EXHIBIT 4.3 - INDENTURE
INDENTURE
between
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
as Issuer,
and
BANK OF TOKYO - MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of November 1, 2000
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$125,000,000 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes
$300,000,000 6.72% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes
$260,000,000 6.78% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes
$174,467,000 6.86% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes
$65,339,000 7.42% Class B Asset Backed Notes
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE1
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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
313 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(b)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(b)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4; 11.5
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3
314 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15
(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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1
(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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act . . 12
SECTION 1.3 Rules of Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1 Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.3 Temporary Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 2.4 Tax Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 2.5 Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 2.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . . . . . . 16
SECTION 2.7 Persons Deemed Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 2.8 Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 2.9 Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 2.10 Release of Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 2.11 Book-Entry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 2.12 Notices to Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 2.13 Definitive Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 2.14 Authenticating Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1 Payment Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 3.4 Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 3.5 Protection of Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of
Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance . . . . . . . . . . 29
SECTION 3.10 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 3.11 Successor or Transferee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.12 No Other Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.13 No Borrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.14 Servicer's Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.15 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.16 Capital Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.17 Further Instruments and Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 3.18 Restricted Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 3.19 Notice of Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 3.20 Removal of Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 4.2 Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of the Notes . 34
SECTION 4.3 Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 4.4 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent . . . . . . . 36
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
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 . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 5.4 Remedies; Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To
Receive Principal and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.11 Control by Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 5.15 Action on Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or
Separate Indenture Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 6.13 Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act
Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS; REPORTING
SECTION 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and
Addresses of Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications
to Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 7.3 Reporting by Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 7.4 Reporting and Notices by Indenture Trustee . . . . . . 55
ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
SECTION 8.1 Collection of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 8.2 Trust Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 8.4 Release of Trust Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 8.5 Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures . . . . 62
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 10.1 Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . 63
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. . . . . . . 63
SECTION 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 11.3 Acts of Noteholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer
and Rating Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 11.10 Separability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.11 Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.12 Legal Holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.13 Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.14 Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.15 Recording of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.16 Trust Obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 11.17 No Petition; Subordination; Claims Against Seller. . . 70
SECTION 11.18 Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 11.19 Employee Benefit Plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE A Schedule of Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SA-1
SCHEDULE I List of Permitted Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . SI-1
EXHIBITS
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 B Form of Class B Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
EXHIBIT C Form of Opinion of Counsel Pursuant to Section 3.6(a) . . C-1
INDENTURE, dated as of November 1, 2000 (as amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, this "Indenture"),
between MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2, a Delaware business trust (the
"Issuer"), and BANK OF TOKYO - MITSUBISHI TRUST COMPANY, a New York banking
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
6.72813% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), 6.72% Class
A-2 Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2 Notes"), 6.78% Class A-3 Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), 6.86% Class A-4 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 7.42% Class B
Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes" and together with the Class A
Notes, the "Notes"):
GRANTING CLAUSE
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The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing
Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, 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 Actuarial Receivables, monies due thereunder after the
Cutoff Date (including Payaheads) and, with respect to Simple Interest
Receivables, monies received thereunder after the Cutoff Date; (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) all rights to receive proceeds with respect to the
Receivables from claims on any physical damage, theft, credit life or
disability insurance policies covering the Financed Vehicles or Obligors;
(e) all rights to receive proceeds with respect to the Receivables from
recourse to Dealers thereon pursuant to the Dealer Agreements; (f) all
rights to the Receivable Files; (g) the Trust Accounts and all amounts,
securities, financial assets, investments and other property deposited in
or credited to any of the foregoing and all proceeds thereof; (h) all
rights under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Yield Supplement
Agreement; (i) all rights under the Purchase Agreement, including the right
of the Seller to cause MMCA to repurchase Receivables from the Seller; (j)
all payments and proceeds with respect to the Receivables held by the
Servicer; (k) all property (including the right to receive Liquidation
Proceeds and Recoveries and Financed Vehicles and the proceeds thereof
acquired by the Issuer pursuant to the terms of a Final Payment
Receivable), guarantees and other collateral securing a Receivable (other
than a Receivable purchased by the Servicer or repurchased by the Seller);
(l) all 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
Holders of the Notes, 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 Holders of the Notes may be
adequately and effectively protected.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Definitions. (a) Except as otherwise specified
herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms have
the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture.
"Accrued Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date and each Class of Notes, the sum of the Monthly Accrued Note Interest
and the Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Class for such Payment Date.
"Act" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.3(a).
"Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration
Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000, by and among the Administrator,
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may from time to time be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect.
"Administrator" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor Administrator under the
Administration Agreement.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.14.
"Basic Documents" shall mean this Indenture, the Certificate of
Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Assignments (as defined in the Purchase
Agreement), the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the
Administration Agreement, the Note Depository Agreement, the Yield
Supplement Agreement, the Control Agreement and other documents and
certificates delivered in connection therewith as the same may from time to
time be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect.
"Book-Entry Notes" shall mean a beneficial interest in the Notes,
ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a
Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.11.
"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, Wilmington, Delaware or Los Angeles, California are authorized or
obligated by law, regulation or executive order to be closed.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the certificate of trust of the
Issuer substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Trust Agreement.
"Class" shall mean 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.
"Class A Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class
A Note is registered in the Note Register.
"Class A Notes" shall mean the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, collectively.
"Class A-1 Final Payment Date" shall mean the August 2001 Payment
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 $125,000,000 aggregate initial
principal amount of 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes issued by the
Issuer pursuant to this Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1
to this Indenture.
"Class A-1 Rate" shall mean 6.72813% per annum.
"Class A-2 Final Payment Date" shall mean the July 2003 Payment
Date.
"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 $300,000,000 aggregate initial
principal amount of 6.72% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to this Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 to
this Indenture.
"Class A-2 Rate" shall mean 6.72% per annum.
"Class A-3 Final Payment Date" shall mean the October 2004
Payment 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 $260,000,000 aggregate initial
principal amount of 6.78% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to this Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3 to
this Indenture.
"Class A-3 Rate" shall mean 6.78% per annum.
"Class A-4 Final Payment Date" shall mean the June 2005 Payment
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 $174,467,000 aggregate initial
principal amount of 6.86% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to this Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4 to
this Indenture.
"Class A-4 Rate" shall mean 6.86% per annum.
"Class B Final Payment Date" shall mean the August 2005 Payment
Date.
"Class B Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class
B Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Class B Notes" shall mean the $65,339,000 aggregate initial
principal amount of 7.42% Class B Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer
pursuant to this Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to this
Indenture.
"Class B Rate" shall mean 7.42% per annum.
"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 November 15, 2000.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and the rules and regulations, including proposed or
temporary regulations, promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral" shall have the meaning specified in the Granting
Clause of this Indenture.
"Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Control Agreement" shall mean the Securities Account Control
Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000, by and among the Seller, the
Issuer, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi
Trust Company in its capacity as a securities intermediary, as the same may
from time to time be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in
effect.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean the principal office of the
Indenture Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at date of execution of this
Indenture is located at 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
10020-1104, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, 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 at the address designated by such successor
Indenture Trustee by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Final Payment Date" shall mean the Class A-1 Final Payment Date,
the Class A-2 Final Payment Date, the Class A-3 Final Payment Date, the
Class A-4 Final Payment Date and the Class B Final Payment Date,
collectively, or any of them, as the context requires.
"Final Scheduled Maturity Date" shall mean with respect to any
Receivable, April 30, 2007.
"Grant" shall mean to mortgage, pledge, bargain, 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 this 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.
"Holder" or "Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Indenture Trustee" shall mean Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Trust
Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee under this
Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
"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 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,
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.
"Interest Accrual Period" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date and with respect to each Class of the Notes, the period from and
including the 15th day of the calendar month immediately preceding such
Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date),
to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month in which such Payment
Date occurs.
"Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date and any Class of Notes, the excess of the sum of the Monthly
Accrued Note Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Interest Carryover Shortfall from the close of business on such preceding
Payment Date, over the amount in respect of interest that is actually
deposited in the Note Payment Account on such preceding Payment Date with
respect to such Class, plus interest on such excess, to the extent
permitted by law, at the applicable Note Interest Rate for the related
Interest Accrual Period.
"Issuer" shall mean MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, unless a
successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and for purposes
of any provision contained herein 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 Responsible
Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
"MART Trust Agreement" shall mean the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, dated as of October 1, 1999, between MMCA, as beneficiary, and
Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A., a national banking association (as
successor to Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware), as trustee, relating to the
Seller, as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
and in effect.
"Monthly Accrued Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date and (i) any Class of Notes, interest accrued for the related
Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Note Interest Rate for such Class
on the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such Class as of the
immediately preceding Payment Date, after giving effect to all payments of
principal to Noteholders on or prior to such preceding Payment Date (or, in
the case of the first Payment Date, the initial principal amount of the
Notes); and (ii) with respect to the Notes collectively, the sum of Monthly
Accrued Note Interest for each Class.
"Note Depository Agreement" shall mean the agreement dated, as of
November 1, 2000, among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrator and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing
Agency, relating to the Notes.
"Note Interest Rate" shall mean, in the case of the Class A-1
Notes, the Class A-1 Rate, in the case of the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-
2 Rate, in the case of the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-3 Rate, in the case
of the Class A-4 Notes, the Class A-4 Rate, and in the case of the Class B
Notes, the Class B Rate.
"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 Register" and "Note Registrar" shall have the respective
meanings specified in Section 2.5(a).
"Noteholders" shall mean the Class A-1 Noteholders, the Class A-2
Noteholders, the Class A-3 Noteholders, the Class A-4 Noteholders and the
Class B Noteholders, collectively.
"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.
"Officer's Certificate" shall mean a certificate signed by any
Responsible Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in,
and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1,
and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any
reference in this Indenture to an Officer's Certificate shall be to an
Officer's Certificate of any Responsible Officer of the Issuer.
"Opinion of Counsel" shall mean one or more written opinions of
counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture,
be employees of or counsel to the Issuer, MMCA or the Servicer and who
shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or
opinions shall be addressed to the Indenture Trustee as Indenture Trustee,
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 11.1, and shall be
in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.
"Outstanding" shall mean, as of the date of determination, all
Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note
Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment
for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust
for the Holders 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
(iii) 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 protected
purchaser;
provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or 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. Notes so owned 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 Amount" shall mean the aggregate principal amount of
all Notes Outstanding at the date of determination.
"Owner Trustee" shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, 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.
"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 and is authorized by the Issuer to make payments
to and distributions from the Collection Account and the Note Payment
Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on
behalf of the Issuer.
"Payment Date" shall mean the 15th day of each month, or if any
such day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day,
commencing December 15, 2000.
"Plan" shall mean an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of
ERISA, a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code, and any
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity or otherwise.
"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 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.
"Proceeding" shall mean any suit in equity, action at law or
other judicial or administrative proceeding.
"Rating Agency" shall mean either S&P or Moody's, and together,
the "Rating Agencies." 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 Issuer,
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 written notice thereof
and that each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Seller, the
Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee that such action
shall not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating
assigned to any Class of Notes.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to a Payment Date or
Redemption Date, (i) for any Book-Entry Notes, the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date or,
(ii) for any Definitive Notes that have been issued pursuant to Section
2.13, the fifteenth (15th) day of the preceding month, unless such
fifteenth (15th) day is not a Business Day, in which case the immediately
preceding Business Day.
"Redemption Date" shall mean, in the case of a redemption of
Notes pursuant to Section 10.1, the Payment Date specified by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 10.1 on which date the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw
any amount remaining in the Reserve Account and deposit the applicable
amount thereof payable to the Notes in the Note Payment Account from any
amount remaining in the Reserve Account.
"Redemption Price" shall mean, in the case of a redemption of
Notes pursuant to Section 10.1, an amount equal to the unpaid principal
amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon as of
the applicable Redemption Date.
"Registered Holder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Responsible Officer" shall mean, (a) with respect to the Issuer,
any officer of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for or on behalf
of the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuer and who is
identified on the list of Responsible Officers delivered by the Owner
Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be
modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) 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 (b) with respect to the Indenture
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture
Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture
and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom
such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000, by and among the Issuer, the
Seller and the Servicer, as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect.
"Securities" shall have the meaning specified in the MART Trust
Agreement.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
"Seller" shall mean MMCA Auto Receivables Trust, a Delaware
business trust, in its capacity as seller under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and its successors-in-interest.
"Servicer" shall mean Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and any successor Servicer thereunder.
"State" shall mean any of the fifty States of the United States
of America or the District of Columbia.
"Subtrust" shall have the meaning specified in the MART Trust
Agreement.
"Subtrust Assets" shall have the meaning specified in the MART
Trust Agreement.
"Successor Servicer" shall have the meaning specified in Section
3.7(e).
"Total Required Payment" shall mean, on any Payment Date, the
Total Servicing Fee, the Accrued Note Interest and the Principal
Distribution Amount.
"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 this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders
(including, without limitation, all property and interests Granted to the
Indenture Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" shall mean the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended, unless otherwise specifically provided.
(b) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context
may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
herein have the respective meanings set forth in, or incorporated by
reference into, the Sale and Servicing Agreement for all purposes of this
Indenture.
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.
SECTION 1.3 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined
has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without
limitation;
(v) words in the singular include the plural
and words in the plural include the singular; and
(vi) any agreement, instrument or statute
defined or referred to herein or in any instrument or certificate
delivered in connection herewith means such agreement, instrument
or statute as from time to time amended, modified or supplemented
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.
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 B, 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 Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-
3, A-4 and B hereto 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 Responsible
Officers. The signature of any such Responsible Officer on the Notes may
be manual or facsimile.
(b) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time Responsible 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.
(c) The Indenture Trustee shall, upon Issuer Order,
authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $125,000,000, Class A-2 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000, Class A-3 Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $260,000,000, Class A-4 Notes for
original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $174,467,000, and Class
B Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $65,339,000.
The aggregate principal amounts 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) Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Notes shall be issuable in minimum denominations of
$1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 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 pursuant to Section 2.13, 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, 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 such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
(b) If temporary Notes are issued pursuant to Section
2.3(a), 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 Section 3.2, without charge to the Holder. 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 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.
(b) 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 Holders of the Notes and the principal
amounts and number of such Notes.
(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 of the Relevant 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.
The Indenture Trustee may rely upon the Administrator with respect to the
determination of whether the requirements of Section 8-401 of the Relevant
UCC are met.
(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 of the Relevant 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. The Indenture
Trustee may rely upon the Administrator with respect to the determination
of whether the requirements of Section 8-401 of the Relevant UCC are met.
(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 duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible
guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.
(g) No service charge shall be made to a Holder 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 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
due date for any payment with respect to such Note.
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, and provided that the
requirements of Section 8-405 of the Relevant UCC are met, the Issuer shall
execute, and upon its 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 of the Indenture Trustee's
receipt of evidence to its satisfaction of such destruction, loss or theft
shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead
of issuing a replacement Note of the same Class, the Issuer may pay such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the
Redemption Date without surrender thereof. The Indenture Trustee may rely
upon the Administrator with respect to the determination of whether the
requirements of Section 8-405 of the Relevant UCC are met. 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 Holder 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.
(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 Owner. 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 Payments.
(a) On each Payment Date, upon receipt of written
instructions from the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.6(c) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw the Total
Available Funds on deposit in the Collection Account for the related
Collection Period and make the following payments and deposits for such
Payment Date in the following order of priority:
(i) to the Servicer, the Total Servicing
Fee;
(ii) to the Note Payment Account, the Accrued
Note Interest for the Class A Notes;
(iii) to the Note Payment Account, the Accrued
Note Interest for the Class B Notes;
(iv) to the Note Payment Account, the
Principal Distribution Amount;
(v) to the Reserve Account, the amount, if
any, necessary to reinstate the balance in the Reserve Account up
to the Specified Reserve Balance; and
(vi) to the Certificate Distribution Account,
any remaining portion of Total Available Funds.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default which has resulted in an acceleration
of the Notes, on each Payment Date the Total Available Funds shall be
deposited in the Note Payment Account and applied in accordance with
Section 2.8(f).
(b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in
installments on each Payment Date in an aggregate amount (unless the Notes
have been accelerated in accordance with Section 5.2 following the
occurrence of an Event of Default) for all Classes of Notes equal to the
Principal Distribution Amount with respect to such Payment Date. On each
Payment Date, unless the Notes have been accelerated in accordance with
Section 5.2 following the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Issuer
shall cause to be paid all amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account
with respect to the related Collection Period in the following order of
priority:
(i) to the Class A Noteholders, Accrued Note
Interest (and, if amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account
are insufficient for such purpose, payments shall be made to the
to the Class A Noteholders pro rata in proportion to the Accrued
Note Interest for each Class of Notes);
(ii) to the Class B Noteholders, Accrued Note
Interest;
(iii) to the Class A-1 Noteholders, 100% of
the Principal Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until
the principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes has been paid in
full;
(iv) following payment in full of the Class
A-1 Notes, to the Class A-2 Noteholders, 100% of the Principal
Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of the Class A-2 Notes has been paid in full;
(v) following payment in full of the Class
A-2 Notes, to the Class A-3 Noteholders, 100% of the Principal
Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of the Class A-3 Notes has been paid in full;
(vi) following payment in full of the Class
A-3 Notes, to the Class A-4 Noteholders, 100% of the Principal
Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of the Class A-4 Notes has been paid in full; and
(vii) following payment in full of the Class
A-4 Notes, to the Class B Noteholders, 100% of the Principal
Distribution Amount in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of the Class B Notes has been paid in full.
(c) The principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes, to the
extent not previously paid, will be due on the Class A-1 Final Payment
Date, the principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes, to the extent not
previously paid, will be due on the Class A-2 Final Payment Date, the
principal amount of the Class A-3 Notes, to the extent not previously paid,
will be due on the Class A-3 Final Payment Date, the principal amount of
the Class A-4 Notes, to the extent not previously paid, will be due on the
Class A-4 Final Payment Date and the principal amount of the Class B Notes,
to the extent not previously paid, will be due on the Class B Final Payment
Date.
(d) 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, and such interest shall be due and
payable on each Payment Date. Interest on the Class A-1 Notes shall be
calculated on the basis of the actual days elapsed and a 360-day year.
Interest on the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes
and the Class B Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months. 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 Payment Date shall be paid to
the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is
registered on the Record Date 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 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, 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
Payment Date or on the related Final Payment Date (and except for the
Redemption Price for any Note called for redemption), 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. The
Issuer shall pay all Accrued Note Interest, including Interest Carryover
Shortfalls, to the Persons who are Noteholders on the Record Date for a
particular Payment Date even if a portion of such Accrued Note Interest
relates to a different Payment Date.
(e) All principal payments on a Class of Notes shall be
made pro rata to the Noteholders 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 Payment 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 Payment 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 installment. Notices in connection with
redemption of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section
10.2.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the 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 Holders of Notes representing
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. On each Payment Date following acceleration of
the Notes, all amounts on deposit in the Note Payment Account shall be paid
in the following order of priority.
(i) first, to the Indenture Trustee for
amounts due under Section 6.7;
(ii) second, to the Servicer for amounts due
and unpaid in respect of Total Servicing Fees;
(iii) third, to Noteholders of each Class of
the Class A Notes, Accrued Note Interest ratably in proportion to
Accrued Note Interest for each Class of the Class A Notes,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on the Class A Notes for interest;
(iv) fourth, to the Class A-1 Noteholders,
the Class A-2 Noteholders, the Class A-3 Noteholders and the
Class A-4 Noteholders, the outstanding principal amount of the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes, respectively, pro rata in proportion to the
respective principal balances of each of such Classes as of such
Payment Date (prior to giving effect to any payment of principal
on such date) in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of each of such Classes has been paid in full;
(v) fifth, to the Class B Noteholders,
Accrued Note Interest;
(vi) sixth, to the Class B Noteholders, the
outstanding principal amount of the Class B Notes as of such
Payment Date (prior to giving effect to any payment of principal
on such date) in reduction of principal until the principal
amount of the Class B Notes has been paid in full; and
(vii) seventh, to the Certificateholders.
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, provided, that 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 (i) an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
in each case stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Indenture relating to the release of the property from the lien of
this Indenture have been complied with, provided that 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 and (ii) 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), 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 Notes, upon original
issuance, shall be issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the
Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee as custodian for
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 the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner thereof shall receive a definitive Note
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 Notes and the giving of
instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of the
Notes, 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 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 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 Notes to such
Clearing Agency Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or
permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions
of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the
principal amount of the Notes or any Class of 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 Owners and/or Clearing Agency Participants
owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of
the beneficial interest in the Notes or such Class of Notes 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 is required under this Indenture,
unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Note
Owners pursuant to Section 2.13, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such
notices and communications specified herein to be given to Holders of the
Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note
Owners.
SECTION 2.13 Definitive Notes. If (i) the Issuer, the
Administrator or the Servicer 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 Indenture
Trustee or 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 the Book-Entry Notes
representing beneficial interests aggregating not less than 51% of the
principal amount of such Notes 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 such 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 liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Any portion of a Book-Entry Note transferred or exchanged
pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be executed, authenticated and
delivered only in the minimum denominations and integral multiples set
forth in Section 2.2(d). Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the
Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders.
SECTION 2.14 Authenticating Agents. 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 and 2.6, 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."
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.
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.
The Administrator agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The provisions of
Sections 2.9 and 6.4 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1 Payment Covenant. The Issuer shall duly and
punctually pay the principal of and interest on, if any, the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. 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 Section 8.2, all payments of amounts due and payable with
respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the
Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Yield Supplement Account and
the Note Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn
from the Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Yield Supplement
Account and the Note Payment 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 Payment Date and Redemption Date, the
Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note Payment 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 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 Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture
Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so
agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such 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 Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as a 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 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.
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 Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in
trust by such 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 Paying
Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect
to such money.
(d) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of
funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any 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 Holder 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 Paying Agent with respect to such trust money
shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or
such 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 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 Holders 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 Paying Agent, at the last address of record for
each such Holder).
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 Trust
Estate.
SECTION 3.5 Protection of 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 Trust
Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders in such 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.
SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate. (a) On the Closing
Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(b) On or before March 31, in each calendar year, beginning
in 2001, 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 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 maintain the lien and
security interest of this Indenture until March 31 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 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 Basic
Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the 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 Relevant 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 Holders of at least 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 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, the Issuer shall (subject
to the rights of the Indenture Trustee to direct such appointment pursuant
to Section 8.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) appoint a successor
servicer (the "Successor Servicer"), 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 or has not accepted its appointment at the time when the Servicer
ceases to act as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, without further action,
shall automatically be appointed the 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 financial institution having a net
worth of not less than $50,000,000 and whose regular business includes the
servicing of automotive installment sale contracts 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, 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. If 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 Holders of at least 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 Basic Documents).
SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(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 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 applicable state law) or assert any
claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the
payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon the Issuer;
(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 or any part thereof or any interest therein
or the proceeds thereof 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 Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall
deliver to the Indenture Trustee, on or before March 31 of each year
(commencing with the year 2001), an Officer's Certificate stating, as to
the Responsible Officer signing such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer
during such year (or such shorter period, with respect to the
first such Officer's Certificate) and of its performance under
this Indenture has been made under such Responsible Officer's
supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Responsible
Officer's knowledge, based on such review, the Issuer has
complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture
throughout such year (or such shorter period, with respect to the
first such Officer's Certificate), or, if there has been a
default in its compliance with any such condition or covenant,
specifying each such default known to such Responsible 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;
(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 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 interest so
conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of Holders of the Notes, (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 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 other
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.
SECTION 3.14 Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to comply with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including
Sections 3.7, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 and 4.11 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 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, (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 Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 1(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement. The Issuer shall not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the
Collection 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.
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 hereof, (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 either:
(A) all Notes of all Classes 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
irrevocably 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
(B) each of the following:
(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 to pay and discharge
the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered
to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the
applicable Final Payment Date or Redemption Date (if Notes shall
have been called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), as the
case may be;
(3) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable by the Issuer hereunder and under the other Basic
Documents;
(4) 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
(5) 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.
SECTION 4.2 Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance of the Notes.
(a) Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
subsection (b) below, the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Notes Outstanding, 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) the rights of Holders of Notes to
receive, from the trust funds described in subsection (b)(i)
hereof, payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes
Outstanding at maturity of such principal or interest;
(ii) the obligations of the Issuer with
respect to the Notes under Sections 2.5, 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3 hereof;
(iii) the obligations of the Issuer to the
Indenture Trustee under Section 6.7 hereof; and
(iv) the rights, powers, trusts and
immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder and the duties of
the Indenture Trustee hereunder.
(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 hereof)
with the Indenture Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of
the Holders of the Notes, 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 Notes Outstanding, 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;
(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 Section 4.1 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 Paying Agent, as
the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Holders 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 Paying Agent. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any 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
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such monies.
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, and such
default shall continue for a period of five (5) days or more; 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, including with respect to each Class of
Notes, the Final Payment Date for such Class; 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 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 Holders of 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 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 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 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 notice in the form of an Officer's
Certificate of any Default which with the giving of notice and the lapse of
time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii), 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 Holders of Notes representing
not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding,
voting as a group, 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 Holders of Notes representing a majority of
the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, 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 other amounts due and owing to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the
nonpayment of the principal of the Notes 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) there is a
default 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) there is a default 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 Holders of the Notes, the whole
amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, with
interest upon the overdue principal at the applicable Note Interest Rate
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 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 and counsel and other amounts due and
owing to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7.
(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 the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out
of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the 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 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 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 all other amounts due and owing to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7) and of the Noteholders allowed
in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and
regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any
election of a trustee, a 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 Holders of Notes
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 amounts due and owing to 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 Holder
thereof 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 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 and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit
of the Holders of the Notes.
(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, but shall
not be obligated to, 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 Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party
under the Relevant 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 Trust Estate or any portion
thereof or rights or interest 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 Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than an
Event of Default described in Section 5.1(i) or (ii), unless (A) the
Holders of 100% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as
a group, 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 that the 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 Holders of 66-2/3% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding, voting as a group. In determining such sufficiency or
insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C) 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
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
order of priority set forth in Section 2.8(f).
(c) 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 Trust Estate and apply proceeds as if there
had been no declaration of acceleration; provided, however, that Total
Available Funds 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 Trust Estate. In determining whether to maintain
possession of the 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 Trust Estate for such
purpose.
SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note 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 Holder has previously given written notice to the
Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of 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 Holder or Holders 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 60-day period by the
Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other Holders 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 Holders of
Notes, each representing 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, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute
and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on,
if any, such 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
Holder.
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 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 Holder of any Note 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 Holders of 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 Trust Estate
shall be by Holders of Notes representing 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 Trust Estate
pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by
Holders of Notes representing less than 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no
force and effect; and
(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,
subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that
it reasonably believes might involve it in costs, expenses and liabilities
for which it will not be adequately indemnified or might materially
adversely affect 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 Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a group, may waive any
past Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a Default or
Event of 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 the Holder of
each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former
positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of 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 Holder of any Note by such Holder'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 costs of such
suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorney's 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 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 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 of each of its 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 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 or the
Servicer 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.
(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 Holders of 66-2/3% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding,
voting as a group, 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
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 or the Servicer, 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.
(c) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee
to do so and at the Administrator's expense, the Issuer agrees to take all
such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure
the performance and observance by MMCA of each of its obligations to the
Seller under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement in accordance
with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies,
powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in
connection with the Purchase Agreement 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 thereunder and the institution of legal
or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by
MMCA of each of its obligations under the Purchase Agreement.
(d) 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 Holders of 66 2/3% of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding,
voting as a group, shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges
and claims of the Seller against MMCA 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 MMCA of each of its
obligations to the Seller thereunder and to give any consent, request,
notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Purchase
Agreement, and any rights of the Seller to take such action shall be
suspended.
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; however, 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
Responsible Officer unless it is proved 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) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way
relates to the Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
(e) and (g) of this Section 6.1.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) 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.
(h) 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.
(i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of any Event of Default unless either (1) a Responsible 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 on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have
been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Indenture Trustee need
not investigate any fact or matters stated in the 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 unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in
such reliance.
(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 at 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 costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request
or direction.
(g) The Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but
the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Indenture Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Issuer, personally or by agent or attorney.
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 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
other than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is
continuing and if it is known to a Responsible 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 Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the
notice is in the interests of Noteholders.
SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders. Within a
reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, but not
later than the latest date permitted by law, in each case as determined by
the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Person who at any
time during the preceding calendar year was a Noteholder a statement
prepared by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement containing the information which is required to be expressed in
the Payment Date statements as a dollar amount per $1,000 of original
denomination of the Notes or Class of Notes, as applicable, aggregated for
such calendar year, for the purposes of such Noteholder's preparation of
Federal income tax returns.
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 the Indenture Trustee
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. 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 Servicer
to, defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may have separate
counsel and the Issuer shall, or shall cause the Servicer 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 constitute 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. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the
Issuer. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, voting as a group, may remove the Indenture Trustee without
cause by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer and may 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) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent;
(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, 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. 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 Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Notes Outstanding may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction to remove the Indenture
Trustee and to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
(d) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8, the Issuer's and the Administrator's
obligations 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) If 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 if 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 Trust Estate may at the time be
located, the Indenture Trustee 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 Estate, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such
capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Trust
Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section, 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 hereof.
(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 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
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time
remove or accept the resignation of 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 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 Indenture
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new
or successor trustee.
SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) 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).
(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 Commission, 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).
(c) In the case of the appointment pursuant to this Section
6.11 of a successor Indenture Trustee with respect to any Class of Notes,
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 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.
SECTION 6.13 Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act
Licenses. The Indenture Trustee shall use its best efforts to maintain the
effectiveness of all licenses required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle
Sales Finance Act in connection with this Indenture and the transactions
contemplated hereby until the lien and security interest of this Indenture
shall no longer be in effect in accordance with the terms hereof.
ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS; REPORTING
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 Holders of Notes 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 so long as (i) the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar or
(ii) the Notes are issued as Book-Entry Notes, no such list shall be
required to be furnished.
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 Holders
of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture
Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders
of Notes 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.
(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note
Registrar shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 7.3 Reporting 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 Reporting and Notices by Indenture Trustee. (a) If
required by TIA Section 313(a), within sixty (60) days after each March 31,
beginning with March 31, 2001, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder as required by TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of
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.
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 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. (a) On or prior to the Closing
Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to establish and maintain, in the
name of the Indenture Trustee, (i) for the benefit of the Noteholders and
the Certificateholders, each of the Trust Accounts other than the Note
Payment Account as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and (ii) for the exclusive benefit of the Noteholders,
the Note Payment Account as provided in Section 4.1(d) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) On or before each Payment Date, the Servicer shall
deposit in the Collection Account all amounts required to be deposited
therein with respect to the related Collection Period as provided in
Sections 4.2 and 4.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before
each Payment Date, all amounts required to be deposited in the Note Payment
Account with respect to the related Collection Period pursuant to Sections
4.6 and 4.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be withdrawn by the
Indenture Trustee from the Collection Account and/or the Reserve Account
and deposited to the Note Payment Account for payment to Noteholders in
accordance with Section 2.8 on such Payment Date.
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, the Reserve Account and the Yield Supplement Account shall be
invested by the Indenture Trustee at the direction of the Servicer in
Permitted Investments as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 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, the Reserve Account and the Yield Supplement
Account shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee from such accounts and
distributed (but only under the circumstances set forth in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement in the case of the Reserve Account and the Yield
Supplement Account) as provided in Sections 4.1, 4.7 and 5.1 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 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.
(c) If (i) the Servicer shall have failed to give
investment directions 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 Payment Date for any funds on deposit in
the Collection Account, the Payahead Account, the Reserve Account or the
Yield Supplement Account, (ii) to the knowledge of a Responsible 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) the Notes
shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default and
amounts collected or receivable from the 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 such Trust Accounts in one or more Permitted
Investments as set forth in Schedule I hereto.
SECTION 8.4 Release of 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
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 (i) an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to
the release of the property from the lien of this Indenture have been
complied with, provided that 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 and (ii) 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.
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(b), 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 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.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Noteholders. Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes 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:
(a) 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;
(b) 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;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit
of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Issuer;
(d) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Indenture Trustee;
(e) 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 which will not be inconsistent with other provisions of the
Indenture;
(f) 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
(g) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect 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;
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 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. 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.
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 Holders of not less than a majority of the principal amount of the
Notes Outstanding, by Act of such Holders 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 Holders of the Notes 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 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 Holder of each Outstanding Note
affected thereby:
(i) change any Final Payment 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 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 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 Holders of
which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the
consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults 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 Trust Estate pursuant to Section
5.4 if the proceeds of such sale 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 Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder 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 Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation) or to affect the
rights of the Holders of Notes to the benefit of any provisions
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 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 the Holder of any Note of the security provided by the
lien of this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any
Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such
determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders 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 or on the basis of an Opinion of Counsel.
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 Holders 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 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 Holders of the Notes 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.
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 10.1 Redemption. The Notes are subject to redemption
in whole, but not in part, at the direction of the Servicer pursuant to
Section 9.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on any Payment Date on
which the Servicer exercises its option to purchase the assets of the
Issuer pursuant to said Section 9.1(a), 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 plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon and the Certificate Balance. The Servicer or the Issuer shall
furnish the Rating Agencies and the Noteholders notice of such redemption.
If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1, the Servicer
or the Issuer shall furnish notice of such election to the Indenture
Trustee not later than twenty (20) 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 Note Payment Account the
Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed, whereupon all such Notes
shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date.
SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption
under Section 10.1 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class
mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile mailed or transmitted promptly
following receipt of notice from the Issuer or Servicer pursuant to Section
10.1, but not later than ten (10) days prior to the applicable Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Notes as of the close of business on the Record
Date preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such Holder's address or
facsimile number appearing in the Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price; and
(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).
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 any
required notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any
Note 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), 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.
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.
(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 property
or securities to be so deposited and of all other such property
or 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 property or
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 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 then
Outstanding Notes.
(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 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 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 a Responsible 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 a Responsible 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, unless such Responsible
Officer or counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
such matters are erroneous.
(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
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 provided by the Note
Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the
Holder 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
or by the Issuer, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if made, given, furnished or 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: MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, in
care of Wilmington Trust Company at Rodney Square North, 1100
North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department, with a copy to the Administrator at
6363 Katella Avenue, Cypress, California 90630-5205, Attention:
Executive Vice President and Treasurer, 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 and (ii) in case of S&P, at the following
address: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., 55 Water Street (40th Floor), New York, New York 10041,
Attention of Asset Backed Surveillance Department.
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 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 Holder of a Note
providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or
any Paying Agent to such Holder, 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 to be included in this Indenture by any of the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
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 Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.12 Legal Holiday. 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 accrued 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 State of New York.
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 its
individual capacity, (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 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 in its individual capacity, 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
entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI, VII
and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 11.17 No Petition; Subordination; Claims Against Seller.
The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder
or Note Owner, by accepting a Note or beneficial interest in a Note, as the
case may be, hereby covenant and agree that (a) they will not at any time
institute against the Seller or the Issuer, or join in any institution
against the Seller 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 Basic Documents, (b) any claim that they may have at any time
against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, and any
claim they have at any time against the Seller that they may seek to
enforce against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes,
shall be subordinate to the payment in full, including post-petition
interest, in the event that the Seller becomes a debtor or debtor in
possession in a case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or otherwise
subject to any insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, rehabilitation or
other similar proceedings, of the claims of the holders of any Securities
related to such unrelated Subtrust and the holders of any other notes,
bonds, contracts or other obligations that are related to such unrelated
Subtrust and (c) they hereby irrevocably make the election afforded by
Title 11 United States Code Section 1111(b)(1)(A)(i) to secured creditors
to receive the treatment afforded by Title 11 United States Code Section
1111(b)(2) with respect to any secured claim that they may have at any time
against the Seller. The obligations of the Seller under this Indenture are
limited to the related Subtrust and the related Subtrust Assets.
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.
SECTION 11.19 Employee Benefit Plans. Each Plan that acquires a
Note, by its acceptance of the Note, shall be deemed to represent that its
acquisition, holding and disposition of the Note does not give rise to a
prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have
caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers,
thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely
as Owner Trustee
By: /s/ W. Chris Sponenberg
__________________________________________
Name: W. Chris Sponenberg
Title: Assistant Vice President
BANK OF TOKYO - MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: /s/ F. Galarraga
__________________________________________
Name: F. Galarraga
Title: Trust Officer
SCHEDULE A
[Schedule of Receivables provided to
Indenture Trustee on Computer Tape,
Compact Disk or Microfiche]
SCHEDULE I
List of Permitted Investments
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Account(s) Permitted Investments
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Collection Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Payahead Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Reserve Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
Yield Supplement Account Federated Government Obligations Fund
EXHIBIT A-1
Form of Class A-1 Note
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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 $125,000,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 553083 BB 1
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MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
6.72813% CLASS A-1 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, 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 its
registered assigns, the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS payable on each Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any,
payable from the Note Payment Account in respect of principal on the Class
A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of November 1,
2000 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from
time to time, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that
if not paid prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class A-1 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the August 2001
Payment Date (the "Class A-1 Final Payment Date") and the Redemption Date,
if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 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 Class A-1 Note at the rate
per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class A-1 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-1 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-1 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date or if no interest has been paid, from the Closing
Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the
basis of the actual days elapsed and a 360-day year. Such principal of
and interest on this Class A-1 Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-1 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 Class A-1 Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-1 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-1 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class A-1
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as
though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-1 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Class A-1 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 Responsible Officer, as of the
date set forth below.
Date: November 15, 2000
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement
By: _______________________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-1 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of
the Issuer, designated as its 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes, which,
together with the 6.72% Class A-2 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.78% Class A-3
Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.86% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the 7.42%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, 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 Holders
of the Notes. 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 equal in right of payment to the Class
A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, and senior in right
of payment to 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 Payment
Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 15, 2000.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class A-1 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class A-1
Final Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section
10.1 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 Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority
of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of all Classes have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided
in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1
Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-1 Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to
the extent not in full payment of this Class A-1 Note, shall be made by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of
this Class A-1 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register
as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect
to Class A-1 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 checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
A-1 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Class A-1 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-1 Note and of any Class A-1 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 Class A-1 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-1
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
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, the Notes may be redeemed 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 Class A-1 Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-1 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 Holder hereof or such Holder'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 Class A-1 Notes of 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 Class A-1 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 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 (a) such Noteholder or Note
Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller, or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller 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 Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its acceptance
of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable, does not
give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE OR, IN THE
CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION
1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT AFFORDED BY
TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO ANY SECURED
CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME AGAINST THE
SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class A-1 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 Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of
a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a
Note), agrees 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
Class A-1 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-1 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 Class A-1 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 Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, 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 Holder of this Class A-1 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-1 Note and of any Class A-1 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 Class
A-1 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
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 Holders of Notes 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 Class A-1 Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, 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 Class A-1 Note or performance of, or omission to
perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The Holder 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 Holder 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 Class A-1 Note.
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:________________
____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
____________________
*/ 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.
EXHIBIT A-2
Form of Class A-2 Note
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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 $300,000,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 553083 BC 9
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MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
6.72% CLASS A-2 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, 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 its
registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
payable on each Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from
the Note Payment Account in respect of principal on the Class A-2 Notes
pursuant to Section 2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2000 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to
time, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in
such capacity the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-2
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the July 2003 Payment Date
(the "Class A-2 Final Payment Date") and the Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.1 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 Class A-2 Note at the rate
per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class A-2 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-2 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-2 Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case
of the initial Payment Date or if no interest has been paid, from the
Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class A-2 Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-2 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 Class A-2 Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-2 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-2 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class A-2
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as
though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-2 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Class A-2 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 Responsible Officer, as of the
date set forth below.
Date: November 15, 2000
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-2 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of
the Issuer, designated as its 6.72% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes, which,
together with the 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.78% Class A-
3 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.86% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the 7.42%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, 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 Holders
of the Notes. 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 equal in right of payment to the Class
A-1 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, and senior in right
of payment to 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 Payment
Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 15, 2000.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class A-2 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class A-2
Final Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section
10.1 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 Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority
of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of all Classes have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided
in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2
Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-2 Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to
the extent not in full payment of this Class A-2 Note, shall be made by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of
this Class A-2 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register
as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect
to Class A-2 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 checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
A-2 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Class A-2 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-2 Note and of any Class A-2 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 Class A-2 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-2
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
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, the Notes may be redeemed 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 Class A-2 Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-2 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 Holder hereof or such Holder'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 Class A-2 Notes of 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 Class A-2 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 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 (a) such Noteholder or Note
Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller, or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller 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 Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its acceptance
of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable, does not
give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE OR, IN THE
CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION
1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT AFFORDED BY
TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO ANY SECURED
CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME AGAINST THE
SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class A-2 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 Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of
a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a
Note), agrees 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
Class A-2 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-2 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 Class A-2 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 Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, 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 Holder of this Class A-2 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-2 Note and of any Class A-2 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 Class
A-2 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
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 Holders of Notes 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 Class A-2 Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, 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 Class A-2 Note or performance of, or omission to
perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The Holder 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 Holder 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 Class A-2 Note.
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:_______________
_____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
_____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
__________________
*/ 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.
EXHIBIT A-3
Form of Class A-3 Note
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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 $260,000,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 553083 BD 7
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MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
6.78% CLASS A-3 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, 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 its
registered assigns, the principal sum of TWO HUNDRED SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS
payable on each Payment Date in the aggregate amount, if any, payable from
the Note Payment Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3 Notes
pursuant to Section 2.8 of the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2000 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to
time, the "Indenture"), between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in
such capacity the "Indenture Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid
prior to such date, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-3
Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the October 2004 Payment
Date (the "Class A-3 Final Payment Date") and the Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.1 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 Class A-3 Note at the rate
per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class A-3 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-3 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-3 Note will accrue for each
Payment Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case
of the initial Payment Date or if no interest has been paid, from the
Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such
principal of and interest on this Class A-3 Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-3 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 Class A-3 Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-3 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-3 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class A-3
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as
though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-3 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Class A-3 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 Responsible Officer, as of the
date set forth below.
Date: November 15, 2000
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-3 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of
the Issuer, designated as its 6.78% Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes, which,
together with the 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.72% Class A-
2 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.86% Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes and the 7.42%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, 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 Holders
of the Notes. 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 equal in right of payment to the Class
A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, and senior in right
of payment to the Class B Notes, each as and to the extent provided in the
Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on each Payment
Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 15, 2000.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class A-3 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class A-3
Final Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section
10.1 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 Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority
of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of all Classes have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided
in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3
Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-3 Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to
the extent not in full payment of this Class A-3 Note, shall be made by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of
this Class A-3 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register
as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect
to Class A-3 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 checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
A-3 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Class A-3 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-3 Note and of any Class A-3 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 Class A-3 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-3
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, New York.
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, the Notes may be redeemed 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 Class A-3 Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-3 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 Holder hereof or such Holder'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 Class A-3 Notes of 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 Class A-3 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 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 (a) such Noteholder or Note
Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller, or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller 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 Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its acceptance
of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note
shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable, does not
give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE OR, IN THE
CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION
1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT AFFORDED BY
TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO ANY SECURED
CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME AGAINST THE
SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class A-3 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 Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of
a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a
Note), agrees 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
Class A-3 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-3 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 Class A-3 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 Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, 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 Holder of this Class A-3 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-3 Note and of any Class A-3 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 Class
A-3 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
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 Holders of Notes 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 Class A-3 Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, 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 Class A-3 Note or performance of, or omission to
perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The Holder 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 Holder 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 Class A-3 Note.
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:_________________
_______________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
_______________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
__________________
*/ 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.
EXHIBIT A-4
Form of Class A-4 Note
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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 $174,467,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 553083 BE 5
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MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
6.86% CLASS A-4 ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, 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 its
registered assigns, the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR MILLION,
FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS payable on each Payment Date in
the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment Account in
respect of principal on the Class A-4 Notes pursuant to Section 2.8 of the
Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2000 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Indenture"),
between the Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, a New York
banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid prior to such date, the
entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A-4 Note shall be due and
payable on the earlier of the June 2005 Payment Date (the "Class A-4 Final
Payment Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 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 Class A-4 Note at the rate
per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class A-4 Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Class A-4 Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date
(after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding
Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of
the Indenture. Interest on this Class A-4 Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date or if no interest has been paid, from the Closing
Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Class A-4 Note shall be paid in the manner specified on
the reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class A-4 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 Class A-4 Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class A-4 Note as
provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-4 Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class A-4
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as
though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-4 Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Class A-4 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 Responsible Officer, as of the
date set forth below.
Date: November 15, 2000
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement
By: ____________________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class A-4 Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of
the Issuer, designated as its 6.86% Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes, which,
together with the 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.72% Class A-
2 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.78% Class A-3 Asset-Backed Notes and the 7.42%
Class B Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, 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 Holders
of the Notes. 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 equal in right of payment to the Class
A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, and senior in right
of payment to the Class B Notes, each as and to the extent provided in the
Indenture.
Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on each Payment
Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 15, 2000.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class A-4 Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class A-4
Final Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section
10.1 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 Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority
of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of all Classes have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided
in Section 5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4
Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class A-4 Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to
the extent not in full payment of this Class A-4 Note, shall be made by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of
this Class A-4 Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register
as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect
to Class A-4 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 checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
A-4 Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Class A-4 Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class A-4 Note and of any Class A-4 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 Class A-4 Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class A-4
Note at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of
the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New
York, 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 Notes may be redeemed 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 Class A-4 Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-4 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 Holder hereof or such Holder'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 Class A-4 Notes of 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 Class A-4 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 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 (a) such Noteholder or Note
Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller, or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller 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 Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its acceptance
of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
shall be deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note or beneficial interest in the Note, as applicable, does not
give rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE OR, IN THE
CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION
1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT AFFORDED BY
TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO ANY SECURED
CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME AGAINST THE
SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class A-4 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 Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of
a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a
Note), agrees 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
Class A-4 Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Class A-4 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 Class A-4 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 Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of all of the Notes Outstanding, voting as a
group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
Notes representing specified percentages of the Class A Notes Outstanding,
on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, 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 Holder of this Class A-4 Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes)
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Class A-4 Note and of any Class A-4 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 Class
A-4 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
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 Holders of Notes 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 Class A-4 Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, 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 Class A-4 Note or performance of, or omission to
perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The Holder 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 Holder 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 Class A-4 Note.
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:________________
_____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
_____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
__________________
*/ 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.
EXHIBIT B
Form of Class B Note
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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 $65,339,000
No. R-1 CUSIP NO. 553083 BF 2
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MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2
7.42% CLASS B ASSET BACKED NOTES
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, 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 its
registered assigns, the principal sum of SIXTY FIVE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED
THIRTY NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS payable on each Payment Date in the aggregate
amount, if any, payable from the Note Payment Account in respect of
principal on the Class B Notes pursuant to Section 2.8 of the Indenture,
dated as of November 1, 2000 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified and in effect from time to time, the "Indenture"), between the
Issuer and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that if not paid prior to such date, the
entire unpaid principal amount of this Class B Note shall be due and
payable on the earlier of the August 2005 Payment Date (the "Class B Final
Payment Date") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 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 Class B Note at the rate
per annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this
Class B Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount
of this Class B Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment
Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the
Indenture. Interest on this Class B Note will accrue for each Payment Date
from and including the previous Payment Date (or, in the case of the
initial Payment Date or if no interest has been paid, from the Closing
Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and
interest on this Class B Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.
The principal of and interest on this Class B 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 Class B Note shall be
applied first to interest due and payable on this Class B Note as provided
above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class B Note.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class B Note
set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Class B Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Class B 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 Responsible Officer, as of the
date set forth below.
Date: November 15, 2000
MMCA AUTO OWNER TRUST 2000-2,
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-
mentioned Indenture.
BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI
TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee
By: ___________________________
Responsible Officer
This Class B Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of
the Issuer, designated as its 7.42% Class B Asset Backed Notes, which,
together with the 6.72813% Class A-1 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.72% Class A-
2 Asset-Backed Notes, the 6.78% Class A-3 Asset-Backed Notes and the 6.86%
Class A-4 Asset-Backed Notes (collectively, 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 Holders
of the Notes. 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-1
Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes as
and to the extent provided in the Indenture.
Principal of the Class B Notes will be payable on each Payment
Date in an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the
fifteenth day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 15, 2000.
As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Class B Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Class B Final
Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1.
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
Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority of the
outstanding principal amount of the Notes of all classes have declared the
Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section
5.2 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class B Notes shall be
made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Payments of interest on this Class B Note due and payable on each
Payment Date, together with the installment of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Class B Note, shall be made by check
mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this
Class B Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of
the close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to
Class B 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 checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class
B Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Class B Note (or any one or more Predecessor
Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding
upon all future Holders of this Class B Note and of any Class B 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 Class B Note on a Payment Date,
then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer,
will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class B Note
at the Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the
Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in New York,
New York.
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 Notes may be redeemed 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 Class B Note may be registered on
the Note Register upon surrender of this Class B 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 Holder hereof or such Holder'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 Class B Notes of 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 Class B 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 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 (a) such Noteholder or Note
Owner will not at any time institute against the Seller, or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller 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 Basic Documents and (b) any claim that such Noteholder or Note Owner
may have at any time against the Subtrust Assets of any Subtrust unrelated
to the Notes, and any claim that such Noteholder may have against the
Seller that such Noteholder may seek to enforce against the Subtrust Assets
of any Subtrust unrelated to the Notes, shall be subordinate to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, in the event that the Seller
becomes a debtor or debtor in possession in a case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect or otherwise subject to any insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, rehabilitation or other similar proceedings, of the claims of
the holders of any Securities related to such unrelated Subtrust and the
holders of any other notes, bonds, contracts or other obligations that are
related to such unrelated Subtrust. The obligations of the Seller
represented by this Note are limited to the related Subtrust and the
related Subtrust Assets.
Each Noteholder or Note Owner that is a Plan, by its acceptance
of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note,
shall be deemed to represent that its Acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note or beneficial interest in a Note, as applicable, does not give
rise to a prohibited transaction for which no exemption is available.
EACH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE OR, IN THE
CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A NOTE, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
MAKES THE ELECTION AFFORDED BY TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION
1111(b)(1)(A)(i) TO SECURED CREDITORS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT AFFORDED BY
TITLE 11 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1111(b)(2) WITH RESPECT TO ANY SECURED
CLAIM THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME AGAINST THE
SELLER.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Class B 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 Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of
a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a
Note), agrees 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
Class B Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer
or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Class B
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 Class B 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 Holders of the Notes under
the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of
Notes representing a majority of the all of the Notes Outstanding, voting
as a group. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders
of Notes representing specified percentages of the Notes Outstanding on
behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, 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
Holder of this Class B Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Class B Note and of any Class B 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 Class B 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
Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
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 Holders of Notes 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 Class B Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the
obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder
shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Trust Company, in its individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, 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 Class B Note or performance of, or omission to
perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The Holder 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 Holder 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 Class B Note.
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:_______________
____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
____________________________ */
Signature Guaranteed
__________________
*/ 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.
EXHIBIT C
Form of Opinion of Counsel
Pursuant to Section 3.6(a)
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To the Addressees Indicated
on Schedule A hereto
Re: MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to Mitsubishi Motors Credit of
America, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("MMCA"), and MMCA Auto Receivables
Trust, a Delaware business trust ("MART"), in connection with the
transactions contemplated by (i) the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
November 1, 2000 (the "Purchase Agreement"), between MMCA and MART, (ii)
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000 (the "Sale
and Servicing Agreement"), by and among MART, as seller, MMCA, as servicer,
and MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2, a Delaware business trust (the "Trust"),
as issuer, (iii) the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2000 (the
"Indenture"), between the Trust and Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Trust
Company, as indenture trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes
(the "Indenture Trustee"), and (iv) the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000 (the "Trust Agreement"), between
MART and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee").
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned
to such terms in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and the Assignments (as such
term is defined in the Purchase Agreement) related thereto, MMCA proposes
to sell to MART on the Closing Date, and MART proposes to purchase from
MMCA, among other things, certain motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts (collectively, the "Receivables") secured by new and used
automobiles and sports-utility vehicles (collectively, the "Financed
Vehicles"), certain monies due or received thereunder after the Cutoff
Date, MMCA's security interests in the Financed Vehicles, MMCA's rights
under certain insurance policies, certain rights under dealer agreements
relating to the Receivables and certain other property related to the
Receivables and all the proceeds thereof.
Pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, MART will sell to
the Trust all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the
Receivables, certain monies due or received thereunder after the Cutoff
Date, certain other property relating to the Receivables and all proceeds
thereof. The Trust will issue (i) $125,000,000 principal amount of
6.72813% Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes, $300,000,000 principal amount of
6.72% Class A-2 Asset Backed Notes, $260,000,000 principal amount of 6.78%
Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes, $174,467,000 principal amount of 6.86% Class
A-4 Asset Backed Notes and $65,339,000 principal amount of 7.42% Class B
Asset Backed Notes (collectively, the "Notes") pursuant to the Indenture
for sale to the several underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement,
dated November 1, 2000, between MART and Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
("Salomon Smith Barney"), as representative of the several underwriters;
and (ii) the Asset Backed Certificates (collectively, the "Certificates")
pursuant to the Trust Agreement for issuance to MART.
In our examination we have assumed the genuineness of all
signatures (including endorsements), the legal capacity of natural persons,
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 copies. As to any facts material to this opinion which we did not
independently establish or verify, we have relied upon statements and
representations of MMCA and MART and their officers and other
representatives and of public officials.
In rendering the opinions set forth herein, we have examined and
relied on originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our
satisfaction, of the following:
(A) the Purchase Agreement, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the First-Tier Assignment
(as such term is defined in the Purchase Agreement);
(B) a Certificate of MART, dated the date hereof, a copy of
which is attached as Exhibit A hereto (the "MART Certificate");
(C) an unfiled but signed copy of (i) a financing statement
naming "MMCA Auto Receivables Trust" as debtor, "MMCA Auto Owner Trust
2000-2" as secured party and "Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company" as
Indenture Trustee as assignee and (ii) a financing statement naming "Chase
Manhattan Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee of MMCA Auto Receivables Trust," as
debtor, "MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2" as secured party and "Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee" as assignee, which we
understand will be filed within ten (10) days of the transfer of the
security interest in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of
California (such filing office, the "Filing Office" and such financing
statements, the "Financing Statements");
(D) the certified reports of the Filing Office as to
financing statements naming (i) "MMCA Auto Receivables Trust" as debtor and
(ii) "Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee of MMCA Auto Receivables
Trust" as debtor and on file in the Filing Office as of an effective date
of October 24, 2000 (the "Search Reports");
(E) forms of motor vehicle retail installment sale
contracts (the "Form Contracts") attached as Annex A to the MART
Certificate; and
(F) such other agreements, certificates or documents as we
have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion set forth
below.
Unless otherwise indicated, references to the "UCC" shall mean:
(i) with respect to the validity of the security interests held by the
Trust and the Indenture Trustee, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect
on the date hereof in the State of New York, (ii) with respect to the
perfection and the effect of perfection or non-perfection of the security
interest of the Trust in the Receivables, the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect on the date hereof in the State of California, and (iii) with
respect to our opinion in paragraph 1 below, the Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect on the date hereof in the States of New York and California.
We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other
than (i) the laws of the State of New York and (ii) with respect to the
security interest opinions set forth in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 herein, the
UCC. References to the "Applicable States" shall mean California and/or
New York, as applicable.
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the limitations,
qualifications, exceptions and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the
opinion that:
1. Each Receivable is a motor vehicle retail installment sale
contract that constitutes "chattel paper" as defined in Section 9-105 of
the UCC.
2. The provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement are
effective to create, in favor of the Trust, a valid security interest (as
such term is defined in Section 1-201 of the UCC) in MART's rights in the
Receivables and proceeds thereof, which security interest if characterized
as a transfer for security will secure payment of the Notes.
3. The Financing Statements are in appropriate form for filing
in the Filing Office under the UCC. Upon the filing of the Financing
Statements in the Filing Office, the security interest in favor of the
Trust in the Receivables and proceeds thereof will be perfected, and no
other security interest of any other creditor of MART's will be equal or
prior to the security interest of the Trust in the Receivables and proceeds
thereof.
4. The provisions of the Indenture are effective to create in
favor of the Indenture Trustee, a valid security interest in the Trust's
rights in the Receivables and proceeds thereof to secure payment of the
Notes.
Our opinions in paragraphs 1-4 above are subject to the following
qualifications:
(a) we have assumed that the Receivables exist and that
MART has sufficient rights in the Receivables for the security interest of
the Trust to attach, and that the Trust has sufficient rights in the
Receivables for the security interest of the Indenture Trustee to attach,
and we express no opinion as to the nature or extent of MART's or the
Trust's rights in, or title to, any Receivables;
(b) our security interest opinions are limited to Article 9
of the UCC, and therefore such opinions do not address (i) laws of
jurisdictions other than Applicable States, and of Applicable States except
for Article 9 of the UCC, (ii) collateral of a type not subject to Article
9 of the UCC, and (iii) under Section 9-103 of the UCC, what law governs
perfection of the security interests granted in the collateral covered by
this opinion. We call to your attention that California has recently
enacted SB 45 ("Revised Article 9") which contains a revised version of
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code with conforming and miscellaneous
changes to other articles of the Uniform Commercial Code. By its terms, SB
45 does not become effective until July 1, 2001. The opinions expressed in
paragraphs 1 and 3 herein are based solely on the Uniform Commercial Code
in effect in the State of California on the date hereof and we express no
opinion as to the effect of Revised Article 9 on the validity, perfection
or priority of the security interest of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee.
(c) we call to your attention that under the UCC, events
occurring subsequent to the date hereof may affect any security interest
subject to the UCC including, but not limited to, factors of the type
identified in Section 9-306 with respect to proceeds; Section 9-402 with
respect to changes in name, structure and corporate identity of the debtor;
Section 9-103 with respect to changes in the location of the collateral and
the location of the debtor; Section 9-316 with respect to subordination
agreements; Section 9-403 with respect to continuation statements; and
Sections 9-307, 9-308 and 9-309 with respect to subsequent purchasers of
the collateral. In addition, actions taken by a secured party (e.g.,
releasing or assigning the security interest, delivering possession of the
collateral to the debtor or another person and voluntarily subordinating a
security interest) may affect the validity, perfection or priority of a
security interest;
(d) we have assumed that each Receivable is substantially
in the form of a Form Contract, and we have assumed that no Receivable is
or will be credited to a securities account;
(e) we have assumed that there are no agreements between
MART or the Trust and any account debtor prohibiting, restricting or
conditioning the assignment of any portion of the Receivables;
(f) we express no opinion with respect to the perfection or
priority of the security interest of the Indenture Trustee;
(g) we call to your attention that the security interest of
the Trust and the Indenture Trustee may be subject to the rights of account
debtors, claims and defenses of account debtors and the terms of agreements
with account debtors;
(h) we express no opinion regarding the security interest
of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee in any Receivables consisting of
claims against any government or governmental agency (including, without
limitation, the United States of America or any state thereof or any agency
or department of the United States of America or any state thereof);
(i) we express no opinion with respect to the Trust's or
Indenture Trustee's rights in and to any property which secures any
Receivable;
(j) we express no opinion with respect to the priority of
the interest of the Trust in the Receivables against any of the following:
( pursuant to Section 9-301(1) of the UCC, a lien creditor or bulk
purchaser who attached or levied prior to the perfection of the security
interest of the Trust; ( pursuant to Section 9-301(4) of the UCC, a lien
creditor to the extent that provision limits the priority afforded future
advances; ( pursuant to Section 9-312(7) of the UCC, another secured
creditor to the extent that provision limits the priority afforded future
advances; ( pursuant to Sections 9-103(1)(d) or (3)(e) and Section 9-312(1)
of the UCC, a security interest perfected under the laws of another
jurisdiction to the extent MART was located in such jurisdiction within
four months prior to the date of the perfection of the security interest of
the Trust; ( pursuant to Section 9-312(3) and (4) of the UCC, a "purchase
money security interest" as such term is defined in Section 9-107 of the
UCC; ( pursuant to Section 9-312(6) of the UCC, another secured party with
a perfected security interest in other property of MART to the extent the
Receivables are proceeds of such other creditor's property; ( pursuant to
Sections 9-104, 9-113, 4-208 and 9-302(1) of the UCC, another creditor not
required to file a financing statement to perfect its interest; and (
pursuant to Section 9-401(2) and (3) of the UCC, the security interest of a
creditor who filed a financing statement based on a prior or incorrect
location of MART or the Receivables or use of the Receivables to the extent
such other financing statement would be effective under Section 9-401(2) or
(3) of the UCC;
(k) we have assumed that no financing statement naming
"MMCA Auto Receivables Trust" or "Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A., as
Trustee of MMCA Auto Receivables Trust" as debtor was filed in the Filing
Office between the effective date of the Search Reports and the date of the
filing of the Financing Statements in the Filing Office;
(l) as used in paragraph 2, the term "security interest" is
used as defined in Section 1-201 of the UCC, which definition includes both
(i) an interest in chattel paper to secure payment and (ii) a sale of
chattel paper. In addition, we express no opinion whether or to what
extent the transfer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement will be
characterized as a sale or a transfer for security;
(m) we have assumed that (i) the Sale and Servicing
Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Trust,
enforceable against the Trust in accordance with its terms and (ii) the
Indenture constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Indenture Trustee and the Trust, enforceable against the Indenture Trustee
and the Trust, respectively, in accordance with its terms; and
(n) we call to your attention that in the case of the
issuance of distributions on, or proceeds of, the Receivables, the security
interest of the Trust therein will be perfected only if possession thereof
is obtained or other appropriate action is taken in accordance with the
provisions of the UCC or other applicable law and, in the case of certain
types of distributions or proceeds, other parties such as holders in due
course, protected purchasers and buyers in the ordinary course of business
may obtain superior priority.
We call to your attention that, with respect to paragraphs (a),
(e), (j)(iv) and (k) of our qualifications set forth above, we have relied
upon representations and warranties of MART as to the assumptions therein.
This opinion is being furnished only to you and is solely for
your benefit in connection with the closing today under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and is not to be used, circulated, quoted, relied upon
or otherwise referred to for any purpose without prior written consent in
each instance.
Very truly yours,
Schedule A
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Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, Inc.
6363 Katella Avenue
Cypress, California 90630
Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A.
as Trustee
MMCA Auto Receivables Trust
1201 Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
MMCA Auto Owner Trust 2000-2
c/o Wilmington Trust Company, as
Owner Trustee
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Wilmington Trust Company, as
Owner Trustee
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Trust Company
as Indenture Trustee
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
as Representative of the several
Underwriters
390 Greenwich Street
4th Floor
New York, NY 10013
Standard & Poor's,
a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
55 Water Street
New York, New York 10041
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
99 Church Street
New York, New York 10007
Exhibit A (to Opinion)
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MMCA AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST
OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE
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The undersigned, a duly authorized officer of MMCA AUTO
RECEIVABLES TRUST ("MART"), does hereby certify as follows:
(2) No financing statements or other filings have been filed
naming MART as debtor or seller in any State of the United States of
America to perfect a sale, transfer or assignment of or lien, encumbrance,
security interest or other interest in, or which otherwise pertains to, the
Receivables.
(3) At all times since the establishment of MART, MART has had
one place of business and it is and has been located in Cypress,
California.
(4) At all times since the establishment of MART and on the date
hereof, MART has had a mailing address of P.O. Box 6038, Cypress,
California 90630-0038.
(5) Attached hereto as Annex A are forms of motor vehicle retail
installment sales contracts used to create the Receivables (the "Form
Contracts"), and each Receivable is substantially in the form of a Form
Contract.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2000, by and among MART, Mitsubishi
Motors Credit of America, Inc., as Servicer, and MMCA Auto Owner Trust
2000-2, as Trust, and accepted and agreed to by Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi
Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand this ___________ day of
November, 2000.
MMCA AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST
By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
Annex A (to Opinion)
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FORMS OF RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALES CONTRACT
Annex B (to Opinion)
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CERTIFIED REPORT OF FILING OFFICE ON PRIOR FINANCING STATEMENTS
Annex A
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[FORMS OF RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALE CONTRACT]
