AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JULY 22, 1999
REGISTRATION NO. 333-
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
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INDIANA 35-0416090
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION) IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)
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601 N.W. SECOND STREET
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA 47708
(812) 424-8031
(ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA
CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)
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RON DIGIACOMO, ESQ.
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
P.O. BOX 59
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA 47701
(812) 468-5655
(NAME, ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE
NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
COPIES TO:
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DANIEL L. BOEGLIN, ESQ. JOHN H. NEWMAN, ESQ.
BAKER & DANIELS BROWN & WOOD LLP
300 NORTH MERIDIAN STREET, SUITE 2700 ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10048
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APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: From time
to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement as determined in
light of market conditions.
If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box. [ ]
If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box. [X]
If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ]
If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. [ ]
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box. [X]
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES AMOUNT TO BE PROPOSED MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF
TO BE REGISTERED(1) REGISTERED(2) AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE(3) REGISTRATION FEE
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Debt Securities...................... $3,000,000,000 $3,000,000,000 $834,000
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(1) This Registration Statement also registers delayed delivery contracts which
may be issued by the registrant under which the counterparty may be required
to purchase Debt Securities.
(2) This Registration Statement also registers, where required, an indeterminate
amount of Debt Securities to be sold by American General Securities
Incorporated in market-making activities.
(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in
accordance with Rule 457(o). Exclusive of accrued interest, if any.
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THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR
DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL
FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A),
MAY DETERMINE.
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* THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. *
* WE MAY NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT *
* FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS *
* PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND IT IS NOT *
* SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE *
* OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED. *
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PROSPECTUS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED JULY 22, 1999
$3,000,000,000
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
DEBT SECURITIES
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We may sell at one or more times up to $3,000,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of our debt securities. The debt securities will be our direct unsecured
obligations and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured and
unsubordinated indebtedness.
We may sell the debt securities in multiple series with the terms of each
series to be determined at the time of sale. We will provide the specific terms
of the series of debt securities being offered at any time in one or more
supplements to this prospectus. This prospectus may be used to offer and sell
debt securities only if accompanied by a prospectus supplement. You should read
carefully both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement before you invest.
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Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities
commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this
prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a
criminal offense.
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THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS IS , 1999.
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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the
SEC using a "shelf" registration process. Under this shelf process, we may
sell debt securities in one or more offerings up to a total amount of
$3,000,000,000. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the
debt securities. Each time we offer to sell any of the debt securities, we will
provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the
terms of that offering and the debt securities being offered. The prospectus
supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this
prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus
supplement together with the additional information described under the headings
"Where You Can Find More Information" and "Incorporation of Information We
File with the SEC".
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We file annual, quarterly and special reports and other information with
the SEC. Our SEC filings, including the registration statement, the indenture
under which the debt securities are to be issued and other information about us,
are available to the public over the Internet at the SEC's web site at
http://www.sec.gov. You may read and copy any document we file by visiting the
SEC's public reference rooms in Washington, D.C., New York, New York and
Chicago, Illinois. The SEC's address in Washington, D.C. is 450 Fifth Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further
information about the public reference rooms.
INCORPORATION OF INFORMATION WE FILE WITH THE SEC
The SEC allows us to "incorporate by reference" into this prospectus some
of the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important
information to you by referring you to those documents. The information
incorporated by reference is an important part of this prospectus. We
incorporate by reference the following documents:
o our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1998;
o our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
1999;
o our Current Reports on Form 8-K dated January 27, 1999, March 9, 1999,
and April 28, 1999;
o any other documents that we file with the SEC, both:
o under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934; and
o after the initial filing of the registration statement that
contains this prospectus and before the time that we sell all the
debt securities offered by this prospectus; and
o the indenture under which the debt securities are to be issued, which
is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement that contains
this prospectus.
Some of the information in our later SEC filings will update and supersede
information in this prospectus and in our prior SEC filings.
You may request a copy of any document we incorporate by reference, at no
cost, by writing us at 2929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas 77019, Attention:
Treasury Department. You may also telephone the Treasury Department at (713)
522-1111.
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You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by
reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. We have not
authorized anyone else to provide you with different or additional information.
If anyone provides you with different or additional information, you should not
rely on it. We are only offering these debt securities in states where the offer
is permitted. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus or
in any prospectus supplement is accurate
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as of any date other than the date on the front of those documents. Our
business, financial condition and results of operations may have changed since
that date.
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
In this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference, we may make
statements regarding trends in our operations or financial results and other
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We make these forward-looking statements on the
basis of our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and
their potential effects on us. We cannot assure you that we will anticipate
accurately the future developments that will affect us. Our actual results may
differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements.
The forward-looking statements we make involve risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, the following:
o changes in general economic conditions, including the performance of
financial markets, interest rates and the level of personal
bankruptcies;
o competitive, regulatory or tax changes that affect the cost of, or
demand for, our products;
o our ability or the ability of third parties to achieve and maintain
Year 2000 readiness for significant systems and operations; and
o adverse litigation results or resolution of litigation.
We also direct you to other risks and uncertainties discussed in other
documents we have filed or will file with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to
update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new
information, future developments or otherwise.
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
We are a financial services holding company. Through our subsidiaries, we
are engaged primarily in the consumer finance and credit insurance business.
We were incorporated in Indiana in 1927 as the successor to a business
started in 1920. American General Finance, Inc., which was incorporated in
Indiana in 1974, owns all of our common stock. Since 1982, American General
Finance, Inc. has been a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of American
General Corporation, a Texas corporation headquartered in Houston.
American General Corporation is the parent company of one of the nation's
largest diversified financial services organizations. Its operating subsidiaries
are leading providers of retirement services, life insurance and consumer loans.
American General Corporation is the successor to American General Insurance
Company, an insurance company incorporated in Texas in 1926.
At December 31, 1998, we had 1,310 offices in 40 states, Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Islands and approximately 7,900 employees. Our principal
executive offices are located at 601 N.W. Second Street, Evansville, Indiana
47708, and our telephone number is (812) 424-8031.
USE OF PROCEEDS
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, we will use
the net proceeds we receive from the sale of the debt securities:
o to repay debt;
o to make loans to customers;
o to purchase receivables; and/or
o for other general corporate purposes.
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We may temporarily invest the net proceeds in short-term marketable
securities to earn income until we use the funds for these purposes.
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of our debt securities in
any market-making transaction in which this prospectus may be delivered. See
"Plan of Distribution -- Sales Through Our Affiliate".
SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
We have derived the following selected financial information from our
consolidated financial statements. Ernst & Young LLP, our independent auditors,
audited these financial statements. You should read this information in
conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes and
other financial information, including "Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations", contained in the documents
incorporated by reference in this prospectus. See "Where You Can Find More
Information".
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)
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YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
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1998 1997 1996
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SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Revenues:
Finance charges............... $ 1,323,028 $ 1,233,387 $ 1,414,590
Insurance..................... 175,969 188,574 206,170
Other......................... 95,242 89,982 87,913
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Total revenues............. 1,594,239 1,511,943 1,708,673
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Expenses:
Interest expense.............. 501,533 450,914 482,343
Operating expenses............ 494,262 466,791 497,204
Provision for finance
receivable losses.......... 207,529 242,453 409,646
Loss on non-strategic
assets..................... -- 42,225 137,036
Insurance losses and loss
adjustment expenses........ 84,687 93,447 102,811
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Total expenses............. 1,288,011 1,295,830 1,629,040
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Income before provision for
income taxes.................. 306,228 216,113 79,633
Provision for income taxes...... 111,832 79,042 28,674
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Net income................. $ 194,396 $ 137,071 $ 50,959
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DECEMBER 31,
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1998 1997 1996
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Finance receivables, net of unearned
finance charges.................... $ 9,472,164 $ 7,827,036 $ 7,443,321
Assets held for sale................. -- -- 668,707
Total assets......................... 11,059,601 9,240,605 9,502,589
Short-term debt...................... 3,485,648 3,157,671 3,015,920
Long-term debt....................... 5,162,012 3,941,486 4,416,637
Total shareholder's equity........... 1,623,342 1,374,915 1,334,923
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RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
Our historical consolidated ratios of earnings to fixed charges for each of
the periods indicated were as follows:
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THREE MONTHS
ENDED YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
MARCH 31, ----------------------------------------
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994
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1.59 1.60 1.44 1.16 1.24 1.92
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For purposes of calculating the ratio of earnings to fixed charges,
earnings consist of income before provision for income taxes, plus fixed
charges. Fixed charges consist of interest expense on debt and a portion of rent
that is considered interest.
DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES
The debt securities will be issued under an indenture dated as of May 1,
1999 between us and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee. As used in this prospectus,
"debt securities" means the securities that we issue and that the Trustee
authenticates under the indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined under
this caption of the prospectus have the meanings given to them in the indenture.
We have summarized selected terms and provisions of the indenture below.
The following summary of the material provisions of the indenture is not
complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to,
all provisions of the indenture. In the summary, we have included references to
section numbers of the indenture so that you can easily locate the summarized
provisions. If you would like more information on any of these provisions, you
should read the relevant sections of the indenture. See "Where You Can Find
More Information".
The indenture allows us to issue debt securities denominated in foreign
currencies and/or in bearer form. Because we do not intend to issue these types
of debt securities pursuant to this prospectus, we have not described the
provisions of the indenture relating to these debt securities.
TERMS OF DEBT SECURITIES
The prospectus supplement relating to a series of debt securities being
offered will include the specific terms of those debt securities and may include
modifications of or additions to the general terms described in this prospectus.
The specific terms will include some or all of the following:
o the title of the debt securities;
o the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;
o the percentage of their principal amount at which the debt securities
will be issued and, in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities,
the principal amount that will be payable if their maturity is
accelerated;
o the date or dates on which the principal of the debt securities will
be payable, or the manner in which the payment date or dates will be
determined;
o whether the debt securities will bear interest at a fixed or variable
rate and, as applicable:
o the interest rate or the manner in which the interest rate is
determined,
o the date from which interest will accrue,
o the record and interest payment dates for the debt securities, and
o the first interest payment date;
o the places where payments on the debt securities will be made (if
other than New York City) and where the debt securities may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange;
o any provision that would obligate or permit us to repurchase, redeem
or repay some or all of the debt securities;
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o whether the debt securities will be issued in the form of a global
debt security and, if so, the identity of the depositary for the
global debt security;
o any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of
Default or our covenants with respect to the debt securities; and
o any other material terms of the debt securities.
The indenture does not limit the amount of debt securities we may issue
under it. It permits us to issue debt securities from time to time in one or
more series, in an aggregate principal amount authorized by us before each
issuance. We may issue multiple series of debt securities with different terms
or "reopen" a previous series of debt securities and issue additional debt
securities of that series. SECTION 301 OF THE INDENTURE
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, we will issue
debt securities in denominations of $1,000 and multiples of $1,000. SECTION 302
OF THE INDENTURE
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, you may
transfer or exchange fully registered securities at the corporate trust office
of the Trustee or at any other office maintained for that purpose. There will be
no service charge for any transfer or exchange of debt securities, but we may
require a payment to cover any tax or other governmental charge related to the
transfer or exchange. SECTION 305 OF THE INDENTURE
One or more series of debt securities may provide that if their maturity is
accelerated under the indenture, the amount due and payable will be less than
their stated principal amount. These are referred to as "Original Issue
Discount Securities". SECTION 101 OF THE INDENTURE An Original Issue Discount
Security would be issued at a discount from its stated principal amount and
would bear interest at a below-market rate or not at all. Under applicable
federal income tax laws and regulations, if a debt security is issued at a
discount and the amount of discount exceeds a DE MINIMIS amount, then regardless
of whether the debt security meets the indenture's definition of "Original
Issue Discount Security", the holder of the debt security would be required to
include amounts in gross income for federal income tax purposes before receiving
the related cash. The prospectus supplement relating to any debt securities
subject to these laws and regulations will describe the federal income tax
consequences and other special considerations that you should consider before
purchasing them.
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, we will pay
the principal of and any premium or interest on debt securities issued in
certificated form at a designated office of the Trustee in New York City. At our
option, we may pay interest by check, wire transfer or any other means permitted
under the terms of the debt securities. Unless otherwise stated in the
applicable prospectus supplement, we will pay interest by check mailed to the
persons in whose names the debt securities are registered on the applicable
record dates. Payments on global debt securities will be made to the depositary
or its nominee in accordance with the then-existing arrangements between the
paying agent(s) for the global debt securities and the depositary. See
"-- Global Debt Securities". SECTIONS 307 AND 1002 OF THE INDENTURE
RANKING
The debt securities will be our unsecured and unsubordinated obligations
and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured and unsubordinated
outstanding indebtedness. All debt securities issued under the indenture will
rank equally with each other.
The indenture does not limit the amount of indebtedness that we may incur.
Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, the debt
securities will not benefit from any covenant or other provision that would
afford holders of the debt securities protection in the event of a
highly-leveraged transaction or other transaction that may adversely affect
holders of the debt securities, except as described under "-- Limitations on
Liens" and "-- Merger and Consolidation".
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Because we are a holding company and conduct our operations through our
Subsidiaries, holders of the debt securities will generally have a junior
position to claims of creditors of our operating Subsidiaries, except to the
extent that our claims as a creditor of our Subsidiaries may be recognized.
LIMITATIONS ON LIENS
The indenture provides that neither we nor any of our Subsidiaries may
create, assume or allow to exist, except in favor of us or one of our
Wholly-owned Subsidiaries, any Mortgage on any of our property or their
property, unless the debt securities will be secured equally and ratably. This
restriction does not apply to, among other things:
o any Mortgage existing on May 1, 1999;
o any Mortgage on properties or assets, in addition to those otherwise
permitted, securing Indebtedness which at the time incurred does not,
together with all other Indebtedness so secured and not otherwise
permitted, exceed in the aggregate 10% of Consolidated Net Worth;
o any Mortgage on properties or assets securing Indebtedness of any
Subsidiary, created in the ordinary course of business by the Subsidiary,
if, as a matter of practice, the Subsidiary, before becoming a
Subsidiary, had incurred Indebtedness on a secured basis;
o any Mortgage on our property or the property of any of our
Subsidiaries if the principal amount of the Indebtedness securing the
Mortgage does not exceed 75% of the cost of the property and if the
Mortgage is:
o a Mortgage on property acquired or constructed by us or any of our
Subsidiaries after May 1, 1999, which Mortgage is:
o a purchase money Mortgage created to secure the purchase price
of the property (or to secure Indebtedness incurred for the
purpose of financing the acquisition or construction of the
property), or
o a Mortgage existing on the property at the time we acquired it,
or
o a Mortgage existing on any property of any corporation at the time
it becomes a Subsidiary, or
o a Mortgage with respect to property acquired after May 1, 1999;
o refundings or extensions of any permitted Mortgage; and
o any Mortgage created by us or any Subsidiary in connection with a
transaction intended by us or the Subsidiary to be one or more sales of
properties or assets, provided that the Mortgage only applies to the
properties or assets involved in the sale or sales, the income from those
properties or assets and/or the proceeds of those properties or assets.
SECTION 1007 OF THE INDENTURE
"Mortgage" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest,
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or other similar
encumbrance. SECTION 101 OF THE INDENTURE
EVENTS OF DEFAULT, NOTICE AND WAIVER
Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement relating to a
particular series of debt securities, if an Event of Default with respect to any
debt securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the
holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt
securities of that series may declare, by notice as provided in the indenture,
the principal amount, or a lesser amount if provided for in the debt securities
of that series, of all the debt securities of that series due and payable
immediately. However, in the case of an Event of Default involving certain
events in bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, acceleration will occur
automatically. If all Events of Default with respect to debt securities of that
series have been cured or waived, and all amounts due otherwise than because of
the acceleration have been paid or deposited with the Trustee, the
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holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt
securities of that series may rescind the acceleration and its consequences.
SECTION 502 OF THE INDENTURE
If the maturity of Original Issue Discount Securities is accelerated, an
amount less than the principal amount will be due and payable. We will describe
the provisions relating to acceleration of the maturity of Original Issue
Discount Securities in the applicable prospectus supplement.
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
debt securities of a series may waive any past default with respect to the debt
securities of that series, and any Event of Default arising from a past default,
except in the case of:
o a default in the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any debt security of that series; or
o a default in respect of a covenant or provision that may not be
amended or modified without the consent of the holder of each
outstanding debt security of that series.
SECTION 513 OF THE INDENTURE
"Event of Default" means the occurrence and continuance of any of the
following events with respect to a series of debt securities:
o failure to pay when due any interest on any debt security of that
series, continued for 30 days;
o failure to pay when due the principal of and any premium on any debt
security of that series;
o failure to deposit when due any sinking fund payment on any debt
security of that series;
o failure to perform when required any other covenant that applies to
the debt securities of that series and continuance of that failure for
90 days after written notice as provided in the indenture;
o acceleration of any of our indebtedness in a principal amount in
excess of $25,000,000 if the acceleration is not rescinded or annulled,
or the indebtedness is not discharged, within 15 days after written
notice as provided in the indenture;
o certain events in bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization; and
o any other Event of Default that may be provided with respect to the
debt securities of that series.
SECTION 501 OF THE INDENTURE
The Trustee is required, within 90 days after the occurrence of any
continuing default that it knows of, to notify the holders of the applicable
series of debt securities of the default. However, unless the default is a
payment default, the Trustee may withhold the default notice if it in good faith
decides that withholding the notice is in the holders' interests. In addition,
in the case of any default referred to in the fourth event listed in the
previous paragraph, the Trustee will not give notice to holders until at least
30 days after the default occurs. SECTION 602 OF THE INDENTURE
Subject to its duty to act with the required standard of care in the case
of a default, the Trustee is not obligated to exercise any of its rights or
powers under the indenture at the request, order or direction of any holders of
debt securities unless the holders offer the Trustee reasonable indemnification.
SECTIONS 601 AND 603 OF THE INDENTURE If reasonable indemnification is provided,
then, subject to other limitations, the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power of the Trustee, with respect to
the debt securities of that series. SECTION 512 OF THE INDENTURE
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No holder of a debt security of any series may institute any action against
us under the indenture, except actions for payment of overdue principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on that debt security, unless:
o the holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to that series of debt
securities;
o the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding debt securities of that series have previously made a
written request of the Trustee to institute that action and offered
the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred in compliance with the request;
o the Trustee has not instituted the action within 60 days of the
notice, request and offer of indemnity; and
o the Trustee has not received any inconsistent written request within
that 60 day period from the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series.
SECTIONS 507 AND 508 OF THE INDENTURE
The indenture requires us to deliver to the Trustee annual statements as to
our compliance with all conditions and covenants under the indenture. SECTION
1005 OF THE INDENTURE
MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION
The indenture generally permits us to consolidate with, merge with or into,
or sell or convey all or substantially all of our assets to, any other
corporation or entity if:
o either (1) we are the survivor of the merger or (2) the entity that
survives the merger or is formed by the consolidation or acquires our
assets is organized and existing under the laws of the United States or
any State and assumes all of our obligations and covenants under the
indenture, including payment obligations; and
o immediately after the transaction, no Event of Default exists and no
event exists which, with the giving of notice or passage of time or
both, would be an Event of Default.
SECTION 801 OF THE INDENTURE
MODIFICATION AND WAIVER
The indenture may be modified or amended with the consent of the holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of
each series affected by the modification or amendment. However, unless each
holder to be affected by the proposed change consents, no modification or
amendment may:
o change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
principal of or interest on, any outstanding debt security;
o reduce the principal amount of, or the rate or amount of interest on,
or any premium payable with respect to, any debt security;
o reduce the amount of principal of an Original Issue Discount Security
that would be due and payable upon acceleration of the Original Issue
Discount Security or that would be provable in bankruptcy;
o adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of the holder of
any debt security;
o change the places or currency of payment of the principal of, or any
premium or interest on, any debt security;
o impair the right to sue for the enforcement of any payment of
principal of, or any premium or interest on, any debt security on or
after the date the payment is due;
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o reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt
securities of any series necessary to:
o modify or amend the indenture with respect to that series,
o waive any past default or compliance with certain restrictive
provisions, or
o constitute a quorum or take action at a meeting; or
o otherwise modify the provisions of the indenture concerning modification
or amendment or concerning waiver of compliance with certain provisions
of, or certain defaults and their consequences under, the indenture,
except to:
o increase the percentage of outstanding debt securities necessary to
modify or amend the indenture or to give the waiver, or
o provide that certain other provisions of the indenture cannot be
modified or waived without the consent of the holder of each
outstanding debt security affected by the modification or waiver.
SECTION 902 OF THE INDENTURE
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding debt securities of any series may waive our obligation to comply
with certain restrictive provisions applicable to the series. SECTION 1008 OF
THE INDENTURE
The indenture may be modified or amended without the consent of any
holder of outstanding debt securities for any of the following purposes:
o to evidence that another entity is our successor and has assumed
our obligations with respect to the debt securities;
o to add to our covenants for the benefit of the holders of all or
any series of debt securities or to surrender any of our rights or
powers under the indenture;
o to add any Events of Default to all or any series of debt
securities;
o to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of the
principal of or any premium or interest on any debt securities;
o to modify the provisions relating to global debt securities, or to
permit the issuance of debt securities in uncertificated form, so
long as in either case the interests of the holders of debt
securities are not adversely affected in any material respect;
o to add to, change or eliminate any provision of the indenture, so
long as either (1) there is no outstanding debt security of any
series entitled to the benefit of the provision or (2) the
amendment does not apply to any then outstanding debt security;
o to secure the debt securities;
o to establish the form or terms of the debt securities of any
series;
o to provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the debt securities of one or more series and to add to or change
any of the provisions to facilitate the administration of the trusts
under the indenture by more than one Trustee;
o to provide for the discharge of the indenture with respect to the
debt securities of any series by the deposit in trust of money
and/or Government Obligations (see "-- Satisfaction and
Discharge");
o to change the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the
authorized amount, terms or purposes of issuance of the debt
securities; or
o to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency in the indenture or
to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under the indenture, so long as the action does not
adversely affect the interests of the holders of the debt securities
of any series in any material respect.
SECTION 901 OF THE INDENTURE
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Unless the prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of debt
securities states otherwise, we may enter into a supplemental indenture with the
Trustee without the consent of any holder of outstanding debt securities to
provide that we will be discharged from our obligations in respect of the debt
securities of any series, except for obligations to register the transfer or
exchange of debt securities, to replace stolen, lost or mutilated debt
securities, to maintain paying agencies and to hold moneys for payment in trust.
The discharge would be effective on the 91st day after we deposit in trust with
the Trustee money and/or Government Obligations sufficient to pay the principal
of, any premium and interest on, and any mandatory sinking fund payments in
respect of, the debt securities of the applicable series on the dates the
payments are due. The supplemental indenture may only be executed if certain
conditions have been satisfied, including that we have received from, or there
has been published by, the United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or
there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either
case, to the effect that the discharge will not cause the holders of the debt
securities of the series to recognize income, gain or loss for federal income
tax purposes. In addition, the provisions of the supplemental indenture will not
apply to any series of debt securities then listed on the New York Stock
Exchange if the provisions would cause the outstanding debt securities of the
series to be delisted. SECTION 901 OF THE INDENTURE
In addition to the above provisions, we will be released from any further
obligations under the indenture with respect to a series of debt securities,
except for obligations to register the transfer or exchange of debt securities
and certain obligations to the Trustee, when certain conditions are satisfied
including that:
o all debt securities of the series either have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation or are due, or are to be called for
redemption, within one year; and
o with respect to all debt securities of the series not previously
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, we have deposited in trust
with the Trustee money and/or Government Obligations sufficient to pay
the principal of, and any premium and interest on, those debt securities
on the dates the payments are due.
SECTION 401 OF THE INDENTURE
DEFEASANCE OF CERTAIN COVENANTS
Unless otherwise provided in the prospectus supplement relating to a series
of debt securities, we will have the option to cease to comply with the
covenants described under "-- Limitations on Liens" above and any additional
covenants not included in the original indenture that may be applicable to the
series. To exercise this option, we will be required to deposit in trust with
the Trustee money and/or Government Obligations sufficient to pay the principal
of, any premium and interest on, and any mandatory sinking fund payments in
respect of, the debt securities of the applicable series on the dates the
payments are due. We will also be required to deliver to the Trustee an opinion
of counsel that the deposit and related covenant defeasance will not cause the
holders of the debt securities of the series to recognize income, gain or loss
for federal income tax purposes. We will not be permitted to exercise this
option with respect to any series of debt securities listed on the New York
Stock Exchange if the defeasance would cause the outstanding debt securities of
the series to be delisted. SECTION 1009 OF THE INDENTURE
GLOBAL DEBT SECURITIES
The debt securities of a series may be issued in whole or in part in the
form of one or more global debt securities that will be deposited with, or on
behalf of, a depositary. Unless otherwise provided in the prospectus supplement
relating to a series of debt securities, the depositary for each series of debt
securities represented by one or more global debt securities will be The
Depository Trust Company, New York, New York ( "DTC"). We have been informed
by DTC that its nominee
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will be Cede & Co. Accordingly, Cede & Co. is expected to be the initial
registered holder of all debt securities that are represented by one or more
global debt securities.
So long as DTC or a nominee of DTC is the registered owner of a global debt
security, DTC or the nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole
owner and holder of the debt securities represented by the global debt security
for all purposes under the indenture. SECTION 308 OF THE INDENTURE Except as set
forth in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement relating to that series
of debt securities, no person that acquires a beneficial interest in a global
debt security will be entitled to receive physical delivery of a certificate
representing those debt securities or will be considered the owner or holder of
the debt securities under the indenture.
DTC has informed us that it is:
o a limited purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking
Law;
o a "banking organization" within the meaning of the New York Banking
Law;
o a member of the Federal Reserve System;
o a "clearing corporation" within the meaning of the New York Uniform
Commercial Code; and
o a "clearing agency" registered under the provisions of Section 17A
of the Securities Exchange Act.
DTC has also informed us that it:
o holds securities that its "participants" deposit with it; and
o facilitates the settlement among participants of securities
transactions, such as transfers and pledges, in deposited securities
through electronic computerized book-entry changes in participants'
accounts, thereby eliminating the need for the physical movement of
securities certificates.
Firms that maintain accounts with DTC are referred to as "participants"
of DTC. They include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies,
clearing corporations and other organizations. Firms that are not participants
themselves but that clear transactions through, or maintain a custodial
relationship with, a participant, either directly or indirectly, are referred to
as "indirect participants" of DTC. The rules applicable to DTC and its
participants are on file with the SEC. DTC is owned by a number of its
participants and by the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and
the NASD.
Payments of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
debt securities represented by a global debt security will be made to DTC or its
nominee as the registered owner of the global debt security. DTC has advised us
that its practice is to credit participants' accounts, upon DTC's receipt of
funds, on the payable date in accordance with the participants' respective
holdings shown on DTC's records. Payments by participants to beneficial owners
of the debt securities will be governed by standing instructions and customary
practices, as is the case with securities registered in "street name".
Payments to DTC or its nominee are our responsibility. Disbursement of such
payments to participants is the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of
payments to the beneficial owners is the responsibility of participants and
indirect participants. Neither we, the Trustee, any paying agent nor the
security registrar for the debt securities will have any responsibility or
liability for any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account
of, beneficial ownership interests in a global debt security or for maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records relating to the beneficial ownership
interests. SECTION 308 OF THE INDENTURE
Persons that are not participants or indirect participants may buy, sell or
otherwise transfer ownership of or interests in debt securities represented by a
global debt security only through participants or indirect participants.
Participants will receive credit for the debt securities on DTC's records and
indirect participants will receive credit for the debt securities on
participants' records. In
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turn, the ownership interest of each beneficial owner will be recorded on the
records of the participant or indirect participant through which the beneficial
owner purchased its interest. Beneficial owners will not receive written
confirmations from DTC of their purchases, but should receive written
confirmations from the participants or indirect participants through which they
purchased their interests. Transfers of ownership interests in debt securities
represented by a global debt security are accomplished by entries made on the
books of the participants or indirect participants acting on behalf of the
beneficial owners.
The deposit of a global debt security with DTC and its registration in the
name of Cede & Co. do not change or affect beneficial ownership of the debt
securities. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the debt
securities represented by a global debt security. DTC's records reflect only the
identities of the participants to whose accounts such debt securities are
credited, which may or may not be the beneficial owners. The participants and
indirect participants are responsible for keeping records of their holdings on
behalf of their customers. Beneficial owners will not be recognized by us, the
security registrar, any paying agent, the Trustee or the depositary as
registered holders of the debt securities represented by a global debt security.
Beneficial owners that are not participants will be permitted to exercise
their rights as an owner only indirectly through participants or indirect
participants. Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to its
participants, by participants to indirect participants, and by participants and
indirect participants to beneficial owners, will be governed by arrangements
among them.
Because DTC can act only on behalf of participants, the ability of a
beneficial owner of debt securities represented by a global debt security to
pledge its beneficial ownership interest to persons or entities that do not
participate in the DTC system may be limited. The laws of some states may
require that certain purchasers of securities take physical delivery of the
certificates for the debt securities they purchase. These laws may reduce the
liquidity of beneficial interests in a global debt security.
DTC has advised us that it is aware that some computer applications,
systems and the like for processing data that are dependent upon calendar dates,
including dates before, on and after January 1, 2000, may encounter "Year 2000
problems". DTC has informed its participants and other members of the financial
community that it has developed and is implementing a program so that its
computer systems, as they relate to the timely payment of distributions
(including principal and interest payments) to securityholders, book-entry
deliveries, and settlement of trades within DTC, will continue to function
appropriately. According to DTC, this program includes a technical assessment
and a remediation plan, each of which is complete, and a testing phase, which it
expects to complete within appropriate time frames.
However, DTC's ability to perform properly its services is also dependent
upon other parties, including but not limited to:
o issuers and their agents;
o participants and indirect participants;
o third-party vendors from whom DTC licenses software and hardware; and
o third-party vendors on whom DTC relies for information or the
provision of services, including telecommunication and electrical
utility service providers, among others.
DTC has informed its participants and other members of the financial
community that it is contacting and will continue to contact third-party vendors
from whom it acquires services to impress upon them the importance of such
services being Year 2000 compliant and to determine the extent of their efforts
for Year 2000 remediation -- and, as appropriate, testing -- of their services.
In addition, DTC is in the process of developing contingency plans that it
considers appropriate.
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According to DTC, the foregoing information with respect to DTC has been
provided to its participants and other members of the financial community for
informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a representation,
warranty or contract modification of any kind.
We will issue individual certificated debt securities in exchange for the
global debt security of a series only if:
o DTC is at any time unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as
depositary and we do not appoint a successor depositary within 90 days;
o subject to any limitations described in the applicable prospectus
supplement, we decide that the debt securities no longer will be
represented by a global debt security and we deliver to the Trustee an
order declaring that the global debt security will be exchangeable for
certificated debt securities; or
o an Event of Default occurs and continues with respect to that series of
debt securities.
SECTION 305 OF THE INDENTURE
If any of these events occurs, we will issue the individual certificated
debt securities to the participants specified by DTC or its nominee, or to the
beneficial owners specified by those participants, according to standing
instructions and customary practices for securities registered in "street
name". Except as described above, a global debt security may not be transferred
except as a whole by or among DTC, a nominee of DTC and/or a successor
depositary appointed by us.
Although DTC has agreed to the foregoing procedures in order to facilitate
transfers of beneficial interests in global debt securities among participants,
it is under no obligation to perform or continue to perform these procedures,
which may be discontinued at any time. Neither we, the Trustee, the security
registrar nor any paying agent will have any responsibility or liability for the
performance by DTC or its participants or indirect participants of their
respective obligations under the rules and procedures governing their
operations. SECTION 308 OF THE INDENTURE
THE TRUSTEE UNDER THE INDENTURE
We and certain of our affiliates maintain banking and borrowing relations
with Citibank, N.A.
The indenture provides that we may appoint an alternative Trustee with
respect to any particular series of debt securities. Any such appointment will
be described in the prospectus supplement relating to that series of debt
securities.
Unless we are in default, the Trustee is required to perform only those
duties specifically set out in the indenture. After a default, the Trustee is
required to exercise the same degree of care as a prudent individual would
exercise in the conduct of his or her own affairs. Subject to these provisions,
the Trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under
the indenture at the request of any holder of debt securities, unless the holder
offers the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that might be incurred in connection with the Trustee's exercise of
these rights or powers. The Trustee is not required to spend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur financial liability in performing its duties if the
Trustee reasonably believes that repayment or adequate indemnity is not
reasonably assured to it. The indenture contains other provisions limiting the
responsibilities and liabilities of the Trustee. SECTIONS 601 AND 603 OF THE
INDENTURE
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
METHODS OF DISTRIBUTION
We may sell the debt securities:
o to or through one or more underwriters or dealers;
o directly to other purchasers; and/or
o through one or more agents.
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The distribution of the debt securities may occur from time to time in one
or more transactions at fixed prices, which may be changed, at market prices
prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market
prices or at negotiated prices.
The prospectus supplement relating to a series of debt securities will
state:
o the name(s) of any underwriter(s), dealer(s) or agent(s) involved in
the offer and sale;
o the terms and manner of sale of the debt securities, including the
purchase price, the proceeds to us, any underwriting discounts and
other items constituting underwriters' compensation, any initial public
offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or
paid to dealers;
o the place and time of delivery of the debt securities; and
o any securities exchange on which the debt securities may be listed.
COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF UNDERWRITERS
In connection with the sale of debt securities, underwriters may receive
compensation from us or from purchasers of debt securities for whom they may act
as agents, in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions. Underwriters
may sell debt securities to or through dealers, and the dealers may receive
compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the
underwriters and/or commissions from the purchasers for whom they may act as
agent. Underwriters, dealers and agents that participate in the distribution of
debt securities may be considered to be underwriters as defined in the
Securities Act of 1933, and any discounts or commissions received by them from
us and any profit on the resale of debt securities by them may be deemed to be
underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Any
compensation that we pay to underwriters, dealers or agents in connection with
an offering of debt securities, and any discounts, concessions or commissions
allowed by underwriters to participating dealers, will be described in the
prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities.
We may agree to indemnify the underwriters, dealers and agents who
participate in the distribution of the debt securities against certain
liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. We also may agree
to contribute to the payment of those liabilities and to reimburse them for
certain expenses.
Underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the offer or sale of the
debt securities, and their associates, may be customers of ours, or may engage
in transactions with or perform services for us or one or more of our
affiliates, in the ordinary course of business.
SALES THROUGH OUR AFFILIATE
We reserve the right to sell debt securities through our affiliate,
American General Securities Incorporated ("AGSI"), which may, as an agent
acting on a best efforts basis, solicit offers to purchase debt securities in
those jurisdictions where it is authorized to do so. AGSI is registered in all
states and primarily sells retail securities products (stocks, bonds, options,
mutual funds, variable insurance products and direct participation programs)
through independent contractor registered representatives. AGSI also underwrites
certain variable insurance products issued by its parent company, American
General Life Insurance Company.
Each initial offering of the debt securities will be conducted in
compliance with the requirements of Conduct Rule 2720 of the NASD regarding the
distribution by an NASD member firm of the securities of an affiliate. In
accordance with Rule 2720, underwriters, dealers and agents who participate in
the distribution of the debt securities may not engage in transactions in
securities for any discretionary account without the prior written approval of
the customer.
Following the initial distribution of any debt securities, AGSI may engage
in market-making transactions in those debt securities. AGSI may act as
principal or agent in these transactions and may make any sales at varying
prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale or otherwise.
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AGSI may use this prospectus in connection with these transactions. AGSI is not
obligated to make a market in any of the debt securities and may discontinue any
market-making activities at any time without notice.
DELAYED DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS
If stated in a prospectus supplement, we will authorize underwriters,
dealers or other persons acting as our agents to solicit offers by certain
institutions to purchase debt securities from us under contracts providing for
payment and delivery on a future date. The contracts may be made with commercial
and savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies,
educational and charitable institutions and other institutions, but in all cases
these contracts must be approved by us. The institution's obligations under the
contract will be subject to the condition that the purchase of the debt
securities at the time of delivery is not prohibited under the laws of the
jurisdiction to which the institution is subject. The underwriters and the other
agents will not have any responsibility for the validity or performance of the
contracts.
LEGAL OPINIONS
Unless otherwise stated in a prospectus supplement, Baker & Daniels,
Indianapolis, Indiana, will pass upon the legality of each issue of the debt
securities for us and Brown & Wood LLP, New York, New York, will pass upon
certain legal matters relating to the debt securities for any underwriters,
dealers or agents of a particular issue of debt securities. Brown & Wood LLP may
rely as to matters of Indiana law on the opinion of Baker & Daniels. Tibor D.
Klopfer, a partner of Baker & Daniels, is a director of AGF Funding, Inc., one
of our wholly-owned subsidiaries.
EXPERTS
Ernst & Young LLP, our independent auditors, audited our consolidated
financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 1998. Their audit report on our consolidated financial
statements is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and, together with the
rest of our Annual Report on Form 10-K, is incorporated by reference into this
prospectus. See "Incorporation of Information We File with the SEC". Those
audited consolidated financial statements are, and our audited consolidated
financial statements that we include in our future SEC filings under the
Securities Exchange Act will be, incorporated into this prospectus in reliance
upon the audit reports of Ernst & Young LLP pertaining to those statements (to
the extent covered by consents filed with the SEC) given upon the authority of
that firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
The following are the estimated expenses to be incurred by the registrant
in connection with the offering described in this registration statement (other
than underwriting discounts and commissions).
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SEC registration fee................. $ 834,000
NASD registration fee................ 30,500
Printing............................. 95,000
Legal fees and expenses.............. 150,000
Accounting fees and expenses......... 210,000
Trustee's fees and expenses.......... 75,000
Rating agency fees................... 750,000
Miscellaneous........................ 5,500
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Total...................... $ 2,150,000
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ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Chapter 37 of the Indiana Business Corporation Law empowers a corporation
to indemnify any individual who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a
party to any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative and whether formal or
informal, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the corporation or, while a director of a corporation, is or was
serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner,
member, manager, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, whether for profit or not, against
reasonable expenses (including counsel fees), judgments, fines (including any
excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan), penalties and
amounts paid in settlement incurred by him in connection with such action, suit
or proceeding if (i) he acted in good faith, and (ii) in the case of conduct in
his official capacity with the corporation, he reasonably believed his conduct
was in the best interests of the corporation or, in all other cases, he
reasonably believed his conduct was at least not opposed to the best interests
of the corporation (or with respect to an employee benefit plan, he reasonably
believed his conduct was in the interests of the participants in and
beneficiaries of the plan), and (iii) with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, he had reasonable cause to believe his conduct was lawful or no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
Chapter 37 further provides that a corporation shall, unless limited by its
articles of incorporation, indemnify a director or officer who was wholly
successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any action, suit or
proceeding to which he was a party because he is or was a director or officer of
the corporation against reasonable expenses incurred by him in connection
therewith. Chapter 37 expressly states that the indemnification thereby provided
does not exclude any other rights to indemnification to which a person may be
entitled. Chapter 37 empowers a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance
on behalf of an individual who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the corporation, or who, while a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director,
officer, partner, member, manager, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign
or domestic corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture,
trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against liability asserted
against or incurred by the individual in that capacity or arising from the
individual's status as a director, officer, member, manager, employee or agent,
whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify
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the individual against the same liability under Chapter 37. Finally, Chapter 37
empowers a corporation, under certain circumstances, to advance to an individual
expenses incurred in connection with an action, suit or proceeding prior to the
final disposition thereof, and empowers a court of competent jurisdiction, in
certain cases, to order indemnification of a director or officer irrespective of
whether the director or officer met the standards of conduct set forth above.
Section 7.8 of the registrant's Restated Articles of Incorporation provides
that, to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, every person who is or
was a director, officer, employee or agent of the registrant or is or was
serving at the request of the registrant as a director, officer, employee, agent
or fiduciary of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other organization or entity, whether
for profit or not, shall be indemnified against all liability and reasonable
expense that may be incurred by him in connection with or resulting from any
claim by reason of (i) his being or having been such a person, or (ii) any
action taken or not taken by him in any such capacity (a) if such person is
Wholly Successful with respect to the claim or (b) if not Wholly Successful,
then if such person is determined to have acted in good faith, in what he
reasonably believed to be the best interests of the registrant or at least not
opposed to its best interests and, in addition, with respect to a criminal
claim, is determined to have had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct
was lawful or had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
Section 7.8 defines "Wholly Successful" to mean (i) termination of any claim
against the person in question without any finding of liability or guilt against
him, (ii) approval by a court, with knowledge of the indemnity provided in
Section 7.8, of a settlement of any claim, or (iii) the expiration of a
reasonable period of time after the making or threatened making of any claim
without the institution of the same, without any payment or promise made to
induce a settlement.
Section 7.8 provides that the rights of indemnification provided therein
are in addition to any rights to which any such director, officer, employee or
agent may otherwise be entitled. Additionally, Section 7.8 authorizes the Board
of Directors of the registrant (i) to approve indemnification of any such person
to the full extent permitted by the provisions of applicable law at the time in
effect, and (ii) to authorize the registrant to purchase and maintain insurance
on behalf of any such person against any liability asserted against him and
incurred by him, whether or not the registrant would have the power to indemnify
him against such liability. Section 7.8 permits the Board of Directors to
authorize advancement of expenses incurred by such a person prior to the final
disposition of a claim upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the
person to repay such amount unless he is determined to be entitled to
indemnification. The provisions of Section 7.8 are applicable to all claims made
or commenced after the adoption of that section, whether arising from acts or
omissions to act occurring before or after the adoption thereof.
Article X of the registrant's By-Laws provides that the registrant shall
indemnify any person who was or is a named defendant or respondent or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit or proceeding, and any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such an
action, suit or proceeding, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director,
officer or employee of the registrant or is or was serving at the request of the
registrant as a director, officer, partner, venturer, proprietor, trustee,
employee or similar functionary of another foreign or domestic corporation or
non-profit corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against judgments, penalties
(including excise and similar taxes), fines, amounts paid in settlement and
reasonable expenses (including court costs and attorneys' fees) actually
incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed (i) in the case of conduct
in his official capacity as a director of the registrant, to be in the best
interests of the registrant and (ii) in all other cases, to be not opposed to
the best interests of the registrant; and, with respect to any criminal action
or proceeding, if he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was
unlawful. In connection with any action, suit or proceeding in which the person
shall have been adjudged to be liable to the registrant or liable on the basis
that personal benefit was improperly received by him, whether or not the benefit
resulted from an action taken in the person's official capacity as a director or
officer, Article X (i) limits the
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indemnity to reasonable expenses (including court costs or attorneys' fees)
actually incurred in connection with such proceeding, and (ii) prohibits the
indemnity if the person is found liable for willful or intentional misconduct in
the performance of his duty to the registrant. Article X further provides that
the registrant shall indemnify any such person who has been wholly successful,
on the merits or otherwise, in defense of any such action, suit or proceeding
against reasonable expenses (including court costs and attorneys' fees) actually
incurred by him.
Article X also (1) requires the registrant to advance reasonable expenses
prior to the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding under certain
circumstances, (2) states that the indemnification provided by Article X is (i)
nonexclusive and (ii) does not limit the power of the registrant to indemnify
and to advance expenses, and (3) empowers the registrant to purchase and
maintain insurance on behalf of any such person against any liability asserted
against him and incurred by him in such a capacity or arising out of his status
as such a person, whether or not the registrant would have the power to
indemnify him against that liability.
Reference is made to the final undertaking set forth in Item 17.
Reference is also made to Section 6 of the form of Underwriting Agreement,
a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1 hereto, for information concerning
indemnification of the registrant and its directors, officers, and controlling
persons by the underwriters.
The registrant carries insurance covering directors and officers against
certain liabilities.
ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.
The following exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement:
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1 Form of Underwriting Agreement (including form of Pricing Agreement and Delayed Delivery Contract)
relating to the debt securities.
4 Form of indenture between American General Finance Corporation and Citibank, N.A., Trustee. The form
or forms of debt securities with respect to each particular offering will be filed as an exhibit to a
Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
5 Opinion and consent of Baker & Daniels, special counsel for American General Finance Corporation, as
to the legality of the debt securities.
12 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23(a) Consent of Baker & Daniels (contained in their opinion in Exhibit 5).
23(b) Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.
24 Powers of Attorney.
25 Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Citibank, N.A., Trustee under the indenture.
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ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
material change to such information in the registration statement;
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provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) do
not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those clauses is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the registrant pursuant
to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial BONA
FIDE offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(4) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial BONA
FIDE offering thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the provisions set forth in Item 15 or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.
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SIGNATURES
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, THE REGISTRANT
CERTIFIES THAT IT HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT IT MEETS ALL OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING ON FORM S-3 AND HAS DULY CAUSED THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT OR AMENDMENT TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED, THEREUNTO
DULY AUTHORIZED, IN THE CITY OF EVANSVILLE, STATE OF INDIANA, ON THE 22ND DAY OF
JULY, 1999.
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
By _______/S/__ROBERT A. COLE_________
(ROBERT A. COLE, SENIOR VICE
PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT OR AMENDMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS IN
THE CAPACITIES INDICATED ON JULY 22, 1999.
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Chief Executive
/S/FREDERICK W. GEISSINGER Officer, President and Director
(FREDERICK W. GEISSINGER) (principal executive officer)
Senior Vice President, Chief
/S/ROBERT A. COLE Financial Officer and Director
(ROBERT A. COLE) (principal financial officer)
Controller and
/S/GEORGE W. SCHMIDT Assistant Secretary
(GEORGE W. SCHMIDT) (principal accounting officer)
W. TAL BRATTON* Director
(W. TAL BRATTON)
JAMES S. D'AGOSTINO, JR.* Director
(JAMES S. D'AGOSTINO, JR.)
JERRY L. GILPIN* Director
(JERRY L. GILPIN)
PHILIP M. HANLEY* Director
(PHILIP M. HANLEY)
BENNIE D. HENDRIX* Director
(BENNIE D. HENDRIX)
JON P. NEWTON* Director
(JON P. NEWTON)
ALLEN L. WEHRHAHN* Director
(ALLEN L. WEHRHAHN)
*By /S/RON DIGIACOMO
(RON DIGIACOMO, ATTORNEY-IN-FACT)
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EXHIBIT 1
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
DEBT SECURITIES
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
American General Finance Corporation, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), proposes to issue and sell from time to time certain of its
unsecured, unsubordinated debt securities (the "Debt Securities") registered
under the registration statement referred to in Section 1(a) below. The Debt
Securities will be issued under an indenture, dated as of May 1, 1999 (the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee (the
"Trustee"). The Debt Securities will be issued in one or more series which may
vary as to aggregate principal amounts, interest rates, maturities, sinking fund
requirements, redemption provisions, selling prices and any other terms which
the Indenture contemplates may be contained in the Debt Securities as issued
from time to time. Particular series of the Debt Securities may be sold pursuant
to a Pricing Agreement substantially in the form set forth in Annex I hereto
(the "Pricing Agreement"), subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein
and herein. The Pricing Agreement will incorporate by reference the provisions
of this Agreement, except as otherwise provided therein.
The Debt Securities that are the subject of a particular Pricing Agreement
are referred to herein as the "Securities." The firm or firms named in Schedule
I to the Pricing Agreement are referred to herein as the "Underwriters," and the
representative or representatives of the Underwriters, if any, specified in the
Pricing Agreement are referred to herein as the "Representatives"; provided,
however, that if the Pricing Agreement does not specify any representative of
the Underwriters, the term "Representatives" shall mean the Underwriters.
As provided in Section 2 below, the Pricing Agreement may authorize the
Underwriters to solicit offers from certain investors to purchase Securities
from the Company pursuant to delayed delivery contracts ("Delayed Delivery
Contracts"). Securities to be purchased pursuant to Delayed Delivery Contracts
are sometimes referred to herein as "Contract Securities," and Securities to be
purchased by the Underwriters (after giving effect to the deduction, if any, for
Contract Securities) are sometimes referred to herein as "Underwriters'
Securities."
SECTION 1. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company
represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:
(a) A registration statement (No. 333-_______) on Form S-3 relating
to the Debt Securities, including the Securities, and all post-effective
amendments thereto required to the date of the Pricing Agreement, has been
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in
the form heretofore delivered or to be delivered to the Representatives
(and, excluding exhibits to such registration statement, but including all
documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus contained therein on
or prior to the date of the Pricing Agreement, to the Representatives for
each of the other Underwriters) and such registration statement and each
such amendment thereto, if any, has been declared effective by the
Commission and no stop order suspending the effectiveness thereof has been
issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated
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or threatened by the Commission. For purposes of this Agreement, (i) the
term "Registration Statement" shall mean Registration Statement No.
333-_____, including all exhibits thereto and all documents incorporated
by reference therein as of the effective date thereof; and any reference
to the Registration Statement as amended (or similar wording) shall mean
the Registration Statement, including all post-effective amendments
thereto and all documents filed by the Company with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), after the effective date of
the Registration Statement and that are deemed to be incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement upon the filing of such documents
with the Commission and the information, if any, deemed to be a part
thereof pursuant to Rule 434 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Act"); (ii) the term "Prospectus" shall mean the prospectus,
including all documents incorporated by reference therein as of the date
thereof, relating to the Debt Securities in the form included in the
Registration Statement as of the effective date thereof or, if different,
in the form in which it has most recently been filed or transmitted for
filing with the Commission on or prior to the date of the Pricing
Agreement, as amended or supplemented to reflect the terms of the offering
of the Securities by (A) if the Company elects not to rely on Rule 434
under the Act, the Prospectus Supplement contemplated by Section 3(a)
hereof, in the form in which such Prospectus Supplement is filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, in accordance with
Section 3(a) hereof or (B) if the Company elects to rely on Rule 434 under
the Act, the Term Sheet contemplated by Section 3(a) hereof, in the form
in which such Term Sheet is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) (7) under the Act, in accordance with Section 3(a) hereof (and, in
such case, the term "Prospectus" shall include such Term Sheet and the
Rule 434(c) (2) Prospectus referred to in Section 3(a), if any, each
individually and taken together); any reference to the date of the
Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to the date of such Prospectus
Supplement or Term Sheet, as the case may be, and any reference to the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented (or similar wording) shall mean the
Prospectus, including all supplements thereto and all documents filed by
the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of the Prospectus and that are
deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus upon the filing
of such documents with the Commission; and (iii) the term "Preliminary
Prospectus" shall mean any preliminary prospectus, including all documents
incorporated by reference therein as of the date thereof, included in the
Registration Statement prior to the effectiveness thereof or filed with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Act; and any reference to
any Preliminary Prospectus as amended or supplemented (or similar wording)
shall mean such Preliminary Prospectus, including all documents filed by
the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus
and that are deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Preliminary
Prospectus upon the filing of such documents with the Commission. If the
Company files a registration statement to register a portion of the
Securities and relies on Rule 462(b) under the Act for such registration
statement to become effective upon filing with the Commission (the "Rule
462(b) Registration Statement"), then any reference to "Registration
Statement" herein shall be deemed to be to both Registration Statement
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No. 333-_____ (the "original Registration Statement") and the Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement, as each such registration statement may be amended
pursuant to the Act;
(b) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, as
amended or supplemented, when they were filed with the Commission,
conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and, when read
together with the other information included or incorporated by reference
in the Prospectus at the time the Registration Statement became effective,
at the time any post-effective amendment thereto became effective and at
the time any annual report on Form 10-K was filed by the Company and
incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, none of such documents
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading; and any further documents so filed
during the period during which delivery of a prospectus is required in
connection with the offering or sale of the Securities, and incorporated
by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents are filed with the
Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of
the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder and, when read together with the other information included or
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus at the time such documents are
filed with the Commission, none of such documents will contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall
not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in
conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on
behalf of an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in
the Prospectus;
(c) The Registration Statement, as amended, and the Prospectus, as
amended, conform, and any amendments or supplements thereto filed during
the period during which delivery of a prospectus is required in connection
with the offering or sale of the Securities will conform, in all material
respects to the applicable requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"), and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder. The Registration Statement, as
amended, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, each as of the
effective date of the Registration Statement, as of the effective date of
each post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, if any, and
at the time any annual report on Form 10-K was filed by the Company and
incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, did not, as of the date of
the Pricing Agreement do not, and as of the Time of Delivery (as
hereinafter defined) and during the period during which delivery of a
prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the
Securities, will not, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that
this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or
omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of an Underwriter
through the Representatives expressly for use in the Prospectus, or to the
Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 (the "Form T-1"), except as to
statements or omissions in such
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Form T-1 made in reliance upon information furnished in writing to the
Trustee by or on behalf of the Company for use therein;
(d) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has been no material
adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective
material adverse change, in the business, financial condition, or results
of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, other
than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business;
(e) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing
as a corporation under the laws of the State of Indiana with corporate
power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as
described in the Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign
corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under
the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases substantial
properties, or conducts business, and where the failure so to qualify and
be in good standing would have a material adverse effect on the business
of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; each of the
Company's subsidiaries has been duly incorporated and is validly existing
as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation, has corporate power and authority to own or lease its
properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, and
has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of
business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction
in which it owns or leases substantial properties, or conducts business,
and where the failure so to qualify and be in good standing would have a
material adverse effect on the business of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole; and the Company and each of its
subsidiaries have all required authorizations, approvals, orders,
licenses, certificates and permits of and from all governmental regulatory
officials and bodies (including, without limitation, each insurance
regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any insurance
subsidiary of the Company) to own or lease its properties and conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus, except such authorizations,
approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and permits which, if not
obtained, would not have a material adverse effect on the business of the
Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to
the revocation or modification of any such authorization, approval, order,
license, certificate or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the
subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would materially
adversely affect the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as
a whole;
(f) All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the
Company's subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued, are
fully paid and non-assessable, and (except for any directors' qualifying
shares) are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, free and clear
of all liens and encumbrances;
(g) The Securities have been duly authorized (or will have been so
authorized prior to their issuance) and, when executed and authenticated
pursuant to the Indenture and
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issued and delivered against payment therefor pursuant to this Agreement
and the Pricing Agreement (or, in the case of any Contract Securities,
pursuant to the Delayed Delivery Contracts with respect thereto), will be
duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will constitute
valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against
the Company in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits of
the Indenture subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity
principles; the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered
by the Company, and constitutes a valid and legally binding instrument of
the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles; the
Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and the
Securities and the Indenture conform in all material respects with the
descriptions thereof in the Prospectus;
(h) The Pricing Agreement pursuant to which the Securities are being
issued (including the provisions of this Agreement) has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(i) In the event any of the Securities are purchased pursuant to
Delayed Delivery Contracts, each of such Delayed Delivery Contracts has
been (or will be prior to the Time of Delivery) duly authorized by the
Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the purchaser
named therein, will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of
the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles; and such
Delayed Delivery Contracts will conform in all material respects to the
description thereof in the Prospectus;
(j) The issue and sale of the Securities, the compliance by the
Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the Indenture, each
of the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, this Agreement and the Pricing
Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein
contemplated will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach of any of
the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument
for money borrowed to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a
party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to
which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is subject, or (ii) result in any violation of (x) the
provisions of the Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or the
Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company or (y) to the best knowledge
of the Company, any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court
or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any
of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, in any manner which, in
the case of clauses (i) and (ii)(y), would have a material adverse effect
on the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and
no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification
of or with any such
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court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale of
the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Pricing Agreement, the
Indenture, or any Delayed Delivery Contract, except such as have been, or
will have been prior to the Time of Delivery, obtained under the Act and
the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations,
registrations or qualifications as may be required under "blue sky" or
state securities laws or insurance laws in connection with the purchase
and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters;
(k) Other than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there
are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries is subject which, individually or in the
aggregate, are expected to have a material adverse effect on the business,
financial condition, or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole; and, to the best of the Company's
knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by
governmental authorities or threatened by others; and
(l) The Company is not, and, after giving effect to the issue and
sale of the Securities, will not be, an "investment company" as such term
is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
"Investment Company Act").
SECTION 2. PURCHASE AND OFFERING OF SECURITIES. The obligation of the
Company to issue and sell any of the Securities and the obligation of any of the
Underwriters to purchase any of the Securities shall be evidenced by the Pricing
Agreement with respect to the Securities specified therein. The Pricing
Agreement shall specify the aggregate principal amount of the Securities, the
initial public offering price of such Securities, the purchase price to the
Underwriters of such Securities, the names of the Underwriters of such
Securities (subject to substitution as provided by Section 7 herein), the names
of the Representatives of such Underwriters, the principal amount of such
Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter and whether any of such
Securities shall be covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts and the commission
payable to the Underwriters with respect thereto and shall set forth the date,
time and manner of delivery of such Securities and payment therefor. The Pricing
Agreement shall also specify (to the extent not set forth in the Indenture and
the Registration Statement and Prospectus) the terms of such Securities. The
Pricing Agreement shall be in the form of an executed writing (which may be in
counterparts), and may be evidenced by an exchange of facsimile communications
or any other rapid transmission device designed to produce a written record of
communications transmitted. The obligations of the Underwriters under this
Agreement and the Pricing Agreement shall be several and not joint. Upon the
execution of the Pricing Agreement and authorization by the Representatives of
the release of the Underwriters' Securities, the several Underwriters propose to
offer the Underwriters' Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set
forth in the Prospectus.
Underwriters' Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter pursuant to
the Pricing Agreement, in definitive form to the extent practicable, and in such
authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may
request upon at least twenty-four hours prior
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notice to the Company, shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company to the
Representatives for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on
behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor, by certified or
official bank check or checks, payable to the order of the Company or by wire
transfer to a bank account specified by the Company, in the funds specified in
the Pricing Agreement, all at the place and time and date specified in the
Pricing Agreement or at such other place and time and date as the
Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, such time and date
being herein called the "Time of Delivery" for the Underwriters' Securities.
Concurrent with the delivery of and payment for the Underwriters'
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Representatives for the accounts of
the Underwriters a check payable to the order of the party designated in the
Pricing Agreement in the amount of any compensation payable by the Company to
the Underwriters in respect of any Delayed Delivery Contracts as provided in
this Section and in the Pricing Agreement.
The Company may specify in Schedule II to the Pricing Agreement that the
Underwriters are authorized to solicit offers to purchase Securities from the
Company pursuant to Delayed Delivery Contracts, substantially in the form of
Annex III attached hereto but with such changes therein as the Representatives
and the Company may authorize or approve. If so specified, the Underwriters will
endeavor to make such arrangements, and as compensation therefor the Company
will pay to the Representatives, for the accounts of the Underwriters, at the
Time of Delivery such commission, if any, as may be set forth in the Pricing
Agreement. Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, are to be with investors of the
types described in the Prospectus and subject to other conditions therein set
forth. The Underwriters will not have any responsibility in respect of the
validity or performance of any Delayed Delivery Contracts.
The principal amount of Contract Securities to be deducted from the
principal amount of Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter as set forth
in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement shall be equal to the principal amount of
Contract Securities which the Company has been advised by the Representatives
have been attributed to such Underwriter, provided that, if the Company has not
been so advised, the principal amount of Contract Securities to be so deducted
shall be, in each case, that proportion of Contract Securities which the
principal amount of Securities to be purchased by such Underwriter under the
Pricing Agreement bears to the total principal amount of the Securities (rounded
as the Representatives may determine). The total principal amount of
Underwriters' Securities to be purchased by all the Underwriters pursuant to the
Pricing Agreement shall be the total principal amount of Securities set forth in
Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement less the principal amount of the Contract
Securities. The Company will deliver to the Representatives not later than 3:30
p.m., New York City time, on the second business day preceding the Time of
Delivery (or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may
agree upon in writing) a written notice setting forth the names of the investors
with which the making of Delayed Delivery Contracts has been approved by the
Company and the principal amount of Contract Securities to be covered by each
such Delayed Delivery Contract.
SECTION 3. CERTAIN AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company agrees with each
of the Underwriters:
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(a) Immediately following the execution of the Pricing Agreement, to
prepare (i) if the Company elects not to rely on Rule 434 under the Act,
an amendment or supplement to the prospectus related to the Debt
Securities to reflect the terms of the offering of the Securities (the
"Prospectus Supplement") in a form reasonably approved by the
Representatives, and to file the Prospectus Supplement pursuant to Rule
424(b) (2) or (5) under the Act by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
business day immediately succeeding the date of the Pricing Agreement (or
such other time as shall be specified in the Pricing Agreement), or (ii)
if the Company elects to rely on Rule 434 under the Act, (A) an
abbreviated term sheet relating to the Securities (the "Term Sheet") that
complies with the requirements of Rule 434(c) (3) and (e) under the Act in
a form reasonably approved by the Representatives, and (B) if required by
Rule 434(c) (2) under the Act, a form of Prospectus relating to the
Securities (the "Rule 434(c) (2) Prospectus") complying with Rule 434(c)
(2) under the Act in a form reasonably approved by the Representatives,
and to file such Term Sheet pursuant to Rule 424(b) (7) under the Act, and
any such Rule 434(c) (2) Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act,
in each case by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the business day
immediately succeeding the date of the Pricing Agreement (or such other
time as shall be specified in the Pricing Agreement); except as otherwise
required by law, to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration
Statement or Prospectus after the date of the Pricing Agreement and prior
to the Time of Delivery which shall be reasonably disapproved by the
Representatives promptly after reasonable notice thereof; for so long as
the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering
or sale of the Securities, to file promptly all reports and any definitive
proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, and to advise the Representatives, promptly after it
receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the
Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any
supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus (other than any
supplement or amendment to the Prospectus relating exclusively to a series
of Debt Securities other than the Securities) has been filed or
transmitted for filing with the Commission, of the issuance by the
Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the
use of any prospectus relating to the Securities, of the suspension of the
qualification of such Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction,
of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose,
or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of
the Registration Statement or Prospectus (other than any supplement or
amendment to the Prospectus relating exclusively to a series of Debt
Securities other than the Securities) or for additional information; and,
in the event of the issuance of any such stop order or of any such order
preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the
Securities or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best
efforts to obtain its withdrawal;
(b) Promptly from time to time to take such action as the
Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for
offering and sale under the securities and insurance laws of such
jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request and to comply
with such laws to the extent necessary to permit the continuance of sales
and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary
to complete the distribution of the Securities; provided, however, that in
connection therewith the
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Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a
dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified
or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
(c) To furnish the Underwriters with copies of the Prospectus in
such quantities as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably
request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time in
connection with the offering or sale of the Securities and if at such time
any event shall have occurred or condition exist as a result of which the
Prospectus, as it may then be amended or supplemented, would include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus is
delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be
necessary during such same period, in the opinion of the Representatives
or the Company, to amend or supplement the Prospectus or to file under the
Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in
order to comply with the Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act,
to notify the Representatives of such event, condition, filing, amendment
or supplement and upon the Representatives' request to file such document
and to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any
dealer in securities as many copies as the Representatives may from time
to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the
Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such
compliance;
(d) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as
practicable, but in any event not later than 90 days following the close
of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement, covering a
twelve-month period beginning not later than the first day of the
Company's fiscal quarter next following the "effective date" (as defined
in Rule 158 under the Act) of the Registration Statement, of the Company
and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section
11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder (including Rule 158);
(e) During the period beginning from the date of the Pricing
Agreement and continuing to and including the Time of Delivery, not to
offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities
of the Company (except that the Company shall have the right to close
during such period the sale of any debt securities under its medium-term
note programs that it had agreed to sell on or before the date of the
Pricing Agreement and of which it had informed the Representatives prior
to their execution of the Pricing Agreement) having an original maturity
of more than one year after such Time of Delivery without the prior
consent of the Representatives; and
(f) The Company shall file in a timely manner all documents required
to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13 and 14 of the
Exchange Act.
SECTION 4. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES. The Company agrees to pay or cause to be
paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company's
counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Debt
Securities under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the
preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
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Prospectus and the Prospectus and amendments and supplements thereto and the
mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (ii)
the cost of printing or producing any Agreement Among Underwriters, this
Agreement, the Pricing Agreement, the Indenture, any Delayed Delivery Contracts,
any Blue Sky and Legal Investment Memoranda and any other documents in
connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Debt
Securities; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Debt
Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in
Section 3(b) hereof, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel
for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection
with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (iv) any fees charged by
securities rating services for rating the Securities; (v) any filing fees
incident to any required review by the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. of the terms of the sale of the Debt Securities; (vi) the cost of
preparing the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any
agent of the Trustee; and (viii) all other costs and expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations hereunder and under any Delayed Delivery
Contracts which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 4.
It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section 4, Section 6
and Section 8 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and
expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their own counsel, transfer
taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and any advertising expenses
connected with any offers they may make.
SECTION 5. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS. The several
obligations of the Underwriters under the Pricing Agreement shall be subject, in
the discretion of the Representatives, to the condition that all representations
and warranties of the Company in or incorporated by reference in the Pricing
Agreement are, at and as of the Time of Delivery, true and correct, the
condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder
theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:
(a) The Prospectus Supplement or, if the Company shall have elected
to rely on Rule 434 under the Act, the Term Sheet and any Rule 434 (c) (2)
Prospectus required by Rule 434 (c) (2) under the Act, shall have been
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable
time period prescribed therefor by Section 3(a) hereof; no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been
issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or
threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information
on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the
Representatives' reasonable satisfaction;
(b) Brown & Wood LLP, counsel for the Underwriters (or such other
counsel as shall be indicated in the Pricing Agreement), shall have
furnished to the Representatives such opinion or opinions, dated the Time
of Delivery, with respect to the due and valid authorization, execution
and delivery of the Indenture, the Securities and the Delayed Delivery
Contracts, if any, and the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and
other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and
such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may
reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters (in rendering
such opinion or opinions, Brown & Wood LLP may rely as to matters of
Indiana Law upon the opinions of Baker & Daniels (or other counsel
licensed to practice in the State of Indiana) and of the General Counsel
(or Associate General Counsel) of the Company referred to in subsections
5(c) and 5(d), respectively);
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(c) Baker & Daniels, counsel for the Company (or such other counsel
as shall be indicated in the Pricing Agreement), shall have furnished to
the Representatives their written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect
that:
(i) The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly
existing under the laws of the State of Indiana, with corporate
power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business
as described in the Prospectus;
(ii) The Pricing Agreement (including the provisions of this
Agreement) and any Delayed Delivery Contracts have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(iii) The Indenture (a) has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and (assuming the Indenture has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee) constitutes a
valid and legally binding instrument of the Company, enforceable
against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles; (b)
has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and (c)
conforms in all material respects to the description thereof in the
Prospectus;
(iv) The Securities (a) have been duly authorized and, when
executed and authenticated pursuant to the Indenture and issued and
delivered against payment therefor pursuant to this Agreement and
the Pricing Agreement (or, in the case of any Contract Securities,
pursuant to the Delayed Delivery Contracts with respect thereto),
will be duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms and
entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors' rights and to general equity principles; (b) are in the
form authorized in or pursuant to the Indenture; and (c) conform in
all material respects to the description thereof in the Prospectus;
(v) The Registration Statement is effective under the Act and,
to the best knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no
proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or threatened by the
Commission;
(vi) The Registration Statement, at the time it became
effective, and as amended or supplemented as of the date of the
Pricing Agreement (or, if the Company shall have elected to rely on
Rule 434 under the Act, as of the time the Term Sheet was filed with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (7) under the Act) (other
than the financial statements and other financial information
included
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therein and the Form T-1, as to which no opinion or belief need be
expressed), appeared on its face to be appropriately responsive in
all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Act, the
Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder; and
(vii) The Company is not, and after giving effect to the issue
and sale of the Securities will not be, an "investment company" as
such term is defined in the Investment Company Act.
In addition, such opinion shall also contain a statement that
no facts have come to such counsel's attention that lead them to
believe that the Registration Statement (other than the financial
statements and other financial and statistical data contained
therein and the Form T-1, as to which such counsel need not express
any comment), at the time it became effective, or if an amendment to
the Registration Statement or an annual report on Form 10-K has been
filed by the Company with the Commission subsequent to the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement, then at the time the
most recent such amendment became effective or the most recent such
Form 10-K was filed, as the case may be, and as of the date of the
Pricing Agreement, contained an untrue statement of a material fact
or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or that the
Prospectus (other than the financial statements and other financial
and statistical data contained therein and the Form T-1, as to which
such counsel need not express any comment) as amended or
supplemented to reflect the terms of the offering of the Securities
by the Prospectus Supplement or Term Sheet, as the case may be, and
as amended or supplemented at the Time of Delivery, contains an
untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
In rendering such opinion, Baker & Daniels may rely as to
matters of New York law upon the opinion or opinions of Brown & Wood
LLP (or other counsel licensed to practice in the State of New York)
referred to in subsection 5(b);
(d) The General Counsel of the Company or, in his absence, an
Associate General Counsel of the Company, shall have furnished to the
Representatives his written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that:
(i) Each of the subsidiaries of the Company has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a business corporation or an
insurer, as the case may be, in good standing under the laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation, provided, however, that "good
standing" means with respect to any corporation incorporated under
the laws of the State of Indiana that such corporation has filed its
most recent annual report required by the laws of the State of
Indiana and Articles of Dissolution have not been filed in the State
of Indiana with respect to such corporation; to the knowledge of
such counsel, the Company and each of its
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subsidiaries has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for
the transaction of business or licensed to transact business as an
insurance company, as the case may be, and is in good standing under
the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases
substantial properties, or conducts business, and where the failure
so to qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business
of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; all of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of each such subsidiary have
been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable, and (except for any directors' qualifying shares)
are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, free and clear of
all liens and encumbrances; and, to the knowledge of such counsel,
the Company and each of its subsidiaries has all required
authorizations, approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and
permits of and from all governmental regulatory officials and bodies
(including, without limitation, each insurance regulatory authority
having jurisdiction over the Company or any insurance subsidiary of
the Company) to own or lease its properties and to conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus, except such authorizations,
approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and permits which, if not
obtained, would not have a material adverse effect on the business
of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (such counsel
being entitled to rely in respect of the opinion in this clause (i)
upon opinions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Representatives) of local counsel and of counsel for the
subsidiaries, such counsel being acceptable to counsel for the
Underwriters, copies of which shall be furnished to the
Representatives; and in respect of matters of fact upon certificates
of officers of the Company or its subsidiaries, provided that such
counsel shall state that he believes that he is justified in relying
upon such opinions and certificates);
(ii) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending,
or, to the knowledge of such counsel, threatened, of a character
that are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and
Prospectus, other than as disclosed therein; to the knowledge of
such counsel, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages, deeds
of trust, loan agreements or other documents of a character required
to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus (or
required to be filed under the Exchange Act if upon such filing they
would be incorporated by reference therein) or to be filed as
exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described and
filed as required;
(iii) The issue and sale of the Securities, the compliance by
the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the
Indenture, each of the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, this
Agreement and the Pricing Agreement, and the consummation of the
transactions herein and therein contemplated will not (A) conflict
with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or
constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust,
loan agreement or other agreement or instrument for money borrowed
to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by
which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which
any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is subject, or (B) result in any violation of (x) the
provisions of the Restated
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Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or the Amended and Restated
By-Laws of the Company or (y) any statute or any order, rule or
regulation known to such counsel of any court or governmental agency
or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or any of their properties, in any manner which, in the
case of clauses (A) and (B)(y), would have a material adverse effect
on the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole
(such counsel being entitled to rely in respect of the opinion in
this clause (iii) with respect to subsidiaries upon opinions (in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives)
of counsel for the subsidiaries, such counsel being acceptable to
counsel for the Underwriters, copies of which shall be furnished to
the Representatives, provided that such counsel shall state that he
believes that he is justified in relying upon such opinions); and
(iv) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration
or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or
body is required for the issue and sale of the Securities, or the
consummation by the Company of the other transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, the Pricing Agreement, the Indenture, or any
Delayed Delivery Contract, except such as may be required under the
Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals,
authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required
under "blue sky" or state securities laws or insurance laws in
connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by
the Underwriters.
(e) At the Time of Delivery, the independent certified public
accountants who have audited the consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall have furnished to the Representatives a
letter or letters dated such Time of Delivery, with respect to such
consolidated financial statements, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect set forth in Annex II
hereto;
(f) Since the date of the Pricing Agreement and since the respective
dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, there shall have
been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a
prospective material adverse change, in the business, financial condition,
or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, the
effect of which is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives, so
material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed
with the public offering or the delivery of the Underwriters' Securities
on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(g) Subsequent to the date of the Pricing Agreement, no downgrading
shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company's long-term debt
securities by either Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services;
(h) Subsequent to the date of the Pricing Agreement, there shall not
have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material
limitation in trading in securities
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generally on the New York Stock Exchange or any other exchange on which
application shall have been made to list the Securities; (ii) a general
moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York declared by either
Federal or New York State authorities; or (iii) the outbreak or material
escalation of major hostilities in which the Unites States is involved or
the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war on or
after the date of such Pricing Agreement, if the effect of any such event
specified in this subsection 5(h), in the reasonable judgment of the
Representatives, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the
public offering or the delivery of the Underwriters' Securities on the
terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus; and
(i) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to
the Representatives at the Time of Delivery, a certificate or certificates
of the Company signed by the Chairman, the President or a Vice President
as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company
herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the
Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to
such Time of Delivery, and as to the matters set forth in the first two
clauses of subsection 5(a) and in subsection 5(f).
SECTION 6. INDEMNIFICATION.
(a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, as
incurred, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with
investigating, preparing for or defending against any such action or
claim, commenced or threatened; provided, however, that the Company shall
not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim,
damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any
such amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with
written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any
Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and
provided, further, that the Company shall not be liable to any Underwriter
under the indemnity agreement in this subsection (a) with respect to any
Preliminary Prospectus to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or
liability of such Underwriter results from the fact that such Underwriter
sold Underwriters' Securities to a person to whom there was not sent or
given, at or prior to the written confirmation of such sale, a copy of the
Prospectus as then amended or supplemented (excluding documents
incorporated by reference therein) in any case where such delivery is
required by the Act if the Company has previously furnished copies thereof
to such Underwriter and the loss, claim, damage or liability of such
Underwriter results from an untrue statement or
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omission or alleged untrue statement or omission of a material fact
contained in the Preliminary Prospectus which was corrected in the
Prospectus (or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented).
(b) Each Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as incurred, to which
the Company may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any amendment
or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in
each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was
made in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on
behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use
therein, and will reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating,
preparing for or defending against any such action or claim, commenced or
threatened.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection
(a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement or threat of any action,
such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made
against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the
indemnifying party in writing of the commencement or threat thereof, but
the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from
any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than
under such subsection. In case any such action shall be commenced or
threatened against any indemnified party and it shall notify the
indemnifying party of the commencement or threat thereof, the indemnifying
party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it
shall wish and so elect within a reasonable time after receipt of such
notification, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly
notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such
indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the
indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party and it being
understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any
one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions
in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or
circumstances, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one
separate firm of attorneys (provided that local counsel may be retained to
the extent necessary) for all such indemnified parties (treating the
indemnified party and the persons referred to in subsection (e) below to
which the provisions of this Section 6 shall extend as a single
indemnified party for such purpose)), and, after notice from the
indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume
the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such
indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other
counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than
reasonable costs of investigation. Whether or not the indemnifying party
elects to assume
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the defense of any action commenced or threatened in accordance with this
subsection (c), the indemnifying party shall not be liable for any
settlement of such action effected by the indemnified party unless such
settlement is effected with the prior written consent of the indemnifying
party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is
unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on
the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of
the Securities. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately
preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the
indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c)
above or is not entitled to receive the indemnification provided for in
subsection (a) above because of the second proviso thereof, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only
such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the
one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the
statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on
the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be deemed to be
in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from such offering
(before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total
underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters. The
relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things,
whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on
the other hand and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission, including, with respect to any Underwriter, the extent to which
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus result from the fact
that such Underwriter sold Underwriters' Securities to a person to whom
there was not sent or given, at or prior to the written confirmation of
such sale, a copy of the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented
(excluding documents incorporated by reference) in any case where such
delivery is required by the Act, if the Company has previously furnished
copies thereof to such Underwriter and the loss, claim, damage or
liability results from an untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission of a material fact contained in the Preliminary
Prospectus which was corrected in the Prospectus (or the Prospectus as
amended or supplemented). The Company and the Underwriters agree that it
would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this
subsection (d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the
Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other
method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable
considerations referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount paid
or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in
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respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed
to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing for or
defending against any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any
amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the
Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered
to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has
otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall
be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation. The obligations of the Underwriters in this
subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective
underwriting obligations with respect to the Securities and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 6 shall be in
addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall
extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who
controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act; and the
obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 6 shall be in addition
to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and
shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and
director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the
Company within the meaning of the Act.
SECTION 7. DEFAULT OF UNDERWRITERS.
(a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase
the Underwriters' Securities which it has agreed to purchase under the
Pricing Agreement, the Representatives may in their discretion arrange for
themselves or another party or other parties to purchase such
Underwriters' Securities on the terms contained herein. If within
thirty-six hours after such default by any Underwriter the Representatives
do not arrange for the purchase of such Underwriters' Securities, then the
Company shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within
which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to the
Representatives to purchase such Underwriters' Securities on such terms.
In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, the
Representatives notify the Company that they have so arranged for the
purchase of such Underwriters' Securities, or the Company notifies the
Representatives that it has so arranged for the purchase of such
Underwriters' Securities, the Representatives or the Company shall have
the right to postpone the Time of Delivery for such Underwriters'
Securities for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect
whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements,
and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments or supplements to
the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in the opinion of the
Representatives may thereby be made necessary. The term "Underwriter" as
used in this Agreement and the Pricing Agreement shall include any person
substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had
originally been a party to the Pricing Agreement.
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(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of
the Underwriters' Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
by the Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a)
above, the aggregate amount of such Underwriters' Securities which remains
unpurchased does not exceed ten percent of the aggregate amount of the
Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each
non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the amount of Underwriters'
Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase under the Pricing
Agreement and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to
purchase its pro rata share (based on the amount of the Securities which
such Underwriter agreed to purchase under the Pricing Agreement) of the
Underwriters' Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall
relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default. The
respective commitments of the Underwriters for purposes of this Section
shall be determined without regard to reduction in the respective
Underwriters' obligations to purchase the amounts of the Securities set
forth opposite their names in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement as a
result of Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, entered into by the Company.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of
the Underwriters' Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
by the Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a)
above, the aggregate amount of Underwriters' Securities which remains
unpurchased exceeds ten percent of the aggregate amount of the Securities
as determined as set forth in subsection (b) above, or if the Company
shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require
non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Underwriters' Securities of a
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then the Pricing Agreement shall
thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting
Underwriter or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the
Company and the Underwriters as provided in Section 4 hereof and the
indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 6 hereof; but nothing
herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its
default.
(d) As used in this Section 7 only, "aggregate amount" refers to the
aggregate principal amount of any Debt Securities.
SECTION 8. SURVIVAL OF CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND OBLIGATIONS. The
respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other
statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this
Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this
Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf
of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company,
or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall
survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. If the Pricing Agreement
shall be terminated pursuant to Section 7 hereof, the Company shall not then be
under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Section 4 and
Section 6 hereof; but, if for any other reason Underwriters' Securities are not
delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided herein, the Company will
reimburse the Underwriters through the Representatives for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably
incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale
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and delivery of the Underwriters' Securities, but the Company shall then be
under no further liability to any Underwriter with respect to the Securities
except as provided in Section 4 and Section 6 hereof.
SECTION 9. PARTIES AND NOTICES.
(a) In all dealings hereunder, the Representatives shall act on behalf of
each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and
rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any
Underwriter made or given by such Representatives jointly or by such of the
Representatives, if any, as may be designated for such purpose in the Pricing
Agreement; and
(b) Unless otherwise provided herein, all statements, requests, notices
and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, or by telegram or facsimile
transmission, and if to the Underwriters shall be sufficient in all respects if
delivered or sent by mail to the Representatives, as such, at the address of the
Representatives designated for such purpose as set forth in the Pricing
Agreement; and if to the Company shall be sufficient in all respects if
delivered or sent by mail to the Company c/o American General Corporation, 2929
Allen Parkway, A41-03, Houston, Texas 77019-2155, Attention: Treasurer;
provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 6(c)
hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail to such Underwriter at its address set
forth in its Underwriters' Questionnaire, or telex constituting such
Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by the
Representatives upon request.
SECTION 10. SUCCESSORS. This Agreement and the Pricing Agreement shall be
binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company
and, to the extent provided in Section 6 and Section 8 hereof, the officers and
directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or any
Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors
and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by
virtue of this Agreement or the Pricing Agreement. No purchaser of any of the
Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason
merely of such purchase.
SECTION 11. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement and the Pricing Agreement shall
be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New
York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such State.
SECTION 12. COUNTERPARTS. The Pricing Agreement may be executed by any one
or more of the parties thereto in any number of counterparts, each of which
shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute one and the same instrument.
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ANNEX I
PRICING AGREEMENT
[Name of Representatives]
[Name of Co-Representative(s)]
As representatives of the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto
[c/o Representatives]
[Address of Representative]
............, 19...
Dear Sirs:
American General Finance Corporation, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein and in
the Underwriting Agreement filed as an exhibit to the Company's registration
statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-_____) and attached hereto (the "Underwriting
Agreement"), to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto
(the "Underwriters") the debt securities (the "Debt Securities") specified in
Schedule II hereto. Each of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement is
incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, and shall be deemed to be a
part of this Pricing Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been
set forth in full herein; and each of the representations and warranties set
forth therein shall be deemed to have been made at and as of the date of this
Pricing Agreement. Each reference to the Representatives herein and in the
provisions of the Underwriting Agreement so incorporated by reference shall be
deemed to refer to you. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Underwriting Agreement are used herein as therein defined. The Representatives
designated to act on behalf of each of the Underwriters pursuant to Section 9 of
the Underwriting Agreement and the address of the Representatives referred to in
such Section 9 are set forth in Schedule II hereto.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the
Underwriting Agreement incorporated herein by reference, the Company agrees to
issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees,
severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the time and place
and at the purchase price to the Underwriters set forth in Schedule II hereto,
the principal amount of Debt Securities set forth opposite the name of such
Underwriter in Schedule I hereto [, less the principal amount of Debt Securities
covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any].
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and
return to us _____________ counterparts hereof, and upon acceptance hereof by
you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance
hereof, including the provisions of the Underwriting
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Agreement incorporated herein by reference, shall constitute a binding agreement
between each of the Underwriters and the Company.
Very truly yours,
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
By: ______________________________________________
(Title)
Accepted as of the date hereof:
[Name of Representative Corporation
By: _________________________________]
(Title)
[Name of Representative Partnership
_______________________________________
(Name of Representative Partnership)]
On behalf of each of the Underwriters
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SCHEDULE I
Principal Amount of
Debt Securities to be
Underwriter Purchased
----------- ---------------------
[Names of Representatives] ................ $
[Names of other Underwriters] ............
_________
Total ............................... $
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SCHEDULE II
TITLE OF DEBT [_____%] [Floating Rate] [Zero Coupon] Senior [Notes]
SECURITIES: [Debentures] due
FORM OF DEBT
SECURITIES: [Global Security-Book Entry] [Certificated] [Bearer]
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL $_____________________
AMOUNT:
PRICE TO PUBLIC: _____% of the principal amount of the Debt Securities,
plus accrued interest[, if any,] from ________
to ___________ [and accrued amortization, if any, from
__________ to __________]
PURCHASE PRICE BY ____% of the principal amount of the Debt Securities
UNDERWRITERS: plus accrued interest[, if any,] from __________ to
____________ [and accrued amortization, if any, from
___________ to __________]
METHOD OF AND [By certified or official bank check or checks, payable to
SPECIFIED FUNDS the order of the Company in [New York] Clearing House
FOR PAYMENT OF Funds]
PURCHASE PRICE:
[By wire transfer to a bank account specified by the
Company in [next] [same] day funds]
INDENTURE: Indenture dated as of May 1, 1999 between the Company and
Citibank, N.A., as Trustee.
TIME OF DELIVERY: [Time and date]
CLOSING LOCATION:
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NAMES AND ADDRESSES Designated Representatives:
OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Address for Notices, etc.:
[SECURITIES EXCHANGE: Debt Securities to be listed on the [New York] Stock
Exchange]
[FILING DATE: Time and date Prospectus Supplement and/or Term Sheet to
be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (b) [if different than
provided in Section 3(a)]]
DELAYED DELIVERY: [None] [Underwriters' commission shall be ____% of the
principal amount of Debt Securities for which Delayed
Delivery Contracts have been entered into. Such
commission shall be payable to the order of
______________________________.]
MATURITY:
INTEREST RATE: [_____%] [Zero Coupon] [See Floating Rate Provisions]
INTEREST PAYMENT [months and dates]
DATES:
RECORD DATES: [months and dates]
REDEMPTION [No provisions for redemption]
PROVISIONS:
[The Debt Securities may be redeemed, [otherwise than
through the sinking fund,] in whole or in part at the
option of the Company, in the amount of $__________
or an integral multiple thereof, ___________]
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[on or after ______________________, _______ at the
following redemption prices (expressed in percentages of
principal amount). If [redeemed on or before
__________________, _____%, and if] redeemed during
the 12-month period beginning ______________,
YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE
and thereafter at 100% of their principal amount, together
in each case with accrued interest to the redemption
date.]
[on any interest payment date falling on or after
_________________, ___________, at the election of the
Company, at a redemption price equal to the principal
amount thereof, plus accrued interest to the date of
redemption.]
[Other possible redemption provisions, such as mandatory
redemption upon occurrence of certain events or redemption
for changes in tax law]
[Restriction on refunding]
REPAYMENT PROVISIONS: [None] [Debt Securities are repayable on ________, ___
[insert date and year[s]], at the option of the holder, at
their principal amount with accrued interest.]
SINKING FUND [No sinking fund provisions]
PROVISIONS:
[The Debt Securities are entitled to the benefit of a
sinking fund to retire $_________ principal amount of
Debt Securities on ___________ in each of the years _____
through _____ at 100% of their principal amount plus
accrued interest] [, together with [cumulative] [non-
cumulative] redemptions at the option of the Company to
retire an additional $_________ principal amount of
Debt Securities in the years _____ through _____ at 100%
of the principal amount plus accrued interest.]
[IF DEBT SECURITIES ARE EXTENDIBLE SECURITIES, INSERT --
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EXTENDIBLE Debt Securities are repayable on ______________,
PROVISIONS: ____________ [insert date and years], at the option of the
holder at their principal amount with accrued interest.
Initial annual interest rate will be _____%, and
thereafter annual interest rate will be adjusted
on ___________, __________________ and _______ to a rate
not less than _____% of the effective annual interest rate
on U.S. Treasury obligations with ___-year maturities as
of the [insert date 15 days prior to maturity date] prior
to such [insert maturity date].]
[IF DEBT SECURITIES ARE FLOATING RATE SECURITIES, INSERT --
FLOATING RATE Initial annual interest rate will be _____% through
PROVISIONS: ______________ [and thereafter will be adjusted [monthly]
[quarterly] [semi-annually] [on each _____________,
______________, ______________ and __________] [to an
annual rate of _____% above the average rate for _____-
year [month] [securities] [certificates of deposit] by
______________ and ______________ [insert names of
banks].] [and the annual interest rate [thereafter] [from
____________ through _____________] will be the interest
yield equivalent of the weekly average per annum market
discount rate for _____-month Treasury bills plus _____%
of Interest Differential (the excess, if any, of (i) then
current weekly average per annum secondary market yield
for _____-month certificates of deposit over (ii) then
current interest yield equivalent of the weekly average
per annum market discount rate of _____-month Treasury
bills); [from _____________ and thereafter the rate will
be the then current interest yield equivalent plus
_____% of Interest Differential].]
[OTHER TERMS]*:]
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* A description of particular tax, accounting or other unusual features of
the Debt Securities should be set forth, or referenced to an ATTACHED AND
ACCOMPANYING description, if necessary to the issuer's understanding of the
transaction contemplated. Such a description might appropriately be in the form
in which such features will be described in the Prospectus Supplement for the
offering.
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ANNEX II
Pursuant to subsection 5(e) of the Underwriting Agreement, the
Underwriters shall have received from the independent certified public
accountants who have audited the financial statements of the Company and its
subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and Prospectus, one or more letters, dated as of the Time of Delivery, each of
which shall be to the effect that they are independent auditors with respect to
the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and
regulations thereunder and which, when read together, shall be to the further
effect that:
(i) In their opinion the consolidated financial statements audited by
them and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus, comply as to form in all material respects with
the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and
the related published rules and regulations thereunder;
(ii) On the basis of performing the procedures specified by the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for a review of interim
financial information as described in Statement on Auditing Standards No.
71, INTERIM FINANCIAL INFORMATION, on any unaudited financial statements
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
Prospectus, a reading of any other unaudited financial statement data
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
Prospectus, a reading of the latest available interim unaudited financial
statements of the Company and its subsidiaries ("Interim Financials"), if
any, a reading of any unaudited pro forma financial statements included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and
a reading of the minutes of the Company's shareholder's meetings, the
meetings of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee of the Board
of Directors and the Terms and Pricing Committee of the Board of Directors
since the end of the most recent fiscal year with respect to which an
audit report has been issued and inquiries of and discussions with certain
officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and
accounting matters with respect to the unaudited financial statements and
any other unaudited financial statement data included or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, any Interim
Financials, and any unaudited pro forma financial statements included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus,
and as to whether (1) as of a specified date not more than three business
days prior to the date of the letter, there was any change in the
consolidated capital stock or any increase in consolidated long-term debt
of the Company and its subsidiaries (except for increases due to accretion
of discount on original issue discount securities, if any) or any decrease
in the consolidated net assets of the Company and its subsidiaries (before
considering the effect of unrealized gains and losses on debt and equity
securities classified as "available for sale" under Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 115) as compared with the amounts shown
on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus (the "Recent Balance Sheet") or (2) during the
period, if any, from the date of
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the Recent Balance Sheet to the date of the most recent balance sheet
included in the Interim Financials (the "Interim Period") there was any
decrease, as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year,
in consolidated total revenues or in consolidated net income of the
Company and its subsidiaries, or (3) during the period from the date of
the Interim Financials or, if there are no Interim Financials, from the
date of the Recent Balance Sheet to a specified date not more than three
business days prior to the date of the letter there was any decrease, as
compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year, in
consolidated total revenues or in consolidated net income of the Company
and its subsidiaries, which reading, inquiries and discussions would not
necessarily reveal changes in the financial position or results of
operations or inconsistencies in the application of generally accepted
accounting principles or other matters of significance with respect to the
following, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe
that (A) any material modifications should be made to the unaudited
financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus for
them to be in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or
that such unaudited financial statements do not comply as to form in all
material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the
Exchange Act and the related published rules and regulations thereunder,
(B) the Interim Financials, if any, are not stated on a basis
substantially consistent with that of the audited consolidated financial
statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus, (C) any other unaudited financial statement data
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
Prospectus do not agree with the corresponding items in the unaudited
financial statements from which such data were derived or any such
unaudited financial statement data were not determined on a basis
substantially consistent with the corresponding amounts in the audited
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus, (D) any unaudited pro forma
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus do not comply as to form in all
material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of Rule
11-02 of Regulation S-X or the pro forma adjustments have not been
properly applied to the historical amounts in the compilation of those
statements, (E)(1) as of the date of the Interim Financials, if any, and
as of a specified date not more than three business days prior to the date
of the letter, there was any change in the consolidated capital stock or
any increase in consolidated long-term debt of the Company and its
subsidiaries (except for increases due to accretion of discount on
original issue discount securities, if any) or any decrease in the
consolidated net assets of the Company and its subsidiaries (before
considering the effect of unrealized gains and losses on debt and equity
securities classified as "available for sale" under SFAS No. 115) as
compared with the amounts shown on the Recent Balance Sheet or (2) during
any Interim Period, there was any decrease, as compared with the
corresponding period in the preceding year, in consolidated total revenues
or in consolidated net income of the Company and its subsidiaries, or (3)
during the period from the date of the Interim Financials or, if there are
no Interim Financials, from the date of the Recent Balance Sheet to a
specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of the
letter there was any decrease, as compared with the corresponding period
in the preceding year, in consolidated total revenues or in consolidated
net income of the Company and its subsidiaries except in each such case
for (1), (2) and (3)
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as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement and
Prospectus or except for such exceptions as may be enumerated in such
letter; and
(iii) In addition to the limited procedures referred to in clause (ii)
above, they have carried out certain other specified procedures, not
constituting an audit, with respect to certain amounts, percentages and
financial information which are derived from the general financial and
accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries, which are included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus
and which are specified by the Representatives and have compared such
amounts, percentages and financial information with the financial and
accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and have found them
to be in agreement.
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ANNEX III
DELAYED DELIVERY CONTRACT
___________________, 19__
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
c/o [Name and address of appropriate
Representatives]
Attention:
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned hereby agrees to purchase from American General Finance
Corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"), and the Company agrees to sell
to the undersigned,
[$______________________________________
principal amount] of the Company's [Title of Securities] (the "Securities"),
offered by the Company's Prospectus dated , 19__, as amended or supplemented by
the Prospectus Supplement dated _______________, 19__, receipt of a copy of
which is hereby acknowledged, at a purchase price of [ % of the principal amount
thereof] [, plus accrued interest, if any, from the date from which interest
accrues as set forth below,] [and accrued amortization, if any, from [ ] [the
date from which interest accrues as set forth below][ to the Delivery Date] and
on the further terms and conditions set forth in this contract.
[The undersigned will purchase the Securities from the Company on , 19__
(the "Delivery Date") and interest on the Securities so purchased will accrue
from _________, 19__.]
[The undersigned will purchase the Securities from the Company on the
delivery date or dates and in the principal amount or amounts set forth below:
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PRINCIPAL [DATE FROM WHICH
DELIVERY DATE AMOUNT INTEREST ACCRUES
_______, 19__ $ ______________, 19__
_______, 19__ $ ______________, 19__]
Each such date on which Securities are to be purchased hereunder is hereinafter
referred to as a "Delivery Date".]
Payment for the Securities which the undersigned has agreed to purchase on
[the] [each] Delivery Date shall be made to the Company or its order by
certified or official bank check in _________________ Clearing House funds at
the office of _______________ or by wire transfer to a bank account specified by
the Company, on [the] [such] Delivery Date upon delivery to the undersigned of
the Securities then to be purchased by the undersigned in definitive form and in
such denominations and registered in such names as the undersigned may designate
by written or telegraphic communication addressed to the Company not less than
[three] full business days prior to [the] [such] Delivery Date.
The obligation of the Company to make delivery of and accept payment for,
and the obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make payment for,
Securities on [the] [each] Delivery Date shall be subject only to the conditions
that (1) the purchase of the Securities to be made by the undersigned shall not
on [the] [such] Delivery Date be prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction
to which the undersigned is subject, and (2) the Company shall have sold to the
Underwriters the total principal amount of the Securities less the principal
amount thereof covered by this and other similar contracts. The obligation of
the undersigned to take delivery of and make payment for Securities shall not be
affected by the failure of any purchaser to take delivery of and make payment
for Securities pursuant to other contracts similar to this contract. The
undersigned represents and warrants that, as of the date of this contract, the
undersigned is not prohibited from purchasing the Securities hereby agreed to be
purchased by it under the laws of any jurisdiction to which the undersigned is
subject.
Promptly after completion of the sale to the Underwriters the Company will
mail or deliver to the undersigned at its address set forth below notice to such
effect, accompanied by a copy of the opinions of counsel for the Company
delivered to the Underwriters in connection therewith.
This contract will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties
hereto and their respective successors, but will not be assignable by either
party hereto without the written consent of the other.
This contract may be executed by either of the parties hereto in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original but all
such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
It is understood that the acceptance by the Company of any Delayed
Delivery Contract (including this contract) is in the Company's sole discretion
and that, without limiting the
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foregoing, acceptances of such contracts need not be on a first-come,
first-served basis. If this contract is acceptable to the Company, it is
requested that the Company sign the form of acceptance below and mail or deliver
one of the counterparts hereof to the undersigned at its address set forth
below. This will become a binding contract between the Company and the
undersigned when such counterpart is so mailed or delivered by the Company.
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This contract shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed
in such state.
Yours very truly,
_______________________________________
(Name of Purchaser)
By ____________________________________
(Signature)
_______________________________________
(Name and Title)
_______________________________________
(Address)
Accepted _______________________, 19__
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
By ___________________________________
[Title]
PURCHASER - PLEASE COMPLETE AT TIME OF SIGNING
The name and telephone number of the representative of the Purchaser with
whom details of delivery on the Delivery Date may be discussed are as follows:
(Please type or print.)
TELEPHONE NO.
NAME (INCLUDING AREA CODE)
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EXHIBIT 4
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
TO
CITIBANK, N.A.
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
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DATED AS OF MAY 1, 1999
(SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS..............................................1
ACT ............................................................2
ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS................................................2
AFFILIATE.........................................................2
AUTHENTICATING AGENT..............................................2
AUTHORIZED NEWSPAPER..............................................2
BEARER SECURITY...................................................3
BOARD OF DIRECTORS................................................3
BOARD RESOLUTION..................................................3
BUSINESS DAY......................................................3
CERTIFICATE OF A FIRM OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS...........3
COMMISSION........................................................3
COMPANY...........................................................3
COMPANY REQUEST AND COMPANY ORDER.................................3
CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH............................................4
CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE............................................4
CORPORATION.......................................................4
COUPON............................................................4
DEFAULTED INTEREST................................................4
DEPOSITORY........................................................4
DOLLARS OR $......................................................4
EVENT OF DEFAULT..................................................4
FOREIGN CURRENCY..................................................4
GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS............................................4
HOLDER............................................................5
INDEBTEDNESS......................................................5
INDENTURE.........................................................5
INDEXED SECURITY..................................................5
INTEREST..........................................................6
INTEREST PAYMENT DATE.............................................6
JUDGMENT CURRENCY.................................................6
MANDATORY SINKING FUND PAYMENT....................................6
MATURITY..........................................................6
MORTGAGE..........................................................6
NEW YORK BANKING DAY..............................................6
NEW YORK FACILITY.................................................6
OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE.............................................6
OPINION OF COUNSEL................................................6
OPTIONAL SINKING FUND PAYMENT.....................................7
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ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY..................................7
OUTSTANDING.......................................................7
PAYING AGENT......................................................8
PERSON............................................................8
PLACE OF PAYMENT..................................................8
PREDECESSOR SECURITY..............................................8
REDEMPTION DATE...................................................8
REDEMPTION PRICE..................................................9
REGISTERED SECURITY...............................................9
REGULAR RECORD DATE...............................................9
REQUIRED CURRENCY.................................................9
RESPONSIBLE OFFICER...............................................9
SECURITY or SECURITIES............................................9
SECURITY REGISTER and SECURITY REGISTRAR..........................9
SPECIAL RECORD DATE...............................................9
STATED MATURITY...................................................9
SUBSIDIARY........................................................9
TRUST INDENTURE ACT..............................................10
TRUSTEE..........................................................10
UNITED STATES....................................................10
UNITED STATES ALIEN..............................................10
U.S. DEPOSITORY OR DEPOSITORY....................................10
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS..........................10
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE........................11
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS...............................................12
SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.........................14
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES; WAIVER.......................15
SECTION 107. LANGUAGE OF NOTICES, ETC......................................16
SECTION 108. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.............................16
SECTION 109. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS......................16
SECTION 110. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS........................................16
SECTION 111. SEPARABILITY AND SAVING CLAUSES...............................16
SECTION 112. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.........................................17
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SECTION 113. GOVERNING LAW.................................................17
SECTION 114. LEGAL HOLIDAYS................................................17
SECTION 115. CERTIFICATE OF FIRM OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
CONCLUSIVE....................................................17
SECTION 116. JUDGMENT CURRENCY.............................................17
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS OF SECURITIES...........................................18
SECTION 202. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION...............19
SECTION 203. SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM.....................................19
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES..........................20
SECTION 302. CURRENCY; DENOMINATIONS.......................................23
SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING................24
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES..........................................26
SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE...........27
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES..............30
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST AND CERTAIN ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS; RIGHTS
PRESERVED.....................................................31
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.........................................33
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION..................................................34
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.......................................34
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.......................34
SECTION 402. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY....................................37
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.............................................38
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT............39
SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.......................................................41
SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM..............................41
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES
OR COUPONS....................................................42
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED................................42
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS...........................................43
SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL AND ANY
PREMIUM, INTEREST AND ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.....................44
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES............................44
SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE................................44
SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER..................................44
SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF SECURITIES..............................45
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.......................................45
SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.........................................46
SECTION 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS..............................46
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES...........................46
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS............................................48
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.....................................48
SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES........49
SECTION 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES...........................................50
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST...........................................50
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT................................50
SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATIONS; CONFLICTING INTERESTS......................51
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.......................51
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR............51
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR........................53
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS..54
SECTION 613. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT...........................54
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS OF
REGISTERED SECURITIES.......................................56
SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS........57
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE............................................57
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY............................................57
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS OF COMPANY AND SALES AND
CONVEYANCES PERMITTED SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS...........58
SECTION 802. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SUCCESSOR ENTITY.........................59
SECTION 803. OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL..................59
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS............60
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS...............63
SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..........................65
SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.............................65
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT...........................65
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...........65
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND ANY PREMIUM, INTEREST AND
ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS...........................................66
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY..............................66
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST............67
SECTION 1004. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS...........................................69
SECTION 1005. STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE; NOTICE OF CERTAIN DEFAULTS......69
SECTION 1006. CORPORATE EXISTENCE..........................................70
SECTION 1007. LIMITATION ON LIENS..........................................70
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SECTION 1008. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS..................................73
SECTION 1009. DEFEASANCE OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS............................73
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.....................................75
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE........................75
SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED............76
SECTION 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.........................................76
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE..................................77
SECTION 1106. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE........................78
SECTION 1107. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART..................................78
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.....................................79
SECTION 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES........79
SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND....................80
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.....................................80
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED....................81
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SECTION 1402. CALL, NOTICE AND PLACE OF MEETINGS...........................81
SECTION 1403. PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT MEETINGS.........................81
SECTION 1404. QUORUM; ACTION...............................................82
SECTION 1405. DETERMINATION OF VOTING RIGHTS; CONDUCT AND ADJOURNMENT OF
MEETINGS...................................................83
SECTION 1406. COUNTING VOTES AND RECORDING ACTION OF MEETINGS.............84
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 1501. SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES.............................84
SECTION 1502. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS...................................84
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INDENTURE, dated as of May 1, 1999, between AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE
CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"), having
its principal office at 601 N.W. Second Street, Evansville, Indiana 47708 and
CITIBANK, N.A., a national banking association, as Trustee (hereinafter called
the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its
lawful purposes debt securities (hereinafter called the "Securities") evidencing
its unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and has duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the
Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of interest, if
any, to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more series and to
have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act (as hereinafter defined) and the rules and regulations of the Commission (as
hereinafter defined) promulgated thereunder that are required to be part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by such provisions.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders (as hereinafter defined) thereof, it is mutually
covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of
the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
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(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect
to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at
the date of such computation;
(d) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(e) the term "day," unless designated as a "Business Day," means a
calendar day.
"ACT," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS" means any additional amounts that are required
by the Securities of a particular series or by or pursuant to a
supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or other instrument authorizing
such series of Securities, under the circumstances specified therein, to
be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes, duties, assessments or
other governmental charges imposed on certain Holders and which are owing
to such Holders.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control," when used with respect to any specified Person,
means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and
"controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 613 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"AUTHORIZED NEWSPAPER" means a newspaper, in an official language of
the country of publication or in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays,
Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in the place in connection
with which the term is used or in
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the financial community of such place. Where successive publications are
required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications
may be made in the same or in different Authorized Newspapers in the same
city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business
Day.
"BEARER SECURITY" means any Security in the form established
pursuant to Section 201 which is payable to bearer.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of one or more resolutions certified
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been
duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect
on the date of such certification, delivered to the Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY," when used with respect to any Place of Payment or
any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the
Securities, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
that is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment
or such other location are authorized or obligated by law or executive
order to close except as may otherwise be provided in the form of
Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture.
"CERTIFICATE OF A FIRM OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS" means a
certificate signed by an independent public accountant or a firm of
independent public accountants who may be the independent public
accountants regularly retained by the Company or who may be other
independent public accountants. Such accountant or firm shall be entitled
to rely upon an Opinion of Counsel as to the interpretation of any legal
matters relating to such certificate.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this
instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now
assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing
such duties at such time.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor entity shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor entity.
"COMPANY REQUEST" and "COMPANY ORDER" mean, respectively, a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman, the
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President, a Vice President (any reference to a Vice President of the
Company herein shall be deemed to include any Vice President of the
Company whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added
before or after the title "Vice President"), the Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company,
delivered to the Trustee.
"CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH" means consolidated assets minus
consolidated liabilities determined in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the office of the Trustee in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York at which, at any particular
time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered,
which office on the date of execution of this Indenture is located at 111
Wall Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10043, except that with respect
to presentation of Securities for payment or for registration of transfer
or exchange, such term shall mean the office or agency of the Trustee at
which, at any particular time, its corporate agency business shall be
conducted, which office or agency on the date of execution of this
Indenture is located at 111 Wall Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York
10043.
"CORPORATION" includes corporations, associations, companies and
business trusts.
"COUPON" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"DEPOSITORY" has the meaning specified with respect to such term
under the definition of "U.S. Depository."
"DOLLARS" or "$" or any similar reference shall mean the coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal
tender for the payment of public and private debts, except as may
otherwise be provided in the form of Securities of any particular series
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"FOREIGN CURRENCY" means any currency, currency unit or composite
currency issued by the government of one or more countries other than the
United States of America or by any recognized confederation or association
of such governments.
"GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS," with respect to any Security, means (i)
direct obligations of the government or governments which issued the
currency in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such
Security or any Additional Amounts in respect thereof shall be payable, in
each case where the timely
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payment or payments thereunder are supported by the full faith and credit
of such government or governments or (ii) obligations of a Person
controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of
such government or governments, in each case where the timely payment or
payments thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by such government or governments, and which, in the
case of (i) or (ii), are not callable or redeemable at the option of the
issuer or issuers thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt
issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such
Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of
or other amount with respect to any such Government Obligation held by
such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt,
PROVIDED that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized
to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such
depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of
the Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or
principal of or other amount with respect to the Government Obligation
evidenced by such depository receipt.
"HOLDER" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in
whose name the Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the
case of a Bearer Security (or any temporary global Security), the bearer
thereof, and, in the case of any coupon, the bearer thereof.
"INDEBTEDNESS" means all obligations which in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles would be classified upon a
balance sheet as liabilities, including without limitation by the
enumeration thereof, obligations arising through direct or indirect
guarantees (including agreements, contingent or otherwise, to purchase
Indebtedness or to purchase property or services for the primary purpose
of enabling the payment of Indebtedness or assuring the owner of
Indebtedness against loss) or through agreements, contingent or otherwise,
to supply or advance funds for the payment or purchase of Indebtedness of
others; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining Indebtedness of any Person,
there shall not be included rental obligations under any lease of such
Person, whether or not such rental obligations would, under generally
accepted accounting principles, be required to be shown on the balance
sheet of such Person as a liability item.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed or as it
may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions
hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
"INDEXED SECURITY" means a Security the terms of which provide that
the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or
less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
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"INTEREST," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security
which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section
1004, includes such Additional Amounts.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE," when used with respect to any Security,
means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"JUDGMENT CURRENCY" has the meaning specified in Section 116.
"MANDATORY SINKING FUND PAYMENT" has the meaning specified in
Section 1201.
"MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security, means the date
on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the
Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption,
notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes the
Redemption Date.
"MORTGAGE" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest,
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or other similar
encumbrance.
"NEW YORK BANKING DAY" has the meaning specified in Section 116.
"NEW YORK FACILITY" means the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee
as long as such Corporate Trust Office is located in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York and otherwise means the facility of the
Trustee located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York at which
Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment or registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company
in respect of Securities and this Indenture may be served, either pursuant
to Section 1002 or as so specified pursuant to Section 301.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the Chairman,
the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company which
certificate complies with the requirements, if applicable, of Section
314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act and is delivered to the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel who is
(except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) an employee of
or counsel for the Company, or other counsel acceptable to the Trustee,
which opinion complies with the requirements, if applicable, of Section
314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
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"OPTIONAL SINKING FUND PAYMENT" has the meaning specified in Section
1201.
"ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY" means any Security issued
pursuant to this Indenture which provides for an amount less than the
principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon acceleration thereof
pursuant to Section 502.
"OUTSTANDING," when used with respect to any Securities, means, as
of the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, EXCEPT:
(a) any such Security theretofore canceled by the Trustee
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) any such Security, or portion thereof, for whose payment or
redemption money and/or Government Obligations in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited pursuant hereto with the Trustee or any Paying Agent
(other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of
such Securities and any coupons thereto appertaining, PROVIDED that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made; and
(c) any such Security that has been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Security in respect of
which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it
that such Security is held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Security
is a valid obligation of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder or whether a quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of
Securities, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount
Security that shall be counted in making such determination and that shall
be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to the amount
of the principal thereof that would be due and payable pursuant to the
terms of such Original Issue Discount Security as of the date of such
determination upon acceleration thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the
principal amount of a Security denominated in a Foreign Currency shall be
the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue
Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of original
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issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (i)
above) of such Security, (iii) the principal amount of an Indexed Security
that shall be counted in making such determination and that shall be
deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to the principal
face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, and (iv)
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded
and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, or upon any such
determination as to the presence of a quorum, only Securities which the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned
that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any coupons
appertaining thereto or any Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor.
"PAYING AGENT" means the Company or any Person authorized by the
Company to pay the principal of and any premium or interest on, or any
Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security or any coupon
appertaining thereto on behalf of the Company.
"PERSON" means any individual, corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, joint venture, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"PLACE OF PAYMENT," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where, subject to the provisions of
Section 1002, the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any
Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities of that series are
payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in
exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or a Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or the Security to which the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, as the case may be.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Security or portion
thereof to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
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"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Security or
portion thereof to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be
redeemed as determined by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"REGISTERED SECURITY" means any Security established pursuant to
Section 201 which is registered in the Security Register.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Registered Securities of any series means the date, if
any, specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301, whether or
not a Business Day.
"REQUIRED CURRENCY" has the meaning specified in Section 116.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER," when used with respect to the Trustee, means
any officer of the Trustee assigned by it to administer corporate trust
matters.
"SECURITY" or "SECURITIES" means any Security or Securities, as the
case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as
Trustee under this Indenture, "Securities," with respect to any such
Person, shall mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which
such Person is not Trustee.
"SECURITY REGISTER" and "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on
the Registered Securities of any series means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 307.
"STATED MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or any premium or interest thereon or any
Additional Amounts with respect thereto, means the fixed date on which the
principal of such Security or such installment of principal or premium or
interest is or such Additional Amounts are due and payable, determined as
contemplated by Section 301.
"SUBSIDIARY" means any corporation of which at the time of
determination the Company and/or one or more Subsidiaries owns or controls
directly or indirectly more than 50% of the total voting power of shares
of stock or other equity interests having general voting power under
ordinary circumstances (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) and entitled to vote in the election of directors, managers
or trustees of such corporation. "Wholly-owned," when used with reference
to a Subsidiary, means a Subsidiary of which all of the outstanding
capital
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stock (except directors' qualifying shares) is owned by the Company and/or
one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a
particular provision thereof shall mean such Trust Indenture Act or
provision, as the case may be, as amended or replaced from time to time or
as supplemented from time to time by rules or regulations adopted by the
Commission under or in furtherance of the purposes of such Trust Indenture
Act or provision, as the case may be.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become
such with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall
mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any
time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to
the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that series.
"UNITED STATES," except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, means the United States of America (including the States
thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and
other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"UNITED STATES ALIEN," except as otherwise provided in or pursuant
to this Indenture, means any Person who, for United States Federal income
tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual, a
non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign
partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. DEPOSITORY" or "DEPOSITORY" means, with respect to any
Security issuable or issued in the form of one or more global Securities,
the Person designated as U.S. Depository or Depository by the Company in
or pursuant to this Indenture, which Person must be, to the extent
required by applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, if so provided
with respect to any Security, any successor to such Person. If at any time
there is more than one such Person, "U.S. Depository" or "Depository"
shall mean, with respect to any Securities, the qualifying entity which
has been appointed with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the
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Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with, provided that in the case of any such application or request as
to which the furnishing of such documents or either of them is specifically
required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular
application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or
covenant has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by,
or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate of counsel or
Opinion of Counsel 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 matters upon which his certificate or opinion
is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of counsel or Opinion of Counsel or
representations by counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual
matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or
officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such
factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows,
or in the
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exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument.
SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be
given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in
person or by an agent duly appointed in writing. If, but only if,
Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities in whole or in
part, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be
given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively,
be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of
such series voting in favor thereof, either in person or by proxies duly
appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of such
series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fourteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except
as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective
when such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the
Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting
at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a
writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a
Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the
Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1406.
Without limiting the generality of this Section 104, unless
otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a
Depository that is a Holder of a global Security, may make, give or take,
by a proxy or proxies, duly appointed in writing, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided
in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders,
and a Depository that is a Holder of a global Security may provide its
proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such global
Security through such Depository's standing instructions and customary
practices.
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The Trustee may fix a record date for the purpose of determining the
Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any global Security held
by a Depository entitled under the procedures of such Depository to make,
give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given
or taken by Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such
record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such
Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether
or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date. No such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action shall be valid or effective if made, given or taken more than
90 days after such record date.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the
individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the
execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a
capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit
shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date
of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of
the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner
which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Registered Securities and the principal amount
and serial numbers of Registered Securities held by any Person, and the
date of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register.
(d) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer
Securities held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be
proved by the production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate
executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other
depositary reasonably acceptable to the Company, wherever situated, if
such certificate shall be deemed by the Company and the Trustee to be
satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had
on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities
therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or
affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such
certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Company and the Trustee to be
satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership
of any Bearer Security continues until (i) another certificate or
affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer
Security is produced, or (ii) such Bearer Security is produced to the
Trustee by some other Person, or (iii) such Bearer Security is surrendered
in exchange for a Registered Security, or (iv) such Bearer Security is no
longer Outstanding. The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of
Bearer Securities held by any Person, and the
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date of holding the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the
Company and the Trustee deem sufficient.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of any Registered
Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action, the Company may, at its option, by Board
Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders
of Registered Securities entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, but the
Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed,
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action may be given before or after such record date, but only the
Holders of Registered Securities of record at the close of business on
such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding
Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for
that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such
record date; PROVIDED that no such authorization, agreement or consent by
the Holders of Registered Securities on such record date shall be deemed
effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of
this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
(f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done
by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any
Authenticating Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Security.
SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, by United States first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of its Treasurer at the
address of its principal office
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specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES; WAIVER.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture, where this Indenture provides for notice to
Holders of Securities of any event,
(a) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Registered
Securities if in writing and mailed by United States first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security affected by such
event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed
for the giving of such notice; and
(b) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer
Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York
and in such other city or cities, if any, as may be specified in such
Securities and, if the Securities of such series are then listed on any
stock exchange outside the United States, in an Authorized Newspaper in
such city as the Company shall advise the Trustee that such stock exchange
so requires, on a Business Day at least twice, the first such publication
to be not earlier than the earliest date and the second such publication
to be not later than the latest date prescribed for the giving of such
notice.
In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is
given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any
notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect
the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered
Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities
given as provided herein. Any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or provided. In
case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any
other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to Holders of
Registered Securities by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the
approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every
purpose hereunder.
In case by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided
above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given
with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in
any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice to Holders
of Registered Securities given as provided herein.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be
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filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to
the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 107. LANGUAGE OF NOTICES, ETC.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the
English language, except that, if the Company so elects, any published notice
may be in an official language of the country of publication.
SECTION 108. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required to be a part of and govern
this Indenture, such required provision shall control.
SECTION 109. 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 110. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not, and all rights of
the Company hereunder shall inure to the benefit of such successors and assigns.
SECTION 111. SEPARABILITY AND SAVING CLAUSES.
(a) In case any provision in this Indenture or in any Security or
coupon shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, either wholly or
partially, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
(b) No provision of this Indenture or of any Security or coupon
shall require the payment or permit the collection of interest or any
Additional Amounts in excess of the maximum which is not prohibited by
law. If any such excess interest is provided for herein or in any Security
or coupon, which shall be adjudicated to be so provided for, then the
Company shall not be obligated to pay such interest or Additional Amounts
in excess of the maximum not prohibited by law until such time, if any, as
it shall become legal to do so.
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SECTION 112. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in any Security or coupon, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security
Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their respective
successors and assigns hereunder, and the Holders of Securities or coupons, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 113. GOVERNING LAW.
This Indenture and the Securities and coupons, including the
validity thereof, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of New York.
SECTION 114. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Maturity or Stated Maturity of any Security,
or any installment of principal thereof or any premium or interest thereon or
any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, shall not be a Business Day at any
Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or
the Securities or coupons other than a provision in the Securities or coupons of
any series which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of
this Section) payment of principal or any premium or interest or Additional
Amounts with respect to such Security need not be made at such Place of Payment
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place
of Payment with the same force and effect as if made at the Maturity or Stated
Maturity, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period
from and after such Maturity or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to such
next succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 115. CERTIFICATE OF FIRM OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
CONCLUSIVE.
A Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants shall be
conclusive evidence of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company as of the date
of any determination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall be under
no duty to require that it be furnished with a Certificate of a Firm of
Independent Public Accountants either annually or at any other periodic interval
or in any event unless evidence of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company
shall be required.
SECTION 116. JUDGMENT CURRENCY.
The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do
so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in
any court it is necessary to convert the sum due on the Securities of any series
from the currency in which such sum is payable in accordance with the terms of
such Securities (the "Required Currency") into a currency in which a judgment
will be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be
the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could
purchase in The City of
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New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York
Banking Day preceding that on which a final unappealable judgment is rendered
and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required
Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery
pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection
(a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent
that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee,
of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect
of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional
cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the
amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount
of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be
affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture.
For purposes of the foregoing, "New York Banking Day" means any day except a
Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or a day on which
banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law
or executive order to close.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. FORMS OF SECURITIES.
The Registered Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer
Securities, if any, of each series, and related coupons shall be in such form or
forms (including permanent or temporary global form) as shall be established in
one or more indentures supplemental hereto or by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution in accordance with Section 301, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto
and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or
designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required
to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or
with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange or as may consistently
herewith be determined by the officers executing such Securities or coupons, as
evidenced by their execution of the Securities or coupons.
If the forms of Securities or coupons of any series are established
by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record
of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of
such Securities or coupons.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any series of Securities, the Securities of each series shall be
issuable in registered form without coupons.
The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be typewritten,
printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these
methods or may be produced in
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any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing
such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities
or coupons.
SECTION 202. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
______________________________________
AS TRUSTEE
Dated: By ___________________________________
AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
SECTION 203. SECURITIES IN GLOBAL FORM.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the
Securities shall not be issuable in global form. If Securities of a series shall
be issuable in global form, any such Security may provide that it or any number
of such Securities shall represent the aggregate amount of all Outstanding
Securities of such series (or such lesser amount as is permitted by the terms
thereof) from time to time endorsed thereon and may also provide that the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to
time be increased or reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of any
Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in
the amount, or changes in the rights of Holders, of Outstanding Securities
represented thereby shall be made in such manner and by such Person or Persons
as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered pursuant
to Section 303 or 304 with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section
303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any
Security in global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person
or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company
Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered,
any instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in global form shall
be in writing but need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers'
Certificate and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. The terms of the
Securities in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in this Indenture shall
be determined or established in any one or more of the following ways: (1) in
one or more indentures supplemental hereto; (2) in one or more Board
Resolutions; or (3) in a manner specified in or authorized by one or more Board
Resolutions (in which case such Board Resolutions shall be included in or
attached to an Officers' Certificate setting forth such terms or the manner in
which such terms are to be determined or established). The terms to be so
determined or established shall include:
(a) the title of the Securities and the series in which such
Securities shall be included;
(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of such series which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
Securities of such series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107);
(c) whether such Securities are to be issuable as Registered
Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without coupons or both) or both,
any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of Bearer
Securities of the series, the terms, if any, upon which Bearer Securities
of the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and
vice versa, whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable
initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of the
series are to be issuable in permanent global form with or without coupons
and, if so, (1) when any of such Securities are to be issued in global
form, (2) whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent
global Security may exchange such interests for certificated Securities of
such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and
the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than
in the manner provided in Section 305, (3) the name of the U.S. Depository
or the Depository, as the case may be, with respect to any global
Security, and (4) the form of any legend or legends to be borne by any
such global Security in addition to or in lieu of the legend referred to
in Section 303;
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(d) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any
global Security representing Outstanding Securities of the series shall be
dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security of
the series to be issued;
(e) if Securities of the series are to be issuable as Bearer
Securities, whether interest in respect of any portion of a temporary
Bearer Security in global form (representing all or any portion of the
Outstanding Bearer Securities of the series) payable in respect of an
Interest Payment Date therefor prior to the exchange, if any, of such
temporary Bearer Security for definitive Securities of the series shall be
paid to any clearing organization with respect to the portion of such
temporary Bearer Security held for its account and, in such event, the
terms and conditions (including any certification requirements) upon which
any such interest payment received by a clearing organization will be
credited to the Persons entitled to interest payable on such Interest
Payment Date;
(f) the date or dates on which the principal of such Securities is
payable, or the manner in which such date or dates shall be determined;
(g) the rate or rates at which such Securities shall bear interest,
if any, or the manner in which such rate or rates shall be determined, the
date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the manner in which
such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on
which any such interest shall be payable or the manner in which such
Interest Payment Dates shall be determined, and the Regular Record Date,
if any, for any interest payable on any such Registered Securities on any
such Interest Payment Date, whether and under what circumstances
Additional Amounts on such Securities or any of them shall be payable and,
if so, whether the Company has the option to redeem the affected
Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts, and the basis upon
which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months;
(h) each Place of Payment of such Securities, if any, other than or
in addition to the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where,
subject to Section 1002, the principal of and any premium and interest on
or Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, such Securities
shall be payable, and the place or places where any Registered Securities
of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, Securities
of the series may be surrendered for exchange and any notices and demands
to or upon the Company in respect of such Securities and this Indenture
may be served;
(i) whether such Securities are to be redeemable at the option of
the Company and, if so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods
within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions
upon which such Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the
option of the Company;
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(j) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem such Securities
pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or to repay such
Securities at the option of a Holder thereof or upon the occurrence of one
or more specified events and, if so, the date or dates on which, the
period or periods within which (or the event or events upon which), the
price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which
such Securities shall be redeemed or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant
to such obligation, and any provisions for the remarketing of such
Securities so redeemed or repaid;
(k) the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the
series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, and the denomination or denominations in which
any Bearer Securities of the series shall be issuable, if other than the
denomination of $5,000;
(l) if other than the full principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of any such Securities that shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
502 or the manner in which such portion is to be determined;
(m) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency in which payment of
the principal of and any premium and interest on, and any Additional
Amounts in respect of, such Securities shall be payable;
(n) if the principal of and any premium or interest on, and any
Additional Amounts in respect of, such Securities are to be payable, at
the election of the Company or a Holder thereof or otherwise, in a coin or
currency, including a Foreign Currency, other than that in which such
Securities are stated to be payable, the period or periods within which,
and the other terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made,
and the time and manner of determining the exchange rate between the coin
or currency in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be
payable and the coin or currency in which such Securities or any of them
are to be so payable;
(o) whether the amount of payments of principal of and any premium
or interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, such Securities
may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method or
methods (which index, formula or method or methods may be based, without
limitation, on one or more currencies, commodities, equity indices or
other indices) and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which and the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined and paid or payable;
(p) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events
of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to such Securities,
whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the
Events of Default or
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covenants set forth herein, any change in the right of the Trustee or
Holders to declare the principal of such Securities due and payable, and
any additions to the definitions currently set forth in this Indenture;
(q) the form or forms of such Securities, if any, and, if any
Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether
upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such
series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or
satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and terms of such
certificates, documents or conditions;
(r) if there is more than one Trustee, the identity of the Trustee
and, if not the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar, Paying
Agent and Authenticating Agent with respect to such Securities; and
(s) any other terms of such Securities (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and any coupons appertaining to any
Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except as to
coin or currency of payments due thereunder, denomination, the rate or rates of
interest, if any, or the method of determining the rate of interest, if any, the
date or dates from which interest, if any, shall accrue, and Stated Maturity and
except as may otherwise be provided in the terms of such Securities determined
or established as provided above. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened
for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the Securities or coupons of any series are
established by action that is specified in or authorized by a Board Resolution
and such action is to be taken at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of such series of Securities or the manner
in which such terms are to be determined or established, then a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of such series
or the manner in which such terms are to be determined or established.
SECTION 302. CURRENCY; DENOMINATIONS.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any series of Securities, the principal of, any premium and interest
on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable in
Dollars. Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, any Registered Securities of a series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and any
Bearer Securities of a series shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000.
Securities not denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in such denominations as
are established with respect to such Securities in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
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SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal
reproduced thereon attested by its Treasurer or Secretary or one of its
Assistant Treasurers or Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. Coupons shall bear the
facsimile signature of the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices on the date(s) such Securities were issued.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery
of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, together
with any coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee
for authentication, together with the Board Resolution and Officers'
Certificate, supplemental indenture or other instrument with respect to such
Securities referred to in Sections 201 and 301 and a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order and subject to the provisions hereof shall authenticate
and deliver such Securities. If all the Securities of any series are not to be
issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture
establishing such series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth
procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and
determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such as interest
rate, maturity date, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue.
In authenticating Securities hereunder, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
(a) an Opinion of Counsel stating substantially to the effect
that,
(1) the form and terms of such Securities and coupons, if any,
or the manner of determining such terms, have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(2) such Securities and coupons, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms,
except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, or other laws
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and by
general equity principles, and except further as enforcement thereof
may be limited by (i) requirements that a claim (or a Foreign
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Currency judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into
Dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined
pursuant to applicable law or (ii) governmental authority to limit,
delay or prohibit the making of payments in a Foreign Currency or
payments outside the United States (and with such other exceptions
as to enforceability as such counsel shall state are not materially
adverse to the Holders); and
(b) an Officers' Certificate stating, to the best knowledge of each
signer of such certificate, that no event which is, or after notice or
lapse of time would become, an Event of Default with respect to any of the
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause an Authenticating
Agent to authenticate such Securities if the issuance of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner that
is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Opinion of Counsel and Officers'
Certificate at the time of issuance of each such Security, but such opinion and
certificate shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 301 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one
or more global Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in
accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect to such series,
authenticate and deliver one or more global Securities in temporary or permanent
form that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series to be
represented by such global Security or Securities, (ii) shall be registered, if
in registered form, in the name of the Depository for such global Security or
Securities or the nominee of such Depository, (iii) shall be delivered by the
Trustee to such Depository or pursuant to such Depository's instruction and (iv)
shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect (or to such other
effect as may be specified in the document authorizing such series of Securities
or as the Depository, the Trustee and the Company may agree): "Unless and until
it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in certificated form, this
Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee
of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another
nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a
successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository."
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. Each Bearer Security and any temporary Bearer Security in global
form shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated by Section 301.
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No Security or coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any
benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless
there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in
the form provided for in Section 202 or 613 executed by or on behalf of the
Trustee or an Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of its
authorized officers. Such an executed certificate of authentication upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Except as permitted by
Section 306 or 307, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer
Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have been
detached and canceled.
SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the
Company may execute and deliver to the Trustee, and upon Company Order the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the manner provided in Section 303,
temporary Securities of such series which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued, in registered form or, if authorized in or pursuant to this
Indenture, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such temporary Securities may
be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, which
shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary
Securities of any series are issued, the Company shall cause definitive
Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of such definitive Securities, the temporary Securities of such
series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series containing
identical terms and provisions upon surrender of the temporary Securities of
such series at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose
pursuant to Section 1002, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied
by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations of the
same series containing identical terms and provisions; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
no definitive Bearer Security, except as provided pursuant to Section 301, shall
be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and PROVIDED,
FURTHER, that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a
temporary Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in or
pursuant to this Indenture. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301 with respect to a temporary global Security, until so exchanged the
temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
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SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
With respect to the Registered Securities, if any, of each series of
Securities, the Company shall cause to be kept at an office or agency of the
Company maintained pursuant to Section 1002 a register (each such register being
herein sometimes referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for
the registration of the Registered Securities of each series and of transfers of
the Registered Securities of each series. Such office or agency shall be the
"Security Registrar" for the Registered Securities, if any, of each series of
Securities. In the event that the Trustee shall not be the Security Registrar
with respect to a particular series of Securities, it shall have the right to
examine the Security Register for such series at all reasonable times. Unless
otherwise provided with respect to a series of Securities in a supplemental
indenture, Board Resolution or other instrument authorizing such series of
Securities, Citibank, N.A. is hereby appointed Security Registrar for each
series of Securities until a successor has been appointed by a Board Resolution
or an instrument executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, President or
one of its Vice Presidents and delivered to the Trustee.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at any office or agency of the Company maintained for
that series pursuant to Section 1002, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding, and containing identical terms and
provisions.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series
(except a global Security representing all or a portion of such series) may be
exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical
terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any
such office or agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so surrendered for
exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the Registered Securities that the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
If provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to
Securities of any series, at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of such
series may be exchanged for Registered Securities or Bearer Securities (if
Bearer Securities of such series are issuable in more than one denomination) of
the same series containing identical terms and provisions, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Company
maintained for such series, with all unmatured coupons and all matured coupons
in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to
produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or matured coupon or coupons in
default, such exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied
by payment in funds acceptable to the Company and the Trustee in an amount equal
to the face amount of such missing coupon or coupons, or the surrender of such
missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
is furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may
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require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the
Holder of such Bearer Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such
missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such
Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency for such series located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series
is surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered
Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of business at such
office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii)
any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such
Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be (or, if
such coupon is so surrendered with such Bearer Security, such coupon shall be
returned to the person so surrendering the Bearer Security), and interest or
Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, shall not be payable on such Interest
Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the
Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but shall be
payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
If expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect
to the Securities of any series, at the option of the Holder, Registered
Securities of such series may be exchanged for Bearer Securities upon such terms
and conditions as may be provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect
to such series.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture, any global Security shall be exchangeable for
certificated Securities only if (i) the Depository is at any time unwilling,
unable or ineligible to continue as Depository and a successor depository is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days of the date the Company is so informed
in writing, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company
Order to the effect that such global Security shall be so exchangeable, (iii) an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities
of the same series, or (iv) in the case of a global Security representing Bearer
Securities, upon the written request of a beneficial owner of an interest in
such global Security given to the Depository. If the beneficial owners of
interests in a global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for
certificated Securities of such series, then without unnecessary delay but in
any event not later than the earliest date on which such interests may be so
exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee certificated Securities in
such form and denominations as are required by or pursuant to this Indenture,
and of the same series as, containing identical terms as and in aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of, such global Security,
executed by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests
may be so exchanged, such global Security shall be surrendered from time to time
by the U.S. Depository (or such other
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Depository as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto) to
the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole
or in part, for certificated Securities as described above, without charge, in
accordance with instructions (which instructions shall be in writing but need
not be contained in or accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or be accompanied
by an Opinion of Counsel) given by the Company to the Trustee and such U.S.
Depository or other Depository, as the case may be. The Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for each portion of
such surrendered global Security, a like aggregate principal amount of
certificated Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of
like tenor as the portion of such global Security to be exchanged, which (unless
such Securities are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered
Securities, in which case the definitive Securities exchanged for the global
Security shall be issuable only in the form in which the Securities are
issuable, as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture) shall be in the form of
Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as shall
be specified by the beneficial owner thereof; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such
exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before any selection of Securities for redemption of the same series and
containing identical terms and ending on the relevant Redemption Date; and
PROVIDED, FURTHER, that (unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture) no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a global
Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United
States. Promptly following any such exchange in part, such global Security shall
be returned by the Trustee to the U.S. Depository or such other Depository
referred to above, as the case may be, in accordance with the instructions of
the Company referred to above, with an endorsement thereon to reflect the
decrease in the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby.
If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a global
Security after the close of business at the office or agency for such Security
where such exchange occurs on or after (i) any Regular Record Date for such
Security and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the next
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date for such Security and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed
date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, interest
shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment,
as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but shall be payable
on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be,
only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such global
Security shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitling the Holders thereof to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration
of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company
or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
Registrar therefor duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange or redemption of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the
Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange
Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the day of the selection for redemption of Securities of like tenor
and the same series under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business (A)
if Securities of the series are issuable only as Registered Securities, on the
day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, and (B) if Securities
of the series are issuable as Bearer Securities, on the day of the first
publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if Securities of the series
are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no publication, the
mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, (ii) to register the transfer of
or exchange any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion
thereof not to be redeemed, (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected
for redemption, except, to the extent provided with respect to such Bearer
Security, that such Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security
of like tenor and the same series, provided that such Registered Security shall
be immediately surrendered for redemption with written instruction for payment
consistent with the provisions of this Indenture or (iv) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Security that, in accordance with its terms, has
been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion,
if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.
SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.
If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon
appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security
of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and
provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons
corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
or coupon, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence
of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not
destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal
amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security
to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security or coupon;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that payment of principal of and any premium or interest on
or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Bearer Securities shall, except as
otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency for
such Securities located outside the United States.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series, with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, or
in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series and their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons.
SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST AND CERTAIN ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS;
RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities
in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to any Registered Security that is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid
to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest and any interest on any Bearer Security that is payable, and
is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
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Payment Date shall be paid upon surrender of the coupon appertaining thereto in
respect of the interest due on such Interest Payment Date. Unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, in case a Bearer Security is
surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security after the close of business at
an office or agency for such Security on any Regular Record Date therefor and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date therefor, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered
without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest shall not
be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security
issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but shall be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities
in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, any interest on and any
Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered Security of any series which
is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date for such Registered Security (herein called "Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided
in subsection (a) or (b) below:
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities affected (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each such Registered Security and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money
when so deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this subsection provided.
Thereupon, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less
than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than
10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special
Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall
cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, United States first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder of such Registered Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) at the address of such Holder as it
appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and
at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper of general circulation in The City
of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to
the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted
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Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Registered
Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at
the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be
payable pursuant to the following subsection (b). In case a Bearer
Security of any series is surrendered at the office or agency for such
Security in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the
close of business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related
proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security
shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such proposed date of
payment and Defaulted Interest shall not be payable on such proposed date
of payment in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for
such Bearer Security, but shall be payable only to the Holder of such
coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on such
Registered Securities in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if,
after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this subsection (b), such manner of payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
At the option of the Company, interest on Registered Securities of
any series that bear interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of
the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security
Register or by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank
located in the United States or by any other means permitted in the form of
Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305,
each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or
in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration
of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is
registered in the Security Register as the owner and Holder of such Registered
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal of and any
premium and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any Additional
Amounts in respect of, such Registered Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to such Registered Security
shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the
Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto
shall pass by delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
the Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any
coupon as the absolute owner of such Security
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or coupon for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and
for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to
such Security or coupon be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No owner of any beneficial interest in any global Security held on
its behalf by a Depository shall have any rights under this Indenture with
respect to such global Security, and such Depository may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner
and Holder of such global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the
Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or
payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a global Security,
for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such
beneficial ownership interests or for any other matter relating to the actions
and practices of the Depository, its nominee or its participants. None of the
Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar for Securities
represented by a global Security will be liable for any delay by the Depository
thereof, its nominee or any of its participants in identifying the owners of
beneficial interests in such global Security, and the Company and the Trustee
may conclusively rely on, and will be protected in relying on, instructions from
such Depository or its nominee for all purposes.
SECTION 309. CANCELLATION.
All Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption,
registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund
payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered
to the Trustee, and any such Securities and coupons, as well as Securities and
coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose, shall be
promptly canceled by the Trustee. The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may
deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated
hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture.
All canceled Securities and coupons held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in
accordance with its customary practices, subject to applicable law.
SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
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This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further
effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company
Request (except as provided in the last paragraph of this Section 401), and the
Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute such
instruments as may be requested by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to such series, when
(a) either
(1) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated
and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other
than (i) coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities of such series
surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and maturing
after such exchange, whose surrender is not required or has been
waived as provided in Section 305, (ii) Securities of such series
and coupons which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, (iii) coupons
appertaining to Securities of such series called for redemption and
maturing after the relevant Redemption Date, whose surrender has
been waived as provided by Section 1106 and (iv) Securities of such
series and coupons for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company
and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust,
as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(2) all such Securities of such series and, in the case of (i)
and (ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be
called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption
by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
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and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except
as provided in Section 402(c)) with the Trustee, as trust funds
and/or obligations in trust, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities of such series, (A) money in an amount, or (B) Government
Obligations which through the payment of interest and principal in
respect thereof in accordance with their terms, without
consideration of any reinvestment thereof, will provide not later
than the opening of business on the due dates of any payment of
principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts with
respect thereto money in an amount or (C) a combination thereof,
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities and coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including the principal of, any premium and interest
on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities and
coupons, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities of
such series which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
Maturity or Maturity thereof, as the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee a Certificate of a Firm
of Independent Public Accountants certifying as to the sufficiency of the
amounts deposited pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this
Section for payment of the principal and any premium, interest and
Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of such series on the
dates such payments are due, and an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such
series of Securities have been complied with.
If there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, and if a
different Trustee has been appointed with respect to one or more of such series,
then each Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture if requested to do so only with
respect to Securities of the series as to which it is Trustee and if the other
conditions thereto are met.
If subsequent to the date a discharge is effected pursuant to this
Section 401, Additional Amounts in excess of those established as of the date
such discharge is effected become payable in respect of the series of Securities
discharged, in order to preserve the benefits of the discharge established
hereunder, the Company shall irrevocably deposit or cause to be irrevocably
deposited in accordance with the provisions of this Section 401, within ten
Business Days prior to the date the first payment in respect of any portion of
such excess Additional Amounts becomes due, such additional funds as are
necessary to satisfy the provisions of this Section 401 as if a discharge
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were being effected as of the date of such subsequent deposit. Failure to comply
with the requirements of this paragraph shall result in the termination of the
benefits of the discharge established by this Section 401.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to a series of Securities, the obligations with respect to the
right of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series
provided for herein, the obligations of the Company under the preceding
paragraph, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and,
if money and/or Government Obligations shall have been irrevocably deposited
with the Trustee pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Section,
the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of
Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.
(a) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003,
all money and/or Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 401 or Section 1009 or pursuant to a supplemental
indenture entered into pursuant to Section 901(i), and all money received
by the Trustee in respect of any such Government Obligations, shall be
held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the
Securities, the coupons and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled
thereto, of the principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts
for whose payment such money has or Government Obligations have been
deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking
fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Section 401 or
Section 1009 or any such supplemental indenture; but such money and
Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds of the
Trustee except to the extent required by law.
(b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against
any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against Government
Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 401 or Section 1009 or pursuant
to a supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 901(i) or the
interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than
any payable by or on behalf of Holders.
(c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to
time upon Company Request any Government Obligations or money held by it
as provided in Section 401 or Section 1009 or in any supplemental
indenture entered into pursuant to Section 901(i) which, as expressed in a
Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants delivered to the
Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have
been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such obligations
or money were deposited or received.
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ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT," wherever used herein with respect to Securities
of any series (unless otherwise specified with respect to such series of
Securities in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or other instrument
authorizing such series of Securities), means any one of the following events
which has occurred and is continuing (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):
(a) default in the payment of any interest or Additional Amounts
payable in respect of any Security of that series or any coupon
appertaining thereto, when such interest or Additional Amounts become due
and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of and any premium on
any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at its
Maturity; or
(c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as
due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture or the Securities of that series
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose
breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has
been expressly included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a
series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified United States mail, to the Company by the Trustee
or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a
written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;
or
(e) an event of default, as defined in any mortgage, indenture or
instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may be
secured or evidenced, any Indebtedness for money borrowed of the Company
(including a default under this Indenture with respect to Securities of
any series other than that series), whether such Indebtedness now exists
or shall hereafter be created, shall happen and shall result in a
principal amount in excess of $25,000,000 of Indebtedness becoming or
being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise have become due and payable, and such acceleration shall not
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have been rescinded or annulled, or such Indebtedness shall not have been
discharged, within a period of 15 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified United States mail, to the Company by the Trustee
or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a
written notice specifying such event of default and requiring the Company
to cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled or to cause such
Indebtedness to be discharged and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(f) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall have entered a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
proceeding under any applicable United States bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of all or any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding-up or
liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed
and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(g) the Company shall have commenced a voluntary proceeding under
any applicable United States bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or shall have consented to
the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such
law, or shall have consented to the appointment of or taking possession by
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or
other similar official) of the Company or of all or any substantial part
of its property, or shall have made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors; or
(h) the Company shall have failed generally to pay its debts as they
become due or shall have taken any corporate action in furtherance of any
of the matters referred to in subsection (g) above; or
(i) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of such series in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or other
instrument authorizing such series.
SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any series of Securities, if an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing (other
than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(f) or (g)), then, and in every
such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the
principal amount (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as
may be specified in the terms thereof) of all of the Securities of that series
to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to
the Trustee if given by the
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Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or such specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default
specified in Section 501(f) or (g) with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then, and in every such case, the
principal amount (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as
may be specified in the terms thereof) of all of the Securities of that series
shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other
action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.
At any time after such acceleration with respect to Securities of
any series and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been
obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article, the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul
such acceleration and its consequences if:
(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum of
money sufficient to pay
(1) all overdue installments of any interest on and Additional
Amounts payable in respect of all Securities of that series and any
coupons appertaining thereto,
(2) the principal of and any premium on any Securities of that
series which have become due otherwise than by reason of such
acceleration and interest thereon and Additional Amounts with
respect thereto at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in
such Securities,
(3) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue installments of interest and Additional
Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such
Securities, and
(4) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series
which has become due solely by reason of such acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
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SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT
BY TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if
(a) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest or
any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security or any coupon
appertaining thereto when such interest or Additional Amounts shall have
become due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days,
or
(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of or any
premium on any Security at its Maturity,
the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of all Securities which are of the same series as such Security and any
coupons appertaining thereto, the whole amount of money then due and payable
with respect to such Securities and coupons for principal, premium, interest and
Additional Amounts and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be
legally enforceable, interest upon any overdue principal (and premium, if any)
and upon any overdue installments of interest and Additional Amounts, at the
rate or rates borne by or provided for in such series of Securities, and, in
addition thereto, such further amount of money as shall be sufficient to cover
the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and coupons and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and coupons, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series
occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect
and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such
series and any related coupons by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the
Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this
Indenture or such Securities or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or
other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto or the property of the Company
or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of
whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by acceleration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the
Trustee shall have made any demand on
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the Company for the payment of any overdue principal, premium, interest or
Additional Amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise,
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such lesser
amount as may be provided for in the Securities of any series, of
principal, premium, interest and Additional Amounts owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and to file
such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order
to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents and counsel) and of the Holders of Securities and coupons allowed
in such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claim and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder of Securities and coupons to make such payments to the Trustee and,
in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Holders of Securities and coupons, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a Security
or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Securities or coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or coupon in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES OR COUPONS.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or any of the
Securities or coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and
coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall
be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee
and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal, any
premium, interest or Additional Amounts, upon presentation of
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the Securities or coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon
of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the
Securities and any coupons for principal and any premium, interest and
Additional Amounts in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and payable on such
Securities and coupons for principal and any premium, interest and
Additional Amounts, respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
Subject to Section 508, no Holder of any Security of any series or
any related coupons 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 Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that
series;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event
of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable
benefit of all of such Holders.
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SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL
AND ANY PREMIUM, INTEREST AND ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security or coupon shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Sections 305 and 307) any interest on, and any Additional Amounts in
respect of, such Security, or payment of such coupon, as the case may be, on the
respective Stated Maturity or Maturities thereof expressed in such Security or
coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date or, in the case of
repayment at the option of such Holder, on the date such repayment is due) and
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or coupon has instituted
any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been
determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such
case the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of Securities or coupons 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 Trustee and such Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the
last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons 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 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security
or coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default
shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event
of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this
Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons may
be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or coupons, as the case may be.
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SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series; PROVIDED that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture or with the Securities of such series;
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction;
(c) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the rights of other
Holders of Securities of such series not joining in such action; and
(d) subject to the provisions of Sections 601 and 603, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the
Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the
Trustee in personal liability.
SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any related coupons waive any past default
hereunder with respect to the Securities of such series and its consequences,
except a default
(a) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest
on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of such series; or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security
or coupon by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant (other than the Company and the Trustee) in such suit of an undertaking
to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder of a Security
or coupon for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or any premium
or interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security, or the
payment of any coupon, on or after the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed
in such Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of a Holder, on or
after the date such repayment is due) or interest on any overdue principal of
any Security.
SECTION 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the 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 Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the 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 Trustee and conforming to the requirements
of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to
be furnished to
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the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of 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 man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, EXCEPT that
(1) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be
proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
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SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit, in the
manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall
have been cured or waived; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, except in the case of a
default in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or
Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of such series or in the payment
of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors
and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities and
coupons of such series; and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that in the case of any default
of the character specified in Section 501(d) with respect to Securities of such
series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after
the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default"
means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become,
an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.
SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in
acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document believed
by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other
than delivery of any Security to the Trustee for authentication and
delivery pursuant to Section 303 which shall be sufficiently evidenced as
provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by or pursuant to this Indenture at the
request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or
any related coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security
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or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make
such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability of
any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any default
or Event of Default (other than a default in any payment with respect to a
Security due on a fixed date and with respect to which the Trustee is a
Paying Agent) unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
assigned to its corporate trust department shall have actual knowledge
thereof or (ii) the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof in
accordance with Section 105 from the Company or any Holder referencing the
Securities and this Indenture; and
(i) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits
given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in
each of its capacities hereunder.
SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF
SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication) and in any coupons shall be taken as
the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating
Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly
authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities
and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in a
Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and
accurate, subject to the qualifications set forth therein. Neither the Trustee
nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
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SECTION 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating
Agent or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and coupons and, subject
to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, may otherwise deal with the
Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such other agent.
SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee
of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision
of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except to the extent any
such expense, disbursement or advance may be attributable to the Trustee's
gross negligence or willful misconduct; and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustee and its agents for, and to hold
each of them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense arising out
of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or
trusts hereunder or the performance of its duties hereunder, including the
costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder, except to the extent any such loss, liability or expense may be
attributable to its gross negligence or willful misconduct.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on, or
Additional Amounts in respect of, particular Securities or any coupons
appertaining thereto. "Trustee" for purposes of this Section 607 includes any
predecessor Trustee, but negligence or bad faith of any Trustee shall not be
attributed to any other Trustee.
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When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(f) or (g), the expenses
(including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable United States bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATIONS; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest, within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, it shall, within 90 days after ascertaining
that it has such conflicting interest, either eliminate such conflicting
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation or other person permitted by the Trust Indenture Act to act as
Trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and that has
a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until
the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required
by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days
after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to
the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a
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Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least
six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Holder of a Security, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for
the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company, by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, may remove such Trustee with respect to all Securities as to
which it is Trustee or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder of a
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of any series for
at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
such Trustee with respect to all Securities of such series and the
appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any
cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company,
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series
(it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with
respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at
any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of
any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements
of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring
Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company
or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 611, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
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(f) The Company shall give notice to the Holders of Securities of a
particular series of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series and each appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series in the
manner provided in Section 106. Each such notice shall include the name of
the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office and New York Facility.
SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and
such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties hereunder of
the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute
and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts hereunder of the retiring Trustee, and shall
duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to
its lien, if any, provided for in Section 607.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept
such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each
successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to
which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the
retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to
confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which
the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees as co-trustees of the same trust, that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee
and that no Trustee shall be responsible for any notice given to, or
received by, or any act or failure to act on the part of any other Trustee
hereunder; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein, such retiring Trustee shall with
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respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment
of such successor Trustee relates have no further responsibility for the
exercise of rights and powers or for the performance of the duties and
obligations vested in the Trustee under this Indenture other than as
hereinafter expressly set forth, and each such successor Trustee without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee, to the extent contemplated by such supplemental
indenture, the property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case
may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents acceptable
to the Company with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such
series issued upon original issue or exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing
signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall
be promptly furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this
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Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
subject to the approval of the Company and shall at all times be a bank or trust
company or corporation organized and doing business and in good standing under
the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $5,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authorities. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any
time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall (i) mail written notice
of such appointment by United States first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the series with respect to which
such Authenticating Agent shall serve, as their names and addresses appear in
the Security Register, and (ii) if Securities of the series are issued as Bearer
Securities, publish notice of such appointment at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper in the place where such successor Authenticating Agent has its
principal office if such office is located outside the United States. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent
herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible
under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation, including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses
for its services under this Section.
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The provisions of Sections 308, 604 and 605 shall be applicable to
each Authenticating Agent.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication substantially in
the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
______________________________________
AS TRUSTEE
Dated:
By ___________________________________
AS AUTHENTICATING AGENT
By ___________________________________
AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
If all of the Securities of any series may not be originally issued
at one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of
authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment
where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon
original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested in writing (which writing need
not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel) by the Company, shall appoint in accordance with this Section 613, and
on terms acceptable to the Trustee, an Authenticating Agent having an office in
a Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to such series of
Securities.
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF
HOLDERS OF REGISTERED SECURITIES.
The Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not later than fifteen days after the Regular
Record Date for a semi-annual Interest Payment Date for each series of
Securities, or, if there is no semi-annual Interest Payment Date for a
series of Securities, then not later than May 15 and November 15 in each
year, commencing on the first May 15 or November 15, as the case may be,
after the first issuance of such Securities
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hereunder, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Holders of Registered Securities of such
series as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the date of delivery
thereof, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior
to the time such list is furnished;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no
such list shall be required to be furnished for Securities for which the Trustee
acts as Security Registrar.
SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO
HOLDERS.
The Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it
pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act.
Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Security
Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in
accordance with Section 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the
source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not
be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made
under Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the
first May 15 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this
Indenture, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Trustee shall transmit a brief report dated as of such May 15 with respect
to any of the events specified in said Section 313(a) which may have
occurred since the later of the immediately preceding May 15 and the date
of this Indenture.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit the reports required by Section
313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified therein.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the
manner and to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and (d) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY.
(a) The Company, pursuant to Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act, shall:
(i) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of
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the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other
reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the
Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe)
which the Company may be required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended; or, if the Company is not required to file
information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said
Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time
by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to
Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in
respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities
exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and
regulations;
(ii) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and
covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by
such rules and regulations; and
(iii) transmit to the Holders of Securities within 30 days
after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be
filed by the Company pursuant to subsections (i) and (ii) of this
Section 704(a) as may be required by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
(b) The Company shall notify the Trustee when and as the Securities
of any series become admitted to trading on any national securities
exchange.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 801. CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS OF COMPANY AND SALES AND
CONVEYANCES PERMITTED SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
The Company may consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell or
convey all or substantially all of its assets to, any other corporation,
association, company or business trust, PROVIDED that (a) (i) in the case of a
merger, the Company is the surviving entity in such merger, or (ii) in the case
of a merger in which the Company is not the surviving entity or in the case of a
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consolidation or a sale or conveyance of assets, the entity into which the
Company is merged or the entity which is formed by such consolidation or which
acquires by sale or conveyance all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company shall be a corporation, association, company or business trust organized
and existing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof
and such successor entity shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of
the principal of and any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts
payable pursuant to Section 1004 in respect of, all the Securities, according to
their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the
covenants of this Indenture and the Securities to be performed or observed by
the Company by a supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
executed and delivered to the Trustee by such entity and (b) the Company or such
successor entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger
or consolidation, or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance
or observance of any such covenant and shall not immediately thereafter have
outstanding (or otherwise be liable for) any Indebtedness secured by a Mortgage
not expressly permitted by the provisions of Section 1007 or shall have secured
the Securities Outstanding hereunder equally and ratably with (or prior to) any
Indebtedness secured by any Mortgage not so permitted.
SECTION 802. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SUCCESSOR ENTITY.
In case of any such merger in which the Company is not the surviving
entity or any such consolidation, sale or conveyance, and upon any such
assumption by a successor entity, such successor entity shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein
as the party of the first part, and the predecessor entity, except in the event
of a conveyance by way of lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation
under this Indenture and the Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto.
Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in
its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities and
coupons issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the
Company and delivered to the Trustee, and, upon the order of such successor
entity, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities and coupons which previously shall have been signed
and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication,
and any Securities or coupons which such successor entity thereafter shall cause
to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities
and coupons so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit
under this Indenture as the Securities and coupons theretofore or thereafter
issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such
Securities and coupons had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
In case of any such merger in which the Company is not the surviving
entity or any such consolidation, sale or conveyance, such changes in
phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities and
coupons thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
SECTION 803. OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 601 and 603, may
receive an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any such merger, consolidation, sale or conveyance, and any such
assumption by the successor entity, complies with the provisions of this
Article.
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ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or coupons, the
Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee,
at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another entity to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company
herein and in the Securities contained; or
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to
be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(c) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or
any series of Securities; or
(d) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to
change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal (or
premium, if any) or any interest on or Additional Amounts with respect to
Registered Securities or Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to
be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to modify the provisions
relating to global Securities or to permit the issuance of Securities in
uncertificated form, PROVIDED that any such action shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any
related coupons in any material respect; or
(e) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, PROVIDED that
any such addition, change or elimination not otherwise permitted under
this Section 901 shall (i) become effective only when there is no Security
Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such
supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision
or (ii) not apply to any Security then Outstanding; or
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(f) to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of
Sections 801 or 1007, or otherwise; or
(g) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and
any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or
(h) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee pursuant
to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(i) to provide that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Outstanding Securities of
any series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in
paragraph (5) hereof, and that the provisions of this Indenture, as they
relate to such Outstanding Securities (except as to any right to receive
Additional Amounts, as provided in Section 1004), shall no longer be in
effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall at Company
Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:
(1) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities to
receive, from the trust funds described in paragraph (5) hereof, (i)
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any
installment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and/or
interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series on the Stated
Maturity or Maturity of such principal or installment of principal
and/or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or
analogous payments or any Additional Amounts applicable to
Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are due
and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of
such Securities,
(2) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities
under Sections 305, 306, 402, 1002 and 1003,
(3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder, and
(4) such other rights, if any, that are specified in such
supplemental indenture as surviving such payment and discharge,
provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
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(5) with reference to such provision, the Company has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except
as provided in Section 402(c)) with the Trustee, as trust funds
and/or obligations in trust, specifically pledged as security for,
and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities of that series, (i) money in an amount, or (ii)
Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, without
consideration of any reinvestment thereof, will provide not later
than one day before the due date of any payment referred to in
clause (A) or (B) of this paragraph (5) money in an amount or (iii)
a combination thereof, sufficient, as expressed in a Certificate of
a Firm of Independent Public Accountants delivered to the Trustee,
to pay and discharge (A) the principal of (and premium, if any) and
any installment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and/or
interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series due on the
Stated Maturity or Maturity of such principal or installment of
principal and/or interest and (B) any mandatory sinking fund
payments or analogous payments or any Additional Amounts applicable
to Securities of such series on the day on which such payments are
due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and
of such Securities;
(6) such deposit shall not cause the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that series to have a conflicting interest for
purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities
of any series;
(7) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement
or instrument relating to borrowed money, pursuant to which in
excess of $10,000,000 principal amount is then outstanding, to which
the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(8) such provision would not cause the Outstanding Securities
of such series then listed on the New York Stock Exchange to be
delisted as a result thereof;
(9) no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of that series shall have occurred and be continuing on
the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day
after such date;
(10) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the
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Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the
date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case, to the effect that Holders
of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or
loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit,
defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax
on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times, as
would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge
had not occurred;
(11) if the Securities of such series are to be redeemed,
either notice of such redemption shall have been given or the
Company shall have given the Trustee irrevocable directions to give
notice of such redemption in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company, under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee;
(12) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance, as specified in this Section
901(i), have been complied with; and
(13) such supplemental indenture shall contain a provision
substantially to the same effect as the last paragraph of Section
1009 but relating to the Securities to be discharged under the terms
of such supplemental indenture; or
(j) to add to, delete from or revise the conditions, limitations and
restrictions on the authorized amount, terms or purposes of issuance and
authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set forth; or
(k) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, PROVIDED such action shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series
or any related coupons in any material respect.
SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and
the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Holders of Securities of such series and any related coupons under this
Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
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(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security; or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate or amount of interest thereon or any
Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any premium payable upon
the redemption thereof or otherwise, or change any obligation of the
Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1004 (except as
contemplated by Section 801 and permitted by Section 901(a) and (d)), or
reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security
that would be due and payable upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Section 504, or adversely affect any right of repayment at the
option of the Holder of any Security, or, subject to the provisions of
Section 1002, change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency
in which, the principal of any Security or any premium or the interest
thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment
on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of
the Holder, on or after the date for repayment); or
(b) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions
of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
provided for in this Indenture or reduce the requirements of Section 1404
for quorum or voting; or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1008, except to increase the percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose
Holders is required for the actions specified herein or therein, or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified
or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this subsection shall not be
deemed to require the consent of any Holder of Securities or coupons with
respect to changes in the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant
changes in this Section and Section 1008, or the deletion of this proviso,
in accordance with the requirements of Section 901(h).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
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It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities or
coupons under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the
substance thereof.
SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) 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. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
and of any coupons appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any such supplemental
indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
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ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND ANY PREMIUM, INTEREST AND
ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of
Securities of each series that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of
and any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect
of, the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such series of
Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. Any interest
due on and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of Bearer Securities on or
before the Maturity thereof, other than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as
provided in Section 1004 in respect of principal of or any premium on such a
Security, shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several
coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they
severally mature.
SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any series
of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series (but not
Bearer Securities, except as otherwise provided below, unless such Place of
Payment is located outside the United States) may be presented or surrendered
for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served, and
the Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office
and its New York Facility as its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands. If Securities of a series are issuable as
Bearer Securities, the Company shall maintain, subject to any laws or
regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency in a Place of Payment for
such series which is located outside the United States where Securities of such
series and any related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment
(including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of such
series pursuant to Section 1004), where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Securities of such series are listed on The Stock
Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland or the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United States and
such stock exchange shall so require, the Company shall maintain a Paying Agent
for the Securities of such series in London, Luxembourg or any other required
city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the
Securities of such series are listed on such exchange. The Company will give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of each such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail
to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office or the New York
Facility of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that series and any
related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment
of any Additional Amounts payable on Bearer Securities of that series pursuant
to Section 1004) at the place specified for the purpose pursuant to Section 301.
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Except as otherwise provided in the form of Bearer Security of any
particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, no payment of
principal, or any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts in respect of
Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Company in the
United States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by
transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that payment of principal of and any premium or interest
(including Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof) on any Bearer Security
may be made in Dollars at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee if (but only
if) payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest
or Additional Amounts, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside
the United States maintained for such purpose by the Company in accordance with
this Indenture is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other
similar restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time
rescind such designations; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain
an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for
Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise set
forth in, or pursuant to, a Board Resolution or any indenture supplemental
hereto with respect to a series of Securities issuable as Registered Securities,
the Company hereby designates as Places of Payment for each series of Securities
issuable as Registered Securities the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and its
New York Facility as Paying Agent and as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it shall, on or before each due date of the
principal of and any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts with respect
to any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal
and any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and
shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it shall, on or prior to each due date of the principal of
and any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any
Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay
the principal and any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due,
such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts, and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
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The Company shall cause each Paying Agent for any series of
Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of and
any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts with respect to
Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any
payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or Additional
Amounts with respect to Securities of that series; and
(c) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction, discharge or defeasance of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee
all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held
by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by
the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of any particular series, any money deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the
principal of and any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts in respect of
any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for one year after such
principal and any premium or interest or Additional Amounts has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request along with interest,
if any, that has been accumulated thereon or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security or any coupon
appertaining thereto shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look
only to the Company for payment of such principal, premium or interest, without
interest thereon, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper in
each Place of Payment for such series or to be mailed to Holders of Registered
Securities of such series, or both, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
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30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.
If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional
Amounts to the Holders of such Securities, then the Company shall pay to each
Holder of such Securities or any coupon appertaining thereto the Additional
Amounts as provided therein. Whenever there is mentioned in this Indenture, in
any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or
in respect of, any Security of any series or payment of any related coupon or
the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series,
such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional
Amounts provided for by the terms of such series pursuant hereto to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of
Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, if
the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at
least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to such
series of Securities (or if the Securities of such series shall not bear
interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and
any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of
principal and any premium or interest if there has been any change with respect
to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the
Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or
Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee or the Company, with an Officers'
Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents
whether such payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the
Securities of such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series
or any related coupons who are United States Aliens without withholding for or
on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the
Securities of such series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such
Officers' Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to
be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities or coupons and the
Company shall pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts
required by the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants to indemnify the
Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on
their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any
of them in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this
Section.
SECTION 1005. STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE; NOTICE OF CERTAIN
DEFAULTS.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year, a written statement, which need not comply
with Section 102, signed by the principal executive officer, the principal
financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, as
to his or her knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions
and covenants under this Indenture. For
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purposes of this Section 1005, such compliance shall be determined without
regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this
Indenture.
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within five days after
the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which after notice or
lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to Section
501.
SECTION 1006. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company shall do or cause to be done
all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and its rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or
franchise if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders of
Securities or coupons.
SECTION 1007. LIMITATION ON LIENS.
(a) Except as hereinafter in this Section expressly permitted, so
long as any of the Securities or coupons appertaining thereto shall remain
Outstanding, the Company shall not at any time, directly or indirectly,
create, assume or suffer to exist, and shall not cause, suffer or permit
any Subsidiary to create, assume or suffer to exist, any Mortgage of or
upon any of its or their properties or assets, real or personal, whether
owned at the date of this Indenture or thereafter acquired, or of or upon
any income or profit therefrom, without making effective provision, and
the Company covenants that in any such case it will make or cause to be
made effective provision, whereby the Securities then Outstanding and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall be secured by such Mortgage equally and
ratably with or prior to any and all other obligations and indebtedness to
be secured thereby, so long as any such other obligations and indebtedness
shall be so secured.
(b) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the
Company or any Subsidiary from creating, assuming or suffering to exist,
and the Company or any Subsidiary is hereby expressly permitted to create,
assume or suffer to exist, without securing the Securities then
Outstanding and any coupons appertaining thereto as hereinabove provided,
any Mortgage of the following character:
(1) any Mortgage on any properties or assets of the
Company or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof;
(2) any Mortgage on any properties or assets of the Company or
any Subsidiary, in addition to those otherwise permitted by this
subsection (b) of this Section, securing Indebtedness of the Company
or any Subsidiary and refundings or extensions of any such Mortgage
and the Indebtedness secured thereby for amounts not
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exceeding the principal amount of the Indebtedness so refunded or
extended at the time of the refunding or extension thereof and
covering only the same property theretofore securing the same;
PROVIDED that at the time such Indebtedness was initially incurred,
the aggregate amount of secured Indebtedness permitted by this
paragraph (2), after giving effect to such incurrence, does not
exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth;
(3) any Mortgage on any property or assets of any Subsidiary
to secure Indebtedness owing by it to the Company or to a
Wholly-owned Subsidiary;
(4) any Mortgage on any property or assets of any Subsidiary
to secure, in the ordinary course of business, its Indebtedness, if
as a matter of practice, prior to the time it became a Subsidiary,
it had borrowed on the basis of secured loans or had customarily
deposited collateral to secure any or all of its obligations;
(5) any purchase money Mortgage on property, real or personal,
acquired or constructed by the Company or any Subsidiary after May
1, 1999, to secure the purchase price of such property (or to secure
Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing the acquisition
or construction of any such property to be subject to such
Mortgage), or Mortgages existing on any such property at the time of
acquisition, whether or not assumed, or any Mortgage existing on any
property of any corporation at the time it becomes a Subsidiary, or
any Mortgage with respect to any property hereafter acquired;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the aggregate principal amount of the
Indebtedness secured by all such Mortgages on a particular parcel of
property shall not exceed 75% of the cost of such property,
including the improvements thereon, to the Company or any such
Subsidiary, and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that any such Mortgage does not
spread to other property owned prior to such acquisition or
construction or to property thereafter acquired or constructed other
than additions to such property;
(6) refundings or extensions of any Mortgage permitted by this
subsection (b) of this Section (other than pursuant to paragraph (2)
hereof) for amounts not exceeding the principal amount of the
Indebtedness so refunded or extended at the time of the refunding or
extension thereof, and covering only the same property theretofore
securing the same;
(7) deposits, liens or pledges to enable the Company or any
Subsidiary to exercise any privilege or license, or to secure
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payments of workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance, old age
pensions or other social security, or to secure the performance of
bids, tenders, contracts or leases to which the Company or any
Subsidiary is a party, or to secure public or statutory obligations
of the Company or any Subsidiary, or to secure surety, stay or
appeal bonds to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party; or
other similar deposits, liens or pledges made in the ordinary course
of business;
(8) mechanics', workmen's, repairmen's, materialmen's, or
carriers' liens; or other similar liens arising in the ordinary
course of business; or deposits or pledges to obtain the release of
any such liens;
(9) liens arising out of judgments or awards against the
Company or any Subsidiary with respect to which the Company or such
Subsidiary shall in good faith be prosecuting an appeal or
proceedings for review; or liens incurred by the Company or any
Subsidiary for the purpose of obtaining a stay or discharge in the
course of any legal proceeding to which the Company or such
Subsidiary is a party;
(10) liens for taxes not yet subject to penalties for
non-payment or contested, or minor survey exceptions, or minor
encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for,
rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines
and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to
the use of real properties, which encumbrances, easements,
reservations, rights and restrictions do not in the aggregate
materially detract from the value of said properties or materially
impair their use in the operation of the business of the Company or
of the Subsidiary owning the same;
(11) other liens, charges and encumbrances incidental to the
conduct of its business or the ownership of its property and assets
which were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or
the obtaining of advances or credit, and which do not in the
aggregate materially detract from the value of its property and
assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its
business; and
(12) any Mortgage created by the Company or any Subsidiary in
connection with a transaction intended by the Company or such
Subsidiary to be one or more sales of properties or assets of the
Company or such Subsidiary; PROVIDED that such Mortgage shall only
apply to the properties or assets involved in such sale or sales,
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the income from such properties or assets and/or the proceeds of
such properties or assets.
(c) If at any time the Company or any Subsidiary shall create or
assume any Mortgage not permitted by subsection (b) of this Section, to
which the covenant in subsection (a) of this Section is applicable, the
Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee
(1) an Officers' Certificate stating that the covenant of the
Company contained in subsection (a) of this Section has been
complied with; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such covenant has
been complied with, and that any instruments executed by the Company
in the performance of such covenant comply with the requirements of
such covenant.
(d) In the event that the Company shall hereafter secure the
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto equally and ratably with
(or prior to) any other obligation or indebtedness pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee is hereby authorized to enter into
an indenture or agreement supplemental hereto and to take such action, if
any, as it may deem advisable to enable the Trustee to enforce effectively
the rights of the Holders of the Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto so secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such other
obligation or indebtedness.
SECTION 1008. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition set forth in Sections 1006 and 1007 and any covenant not
currently included in this Indenture but specified as applicable to a series of
Securities as contemplated by Section 301, with respect to the Securities of any
series if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect any such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or
condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 1009. DEFEASANCE OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS.
The Company may omit to comply with any term, provision or condition set
forth in Section 1007, and any additional covenants not currently included in
this Indenture but specified as applicable to the Securities of any series as
contemplated by Section 301, if
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(a) with reference to this Section 1009, the Company has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in
Section 402 (c)) with the Trustee, as trust funds and/or obligations in
trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities of that series, (i) money in an
amount, or (ii) Government Obligations which through the payment of
interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms,
without consideration of any reinvestment thereof, will provide not later
than one day before the due date of any payment referred to in clause (A)
or (B) of this subsection (a) money in an amount, or (iii) a combination
thereof, sufficient, as expressed in a Certificate of a Firm of
Independent Public Accountants delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge (A) the principal of (and premium, if any) and any installment
of the principal of (and premium, if any) and/or interest on the
Outstanding Securities of that series due on the Stated Maturity or
Maturity of such principal or installment of principal and/or interest and
(B) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments or any
Additional Amounts applicable to Securities of such series on the day on
which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture and of such Securities;
(b) such deposit shall not cause the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that series to have a conflicting interest for purposes of
the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities of any series;
(c) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument relating to the borrowing of money, pursuant to which in excess
of $10,000,000 principal amount is then outstanding, to which the Company
is a party or by which it is bound;
(d) such deposit would not cause the Outstanding Securities of such
series then listed on the New York Stock Exchange to be delisted as a
result thereof;
(e) no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time
or both would become an Event of Default with respect to Securities of
that series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such
deposit;
(f) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that Holders of the Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result
of such deposit and defeasance of certain obligations and will be subject
to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the
same times, as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had
not occurred;
(g) if the Securities of such series are to be redeemed, either
notice of such redemption shall have been given or the Company shall have
given the Trustee irrevocable direction to give notice of such redemption
in the name and at the expense of the Company, under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee; and
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(h) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by
this Section have been complied with.
In the event that, subsequent to the date a defeasance is effected
pursuant to this Section 1009 with respect to Securities of any series,
Additional Amounts in excess of those established as of the date such defeasance
is effected become payable in respect of such Securities, in order to preserve
the benefits of the defeasance established hereunder with respect to such
series, the Company shall irrevocably deposit or cause to be irrevocably
deposited in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section
1009, within ten Business Days prior to the earlier to occur of (i) one year
after the existence of such excess Additional Amounts is established and (ii)
the date the first payment in respect of any portion of such excess Additional
Amounts becomes due, such additional funds as are necessary to satisfy the
provisions of such subsection (a) as if a defeasance were being effected as of
the date of such subsequent deposit. For purposes of this paragraph, the
existence of excess Additional Amounts shall be deemed to have been established
as of the date the governmental authority imposing the tax, duty, assessment or
other governmental charge resulting in the Additional Amounts first publishes
the legislation, regulation or other enactment adopting such tax, duty,
assessment or other governmental charge. Failure to comply with the requirements
of this paragraph shall result in the termination of the benefits of the
defeasance established by this Section 1009 with respect to the Securities of
such series.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series)
in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be
evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the
option of the Company of Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least
60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter
notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such
Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of
the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such
Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
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SECTION 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all the Securities of any series with the same terms
are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
by the Trustee not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date from the
Outstanding Securities of such series having such terms not previously called
for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate
and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the
minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral
multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Registered Securities of such
series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption,
the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in
Section 106, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed. Failure to give such notice by mailing
in the manner therein provided to the Holder of any Registered Security
designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to
any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other such Security or portion thereof.
Any notice that is given in the manner provided in Section 106 shall
be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder of
Securities receives the notice.
All notices of redemption shall state, to the extent applicable:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
principal amount) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed;
(d) in case any Registered Security is to be redeemed in part only,
the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after
the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of such
Security will receive, without charge, a new Registered Security or
Registered Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount
thereof remaining unredeemed;
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(e) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and any accrued
interest and Additional Amounts shall become due and payable upon each
such Security or portion thereof to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(f) the place or places where such Securities, together in the case
of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if any,
maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of
the Redemption Price and any accrued interest and Additional Amounts
pertaining thereto;
(g) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;
(h) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer
Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be
accompanied by all coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for
redemption or the amount of any such missing coupon or coupons will be
deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity
satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and any Paying Agent is
furnished;
(i) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any
Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such
Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject
to redemption on the Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise,
the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such exchanges may
be made; and
(j) the CUSIP number or the Euroclear or the Cedel reference numbers
(or any other numbers used by a Depository to identify such Securities),
if any, of the Securities to be redeemed.
A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section 106 need
not identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent except in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve,
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money
sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except
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if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) any accrued interest
on and Additional Amounts in respect of, all the Securities or portions thereof
which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 1104,
the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and
payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date
(unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons
for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed,
except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all
coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with any
accrued interest (and any Additional Amounts) to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest (at an office or agency
located outside the United States except as otherwise provided in Section 1002),
and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that installments of interest on Registered Securities
whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to
the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities,
registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates
or Special Record Dates, as the case may be, according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 307.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal
to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be
furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of
them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security
shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in
respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that any interest (and any Additional Amounts) represented by coupons
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons at an
office or agency for such Security located outside of the United States except
as otherwise provided in Section 1002.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal, any premium, and, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, the interest required to be paid thereon shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
SECTION 1107. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall
be surrendered at any office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose pursuant to Section 1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer
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in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security without service charge, a new Registered Security or Registered
Securities of the same series containing identical terms and provisions, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered. If a Security in global form is so surrendered, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
U.S. Depository or other Depository for such Security in global form as shall be
specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, without
service charge, a new Security in global form in a denomination equal to and in
exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security in global
form so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking
fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of such series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series,
the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as
provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of
Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH
SECURITIES.
The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities (i) deliver Outstanding Securities of
such series (other than any of such Securities previously called for redemption)
together in the case of any Bearer Securities of such series with all unmatured
coupons appertaining thereto, and (ii) apply as a credit Securities of such
series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant
to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional
sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, as provided for
by the terms of such Securities; PROVIDED that such Securities so delivered or
applied as a credit have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall
be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the applicable
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.
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SECTION 1203. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for
any series of Securities (or such shorter notice as the Trustee may approve),
the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the
amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering or crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 1202, the basis for any such crediting and the optional amount, if any,
to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will
also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so credited and not theretofore
delivered. If such Officers' Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be
added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company
shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than
30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the
Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner
specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given
in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections
1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Securities of any series which are repayable at the option of the Holders
thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in accordance with the
terms of the Securities of such series. The repayment of any principal amount of
Securities pursuant to such option of the Holder to require repayment of
Securities before their Stated Maturity, for purposes of Section 309, shall not
operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented
by such Securities unless and until the Company, at its option, shall deliver or
surrender the same to the Trustee with a directive that such Securities be
canceled. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article
Thirteen, in connection with any repayment of Securities, the Company may
arrange for the purchase of any Securities by an agreement with one or more
investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase such Securities by paying to
the Holders of such Securities on or before the close of business on the
repayment date an amount not less than the repayment price payable by the
Company on repayment of such Securities, and the obligation of the Company to
pay the repayment price of such Securities shall be satisfied and discharged to
the extent such payment is so paid by such purchasers.
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1401. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED.
If Securities of a series are issuable, in whole or in part, as
Bearer Securities, a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series may be
called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give
or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or
taken by Holders of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1402. CALL, NOTICE AND PLACE OF MEETINGS.
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1401, to be
held at such time and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, or in London or in such other place outside the United States
as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of such
meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such
meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less
than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the
Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for
any purpose specified in Section 1401, by written request setting forth in
reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such
meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not
thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein,
then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount
above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place
in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in London for such
meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice
thereof as provided in subsection (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1403. PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT MEETINGS.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
any series, a Person shall be (i) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities
of such series, or (ii) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy
for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by
such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or
to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the
Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives
of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its
counsel.
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SECTION 1404. QUORUM; ACTION.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Holders of Securities of such series; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if any
action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which this
Indenture or which the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or other
instrument authorizing such series of Securities expressly provides may be made,
given, or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage that is less or greater
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a
series, then with respect to such action (and only such action), the Persons
entitled to vote such lesser or greater percentage in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum. In the
absence of a quorum within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such
meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities
of such series, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for
a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting
prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such
adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period
of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to
the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any
adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1402(a), except that
such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on
which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an
adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of
the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series which shall
constitute a quorum with respect to each action to be considered at such
meeting.
Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution
presented to a meeting duly convened or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened at
which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative
vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, except as
limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action which this Indenture or which the supplemental indenture, Board
Resolution or other instrument authorizing such series of Securities expressly
provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage,
that is less or greater than a majority, in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting duly convened or
an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related coupons,
whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
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SECTION 1405. DETERMINATION OF VOTING RIGHTS; CONDUCT AND
ADJOURNMENT OF MEETINGS.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for
any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series in regard to proof of
the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies
and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the
submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of
the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the
meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or
required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be
proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the appointment of any
proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 or by having
the signature of the person executing the proxy witnessed or guaranteed by
any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to certify to
the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that
written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be
presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or
other proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been
called by the Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section
1402(b), in which case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the
series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner
appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled
to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series represented at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy
shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in
respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the
chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting
shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such
series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called
pursuant to Section 1402 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned
from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented
at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without
further notice.
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SECTION 1406. COUNTING VOTES AND RECORDING ACTION OF MEETINGS.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of
their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of
the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in
triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1402 and, if
applicable, Section 1404. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 1501. SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES.
Except as otherwise provided in the definition of "Outstanding" in
Section 101, whenever this Indenture provides for any distribution to Holders of
Securities, in the absence of any provision to the contrary in the form of
Security of any particular series, any amount in respect of any Security
denominated in a currency or currencies other than Dollars shall be treated for
any such distribution as that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such
amount on such reasonable basis of exchange and as of the record date with
respect to Registered Securities of such series (if any) for such distribution
(or, if there shall be no applicable record date, such other date reasonably
proximate to the date of such distribution) as the Company may specify in a
written notice to the Trustee or, in the absence of such written notice, as the
Trustee may determine.
SECTION 1502. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
An incorporator or any past, present or future director, officer,
employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability
for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for
any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their
creation. By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such
liability. Such waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the
issuance of the Securities.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE
CORPORATION
[CORPORATE SEAL]
By _________________________________________
ROBERT A. COLE
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF
FINANCIAL OFFICER
Attest:
_________________
CITIBANK, N.A.
[CORPORATE SEAL]
By ________________________________________
P. DEFELICE
VICE PRESIDENT
Attest:
_________________
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STATE OF INDIANA: ss.
ss.
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH: ss.
On the day ____ of _______, 1999, before me personally came Robert
A. Cole, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE
CORPORATION, one of the corporations described in and which executed the
foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal
affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his
name thereto by like authority.
My Commission Expires: ____________________________________________
Resident of Vanderburgh NOTARY PUBLIC
County, Indiana
STATE OF NEW YORK: ss.
ss.
COUNTY OF NEW YORK: ss.
On the _____ day of ____, 1999, before me personally came
P. DeFelice, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he is a Vice President of Citibank, N.A., one of the corporations described in
and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said
corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal;
that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
____________________________________________
NOTARY PUBLIC
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EXHIBIT 5
BAKER & DANIELS
300 North Meridian Street, Suite 2700
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-1782
(317) 237-0300
FAX (317) 237-1000
www.bakerdaniels.com
July 22, 1999
American General Finance Corporation
601 N.W. Second Street
Evansville, Indiana 47708
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to American General Finance Corporation, an
Indiana corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the proposed issuance
and sale by the Company of up to $3,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
its debt securities (the "Debt Securities"), including the preparation of:
(a) The Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 relating to
the Debt Securities (the "Registration Statement"); and
(b) The Indenture, dated as of May 1, 1999, between the Company and
Citibank, N.A. ("Citibank"), as Trustee, pursuant to which the Debt Securities
are to be issued, in the form in which it is being filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement (the "Indenture").
For purposes of this opinion, we have examined originals or copies,
identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records,
instruments and other relevant materials as we have deemed advisable. We also
have made such examination of statutes and decisions and reviewed such questions
of law we have considered necessary or appropriate. In our examination, we have
assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural
persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the
conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies and
the authenticity of the originals of such copies. As to facts material to this
opinion, we have relied upon certificates, statements or representations of
officers of the Company, public officials and others, without any independent
verification thereof.
The laws covered by the opinions expressed herein are limited to the
laws of the State of Indiana and, with respect to the opinions expressed in 2
below, the laws of the State of New York.
On the basis of and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion
that:
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1. The Company is existing as a corporation under the laws of the
State of Indiana.
2. When the issuance of a Debt Security has been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action of the Company as contemplated by the Indenture,
subject to the Indenture having been duly executed and delivered by the Company
and to the terms of such Debt Security being otherwise in compliance with then
applicable law, and when such Debt Security has been duly executed,
authenticated, sold and delivered in the form approved pursuant to and in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture and as described in the Registration
Statement, which Registration Statement shall have become effective, the
supplement or supplements to the Prospectus constituting a part thereof and, if
applicable, such agreement or agreements as may have been duly authorized and
executed in connection with the sale of such Debt Security, such Debt Security
will be a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms, except that (a) enforcement thereof may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization,
moratorium or other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
enforcement of creditors' rights or by general equity principles and (b) the
remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable
relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court
before which any proceeding therefor may be brought. To the extent that the
obligations of the Company under such Debt Security may be dependent upon such
matters, we assume for purposes of this opinion that Citibank is a national
banking association at all times duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation with full power
and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under the Indenture, and
that the Indenture will have been, before the issuance and sale of such Debt
Security, duly authorized, executed and delivered by Citibank and will, at such
time, constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of Citibank,
enforceable against Citibank in accordance with its terms.
We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and to the reference to us under the heading "Legal Opinions" in the
prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do
not admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required
under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules or
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
Yours very truly,
/s/ BAKER & DANIELS
EXHIBIT 12
AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
THREE
MONTHS
ENDED YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
MARCH 31, ----------------------------------------------------------
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)
EARNINGS:
Income before provision for
income taxes $ 82,730 $ 306,228 $ 216,113 $ 79,633 $ 125,640 $ 388,926
Interest expense (including
$23,221 for 1997 to fund
assets held for sale) 135,306 501,533 474,135 482,343 506,618 411,875
Implicit interest in rents 3,810 12,026 13,615 14,620 14,732 11,975
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Total earnings $ 221,846 $ 819,787 $ 703,863 $ 576,596 $ 646,990 $ 812,776
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FIXED CHARGES:
Interest expense (including
$23,221 for 1997 to fund
assets held for sale) $ 135,306 $ 501,533 $ 474,135 $ 482,343 $ 506,618 $ 411,875
Implicit interest in rents 3,810 12,026 13,615 14,620 14,732 11,975
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Total fixed charges $ 139,116 $ 513,559 $ 487,750 $ 496,963 $ 521,350 $ 423,850
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RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES 1.59 1.60 1.44 1.16 1.24 1.92
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ==========
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EXHIBIT 23(B)
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
We consent to the references to our firm under the captions "Selected
Financial Information" and "Experts" in the Registration Statement (Form S-3)
and related Prospectus of American General Finance Corporation for the
registration of $3,000,000,000 proposed maximum aggregate offering price of Debt
Securities and to the incorporation by reference therein of our report dated
February 16, 1999, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of
American General Finance Corporation included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K)
for the year ended December 31, 1998, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Indianapolis, Indiana
July 20, 1999
EXHIBIT 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 28th
day of May, 1999.
/S/ W.TAL BRATTON
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W. Tal Bratton
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STATE OF INDIANA )
)SS:
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared W. Tal Bratton who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power of
Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 28th day of May, 1999.
/S/ GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
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Printed: GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
Notary Public
County of Residence: VANDERBURGH
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Commission Expires: 10-6-99
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 15th
day of July, 1999.
/S/ JAMES S. D'AGOSTINO, JR.
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James S. D'Agostino, Jr.
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STATE OF TEXAS )
)SS:
COUNTY OF HARRIS )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared James S. D'Agostino, Jr. who acknowledged the execution of the
foregoing Power of Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 15th day of July, 1999.
/S/ WANDA E. BOLTON
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Printed: Wanda E. Bolton
Notary Public
County of Residence: Harris
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Commission Expires: 7-17-2002
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 28th
day of May, 1999.
/S/ JERRY L. GILPIN
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Jerry L. Gilpin
<PAGE>
STATE OF INDIANA )
)SS:
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared Jerry L. Gilpin, who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power
of Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 28th day of May, 1999.
/S/ GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
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Printed: Georganna M. Hoffman
Notary Public
County of Residence: VANDERBURGH
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Commission Expires: 10-6-99
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 28th
day of May, 1999.
/S/ PHILIP M. HANLEY
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Philip M. Hanley
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STATE OF INDIANA )
)SS:
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared Philip M. Hanley, who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power
of Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 28th day of May, 1999.
/S/ GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
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Printed: Georganna M. Hoffman
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Notary Public
County of Residence: Vanderburgh
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Commission Expires: 10-6-99
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<PAGE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 28th
day of May, 1999.
/S/ BENNIE D. HENDRIX
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Bennie D. Hendrix
<PAGE>
STATE OF INDIANA )
)SS:
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared Bennie D. Hendrix who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power
of Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 28th day of May, 1999.
/S/ GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
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Printed: Georganna M. Hoffman
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Notary Public
County of Residence: Vanderburgh
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Commission Expires: 10-6-99
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<PAGE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 15th
day of July, 1999.
/S/ JON P. NEWTON
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Jon P. Newton
<PAGE>
STATE OF TEXAS )
)SS:
COUNTY OF HARRIS )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared Jon P. Newton who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power of
Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 15th day of July, 1999.
/S/ WANDA E. BOLTON
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Notary Public
County of Residence: Harris
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Commission Expires: 7-17-2002
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<PAGE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the
"Company"), will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 ("Registration Statement") including a
prospectus therein (the "Prospectus"), with such amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and
any supplement or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary or
appropriate, in connection with the registration of $3 billion aggregate
principal amount of senior debt securities (the "Debt Securities") to be issued
by the Company and may file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
promulgated under the Act a Registration Statement on Form S-3 for the
registration of additional Debt Securities (the "Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement");
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company does hereby appoint Frederick W.
Geissinger, Robert A Cole, Ron DiGiacomo and James L. Gleaves, and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact or attorneys-in-fact, with or
without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
execute in his name, place, and stead, in his capacity as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of the Company:
(1) the Registration Statement, and any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, including the Prospectus and exhibits thereto and any and
all amendments (including pre-effective and post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement or Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement and any supplement or supplements to the
Prospectus as said attorneys-in-fact or any of them shall deem
necessary or appropriate, together with all instruments necessary or
incidental in connection therewith, to file the same or cause the
same to be filed with the Commission and to appear before the
Commission in connection with any matter relating thereto; and
(2) any application, statement, petition, notice, or other document, or
any amendment thereto, or any exhibit filed in connection therewith,
which is required to register or qualify (or exempt from
registration or qualification) the securities of the Company being
offered, and to register or license the Company as a broker or
dealer in securities, under the securities or blue-sky or insurance
laws of all states as may be necessary or appropriate to permit the
offering and sale as contemplated by the Registration Statement or
any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
Each of said attorneys-in-fact shall have full power and authority to do
and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all
capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable in connection with the
Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or related
securities or blue-sky or insurance filings, as fully and for all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby
ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact and each of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 12th
day of May, 1999.
/S/ ALLEN L. WEHRHAHN
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Allen L. Wehrhahn
<PAGE>
STATE OF INDIANA )
)SS:
COUNTY OF VANDERBURGH )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared Allen L. Wehrhahn who acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Power
of Attorney.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this 12th day of May, 1999.
/S/ GEORGANNA M. HOFFMAN
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Printed: Georganna M. Hoffman
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Notary Public
County of Residence: Vanderburgh
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Commission Expires: 10-6-99
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EXHIBIT 25
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
Check if an application to determine eligibility of a Trustee
pursuant to Section 305 (b)(2) ____
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CITIBANK, N.A.
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
13-5266470
(I.R.S. employer
identification no.)
399 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10043
(Address of principal executive office) (Zip Code)
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AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Indiana 35-0416090
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification no.)
601 N.W. Second Street 47708
Evansville, Indiana (Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)
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DEBT SECURITIES
(Title of the indenture securities)
<PAGE>
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which
it is subject.
NAME ADDRESS
Comptroller of the Currency Washington, D.C.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York New York, NY
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Washington, D.C.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
Item 16. List of Exhibits.
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the
Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as exhibits hereto.
Exhibit 1 - Copy of Articles of Association of the Trustee, as now
in effect. (Exhibit 1 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-79983)
Exhibit 2 - Copy of certificate of authority of the Trustee to
commence business. (Exhibit 2 to T-1 to Registration Statement
No. 2-29577).
Exhibit 3 - Copy of authorization of the Trustee to exercise
corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 3 to T-1 to Registration
Statement No. 2-55519)
Exhibit 4 - Copy of existing By-Laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4
to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 33-34988)
Exhibit 5 - Not applicable.
<PAGE>
Exhibit 6 - The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. (Exhibit 6 to T-1 to Registration
Statement No. 33-19227.)
Exhibit 7 - Copy of the latest Report of Condition of Citibank,
N.A. (as of March 31, 1999 - attached)
Exhibit 8 - Not applicable.
Exhibit 9 - Not applicable.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the
Trustee, Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement
of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, all in The City of New York and State of New York, on the 22nd day
of July, 1999.
CITIBANK, N.A.
By /S/P. DEFELICE
P. DeFelice
Vice President
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 7
Charter No. 1461
Comptroller of the Currency
Northeastern District
REPORT OF CONDITION
CONSOLIDATING
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
SUBSIDIARIES OF
Citibank, N.A.
of New York in the State of New York, at the close of business on March 31,
1999, published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under
Title 12, United States Code, Section 161. Charter Number 1461 Comptroller of
the Currency Northeastern District.
Thousands
of dollars
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ASSETS
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin $ 7,997,000
Interest-bearing balances 12,201,000
Held-to-maturity securities 0
Available-for-sale securities 36,050,000
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell 8,658,000
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and Leases, net of unearned income $189,886,000
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses 4,674,000
Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance,
and reserve $185,212,000
Trading assets 31,195,000
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases) 3,911,000
Other real estate owned 400,000
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies 1,128,000
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding 1,426,000
Intangible assets 3,560,000
Other assets 12,578,000
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TOTAL ASSETS $304,316,000
LIABILITIES
Deposits:
In domestic offices $ 40,444,000
Noninterest-bearing $ 13,607,000
Interest-bearing 26,837,000
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement
subsidiaries, and IBFs 173,560,000
Noninterest-bearing 11,287,000
Interest-bearing 162,273,000
Federal funds purchased and securities sold
under agreements to repurchase 6,977,000
Trading liabilities 25,422,000
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less 11,454,000
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years 1,569,000
With a remaining maturity of more than three years 2,156,000
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding 1,500,000
Subordinated notes and debentures 6,600,000
Other liabilities 14,406,000
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TOTAL LIABILITIES $284,088,000
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock $ 751,000
Surplus 9,524,000
Undivided profits and capital reserves 10,651,000
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on
available-for-sale securities 31,000
Accumulated net gains (losses)
on cash flow hedges 0
Cumulative foreign currency
translation adjustments (729,000)
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TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL $ 20,228,000
TOTAL LIABILITIES, LIMITED-LIFE PREFERRED STOCK,
AND EQUITY CAPITAL $304,316,000
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I, Roger W. Trupin, Controller of the above-named bank do hereby declare
that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
ROGER W. TRUPIN
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CONTROLLER
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and
is true and correct.
PAUL J. COLLINS
JOHN S. REED
WILLIAM R. RHODES
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DIRECTORS
