, priority or distinction as among all of the Notes and
Certificates.
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ARTICLE VIII
SERVICING TERMINATION
SECTION 8.1. Events of Servicing Termination. (a) If any
one of the following events ("Events of Servicing Termination") occur and be
continuing:
(i) Any failure by the Servicer or the Seller to deliver to
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture any proceeds or payment required to
be so delivered under the terms of the Notes and the Certificates and
this Agreement that shall continue unremedied for a period of three
(3) Business Days after written notice of such failure is received by
the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may be, from the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee or after discovery of such failure by an
officer of the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may be; or
(ii) Failure on the part of the Servicer or the Seller duly
to observe or to perform in any material respect any other covenants
or agreements of the Servicer or the Seller, as the case may be, set
forth in the Notes, the Certificates or in this Agreement, which
failure shall (a) materially and adversely affect the rights of
Noteholders or Certificateholders and (b) continue unremedied for a
period of ninety (90) days after the date on which written notice of
such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given
(1) to the Servicer by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, or
(2) to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Seller and the
Servicer by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of
the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or by the
Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the
Aggregate Certificate Balance; or
(iii) The entry of a decree or order by a court or agency or
supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the
appointment of a conservator, receiver, or liquidator for the Servicer
or the Seller in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of
assets and liabilities, or similar proceedings, or for the winding up
or
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liquidation of its respective affairs, and the continuance of any such
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60)
consecutive days; or
(iv) The consent by the Servicer or the Seller to the
appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any
insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and
liabilities, or similar proceedings of or relating to the Servicer of
or relating to substantially all of its property; or the Servicer
shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable
insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors, or voluntary suspend payment of its
obligations;
then the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify each Rating Agency, and in
each and every case, so long as an Event of Servicing Termination shall not
have been remedied, either the Indenture Trustee, or the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, by notice then given in writing to the Servicer (and to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee if given by the Noteholders) (with a
copy to the Rating Agencies) may terminate all of the rights and obligations of
the Servicer under this Agreement. On or after the receipt by the Servicer of
such written notice, all authority and power of the Servicer under this
Agreement, whether with respect to the Notes, the Certificates or the Trust
Property or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Indenture Trustee or
such successor Servicer as may be appointed under Section 8.2; and, without
limitation, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee are hereby authorized
and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the predecessor Servicer, as
attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and
to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect
the purposes of such notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer
and endorsement of the Receivables and related documents, or otherwise.
The predecessor Servicer shall cooperate with the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and such successor Servicer in effecting the
termination of the responsibilities
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and rights of the predecessor Servicer under this Agreement, including the
transfer to the Indenture Trustee or such successor Servicer for administration
of all cash amounts that shall at the time be held by the predecessor Servicer
for deposit, or shall thereafter be received with respect to a Receivable and
the delivery of the Receivable Files and the related accounts and records
maintained by the Servicer. All reasonable costs and expenses (including
attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with transferring the Receivable Files
to the successor Servicer and amending this Agreement to reflect such
succession as Servicer pursuant to this Section 8.1 shall be paid by the
predecessor Servicer upon presentation of reasonable documentation of such
costs and expenses.
SECTION 8.2. Appointment of Successor Servicer.
(a) Upon the Servicer's receipt of notice of termination pursuant to Section
8.1 or the Servicer's resignation in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, the predecessor Servicer shall continue to perform its functions as
Servicer under this Agreement, in the case of termination, only until the date
specified in such termination notice or, if no such date is specified in a
notice of termination, until receipt of such notice and, in the case of
resignation, until the later of (x) the date 45 days from the delivery to the
Trustee of written notice of such resignation (or written confirmation of such
notice) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (y) the date upon
which the predecessor Servicer shall become unable to act as Servicer, as
specified in the notice of resignation and accompanying Opinion of Counsel. In
the event of the Servicer's resignation or termination hereunder, the Trustee
shall appoint a successor Servicer, and the successor Servicer shall accept its
appointment by a written assumption in form acceptable to the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee (with a copy to each Rating Agency). In the event that a
successor Servicer has not been appointed at the time when the predecessor
Servicer has ceased to act as Servicer in accordance with this Section 8.2, the
Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the
successor Servicer. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee, if it
shall be legally unable so to act, shall appoint, or petition a court of
competent jurisdiction to appoint, any established institution, having a net
worth of not less than $100,000,000 and whose regular business shall include
the servicing of
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automotive receivables, as the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement.
(b) Upon appointment, the successor Servicer shall be the
successor in all respects to the predecessor Servicer and shall be subject to
all the responsibilities, duties, and liabilities arising thereafter relating
thereto placed on the predecessor Servicer, by the terms and provisions of this
Agreement.
(c) In connection with such appointment, the Indenture Trustee
may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor Servicer out
of payments on Receivables as it and such successor Servicer shall agree;
provided, however, that no such compensation shall be in excess of that
permitted the predecessor Servicer under this Agreement. The Indenture Trustee
and such successor Servicer shall take such action, consistent with this
Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession.
SECTION 8.3. Repayment of Advances. If the identity of the
Servicer shall change, the predecessor Servicer shall be entitled to receive to
the extent of available funds reimbursement for Outstanding Advances pursuant
to Section 4.3 and 4.4, in the manner specified in Section 4.6, with respect to
all Advances made by the predecessor Servicer.
SECTION 8.4. Notification to Noteholders and
Certificateholders. Upon any termination of, or appointment of a successor to,
the Servicer pursuant to this Article VIII, the Indenture Trustee shall give
prompt written notice thereof to Noteholders, and the Owner Trustee shall give
prompt written notice thereof to Certificateholders at their respective
addresses of record and to each Rating Agency.
SECTION 8.5. Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination.
The Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding or the Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance (in
the case of an Event of Servicing Termination which does not adversely affect
the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders) may, on behalf of all Noteholders and
Certificateholders, waive any Event of
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Servicing Termination hereunder and its consequences, except an event resulting
from the failure to make any required deposits to or payments from any of the
Trust Accounts, either Certificate Distribution Account or the Payahead Account
in accordance with this Agreement. Upon any such waiver of a past Event of
Servicing Termination, such Event of Servicing Termination shall cease to
exist, and shall be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose of this
Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other event or
impair any right consequent thereon. The Issuer shall provide written notice
of any such waiver to the Rating Agencies.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
SECTION 9.1. Optional Purchase of All Receivables. On the
last day of any Collection Period as of which the Pool Factor shall be less
than the Optional Purchase Percentage, the Servicer shall have the option to
purchase the corpus of the Trust. To exercise such option, the Servicer shall
deposit pursuant to Section 4.5 in the Collection Account an amount equal to
the aggregate Purchase Amount for the Receivables, plus the appraised value of
any other property held by the Trust, such value to be determined by an
appraiser mutually agreed upon by the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee, and shall succeed to all interests in and to the Trust.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer shall not be permitted to exercise
such option unless the amount to be deposited in the Collection Account
pursuant to the preceding sentence is greater than or equal to the sum of the
outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance
and all accrued but unpaid interest (including any overdue interest) thereon.
The amount deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to this Section 9.1
shall be used on the next Distribution Date to make payments in full to
Noteholders and Certificateholders in the manner set forth in Article IV.
SECTION 9.2. Succession Upon Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture. Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the
payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Notes, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, the Indenture Trustee will continue to carry out
its obligations hereunder as agent for the Owner Trustee, including without
limitation making distributions from the Payahead Account and the Collection
Account in accordance with Section 4.6 and making withdrawals from the Reserve
Account in accordance with Section 4.5(b) and Section 4.7.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Amendment. (a) This Agreement may be amended
by the Seller, the Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the extent that their respective rights or
obligations may be affected thereby (which consent may not be unreasonably
withheld), but without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions in this Agreement, or to add any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Agreement that shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that
such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Noteholder or Certificateholder; and provided
further that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal or any then Applicable Tax
State income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by
the Seller, the Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the extent that their respective rights or
obligations may be affected thereby (which consent may not be unreasonably
withheld) and with the consent of (i) the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding and (ii)
the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of
the Aggregate Certificate Balance (which consent of any Noteholder of a Note or
Certificateholder of a Certificate given pursuant to this Section 10.1 or
pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and
binding on such Note or Certificate, as the case may be, and on all future
Noteholders of such Note or Certificateholders of such Certificate, as the case
may be, and of any Note or Certificate, as applicable, issued upon the transfer
thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of
such consent is made upon such Note or the Certificate), for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of
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the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of
the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such
amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or
accelerate or delay the timing of, or change the allocation or priority of,
collections of payments on Receivables or distributions that shall be required
to be made on any Note or Certificate or change any Note Interest Rate or any
Certificate Rate or, without the prior consent of the Rating Agencies, the
Specified Reserve Balance, without the consent of all adversely affected
Noteholders or Certificateholders or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the
Noteholders of all Notes and Certificateholders of all Certificates affected
thereby; and provided further that such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal or any
then Applicable Tax State income tax purposes as an association taxable as a
corporation.
(c) Prior to the execution of any such amendment or consent
the Servicer will provide, and the Owner Trustee shall distribute, written
notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Rating
Agency.
(d) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or
consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance
of such amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee
and each Rating Agency. It shall not be necessary for the consent of
Noteholders or the Certificateholders pursuant to this Section 10.1 to approve
the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of
obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Noteholders and
Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement) and of evidencing the
authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders and Certificateholders
shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee may prescribe, including the establishment of record dates
pursuant to paragraph number 2 of the Note Depository Agreement.
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(e) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this
Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to
receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement and the Opinion of
Counsel referred to in Section 10.2(i)(1). The Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which
affects such Owner Trustee's or Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 10.2. Protection of Title to Trust. (a) The Seller
shall execute and file such financing statements and cause to be executed and
filed such continuation statements, all in such manner and in such places as
may be required by law fully to preserve, maintain, and protect the interest of
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders in the
Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. The Seller shall deliver (or cause to
be delivered) to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee file-stamped
copies of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as
soon as available following such filing.
(b) Neither the Seller nor the Servicer shall change its
name, identity, or corporate structure in any manner that would, could, or
might make any financing statement or continuation statement filed by the
Seller in accordance with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading within the
meaning of Section 9-402(7) of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least five (5) days' prior written notice
thereof, with a copy to the Rating Agencies, and shall have promptly filed
appropriate amendments to all previously filed financing statements or
continuation statements.
(c) The Seller and the Servicer shall give the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee at least sixty (60) days' prior written notice of any
relocation of its principal executive office if, as a result of such
relocation, the applicable provisions of the UCC would require the filing of
any amendment of any previously filed financing or continuation statement or of
any new financing statement and shall promptly file any such amendment or new
financing statement. The Servicer shall at all
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times maintain each office from which it shall service Receivables, and its
principal executive office, within the United States of America.
(d) The Servicer shall maintain accounts and records as to
each Receivable accurately and in sufficient detail to permit (i) the reader
thereof to know at any time the status of such Receivable, including payments
and recoveries made and payments owing (and the nature of each) and (ii)
reconciliation between payments or recoveries on (or with respect to) each
Receivable and the amounts from time to time deposited in the Collection
Account, the Payahead Account and the Reserve Account in respect of such
Receivable.
(e) The Servicer shall maintain its computer systems so that,
from and after the time of conveyance under this Agreement of the Receivables
to the Issuer, the Servicer's master computer records (including any back-up
archives) that refer to a Receivable shall indicate clearly the interest of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in such Receivable and that such Receivable is
owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture. Indication of the Issuer's and the Indenture Trustee's interest
in a Receivable shall be deleted from or modified on the Servicer's computer
systems when, and only when, the Receivable shall have been paid in full or
repurchased.
(f) If at any time the Seller or the Servicer shall propose
to sell, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any interest in
automotive receivables to any prospective purchaser, lender, or other
transferee, the Servicer shall give to such prospective purchaser, lender, or
other transferee computer tapes, records, or print-outs (including any restored
from back-up archives) that, if they shall refer in any manner whatsoever to
any Receivable, shall indicate clearly that such Receivable has been conveyed
to and is owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee.
(g) The Servicer shall permit the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents at any time during normal
business hours to inspect, audit, and make copies of and abstracts from the
Servicer's records regarding any Receivable.
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(h) Upon request, the Servicer shall furnish to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, within twenty (20) Business Days, a list of
all Receivables (by contract number and name of Obligor) then held as part of
the Trust, together with a reconciliation of such list to the Schedule of
Receivables and to each of the Servicer's Certificates furnished before such
request indicating removal of Receivables from the Trust.
(i) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee:
(1) promptly after the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and of each amendment thereto, an Opinion of Counsel
either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such Counsel, all financing
statements and continuation statements have been executed and filed
that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables, and reciting the
details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in
which such details are given, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of
such Counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and
protect such interest; and
(2) within 120 days after the beginning of each
calendar year beginning with the first calendar year beginning more
than three months after the Cutoff Date, an Opinion of Counsel, dated
as of a date during such 120-day period, either (A) stating that, in
the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation
statements have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to
preserve and protect the interest of the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee in the Receivables, and reciting the details of such filings
or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are
given, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of such Counsel, no such
action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest.
Each Opinion of Counsel referred to in clause (i)(1) or (i)(2)
above shall specify any action necessary
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(as of the date of such opinion) to be taken in the following year to preserve
and protect such interest.
(j) The Seller shall, to the extent required by applicable
law, cause the Notes and the Certificates to be registered with the Securities
and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within the time periods specified in such
sections.
(k) For the purpose of facilitating the execution of this
Agreement and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original,
and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 10.3. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and the
obligations, rights, and remedies of the parties under this Agreement shall be
determined in accordance with such laws.
SECTION 10.4. Notices. All demands, notices, and
communications under this Agreement shall be in writing, personally delivered,
sent by telecopier, overnight courier or mailed by certified mail, return
receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt (a)
in the case of the Seller or the Servicer, to the agent for service as
specified in Section 10.11 hereof, or at such other address as shall be
designated by the Seller or the Servicer in a written notice to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, (b) in the case of the Owner Trustee, at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee, (c) in the case of the Indenture
Trustee, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, (d) in the
case of Moody's Investors Service, Inc., at the following address: Moody's
Investors Service, Inc., ABS Monitoring Department, 99 Church Street, New York,
New York 10007, (e) in the case of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, at the
following address: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, 25 Broadway, 20th
Floor, New York, New York 10004, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance
Department and (f) in the case of Fitch IBCA, Inc., at the following address:
Fitch IBCA, Inc., 1201 East 7th Street, Powell, Wyoming 82435, Attention:
Asset Backed Surveillance. Any notice required or permitted to
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be mailed to a Noteholder or Certificateholder shall be given by first class
mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Person as shown in the Note
Register or the Certificate Register, as applicable. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not the Noteholder or Certificateholder shall
receive such notice.
SECTION 10.5. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more
of the covenants, agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement shall be
for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements,
provisions, or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants,
agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect
the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of
the Notes, the Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.
SECTION 10.6. Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, except as provided in Sections 7.3 and 8.2 and as
provided in the provisions of this Agreement concerning the resignation of the
Servicer, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Seller or the Servicer
without the prior written consent of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the principal
amount of the Notes Outstanding and the Certificateholders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance.
SECTION 10.7. Further Assurances. The Seller and the
Servicer agree to do and perform, from time to time, any and all acts and to
execute any and all further instruments required or reasonably requested by the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee more fully to effect the purposes of
this Agreement, including, without limitation, the execution of any financing
statements or continuation statements relating to the Receivables for filing
under the provisions of the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.8. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to
exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, any right,
remedy,
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power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges
therein provided are cumulative and not exhaustive of any rights, remedies,
powers and privileges provided by law.
SECTION 10.9. Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement will
inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, the
Noteholders, the Certificateholders, and their respective successors and
permitted assigns. Except as otherwise provided in this Article X, no other
Person will have any right or obligation hereunder. The parties hereto hereby
acknowledge and consent to the pledge of this Agreement by the Issuer to the
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders pursuant to the Indenture.
SECTION 10.10. Actions by Noteholders or Certificateholders.
(a) Wherever in this Agreement a provision is made that an action may be taken
or a notice, demand, or instruction given by Noteholders or Certificateholders,
such action, notice, or instruction may be taken or given by any Noteholder or
Certificateholder, as applicable, unless such provision requires a specific
percentage of Noteholders or Certificateholders.
(b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver, or other act by a Noteholder or Certificateholder shall bind
such Noteholder or Certificateholder and every subsequent holder of such Note
or Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done or omitted to be done
by the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note or
Certificate.
SECTION 10.11. Agent for Service. The agent for service of
the Seller and the Servicer in respect of this Agreement shall be J.D.
Bringard, Esq., Ford Motor Credit Company, The American Road, Dearborn,
Michigan 48121.
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SECTION 10.12. No Bankruptcy Petition. The Owner Trustee,
the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Servicer each covenants and agrees
that, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the payment in full
of all securities issued by the Seller or by a trust for which the Seller was
the depositor which securities were rated by any nationally recognized
statistical rating organization it will not institute against, or join any
other Person in instituting against, the Seller or the General Partner any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings,
or other proceedings under any federal or State bankruptcy or similar law.
This Section 10.12 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture
or the termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 10.13. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and
Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by PNC Bank, Delaware not in
its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the
Issuer and in no event shall PNC Bank, Delaware in its individual capacity or,
except as expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, as Owner Trustee of the
Issuer have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants,
agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of the
certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of
which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer. For all
purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of its duties or obligations
hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer
hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits
of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust
Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, this Agreement has been accepted by The Chase Manhattan Bank, not in
its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee, and in no event shall
The Chase Manhattan Bank have any liability for the representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder
or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant
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hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the
Issuer.
SECTION 10.14. Third-Party Beneficiary. The Indenture
Trustee is a third-party beneficiary to this Agreement and is entitled to the
rights and benefits hereunder and may enforce the provisions hereof as if it
were a party hereto.
SECTION 10.15. Savings Clause. It is the intention of the
Seller and the Issuer that the transfer of the Trust Property contemplated
herein constitute an absolute transfer of the Trust Property, conveying good
title to the Trust Property from the Seller to the Issuer. However, in the
event that such transfer is deemed to be a pledge, the Seller hereby grants to
the Issuer a first priority security interest in all of the Seller's right,
title and interest in, to and under the Trust Property, and all proceeds
thereof, to secure a loan in an amount equal to all amounts payable under the
Notes and the Certificates, and in such event, this Agreement shall constitute
a security agreement under applicable law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Sale and
Servicing Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto
duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO L.P.,
as Seller
By: FORD CREDIT AUTO
RECEIVABLES TWO, INC.,
as General Partner
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST
1998-A,
as Issuer
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee
By: /s/ Michael B. McCarthy
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Name: Michael B. McCarthy
Title: Vice President
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY,
as Servicer
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
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Accepted and agreed:
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ Michael A. Smith
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Name: Michael A. Smith
Title: Vice President
PNC BANK, DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Michael B. McCarthy
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Name: Michael B. McCarthy
Title: Vice President
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SCHEDULE A
[SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES]
Delivered to Indenture Trustee at Closing
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SCHEDULE B
LOCATION OF RECEIVABLE FILES
Akron
175 Montrose West Avenue
Crown Pointe Building
Suite 300
Copley, OH 44321
Albany
5 Pine West Plaza
Albany, NY 12205
Albuquerque
6100 Uptown Blvd., N.E.
Suite 300
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Amarillo
1616 S. Kentucky
Bldg. D, Suite 130
Amarillo, TX 79102
Anchorage
3201 C Street
Suite 303
Anchorage, AK 99503
Appleton
54 Park Place
Appleton, WI 54915-8861
Athens
3708 Atlanta Highway
Athens, GA 30604
Atlanta-North
North Park Town Center
Bldg. 400, Suite 180
1000 Abernathy Rd. N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30328
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Atlanta-South
1691 Phoenix Blvd.
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30349
Atlanta/CL
1117 Perimeter Ctr. W
Suite 404 West
Atlanta, GA 30338
Atlantic Region District Office
14104 Newbrook Drive
Chantilly, VA 22021
Austin
1701 Directors Blvd.
Suite 320
Austin, TX 78744
Baltimore-East
Campbell Corporate
Center One
4940 Campbell Blvd.
Suite 140
Whitemarsh Business Community
Baltimore, MD 21236
Beaumont
2615 Calder
Suite 715
Beaumont, TX 77704
Billings
1643 Lewis Avenue
Suite 201
Billings, MT 59102
Birmingham
3535 Grandview Parkway
Suite 340
Birmingham, AL 35243
Boston-North
One Tech Drive
3rd Floor
Andover, MA 01810-2497
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Boston-South
Southboro Place
2nd Floor
352 Turnpike Road
Southboro, MA 01772
Bristol
Landmark Center-
Suite A
113 Landmark Lane
Bristol, TN 37620
Buffalo
95 John Muir Drive
Suite 102
Amherst, NY 14228
Cape Girardeau
1409-C N. Mt. Auburn Rd.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Charleston
Rivergate Center
Suite 150
4975 LaCross Road
North Charleston, SC 29418
Charlotte
6302 Fairview Road
Suite 500
Charlotte, NC 28210
Charlotte/CL
6302 Fairview Road
Suite 510
Charlotte, NC 28210
Chattanooga
6025 Lee Highway
Suite 443
Chattanooga, TN 37421
Cheyenne
6234 Yellowstone Road
Cheyenne, WY 82009
SB-3
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Chicago-East
One River Place
Suite A
Lansing, IL 60438
Chicago-North
9700 Higgins Road
Suite 720
Rosemont, IL 60018
Chicago-South
The Office of Waterfall Glen I
Suite 310
900 South Frontage Road
Woodridge, IL 60517
Chicago-West
2500 W. Higgins Rd.
Suite 280
Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
Chicago/CL
745 McClintock Drive
Suite 300
Burr Ridge, IL 60521
Cincinnati
8805 Governors Hill Dr.
Suite 230
Cincinnati, OH 45249
Cleveland
5700 Lombardo Centre
Suite 101
Seven Hills, OH 44131-2581
Colorado Springs
5575 Tech Center Dr.
Suite 220
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Columbia
250 Berryhill Road
Suite 201
Columbia, SC 29210
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Columbus
Metro V, Suite 470
655 Metro Place S
Dublin, OH 43017
Coral Springs-East
3111 N. University Dr.
Suite 800
Coral Springs, FL 33065
Corpus Christi
5350 South Staples
Suite 225
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
Dallas
Campbell Forum
Suite 600
801 E. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75081
Dallas
Campbell Forum
Suite 650
801 E. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75081
Davenport
Commerce Exch. Bldg.
2535 Tech Drive
Suite 300
Bettendorf, IA 52722
Decatur
401 Lee Street
Suite 500
Decatur, AL 35602
Denver
6300 S. Syracuse Way
Suite 195
Englewood, CO 80111
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Des Moines
4200 Corporate Drive
Suite 107
W. Des Moines, IA 50266
Detroit-North
580 Kirts Boulevard
Suite 300
Troy, MI 48084
Detroit-West
One Parklane Blvd.
Suite 405E
Dearborn, MI 48126
Detroit/CL
One Parklane Blvd.
Suite 301E
Dearborn, MI 48126
Dothan
137 Clinic Drive
Dothan, AL 36303
El Paso
1200 Golden Key Circle
Suite 104
El Paso, TX 79925
Eugene
1600 Valley River Drive
Suite 190
Eugene, OR 97401
Falls Church
1420 Springhill Road
Suite 550
McLean, VA 22102
Fargo
3100 13th Ave. South
Suite 304
Fargo, ND 58103
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Fayetteville
4317 Ramsey Street
Suite 300
Fayetteville, NC 28311
Findlay
3500 North Main Street
Findlay, OH 45840-1447
Ft. Myers
11935 Fairway Lakes Dr.
Fort Myers, FL 33913
Ft. Worth
Center Park Tower
Suite 400
2350 West Airport Frwy.
Bedford, TX 76022
Grand Junction
744 Horizon Court
Suite 330
Grand Junction, CO 81506
Grand Rapids
2851 Charlevoix Drive SE
Suite 300
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Greensboro
1500 Pinecroft Rd.
Suite 220
Greensboro, NC 27407
Harlingen
1916 East Harrison
Harlingen, TX 78550
Harrisburg
4900 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Henderson
618 North Green Street
Henderson, KY 42420
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Honolulu
Ala Moano Pacific Center
Suite 922
1585 Kapiolani Blvd.
Honolulu, HI 96814
Houston-North
363 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. E.
Suite 700
Houston, TX 77060
Houston-West
820 Gessner
Suite 700
Houston, TX 77024
Huntington
3425 U.S. Route 60 East
Barboursville, WV 25504
Indianapolis
5875 Castle Creek Pkwy.
North Drive
Suite 240
Indianapolis, IN 46250
Jackson
Highland Village Center
Suite 292
4500 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39211
Jacksonville
Suite 310
9485 Regency Square Boulevard
Jacksonville, FL 32225
Jefferson City
210 Prodo Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
SB-8
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Kansas City
8717 West 110th Street
Bldg. #14, Suite 550
Overland Park, KS 66210
Knoxville
5500 Lonas Drive
Suite 260
Knoxville, TN 37909
Lafayette
Saloom Office Park
Suite 350
100 Asthma Boulevard
Lafayette, LA 70508
Lansing
2140 University Park Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
Las Vegas
500 N Rainbow Blvd.
Suite 312
Las Vegas, NV 89107
Little Rock
1701 Centerview Dr.
Suite 301
Little Rock, AR 72211
Long Island
972 Brush Hollow Road
5th Floor
Westbury, NY 11590-1740
Louisville
502 Executive Park
Louisville, KY 40207
Lubbock
4010 82nd Street
Suite 200
Lubbock, TX 79424
SB-9
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Macon
5400 Riverside Drive
Suite 201
Macon, GA 31210
Manchester
4 Bedford Farms
Bedford, NH 03110
Marshall
1408 North Michigan
Marshall, IL 62441
Memphis
6555 Quince Road
Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38119
Miami
6303 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 200
Miami, FL 33126
Milwaukee
10850 W. Park Place
Suite 110
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Minneapolis
One Southwest Crossing
Suite 308
11095 Viking Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Mobile
1201 Montlimar Dr.
Suite 700
Mobile, AL 36609-1718
Nashville
Highland Ridge
Suite 190
565 Marriott Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
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New Haven
35 Thorpe Ave.
Wallingford, CT 06492
New Jersey-Central
101 Interchange Plaza
Cranbury, NJ 08512
New Jersey-North
103 Eisenhower Parkway
4th Floor
Roseland, NJ 07068
New Jersey-South
10000 MidAtlantic Dr.
Suite 401 West
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
New Orleans
Lakeway III
3838 N. Causeway Blvd.
Suite 3200
Metairie, LA 70002
Norfolk
Greenbrier Pointe
Suite 350
1401 Greenbrier Pkwy.
Chesapeake, VA 23320
Odessa
Ashford Park Office Center
Suite 201A
2626 John B. Sheprd Parkway
Odessa, TX 79762
Oklahoma City
Perimeter Center
Suite 300
4101 Perimeter Ctr Dr.
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
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Omaha
10040 Regency Circle
Suite 100
Omaha, NE 68114-3786
Omaha Customer Service Center
12110 Emmet Street
Omaha, NB 68164
Orange
765 The City Drive
Suite 400
Orange, CA 92668
Orange/CL
765 The City Drive
Suite 401
Orange, CA 92668
Orlando
1060 Maitland Ctr Commons
Suite 210
Maitland, FL 32751
Pasadena
225 S. Lake Avenue
Suite 1200
Pasadena, CA 91101
Pensacola
25 W. Cedar Street
Suite 316
Pensacola, Fl 32501
Philadelphia
Bay Colony Executive Park
Suite 100
575 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
Philadelphia/CL
500 N. Gulph Rd.
Suite 110
King of Prussia, PA 19406
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Phoenix
4742 North 24th Street
Suite 215
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Pittsburgh
Foster Plaza 9
750 Holiday Drive
4th Floor, Suite 420
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
Portland
2401 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04102
Portland
10220 S.W. Greenburg Blvd.
Suite 415
Portland, OR 97223
Raleigh
3651 Trust Drive
Raleigh, NC 27604
Regional Opers Center
7090 Columbia Gateway Dr.
Columbia, MD 21046
Richmond
300 Arboretum Place
Suite 320
Richmond, VA 23236
Roanoke
5238 Valley Pointe Pkwy.
Suite 6
Roanoke, VA 24019
Sacramento
2720 Gateway Oaks Dr.
Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95833
Saginaw
4901 Towne Centre Rd.
Suite 200
Saginaw, MI 48605
SB-13
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Salt Lake City
310 E. 4500 S.
Suite 340
Murray, UT 84107
Santa Ana Central Collections
765 The City Drive
Suite 402
Orange. CA 92668
San Antonio
100 N.E. Loop 410
Suite 625
San Antonio, TX 78216-4742
San Bernardino
1615 Orange Tree Lane
Suite 215
Redlands, CA 92374
San Diego
3111 Camino Del Rio N.
Suite 1333
San Diego, CA 92108
San Francisco
4301 Hacienda Dr.
Suite 400
Pleasanton, CA 94588
San Francisco/CL
4900 Hopyard Road
Suite 220
Pleasanton CA 94588
San Jose
1900 McCarthy Blvd.
Suite 400
Milpitas, CA 95035
Savannah
6600 Abercorn Street
Suite 206
Savannah, GA 31405
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Seattle
13555 S.E. 36th Street
Suite 350
Bellevue, WA 98006
Shreveport
South Pointe Centre
Suite 200
3007 Knight Street
Shreveport, LA 71105
South Bay
301 E. Ocean Boulevard
Suite 1900
Long Beach, CA 90802
South Bend
4215 Edison Lakes Parkway
Suite 140
Mishawaka, IN 46545
Spokane
901 North Monroe Ct.
Suite 350
Spokane, WA 99201-2148
Springfield
3275 E. Ridgeview
Springfield, MO 65804
St. Louis
4227 Earth City Expressway
Suite 100
Earth City, MO 63045
Syracuse
5788 Widewaters Pkwy.
DeWitt, NY 13214
Tampa
Lincoln Pointe, Suite 800
2502 Rocky Point Drive
Tampa, FL 33607
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Tulsa
9820 East 41st St.
Suite 300
Tulsa, OK 74145
Tupelo
One Mississippi Plaza
Tupelo, MS 38801
Tyler
821 East SE Loop 323
Suite 300
Tyler, TX 75701
Ventura
260 Maple Court
Suite 210
Ventura, CA 93003
Washington, D.C.
2440 Research Blvd.
Suite 150
Rockville, MD 20850
Westchester
660 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Western Carolina
215 Thompson Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Wichita
7570 West 21st
Wichita, KS 67212
SB-16
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APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
AA-1
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EXHIBIT 99.2
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT
This ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT, dated as of February 1, 1998 (as from
time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this
"Agreement"), is by and among FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A, a Delaware
business trust (the "Issuer"), FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, a Delaware
corporation, as administrator (the "Administrator"), and THE CHASE MANHATTAN
BANK, a New York corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee").
WHEREAS, the Issuer is issuing the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and
the Certificates pursuant to the Trust Agreement and has entered into certain
agreements in connection therewith, including (i) the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, (ii) the Note Depository Agreement and (iii) the Indenture (the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the Note Depository Agreement and the Indenture being
referred to hereinafter collectively as the "Related Agreements");
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Owner Trustee desire to have the
Administrator perform certain duties of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee under
the Related Agreements and to provide such additional services consistent with
the terms of this Agreement and the Related Agreements as the Issuer and the
Owner Trustee may from time to time request; and
WHEREAS, the Administrator has the capacity to provide the services
required hereby and is willing to perform such services for the Issuer and the
Owner Trustee on the terms set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained
herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency
of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally
bound, agree as follows:
1. Definitions and Usage. Except as otherwise specified herein
or as the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not
otherwise defined herein are defined in Appendix A hereto, which also contains
rules as to usage that shall be applicable herein.
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2. Duties of the Administrator. (a) Duties with Respect to the
Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. (i) The Administrator agrees to
perform all its duties as Administrator and the duties of the Issuer under the
Note Depository Agreement. In addition, the Administrator shall consult with
the Owner Trustee regarding the duties of the Issuer under the Indenture and
the Note Depository Agreement. The Administrator shall monitor the performance
of the Issuer and shall advise the Owner Trustee when action is necessary to
comply with the Issuer's duties under the Indenture and the Note Depository
Agreement. The Administrator shall prepare for execution by the Issuer, or
shall cause the preparation by other appropriate Persons of, all such
documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions that it
shall be the duty of the Issuer to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the
Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing,
the Administrator shall take all appropriate action that is the duty of the
Issuer to take pursuant to the Indenture including, without limitation, such of
the foregoing as are required with respect to the following matters under the
Indenture (references are to sections of the Indenture):
(A) the duty to cause the Note Register to be kept and to
give the Indenture Trustee notice of any appointment of a new Note
Registrar and the location, or change in location, of the Note
Register (Section 2.5);
(B) the determination as to whether the requirements of
UCC Section 8-401(1) are met and the preparation of an Issuer Request
requesting the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver
replacement Notes in lieu of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Notes (Section 2.6);
(C) the notification of Noteholders of the final
principal payment on their Notes (Section 2.8(b));
(D) the preparation of or obtaining of the documents and
instruments required for authentication of the Notes and delivery of
the same to the Indenture Trustee (Section 2.2);
(E) the preparation, obtaining or filing of the
instruments, opinions and certificates and
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other documents required for the release of property from the lien of
the Indenture (Section 2.10);
(F) the preparation of Definitive Notes in accordance
with the instructions of the Clearing Agency (Section 2.13);
(G) the maintenance of an office in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, for registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes if the Indenture Trustee ceases to maintain such an
office (Section 3.2);
(H) the duty to cause newly appointed Note Paying Agents,
if any, to deliver to the Indenture Trustee the instrument specified
in the Indenture regarding funds held in trust (Section 3.3);
(I) the direction to the Indenture Trustee to deposit
monies with Note Paying Agents, if any, other than the Indenture
Trustee (Section 3.3);
(J) the obtaining and preservation of the Issuer's
qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each
other instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate
(Section 3.4);
(K) the preparation of all supplements and amendments to
the Indenture and all financing statements, continuation statements,
instruments of further assurance and other instruments and the taking
of such other action as is necessary or advisable to protect the
Indenture Trust Estate (Sections 3.5 and 3.7(c));
(L) the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel on the Closing
Date and the annual delivery of Opinions of Counsel as to the
Indenture Trust Estate, and the annual delivery of the Officer's
Certificate and certain other statements as to compliance with the
Indenture (Sections 3.6 and 3.9);
(M) the identification to the Indenture Trustee in an
Officer's Certificate of any Person with whom the Issuer has
contracted to perform its duties under the Indenture (Section 3.7(b));
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(N) the notification of the Indenture Trustee and the
Rating Agencies of an Event of Servicing Termination under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and, if such Event of Servicing Termination
arises from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to the
Receivables, the taking of all reasonable steps available to remedy
such failure (Section 3.7(d));
(O) the preparation and obtaining of documents and
instruments required for the consolidation or merger of the Issuer
with another entity or the transfer by the Issuer of its properties or
assets (Section 3.10);
(P) the duty to cause the Servicer to comply with
Sections 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and 4.9 and Article VII of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement (Section 3.14);
(Q) the delivery of written notice to the Indenture
Trustee and the Rating Agencies of each Event of Default under the
Indenture and each default by the Servicer or the Seller under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and by Ford Credit or the Seller under
the Purchase Agreement (Section 3.19);
(R) the monitoring of the Issuer's obligations as to the
satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the preparation of an
Officer's Certificate and the obtaining of the Opinions of Counsel and
the Independent Certificate relating thereto (Section 4.1);
(S) the monitoring of the Issuer's obligations as to the
satisfaction, discharge and defeasance of the Notes and the
preparation of an Officer's Certificate and the obtaining of an
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified
public accountants, a written certification thereof and the Opinions
of Counsel relating thereto (Section 4.2);
(T) the preparation of an Officer's Certificate to the
Indenture Trustee after the occurrence of any event which with the
giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of
Default under Section 5.1(iii) of the Indenture, its status
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and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto (Section 5.1);
(U) the compliance with any written directive of the
Indenture Trustee with respect to the sale of the Indenture Trust
Estate at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in
any manner permitted by law if an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing (Section 5.4);
(V) the preparation and delivery of notice to Noteholders
of the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee (Section 6.8);
(W) the preparation of any written instruments required
to confirm more fully the authority of any co-trustee or separate
trustee and any written instruments necessary in connection with the
resignation or removal of any co-trustee or separate trustee (Sections
6.8 and 6.10);
(X) the furnishing of the Indenture Trustee with the
names and addresses of Noteholders during any period when the
Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar (Section 7.1);
(Y) the preparation and, after execution by the Issuer,
the filing with the Commission, any applicable state agencies and the
Indenture Trustee of documents required to be filed on a periodic
basis with, and summaries thereof as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed by, the Commission and any applicable state
agencies and the transmission of such summaries, as necessary, to the
Noteholders (Section 7.3);
(Z) the opening of one or more accounts in the Issuer's
name, the preparation and delivery of Issuer Orders, Officer's
Certificates and Opinions of Counsel and all other actions necessary
with respect to investment and reinvestment, to the extent permitted,
of funds in such accounts (Sections 8.2 and 8.3);
(AA) the preparation of an Issuer Request and Officer's
Certificate and the obtaining of an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates, if
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necessary, for the release of the Indenture Trust Estate (Sections 8.4
and 8.5);
(BB) the preparation of Issuer Orders and the obtaining of
Opinions of Counsel with respect to the execution of supplemental
indentures and the mailing to the Noteholders of notices with respect
to such supplemental indentures (Sections 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3);
(CC) the execution and delivery of new Notes conforming to
any supplemental indenture (Section 9.6);
(DD) the notification of Noteholders of redemption of the
Notes or duty to cause the Indenture Trustee to provide such
notification (Section 10.2);
(EE) the preparation of all Officer's Certificates, Issuer
Requests and Issuer Orders and the obtaining of Opinions of Counsel
and Independent Certificates with respect to any requests by the
Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under the Indenture
(Section 11.1(a));
(FF) the preparation of Officer's Certificates and the
obtaining of Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release
of property from the lien of the Indenture (Section 11.1(b));
(GG) the notification of the Rating Agencies, upon the
failure of the Indenture Trustee to give such notification, of the
information required pursuant to Section 11.4 of the Indenture
(Section 11.4);
(HH) the preparation and delivery to Noteholders and the
Indenture Trustee of any agreements with respect to alternate payment
and notice provisions (Section 11.6); and
(II) the recording of the Indenture, if applicable
(Section 11.15).
(ii) The Administrator will:
(A) pay the Indenture Trustee from time to time
reasonable compensation for all services rendered
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by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation
of a trustee of an express trust);
(B) except as otherwise expressly provided in the
Indenture, reimburse the Indenture Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by
the Indenture Trustee in accordance with any provision of the
Indenture (including the reasonable compensation, 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;
(C) indemnify the Indenture Trustee and its agents for,
and hold them harmless against, any losses, liability or expense
incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of
or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the
transactions contemplated by the Indenture, including the reasonable
costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) of defending
themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties under the
Indenture; and
(D) indemnify the Owner Trustee and its agents for, and
hold them harmless against, any losses, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the transactions
contemplated by the Trust Agreement, including the reasonable costs
and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) of defending
themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties under the
Trust Agreement.
(b) Additional Duties. (i) In addition to the duties of the
Administrator set forth above, the Administrator shall perform such
calculations and shall prepare or shall cause the preparation by other
appropriate persons of, and shall execute on behalf of the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee, all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and
opinions that it shall be the duty of the Issuer or the Owner
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Trustee to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Related Agreements, and at
the request of the Owner Trustee shall take all appropriate action that it is
the duty of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee to take pursuant to the Related
Agreements. Subject to Section 6 of this Agreement, and in accordance with the
directions of the Owner Trustee, the Administrator shall administer, perform or
supervise the performance of such other activities in connection with the
Collateral (including the Related Agreements) as are not covered by any of the
foregoing provisions and as are expressly requested by the Owner Trustee and
are reasonably within the capability of the Administrator.
(ii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Related
Agreements to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for
performance of the duties of the Owner Trustee set forth in Section 3.2 of the
Trust Agreement with respect to establishing and maintaining a Capital Account
for each Certificateholder.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the
Related Agreements to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for
promptly notifying the Owner Trustee in the event that any withholding tax is
imposed on the Trust's payments (or allocations of income) to a
Certificateholder as contemplated in Section 5.2(c) of the Trust Agreement.
Any such notice shall specify the amount of any withholding tax required to be
withheld by the Owner Trustee pursuant to such provision.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Related
Agreements to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for
performance of the duties of the Trust or the Owner Trustee set forth in
Section 5.5(a), (b), (c) and (d), the penultimate sentence of Section 5.5 and
Section 5.6(a) of the Trust Agreement with respect to, among other things,
accounting and reports to Certificateholders.
(v) The Administrator will provide prior to March 16,
1998 a certificate of an Authorized Officer in form and substance satisfactory
to the Owner Trustee as to whether any tax withholding is then required and, if
required, the procedures to be followed with respect thereto to comply with the
requirements of the Code. The Administrator shall be required to update the
letter
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in each instance that any additional tax withholding is subsequently required
or any previously required tax withholding shall no longer be required.
(vi) The Administrator shall perform the duties of the
Administrator specified in Section 10.2 of the Trust Agreement required to be
performed in connection with the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee,
and any other duties expressly required to be performed by the Administrator
pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
(vii) In carrying out the foregoing duties or any of its other
obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator may enter into transactions
or otherwise deal with any of its Affiliates; provided, however, that the terms
of any such transactions or dealings shall be in accordance with any directions
received from the Issuer and shall be, in the Administrator's opinion, no less
favorable to the Issuer than would be available from unaffiliated parties.
(c) Non-Ministerial Matters. (i) With respect to matters that in
the reasonable judgment of the Administrator are non-ministerial, the
Administrator shall not take any action unless within a reasonable time before
the taking of such action, the Administrator shall have notified the Owner
Trustee of the proposed action and the Owner Trustee shall not have withheld
consent or provided an alternative direction. For the purpose of the preceding
sentence, "non-ministerial matters" shall include, without limitation:
(A) the amendment of or any supplement to the Indenture;
(B) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuer
and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or
against the Issuer (other than in connection with the collection of
the Receivables or Permitted Investments);
(C) the amendment, change or modification of the Related
Agreements;
(D) the appointment of successor Note Registrars,
successor Note Paying Agents and successor Indenture Trustees pursuant
to the Indenture or the
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appointment of successor Administrators or Successor Servicers, or the
consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Note Paying Agent or
Indenture Trustee of its obligations under the Indenture; and
(E) the removal of the Indenture Trustee.
(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, the Administrator shall not be obligated to, and shall not, (x) make
any payments to the Noteholders under the Related Agreements, (y) sell the
Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4 of the Indenture or (z) take any
other action that the Issuer directs the Administrator not to take on its
behalf.
3. Records. The Administrator shall maintain appropriate books
of account and records relating to services performed hereunder, which books of
account and records shall be accessible for inspection by the Issuer and the
Seller at any time during normal business hours.
4. Compensation. As compensation for the performance of the
Administrator's obligations under this Agreement and, as reimbursement for its
expenses related thereto, the Administrator shall be entitled to $2,500
annually which shall be solely an obligation of the Seller.
5. Additional Information To Be Furnished to the Issuer. The
Administrator shall furnish to the Issuer from time to time such additional
information regarding the Collateral as the Issuer shall reasonably request.
6. Independence of the Administrator. For all purposes of this
Agreement, the Administrator shall be an independent contractor and shall not
be subject to the supervision of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee with respect
to the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations
hereunder. Unless expressly authorized by the Issuer, the Administrator shall
have no authority to act for or represent the Issuer or the Owner Trustee in
any way and shall not otherwise be deemed an agent of the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee.
7. No Joint Venture. Nothing contained in this Agreement (i)
shall constitute the Administrator and either of the Issuer or the Owner
Trustee as members of any partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate,
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unincorporated business or other separate entity, (ii) shall be construed to
impose any liability as such on any of them or (iii) shall be deemed to confer
on any of them any express, implied or apparent authority to incur any
obligation or liability on behalf of the others.
8. Other Activities of Administrator. Nothing herein shall
prevent the Administrator or its Affiliates from engaging in other businesses
or, in its sole discretion, from acting in a similar capacity as an
administrator for any other person or entity even though such person or entity
may engage in business activities similar to those of the Issuer, the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.
9. Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrator.
(a) This Agreement shall continue in force until the termination of the Issuer
in accordance with Section 9.1 of the Trust Agreement, upon which event this
Agreement shall automatically terminate.
(b) Subject to Sections 9(e) and 9(f), the Administrator may
resign its duties hereunder by providing the Issuer with at least sixty (60)
days' prior written notice.
(c) Subject to Sections 9(e) and 9(f), at the sole option of the
Issuer, the Administrator may be removed immediately upon written notice of
termination from the Issuer to the Administrator if any of the following events
shall occur:
(i) the Administrator shall default in the performance of
any of its duties under this Agreement and, after notice of such
default, shall not cure such default within ten (10) days (or, if such
default cannot be cured in such time, shall not give within ten (10)
days such assurance of cure as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Issuer);
(ii) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall
enter a decree or order for relief, and such decree or order shall not
have been vacated within sixty (60) days, in respect of the
Administrator in any involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or appoint
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
similar official for the Administrator or any substantial
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part of its property or order the winding-up or liquidation of its
affairs; or
(iii) the Administrator shall commence a voluntary case under
any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief
in an involuntary case under any such law, shall consent to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any
substantial part of its property, shall consent to the taking of
possession by any such official of any substantial part of its
property, shall make any general assignment for the benefit of
creditors or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.
The Administrator agrees that if any of the events specified in
clauses (ii) or (iii) of this Section 9(d) shall occur, it shall give written
notice thereof to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee within seven (7) days
after the happening of such event.
(d) No resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to
this Section 9 shall be effective until (i) a successor Administrator shall
have been appointed by the Issuer and (ii) such successor Administrator shall
have agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the same
manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. The Issuer shall provide
written notice of any such resignation or removal to the Indenture Trustee,
with a copy to the Rating Agencies.
(e) The appointment of any successor Administrator shall be
effective only after satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect
to the proposed appointment.
(f) Subject to Sections 9(e) and 9(f), the Administrator
acknowledges that upon the appointment of a successor Servicer pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Administrator shall immediately resign and
such successor Servicer shall automatically become the Administrator under this
Agreement.
10. Action upon Termination, Resignation or Removal. Promptly
upon the effective date of termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section
9(a) or the resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section
9(b) or (c), respectively, the Administrator shall be entitled to be paid all
fees and reimbursable expenses accruing to it to the date of such termination,
resignation or removal. The Administrator shall forthwith upon such
termination pursuant to Section 9(a) deliver to the Issuer all property and
documents of or relating to the Collateral then in the custody of the
Administrator. In the event of the resignation
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or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section 9(b) or (c), respectively,
the Administrator shall cooperate with the Issuer and take all reasonable steps
requested to assist the Issuer in making an orderly transfer of the duties of
the Administrator.
11. Notices. Any notice, report or other communication given
hereunder shall be in writing and addressed of follows:
(a) if to the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, to:
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A
c/o PNC Bank, Delaware
222 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Attention: Michael B. McCarthy
Telephone: (302) 429-1546
Facsimile: (302) 429-7118
(b) if to the Administrator, to:
Ford Motor Credit Company
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
Attention: Richard P. Conrad
Telephone: (313) 594-7765
Facsimile: (313) 248-7613
(c) If to the Indenture Trustee, to:
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Corporate Trust Administration
450 West 33rd Street, 15th floor
New York, New York 10001
Attention: Michael A. Smith
Telephone: (212) 946-3346
Facsimile: (212) 946-8158
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or to such other address as any party shall have provided to the other parties
in writing. Any notice required to be in writing hereunder shall be deemed
given if such notice is mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid, or
hand-delivered to the address of such party as provided above.
12. Amendments. This Agreement may be amended from time to time
by a written amendment duly executed and delivered by the Issuer, the
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, with the written consent of the Owner
Trustee, without the consent of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Noteholders or Certificateholders; provided that such
amendment will not, as set forth in an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, materially and adversely affect the
interest of any Noteholder or Certificateholder. This Agreement may also be
amended by the Issuer, the Administrator and the Indenture Trustee with the
written consent of the Owner Trustee and the Noteholders of Notes evidencing
not less than a majority of the Notes Outstanding and the Certificateholders of
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Balance for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however,
that no such amendment may (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of,
or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on Receivables or
distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders
or Certificateholders or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the
Noteholders and Certificateholders which are required to consent to any such
amendment, without the consent of the Noteholders of all the Notes Outstanding
and Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing all the Certificate Balance.
13. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement may not be assigned by
the Administrator unless such assignment is previously consented to in writing
by the Issuer and the Owner Trustee and subject to the satisfaction of the
Rating Agency Condition in respect thereof. An
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assignment with such consent and satisfaction, if accepted by the assignee,
shall bind the assignee hereunder in the same manner as the Administrator is
bound hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be assigned
by the Administrator without the consent of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee to
a corporation or other organization that is a successor (by merger,
consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Administrator; provided that such
successor organization executes and delivers to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee an agreement in which such corporation or other
organization agrees to be bound hereunder by the terms of said assignment in
the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. Subject to the
foregoing, this Agreement shall bind any successors or assigns of the parties
hereto.
14. Governing Law. This agreement shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the obligations, rights
and remedies of the parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with
such laws.
15. Headings. The Section headings hereof have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and shall not be construed to affect the meaning,
construction or effect of this Agreement.
16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts,
each of which when so executed shall be an original, but all of which together
shall constitute but one and the same agreement.
17. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall be ineffective to the
extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the
remaining provisions hereof and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.
18. Not Applicable to Ford Credit in Other Capacities. Nothing in
this Agreement shall affect any right or obligation Ford Credit may have in any
other capacity.
19. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture
Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding anything
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contained herein to the contrary, this instrument has been countersigned by PNC
Bank, Delaware not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee of the Issuer and in no event shall PNC Bank, Delaware in its
individual capacity or any beneficial owner of the Issuer have any liability
for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations
of the Issuer hereunder, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the
assets of the Issuer. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance
of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall
be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of
Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary,
this Agreement has been countersigned by The Chase Manhattan Bank not in its
individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall The
Chase Manhattan Bank have any liability for the representations, warranties,
covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of
the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of
which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer.
20. Third-Party Beneficiary. The Owner Trustee is a third-party
beneficiary to this Agreement and is entitled to the rights and benefits
hereunder and may enforce the provisions hereof as if it were a party hereto.
21. Nonpetition Covenants. (a) Notwithstanding any prior
termination of this Agreement, the Seller, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee shall not, prior to the date which is one year and
one day after the termination of this Agreement with respect to the Issuer,
acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Issuer to invoke the
process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or
sustaining a case against the Issuer under any federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of
the affairs of the Issuer.
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(b) Notwithstanding any prior termination of this
Agreement, the Issuer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the
termination of this Agreement with respect to the Seller, acquiesce, petition
or otherwise invoke or cause the Seller or the General Partner to invoke the
process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or
sustaining a case against the Seller or the General Partner under any federal
or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Seller or the General Partner or any substantial part of their
respective property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs
of the Seller or the General Partner.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 1998-A
By: PNC BANK, DELAWARE, not in its
individual capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ MICHAEL B. MCCARTHY
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Name: Michael B. McCarthy
Title: Vice President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ MICHAEL A. SMITH
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Name: Michael A. Smith
Title: Vice President
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, as Administrator
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
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APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
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EXHIBIT 99.3
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This PURCHASE AGREEMENT (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this "Agreement") is made as
of this 1st day of February 1998, by and between FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation (the "Seller"), having its principal executive office at
The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48121, and FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Purchaser"), having its
principal executive office at The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48121.
WHEREAS, in the regular course of its business, the Seller
purchases certain motor vehicle retail installment sale contracts secured by
new and used automobiles and light trucks from motor vehicle dealers.
WHEREAS, the Seller and the Purchaser wish to set forth the
terms pursuant to which the Receivables (as hereinafter defined) are to be
conveyed by the Seller to the Purchaser, which Receivables will be transferred
by the Purchaser pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement (as hereinafter
defined) to the Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A to be created pursuant to
the Trust Agreement (as hereinafter defined), which Trust will issue notes
secured by such Receivables and certain other property of the Trust, pursuant
to the Indenture (as hereinafter defined), and will issue certificates
representing beneficial interests in such Receivables and certain other
property of the Trust, pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, other good
and valuable consideration, and the mutual terms and covenants contained
herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may
otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are
defined in Appendix A hereto, which also contains rules as to usage that shall
be applicable herein. The term "Seller" herein shall mean Ford Motor Credit
Company.
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ARTICLE II
CONVEYANCE AND ACQUISITION OF RECEIVABLES
2.1 Conveyance and Acquisition of Receivables
On the Closing Date, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, the Seller agrees to convey to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser
agrees to acquire from the Seller, the Receivables and the other property
relating thereto (as defined below).
(a) Conveyance of Receivables. Effective as of
the Closing Date and simultaneously with the transactions pursuant to the
Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement, the Seller
hereby transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Purchaser, without
recourse, all right, title and interest of the Seller, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, in and to the following: (i) the Receivables; (ii) with
respect to Precomputed Receivables, monies due thereunder on or after the
Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect to Simple Interest
Receivables, monies due or received thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date
(including in each case any monies received prior to the Cutoff Date that are
due on or after the Cutoff Date and were not used to reduce the principal
balance of the Receivable); (iii) the security interests in the Financed
Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest
of the Seller in the Financed Vehicles; (iv) rights to receive proceeds with
respect to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life,
credit disability, or other insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or
Obligors; (v) Dealer Recourse; (vi) all of the Seller's rights to the
Receivable Files; (vii) payments and proceeds with respect to the Receivables
held by the Seller; (viii) all property (including the right to receive
Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable
repurchased by the Seller); (ix) rebates of premiums and other amounts relating
to insurance policies and other items financed under the Receivables in effect
as of the Cutoff Date; and (x) all present and future claims, demands, causes
of action and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and
all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever
in
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respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the
conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid
property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds,
condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of
obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing.
(b) Receivables Purchase Price. In consideration
for the Receivables and other properties described in Section 2.1(a), the
Purchaser shall, on the Closing Date, pay to the Seller the Receivables
Purchase Price. An amount equal to approximately $2,331,539,619.80
(representing the proceeds from the sale of the Notes and Certificates offered
to the public, plus the amount of the cash capital contribution by the General
Partner to the Purchaser on the Closing Date, minus the Reserve Initial
Deposit) of the Receivables Purchase Price shall be paid to the Seller in cash.
In addition, $299,923,737 of the Receivables Purchase Price will be paid by
delivery to the Seller of $300,000,000 principal amount of Class A-4 5.70%
Asset Backed Notes of Ford Credit Auto Owner 1998-A. The remaining portion of
the Receivables Purchase Price shall be deemed paid and returned to the
Purchaser and be considered a contribution to capital. The portion of the
Receivables Purchase Price to be paid in cash shall be paid by federal wire
transfer (same day) funds.
2.2 The Closing. The conveyance and acquisition of the
Receivables shall take place at a closing (the "Closing") at the offices of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York
10022 on the Closing Date, simultaneously with the closings under: (a) the
Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to which the Purchaser will assign all of
its right, title and interest in, to and under the Receivables and certain
other property to the Trust in exchange for the Notes and the Certificates; (b)
the Indenture, pursuant to which the Trust will issue the Notes and pledge all
of its right, title and interest in, to and under the Receivables and certain
other property to secure the Notes; (c) the Trust Agreement, pursuant to which
the Trust will issue the Certificates; (d) the Note
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Underwriting Agreement, pursuant to which the Purchaser will sell to the Note
Underwriters the Underwritten Notes; (e) the Certificate Underwriting
Agreement, pursuant to which the Purchaser will sell to the Certificate
Underwriter the Class C Certificates; and (f) the Certificate Purchase
Agreement, pursuant to which the Purchaser will sell to the Initial Purchaser a
portion of the Class D Certificates.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Warranties of the Purchaser. The Purchaser hereby
represents and warrants to the Seller as of the date hereof and as of the
Closing Date:
(a) Organization, etc. The Purchaser has been
duly organized and is validly existing as a limited partnership in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and has full power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform the terms and
provisions hereof and thereof.
(b) Due Authorization and No Violation. This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Purchaser,
and is the valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Purchaser except as
the same may be limited by insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other laws
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights or by general
equity principles. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, and the fulfillment of the terms hereof, will not conflict with or
result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a
default under (in each case material to the Purchaser), or result in the
creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance (in each case
material to the Purchaser) upon any of the property or assets of the Purchaser
pursuant to the terms of, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement, guarantee, lease financing agreement or similar agreement or
instrument under which the Purchaser is a debtor or guarantor, nor will such
action result in any violation of the provisions of the Certificate of Limited
Partnership or the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Purchaser.
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(c) No Proceedings. No legal or governmental
proceedings are pending to which the Purchaser is a party or of which any
property of the Purchaser is the subject, and no such proceedings are
threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others,
other than such proceedings which will not have a material adverse effect upon
the general affairs, financial position, net worth or results of operations (on
an annual basis) of the Purchaser and will not materially and adversely affect
the performance by the Purchaser of its obligations under, or the validity and
enforceability of, this Agreement.
3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Seller.
(a) The Seller hereby represents and warrants to
the Purchaser as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:
(i) Organization, etc. The Seller has
been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and is duly
qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each
jurisdiction in the United States of America in which the conduct of
its business or the ownership of its property requires such
qualification.
(ii) Power and Authority. The Seller has
full power and authority to convey and assign the property conveyed
and assigned to the Purchaser hereunder and has duly authorized such
sale and assignment to the Purchaser by all necessary corporate
action. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Seller and shall constitute the legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Seller except as the same may be limited by
insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other laws relating to or
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights or by general equity
principles.
(iii) No Violation. The consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and the fulfillment of
the terms hereof, will not conflict with or result in a breach of any
of
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the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under (in each
case material to the Seller and its subsidiaries considered as a
whole), or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or
encumbrance (in each case material to the Seller and its subsidiaries
considered as a whole) upon any of the property or assets of the
Seller pursuant to the terms of, any indenture, mortgage, deed of
trust, loan agreement, guarantee, lease financing agreement or similar
agreement or instrument under which the Seller is a debtor or
guarantor, nor will such action result in any violation of the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the
Seller.
(iv) No Proceedings. No legal or
governmental proceedings are pending to which the Seller is a party or
of which any property of the Seller is the subject, and no such
proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities
or threatened by others, other than such proceedings which will not
have a material adverse effect upon the general affairs, financial
position, net worth or results of operations (on an annual basis) of
the Seller and its subsidiaries considered as a whole and will not
materially and adversely affect the performance by the Seller of its
obligations under, or the validity and enforceability of, this
Agreement.
(b) The Seller makes the following
representations and warranties as to the Receivables on which the Purchaser
relies in accepting the Receivables. Such representations and warranties speak
as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, but shall survive the
transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Receivables to the Purchaser and the
subsequent assignment and transfer to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the pledge thereof to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture:
(i) Characteristics of Receivables.
Each Receivable (a) shall have been originated in the United
States of America by a Dealer for the retail sale of a
Financed Vehicle in the ordinary course of such Dealer's
business, shall have been fully and properly executed by the
parties thereto,
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shall have been purchased by the Seller from such Dealer under an
existing dealer agreement with the Seller, shall have been validly
assigned by such Dealer to the Seller, (b) shall have created or shall
create a valid, subsisting, and enforceable first priority security
interest in favor of the Seller in the Financed Vehicle, which security
interest shall be assignable by the Seller to the Purchaser, (c) shall
contain customary and enforceable provisions such that the rights and
remedies of the holder thereof shall be adequate for realization
against the collateral of the benefits of the security, (d) shall
provide for level monthly payments (provided that the payment in the
first or last month in the life of the Receivable may be minimally
different from the level payment) that fully amortize the Amount
Financed by maturity and yield interest at the Annual Percentage Rate,
(e) shall provide for, in the event that such contract is prepaid, a
prepayment that fully pays the Principal Balance, and (f) is a
Precomputed Receivable or a Simple Interest Receivable.
(ii) Schedule of Receivables. The
information set forth in the Schedule of Receivables shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of the opening of business on the
Cutoff Date, and no selection procedures believed to be adverse to the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders shall have been utilized in
selecting the Receivables from those receivables which meet the
criteria contained herein. The computer tape or other listing
regarding the Receivables made available to the Purchaser and its
assigns is true and correct in all respects.
(iii) Compliance with Law. Each Receivable
and the sale of the Financed Vehicle shall have complied at the time
it was originated or made and at the execution of this Agreement shall
comply in all material respects with all requirements of applicable
federal, State, and local laws, and regulations thereunder, including,
without limitation, usury laws, the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act, the
Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair
Debt Collection Practices Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Federal Reserve
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Board's Regulations B and Z, and State adaptations of the National
Consumer Act and of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and other
consumer credit laws and equal credit opportunity and disclosure laws.
(iv) Binding Obligation. Each Receivable
shall represent the genuine, legal, valid, and binding payment
obligation in writing of the Obligor, enforceable by the holder
thereof in accordance with its terms subject to the effect of
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally.
(v) No Government Obligor. None of the
Receivables shall be due from the United States of America or any
State or from any agency, department, or instrumentality of the United
States of America or any State.
(vi) Security Interest in Financed
Vehicle. Immediately prior to the transfer, assignment and conveyance
thereof, each Receivable shall be secured by a validly perfected first
security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of the Seller as
secured party or all necessary and appropriate actions shall have been
commenced that would result in the valid perfection of a first
security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of the Seller as
secured party.
(vii) Receivables in Force. No Receivable
shall have been satisfied, subordinated, or rescinded, nor shall any
Financed Vehicle have been released from the lien granted by the
related Receivable in whole or in part.
(viii) No Waiver. No provision of a
Receivable shall have been waived.
(ix) No Defenses. No right of rescission,
setoff, counterclaim, or defense shall have been asserted or threatened
with respect to any Receivable.
(x) No Liens. To the best of the
Seller's knowledge, no liens or claims shall have
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been filed for work, labor, or materials relating to a Financed
Vehicle that shall be liens prior to, or equal or coordinate with, the
security interest in the Financed Vehicle granted by the Receivable.
(xi) No Default. Except for payment
defaults continuing for a period of not more than thirty (30) days as
of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach, violation, or event permitting
acceleration under the terms of any Receivable shall have occurred;
and no continuing condition that with notice or the lapse of time
would constitute a default, breach, violation, or event permitting
acceleration under the terms of any Receivable shall have arisen; and
the Seller shall not waive any of the foregoing.
(xii) Insurance. The Seller, in accordance
with its customary procedures, shall have determined that the Obligor
has obtained or agreed to obtain physical damage insurance covering
the Financed Vehicle.
(xiii) Title. It is the intention of the
Seller that the transfer and assignment herein contemplated constitute
an absolute transfer of the Receivables from the Seller to the
Purchaser and that the beneficial interest in and title to the
Receivables not be part of the Seller's estate in the event of the
filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any
bankruptcy law. No Receivable has been transferred, assigned, or
pledged by the Seller to any Person other than the Purchaser.
Immediately prior to the transfer and assignment herein contemplated,
the Seller had good and marketable title to each Receivable free and
clear of all Liens, encumbrances, security interests, and rights of
others and, immediately upon the transfer thereof, the Purchaser shall
have good and marketable title to each Receivable, free and clear of
all Liens, encumbrances, security interests, and rights of others; and
the transfer has been perfected under the UCC.
(xiv) Valid Assignment. No Receivable shall
have been originated in, or shall be subject to the laws of, any
jurisdiction under which the transfer, assignment and conveyance of
such
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Receivable under this Agreement or pursuant to transfers of the Notes
or the Certificates shall be unlawful, void, or voidable. The Seller
has not entered into any agreement with any account debtor that
prohibits, restricts or conditions the assignment of any portion of
the Receivables.
(xv) All Filings Made. All filings
(including, without limitation, UCC filings) necessary in any
jurisdiction to give the Purchaser a first perfected ownership
interest in the Receivables shall have been made.
(xvi) Chattel Paper. Each Receivable
constitutes "chattel paper" as defined in the UCC.
(xvii) One Original. There shall be only
one original executed copy of each Receivable.
(xviii) New and Used Vehicles.
Approximately 70.0% of the aggregate Principal Balance of the
Receivables, constituting 62.2% of the number of Receivables, as of
the Cutoff Date, represent vehicles financed at new vehicle rates, and
the remainder of the Receivables represent vehicles financed at used
vehicle rates.
(xix) Amortization Type. By aggregate
Principal Balance as of the Cutoff Date, approximately 26.1% of the
Receivables constitute Precomputed Receivables and 73.9% of the
Receivables constitute Simple Interest Receivables.
(xx) Origination. Each Receivable shall
have an origination date on or after January 1, 1996.
(xxi) Maturity of Receivables. Each
Receivable shall have an original maturity of not greater than sixty
(60) months.
(xxii) Minimum Annual Percentage Rate.
Each Receivable shall have an Annual Percentage Rate equal to or
greater than 7.75%.
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(xxiii) Scheduled Payments. Each Receivable
shall have a first Scheduled Payment due, in the case of Precomputed
Receivables, or a first scheduled due date, in the case of Simple
Interest Receivables, on or prior to February 28, 1998 and no
Receivable shall have a payment that is more than thirty (30) days
overdue as of the Cutoff Date.
(xxiv) Location of Receivable Files. The
Receivable Files shall be kept at one or more of the locations listed
in Schedule A hereto.
(xxv) No Extensions. The number of
Scheduled Payments, in the case of Precomputed Receivables, and the
number of scheduled due dates, in the case of Simple Interest
Receivables, shall not have been extended on any Receivable on or
before the Cutoff Date.
(xxvi) Other Data. The numerical data
relating to the characteristics of the Receivables contained in the
Prospectus are true and correct in all material respects.
(xxvii) Agreement. The representations and
warranties in this Agreement shall be true.
(xxviii) No Receivables Originated in
Alabama or Pennsylvania. No Receivable shall have been originated in
Alabama or Pennsylvania.
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ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS
4.1 Conditions to Obligation of the Purchaser. The
obligation of the Purchaser to acquire the Receivables is subject to the
satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) Representations and Warranties True. The
representations and warranties of the Seller hereunder shall be true and
correct on the Closing Date with the same effect as if then made, and the
Seller shall have performed all obligations to be performed by it hereunder on
or prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Computer Files Marked. The Seller shall, at
its own expense, on or prior to the Closing Date, indicate in its computer
files that the Receivables have been conveyed to the Purchaser pursuant to this
Agreement and deliver to the Purchaser the Schedule of Receivables certified by
an officer of the Seller to be true, correct and complete.
(c) Documents to be Delivered by the Seller at
the Closing.
(i) The Assignment. At the Closing, the
Seller will execute and deliver the Assignment. The Assignment shall
be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.
(ii) Evidence of UCC Filing. On or prior
to the Closing Date, the Seller shall record and file, at its own
expense, a UCC-1 financing statement in each jurisdiction in which
required by applicable law, executed by the Seller, as seller or
debtor, and naming the Purchaser, as purchaser or secured party,
naming the Receivables and the other property conveyed hereunder as
collateral, meeting the requirements of the laws of each such
jurisdiction and in such manner as is necessary to perfect the
transfer, assignment and conveyance of such Receivables to the
Purchaser. The Seller shall deliver a file-stamped copy, or other
evidence satisfactory to the Purchaser of such filing, to the
Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date.
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(iii) Other Documents. Such other documents
as the Purchaser may reasonably request.
(d) Other Transactions. The transactions
contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust
Agreement shall be consummated on the Closing Date.
4.2 Conditions to Obligation of the Seller. The
obligation of the Seller to convey the Receivables to the Purchaser is subject
to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) Representations and Warranties True. The
representations and warranties of the Purchaser hereunder shall be true and
correct on the Closing Date with the same effect as if then made, and the
Purchaser shall have performed all obligations to be performed by it hereunder
on or prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Receivables Purchase Price. At the Closing
Date, the Purchaser will deliver to the Seller the Receivables Purchase Price,
as provided in Section 2.1(b).
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ARTICLE V
COVENANTS OF THE SELLER
The Seller covenants and agrees with the Purchaser as follows,
provided, however, that to the extent that any provision of this ARTICLE V
conflicts with any provision of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement shall govern:
5.1 Protection of Right, Title and Interest.
(a) The Seller shall execute and file such
financing statements and cause to be executed and filed such continuation
statements, all in such manner and in such places as may be required by law
fully to preserve, maintain, and protect the interest of the Purchaser in the
Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. The Seller shall deliver (or cause to
be delivered) to the Purchaser file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for,
any document filed as provided above, as soon as available following such
filing.
(b) The Seller shall not change its name,
identity, or corporate structure in any manner that would, could, or might make
any financing statement or continuation statement filed by the Seller in
accordance with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading within the meaning of
Section 9-402(7) of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Purchaser at least
five (5) days' prior written notice thereof and shall have promptly filed
appropriate amendments to all previously filed financing statements or
continuation statements.
(c) The Seller shall give the Purchaser at least
sixty (60) days' prior written notice of any relocation of its principal
executive office if, as a result of such relocation, the applicable provisions
of the UCC would require the filing of any amendment of any previously filed
financing or continuation statement or of any new financing statement and shall
promptly file any such amendment or new financing statement. The Seller shall
at all times maintain each office from which it shall service Receivables, and
its principal executive office, within the United States of America.
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(d) The Seller shall maintain accounts and
records as to each Receivable accurately and in sufficient detail to permit the
reader thereof to know at any time the status of such Receivable, including
payments and recoveries made and payments owing (and the nature of each).
(e) The Seller shall maintain its computer
systems so that, from and after the time of conveyance hereunder of the
Receivables to the Purchaser, the Seller's master computer records (including
any back-up archives) that refer to a Receivable shall indicate clearly the
interest of the Purchaser in such Receivable and that such Receivable is owned
by the Purchaser. Indication of the Purchaser's ownership of a Receivable
shall be deleted from or modified on the Seller's computer systems when, and
only when, the Receivable shall have been paid in full or repurchased.
(f) If at any time the Seller shall propose to
sell, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any interest in
automotive receivables to any prospective purchaser, lender, or other
transferee, the Seller shall give to such prospective purchaser, lender, or
other transferee computer tapes, records, or print-outs (including any restored
from back-up archives) that, if they shall refer in any manner whatsoever to
any Receivable, shall indicate clearly that such Receivable has been conveyed
to and is owned by the Purchaser.
(g) The Seller shall permit the Purchaser and its
agents at any time during normal business hours to inspect, audit, and make
copies of and abstracts from the Seller's records regarding any Receivable.
(h) Upon request, the Seller shall furnish to the
Purchaser, within twenty (20) Business Days, a list of all Receivables (by
contract number and name of Obligor) then owned by the Purchaser, together with
a reconciliation of such list to the Schedule of Receivables.
5.2 Other Liens or Interests. Except for the conveyances
hereunder and pursuant to the other Basic Documents, the Seller will not sell,
pledge, assign or transfer any Receivable to any other Person, or grant,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any
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interest therein, and the Seller shall defend the right, title, and interest of
the Purchaser in, to and under such Receivables against all claims of third
parties claiming through or under the Seller; provided, however, that the
Seller's obligations under this Section 5.2 shall terminate upon the
termination of the Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
5.3 Costs and Expenses. The Seller agrees to pay all
reasonable costs and disbursements in connection with the perfection, as
against all third parties, of the Purchaser's right, title and interest in and
to the Receivables.
5.4 Indemnification.
(a) The Seller shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Purchaser from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses,
damages, claims, and liabilities, arising out of or resulting from the failure
of a Receivable to be originated in compliance with all requirements of law and
for any breach of any of the Seller's representations and warranties contained
herein.
(b) The Seller shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Purchaser from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses,
damages, claims, and liabilities, arising out of or resulting from the use,
ownership, or operation by the Seller or any Affiliate thereof of a Financed
Vehicle.
(c) The Seller shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Purchaser from and against any and all taxes that may at any time
be asserted against the Purchaser with respect to the transactions contemplated
herein, including, without limitation, any sales, gross receipts, general
corporation, tangible personal property, privilege, or license taxes and costs
and expenses in defending against the same.
(d) The Seller shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Purchaser from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses,
claims, damages, and liabilities to the extent that such cost, expense, loss,
claim, damage, or liability arose out of, or was imposed upon the Purchaser
through, the negligence, willful misfeasance, or bad faith of the Seller in the
performance of
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its duties under this Agreement or by reason of reckless disregard of the
Seller's obligations and duties under this Agreement.
(e) The Seller shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Purchaser from and against all costs, expenses, losses, claims,
damages, and liabilities arising out of or incurred in connection with the
acceptance or performance of the Seller's trusts and duties as Servicer under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, except to the extent that such cost, expense,
loss, claim, damage, or liability shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad
faith, or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Purchaser.
These indemnity obligations shall be in addition to any
obligation that the Seller may otherwise have.
5.5 Treatment. Seller agrees to treat this conveyance as
(i) an absolute transfer for tax purposes and (ii) an sale for all other
purposes (including without limitation financial accounting purposes), in each
case on all relevant books, records, tax returns, financial statements and
other applicable documents.
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ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
6.1 Obligations of Seller. The obligations of the Seller
under this Agreement shall not be affected by reason of any invalidity,
illegality or irregularity of any Receivable.
6.2 Repurchase Events. The Seller hereby covenants and
agrees with the Purchaser for the benefit of the Purchaser, the Trust, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders, that the occurrence of a breach of any of the Seller's
representations and warranties contained in Section 3.2(b) hereof shall
constitute events obligating the Seller to repurchase Receivables hereunder
("Repurchase Events"), at the Purchase Amount from the Purchaser or from the
Trust. The repurchase obligation of the Seller shall constitute the sole
remedy to the Purchaser, the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Noteholders or the Certificateholders against the Seller with respect to
any Repurchase Event.
6.3 Seller's Assignment of Purchased Receivables. With
respect to all Receivables repurchased by the Seller pursuant to this
Agreement, the Purchaser shall assign, without recourse, representation or
warranty, to the Seller all the Purchaser's right, title and interest in and to
such Receivables, and all security and documents relating thereto.
6.4 Trust. The Seller acknowledges that:
(a) The Purchaser will, pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, convey the Receivables to the Trust and assign its rights under this
Agreement to the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders, and that the representations and warranties contained in
this Agreement and the rights of the Purchaser under Sections 6.2 and 6.3
hereof are intended to benefit the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Noteholders
and the Certificateholders. The Seller hereby consents to such conveyance and
assignment.
(b) The Trust will, pursuant to the Indenture, pledge the
Receivables and its rights under this Agreement
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to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders, and that the
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the rights of
the Purchaser under this Agreement, including under Sections 6.2 and 6.3 are
intended to benefit the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Seller
hereby consents to such pledge.
6.5 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended from time
to time by a written amendment duly executed and delivered by the Seller and
the Purchaser; provided, however, that any such amendment that materially
adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders under
the Indenture, Sale and Servicing Agreement or Trust Agreement shall be
consented to by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of
the Notes Outstanding and the Certificateholders of Certificates evidencing not
less than a majority of the Certificate Balance.
6.6 Accountants' Letters.
(a) Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. will review the
characteristics of the Receivables described in the Schedule of Receivables and
will compare those characteristics to the information with respect to the
Receivables contained in the Prospectus.
(b) The Seller will cooperate with the Purchaser and
Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. in making available all information and taking all
steps reasonably necessary to permit such accountants to complete the review
set forth in Section 6.6(a) above and to deliver the letters required of them
under the Note Underwriting Agreement and the Certificate Underwriting
Agreement.
(c) Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. will deliver to the
Purchaser a letter, dated the Closing Date, in the form previously agreed to by
the Seller and the Purchaser, with respect to the financial and statistical
information contained in the Prospectus under the caption "Delinquencies,
Repossessions and Net Losses" and with respect to such other information as may
be agreed in the form of letter.
6.7 Waivers. No failure or delay on the part of the
Purchaser in exercising any power, right or remedy
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under this Agreement or the Assignment shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or remedy
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
power, right or remedy.
6.8 Notices. All communications and notices pursuant
hereto to either party shall be in writing or by telegraph or telex and
addressed or delivered to it at its address (or in case of telex, at its telex
number at such address) shown in the opening portion of this Agreement or at
such other address as may be designated by it by notice to the other party and,
if mailed or sent by telegraph or telex, shall be deemed given when mailed,
communicated to the telegraph office or transmitted by telex.
6.9 Costs and Expenses. The Seller will pay all expenses
incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement and the
Seller agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the
Purchaser, excluding fees and expenses of counsel, in connection with the
perfection as against third parties of the Purchaser's right, title and
interest in and to the Receivables and the enforcement of any obligation of the
Seller hereunder.
6.10 Representations to the Seller. The respective
agreements, representations, warranties and other statements by the Seller and
the Purchaser set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect and will survive the closing under Section 2.2 hereof.
6.11 Confidential Information. The Purchaser agrees that
it will neither use nor disclose to any Person the names and addresses of the
Obligors, except in connection with the enforcement of the Purchaser's rights
hereunder, under the Receivables, under any Sale and Servicing Agreement or as
required by law.
6.12 Headings and Cross-References. The various headings
in this Agreement are included for convenience only and shall not affect the
meaning or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. References in
this Agreement to Section names or numbers are to such Sections of this
Agreement.
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6.13 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE ASSIGNMENT
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.
6.14 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two
or more counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of
which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and
the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereby have caused this
Purchase Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized as of the date and year first above written.
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO L.P.
By: FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES
TWO, INC.,
as General Partner
By: /s/ R. P. Conrad
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Name: R. P. Conrad
Title: Assistant Secretary
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Exhibit A
ASSIGNMENT
For value received, in accordance with the Purchase Agreement
dated as of February 1, 1998 (the "Purchase Agreement"), between the
undersigned and FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO L.P. (the "Purchaser"), the
undersigned does hereby assign, transfer and otherwise convey unto the
Purchaser, without recourse, all right, title and interest of the undersigned,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to the following: (i) the
Receivables; (ii) with respect to Precomputed Receivables, monies due
thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect
to Simple Interest Receivables, monies due or received thereunder on or after
the Cutoff Date (including in each case any monies received prior to the Cutoff
Date that are due on or after the Cutoff Date and were not used to reduce the
principal balance of the Receivable); (iii) the security interests in the
Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other
interest of the Seller in the Financed Vehicles; (iv) rights to receive
proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage,
credit life, credit disability, or other insurance policies covering Financed
Vehicles or Obligors; (v) Dealer Recourse; (vi) all of the Seller's rights to
the Receivable Files; (vii) payments and proceeds with respect to the
Receivables held by the Seller; (viii) all property (including the right to
receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable
repurchased by the Seller); (ix) rebates of premiums and other amounts relating
to insurance policies and other items financed under the Receivables in effect
as of the Cutoff Date; and (x) all present and future claims, demands, causes
of action and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and
all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever
in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the
conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid
property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds,
condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of
obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which
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at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of
the foregoing. The foregoing conveyance does not constitute and is not
intended to result in any assumption by the Purchaser of any obligation of the
undersigned to the Obligors, insurers or any other Person in connection with
the Receivables, Receivable Files, any insurance policies or any agreement or
instrument relating to any of them.
This Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the
representations, warranties and agreements on the part of the undersigned
contained in the Purchase Agreement and is to be governed by the Purchase
Agreement.
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Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall
have the meaning assigned to them in the Purchase Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Assignment
to be duly executed as of February 1, 1998.
FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY
By: _______________________
Name:
Title:
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Exhibit B
Schedule of Receivables
DELIVERED TO PURCHASER
AT CLOSING
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Schedule A
Location of Receivable Files
Akron
175 Montrose West Avenue
Crown Pointe Building
Suite 300
Copley, OH 44321
Albany
5 Pine West Plaza
Albany, NY 12205
Albuquerque
6100 Uptown Blvd., N.E.
Suite 300
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Amarillo
1616 S. Kentucky
Bldg. D, Suite 130
Amarillo, TX 79102
Anchorage
3201 C Street
Suite 303
Anchorage, AK 99503
Appleton
54 Park Place
Appleton, WI 54915-8861
Athens
3708 Atlanta Highway
Athens, GA 30604
Atlanta-North
North Park Town Center
Bldg. 400, Suite 180
1000 Abernathy Rd. N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30328
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Atlanta-South
1691 Phoenix Blvd.
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30349
Atlanta/CL
1117 Perimeter Ctr. W
Suite 404 West
Atlanta, GA 30338
Atlantic Region District Office
14104 Newbrook Drive
Chantilly, VA 22021
Austin
1701 Directors Blvd.
Suite 320
Austin, TX 78744
Baltimore-East
Campbell Corporate
Center One
4940 Campbell Blvd.
Suite 140
Whitemarsh Business Community
Baltimore, MD 21236
Beaumont
2615 Calder
Suite 715
Beaumont, TX 77704
Billings
1643 Lewis Avenue
Suite 201
Billings, MT 59102
Birmingham
3535 Grandview Parkway
Suite 340
Birmingham, AL 35243
Boston-North
One Tech Drive
3rd Floor
Andover, MA 01810-2497
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Boston-South
Southboro Place
2nd Floor
352 Turnpike Road
Southboro, MA 01772
Bristol
Landmark Center-
Suite A
113 Landmark Lane
Bristol, TN 37620
Buffalo
95 John Muir Drive
Suite 102
Amherst, NY 14228
Cape Girardeau
1409-C N. Mt. Auburn Rd.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Charleston
Rivergate Center
Suite 150
4975 LaCross Road
North Charleston, SC 29418
Charlotte
6302 Fairview Road
Suite 500
Charlotte, NC 28210
Charlotte/CL
6302 Fairview Road
Suite 510
Charlotte, NC 28210
Chattanooga
6025 Lee Highway
Suite 443
Chattanooga, TN 37421
Cheyenne
6234 Yellowstone Road
Cheyenne, WY 82009
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Chicago-East
One River Place
Suite A
Lansing, IL 60438
Chicago-North
9700 Higgins Road
Suite 720
Rosemont, IL 60018
Chicago-South
The Office of Waterfall Glen I
Suite 310
900 South Frontage Road
Woodridge, IL 60517
Chicago-West
2500 W. Higgins Rd.
Suite 280
Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
Chicago/CL
745 McClintock Drive
Suite 300
Burr Ridge, IL 60521
Cincinnati
8805 Governors Hill Dr.
Suite 230
Cincinnati, OH 45249
Cleveland
5700 Lombardo Centre
Suite 101
Seven Hills, OH 44131-2581
Colorado Springs
5575 Tech Center Dr.
Suite 220
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Columbia
250 Berryhill Road
Suite 201
Columbia, SC 29210
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Columbus
Metro V, Suite 470
655 Metro Place S
Dublin, OH 43017
Coral Springs-East
3111 N. University Dr.
Suite 800
Coral Springs, FL 33065
Corpus Christi
5350 South Staples
Suite 225
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
Dallas
Campbell Forum
Suite 600
801 E. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75081
Dallas
Campbell Forum
Suite 650
801 E. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75081
Davenport
Commerce Exch. Bldg.
2535 Tech Drive
Suite 300
Bettendorf, IA 52722
Decatur
401 Lee Street
Suite 500
Decatur, AL 35602
Denver
6300 S. Syracuse Way
Suite 195
Englewood, CO 80111
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Des Moines
4200 Corporate Drive
Suite 107
W. Des Moines, IA 50266
Detroit-North
580 Kirts Boulevard
Suite 300
Troy, MI 48084
Detroit-West
One Parklane Blvd.
Suite 405E
Dearborn, MI 48126
Detroit/CL
One Parklane Blvd.
Suite 301E
Dearborn, MI 48126
Dothan
137 Clinic Drive
Dothan, AL 36303
El Paso
1200 Golden Key Circle
Suite 104
El Paso, TX 79925
Eugene
1600 Valley River Drive
Suite 190
Eugene, OR 97401
Falls Church
1420 Springhill Road
Suite 550
McLean, VA 22102
Fargo
3100 13th Ave. South
Suite 304
Fargo, ND 58103
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Fayetteville
4317 Ramsey Street
Suite 300
Fayetteville, NC 28311
Findlay
3500 North Main Street
Findlay, OH 45840-1447
Ft. Myers
11935 Fairway Lakes Dr.
Fort Myers, FL 33913
Ft. Worth
Center Park Tower
Suite 400
2350 West Airport Frwy.
Bedford, TX 76022
Grand Junction
744 Horizon Court
Suite 330
Grand Junction, CO 81506
Grand Rapids
2851 Charlevoix Drive SE
Suite 300
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Greensboro
1500 Pinecroft Rd.
Suite 220
Greensboro, NC 27407
Harlingen
1916 East Harrison
Harlingen, TX 78550
Harrisburg
4900 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Henderson
618 North Green Street
Henderson, KY 42420
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Honolulu
Ala Moano Pacific Center
Suite 922
1585 Kapiolani Blvd.
Honolulu, HI 96814
Houston-North
363 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. E.
Suite 700
Houston, TX 77060
Houston-West
820 Gessner
Suite 700
Houston, TX 77024
Huntington
3425 U.S. Route 60 East
Barboursville, WV 25504
Indianapolis
5875 Castle Creek Pkwy.
North Drive
Suite 240
Indianapolis, IN 46250
Jackson
Highland Village Center
Suite 292
4500 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39211
Jacksonville
Suite 310
9485 Regency Square Boulevard
Jacksonville, FL 32225
Jefferson City
210 Prodo Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
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Kansas City
8717 West 110th Street
Bldg. #14, Suite 550
Overland Park, KS 66210
Knoxville
5500 Lonas Drive
Suite 260
Knoxville, TN 37909
Lafayette
Saloom Office Park
Suite 350
100 Asthma Boulevard
Lafayette, LA 70508
Lansing
2140 University Park Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
Las Vegas
500 N Rainbow Blvd.
Suite 312
Las Vegas, NV 89107
Little Rock
1701 Centerview Dr.
Suite 301
Little Rock, AR 72211
Long Island
972 Brush Hollow Road
5th Floor
Westbury, NY 11590-1740
Louisville
502 Executive Park
Louisville, KY 40207
Lubbock
4010 82nd Street
Suite 200
Lubbock, TX 79424
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Macon
5400 Riverside Drive
Suite 201
Macon, GA 31210
Manchester
4 Bedford Farms
Bedford, NH 03110
Marshall
1408 North Michigan
Marshall, IL 62441
Memphis
6555 Quince Road
Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38119
Miami
6303 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 200
Miami, FL 33126
Milwaukee
10850 W. Park Place
Suite 110
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Minneapolis
One Southwest Crossing
Suite 308
11095 Viking Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Mobile
1201 Montlimar Dr.
Suite 700
Mobile, AL 36609-1718
Nashville
Highland Ridge
Suite 190
565 Marriott Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
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New Haven
35 Thorpe Ave.
Wallingford, CT 06492
New Jersey-Central
101 Interchange Plaza
Cranbury, NJ 08512
New Jersey-North
103 Eisenhower Parkway
4th Floor
Roseland, NJ 07068
New Jersey-South
10000 MidAtlantic Dr.
Suite 401 West
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
New Orleans
Lakeway III
3838 N. Causeway Blvd.
Suite 3200
Metairie, LA 70002
Norfolk
Greenbrier Pointe
Suite 350
1401 Greenbrier Pkwy.
Chesapeake, VA 23320
Odessa
Ashford Park Office Center
Suite 201A
2626 John B. Sheprd Parkway
Odessa, TX 79762
Oklahoma City
Perimeter Center
Suite 300
4101 Perimeter Ctr Dr.
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
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Omaha
10040 Regency Circle
Suite 100
Omaha, NE 68114-3786
Omaha Customer Service Center
12110 Emmet Street
Omaha, NB 68164
Orange
765 The City Drive
Suite 400
Orange, CA 92668
Orange/CL
765 The City Drive
Suite 401
Orange, CA 92668
Orlando
1060 Maitland Ctr Commons
Suite 210
Maitland, FL 32751
Pasadena
225 S. Lake Avenue
Suite 1200
Pasadena, CA 91101
Pensacola
25 W. Cedar Street
Suite 316
Pensacola, Fl 32501
Philadelphia
Bay Colony Executive Park
Suite 100
575 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
Philadelphia/CL
500 N. Gulph Rd.
Suite 110
King of Prussia, PA 19406
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Phoenix
4742 North 24th Street
Suite 215
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Pittsburgh
Foster Plaza 9
750 Holiday Drive
4th Floor, Suite 420
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
Portland
2401 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04102
Portland
10220 S.W. Greenburg Blvd.
Suite 415
Portland, OR 97223
Raleigh
3651 Trust Drive
Raleigh, NC 27604
Regional Opers Center
7090 Columbia Gateway Dr.
Columbia, MD 21046
Richmond
300 Arboretum Place
Suite 320
Richmond, VA 23236
Roanoke
5238 Valley Pointe Pkwy.
Suite 6
Roanoke, VA 24019
Sacramento
2720 Gateway Oaks Dr.
Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95833
Saginaw
4901 Towne Centre Rd.
Suite 200
Saginaw, MI 48605
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Salt Lake City
310 E. 4500 S.
Suite 340
Murray, UT 84107
Santa Ana Central Collections
765 The City Drive
Suite 402
Orange. CA 92668
San Antonio
100 N.E. Loop 410
Suite 625
San Antonio, TX 78216-4742
San Bernardino
1615 Orange Tree Lane
Suite 215
Redlands, CA 92374
San Diego
3111 Camino Del Rio N.
Suite 1333
San Diego, CA 92108
San Francisco
4301 Hacienda Dr.
Suite 400
Pleasanton, CA 94588
San Francisco/CL
4900 Hopyard Road
Suite 220
Pleasanton CA 94588
San Jose
1900 McCarthy Blvd.
Suite 400
Milpitas, CA 95035
Savannah
6600 Abercorn Street
Suite 206
Savannah, GA 31405
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Seattle
13555 S.E. 36th Street
Suite 350
Bellevue, WA 98006
Shreveport
South Pointe Centre
Suite 200
3007 Knight Street
Shreveport, LA 71105
South Bay
301 E. Ocean Boulevard
Suite 1900
Long Beach, CA 90802
South Bend
4215 Edison Lakes Parkway
Suite 140
Mishawaka, IN 46545
Spokane
901 North Monroe Ct.
Suite 350
Spokane, WA 99201-2148
Springfield
3275 E. Ridgeview
Springfield, MO 65804
St. Louis
4227 Earth City Expressway
Suite 100
Earth City, MO 63045
Syracuse
5788 Widewaters Pkwy.
DeWitt, NY 13214
Tampa
Lincoln Pointe, Suite 800
2502 Rocky Point Drive
Tampa, FL 33607
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Tulsa
9820 East 41st St.
Suite 300
Tulsa, OK 74145
Tupelo
One Mississippi Plaza
Tupelo, MS 38801
Tyler
821 East SE Loop 323
Suite 300
Tyler, TX 75701
Ventura
260 Maple Court
Suite 210
Ventura, CA 93003
Washington, D.C.
2440 Research Blvd.
Suite 150
Rockville, MD 20850
Westchester
660 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Western Carolina
215 Thompson Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Wichita
7570 West 21st
Wichita, KS 67212
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APPENDIX A
Definitions and Usage
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EXHIBIT 99.4
APPENDIX A
DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Usage
The following rules of construction and usage shall be
applicable to any agreement or instrument that is governed by this Appendix:
(a) All terms defined in this Appendix shall have the defined
meanings when used in any agreement or instrument governed hereby and in any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant thereto unless
otherwise defined therein.
(b) As used herein, in any agreement or instrument governed
hereby and in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
thereto, accounting terms not defined in this Appendix or in any such
agreement, instrument, certificate or other document, and accounting terms
partly defined in this Appendix or in any such agreement, instrument,
certificate or other document, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting principles
as in effect on the date of such agreement or instrument. To the extent that the
definitions of accounting terms in this Appendix or in any such agreement,
instrument, certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of
such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions
contained in this Appendix or in any such instrument, certificate or other
document shall control.
(c) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of
similar import when used in an agreement or instrument refer to such agreement
or instrument as a whole and not to any particular provision or subdivision
thereof; references in an agreement or instrument to "Article," "Section" or
another subdivision or to an attachment are, unless the context otherwise
requires, to an article, section or subdivision of or an attachment to such
agreement or instrument; and the term "including" means "including without
limitation."
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(d) The definitions contained in this Appendix are equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the
masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(e) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred
to below or in any agreement or instrument that is governed by this Appendix
means such agreement or instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented, including (in the case of agreements or instruments)
by waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes) by succession of comparable
successor statutes and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein.
References to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
Definitions
"Accrued Class A Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to
any Distribution Date, the sum of the Class A Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Distribution Date and the Class A Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall for such Distribution Date.
"Accrued Class B Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to
any Distribution Date, the sum of the Class B Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Distribution Date and the Class B Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall for such Distribution Date.
"Accrued Class C Certificate Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the Class C Certificateholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for such Distribution Date and the Class C
Certificateholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Distribution Date.
"Accrued Class D Certificate Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the Class D Certificateholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for such Distribution Date and the Class D
Certificateholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Distribution Date.
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"Act" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.3(a) of
the Indenture.
"Actuarial Method" shall mean the method of allocating a fixed
level payment on a Receivable between principal and interest, pursuant to which
the portion of such payment that is allocated to interest is the product of
one-twelfth (1/12) of the APR on the Receivable multiplied by the scheduled
principal balance of the Receivable.
"Actuarial Receivable" shall mean any Receivable under which
the portion of a payment with respect thereto allocable to interest and the
portion of a payment with respect thereto allocable to principal is determined
in accordance with the Actuarial Method.
"Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration
Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998, by and among the Administrator, the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
"Administrator" shall mean Ford Credit, in its capacity as
administrator under the Administration Agreement, or any successor
Administrator thereunder.
"Advance" shall mean either a Precomputed Advance or a Simple
Interest Advance or both, as applicable.
"Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any specified Person,
any other Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with such
specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with
respect to any Person shall mean the power to direct the management and policies
of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and
"controlled" shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Aggregate Certificate Balance" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the sum of the Certificate Balance as of such date of the Class C
Certificates and the Certificate Balance as of such date of the Class D
Certificates.
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"Amount Financed" shall mean, with respect to a Receivable,
the amount advanced under the Receivable toward the purchase price of the
Financed Vehicle and any related costs.
"Annual Percentage Rate" or "APR" of a Receivable shall mean
the annual rate of finance charges stated in the Receivable.
"Applicable Tax State" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, each State as to which any of the following is then applicable:
(a) a State in which the Owner Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office, (b)
a State in which the Owner Trustee maintains its principal executive offices,
and (c) the State of Michigan.
"Assignment" shall mean the document of assignment attached
as Exhibit A to the Purchase Agreement.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.14 of the Indenture.
"Authorized Officer" shall mean, (i) with respect to the
Issuer, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee,
including any vice president, assistant vice president, secretary, assistant
secretary or any other officer of the Owner Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those per formed by any of the above designated officers
and, for so long as the Administration Agreement is in full force and effect,
any officer of the Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator
in matters relating to the Issuer and to be acted upon by the Administrator
pursuant to the Administration Agreement; and (ii) with respect to the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of
the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, including any
vice president, assistant vice president, secretary, assistant secretary or any
other officer of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be,
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject and shall also mean, with respect
to the Owner Trustee, any officer of the Administrator.
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"Available Funds" shall mean, for any Distribution Date, the
sum of the Available Collections for such Distribution Date and the Reserve
Account Release Amount for such Distribution Date.
"Available Collections" shall mean, for any Distribution Date,
the sum of the following amounts with respect to the Collection Period preceding
such Distribution Date: (i) all scheduled payments and all prepayments in full
collected with respect to Precomputed Receivables (including amounts withdrawn
from the Payahead Account but excluding amounts deposited into the Payahead
Account) and all payments collected with respect to Simple Interest
Receivables; (ii) all Liquidation Proceeds attributable to Receivables which
became Liquidated Receivables during such Collection Period in accordance with
the Servicer's customary servicing procedures, and all recoveries in respect of
Liquidated Receivables which were written off in prior Collection Periods; (iii)
all Precomputed Advances made by the Servicer of principal due on the
Precomputed Receivables; (iv) all Advances made by the Servicer of interest due
on the Receivables and all amounts advanced by the Servicer pursuant to Section
4.4(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (v) the Purchase Amount received
with respect to each Receivable that became a Purchased Receivable during such
Collection Period; and (vi) partial prepayments of any refunded item included in
the principal balance of a Receivable, such as extended warranty protection
plan costs, or physical damage, credit life, disability insurance premiums, or
any partial prepayment which causes a reduction in the Obligor's periodic
payment to an amount below the Scheduled Payment as of the Cutoff Date;
provided however, that in calculating the Available Collections the following
will be excluded: (i) amounts received on any Receivable to the extent that the
Servicer has previously made an unreimbursed Advance on such Receivable; (ii)
amounts received on any Receivable to the extent that the Servicer has
previously made an unreimbursed Advance on a Receivable which is not
recoverable from collections on the particular Receivable; (iii) Liquidation
Proceeds with respect to a particular Precomputed Receivable to the extent of
any unreimbursed Precomputed Advances thereon; (iv) all payments and proceeds
(including Liquidation Proceeds) of any Receivables the Purchase Amount of which
has been included in the Available Funds in a prior Collection Period; (v)
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Liquidation Proceeds with respect to a Simple Interest Receivable attributable
to accrued and unpaid interest thereon (but not including interest for the then
current Collection Period) but only to the extent of any unreimbursed Simple
Interest Advances; and (vi) amounts constituting the Supplemental Servicing Fee.
"Bankruptcy Code" shall mean the United States
Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. 101 et seq., as amended.
"Basic Documents" shall mean the Certificate of Limited
Partnership, the Limited Partnership Agreement, the Certificate of Trust, the
Trust Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture, the Administration Agreement, the Note Depository Agreement, the
Control Agreement and the other documents and certificates delivered in
connection therewith.
"Book-Entry Class A-1 Note" shall mean a beneficial interest
in the Class A-1 Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Book-Entry Class A-2 Note" shall mean a beneficial interest
in the Class A-2 Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Book-Entry Class A-3 Note" shall mean a beneficial interest
in the Class A-3 Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Book-Entry Notes" shall mean the Book-Entry Class A-1 Notes,
the Book-Entry Class A-2 Notes and the Book-Entry Class A-3 Notes, collectively.
"Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a
Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in New York,
New York or the State of Delaware are authorized or obligated by law, regulation
or executive order to remain closed.
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"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of
the Delaware Code, 12 Delaware Code Section 3801 et seq., as amended.
"Capital Account" shall mean the account established pursuant
to Section 3.2 of the Trust Agreement and the amount of any Certificateholder's
Capital Account shall be the amount determined in accordance with such Section
3.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Certificates" shall mean the Class C Certificates and the
Class D Certificates, collectively.
"Certificate Balance" shall mean, with respect to each Class
of Certificates and as the context so requires, (i) with respect to all
Certificates of such Class, an amount equal to, initially, the Initial
Certificate Balance of such Class of Certificates and, thereafter, an amount
equal to the Initial Certificate Balance of such Class of Certificates, reduced
by all amounts distributed to Certificateholders of such Class of Certificates
and allocable to principal or (ii) with respect to any Certificate of such
Class, an amount equal to, initially, the initial denomination of such
Certificate and, thereafter, an amount equal to such initial denomination,
reduced by all amounts distributed in respect of such Certificate and allocable
to principal; provided, that in determining whether the Certificateholders of
Certificates evidencing the requisite portion or percent age of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or under any Basic Document, Certificates
owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Certificates, the Seller, the
Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded
and deemed to be excluded from the Certificate Balance of the applicable Class,
except that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only Certificates that a Trustee Officer
of the Indenture Trustee, if applicable, and an Authorized Officer of the Owner
Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of the Trust
Agreement, if applicable, knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded;
provided, further that at any time following an Event of Servicing Termination,
in determining whether the Certificateholders of the requisite
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portion or percentage of the Aggregate Certificate Balance may terminate
all the rights and obligations of the Servicer or waive any Event of Servicing
Termination to the extent set forth in Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Class D Certificates shall be disregarded and deemed to have a
Certificate Balance of zero until the Certificate Balance of the Class C
Certificates has been reduced to zero. Certificates so owned that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as included in the Certificate Balance of
the applicable Class if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, the pledgee's right so
to act with respect to such Certificates and that the pledgee is not the Issuer,
any other obligor upon the Certificates, the Seller, the Servicer or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
"Certificate Distribution Account" shall mean each of the
Certificate Interest Distribution Account and the Certificate Principal
Distribution Account.
"Certificate Interest Distribution Account" shall mean the
account established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(c) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Certificate Principal Distribution Account" shall mean the
account established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(c) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Certificateholder" shall mean a Person in whose name a
Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.
"Certificate Indemnification Agreement" shall mean each of the
Certificate Indemnification Agreements, dated as of February 19, 1998, (i) by
and between Ford Credit and the Certificate Underwriter and (ii) by and between
Ford Credit and the Initial Purchaser.
"Certificate of Limited Partnership" shall mean the
Certificate of Limited Partnership of the Depositor filed for the Depositor
pursuant to Section 17-201(a) of the Limited Partnership Act.
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"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in
the form of Exhibit G to the Trust Agreement filed for the Trust pursuant to
Section 3810(a) of the Business Trust Statute.
"Certificate Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent or
co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement and
shall initially be the Owner Trustee.
"Certificate Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to each
Class of Certificates as of the close of business on the last day of a
Collection Period, a seven-digit decimal figure equal to the Certificate
Balance of such Class of Certificates (after giving effect to any reductions
therein to be made on the immediately following Distribution Date) divided by
the Initial Certificate Balance of such Class of Certificates. Each Certificate
Pool Factor will be 1.0000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, each
Certificate Pool Factor will decline to reflect reductions in the Certificate
Balance of the applicable Class of Certificates.
"Certificate Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Certificate
Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 19, 1998, between the Seller and
Goldman, Sachs & Co., as Initial Purchaser.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall have
the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5 of the Trust Agreement.
"Certificate Underwriter" shall mean Goldman, Sachs & Co., as
underwriters of the Class C Certificates pursuant to the Certificate
Underwriting Agreement.
"Certificate Underwriting Agreement" shall mean the
Certificate Underwriting Agreement, dated as of February 19, 1998, between the
Seller and Goldman, Sachs & Co., as Certificate Underwriter.
"Class" shall mean (i) a class of Notes, which may be the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes
or the Class B Notes or (ii) a class of Certificates, which may be the Class C
Certificates or the Class D Certificates.
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"Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall
mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the excess of the Class A
Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Distribution Date and
any out standing Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Short fall on such
preceding Distribution Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is
actually paid to Noteholders of Class A Notes on such preceding Distribution
Date, plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to Noteholders of
Class A Notes on the preceding Distribution Date, to the extent permitted by
law, at the respective Note Interest Rates borne by such Class A Notes for the
related Interest Period.
"Class A Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean,
with respect to any Distribution Date, the aggregate interest accrued for the
related Interest Period on the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class
A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes at the respective Note Interest Rate for such
Class on the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of each such Class on the
immediately preceding Distribution Date or the Closing Date, as the case may be,
after giving effect to all payments of principal to the Noteholders of the
Notes of such Class on or prior to such preceding Distribution Date.
"Class A-1 Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
February 1999 Distribution Date.
"Class A-1 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Class A-1 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-1 Notes" shall mean the $647,000,000 aggregate
initial principal amount Class A-1 5.545% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 to the
Indenture.
"Class A-1 Rate" shall mean 5.545% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class A-1 Notes shall be computed on the basis of actual days
elapsed and a 360-day year for all purposes of the Basic Documents.
"Class A-2 Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
July 2000 Distribution Date.
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"Class A-2 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Class A-2 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-2 Notes" shall mean the $535,000,000 aggregate
initial principal amount Class A-2 5.60% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 to the
Indenture.
"Class A-2 Rate" shall mean 5.60% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class A-2 Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic Documents.
"Class A-3 Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
October 2001 Distribution Date.
"Class A-3 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Class A-3 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-3 Notes" shall mean the $691,500,000 aggregate
initial principal amount Class A-3 5.65% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3 to the
Indenture.
"Class A-3 Rate" shall mean 5.65% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class A-3 Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic Documents.
"Class A-4 Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
June 2002 Distribution Date.
"Class A-4 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Class A-4 Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class A-4 Notes" shall mean the $300,000,000 aggregate
initial principal amount Class A-4 5.70% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4 to the
Indenture.
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"Class A-4 Rate" shall mean 5.70% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class A-4 Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic Documents.
"Class B Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
October 2002 Distribution Date.
"Class B Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Class B Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall
mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the excess of the Class B
Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Distribution Date and
any outstanding Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such
preceding Distribution Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is
actually paid to Noteholders of Class B Notes on such preceding Distribution
Date, plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to Noteholders of
Class B Notes on the preceding Distribution Date, to the extent permitted by
law, at the Class B Rate for the related Interest Period.
"Class B Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean,
with respect to any Distribution Date, the aggregate interest accrued for the
related Interest Period on the Class B Notes at the Class B Rate on the
outstanding principal amount of the Class B Notes on the immediately preceding
Distribution Date or the Closing Date, as the case may be, after giving effect
to all payments of principal to the Noteholders of the Class B Notes on or
prior to such preceding Distribution Date.
"Class B Notes" shall mean the $80,500,000 aggregate initial
principal amount Class B 5.95% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant
to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-5 to the Indenture.
"Class B Rate" shall mean 5.95% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class B Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic Documents.
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"Class C Certificateholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class C Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.
"Class C Certificateholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall"
shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the excess of the sum of the
Class C Certificateholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding
Distribution Date and any outstanding Class C Certificateholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall from the close of business on such preceding Distribution
Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is actually paid to Class C
Certificateholders on such preceding Distribution Date, plus thirty (30) days
of interest on such excess, to the extent permitted by law, at the Class C Rate.
"Class C Certificateholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall
mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, thirty (30) days of interest (or,
in the case of the first Distribution Date, interest accrued from and including
the Closing Date to but excluding such Distribution Date) at the Class C Rate
on the Certificate Balance of the Class C Certificates on the immediately
preceding Distribution Date or the Closing Date, as the case may be, after
giving effect to all distributions allocable to the reduction of the Certificate
Balance of the Class C Certificates made on or prior to such preceding
Distribution Date.
"Class C Certificates" shall mean the $46,000,000 aggregate
initial principal balance Class C 6.20% Asset Backed Certificates evidencing the
beneficial interest of a Class C Certificateholder in the property of the Trust,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement; provided,
however, that the Owner Trust Estate has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee
to secure payment of the Notes and that the rights of the Certificateholders to
receive distributions on the Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the
Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and
the Trust Agreement.
"Class C Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
December 2002 Distribution Date.
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"Class C Rate" shall mean 6.20% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class C Certificates shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic
Documents.
"Class D Certificateholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Class D Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.
"Class D Certificateholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall"
shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the excess of the sum of the
Class D Certificateholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding
Distribution Date and any outstanding Class D Certificateholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall from the close of business on such preceding Distribution
Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is actually paid to Class D
Certificateholders on such preceding Distribution Date, plus thirty (30) days
of interest on such excess, to the extent permitted by law, at the Class D Rate.
"Class D Certificateholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall
mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, thirty (30) days of interest (or,
in the case of the first Distribution Date, interest accrued from and including
the Closing Date to but excluding such Distribution Date) at the Class D Rate
on the Certificate Balance of the Class D Certificates on the immediately
preceding Distribution Date or the Closing Date, as the case may be, after
giving effect to all distributions allocable to the reduction of the Certificate
Balance of the Class D Certificates made on or prior to such preceding
Distribution Date.
"Class D Certificates" shall mean the $46,000,000 aggregate
initial principal balance Class D 7.50% Asset Backed Certificates evidencing the
beneficial interest of a Class D Certificateholder in the property of the Trust,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement; provided,
however, that the Owner Trust Estate has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee
to secure payment of the Notes and that the rights of the Certificateholders to
receive distributions on the Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the
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Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and
the Trust Agreement.
"Class D Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean the
May 2003 Distribution Date.
"Class D Rate" shall mean 7.50% per annum. Interest with
respect to the Class D Certificates shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of the Basic
Documents.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered as a
"clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker, dealer,
bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited
with the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" shall mean February 26, 1998.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral" shall have the meaning specified in the Granting
Clause of the Indenture.
"Collection Account" shall mean the account or accounts
established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Collection Period" shall mean each calendar month during the
term of this Agreement or, in the case of the initial Collection Period, the
period from the Cutoff Date to and including the last day of the month in which
the Cutoff Date occurred. Any amount stated "as of the close of business of the
last day of a Collection Period" shall give effect to the following calculations
as determined as of the end of the day on such last day: 1) all applications of
collections, 2) all current and previous Payaheads, 3) all applications of
Payahead Balances, 4) all Advances and reductions of Outstanding Advances and 5)
all distributions.
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"Collections" shall mean all amounts collected by the Servicer
(from whatever source) on or with respect to the Receivables.
"Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
"Computer Tape" shall mean the computer tape generated by the
Seller which provides information relating to the Receivables and which was
used by the Seller in selecting the Receivables conveyed to the Trust here
under.
"Control Agreement" shall mean the Securities Account Control
Agreement, dated as of February 26, 1998, by and among the Seller, the Issuer,
the Indenture Trustee and The Chase Manhattan Bank in its capacity as a
securities intermediary.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, (i) with respect to the
Owner Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located
at 222 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 or at such other ad dress as
the Owner Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Certificateholders and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office
of any successor Owner Trustee (the address of which the successor Owner
Trustee will notify the Certificateholders and the Depositor); and (ii) with
respect to the Indenture Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the
Indenture Trustee located at 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001, or
at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time
by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust
office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address of which the successor
Indenture Trustee will notify the Noteholders and the Issuer).
"Cutoff Date" shall mean February 1, 1998.
"Dealer" shall mean the dealer who sold a Financed Vehicle and
who originated and assigned the respective Receivable to Ford Credit under an
existing agreement between such dealer and Ford Credit.
"Dealer Recourse" shall mean, with respect to a Receivable
(i) any amount paid by a Dealer or credited
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against a reserve established for, or held on behalf of, a Dealer in excess of
that portion of finance charges rebated to the Obligor which is attributable to
the Dealer's participation, if any, in the Receivable, and (ii) all recourse
rights against the Dealer which originated the Receivable and any successor
Dealer.
"Default" shall mean any occurrence that is, or with notice or
the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
"Definitive Notes" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.11 of the Indenture.
"Depositor" shall mean the Seller in its capacity as
Depositor under the Trust Agreement.
"Determination Date" shall mean, with respect to any
Collection Period, the Business Day immediately preceding the Distribution Date
following such Collection Period.
"Distribution Date" shall mean the fifteenth (15th) day of
each calendar month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5.1 of the Indenture.
"Event of Servicing Termination" shall mean an event specified
in Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
"Executive Officer" shall mean, with respect to any
corporation, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief
Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the
Secretary or the Treasurer of such corporation and, with respect to
any partnership, any general partner thereof.
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"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Final Scheduled Maturity Date" shall mean April 30, 2003.
"Financed Vehicle" shall mean a new or used automobile or
light truck, together with all accessions thereto, securing an Obligor's
indebtedness under the respective Receivable.
"First Priority Principal Distribution Amount" shall mean,
with respect to any Distribution Date, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of
(a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Class A Notes as of the
preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made
on the Class A Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (b) the Pool
Balance at the end of the Collection Period preceding such Distribution Date;
provided, however, that (i) the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount on
the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the
amount that is necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of the
Class A-1 Notes to zero; (ii) the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount
on the Class A-2 Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the
amount that is necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Class
A-2 Notes to zero; (iii) the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount on the
Class A-3 Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the amount
that is necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-3
Notes to zero; and (iv) the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount on the
Class A-4 Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the amount
that is necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-4
Notes to zero.
"Fitch" shall mean Fitch IBCA, Inc.
"Ford Credit" shall mean Ford Motor Credit Company, a
Delaware corporation.
"General Partner" shall mean Ford Credit Auto Receivables
Two, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any substitute General Partner under the
Limited Partnership Agreement.
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"Grant" shall mean to mortgage, pledge, bar gain, sell,
warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and to
grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of set-off against, and
to deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture. A Grant of the
Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights,
powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party
thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect,
receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the
Collateral and all other monies payable thereunder, to give and receive notices
and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all
rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or
otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is
or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.
"Indenture" shall mean the Indenture, dated as of February 1,
1998, by and between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.
"Indenture Trustee" shall mean The Chase Manhattan Bank, a
New York corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture.
"Indenture Trust Estate" shall mean all money, instruments,
rights and other property that are subject or intended to be subject to the lien
and security interest of Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders
(including, without limitation, all property and interests Granted to the
Indenture Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.
"Independent" shall mean, when used with respect to any
specified Person, that such Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any
other obligor on the Notes, the Seller and any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any
material indirect financial interest in
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the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other
obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an
officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person
performing similar functions.
"Independent Certificate" shall mean a certificate or opinion
to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in,
and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 of the
Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an
Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable
care, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the
definition of "Independent" in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent
within the meaning thereof.
"Initial Certificate Balance" shall mean, with respect to each
Class of Certificates and as the context so requires, (i) with respect to all
Certificates of such Class, $46,000,000 or (ii) with respect to any Certificate
of such Class, an amount equal to the initial denomination of such Certificate.
"Initial Pool Balance" shall mean $2,300,012,263.69.
"Initial Purchaser" shall mean Goldman, Sachs & Co., as
initial purchasers of a portion of the Class D Certificates pursuant to the
Certificate Purchase Agreement.
"Insolvency Event" shall mean, with respect to any Person, (i)
the making of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (ii) the filing
of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, (iii) being adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or having had entered against such Person an order for relief in any
bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, (iv) the filing by such Person of a
petition or answer seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition,
readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law
or regulation, (v) the filing by such Person of an answer or other pleading
admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition filed
against such Person in any proceeding
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specified in (vii) below, (vi) seeking, consent to or acquiescing in the
appointment of a trustee, receiver or liquidator of such Person or of all or any
substantial part of the assets of such Person or (vii) the failure to obtain
dismissal within 60 days of the commencement of any proceeding against such
Person seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment,
liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law or
regulation, or the entry of any order appointing a trustee, liquidator or
receiver of such Person or of such Person's assets or any substantial portion
thereof.
"Interest Period" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution
Date (i) with respect to the Class A-1 Notes, from and including the Closing
Date (in the case of the first Distribution Date) or from and including the most
recent Distribution Date on which interest has been paid to but excluding the
following Distribution Date and (ii) with respect to each Class of Notes other
than the Class A-1 Notes, from and including the Closing Date (in the case of
the first Distribution Date) or from and including the fifteenth day of the
calendar month preceding each Distribution Date to but excluding the fifteenth
day of the following calendar month.
"IRS" shall mean the Internal Revenue Service.
"Issuer" shall mean the Trust unless a successor replaces it
and, thereafter, shall mean the successor and for purposes of any provision
contained in the Indenture and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the
Notes.
"Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" shall mean a written order
or request signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized
Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
"Lien" shall mean a security interest, lien, charge, pledge,
equity, or encumbrance of any kind other than tax liens, mechanics' liens, and
any liens which attach to the respective Receivable by operation of law.
"Limited Partnership Act" shall mean the Delaware Revised
Uniform Limited Partnership Act, Chapter 17 of Title 6 of the Delaware Code, 17
Delaware Code Section 101 et seq., as amended.
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"Limited Partnership Agreement" shall mean the Amended and
Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two
L.P., dated as of June 1, 1996, by and between Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two,
Inc., as general partner, and Ford Credit, as limited
partner.
"Liquidated Receivable" shall mean a Receivable which, by its
terms, is in default and as to which the Servicer has determined, in accordance
with its customary servicing procedures, that eventual payment in full is
unlikely or has repossessed and disposed of the Financed Vehicle.
"Liquidation Proceeds" shall mean the monies collected from
whatever source, during the respective Collection Period, on a Liquidated
Receivable, net of the sum of any amounts expended by the Servicer for the
account of the Obligor plus any amounts required by law to be remitted to the
Obligor.
"Monthly Remittance Condition" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 4.1(e) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Moody's" shall mean Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
"Note Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated
February 26, 1998, by and among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and The
Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, relating to the Notes,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the
Indenture.
"Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register.
"Note Indemnification Agreement" shall mean the Note
Indemnification Agreement, dated as February 19, 1998, by and between Ford
Credit and the Note Underwriters.
"Note Interest Rate" shall mean the Class A-1 Rate, the Class
A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate or the Class B Rate, as
applicable.
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"Note Owner" shall mean, with respect to any Book-Entry Note,
the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on
the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an
account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or
as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Note Paying Agent" shall mean the Indenture Trustee or any
other Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee
specified in Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is authorized by the Issuer to
make payments to and distributions from the Collection Account (including the
Principal Distribution Account), including payment of principal of or interest
on the Notes on behalf of the Issuer.
"Note Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to each Class of
Notes as of the close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, a
seven-digit decimal figure equal to the outstanding principal balance of such
Class of Notes (after giving effect to any reductions thereof to be made on the
immediately following Distribution Date) divided by the original outstanding
principal balance of such Class of Notes. The Note Pool Factor will be 1.0000000
as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the Note Pool Factor will decline to reflect
reductions in the outstanding principal amount of such Class of Notes.
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar" shall have the respective
meanings specified in Section 2.5 of the Indenture.
"Note Underwriters" shall mean the underwriters named in
Schedule I to the Note Underwriting Agreement.
"Note Underwriting Agreement" shall mean the Note Underwriting
Agreement, dated as of February 19, 1998, between the Seller and Goldman, Sachs
& Co., as representatives of the several Note Underwriters.
"Notes" shall mean the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes,
the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes, collectively.
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"Obligor" on a Receivable shall mean the purchaser or
co-purchasers of the Financed Vehicle or any other Person who owes payments
under the Receivable (not including any Dealer in respect of Dealer Recourse).
"Officer's Certificate" shall mean (i) with respect to the
Trust, a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the Trust and (ii)
with respect to the Seller or the Servicer, a certificate signed by the chairman
of the board, the president, any executive vice president, any vice president,
the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, or the controller of the Seller or the
Servicer, as applicable.
"Opinion of Counsel" shall mean a written opinion of counsel
which counsel shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or
the Rating Agencies, as applicable.
"Optional Purchase Percentage" shall mean 10%.
"Outstanding" shall mean with respect to the Notes, as of the
date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under
the Indenture except:
Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note
Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;
Notes or portions thereof the payment for which
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Indenture Trustee or any Note Paying Agent in trust
for the Noteholders of such Notes (provided, however, that if
such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision for
such notice has been made, satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee); and
Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide
purchaser;
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provided, that in determining whether the Noteholders of Notes evidencing the
requisite principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver under any Basic
Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the
Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only
Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned
shall be so disregarded; provided, further that (i) at any time following an
Event of Default, in determining whether the Noteholders of the requisite
principal amount of Notes Outstanding have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver under any Basic Document
and (ii) at any time following an Event of Servicing Termination, in determining
whether the Noteholders of the requisite principal amount of Notes Outstanding
may terminate all the rights and obligations of the Servicer or waive any Event
of Servicing Termination to the extent set forth in Section 8.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Class B Notes shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding until the principal amount of the outstanding Class A-4 Notes has
been reduced to zero. Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons
that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee's
right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the
Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller, the Servicer or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
"Outstanding Advances" shall mean either Outstanding
Precomputed Advances or Outstanding Simple Interest Advances or both, as
applicable.
"Outstanding Precomputed Advances" on the Precomputed
Receivables shall mean the sum, as of the close of business on the last day of a
Collection Period, of all Precomputed Advances as reduced as provided in Section
4.4(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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"Outstanding Simple Interest Advances" on the Simple Interest
Receivables shall mean the sum, as of the close of business on the last day of a
Collection Period, of all Simple Interest Advances as reduced as provided in
Section 4.4(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean PNC Bank, Delaware, a Delaware
banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement, or any successor Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest
of the Trust in, to and under the property and rights assigned to the Trust
pursuant to Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Payahead" on a Receivable shall mean the amount, as of the
close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, specified in Section
4.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Receivable.
"Payahead Account" shall mean the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1(d) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Payahead Balance" on a Receivable shall mean the sum, as of
the close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, of all Payaheads
made by or on behalf of the Obligor with respect to such Receivable (including
any amount paid by or on behalf of the Obligor prior to the Cutoff Date that is
due on or after the Cutoff Date and was not used to reduce the principal balance
of such Receivable), as reduced by applications of previous Payaheads with
respect to such Receivable, pursuant to Sections 4.3 and 4.4 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Permitted Investments" shall mean, on any date of
determination, book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or securities
represented by instruments in bearer or registered form with maturities not
exceeding the Business Day preceding the next Distribution Date which evidence:
(a) direct non-callable obligations of, and obligations fully
guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America;
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(b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit
of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the
laws of the United States of America or any state thereof (or any
domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and
examination by Federal or State banking or depository institution
authorities; provided, however, that at the time of the investment or
contractual commitment to invest therein, the commercial paper or other
short-term unsecured debt obligations (other than such obligations the
rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such
depository institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit
rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment
category granted thereby;
(c) commercial paper having, at the time of the investment or
contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each of the
Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;
(d) investments in money market funds having a rating from
each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted
thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates is investment manager or
advisor);
(e) bankers' acceptances issued by any depository institution
or trust company referred to in clause (b) above;
(f) repurchase obligations with respect to any security that
is a direct non-callable obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the
United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof the
obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the
United States of America, in either case entered into with a depository
institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in
clause (b); and
(g) any other investment with respect to which the Issuer or
the Servicer has received written notification from the Rating Agencies
that the acquisition of such investment as a Permitted Investment
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will not result in a withdrawal or down grading of the ratings on the
Notes or the Certificates.
"Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization, or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Physical Property" shall have the meaning as signed to such
term in the definition of "Delivery" above.
"Pool Balance" as of the close of business of the last day of
a Collection Period shall mean the aggregate Principal Balance of the
Receivables (excluding Purchased Receivables and Liquidated Receivables).
"Pool Factor" as of the last day of a Collection Period shall
mean a seven-digit decimal figure equal to the Pool Balance divided by the
Initial Pool Balance.
"Precomputed Advance" shall mean the amount, as of the last
day of a Collection Period, which the Servicer is required to advance on the
respective Precomputed Receivable pursuant to Section 4.4(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Precomputed Receivable" shall mean any Receivable under
which the portion of a payment allocable to earned interest (which may be
referred to in the related contract as an add-on finance charge) and the portion
allocable to the Amount Financed are determined according to the sum of periodic
balances or the sum of monthly balances or any equivalent method, or which is an
Actuarial Receivable.
"Predecessor Note" shall mean, with respect to any particular
Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Note and, for purposes of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.6 of the Indenture in lieu of a
mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
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"Prepayment Date" shall mean, with respect to a prepayment of
the Certificates pursuant to Section 9.3(a) of the Trust Agreement or a
distribution to Certificate holders pursuant to Section 9.1(c) of the Trust
Agreement, the Distribution Date specified by the Owner Trustee pursuant to
said Section 9.3(a) or 9.1(c), as applicable.
"Prepayment Price" shall mean an amount equal to the
Certificate Balance of the Class of Certificates to be prepaid plus accrued and
unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Certificate Rate plus interest on any
overdue interest at the applicable Certificate Rate (to the extent lawful) to
but excluding the Prepayment Date.
"Principal Balance" of a Receivable, as of the close of
business on the last day of a Collection Period, shall mean the Amount Financed
minus the sum of (a) in the case of a Precomputed Receivable, that portion of
all Scheduled Payments due on or prior to such day allocable to principal using
the actuarial or constant yield method, (b) in the case of a Simple Interest
Receivable, that portion of all Scheduled Payments actually received on or prior
to such date allocable to principal using the Simple Interest Method, (c) any
refunded portion of extended warranty protection plan costs, or of physical
damage, credit life, or disability insurance premiums included in the Amount
Financed, (d) any payment of the Purchase Amount with respect to the Receivable
allocable to principal and (e) any prepayment in full or any partial
prepayments applied to reduce the principal balance of the Receivable.
"Principal Distribution Account" shall mean the administrative
subaccount of the Collection Account established and maintained as such pursuant
to Section 4.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Private Placement Memorandum" shall have the meaning
specified in the Certificate Purchase Agreement.
"Proceeding" shall mean any suit in equity, action at law or
other judicial or administrative proceeding.
"Program" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.11 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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"Prospectus" shall have the meaning specified in the Note
Underwriting Agreement.
"Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Purchase Agreement, dated
as of February 1, 1998, by and between the Seller and Ford Credit.
"Purchase Amount" shall mean the amount, as of the close
business on the last day of a Collection Period, required to be paid by an
Obligor to prepay in full the respective Receivable under the terms thereof
(which amount shall include a full month's interest, in the month of payment, at
the Annual Percentage Rate).
"Purchased Receivable" shall mean a Receivable purchased as of
the close of business on the last day of the respective Collection Period by the
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by the
Seller pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Purchase Agreement.
"Purchaser" shall mean the Seller in its capacity as Purchaser
under the Purchase Agreement.
"Qualified Institution" shall mean any depository institution
organized under the laws of the United States of America or any one of the
states thereof or incorporated under the laws of a foreign jurisdiction with a
branch or agency located in the United States of America or one of the states
thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal or state banking
authorities which at all times has a short-term deposit rating of P-1 by Moody's
and A-1+ by Standard & Poor's and, in the case of any such institution organized
under the laws of the United States of America, whose deposits are insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor thereto.
"Qualified Trust Institution" shall mean the corporate trust
department of PNC Bank, Delaware, The Chase Manhattan Bank, or any institution
organized under the laws of the United States of America or any one of the
states thereof or incorporated under the laws of a foreign jurisdiction with a
branch or agency located in the United States of America or one of the states
thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal or state banking
authorities which at all times (i) is
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authorized under such laws to act as a trustee or in any other fiduciary
capacity, (ii) holds not less than one billion dollars in assets in its
fiduciary capacity, and (iii) has a long-term deposit rating of not less than
Baa3 from Moody's.
"Rating Agency" shall mean each of the nation ally recognized
statistical rating organizations designated by the Seller or an Affiliate to
provide a rating on the Notes or the Certificates which is then rating such
Notes or Certificates. If no such organization or successor is any longer in
existence, "Rating Agency" shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating
organization or other comparable Person designated by the Seller or an
Affiliate, notice of which designation shall be given to the Indenture Trustee,
the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
"Rating Agency Condition" shall mean, with respect to any
action, that each Rating Agency shall have been given prior notice thereof and
that each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Seller, the Servicer,
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee in writing that such action will not
result in a reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating of the Notes or
the Certificates.
"Realized Losses" shall mean, the excess of the Principal
Balance of any Liquidated Receivable over Liquidation Proceeds to the extent
allocable to principal received in the Collection Period.
"Receivable" shall mean any retail installment sale contract
which shall appear on the Schedule of Receivables and any amendments,
modifications or supplements to such retail installment sale contract which has
not been released by the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee from the Trust.
"Receivable Files" shall mean the documents specified in
Section 2.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Receivables Purchase Price" shall mean the fair market value
of the Receivables on the Closing Date, as mutually agreed by the Seller and
Ford Credit.
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"Record Date" shall mean, (i) with respect to any Distribution
Date or Redemption Date and any Book-Entry Note, the close of business on the
day prior to such Distribution Date or Redemption Date or, with respect to any
Definitive Note, the last day of the month preceding the month in which such
Distribution Date or Redemption Date occurs and (ii) with respect to any
Distribution Date or Prepayment Date and any Certificate, the close of business
on the last day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution
Date or Prepayment Date occurs.
"Redemption Date" shall mean with respect to a redemption of
the Class A-4 Notes and Class B Notes pursuant to Section 10.1(a) of the
Indenture or a payment to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.1(b) of the
Indenture, the Distribution Date specified by the Servicer pursuant to said
Section 10.1(a) or (b), as applicable.
"Redemption Price" shall mean an amount equal to the unpaid
principal amount of the Class of Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon at the applicable Note Interest Rate plus interest on any
overdue interest at the applicable Note Interest Rate (to the extent lawful) to
but excluding the Redemption Date.
"Registered Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Regular Principal Distribution Amount" shall mean, with
respect to any Distribution Date, an amount not less than zero equal to the
difference between (i) the greater of (1) the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Class A-1 Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after
giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A-1 Notes on such
Distribution Date) or the Closing Date, as the case may be, and (2) the excess,
if any, of (a) the sum of the aggregate out standing principal amount of all the
Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance as of the preceding Distribution
Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Securities on
such Distribution Date) or the Closing Date, as the case may be, over (b) the
difference between (x) the Pool Balance at the end of the Collection Period
preceding such Distribution Date minus (y) the
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Specified Overcollateralization Amount with respect to such Distribution Date,
minus (ii) the sum of the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any,
and the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, each with respect
to such Distribution Date; provided, however, that the Regular Principal
Distribution Amount shall not exceed the sum of the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of all the Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance (after
giving effect to any principal payments made on the Securities on such
Distribution Date in respect of the First Priority Principal Distribution
Amount, if any, and the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any);
and provided, further, (i) that the Regular Principal Distribution Amount on the
Class C Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the amount that
is necessary to reduce the Certificate Balance of the Class C Certificates to
zero; and (ii) the Regular Principal Distribution Amount on the Class D Final
Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the amount that is necessary
to reduce the Certificate Balance of the Class D Certificates to zero.
"Related Agreements" shall have the meaning specified in the
recitals to the Administration Agreement.
"Required Rating" shall mean a rating on (i) short-term
unsecured debt obligations of P-1 by Moody's, (ii) short-term unsecured debt
obligations of A-1+ by Standard & Poor's and (iii) short-term unsecured debt
obligations of F-1+ by Fitch, if rated by Fitch; and any requirement that
short-term unsecured debt obligations have the "Required Rating" shall mean
that such short-term unsecured debt obligations have the foregoing required
ratings from each of such Rating Agencies.
"Reserve Account" shall mean the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Reserve Account Property" shall have the meaning specified
in Section 4.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Reserve Account Release Amount" shall mean, with respect to
any Distribution Date, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount
of cash or other
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immediately available funds in the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date
(prior to giving effect to any withdrawals therefrom relating to such
Distribution Date over (ii) the Specified Reserve Balance with respect to such
Distribution Date.
"Reserve Initial Deposit" shall mean, with respect to the
Closing Date, $11,500,061.
"Rule of 78's Payment" shall mean, with respect to any
Precomputed Receivable which provides that, if such Receivable is prepaid in
full, the amount payable will be determined according to the Rule of 78's
method, an amount (if positive) equal to (i) the amount due allocating payments
between principal and interest based upon the Rule of 78's minus (ii) the amount
that would be due allocating payments between principal and interest from the
date of origination of the Receivable using the Actuarial Method.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, dated as of February 1, 1998, by and among the Trust, as
issuer, the Depositor, as seller, and Ford Credit, as servicer.
"Scheduled Payment" shall mean, for any Collection Period for
any Receivable, the amount indicated in such Receivable as required to be paid
by the Obligor in such Collection Period (without giving effect to deferments
of payments pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or any
rescheduling in any insolvency or similar proceedings).
"Schedule of Receivables" shall mean the list identifying the
Receivables attached as Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture (which list may be in the form of
microfiche, disk or other means acceptable to the Trustee).
"Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount" shall mean,
with respect to any Distribution Date, an amount not less than zero equal to the
difference between (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after
giving effect to any principal payments made on the Notes on such preceding
Distribution Date) over (b) the Pool Balance at the end of the Collection
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Period preceding such Distribution Date, minus (ii) the First Priority
Principal Distribution Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date;
provided, how ever, that the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount on
the Class B Final Scheduled Distribution Date shall not be less than the amount
that is necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Class B
Notes to zero.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware.
"Securities" shall mean the Notes and the Certificates,
collectively.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
"Securityholders" shall mean the Noteholders and the
Certificateholders, collectively.
"Seller" shall mean Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. as
the seller of the Receivables under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and each
successor to Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two L.P. (in the same capacity)
pursuant to Section 6.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Servicer" shall mean Ford Credit as the servicer of the
Receivables, and each successor to Ford Credit (in the same capacity) pursuant
to Section 7.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Servicer's Certificate" shall mean a certificate completed
and executed by the Servicer by any executive vice president, any vice
president, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the controller, or any
assistant controller of the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to a Collection
Period, the fee payable to the Servicer for services rendered during such
Collection Period, which shall be equal to one-twelfth of the Servicing Fee Rate
multiplied by the Pool Balance as of the first day of the Collection Period.
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"Servicing Fee Rate" shall mean 1.0% per annum.
"Simple Interest Advance" shall mean the amount of interest,
as of the close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, which the
Servicer is required to advance on the Simple Interest Receivables pursuant to
Section 4.4(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Simple Interest Method" shall mean the method of allocating a
fixed level payment to principal and interest, pursuant to which the portion of
such payment that is allocated to interest is equal to the product of the fixed
rate of interest multiplied by the unpaid principal balance multiplied by the
period of time elapsed since the preceding payment of interest was made.
"Simple Interest Receivable" shall mean any Receivable under
which the portion of a payment allocable to interest and the portion allocable
to principal is determined in accordance with the Simple Interest Method.
"Specified Credit Enhancement Amount" shall mean, with respect
to any Distribution Date, the greatest of (i) $11,500,061, (ii) 1.00% of the
Pool Balance at the end of the Collection Period preceding such Distribution
Date or (iii) the aggregate principal balance of the Receivables that are
delinquent 91 days or more and are not Liquidated Receivables at the end of the
Collection Period preceding such Distribution Date; provided, however, that the
Specified Credit Enhancement Amount with respect to any Distribution Date shall
not exceed the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all the
Notes and the aggregate Certificate Balance of all the Certificates as of the
preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made
on the Securities on such preceding Distribution Date).
"Specified Overcollateralization Amount" shall mean, with
respect to any Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of (a) the Specified
Credit Enhancement Amount over (b) the Specified Reserve Balance, each with
respect to such Distribution Date.
"Specified Reserve Balance" shall mean $11,500,061; provided,
however, that the Specified Reserve Balance with respect to any Distribution
Date shall not exceed the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal
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amount of all the Notes and the aggregate Certificate Balance of all the
Certificates as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any
principal payments made on the Securities on such preceding Distribution Date).
"Standard & Poor's" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings
Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
"State" shall mean any state or commonwealth of the United
State of America, or the District of Columbia.
"Successor Servicer" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 3.7(e) of the Indenture.
"Supplemental Servicing Fee" shall mean, the fee payable to
the Servicer for certain services rendered during the respective Collection
Period, determined pursuant to and defined in Section 3.8 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Total Required Payment" shall mean, with respect to any
Distribution Date, the sum of the Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing Fees
from prior Collec tion Periods, the Accrued Class A Note Interest, the First
Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued Class B Note Interest, the
Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Accrued Class C Certificate
Interest and the Accrued Class D Certificate Interest; provided, however, that
following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default
which has resulted in an acceleration of the Notes or following an Insolvency
Event or a dissolution with respect to the Seller or the General Partner, on any
Distribution Date until the Distribution Date on which the outstanding principal
amount of all the Notes has been paid in full, the Total Required Payment shall
mean the sum of the Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior
Collection Periods, the Accrued Class A Note Interest, the Accrued Class B Note
Interest and the amount necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of
all the Notes to zero.
"Transfer" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.3 of
the Trust Agreement.
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"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References to
specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
"Trust" shall mean Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 1998-A, a
Delaware business trust established pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
"Trust Accounts" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.7(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" shall mean the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement dated as of February 1, 1998, by and between the Seller, as depositor,
and the Owner Trustee.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" shall mean the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, unless otherwise specifically provided.
"Trustee Officer" shall mean, with respect to the Indenture
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee
with direct responsibility for the administration of the Indenture and the
other Basic Documents on behalf of the Indenture Trustee and also, with respect
to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject and, with respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer within the Corporate
Trust Office of the Owner Trustee with direct responsibility for the
administration of the Trust Agreement and the other Basic Documents on behalf of
the Owner Trustee.
"Trust Property" shall mean, collectively, (i) the
Receivables; (ii) with respect to Precomputed Receivables, monies due
thereunder on or after the Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect
to Simple Interest Receivables, monies due or received thereunder on or after
the Cutoff Date; (iii) the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted
by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in
the Financed Vehicles; (iv) rights to receive proceeds with
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respect to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life,
credit disability, or other insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or
Obligors; (v) Dealer Recourse; (vi) all of the Seller's rights to the Receivable
Files; (vii) the Trust Accounts, the Certificate Interest Distribution Account,
the Certificate Principal Distribution Account and all amounts, securities,
investments, investment property and other property deposited in or credited to
any of the foregoing, all security entitlements relating to the foregoing and
all proceeds thereof; (viii) all of the Seller's rights under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement; (ix) all of the Seller's rights under the Purchase
Agreement, including the right of the Seller to cause Ford Credit to repurchase
Receivables from the Seller; (x) payments and proceeds with respect to the
Receivables held by the Servicer; (xi) all property (including the right to
receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a Receivable
repurchased by the Servicer or purchased by the Seller); (xii) rebates of
premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other items
financed under the Receivables in effect as of the Cutoff Date; and (xiii) all
present and future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in
respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all
proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the
foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion thereof, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts,
accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit
accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and
every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other
property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the
proceeds of any of the foregoing.
"UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in
any relevant jurisdiction.
"Void Transfer" shall have the meaning specified in Section
3.3 of the Trust Agreement.
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