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AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON AUGUST 27, 1996
REGISTRATION NO. 333-
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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TEXAS 1929 ALLEN PARKWAY 74-1488375
(State or other HOUSTON, TEXAS 77019 (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction of (713) 522-5141 Identification Number)
incorporation of (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
organization) number, including area code, of the registrant's
principal executive offices)
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JAMES M. SHELGER, ESQ. With a copy to:
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND
SECRETARY MARCUS A. WATTS
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL LIDDELL, SAPP, ZIVLEY, HILL & LABOON, L.L.P.
1929 ALLEN PARKWAY 3400 TEXAS COMMERCE TOWER
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77019 600 TRAVIS STREET
(713) 522-5141 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone (713) 226-1200
number,including area code, of agent for service
for each registrant)
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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
BY MARKET CONDITIONS.
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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, as amended, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend
or reinvestment plans, please 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, please 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. / /
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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PROPOSED MAXIMUM
PROPOSED MAXIMUM AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF
TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF AMOUNT TO BE OFFERING PRICE OFFERING REGISTRATION
SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED REGISTERED(1) PER UNIT(2) PRICE(2)(4)(5) FEE(2)
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Debt Securities............................
Common Stock(3)............................ $923,207,500 100% $923,207,500 $318,347.41
Warrants...................................
Series C Junior Participating Preferred
Stock Purchase Rights (currently traded
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(1) Such indeterminate principal amount of Debt Securities, and such
indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock and Warrants, as may from
time to time be issued at indeterminate prices.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
pursuant to Rule 457. Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, the Prospectus included herein also relates to $76,792,500 of
Securities registered under Registration Statement No. 33-60683 for which a
registration fee of $26,480.17 was previously paid to the Commission. If any
of such previously registered Securities are offered prior to the effective
date of this registration statement, the amount of such Securities will not
be included in any Prospectus hereunder. The amount of Securities being
registered, together with the remaining Securities registered under
Registration Statement No. 33-60683, represents the maximum amount of
Securities that are expected to be offered for sale.
(3) Also includes such indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock as may be
issued upon conversion of or exchange for any Debt Securities that provide
for conversion or exchange into Common Stock or upon exercise of Warrants
for such Common Stock.
(4) Such amount represents the principal amount of any Debt Securities issued at
their principal amounts, the issue price rather than the principal amount of
any Debt Securities issued at an original issue discount, the amount
computed pursuant to Rule 457(c) for any Common Stock and the issue price of
any Warrants, but not the exercise price of any Securities issuable upon the
exercise of Warrants.
(5) No separate consideration will be received for the Common Stock issuable
upon conversion of or in exchange for Debt Securities.
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 THAT SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO THAT
SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.
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* Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A *
* registration statement relating to these securities has been filed *
* with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not *
* be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the *
* registration statement becomes effective. This prospectus shall not *
* constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy *
* nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any State in which *
* such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to *
* registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such *
* State. *
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SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED AUGUST 27, 1996
PROSPECTUS
$1,000,000,000
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
COMPANY DEBT SECURITIES, COMMON STOCK
AND COMMON STOCK WARRANTS
Service Corporation International (the "Company" or "SCI") may from time to
time offer (i) debt securities (the "Company Debt Securities"), which may be any
of senior debt securities (the "Company Senior Debt Securities"), senior
subordinated debt securities (the "Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities")
or subordinated debt securities (the "Company Subordinated Debt Securities"), in
each case consisting of debentures, notes and/or other unsecured evidences of
indebtedness, (ii) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share ("Common Stock" or
"SCI Common Stock"), along with Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock
Purchase Rights, and (iii) warrants to purchase Common Stock ("Common Stock
Warrants"). The Company Debt Securities, the Common Stock, along with Series C
Junior Participating Preferred Stock Purchase Rights, and the Common Stock
Warrants are collectively referred to as the "Securities," and will have an
aggregate initial offering price of up to $1,000,000,000 or the equivalent
thereof if Debt Securities are denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars
or in currency units. The Securities may be offered as separate series, in
amounts, at prices and on terms to be determined at the time of sale.
The accompanying Prospectus Supplement sets forth with regard to the
Securities in respect of which this Prospectus is being delivered the terms of
such Securities, including, where applicable, (i) in the case of Debt
Securities, the specific title (including whether senior, senior subordinated or
subordinated and whether or not convertible), aggregate principal amount,
denominations (which may be in U.S. dollars, in any other currency or in
composite currencies), maturity (which may be fixed or extendible), interest
rate, if any (which may be fixed or variable), and time of payment of any
interest, any terms for redemption at the option of the Company or the holder,
any terms for sinking fund payments, any class or classes of stock into which
the Debt Securities are convertible or exchangeable and other conversion or
exchange terms, if any, any covenants or events of default that are in addition
to or different from those described herein, any listing on a securities
exchange, the initial public offering price and any other terms in connection
with the offering and sale of such Debt Securities, (ii) in the case of Common
Stock, the initial public offering price, and (iii) in the case of Common Stock
Warrants, the duration, exercise price, initial public offering price and any
other terms in connection with the offering and sale of such Common Stock
Warrants.
The Company may sell Securities to or through underwriters, and also may
sell Securities directly to other purchasers or through agents. The accompanying
Prospectus Supplement sets forth the names of any underwriters or agents
involved in the sale of the Securities in respect of which this Prospectus is
being delivered, the amounts, if any, to be purchased by underwriters and the
compensation, if any, of such underwriters or agents.
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE
ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE
CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, THE UNDERWRITERS, IF ANY, MAY OVER-ALLOT
OR EFFECT TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICES OF THE
SECURITIES AND, IF THE SECURITIES ARE CONVERTIBLE, THE OUTSTANDING CLASS OR
CLASSES OF STOCK OF THE COMPANY INTO OR FOR WHICH THEY ARE CONVERTIBLE, AT
LEVELS ABOVE THOSE WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET. SUCH
TRANSACTIONS MAY BE EFFECTED ON ANY SECURITIES EXCHANGE ON WHICH SUCH SECURITIES
MAY BE LISTED, IN THE OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET OR OTHERWISE. SUCH STABILIZING, IF
COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.
No person has been authorized to give any information or to make any
representation not contained or incorporated by reference in this Prospectus or
the accompanying Prospectus Supplement and, if given or made, such information
or representation must not be relied upon as having been authorized by the
Company or any underwriter, dealer or agent. Neither this Prospectus nor the
accompanying Prospectus Supplement constitutes an offer to sell or a
solicitation of any offer to buy Securities in any jurisdiction in which such
offer or solicitation is not authorized or in which the person making such offer
or solicitation is not qualified to do so or to any person to whom it is
unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.
In this Prospectus, references to "dollar" and "$" are to United States
dollars, and the terms "United States" and "U.S." mean the United States of
America, its states, its territories, its possessions and all areas subject to
its jurisdiction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Available Information................................................................. 1
Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference....................................... 2
The Company........................................................................... 3
Use of Proceeds....................................................................... 3
Description of Company Debt Securities................................................ 3
Description of Capital Stock.......................................................... 22
Description of Common Stock Warrants.................................................. 24
Plan of Distribution.................................................................. 27
Legal Matters......................................................................... 27
Experts............................................................................... 27
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AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance
therewith files reports, proxy statements and other information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"). These reports, proxy
statements and other information can be inspected and copied at the public
reference facilities of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20549; 500 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60661; and 7 World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048. Copies of such material can also be obtained
from the Public Reference Section of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates. In addition, such material can be
inspected at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New
York, New York 10005.
Additional information regarding the Company and the Securities is
contained in the Registration Statement, of which this Prospectus is a part, and
the exhibits relating thereto (the "Registration Statement") filed with the
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). For further
information pertaining to the Company and the Securities, reference is made to
the Registration Statement, which may be inspected without charge at the office
of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and copies
thereof may be obtained from the Commission at prescribed rates. This Prospectus
and the accompanying Prospectus Supplement do not contain all the information
set forth in the Registration Statement, certain parts of which are omitted in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission. Statements made in
this Prospectus and the accompanying Prospectus Supplement as to the contents of
any contract, agreement or other document referred to are not necessarily
complete. With respect to each such contract, agreement or other document filed
as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, reference is made to the exhibit
for a more complete description of the matter involved, and each such statement
shall be deemed qualified in its entirety by such reference.
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INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents heretofore filed by SCI with the Commission are
incorporated herein by reference:
(i) SCI's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1995;
(ii) SCI's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods
ended March 31, 1996 and June 30, 1996;
(iii) The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 16, 1996;
(iv) Description of the Company's capital stock set forth under the
caption "Item 1. Description of Securities to be Registered -- Capital
Stock" in the Form 8, Amendment No. 3, dated September 15, 1982, to the
Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A; and
(v) Description of the Company's preferred share purchase rights
contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated July
26, 1988, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto filed under cover of Form 8
and dated May 11, 1990.
All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Prospectus and prior to
the termination of the offering of the Securities shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and to be part hereof from the date
of filing such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated by
reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes
hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other
subsequently filed document which also is incorporated by reference herein)
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded
shall not be deemed to constitute a part hereof except as so modified or
superseded.
The Company will provide without charge to each person to whom a copy of
this Prospectus is delivered, upon the request of any such person, a copy of any
or all of the documents which are incorporated herein by reference, other than
exhibits to such documents (unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated
by reference into such documents). Requests should be directed to Service
Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas 77019, Attention:
James M. Shelger, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary,
telephone number: (713) 522-5141.
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THE COMPANY
The Company is the largest provider of funeral and cemetery services and
products in the world. As of June 30, 1996, the Company owned and operated 2,832
funeral service locations, 331 cemeteries (including 137 funeral home and
cemetery combinations) and 146 crematoria located in North America, Europe and
the Pacific Rim.
The Company was incorporated in Texas on July 5, 1962. The Company's
principal executive offices are located at 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas
77019, telephone number: (713) 522-5141. As used herein, unless the context
indicates otherwise, the terms "Company" and "SCI" refer to the Company and its
subsidiaries.
USE OF PROCEEDS
Except as may be otherwise set forth in the Prospectus Supplement
accompanying this Prospectus, the net proceeds to the Company from the sale or
sales of the Securities will be used for general corporate purposes including
(without limitation) repurchases of outstanding long-term debt securities,
capital expenditures, investments in subsidiaries, working capital, repayment of
borrowings under bank credit agreements, acquisitions and other business
opportunities.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY DEBT SECURITIES
The Company Debt Securities will constitute any of Company Senior Debt
Securities, Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities or Company Subordinated
Debt Securities and will be issued, in the case of Company Senior Debt
Securities, under a Senior Indenture (the "Senior Debt Indenture") dated as of
February 1, 1993, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee; in
the case of Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities, under a Senior
Subordinated Indenture (the "Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture") to be entered
into between the Company and Texas Commerce Bank National Association ("Texas
Commerce Bank"), as trustee; and, in the case of Company Subordinated Debt
Securities under a Subordinated Indenture dated as of September 1, 1991, as
amended by the First Amendment thereto dated as of August 23, 1996, each being
between the Company and Texas Commerce Bank, as trustee (collectively, the
"Subordinated Debt Indenture"). The Senior Debt Indenture, the Senior
Subordinated Debt Indenture and the Subordinated Debt Indenture are sometimes
hereinafter referred to individually as an "Indenture" and collectively as the
"Indentures." Each of The Bank of New York and Texas Commerce Bank (and any
successors thereto as trustees under the respective Indentures) is hereinafter
referred to as the "Trustee" with respect to the Indenture under which it acts
as Trustee. The Indentures are filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.
The following summaries of certain provisions of the Indentures and the Company
Debt Securities do not purport to be complete, and such summaries are subject to
the detailed provisions of the applicable Indenture to which reference is hereby
made for a full description of such provisions, including the definition of
certain capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein. Whenever
defined terms of the applicable Indenture are referred to, such defined terms
are incorporated herein by reference as part of the statement made, and the
statement is qualified in its entirety by such reference. The Indentures are
substantially identical, except for certain covenants of the Company, events of
default and provisions relating to subordination and conversion.
The Company Debt Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more
series. The following description of the Company Debt Securities sets forth
certain general terms and provisions of the Company Debt Securities of all
series. The particular terms of each series of Company Debt Securities offered
by any Prospectus Supplement will be described therein.
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COMPANY SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES, COMPANY SENIOR
SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES AND COMPANY SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
General. The Company Debt Securities will be unsecured senior, senior
subordinated or subordinated obligations of the Company and may be issued from
time to time in one or more series. The Indentures will not limit the amount of
Company Debt Securities, Senior Indebtedness, debentures, notes or other types
of
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indebtedness that may be issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries nor
will they restrict transactions between the Company and its Affiliates, the
payment of dividends or the making of investments by the Company or the transfer
of assets by the Company to its Subsidiaries. The Company currently conducts
substantially all its operations through Subsidiaries. Consequently, the rights
of the Company to receive assets of any Subsidiary (and thus the ability of
holders of Company Debt Securities to benefit indirectly from such assets) are
subject to the prior claims of creditors of that Subsidiary. Other than as may
be set forth in any Prospectus Supplement, the Indentures and the Company Debt
Securities will not contain any covenants or other provisions that are intended
to afford holders of the Company Debt Securities special protection in the event
of a highly leveraged transaction by the Company. As of June 30, 1996, the
Company (including its subsidiaries) had outstanding approximately $2,146
million of secured debt or Senior Indebtedness and approximately $42 million of
unsecured subordinated debt. Such amounts included $521 million of indebtedness
of the Company's subsidiaries.
Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement relating to any Company Debt
Securities for the following terms of and information relating to such Company
Debt Securities (to the extent such terms are applicable thereto): (i) the title
of such Company Debt Securities; (ii) classification as Company Senior Debt
Securities, Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities or Company Subordinated
Debt Securities, aggregate principal amount, purchase price and denomination;
(iii) whether such Company Debt Securities that constitute Company Senior
Subordinated Debt Securities or Company Subordinated Debt Securities are
convertible into Common Stock and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which
such conversion will be effected including the initial conversion price or
conversion rate and any adjustments thereto in addition to or different from
those described herein, the conversion period and other conversion provisions in
addition to or in lieu of those described herein; (iv) the date or dates on
which such Company Debt Securities will mature; (v) the method by which amounts
payable in respect of principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on
or upon the redemption of such Company Debt Securities may be calculated; (vi)
the interest rate or rates (or the method by which such will be determined), and
the dates from which such interest, if any, will accrue; (vii) the date or dates
on which any such interest will be payable; (viii) the place or places where and
the manner in which the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any,
on such Company Debt Securities will be payable and the place or places where
such Company Debt Securities may be presented for transfer and, if applicable,
conversion; (ix) the obligations, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or
purchase such Company Debt Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of a holder thereof or the right, if any, of the
Company to redeem, repay or purchase such Company Debt Securities at its option
and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions upon which such Company Debt Securities will be redeemed,
repaid or purchased pursuant to any such obligation or right (including the form
or method of payment thereof if other than cash); (x) any terms applicable to
such Company Debt Securities issued at an original issue discount below their
stated principal amount, including the issue price thereof and the rate or rates
at which such original issue discount shall accrue; (xi) any index used to
determine the amount of payments of principal of and any premium and interest on
such Company Debt Securities; (xii) any special United States federal income tax
consequences; and (xiii) any other specified terms of such Company Debt
Securities, including any additional or different events of default or remedies
or any additional covenants provided with respect to such Company Debt
Securities, and any terms which may be required by or advisable under applicable
laws or regulations.
Unless otherwise specified in any Prospectus Supplement, the Company Debt
Securities will be issued only in fully registered form and in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. No service charge will be made for any
transfer or exchange of any Company Debt Securities, but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Company Debt Securities may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating
rate. Company Debt Securities bearing no interest or interest at a rate that at
the time of issuance is below the prevailing market rate may be sold at a
discount below their stated principal amount. Special United States federal
income tax considerations applicable to any such discounted Company Debt
Securities or to certain Company Debt Securities issued at
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par that are treated as having been issued at a discount for United States
federal income tax purposes will be described in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement.
The Indentures and the Company Debt Securities will be governed by Texas
law.
Global Securities. The Company Debt Securities of a series may be issued in
whole or in part in the form of one or more global securities ("Global
Securities") that will be deposited with, or on behalf of, a depositary (the
"Depositary") identified in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such series.
Global Securities may be issued only in fully registered form and in either
temporary or permanent form. Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in
part for the individual Company Debt Securities represented thereby, a Global
Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such
Global Security to the nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of such
Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such
successor Depositary.
The specific terms of the depositary arrangement with respect to a series
of Company Debt Securities will be described in the Prospectus Supplement
relating to such series. The Company anticipates that the following provisions
will generally apply to depositary arrangements.
Upon the issuance of a Global Security, the Depositary for such Global
Security or its nominee will credit, on its book-entry registration and transfer
system, the respective principal amounts of the individual Company Debt
Securities represented by such Global Security to the accounts of persons that
have accounts with such Depositary. Such accounts shall be designated by the
dealers, underwriters or agents with respect to such Company Debt Securities or
by the Company if such Company Debt Securities are offered and sold directly by
the Company. Ownership of beneficial interests in a Global Security will be
limited to persons that have accounts with the applicable Depositary
("participants") or persons that may hold interests through participants.
Ownership of beneficial interests in such Global Security will be shown on, and
the transfer of that ownership will be effected only through, records maintained
by the applicable Depositary or its nominee (with respect to interests of
participants) and the records of participants (with respect to interests of
persons other than participants). The laws of some states require that certain
purchasers of securities take physical delivery of such securities in definitive
form. Such limits and such laws may impair the ability to transfer beneficial
interests in a Global Security.
So long as the Depositary for a Global Security or its nominee is the
registered owner of such Global Security, such Depositary or its nominee, as the
case may be, will be considered the sole owner or holder of the Company Debt
Securities of the series represented by such Global Security for all purposes
under the Indenture governing such Company Debt Securities. Except as provided
below, owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security will not be entitled
to have any of the individual Company Debt Securities of the series represented
by such Global Security registered in their names, will not receive or be
entitled to receive physical delivery of any such Company Debt Securities in
definitive form and will not be considered the owners or holders thereof under
the Indenture governing such Company Debt Securities. Accordingly, each person
owning a beneficial interest in a Global Security must rely on the procedures of
the Depositary and, if the beneficial owner is not a participant, on the
procedures of the participant through which the beneficial owner owns its
interest, to exercise any rights of a holder under the Indenture. The Company
understands that under existing practice, if the Company requests any action of
the holders, or a beneficial owner desires to take any action a holder is
entitled to take, the Depositary would act upon the instructions of, or
authorize, the participant to take such action.
Payments of principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
individual Company Debt Securities represented by a Global Security registered
in the name of a Depositary or its nominee will be made to the Depositary or its
nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner of the Global Security
representing such Company Debt Securities. None of the Company, the Trustee for
such Company Debt Securities, any paying agent and the registrar for such
Company 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 of the Global Security for such Company Debt Securities or for
maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial
ownership interests.
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The Company expects that the Depositary for a series of Company Debt
Securities or its nominee, upon receipt of any payment of principal, premium or
interest in respect of a Global Security representing any such Company Debt
Securities, immediately will credit participants' accounts with payments in
amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in the principal
amount of such Global Security for such Company Debt Securities as shown on the
records of such Depositary or its nominee. The Company also expects that
payments by participants to owners of beneficial interests in such Global
Security held through such participants will be governed by standing
instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held
for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in "street name."
Such payments will be the responsibility of such participants.
If the Depositary for a series of Company Debt Securities is at any time
unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as depositary and a successor
Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, the Company will
issue individual Company Debt Securities of such series in exchange for the
Global Security representing such series of Company Debt Securities. In
addition, the Company may at any time and in its sole discretion, subject to any
limitations described in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such Company Debt
Securities, determine not to have any Company Debt Securities of a series
represented by one or more Global Securities and, in such event, will issue
individual Company Debt Securities of such series in exchange for the Global
Security or Securities representing such series of Company Debt Securities.
Further, if the Company so specifies with respect to the Company Debt Securities
of a series, an owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Security representing
Company Debt Securities of such series may, on terms acceptable to the Company
and the Depositary for such Global Security, receive individual Company Debt
Securities of such series in exchange for such beneficial interests, subject to
any limitations described in the Prospectus Supplement relating to such Company
Debt Securities. In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in a
Global Security will be entitled to a physical delivery of individual Company
Debt Securities of the series represented by such Global Security equal in
principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have such Company Debt
Securities registered in its name. Individual Company Debt Securities of such
series so issued will be issued in denominations, unless otherwise specified by
the Company, of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
Consolidation, Merger, Sale. Each Indenture provides that the Company may
consolidate or merge with or into any other corporation, and may sell, lease,
exchange or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property and
assets to any other corporation authorized to acquire and operate the same,
provided that in any such case (i) immediately after such transaction the
Company or such other corporation formed by or surviving any such consolidation
or merger, or to which such sale, lease, exchange or other disposition shall
have been made, will not be in default in the performance or observance of any
of the terms, covenants and conditions in the Indenture to be kept or performed
by the Company, (ii) the corporation (if other than the Company) formed by or
surviving any such consolidation or merger, or to which such sale, lease,
exchange or other disposition shall have been made, shall be a corporation
organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia, and (iii) the corporation (if other than the Company)
formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged,
or the corporation which shall have acquired or leased such property and assets,
shall assume, by a supplemental indenture, the Company's obligations under such
Indenture. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or
other disposition and upon any such assumption by the successor corporation,
such successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company,
with the same effect as if it had been named in such Indenture as the Company
and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture, and the Company shall
be relieved of any further obligation under such Indenture and any Company Debt
Securities issued thereunder.
Discharge and Defeasance. The Company may discharge or defease its
obligations with respect to each series of Company Debt Securities as set forth
below.
The Company may discharge all of its obligations (except those set forth
below) to holders of any series of Company Debt Securities issued under any
Indenture, which Company Debt Securities have not already been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation and which either have become due and payable or are by
their terms due and payable within one year (or are to be called for redemption
within one year) by depositing with the Trustee cash or U.S. Government
Obligations, or a combination thereof, as trust funds in an amount
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certified to be sufficient to pay when due the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on all outstanding Company Debt Securities of such series
and to make any mandatory sinking fund payments thereon when due.
Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Company may also discharge at any time all of its obligations (except those set
forth below) to holders of any series of Company Debt Securities issued under
any Indenture (other than convertible Company Debt Securities) ("defeasance")
if, among other things: (i) the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee
cash or U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, as trust funds in
an amount certified to be sufficient to pay the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest, if any, on all outstanding Company Debt Securities of such
series when due and to make any mandatory sinking fund payments thereon when
due, and such funds have been so deposited for 91 days; (ii) such deposit will
not result in a breach or violation of, or cause a default under, any agreement
or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and (iii)
the Company delivers to the Trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that the
holders of such series of Company Debt Securities will not recognize income,
gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such
defeasance, and that such defeasance will not otherwise alter the United States
federal income tax treatment of principal and interest payments on such series
of Company Debt Securities. Such opinion of counsel must be based on a ruling of
the Internal Revenue Service or a change in United States federal income tax law
occurring after the date of the Indenture relating to the Company Debt
Securities of such series, since such a result would not occur under current tax
law.
In the event of such discharge and defeasance of a series of Company Debt
Securities, the holders thereof would be entitled to look only to such trust
funds for payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on such
Company Debt Securities.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no discharge or defeasance described above
shall affect the following obligations to or rights of the holders of any series
of Company Debt Securities: (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange
of Company Debt Securities of such series; (ii) rights of substitution of
mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Company Debt Securities of such
series; (iii) rights of holders of Company Debt Securities of such series to
receive payments of principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon when due and
to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, thereon when due from the
trust funds held by the Trustee; (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and
immunities of the Trustee; (v) the rights of holders of Company Debt Securities
of such series as beneficiaries with respect to property deposited with the
Trustee payable to all or any of them; (vi) the obligations of the Company to
maintain an office or agency in respect of Company Debt Securities of such
series; and (vii) if applicable, the obligations of the Company with respect to
the conversion of Company Debt Securities of such series into Common Stock.
Modification of the Indenture. Each Indenture provides that the Company and
the Trustee may enter into supplemental indentures without the consent of the
holders of the Company Debt Securities to (i) evidence the assumption by a
successor corporation of the obligations of the Company under such Indenture,
(ii) add covenants or new events of default for the protection of the holders of
such Company Debt Securities, (iii) cure any ambiguity or correct any
inconsistency in the Indenture, (iv) establish the form and terms of any series
of Company Debt Securities and to provide for adjustment of conversion rights,
(v) evidence the acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee, (vi) amend
the Indenture in any other manner which the Company may deem necessary or
desirable and which will not adversely affect the interests of the holders of
Company Debt Securities issued thereunder, or (vii) in the case of Company
Senior Debt Securities, secure such Company Senior Debt Securities with any
property or assets.
Each Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Company and the
Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Company Debt Securities then Outstanding of
each series affected by such supplemental Indenture, to add any provisions to,
or change in any manner or eliminate any of the provisions of, such Indenture or
modify in any manner the rights of the holders of the Company Debt Securities of
such series; provided that the Company and the Trustee may not, without the
consent of the holder of each outstanding Company Debt Security affected
thereby, (i) extend the stated maturity of the principal of any Company Debt
Security, reduce the principal amount thereof, reduce the rate
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or extend the time of payment of any interest thereon, reduce or alter the
method of computation of any amount payable on redemption, repayment or purchase
thereof, reduce the portion of the principal amount of any Original Issue
Discount Security payable upon acceleration or provable in bankruptcy, change
the coin or currency in which principal and interest, if any, are payable,
impair or affect the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment,
repayment or purchase thereof or, if applicable, adversely affect the right to
convert Company Debt Securities, any right of repayment at the option of the
holder or (solely with respect to the Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture)
change, amend or modify the subordination provisions of such Indenture or any of
the definitions used in the subordination provisions of such Indenture or
consent to the departure from any of the terms of the subordination provisions
of such Indenture in each case in any manner that would adversely affect the
holders of any of the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities issued
thereunder, or (ii) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of
Company Debt Securities of any series issued under such Indenture, the consent
of the holders of which is required for any such modification.
The Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture may not be amended to alter the
subordination of any outstanding Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities,
and the Subordinated Debt Indenture may not be amended to alter the
subordination of any outstanding Company Subordinated Debt Securities, in each
case without the consent of each holder of Senior Indebtedness then outstanding
that would be adversely affected thereby.
Each of the Indentures provides that the term "Original Issue Discount
Security" means any Company Debt Security that provides for an amount less than
the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
In each of the Indentures, the definition of the term "Outstanding," with
reference to Company Debt Securities, provides that in determining whether the
holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Company Debt
Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver under the applicable Indenture, the
principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to
be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the portion of the principal amount
thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination (as
certified by the Company to the Trustee) upon a declaration of acceleration of
the maturity thereof pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE SOLELY TO COMPANY SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES
General. Company Senior Debt Securities will be issued under the Senior
Debt Indenture, and each series will rank pari passu as to the right of payment
of principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, with each other series and
with all other Senior Indebtedness of the Company.
Events of Default. Unless otherwise specified in the Prospectus Supplement,
an Event of Default is defined under the Senior Debt Indenture with respect to
the Company Senior Debt Securities of any series issued thereunder as being any
one or more of the following events:
(i) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any of
the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series as and when the same
shall become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period
of 30 days;
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of any of the Company
Senior Debt Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due
and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or
otherwise;
(iii) default in the payment or satisfaction of any sinking fund or
other purchase obligation with respect to Company Senior Debt Securities of
such series, as and when such obligation shall become due and payable;
(iv) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any
other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the
Company Senior Debt Securities of such series or in the Senior Debt
Indenture continuing for a period of 60 days after the date on which
written notice of such
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failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the
Company by the Trustee by registered or certified mail, or to the Company
and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate
principal amount of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series then
Outstanding;
(v) without the consent of the Company, a court having jurisdiction
shall enter an order for relief with respect to the Company under the
Bankruptcy Code or, without the consent of the Company, a court having
jurisdiction shall enter a judgment, order or decree adjudging the Company
a bankrupt or insolvent, or enter an order for relief for reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state insolvency law and the
continuance of any such judgment, order or decree is unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days;
(vi) the Company shall institute proceedings for entry of an order for
relief with respect to the Company under the Bankruptcy Code or for an
adjudication of insolvency, or shall consent to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or shall file a petition
seeking, or seek or consent to, reorganization, arrangement, composition or
relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable state law, or shall
consent to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of a receiver,
custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official
of the Company or of substantially all of its property, or the Company
shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors as recognized
under the Bankruptcy Code;
(vii) default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any Subsidiary or under
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
by the Company or any Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness),
whether such Indebtedness exists on the date of the Senior Debt Indenture
or shall thereafter be created, which default shall have resulted in such
Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date
on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, or any default in
payment of such Indebtedness (after the expiration of any applicable grace
periods and the presentation of any debt instruments, if required), if the
aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness which has been so accelerated and
with respect to which there has been such a default in payment shall exceed
$5,000,000, without each such default and acceleration having been
rescinded or annulled within a period of 30 days after there shall have
been given to the Company by the Trustee by registered mail, or to the
Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate
principal amount of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series then
Outstanding, a written notice specifying each such default and requiring
the Company to cause each such default and acceleration to be rescinded or
annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" under the
Senior Debt Indenture; or
(viii) any other Event of Default provided with respect to the Company
Senior Debt Securities of such series.
If an Event of Default with respect to Company Senior Debt Securities of
any series then Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every
such case, unless the principal of all of the Company Senior Debt Securities of
such series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
holders of not less than 25 percent in aggregate principal amount of the Company
Senior Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding, by notice in writing to
the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the
unpaid principal amount (or, if the Company Senior Debt Securities of such
series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) of all the Company
Senior Debt Securities of such series and the interest, if any, accrued thereon
to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall
become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in the Senior Debt
Indenture or in the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series contained to
the contrary notwithstanding. This provision, however, is subject to the
condition that, if at any time after the unpaid principal amount (or such
specified amount) of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series shall
have been so declared due and payable and before any judgment or decree for the
payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered, the Company
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shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest, if any, upon all of the Company Senior Debt Securities
of such series and the principal of any and all Company Senior Debt Securities
of such series which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with
interest on overdue installments of interest, if any, to the extent that payment
of such interest is enforceable under applicable law and on such principal at
the rate borne by the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series to the date
of such payment or deposit) and the reasonable compensation, disbursements,
expenses and advances of the Trustee, and any and all defaults under the Senior
Debt Indenture, other than the nonpayment of such portion of the principal
amount of and accrued interest, if any, on Company Senior Debt Securities of
such series which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured
or shall have been waived in accordance with the Senior Debt Indenture or
provision deemed by the Trustee to be adequate shall have been made therefor,
then and in every such case the holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding, by
written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences; but no such rescission and annulment shall
extend to or shall affect any subsequent default, or shall impair any right
consequent thereon. If any Event of Default with respect to the Company
specified in clause (v) or (vi) above occurs, the unpaid principal amount (or,
if the Company Senior Debt Securities of any series then Outstanding are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may
be specified in the terms of each such series) and accrued interest on all
Company Senior Debt Securities of each series then Outstanding shall ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act
by the Trustee or any Securityholder. If the Trustee shall have proceeded to
enforce any right under the Senior Debt Indenture and such proceedings shall
have been discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or
for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee,
then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the Securityholders
shall be restored respectively to their several positions and rights under the
Senior Debt Indenture, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the
Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such proceeding had
been taken. Except with respect to an Event of Default pursuant to clause (i),
(ii) or (iii) above, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to the
Trustee by the Company, a paying agent or any Securityholder.
The Senior Debt Indenture provides that, subject to the duty of the Trustee
during default to act with the required standard of care, the Trustee will be
under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Senior
Debt Indenture at the request or direction of any of the holders of Company
Senior Debt Securities issued under the Senior Debt Indenture, unless such
holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity.
No holder of any Company Senior Debt Securities of any series then
Outstanding shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of
the Senior Debt Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity
or at law upon or under or with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture or the
Company Senior Debt Securities or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee
or similar official, or for any other remedy under the Senior Debt Indenture or
under the Company Senior Debt Securities, unless such holder previously shall
have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the continuance
thereof, and unless the holders of not less than 25 percent in aggregate
principal amount of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series then
Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute such
action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee and shall have offered to
the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee for
60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall
have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in the Senior Debt Indenture, however, the
right of any holder of any Company Senior Debt Security to receive payment of
the principal of and interest, if any, on such Company Senior Debt Security, on
or after the respective due dates expressed in such Company Senior Debt
Security, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after such respective dates shall not be impaired or affected without the
consent of such holder.
The holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Company Senior Debt Securities of any series then Outstanding shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
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proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Company Senior Debt
Securities of such series; provided that (subject to certain exceptions) the
Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee shall determine upon advice of counsel that the action or proceeding so
directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith shall
determine that the action or proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in
personal liability. The holders of 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the
Company Senior Debt Securities of any series then Outstanding may on behalf of
the holders of all of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series waive
any past default or Event of Default and its consequences except a default in
the payment of interest, if any, on, or the principal of, the Company Senior
Debt Securities of such series. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee
and the holders of the Company Senior Debt Securities of such series shall be
restored to their former positions and rights under the Senior Debt Indenture,
respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default
or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default
or Event of Default shall have been waived as permitted, said default or Event
of Default shall for all purposes of the Senior Company Debt Securities and the
Senior Debt Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.
The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default, with
respect to Company Senior Debt Securities of any series then Outstanding, mail
to all holders of Company Senior Debt Securities of such series, as the names
and the addresses of such holders appear upon the Company Senior Debt Securities
register, notice of all defaults known to the Trustee with respect to such
series, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such
notice (the term "defaults" for the purpose of these provisions being hereby
defined to be the events specified in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),
(vii) and (viii) of "-- Provisions Applicable Solely to Company Senior Debt
Securities -- Events of Default" above, not including periods of grace, if any,
provided for therein and irrespective of the giving of the written notice
specified in said clause (iv) or (vii) but in the case of any default of the
character specified in said clause (iv) or (vii) no such notice to
Securityholders shall be given until at least 60 days after the giving of
written notice thereof to the Company pursuant to said clause (iv) or (vii), as
the case may be); provided, that, except in the case of default in the payment
of the principal of or interest, if any, on any of the Company Senior Debt
Securities, or in the payment or satisfaction of any sinking fund or other
purchase obligation, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice
if and so long as the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of
such notice is in the best interests of the Securityholders.
The Company is required to furnish to the Trustee annually a statement as
to the fulfillment by the Company of all of its obligations under the Senior
Debt Indenture.
Limitation on Liens. The Company may not, nor may any Subsidiary, mortgage,
pledge, encumber or subject to any lien or security interest to secure any
obligation of the Company or any obligation of any Subsidiary (other than
obligations owing to the Company or a wholly owned Subsidiary) any assets,
whether owned as of the date the Senior Debt Indenture was executed or
thereafter acquired, without effectively providing that the Company Senior Debt
Securities shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) any other
obligation so secured, unless, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount
of all such secured debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding secured
Indebtedness existing as of the date the Senior Debt Indenture was executed and
any extensions, renewals or refundings thereof that do not increase the
principal amount of Indebtedness so extended, renewed or refunded and excluding
secured Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) set
forth in this paragraph below) would not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth of
the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided, that this restriction will not
prevent the Company or any Subsidiary: (i) from acquiring and retaining property
subject to mortgages, pledges, encumbrances, liens or security interests
existing thereon at the date of acquisition thereof, or from creating within one
year of such acquisition mortgages, pledges, encumbrances or liens upon property
acquired by it after the date of the Senior Debt Indenture, as security for
purchase money obligations incurred by it in connection with the acquisition of
such property, whether payable to the person from whom such property is acquired
or otherwise; (ii) from mortgaging, pledging, encumbering or subjecting to any
lien or security interest Current Assets to secure Current Liabilities; (iii)
from extending, renewing or refunding any Indebtedness secured by a mortgage,
pledge, encumbrance, lien or security interest on the same property
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theretofore subject thereto, provided that the principal amount of such
Indebtedness so extended, renewed or refunded shall not be increased; or (iv)
from securing the payment of workmen's compensation or insurance premiums or
from making good faith pledges or deposits in connection with bids, tenders,
contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money) or leases, deposits to
secure public or statutory obligations, deposits to secure surety or appeal
bonds, pledges or deposits in connection with contracts made with or at the
request of the United States Government or any agency thereof, or pledges or
deposits for similar purposes in the ordinary course of business.
"Consolidated Net Worth" means, at any date, the sum of (i) the par value
(or value stated on the books of the Company) of the capital stock of all
classes of the Company (including preferred stock), plus (or minus in the case
of a deficit) (ii) the amount of the consolidated surplus, whether capital or
earned, of the Company and its Subsidiaries, determined in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles.
"Current Assets" of any Person includes all assets of such Person which
would be classified as current assets in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles.
"Current Liabilities" of any Person includes all liabilities of such Person
which would be classified as current liabilities in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.
Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary will enter into any transaction with any bank, insurance company or
other lender or investor, or to which any such lender or investor is a party,
providing for the leasing to the Company or a Subsidiary of any real property
(except a lease for a temporary period not to exceed three years by the end of
which it is intended that the use of such real property by the lessee will be
discontinued) which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or
such Subsidiary to such lender or investor or to any Person to whom funds have
been or are to be advanced by such lender or investor on the security of such
real property unless either: (i) such transaction is the substantial equivalent
of a mortgage, pledge, encumbrance, lien or security interest which the Company
or any Subsidiary would have been permitted to create under the covenant
described in "-- Provisions Applicable Solely to Company Senior Debt
Securities -- Limitation on Liens" without equally and ratably securing the
Company Senior Debt Securities, or (ii) the Company within 120 days after such
transaction applied (and in any such case the Company covenants that it will so
apply) an amount equal to the greater of (a) the net proceeds of the sale of the
real property leased pursuant to such transaction or (b) the fair value of the
real property so leased at the time of entering into such transaction (as
determined by the Board of Directors) to the retirement of Funded Debt of the
Company; provided that the amount to be applied to the retirement of Funded Debt
of the Company shall be reduced by: (x) the principal amount of any Company
Senior Debt Securities (for this purpose if the Company Senior Debt Securities
of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, the principal amount of
the Outstanding Company Senior Debt Securities of that series shall be computed
and adjusted as may be specified in the terms of that series) delivered within
120 days after such sale to the Trustee for retirement and cancellation and (y)
the principal amount of Funded Debt, other than Company Senior Debt Securities,
voluntarily retired by the Company within 120 days after such sale; provided,
that no retirement referred to in this clause (ii) may be effected by payment at
maturity or pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund payment or any mandatory
prepayment provision.
"Funded Debt" means Indebtedness for money borrowed which by its terms
matures at or is extendible or renewable at the option of the obligor to a date
more than 12 months after the date of the creation of such Indebtedness.
PROVISION APPLICABLE SOLELY TO COMPANY SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior Subordinated Debt. The Company will not
incur or suffer to exist Indebtedness that is or purports to be, pursuant to its
terms or the terms of any agreement relating thereto, senior in right of payment
to the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities and subordinate or junior in
right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company; provided that no
Indebtedness of the Company shall be deemed to be subordinate to any other
Indebtedness of the Company solely by virtue of any such other Indebtedness
being secured or otherwise having the benefit of any lien or security interest.
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE SOLELY TO COMPANY SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES AND
COMPANY SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
Events of Default. Unless otherwise specified in the Prospectus Supplement,
an Event of Default is defined under each of the Senior Subordinated Indenture
and Subordinated Indenture (together, the "Subordinated Indentures") with
respect to the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities and Company
Subordinated Debt Securities (together, the "Subordinated Securities") of any
series issued under such Subordinated Indentures being as one or more of the
following events:
(i) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any of
the Subordinated Securities of such series as and when the same shall
become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days;
(ii) default in the payment of the principal of any of the
Subordinated Securities of such series as and when the same shall become
due and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or
otherwise;
(iii) default in the payment or satisfaction of any sinking fund or
other purchase obligation with respect to any of the Subordinated
Securities of such series, as and when such obligation shall become due and
payable;
(iv) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any
other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the
Subordinated Securities of such series or in the Subordinated Indenture
applicable to such series continuing for a period of 60 days after the date
on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied,
shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee by registered mail, or
to the Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25 percent in
aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Securities of such series
issued under the applicable Subordinated Indenture then Outstanding;
(v) without the consent of the Company a court having jurisdiction
shall enter an order for relief with respect to the Company under the
Bankruptcy Code or without the consent of the Company a court having
jurisdiction shall enter a judgment, order or decree adjudging the Company
a bankrupt or insolvent, or enter an order for relief for reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state insolvency law and the
continuance or any such judgment, order or decree is unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days;
(vi) the Company shall institute proceedings for entry of an order for
relief with respect to the Company under the Bankruptcy Code or for an
adjudication of insolvency, or shall consent to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or shall file a petition
seeking, or seek or consent to reorganization, arrangement, composition or
relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable state law, or shall
consent to filing of such petition or to the appointment of a receiver,
custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official
of the Company or of substantially all of its property, or the Company
shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors as recognized
under the Bankruptcy Code;
(vii) default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or under 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 by the
Company, whether such Indebtedness exists on the date of the applicable
Subordinated Indenture or shall thereafter be created, which default shall
have resulted in such Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and
payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and
payable, or any default in payment of such Indebtedness (after the
expiration of any applicable grace periods and the presentation of any debt
instrument, if required), if the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness
which has been so accelerated and with respect to which there has been such
a default in payment shall exceed $5,000,000, without each such default and
acceleration having been rescinded or annulled within a period of 30 days
after there shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee by
registered mail, or to the
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Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate
principal amount of the Subordinated Securities of such series then
Outstanding, a written notice specifying each such default and requiring
the Company to cause each such default and acceleration to be rescinded or
annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" under the
applicable Subordinated Indenture; or
(viii) any other Event of Default provided with respect to the
Subordinated Securities of such series under the applicable Subordinated
Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Subordinated Securities of any
series then Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every
such case, unless the principal of all of the Subordinated Securities of such
series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
holders of not less than 25 percent in aggregate principal amount of the
Subordinated Securities of such series then Outstanding, by notice in writing to
the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the
unpaid principal amount (or, if the Subordinated Securities of such series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may
be specified in the terms of such series) of all the Subordinated Securities of
such series and the interest, if any, accrued thereon to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be
immediately due and payable, anything in the applicable Subordinated Indenture
or in the Subordinated Securities of such series contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. This provision, however, is subject to the condition that, if
at any time after the unpaid principal amount (or such specified amount) of the
Subordinated Securities of such series shall have been so declared due and
payable and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with
the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest, if
any, upon all of the Subordinated Securities of such series and the principal of
any and all Subordinated Securities of such series which shall have become due
otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of
interest, if any, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law and on such principal at the rate borne by the Subordinated
Securities of such series to the date of such payment or deposit) and the
reasonable compensation, disbursements, expenses and advances of the Trustee,
its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any and all defaults under the applicable
Subordinated Indenture, other than the nonpayment of such portion of the
principal amount of and accrued interest, if any, on Subordinated Securities of
such series which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured
or shall have been waived in accordance with the applicable Subordinated
Indenture or provision deemed by the Trustee to be adequate shall have been made
therefor -- then and in every such case the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Subordinated Securities of such series then Outstanding,
by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences; but no such rescission and annulment shall
extend to or shall affect any subsequent default, or shall impair any right
consequent thereon. If any Event of Default with respect to the Company
specified in clause (v) or (vi) above occurs, the unpaid principal amount (or,
if the Subordinated Securities of any series then Outstanding are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in
the terms of each such series) and accrued interest on all Subordinated
Securities of each series then Outstanding shall ipso facto become and be
immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act by the Trustee
or any Securityholder. If the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right
under the applicable Subordinated Indenture and such proceedings shall have been
discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any
other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in
every such case the Company, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall be
restored respectively to their several positions and rights under the applicable
Subordinated Indenture, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the
Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such proceeding had
been taken. Except with respect to an Event of Default pursuant to clause (i),
(ii) or (iii) above, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to the
Trustee by the Company, a Paying Agent or any Securityholder.
Each of the Subordinated Indentures provides that, subject to the duty of
the Trustee during default to act with the required standard of care, the
Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers
under such Subordinated Indenture at the request or direction of any of the
holders of Subordinated
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Securities issued under such Subordinated Indenture, unless such holders shall
have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity.
No holder of any Subordinated Securities of any series then Outstanding
shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of the
applicable Subordinated Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to such Subordinated Indenture or
the Subordinated Securities issued under such Subordinated Indenture or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee or similar official, or for any other
remedy under such Subordinated Indenture or thereunder, unless such holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as provided in such Subordinated Indenture, and unless the
holders of not less than 25 percent in aggregate principal amount of the
Subordinated Securities of such series then Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own
name as Trustee under such Subordinated Indenture and shall have offered to the
Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses
and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days
after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall have
neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in the applicable Subordinated Indenture,
but subject to the subordination provisions of the applicable Subordinated
Indenture, the right of any holder of any Subordinated Security to receive
payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Subordinated Security,
on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Subordinated Security,
or, if applicable, to convert such Subordinated Security as provided in the
applicable Subordinated Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after such respective dates or for the enforcement of any
such right to convert shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of
such holder.
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated
Securities of any series then Outstanding 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 Subordinated Securities of such series; provided, that (subject to
certain exceptions) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any
such direction if the Trustee shall determine upon advice of counsel that the
action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in
good faith shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed would
involve the Trustee in personal liability. The holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Securities of any series then
Outstanding may on behalf of the holders of all of the Subordinated Securities
of such series waive any past default or Event of Default under the applicable
Subordinated Indenture and its consequences except a default in the payment of
interest, if any, on, or the principal of, the Subordinated Securities of such
series. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the
Subordinated Securities of such series shall be restored to their former
positions and rights under the applicable Subordinated Indenture, respectively;
but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default or Event of
Default shall have been waived as permitted, said default or Event of Default
shall for all purposes of the applicable Subordinated Securities and the
applicable Subordinated Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not
continuing.
The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default, with
respect to Subordinated Securities of any series then Outstanding, mail to all
holders of Subordinated Securities of such series, as the names and the
addresses of such holders appear upon the applicable Subordinated Security
register, notice of all defaults known to the Trustee with respect to such
series, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such
notice (the term "defaults" for the purpose of these provisions being hereby
defined to be the events specified in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),
(vii) and (viii) of " -- Provisions Applicable Solely to Company Senior
Subordinated Debt Securities and Company Subordinated Debt Securities -- Events
of Default" above, not including periods of grace, if any, provided for therein
and irrespective of the giving of the written notice specified in clause (iv) or
(vii) but in the case of any default of the character specified in said clause
(iv) or (vii) no such notice to Securityholders shall be given until at least 60
days after the giving of written notice thereof to the Company pursuant to said
clause (iv) or (vii), as the case may be); provided that except in the case of
default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any of the
Subordinated Securities, or in the payment or satisfaction of any sinking fund
or other purchase obligation, the
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Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
best interests of the Securityholders.
The Company is required to furnish to the Trustee annually a statement as
to the fulfillment by the Company of all of its obligations under the applicable
Subordinated Indenture.
Subordination. The Subordinated Securities will be subordinate and junior
in right to payment, to the extent set forth in the applicable Subordinated
Indenture, to all Senior Indebtedness (as defined below for each of the
Subordinated Indentures) of the Company. If the Company should default in the
payment of any principal of or premium or interest on any Senior Indebtedness
when the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed
for prepayment or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon
written notice of such default to the Company by the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or any trustee therefor and subject to certain rights of the
Company to dispute such default and subject to proper notification of the
Trustee, unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall
have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by set-off or otherwise) will be made or agreed to be made for
principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the applicable
Subordinated Securities, or in respect of any redemption, retirement, purchase
or other acquisition of the applicable Subordinated Securities other than those
made in capital stock of the Company (or cash in lieu of fractional shares
thereof) pursuant to any conversion right of the Subordinated Securities or
otherwise made in capital stock of the Company.
"Senior Indebtedness" is defined in the Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture
as Indebtedness of the Company outstanding at any time except (i) any
Indebtedness of the Company that pursuant to its terms or the terms of any
agreement relating thereto or by operation of law is subordinate or junior in
right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company; provided that no
Indebtedness of the Company shall be deemed to be subordinate to any other
Indebtedness of the Company solely by virtue of any such other Indebtedness
being secured or otherwise having the benefit of any lien or security interest,
(ii) any Indebtedness as to which, by the terms of the instrument creating or
evidencing the same, it is provided that such Indebtedness is not senior in
right of payment to the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities, (iii) the
Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities, (iv) the Company's subordinated
indebtedness, (v) any Indebtedness of the Company to a wholly owned Subsidiary
of the Company, (vi) interest accruing after the filing of a petition initiating
certain bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings unless such interest is an allowed
claim enforceable against the Company in a proceeding under federal or state
bankruptcy laws and (vii) trade accounts payable.
"Senior Indebtedness" is defined in the Subordinated Debt Indenture as
Indebtedness of the Company outstanding at any time except (i) any Indebtedness
as to which, by the terms of the instrument creating or evidencing the same, it
is provided that such Indebtedness is not senior in right of payment to the
Company Subordinated Debt Securities, (ii) the Company Subordinated Debt
Securities, (iii) the Company's existing subordinated indebtedness, (iv) any
Indebtedness of the Company to a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, (v)
interest accruing after the filing of a petition initiating certain bankruptcy
or insolvency proceedings unless such interest is an allowed claim enforceable
against the Company in a proceeding under federal or state bankruptcy laws and
(vi) trade accounts payable.
"Indebtedness" is defined in each Subordinated Indenture as, with respect
to any Person, (i)(a) the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on
indebtedness for money borrowed of such Person evidenced by bonds, notes,
debentures or similar obligations, including any guaranty by such Person of any
indebtedness for money borrowed of any other Person, whether any such
indebtedness or guaranty is outstanding on the date of the applicable
Subordinated Indenture or is thereafter created, assumed or incurred, (b) the
principal of and premium and interest, if any, on indebtedness for money
borrowed, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by such Person in connection with the
acquisition by it or any of its subsidiaries of any other businesses, properties
or other assets and (c) lease obligations which such Person capitalizes in
accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13 promulgated
by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other generally accepted
accounting principles as may be from time to time in effect, (ii) any other
indebtedness of such Person, including any indebtedness representing the
deferred and unpaid balance of the purchase price of any property or interest
therein, including any such balance that constitutes a trade account payable,
and any guaranty, endorsement or other contingent obligation of such Person in
respect of
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any indebtedness of another, which is outstanding on the date of the applicable
Subordinated Indenture or is thereafter created, assumed or incurred by such
Person and (iii) any amendments, modifications, refundings, renewals or
extensions of any indebtedness or obligation described as Indebtedness in clause
(i) or (ii) above.
If (i) without the consent of the Company a court having jurisdiction shall
enter (a) an order for relief with respect to the Company under the United
States federal bankruptcy laws, (b) a judgment, order or decree adjudging the
Company as bankrupt or insolvent or (c) an order for relief for reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under the
United States federal bankruptcy laws or state insolvency laws or (ii) the
Company shall institute proceedings for the entry of an order for relief with
respect to the Company under the United States federal bankruptcy laws or for an
adjudication of insolvency, or shall consent to the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, or shall file a petition seeking, or seek or
consent to reorganization, arrangement, composition or similar relief under the
United States federal bankruptcy laws or any applicable state law, or shall
consent to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of a receiver,
custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official in
respect of the Company or of substantially all of its property, or the Company
shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, then all Senior
Indebtedness (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of
any such proceedings) will first be paid in full before any payment or
distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, is made on account
of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the applicable
Subordinated Securities. In such event, any payment or distribution on account
of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the applicable
Subordinated Securities, whether in cash, securities or other property (other
than securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan
of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least
to the extent provided in the subordination provisions with respect to the
applicable Subordinated Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness
then outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under any such
plan of reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for the
subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the applicable
Subordinated Securities will be paid or delivered directly to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness in accordance with the priorities then existing among such
holders until all Senior Indebtedness (including any interest thereon accruing
after the commencement of any such proceedings) has been paid in full. In the
event of any such proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with
respect to Senior Indebtedness, the holders of Subordinated Securities, together
with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the
Subordinated Securities issued under the applicable Subordinated Indenture, will
be entitled to be repaid from the remaining assets of the Company the amounts at
the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of or any interest on the
Subordinated Securities issued under the applicable Subordinated Indenture and
such other obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in
cash, property or otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or
obligations of the Company ranking junior to the Subordinated Securities issued
under the applicable Subordinated Indenture and such other obligations. If,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution on the Subordinated
Securities issued under the applicable Subordinated Indenture of any character,
whether in cash, securities or other property (other than securities of the
Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or
readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent
provided in the subordination provisions with respect to the Subordinated
Securities issued under the applicable Subordinated Indenture, to the payment of
all Senior Indebtedness then outstanding and to any securities issued in respect
thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment), shall be
received by the Trustee or any holder of any Subordinated Securities issued
under the applicable Subordinated Indenture in contravention of any of the terms
of the applicable Subordinated Indenture, such payment or distribution will be
received in trust for the benefit of, and will be paid over or delivered and
transferred to, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness then outstanding in
accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders for application
to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent
necessary to pay all such Senior Indebtedness in full. In the event of the
failure of the Trustee or any holder to endorse or assign any such payment,
distribution or security, each holder of Senior Indebtedness is irrevocably
authorized to endorse or assign the same.
Each of the Subordinated Indentures will provide that Senior Indebtedness
shall not be deemed to have been paid in full unless the holders thereof shall
have received cash, securities or other property equal to the
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amount of such Senior Indebtedness then outstanding. Upon the payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness, the holders of Subordinated Securities of each series
shall be subrogated to all rights of any holders of Senior Indebtedness to
receive any further payments or distributions applicable to such Senior
Indebtedness until the indebtedness evidenced by the Subordinated Securities of
such series shall have been paid in full, and such payments or distributions
received by such holders, by reason of such subrogation, of cash, securities or
other property that otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness with respect to such series, shall, as between the Company
and its creditors other than the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the one
hand, and such holders, on the other hand, be deemed to be a payment by the
Company on account of such Senior Indebtedness, and not on account of the
Subordinated Securities of such series.
By reason of such subordination, in the event of the insolvency of the
Company, holders of Senior Indebtedness and holders of other obligations of the
Company that are not subordinated to Senior Indebtedness may receive more,
ratably, than holders of the Subordinated Securities. Such subordination will
not prevent the occurrence of an Event of Default or limit the right of
acceleration in respect of the Subordinated Securities.
Conversion. Each of the Subordinated Indentures may provide that a series
of Subordinated Securities may be convertible into Common Stock (or cash in lieu
thereof). The following provisions will apply to Company Debt Securities that
are convertible Subordinated Securities unless otherwise provided in the
Prospectus Supplement for such Company Debt Securities.
The holder of any convertible Subordinated Securities will have the right
exercisable at any time prior to maturity, subject to prior redemption or
purchase by the Company, to convert such Subordinated Securities into shares of
Common Stock at the conversion price or conversion rate set forth in the
Prospectus Supplement, subject to adjustment. The holder of convertible
Subordinated Securities may convert any portion thereof which is $1,000 in
principal amount or any integral multiple thereof.
In certain events, the conversion price or conversion rate will be subject
to adjustment as set forth in the applicable Subordinated Indenture. Such events
include issuance of shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on the
Common Stock; subdivisions, combinations and reclassifications of the Common
Stock; redemption of the preferred share purchase rights associated with the
Common Stock; the issuance to all holders of Common Stock of rights or warrants
entitling the holders thereof (for a period not exceeding 45 days) to subscribe
for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the then
current market price per share of Common Stock (as determined pursuant to the
applicable Subordinated Indenture); and the distribution to substantially all
holders of Common Stock of evidences of indebtedness, equity securities
(including equity interests in the Company's Subsidiaries) other than Common
Stock, or other assets (excluding cash dividends paid from surplus) or
subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). No
adjustment of the conversion price or conversion rate will be required unless an
adjustment would require a cumulative increase or decrease of at least 1% in
such price or rate. The Company has been advised by its counsel that certain
adjustments in the conversion price or conversion rate in accordance with the
foregoing provisions may result in constructive distributions to either holders
of the Subordinated Securities issued under the applicable Subordinated
Indenture or holders of Common Stock that would be taxable pursuant to Treasury
Regulations issued under Section 305 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended. The amount of any such taxable constructive distribution will be the
fair market value of the Common Stock that is treated as having been
constructively received, such value being determined as of the time the
adjustment resulting in the constructive distribution is made.
Fractional shares of Common Stock will not be issued upon conversion, but,
in lieu thereof, the Company will pay a cash adjustment based on the then
current market price for the Common Stock. Upon conversion, no adjustments will
be made for accrued interest or dividends. Accordingly, convertible Subordinated
Securities surrendered for conversion between an interest payment date and on or
prior to the record date pertaining to the subsequent interest payment date will
not be considered Outstanding and no interest will be paid on the related
interest payment date. Convertible Subordinated Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period between the close of business on any record date
for an interest payment date for such convertible Subordinated Security and the
opening of business on the related interest payment date (or on the
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related interest payment date) shall be considered Outstanding for purposes of
payment of interest on such related interest payment date and therefore must be
accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the interest thereon which the
registered holder is to receive.
In the case of any consolidation or merger of the Company (with certain
exceptions) or any sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Company, the holder of
convertible Subordinated Securities, after the consolidation, merger, sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition, will have the right to convert such
convertible Subordinated Securities into the kind and amount of securities, cash
and other property that the holder would have been entitled to receive upon or
in connection with such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition, if the holder had held the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
such convertible Subordinated Securities issued under the applicable
Subordinated Indenture immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition.
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE SOLELY TO COMPANY SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
Purchase of Company Subordinated Debt Securities at Option of the Holder
upon Change in Control. Unless otherwise specified in the Prospectus Supplement,
if on or prior to maturity there shall have occurred a Change in Control (as
defined below), the Company Subordinated Debt Securities shall be purchased, at
the option of the holder thereof, by the Company at the purchase price specified
in the Company Subordinated Debt Securities (the "Change in Control Purchase
Price"), on the date that is 35 business days after the occurrence of the Change
in Control (the "Change in Control Purchase Date"), subject to the subordination
provisions of the Subordinated Debt Indenture and satisfaction by or on behalf
of the holder of the following requirements:
(i) The delivery of a written notice of purchase (a "Change in Control
Purchase Notice") to the Trustee at any time prior to the close of business
on the Change in Control Purchase Date stating (a) the certificate number
or numbers of the Company Subordinated Debt Security or Securities which
the holder will deliver to be purchased, (b) the portion of the principal
amount of the Company Subordinated Debt Security or Securities which the
holder will deliver to be purchased, which portion must be $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof, and (c) that such Company Subordinated Debt
Security or Securities shall be purchased on the Change in Control Purchase
Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in such Company
Subordinated Debt Securities; and
(ii) The delivery of the Company Subordinated Debt Securities, by hand
or by registered mail prior to, on or after the Change in Control Purchase
Date (together with all necessary endorsements) to the Trustee; provided,
however, that such Change in Control Purchase Price shall be so paid
pursuant to the Subordinated Debt Indenture only if the Company
Subordinated Debt Securities so delivered to the Trustee conform in all
respects to the description thereof set forth in the related Change in
Control Purchase Notice.
As provided in the Subordinated Debt Indenture, any holder delivering to
the Trustee the Change in Control Purchase Notice may withdraw such Change in
Control Purchase Notice by delivery at any time prior to or before the close of
business on the Change in Control Purchase Date of a written notice of
withdrawal to the Trustee specifying (i) the certificate number or numbers of
the Company Subordinated Debt Security or Securities in respect of which such
notice of withdrawal is being submitted; (ii) the principal amount of the
Company Subordinated Debt Security or Securities with respect to which such
notice of withdrawal is being submitted; and (iii) the principal amount, if any,
of the Company Subordinated Debt Security or Securities which remain subject to
the original Change in Control Purchase Notice, and which have been or will be
delivered for purchase by the Company.
Upon receipt by the Company of the Change in Control Purchase Notice, the
holder of the Company Subordinated Debt Securities in respect of which such
Change in Control Purchase Notice was given shall (unless such Change in Control
Purchase Notice is withdrawn) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the
Change in Control Purchase Price with respect to such Company Subordinated Debt
Securities. Such Change in Control Purchase Price shall be paid to such holder
promptly following the later of (x) the Change in
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Control Purchase Date with respect to such Company Subordinated Debt Securities
and (y) the time of delivery of such Company Subordinated Debt Securities to the
Trustee by the holder thereof in the manner required by the Subordinated Debt
Indenture.
Company Subordinated Debt Securities in respect of which a Change in
Control Purchase Notice has been given by the holder thereof may not be
converted into shares of Common Stock on or after the date of the delivery of
such Change in Control Purchase Notice, unless such Change in Control Purchase
Notice has first been validly withdrawn as specified in the Subordinated Debt
Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no purchase of any
Company Subordinated Debt Securities if there has occurred and is continuing an
Event of Default (other than a default in the payment of the Change in Control
Purchase Price) as defined in the Subordinated Debt Indenture.
A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as any
of the following events shall occur:
(i) Any person (for purposes of the Change in Control provisions of
the Subordinated Debt Indenture only, the term "person" shall mean a
"person" as defined in or for purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 as amended (and including any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant
thereto and including any successor statute or any rule or regulation
promulgated pursuant thereto, the "Exchange Act"), including any "group"
acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities
within the meaning of the Exchange Act), together with its Affiliates and
Associates (as defined below), shall file a report under or in response to
Schedule 13D or 14D-1 (or any successor schedule, form or report) pursuant
to the Exchange Act disclosing that such person has become the beneficial
owner (as the term "beneficial owner" is defined pursuant to the Exchange
Act) of either (A) 50% or more of the shares of Common Stock then
outstanding or (B) 50% or more of the voting power of the Voting Stock (as
hereinafter defined) of the Company then outstanding; provided, however,
that for purposes of this clause (i), a person shall not be deemed the
beneficial owner of (1) any securities tendered pursuant to a tender offer
or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person, or its Affiliates or
Associates, until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or
exchange thereunder, or (2) any securities in respect of which beneficial
ownership by such person arises solely as a result of a revocable proxy
delivered in response to a proxy or consent solicitation that is made
pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Exchange Act and not then
reportable on Schedule 13D (or any successor schedule, form or report)
under the Exchange Act.
(ii) There shall be consummated any sale, transfer, lease or
conveyance of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the
Company to any other corporation or corporations or other person or persons
(other than a Subsidiary of the Company).
(iii) There shall be consummated any consolidation of the Company with
or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations
or entity or entities (whether or not affiliated with the Company) in which
the Company is not the sole surviving or continuing corporation or pursuant
to which the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the
consummation of such consolidation or merger are converted into cash,
securities or other property, other than a consolidation or merger in which
the holders of shares of Common Stock receive, directly or indirectly, (A)
75% or more of the common stock of the sole surviving or continuing
corporation outstanding immediately following the consummation of such
consolidation or merger and (B) securities representing 75% or more of the
combined voting power of the Voting Stock of the sole surviving or
continuing corporation outstanding immediately following the consummation
thereof of such consolidation or merger.
"Associate" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term pursuant to the
Exchange Act as in effect on the date of the Subordinated Debt Indenture.
"Voting Stock" shall mean, with respect to any person, the capital stock of
such person having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at
least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such persons
(irrespective of whether or not at the time capital stock of any other class or
classes shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency).
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Within 15 business days after the occurrence of a Change in Control, the
Company shall mail a written notice of Change in Control by first-class mail to
the Trustee and to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as required by
applicable law) and shall cause a copy of such notice to be published at least
once in the national edition of The Wall Street Journal. The notice shall
include or transmit a form of Change in Control Purchase Notice to be completed
by the holder and shall state: (i) the events causing a Change in Control and
the date of such Change in Control; (ii) the date by which the Change in Control
Purchase Notice pursuant to the Subordinated Debt Indenture must be given; (iii)
the Change in Control Purchase Date; (iv) the Change in Control Purchase Price;
(v) the name and address of the Trustee; (vi) that the Company Subordinated Debt
Securities must be surrendered to the Trustee to collect payment; (vii) that the
Change in Control Purchase Price for any Company Subordinated Debt Security as
to which a Change in Control Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn
will be paid promptly following the later of the Change in Control Purchase Date
or the time of surrender of such Company Subordinated Debt Securities; (viii)
the procedures the holder must follow to exercise rights under the Subordinated
Debt Indenture and a brief description of those rights; and (ix) the procedures
for withdrawing a Change in Control Purchase Notice.
Prior to 12:00 Noon (local time in the City of New York) on the business
day following the Change in Control Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee an amount of cash in immediately available funds or securities,
if expressly permitted under the Subordinated Debt Indenture, sufficient to pay
the aggregate Change in Control Purchase Price of all Company Subordinated Debt
Securities or portions thereof which are to be purchased. If a deposit is made
with the Trustee of the aforesaid amount of cash or securities, the Company
Subordinated Debt Securities or portions thereof with respect to which a Change
in Control Purchase Notice has been delivered and not validly withdrawn shall
become due and payable as of the business day following the applicable Change in
Control Purchase Date, and on and after such date interest on such Company
Subordinated Debt Securities shall cease and all other rights of the holders
thereof shall terminate, other than the right to receive the Change in Control
Purchase Price upon delivery of such Company Subordinated Debt Securities to the
Trustee. To the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the
Company exceeds the aggregate Change in Control Purchase Price of the Company
Subordinated Debt Securities or portions thereof to be purchased, then promptly
after the Change in Control Purchase Date, the Trustee shall return any such
excess to the Company, together with interest or dividends, if any, thereon.
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEES
Each of the Trustees is a depositary for funds of, makes loans to and
performs other services for the Company and certain of its affiliates in the
normal course of business.
Texas Commerce Bank will serve as Trustee under the Senior Subordinated
Indenture and serves as Trustee under the Subordinated Indenture, under which no
securities were outstanding as of June 30, 1996. Texas Commerce Bank also serves
as Trustee under (i) the Debenture Indenture (the "Debenture Indenture") dated
as of June 15, 1992, between the Company and Texas Commerce Bank, as trustee,
and (ii) the Guarantees of Notes of Subsidiaries Indenture (the "Guarantees
Indenture") dated as of May 1, 1970, between the Company and Texas Commerce
Bank, as trustee. Debt of the Company issued pursuant to the Debenture Indenture
and the Guarantees Indenture constitutes Senior Indebtedness. As of June 30,
1996, the Company had outstanding approximately $31 million principal amount of
Senior Indebtedness issued pursuant to the Debenture Indenture and approximately
$59 million principal amount of guarantees issued pursuant to the Guarantees
Indenture.
The Bank of New York serves as Trustee under the Senior Indenture pursuant
to which unsecured debt securities of SCI are outstanding representing
approximately $1,436 million of Senior Indebtedness as of June 30, 1996.
Pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, a trustee under an indenture may be
deemed to have a conflicting interest, and may, under certain circumstances set
forth in the Trust Indenture Act, be required to resign as trustee under such
indenture, if the securities issued under such indenture are in default (as such
term is defined in such indenture) and the trustee is the trustee under another
indenture under which any other
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securities of the same obligor are outstanding, subject to certain exceptions
set forth in the Trust Indenture Act. In such event, the obligor must take
prompt steps to have a successor trustee appointed in the manner provided in the
indenture from which the trustee has resigned.
Pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, Texas Commerce Bank, as proposed
trustee under the Senior Subordinated Indenture and as trustee under the
Subordinated Indenture, the Debenture Indenture and the Guarantees Indenture,
could be required to resign as trustee under one or more of such indentures
should a default occur under one or more of such indentures. In such event, the
Company would be required to take prompt steps to have a successor trustee or
successor trustees appointed in the manner provided in the applicable indenture
or indentures.
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
GENERAL
As of August 16, 1996, the Company had authorized capital stock consisting
of 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $1.00 par value per share (the
"Preferred Stock"), and 500,000,000 shares of Common Stock. As of August 16,
1996, the record date for the two for one stock split approved by the Company's
Board of Directors on June 13, 1996 (the "Stock Split"), the Company had
outstanding, after giving effect to the Stock Split, 235,603,988 shares of
Common Stock, and 37,891,314 shares were reserved for future issuance. No shares
of Preferred Stock were outstanding on such date.
The following description of the Common Stock does not purport to be
complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to applicable provisions
of Texas law, the Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation (the "Articles of
Incorporation"), the Company's Bylaws (the "Bylaws"), and the Rights Agreement
dated as of July 18, 1988, as amended (the "Rights Agreement"), between the
Company and Society National Bank, as successor agent thereunder (the "Rights
Agent").
COMMON STOCK
Subject to the prior rights of holders of shares of the Preferred Stock,
the holders of shares of Common Stock (i) are entitled to such dividends as may
be declared by the Board of Directors of the Company out of funds legally
available therefor; (ii) are entitled to one vote per share; (iii) have no
preemptive or conversion rights; (iv) are not subject to, or entitled to the
benefits of, any redemption or sinking fund provision; and (v) are entitled upon
liquidation to receive the assets of the Company remaining after the payment of
corporate debts and the satisfaction of liquidation preference of the Preferred
Stock. Voting is non-cumulative. The outstanding shares of Common Stock are
fully paid and non-assessable.
Under the terms of the credit agreements between the Company and its bank
lenders, there are no restrictions upon the payment of cash dividends on, or the
repurchase of, the Common Stock; except that under the terms of credit
agreements with certain banks SCI is required to maintain a net worth (as
defined) in excess of $1.1 billion. This net worth requirement increases
annually and could from time to time restrict the payment of dividends on the
Common Stock. At June 30, 1996, the net worth (as defined) was $2.266 billion.
The Transfer Agent and Registrar for the Common Stock is Society National
Bank, Houston, Texas.
CERTAIN PROVISIONS AFFECTING CONTROL OF THE COMPANY
The Articles of Incorporation contain various provisions that may be deemed
to have an anti-takeover effect. These provisions include the following: (i) the
requirement of a four-fifths vote of outstanding shares of capital stock (a) to
approve the merger or consolidation of the Company, or the exchange by the
Company of its securities, with a holder of 10% or more of the Company's capital
stock, (b) to remove directors with or without cause and (c) to amend or repeal
any of these provisions; (ii) the creation of a classified Board of Directors
consisting of three classes; (iii) the establishment of a minimum of nine and a
maximum of 15 directors; (iv) the ability of the directors, by four-fifths vote,
to remove a director, subject to approval by a
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majority vote of the shareholders; and (v) the right of directors to fill
vacancies on the board without the approval of shareholders.
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN
On July 18, 1988, the Board of Directors of the Company (i) declared a
dividend of one preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each share of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on July 28, 1988 (the "Record
Date") and (ii) provided that one Right will be issued with each share of Common
Stock that shall become outstanding after the Record Date and prior to the
earliest of the Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined), the date the Rights
are redeemed or the date the Rights expire. Each Right entitles the registered
holder to purchase from the Company one-three hundredth (1/300) interest in a
share of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock, $1.00 par value (a
"Preferred Share"), of the Company, at a price of $28 1/3 per one-three
hundredth (1/300) interest (the "Purchase Price"), upon the terms and subject to
the conditions set forth in the Rights Agreement.
Until the earlier of (i) ten days after a public announcement that a person
or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") has
acquired beneficial ownership of 20% or more of the Common Stock outstanding or
(ii) ten business days after the commencement of, or public announcement of, a
tender or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in beneficial
ownership by a person or group of 20% or more of the Common Stock outstanding
(the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights are
evidenced, with respect to any certificate for Common Stock outstanding as of
the Record Date, by such certificate together with a copy of a summary of rights
and, with respect to any certificate for Common Stock issued after the Record
Date and before the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of
the Rights), by such certificate, which will bear notation incorporating the
Rights Agreement by reference.
Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the
Rights), (i) the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Stock
and (ii) the surrender for transfer of any certificate for Common Stock will
also constitute the surrender for transfer of the Rights associated with the
Common Stock represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following
the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right
Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of Common Stock as of the
close of business on the Distribution Date, and such separate Right Certificates
alone will evidence the Rights.
The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date and will expire
on July 28, 1998, unless extended or earlier redeemed by the Company as
described below.
The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other
securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to
adjustment to prevent dilution in the event of certain actions taken by the
Company.
If any person becomes an Acquiring Person, each holder of a Right, other
than the Acquiring Person, will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the
exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price of a Right, that number of
shares of Common Stock that, at the time of such transaction, will have a market
value of two times the Purchase Price of a Right. If the Company is acquired in
a merger or other business combination or 50% or more of its consolidated assets
or earning power is sold, each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right
to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price of a
Right, that number of shares of common stock of the Acquiring Person that, at
the time of the transaction, will have a market value of two times the Purchase
Price of a Right.
Under certain circumstances, after a person becomes an Acquiring Person,
the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights
owned by the Acquiring Person, which are void), in whole or in part, at an
exchange ratio of one share of Common Stock per Right (subject to adjustment).
At any time before a person has become an Acquiring Person, the Company may
redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right,
subject to adjustment (the "Redemption Price"). Immediately upon the action of
the Board of Directors to redeem the Rights, the Company will announce the
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redemption, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate, and the only right
of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price.
Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no
rights as a shareholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right
to vote or to receive dividends.
The Rights have certain anti-takeover effects. The Rights will cause
substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire the Company
without conditioning the offer on a substantial number of Rights being acquired.
The Rights should not interfere with any merger or other business combination
approved by the Board of Directors of the Company since the Board of Directors
may, at its option, at any time prior to the time a person has become an
Acquiring Person, redeem all but not less than all the then outstanding Rights
at the Redemption Price.
PREFERRED STOCK
Under the Articles of Incorporation, SCI has the authority to issue
1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors of SCI is empowered,
without approval of the shareholders, to cause shares of Preferred Stock to be
issued in one or more series, with the number of shares of each series and the
rights, preferences and limitations of each series to be determined by it. Among
the specific matters that may be determined by the Board of Directors are the
rate of dividends, redemption and conversion prices and terms and amounts
payable in the event of liquidation. Dividends on the Preferred Stock, both for
the current period and all past periods, must be paid or set apart for payment
before any dividends (other than in stock junior to the Preferred Stock) can be
paid on the Common Stock and before any other distribution on or redemption of
any Common Stock by the Company. The holders of Preferred Stock will be entitled
to one vote per share in the election of directors and on all matters submitted
to shareholders. The Company may not, without the approval of the holders of at
least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Preferred Stock (and subject to
the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation referred to under "-- Certain
Provisions Affecting Control of the Company" above), among other things, amend
or repeal any provision of, or add any provision to, the Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company if such action would alter or change the
preferences, rights, privileges or powers of, or the restrictions provided for
the benefit of, the Preferred Stock. Except for matters on which the Preferred
Stock is entitled to vote as a class, shares of outstanding Preferred Stock vote
together with the Common Stock. Voting is non-cumulative. If dividends payable
on any series shall be in arrears in an amount equivalent to six dividend
payments, the holders of Preferred Stock voting as a class have the right to
elect two directors to the Board of Directors to serve until all past due
dividends have been paid. Issuance of Preferred Stock could involve dilution of
the equity of the holders of Common Stock and restriction on the rights of such
shareholders to receive dividends. The Board of Directors has designated and
reserved for issuance 950,000 shares of the Company's Preferred Stock as Series
C Junior Participating Preferred Stock, which may be issued upon the exercise of
the preferred share purchase rights that are associated with the Common Stock.
See "-- Shareholder Rights Plan" above.
DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK WARRANTS
The Company may issue Common Stock Warrants (which may be titled either
"options" or "warrants") for the purchase of Common Stock. The Common Stock
Warrants may be issued independently or together with any Securities offered by
any Prospectus Supplement and may be attached to or separate from such
Securities. Each series of Common Stock Warrants will be issued under a separate
warrant agreement (a "Warrant Agreement") to be entered into between the Company
and a bank or trust company, as Warrant Agent, all as set forth in the
Prospectus Supplement relating to the particular issue of offered Common Stock
Warrants. The Warrant Agent will act solely as an agent of the Company in
connection with certificates representing Common Stock Warrants (the "Common
Stock Warrant Certificates") and will not assume any obligation or relationship
of agency or trust for or with any holders of Common Stock Warrant Certificates
or beneficial owners of Common Stock Warrants. The form of Warrant Agreement,
including the form of Common Stock Warrant Certificate representing the Common
Stock Warrants, is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement to which
this Prospectus pertains. The following summaries of certain provisions of the
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form of Warrant Agreement and Common Stock Warrant Certificate do not purport to
be complete and are subject to, and are qualified in their entirety by reference
to, all the provisions of the Warrant Agreement and the Common Stock Warrant
Certificate.
GENERAL
Reference is made to the accompanying Prospectus Supplement relating to the
Common Stock Warrants, if Common Stock Warrants are offered, for the following
terms of the Common Stock Warrants:
(i) the offering price;
(ii) the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon exercise of
each such Common Stock Warrant and the price at which such number of shares
of Common Stock may be purchased upon such exercise;
(iii) the date on which the right to exercise such Common Stock
Warrants shall commence and the date on which such right shall expire (the
"Expiration Date"); and
(iv) any other terms of such Common Stock Warrants (and the
accompanying Prospectus Supplement may state that any of the terms set
forth herein are inapplicable to such series).
Common Stock Warrants for the purchase of Common Stock will be offered and
exercisable for U.S. dollars only and will be in registered form only.
Common Stock Warrant Certificates may be exchanged for new Common Stock
Warrant Certificates of different denominations, may (if in registered form) be
presented for registration or transfer, and may be exercised at the corporate
trust office of the Warrant Agent or any other office indicated in the
applicable Prospectus Supplement. Prior to the exercise of any Common Stock
Warrants, holders of such Common Stock Warrants will not have any rights of
holders of the Common Stock purchasable upon such exercise, including the right
to receive payments of dividends, if any, on the Common Stock purchasable upon
such exercise or to exercise any applicable right to vote.
EXERCISE OF COMMON STOCK WARRANTS
Each Common Stock Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase such
shares of Common Stock at such exercise price as shall in each case be set forth
in, or calculable from, the Prospectus Supplement relating to the offered Common
Stock Warrants. After the close of business on the Expiration Date (or such
later date to which such Expiration Date may be extended by the Company),
unexercised Common Stock Warrants will become void.
Common Stock Warrants may be exercised by delivering to the Warrant Agent
payment as provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement of the amount
required to purchase the Common Stock purchasable upon such exercise together
with certain information set forth on the reverse side of the Common Stock
Warrant Certificate. Common Stock Warrants will be deemed to have been exercised
upon receipt of payment of the exercise price, subject to the receipt of the
Common Stock Warrant Certificate evidencing such Common Stock Warrants. Upon
receipt of such payment and the Common Stock Warrant Certificate properly
completed and duly executed at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent
or any other office indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Company will, as soon as practicable, issue and deliver the Common Stock
purchasable upon such exercise. If fewer than all of the Common Stock Warrants
represented by such Common Stock Warrant Certificate are exercised, a new Common
Stock Warrant Certificate will be issued for the remaining amount of Common
Stock Warrants.
AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS TO WARRANT AGREEMENT
The Warrant Agreement for a series of Common Stock Warrants may be amended
or supplemented without the consent of the holders of the Common Stock Warrants
issued thereunder to effect changes that
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are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Common Stock Warrants and that
do not adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Common Stock
Warrants.
COMMON STOCK WARRANT ADJUSTMENTS
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
exercise price of, and the number of shares of Common Stock covered by, a Common
Stock Warrant are subject to adjustment in certain events, including: (i) the
issuance of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock; (ii)
subdivisions and combinations of the Common Stock; (iii) the issuance to all
holders of Common Stock of certain rights or warrants entitling them to
subscribe for or purchase Common Stock within 45 days after the date fixed for
the determination of the shareholders entitled to receive such rights or
warrants, at less than the current market price (as defined in the Warrant
Agreement for such series of Common Stock Warrants); and (iv) the distribution
to all holders of Common Stock of evidences of indebtedness or assets of the
Company (excluding certain cash dividends and distributions described below) or
rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase such evidences of indebtedness
or assets (excluding those referred to above). If the Company shall distribute
any rights or warrants to acquire capital stock pursuant to clause (iv) above
(the "Capital Stock Rights"), pursuant to which separate certificates
representing such Capital Stock Rights will be distributed subsequent to the
initial distribution of such Capital Stock Rights (whether or not such
distribution shall have occurred prior to the date of the issuance of a series
of Common Stock Warrants), such subsequent distribution shall be deemed to be
the distribution of such Capital Stock Rights; provided that the Company may, in
lieu of making any adjustment in the exercise price of, and the number of shares
of Common Stock covered by, a Common Stock Warrant upon a distribution of
separate certificates representing such Capital Stock Rights, make proper
provision so that each holder of such a Common Stock Warrant who exercises such
Common Stock Warrant (or any portion thereof) (a) before the record date for
such distribution of separate certificates shall be entitled to receive upon
such exercise shares of Common Stock issued with Capital Stock Rights and (b)
after such record date and prior to the expiration, redemption or termination of
such Capital Stock Rights shall be entitled to receive upon such exercise, in
addition to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise, the same
number of such Capital Stock Rights as would a holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock that such Common Stock Warrant so exercised would have entitled the
holder thereof to acquire in accordance with the terms and provisions applicable
to the Capital Stock Rights if such Common Stock Warrant was exercised
immediately prior to the record date for such distribution. Common Stock owned
by or held for the account of the Company or any majority owned subsidiary shall
not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any adjustment required pursuant to
clause (iv) of this paragraph.
No adjustment in the exercise price of, and the number of shares of Common
Stock covered by, a Common Stock Warrant will be made for regular quarterly or
other periodic or recurring cash dividends or distributions or for cash
dividends or distributions to the extent paid from retained earnings. No
adjustment will be required unless such adjustment would require a change of at
least 1% in the exercise price then in effect; provided that any such adjustment
not so made will be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent
adjustment; and provided further that any such adjustment not so made shall be
made no later than three years after the occurrence of the event requiring such
adjustment to be made or carried forward. Except as stated above, the exercise
price of, and the number of shares of Common Stock covered by, a Common Stock
Warrant will not be adjusted for the issuance of Common Stock or any securities
convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock, or securities carrying the
right to purchase any of the foregoing.
In the case of (i) a reclassification or change of the Common Stock, (ii) a
consolidation or merger involving the Company or (iii) a sale or conveyance to
another corporation of the property and assets of the Company as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety, in each case as a result of which holders of the
Company's Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities, other
property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such
Common Stock, the holders of the Common Stock Warrants then outstanding will be
entitled thereafter to convert such Common Stock Warrants into the kind and
amount of shares of stock and other securities or property which they would have
received upon such
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reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance had such
Common Stock Warrants been exercised immediately prior to such reclassification,
change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
The Company may sell Securities to or through underwriters, and also may
sell Securities directly to other purchasers or through agents. The distribution
of the Securities may be effected from time to time in one or more transactions
at a fixed price or prices, which may be changed, or at market prices prevailing
at the time of sale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or at
negotiated prices.
In connection with the sale of Securities, underwriters may receive
compensation from the Company or from purchasers of Securities for whom they may
act as agents in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions. Underwriters
may sell Securities to or through dealers, and such 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
agents. Underwriters, dealers and agents that participate in the distribution of
Securities may be deemed to be underwriters, and any discounts or commissions
received by them from the Company, and any profit on the resale of Securities by
them may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions, under the Act.
Any such underwriter or agent will be identified, and any such compensation
received from the Company will be described, in the Prospectus Supplement.
Under agreements which may be entered into by the Company, underwriters and
agents who participate in the distribution of Securities may be entitled to
indemnification by the Company against certain liabilities, including
liabilities under the Act.
If so indicated in the Prospectus Supplement, the Company will authorize
underwriters or other persons acting as the Company's agents to solicit offers
by certain institutions to purchase Securities from the Company, pursuant to
contracts providing for payments and delivery on a future date. Institutions
with which such contracts may be made include commercial and savings banks,
insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, educational and
charitable institutions and others, but in all cases such institutions must be
approved by the Company. The obligations of any purchaser under any such
contract will be subject to the condition that the purchase of the offered
Securities shall not at the time of delivery be prohibited under the laws of the
jurisdiction to which such purchaser is subject. The underwriters and such other
agents will not have any responsibility in respect of the validity or
performance of such contracts.
LEGAL MATTERS
The validity of the Securities offered hereby will be passed upon for the
Company by Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P., Houston, Texas, special
counsel for the Company.
EXPERTS
The consolidated financial statements of Service Corporation International
at December 31, 1995 and 1994, and for the three years ended December 31, 1995
appearing in Service Corporation International's Annual Report (Form 10-K) for
the year ended December 31, 1995, have been audited by Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.,
independent accountants, as set forth in their report thereon incorporated
herein by reference in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such
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.
Set forth below is an estimate (except for the Securities and Exchange
Commission registration fee) of the fees and expenses payable by the Company in
connection with the distribution of the Securities:
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SEC registration fee..................................................... $ 318,347
Printing costs........................................................... 200,000
Legal fees and expenses.................................................. 200,000
Accounting fees and expenses............................................. 25,000
Blue Sky fees and expenses............................................... 45,000
Trustee fees and expenses................................................ 24,000
Rating agency fee........................................................ 400,000
Miscellaneous............................................................ 25,000
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Total.......................................................... $1,237,347
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ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
The Company is a Texas corporation.
Article 2.02-1 of the Texas Business Corporation Act (the "TBCA") provides
that any director or officer of a Texas corporation may be indemnified against
judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses actually
incurred by him in connection with or in defending any action, suit or
proceeding in which he is or is threatened to be made a named defendant by
reason of his position as director or officer, provided that he conducted
himself in good faith and reasonably believed that, in the case of conduct in
his official capacity as director or officer, such conduct was in the
corporation's best interests, or, in all other cases, that such conduct was not
opposed to the corporation's best interests. In the case of a criminal
proceeding, a director or officer may be indemnified only if he had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. If a director or officer
is a wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in connection with such a
proceeding, such indemnification is mandatory.
Under the Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the
"Articles of Incorporation"), no director of the registrant will be liable to
the registrant or any of its shareholders for monetary damages for an act or
omission in the director's capacity as a director, except for liability (i) for
any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the registrant or its
shareholders, (ii) for acts or omission not in good faith or that involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for any transaction
for which the director received an improper benefit, whether or not the benefit
resulted from an action taken within the scope of the director's office, (iv)
for acts or omissions for which the liability of a director is expressly
provided by statute, or (v) for acts related to an unlawful stock repurchase or
dividend payment. The Articles of Incorporation further provide that, if the
statutes of Texas are amended to further limit the liability of a director, then
the liability of the Company's directors will be limited to the fullest extent
permitted by any such provision.
The Company's Bylaws provide for indemnification of officers and directors
of the registrant and persons serving at the request of the registrant in such
capacities for other business organizations against certain losses, costs,
liabilities, and expenses incurred by reason of their positions with the
registrant or such other business organizations. The Company also has policies
insuring its officers and directors and certain officers and directors of its
wholly owned subsidiaries against certain liabilities for actions taken in such
capacities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Act").
For a statement of the Company's undertakings with respect to
indemnification of directors and officers, see Item 17 below.
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ITEM 16. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.
(a) Exhibits
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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<S> <C>
*3.1 -- Restated Articles of Incorporation.
3.2 -- Bylaws, as amended. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.7 to Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1991).
4.1 -- Senior Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1993, between SCI and The
Bank of New York, as Trustee. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit
4.1 to Form 8-K dated January 26, 1993).
*4.2 -- Form of Senior Subordinated Indenture between SCI and Texas Commerce
Bank National Association, as Trustee.
4.3 -- Subordinated Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1991, between SCI
and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Trustee.
(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Form 8-K dated October
23, 1991).
*4.4 -- First Amendment to Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 23,
1996, between SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as
Trustee.
4.5 -- Rights Agreement dated as of July 18, 1988 between the Company and
Texas Commerce Bank National Association. (Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 1 to Form 8-K dated July 18, 1988).
4.6 -- Amendment, dated as of May 10, 1990, to the Rights Agreement, dated
as of July 18, 1988, between the Company and Texas Commerce Bank
National Association. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to Form
8-K dated May 10, 1990).
4.7 -- Agreement Appointing a Successor Rights Agent under Rights Agreement,
dated as of June 1, 1990, by the Company and Ameritrust Company
National Association. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to
Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 1990).
*4.8 -- Undertaking to furnish instruments relating to long-term debt.
*4.9 -- Form of Common Stock Warrant Agreement (including Form of Warrant).
*5.1 -- Opinion of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. regarding the
Securities.
12.1 -- Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. (Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 12.1 to Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30,
1996.)
12.2 -- Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. (Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 12.1 to Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1995).
*23.1 -- Consent of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. (included in
their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).
*23.2 -- Consent of Independent Accountants (Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.).
*24 -- Powers of Attorney.
*25.1 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Senior Debt Securities to be issued
pursuant to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1993,
between SCI and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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<S> <C>
*25.2 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities to be
issued pursuant to the Form of Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture
between SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Trustee.
*25.3 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Subordinated Debt Securities to be issued
pursuant to the Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of September 1,
1991, among SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as
Trustee.
</TABLE>
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* Filed herewith.
(b) Financial Statement Schedules.
Financial statement schedules for the three years ended December 31, 1995.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SCHEDULE
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<S> <C>
II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
</TABLE>
The Information required by Schedule II for the three years ended December
31, 1995 is incorporated herein by reference to the Company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 1995, as amended.
ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
(a) 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, as amended (the "Act");
(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;
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), that are incorporated by reference in the
registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Act,
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.
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(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Act, each filing of SCI's annual report
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) or the Exchange Act (and, where applicable,
each filing of any employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the 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 of 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.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Act, the
information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of a
registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form
of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or
497(h) under the Act shall be deemed to be part of the registration
statement as of the time it was declared effective.
(2) For purposes of determining any liability under the Act, each
post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus 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.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file an application for the
purpose of determining the eligibility of the applicable trustees to act under
subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act, as amended, in
accordance with the Rules and Regulations prescribed by the Commission under
Section 305(b)(2) of that Act.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Service
Corporation International 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 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on this 26th
day of August, 1996.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By: /s/ JAMES M. SHELGER
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James M. Shelger
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf
of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
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<S> <C> <C>
* Chairman of the Board and August 26, 1996
- --------------------------------------------- Chief Executive Officer
R. L. Waltrip
* Senior Vice President and August 26, 1996
- --------------------------------------------- Chief Financial Officer
George R. Champagne (Principal Financial Officer)
* Corporate Controller of SCI August 26, 1996
- --------------------------------------------- Management Corporation (a
Wesley T. McRae subsidiary of the
Registrant) (Principal
Accounting Officer)
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
Anthony L. Coelho
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
Douglas M. Conway
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
Jack Finkelstein
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
A.J. Foyt, Jr.
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
James J. Gavin, Jr.
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
James H. Greer
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
L. William Heiligbrodt
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
- --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ ----------------
<S> <C> <C>
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
B.D. Hunter
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
John W. Mecom, Jr.
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
Clifton H. Morris, Jr.
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
E.H. Thornton, Jr.
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
W. Blair Waltrip
* Director August 26, 1996
- ---------------------------------------------
Edward E. Williams
By: */s/ James M. Shelger
- ---------------------------------------------
James M. Shelger
Attorney-in-Fact
</TABLE>
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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<S> <C> <C>
*3.1 -- Restated Articles of Incorporation.
3.2 -- Bylaws, as amended. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.7 to Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1991).
4.1 -- Senior Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1993, between SCI and The
Bank of New York, as Trustee. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit
4.1 to Form 8-K dated January 26, 1993).
*4.2 -- Form of Senior Subordinated Indenture between SCI and Texas Commerce
Bank National Association, as Trustee.
4.3 -- Subordinated Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1991, between SCI
and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Trustee.
(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Form 8-K dated October
23, 1991).
*4.4 -- First Amendment to Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 23,
1996, between SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as
Trustee.
4.5 -- Rights Agreement dated as of July 18, 1988 between the Company and
Texas Commerce Bank National Association. (Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 1 to Form 8-K dated July 18, 1988).
4.6 -- Amendment, dated as of May 10, 1990, to the Rights Agreement, dated
as of July 18, 1988, between the Company and Texas Commerce Bank
National Association. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to Form
8-K dated May 10, 1990).
4.7 -- Agreement Appointing a Successor Rights Agent under Rights Agreement,
dated as of June 1, 1990, by the Company and Ameritrust Company
National Association. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to
Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 1990).
*4.8 -- Undertaking to furnish instruments relating to long-term debt.
*4.9 -- Form of Common Stock Warrant Agreement (including Form of Warrant).
*5.1 -- Opinion of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. regarding the
Securities.
12.1 -- Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. (Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 12.1 to Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30,
1996.)
12.2 -- Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. (Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 12.1 to Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1995).
*23.1 -- Consent of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. (included in
their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).
*23.2 -- Consent of Independent Accountants (Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.).
*24 -- Powers of Attorney.
*25.1 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Senior Debt Securities to be issued
pursuant to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1993,
between SCI and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
- ---------- -----------
<S> <C>
*25.2 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Senior Subordinated Debt Securities to be
issued pursuant to the Form of Senior Subordinated Debt Indenture
between SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Trustee.
*25.3 -- Statement of Eligibility and Qualification Under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 of a Corporation Designated to Act as Trustee on Form T-1
with respect to the Company Subordinated Debt Securities to be issued
pursuant to the Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of September 1,
1991, among SCI and Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as
Trustee.
</TABLE>
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* Filed herewith.
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EXHIBIT 3.1
RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
ARTICLE ONE
The name of the corporation is SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL.
ARTICLE TWO
The period of its duration is perpetual.
ARTICLE THREE
The purposes for which the corporation is organized are:
To own, operate, or manage funeral homes, mortuaries, undertaking
establishments, and related facilities, and generally to engage in
every aspect of the funeral service business.
To conduct the business of funeral director, undertaker and embalmer.
To engage in the manufacturing business.
To buy and sell goods, wares, and merchandise.
To own, operate or manage mercantile establishments.
To manage, supervise and operate for others all types of business and
commercial enterprises.
To act as broker, forwarder or agent.
To engage in the general contracting business.
To own, construct, erect, maintain, repair, lease, rent, manage and
operate hotels, motels, apartment houses, buildings, warehouses and
other structures.
To lease, sell, subdivide and develop real estate, subject however, to
the limitations imposed by part Four of the Texas Miscellaneous
Corporation Act.
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To purchase, sell, store, rent, operate, repair and otherwise deal in
motor vehicles, aircraft and watercraft and all accessories of or
pertaining thereto.
In general, to carry out any other business in connection with the
foregoing, to engage in any other commercial, industrial,
manufacturing and agricultural enterprise calculated or designed to be
profitable to the corporation, and to have and exercise all the powers
conferred by the laws of Texas upon corporations formed under the
Texas Business Corporation Act and to do any and all of the things
hereinbefore set forth to the same extent as natural persons might or
could do.
ARTICLE FOUR
The aggregate number of shares of stock of all classes which the
corporation shall have authority to issue is 501,000,000 shares, consisting of
1,000,000 shares of preferred stock of the par value of One Dollar ($1.00) each
(hereinafter sometimes called "Preferred Stock"), and 500,000,000 shares of
common stock of the par value of One Dollar ($1.00) each (hereinafter sometimes
called "Common Stock").
The preferences, limitations and relative rights in respect of the
shares of each class of stock are as follows:
1. Preferred Stock, $1 Par. The number of shares constituting
the Preferred Stock ($1 par) is one million (1,000,000) of the par value of One
Dollar ($1.00) each. The preferences, limitations and relative rights of the
Preferred Stock ($1 par) are as follows:
(a) Series. The Preferred Stock ($1 par) may be divided into such
amounts and issued from time to time in one or more series as may be
fixed and determined by the Board of Directors. The relative rights
and preferences among each series of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall be
such as are provided herein as shall be stated in any Resolution or
Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issue
of such series of Preferred Stock ($1 par), any such Resolution or
Resolutions being herein called "a Directors' Resolution." The Board
of Directors is hereby authorized to fix and determine such variations
and the relative rights and preferences as between series as shall be
stated in a Directors' Resolution, and such authority in the Board of
Directors shall include, without limitation thereto, the determination
of any or all of the following and the shares of each series may vary
from the shares of any other series in the following respects:
(1) The designation of such series,
(2) The number of shares constituting such series,
(3) The rate of dividend,
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(4) The price at and the terms and conditions on which
shares of such series may be redeemed,
(5) The amount payable upon shares of such series in the
event of involuntary liquidation,
(6) The amount payable upon shares of each series in the
event of voluntary liquidation,
(7) Sinking Fund provisions for the redemption or
purchase of such series,
(8) The terms and conditions on which shares of such
series may be converted, if such shares are issued with
privilege of conversation, and
(9) Any special rights of the shares of such series.
(b) Dividends. The Preferred Stock ($1 par) of each series shall
be entitled to receive dividends, when and as declared by the Board of
Directors, at the rate and on such other terms and conditions as may
be fixed for such series, in preference to dividends on the Common
Stock or on other shares of capital stock of the corporation ranking
junior to the Preferred Stock ($1 par) as to dividends (herein called
"Junior Stock").
(c) Dividend Preference. Subject to such further conditions or
restrictions as may be imposed in any Directors' Resolution, so long
as any shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) are outstanding, the
corporation shall not declare or pay any dividend, in cash or stock or
otherwise (other than dividends payable in shares of Junior Stock), on
any shares of Junior Stock or make any distribution upon or purchase
or redeem or otherwise acquire for valuable consideration any shares
of Junior Stock (1) unless all dividends for Preferred Stock ($1 par)
for all past dividend periods shall have been paid or declared and a
sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment and be in
the process of payment, and the full dividend thereon for the current
dividend period shall have been paid or declared, and (2) unless, as
to each series of the Preferred Stock ($1 par) for which a sinking
fund shall have been provided, the corporation shall have retired the
number of shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) of such series required
to have been retired for the sinking fund or otherwise shall have met
the obligations of said sinking fund.
(d) Redemption. Subject to such further conditions or
restrictions as may be imposed in any Directors' Resolution, the
shares of any series of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall be subject to
redemption in whole or in part at the applicable redemption price as
provided for such series on the terms and conditions and upon notice
as hereinafter provided.
Notice of any such redemption shall be given to each holder of
shares being called, either personally or by mail, not less than
twenty (20) nor more than fifty (50)
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days before date fixed for redemption. If mailed, such notice shall
be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail
addressed to the shareholder at the address as it appears on the stock
transfer book of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid.
If less than all outstanding shares of the series are to be
redeemed, the shares to be redeemed shall be selected for redemption
ratably or by lot in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution of
the Board of Directors. The notice of redemption shall set forth the
designation of the series of which the shares to be redeemed
constitute a part, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price, the place at which the shareholders may obtain payment of the
redemption price upon the surrender of their respective share
certificates and shall include a statement with respect to the
existence of any right of conversion with respect to the shares to be
redeemed and the period within which such right may be exercised.
The corporation may, on or prior to the date fixed for
redemption of any shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par), deposit with any
bank or trust company in Texas, or any bank or trust company in the
United States duly appointed and acting as transfer agent for this
corporation, as a trust fund, a sum sufficient to redeem shares called
for redemption with irrevocable instructions and authority to such
bank or trust company to give or complete the notice of redemption
thereof and to pay, on or after the date fixed for such redemption, to
the respective holders of the shares as evidenced by a list of holders
certified by the corporation by its president or vice president or by
its secretary or an assistant secretary, the redemptive price upon the
surrender of their respective share certificates. Thereafter, from
and after the date fixed for redemption, such shares shall be redeemed
and dividends thereon shall cease to accrue after such date fixed for
redemption. Such deposit shall be deemed to constitute full payment
of such shares to their holders. Thereafter, such shares shall no
longer be deemed to be outstanding, and the holders thereof shall
cease to be shareholders with respect to such shares, and shall have
no rights with respect thereto except the right to receive from the
bank or trust company payment of the redemptive price of such shares
without interest, upon the surrender of their respective certificates
therefor, and any right to convert such shares which may exist. In
case the holders of such shares shall not, within six years, after
such deposit, claim the amount deposited for redemption thereof, such
bank or trust company shall upon demand pay over to the corporation
the balance of such amounts so deposited to be held in trust in such
bank or trust company and such trust company thereupon shall be
relieved of all responsibility to the holders thereof.
Any shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) which are redeemed or
purchased by the corporation and cancelled shall be restored to the
status of authorized but unissued shares and may be reissued as shares
of another series.
(e) Voting. The holders of the Preferred Stock ($1 par) together
with the holders of the Common Stock all voting as one class, shall
possess voting power for the election of
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directors and for all other purposes, subject to such limitations as
may be imposed by law and by any provision of the Articles of
Incorporation. In the exercise of its voting power, the Preferred
Stock ($1 par) shall be entitled to one vote for each share held.
(f) Special Directors. Whenever, at any time or times, dividends
payable on any series of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall be in arrears
in an aggregate amount equivalent as to such series to six (6) full
dividends, there shall be vested in the holders of shares of all
outstanding Preferred Stock ($1 par), voting as one class and with one
vote for each share, the right to elect two directors of the
corporation. Such right of the holders of Preferred Stock ($1 par),
to vote for the election of two directors may be exercised at any
annual meeting or at any special meeting called for such purpose, or
at any adjournment thereof until all arrearages and dividends on the
outstanding shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall have been paid in
full or declared and funds sufficient for the payment thereof
deposited in trust and when so paid or provided for, then all rights
of the holders of Preferred Stock ($1 par) under this subdivision (f)
of this paragraph 2 shall cease. So long as such right to vote
continues, the Secretary of the corporation may call, and upon written
request of the holders of record of ten percent (10%) or more of the
outstanding Preferred Stock ($1 par), addressed to him at the
principal office of the corporation, shall call a special meeting of
the holders of Preferred Stock ($1 par) for the election of such two
directors as provided herein. Such meeting shall be held within fifty
(50) days after delivery of such request to such Secretary, at the
place and upon the notice provided by law and in the By-laws of the
corporation for the holding of meetings of its shareholders. If at
any such meeting or any adjournment thereof the holders of at least a
majority of the then outstanding shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par)
then entitled to vote in such election shall be present or represented
by proxy, then, by vote of the holders of at least the majority of
all such shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) present or represented in
such meeting, the then authorized number of directors of the
corporation shall be increased by two and the holders of such shares
of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall be entitled to elect such two
additional directors. Directors so elected shall serve until the next
annual meeting or until their successors shall be elected and shall
qualify; provided, however, that whenever all arrearages and dividends
on all outstanding shares of Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall have been
paid or declared and funds sufficient for the payment thereof
deposited in trust, the term of the office of the persons so elected
as directors shall forthwith terminate, and the number of the whole
Board of Directors in the corporation shall be reduced accordingly.
In case of any vacancy occurring among the directors so elected the
remaining director who shall have been so elected may appoint a
successor to hold office for the unexpired term of the director whose
place shall be vacant. If both directors so elected by the holders of
the Preferred Stock ($1 par) shall cease to serve as directors before
their term shall expire, the holders of Preferred Stock ($1 par) then
outstanding may, at a special meeting of such holders called as
provided above, elect successors to hold office for the unexpired
terms of the directors whose places shall be vacant. In any vote
under this subdivision (f), each share of Preferred Stock ($1 par)
shall be entitled to vote.
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(g) Approval of Changes. The corporation shall not, without the
approval (by vote at a meeting or by consent in writing) of the
holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding shares of
Preferred Stock ($1 par) and subject to the provisions of ARTICLE
EIGHT hereof:
(1) amend or repeal any provision of, or add any provision to
the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws if such action would
alter or change the preferences, rights, privileges, or powers
of, or the restrictions provided for the benefit of the
Preferred Stock ($1 par); or
(2) Authorize or create shares of any class of stock having
any preference or priority as to dividends, assets, or other
characteristics superior to the Preferred Stock ($1 par), or
authorize or create shares of stock of any class or any bonds,
indentures, notes or other obligations convertible into or
exchangeable for or having option or rights to purchase, any
shares of stock having any such preference or priority; or
(3) Reclassify any Junior Stock into Preferred Stock ($1 par)
or into shares having any preference or priority as to
dividends, assets or any other characteristics superior to the
Preferred Stock ($1 par), or
(4) Increase the aggregate number of authorized shares of
Preferred Stock ($1 par) or create a new class of shares
having rights and preferences equal to the shares of Preferred
Stock ($1 par).
(h) Liquidation Preference. In the event of any liquidation,
dissolution, or winding up of the corporation, the Preferred Stock ($1
par) of each series shall be entitled to payment of such amount or
amounts in preference to any payment on Junior Stock, as shall be
provided in the Directors' Resolution providing for the issuance of
such shares. In any such event if the assets available for
distribution shall be insufficient to permit payment of the full
preferential amount to all holders of Preferred Stock ($1 par), then
distribution shall be made ratably among such holders according to the
amount due to each.
(i) Disposition. The Preferred Stock ($1 par) may be issued or
sold to such persons and for such consideration as may be determined
from time to time by the Board of Directors and, whether or not
convertible into Common Stock, need not first be offered to the
holders of Common Stock, when so issued shares of Preferred Stock ($1
par) shall be considered fully paid and non-assessable.
2. Common Stock. Subject to the prior and superior rights of the
Preferred Stock ($1 par), such dividends (payable in cash, stock or otherwise)
as may be determined by the Board of Directors may be declared paid on the
Common Stock from time to time out of any
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funds legally available therefor. In the exercise of its voting power the
Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share held.
After payment shall have been made in full to the holders of the
Preferred Stock ($1 par) in the event of any liquidation, dissolution, or
winding up of the affairs of the corporation, the remaining assets and funds of
the corporation shall be distributed among the holders of the Common Stock
according to their respective shares.
ARTICLE FIVE
The corporation shall not commence business until it has received for
the issuance of its shares consideration of the value of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) consisting of money, labor done or property actually received.
ARTICLE SIX
The post-office address of its registered office is 1929 Allen
Parkway, Houston, Texas, 77019, and the name of its registered agent is James
M. Shelger, at such address.
ARTICLE SEVEN
The number of Directors constituting the Board of Directors at the
time of this Restatement is fourteen (14), and the names and addresses of the
persons who are to serve as Directors until the next annual meeting of the
shareholders or until their successors are otherwise elected and qualified are:
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Anthony L. Coelho 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
Douglas M. Conway 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
Jack Finkelstein 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
A.J. Foyt, Jr. 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
James J. Gavin, Jr. 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
James H. Greer 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
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L. William Heiligbrodt 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
B.D. Hunter 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
John W. Mecom, Jr. 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
Clifton H. Morris, Jr. 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
E.H. Thornton, Jr. 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
R.L. Waltrip 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
W. Blair Waltrip 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
Edward E. Williams 1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
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ARTICLE EIGHT
The affirmative vote of the holders of four-fifths of the outstanding
shares of the capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote shall be
required (1) for the adoption of any agreement for the merger or consolidation
of the corporation with or into any other corporation and (2) to authorize any
sale, lease or exchange to or with the corporation (in exchange for its
securities in a transaction for which stockholder approval is required by law
or any agreement between the corporation and any national securities exchange)
of any assets of, any other corporation, person or other entity, if (as of the
record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice thereof
and to vote thereon) such other corporation, person or entity referred to in
clause (1) or clause (2), above, is the beneficial owner, directly or
indirectly, of more than 10% of any class of capital stock of the corporation.
For the purposes hereof any corporation, person or other entity shall be deemed
to be the beneficial owner of any shares of capital stock of the corporation,
(i) which it has the right to acquire pursuant to any agreement, or upon
exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options, or otherwise, or (ii) which
are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly (including shares deemed owned
through application of clause (i), above), by any other corporation, person or
entity with which it has any agreement, arrangement or understanding with
respect to the acquisition, holding, voting or disposition of stock of the
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corporation, or which is its "affiliate" or "associate" as those terms are
defined in the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.
ARTICLE NINE
The right of cumulative voting is hereby expressly prohibited.
ARTICLE TEN
The pre-emptive right of shareholders to acquire authorized but
unissued shares, or to acquire Treasury shares, is expressly denied. No
shareholder shall be entitled as a matter of right to subscribe for, purchase
or receive any shares of the stock or any rights or options of the corporation
which it may issue or sell, whether out of the number of shares authorized by
these Articles of Incorporation or by amendment thereof or out of the shares of
the stock of the corporation acquired by it after the issuance thereof, nor
shall any shareholder be entitled as a matter of right to subscribe for,
purchase or receive any bonds, debentures or other securities which the
corporation may issue or sell that shall be convertible into or exchangeable
for stock or to which shall be attached or appertain any warrant or warrants or
other instrument or instruments that shall confer upon the holder or owner of
such obligation the right to subscribe for, purchase or receive from the
corporation any shares of its capital stock; but all such additional issues of
stock, rights and options, or of bonds, debentures or other securities
convertible into or exchangeable for stock or to which warrants shall be
attached or appertain or which shall confer upon the holder the right to
subscribe for, purchase or receive any shares of stock, may be issued and
disposed of by the Board of Directors to such persons, firms or corporations as
in their absolute discretion may deem advisable. The acceptance of stock in
the corporation shall be a waiver of any pre-emptive or preferential right
which in the absence of this provision might otherwise be asserted by
shareholders of the corporation of any of them.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Except as set forth below, bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed,
or new bylaws may be adopted, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon at
any annual meeting, or at any special meeting if notice of the proposed
amendment is contained in the notice of said special meeting, or by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the full Board of Directors at any regular or
special meeting, provided notice of said proposed amendment is contained in the
notice of the meeting.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the
affirmative vote of the holders of at least four-fifths of the outstanding
shares of capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote thereon at a
meeting called for that purpose shall be required to amend or repeal, or to
adopt any provision inconsistent with, Section 1, Article II or Article VII of
the corporation's Bylaws.
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ARTICLE TWELVE
Section 1. Number and Term of Office. The business and property
of the corporation shall be managed and controlled by the Board of Directors,
and subject to restrictions imposed by law, by the articles of incorporation,
or by the Bylaws, they may exercise all the powers of the corporation.
(a) Number. The Board of Directors shall consist of not
less than nine (9) nor more than fifteen (15) Directors, as so
determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Within the above limits, the number of directors may be increased or
decreased (provided that any decrease does not shorten the term of any
incumbent director) from time to time by resolution of the Board of
Directors. Directors need not be shareholders nor residents of Texas.
(b) Election and Terms. At the 1982 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders, the directors shall be divided into three classes, as
nearly equal in number as possible, with the term of office of the
first class to expire at the 1983 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the
term of office of the second class to expire at the 1984 Annual
Meeting of Shareholders and the term of office of the third class to
expire at the 1985 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (in each case, the
term shall continue until the respective successors are elected and
qualified). At each annual meeting of shareholders following such
initial classification and election, directors elected to succeed
those directors whose terms expire shall be elected for a term of
office to expire at the third succeeding Annual Meeting of
Shareholders and until their successors have been elected and
qualified.
(c) Vacancies and Increases of Directors. Any vacancy
(other than by an increase in number) in the Board of Directors
resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification,
removal from office or other cause may be filled by the affirmative
vote of a majority of the remaining directors though less than a
quorum of the Board of Directors. Any director so elected by the
Board of Directors to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the
unexpired term of the director whose place he has been elected to
fill, even though that term may extend beyond the next annual meeting
of shareholders. In case of any increase in the number of directors
(within the above limits), the additional directors shall be elected
at an annual meeting or at a special meeting of shareholders called
for that purpose.
(d) Removal. Any director, or the entire Board of
Directors, may be removed from office at any time, with or without
cause, but only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least
four-fifths of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the
corporation entitled to vote on election of directors at a meeting of
shareholders called for that purpose, except that if the Board of
Directors, by an affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the
entire Board of Directors, recommends removal of a director to the
shareholders, such removal may be effected by the affirmative vote of
the holders of at
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least a majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the
corporation entitled to vote on the election of directors at a meeting
of shareholders called for that purpose.
(e) Amendment or Repeal. The affirmative vote of the
holders of at least four-fifths of the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the corporation entitled to vote thereon at a meeting called
for that purpose shall be required to amend or repeal, or to adopt any
provision inconsistent with, Article Eleven, Article Twelve or Article
Eight of the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the corporation.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
A director of the corporation shall not be liable to the corporation
or its shareholders for monetary damages for an act or omission in the
director's capacity as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of
the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) for
acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or
a knowing violation of law, (iii) for any transaction from which the director
received an improper benefit, whether or not the benefit resulted from an
action taken within the scope of the director's office, (iv) for acts or
omissions for which the liability of a director is expressly provided by
statute, or (v) for acts related to an unlawful stock repurchase or dividend
payment. Any repeal or amendment of this Article by the shareholders of the
corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any
limitation on the liability of a director of the corporation existing at the
time of such repeal or amendment. In addition to the circumstances in which a
director of the corporation is not liable as set forth in the preceding
sentences, a director shall not be liable to the fullest extent permitted by
any provision of the statutes of Texas hereafter enacted that further limits
the liability of a director.
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EXHIBIT 4.2
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
AND
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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SENIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
DATED AS OF ____, 1996
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET*
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Provisions of Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Senior Subordinated
Indenture to be dated as of _______________________________________, 1996
between SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL and TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, Trustee:
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SECTION OF THE ACT SECTION OF INDENTURE
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310(a)(1), (2) and (5) ............................................ 6.9
310(a)(3) and (4) ................................................. Inapplicable
310(b) .................................................... 6.8 and 6.10(a), (b) and (d)
310(c) .................................................... Inapplicable
311(a) .................................................... 6.13(a) and (c)
311(b) .................................................... 6.13(b) and (c)
311(c) .................................................... Inapplicable
312(a) .................................................... 4.1 and 4.2(a)
312(b) .................................................... 4.2(a) and (b)(i) and (ii)
312(c) .................................................... 4.2(c)
313(a) .................................................... 4.4(a)(i), (ii),(iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
and (vii)
313(a)(6) .................................................... Inapplicable
313(b)(1) .................................................... Inapplicable
313(b)(2) .................................................... 4.4(b)
313(c) .................................................... 4.4(c)
313(d) .................................................... 4.4(d)
314(a) .................................................... 4.3
314(b) ..................................................... Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2) ................................................. 11.5
314(c)(3) .................................................... Inapplicable
314(d) .................................................... Inapplicable
314(e) .................................................... 11.5
314(f) .................................................... Inapplicable
315(a), (c) and (d) ............................................... 6.1
315(b) .................................................... 5.8
315(e) .................................................... 5.9
316(a)(1) .................................................... 5.7
316(b)(2) .................................................... Not Required
316(a) (last sentence) ............................................ 7.4
316(b) .................................................... 5.4
316(c) .................................................... 7.6
317(a) .................................................... 5.2
317(b) .................................................... 3.5(a)
318(a) .................................................... 11.7
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* This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Affiliate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Associated Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bankruptcy Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conversion Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Corporate Trust Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Date of Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Depositary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Event of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Global Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Holder of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Securityholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Issuer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Issuer Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Last Sale Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Officer's Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
original issue date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
original issue discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Original Issue Discount Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Paying Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Periodic Offering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Place of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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principal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
principal amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
record date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Registrar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Responsible Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Senior Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Subsidiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Trading Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
U.S. Government Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
vice president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Yield to Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ARTICLE II
SECURITIES
Section 2.1 FORMS GENERALLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Section 2.2 FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Section 2.3 AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Section 2.4 AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section 2.5 EXECUTION OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 2.6 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 2.7 DENOMINATION AND DATE OF SECURITIES; PAYMENTS OF INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 2.8 REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 2.9 MUTILATED, DEFACED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 2.10 CANCELLATION OF SECURITIES; DISPOSITION THEREOF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.11 TEMPORARY SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.12 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
Section 3.1 PAYMENT OFPRINCIPAL AND INTEREST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.2 OFFICE FOR NOTICES AND PAYMENTS, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.3 NO INTEREST EXTENSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.4 APPOINTMENTS TO FILL VACANCIES IN TRUSTEE'S OFFICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.5 PROVISION AS TO PAYING AGENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.6 CORPORATE EXISTENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 3.7 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 3.8 PAYMENT OF TEXAS AND OTHER CLAIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Section 3.9 PROHIBITION ON INCURRENCE OF SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ARTICLE IV
SECURITYHOLDERS LIST AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 4.1 ISSUER TO FURNISH TRUSTEE INFORMATION AS TO NAMES AND
ADDRESSES OF SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 4.2 PRESERVATION AND DISCLOSURE OF SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Section 4.3 REPORTS BY THE ISSUER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section 4.4 REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON
EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 5.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 5.2 PAYMENT OF SECURITIES ON DEFAULT; SUIT THEREFOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 5.3 APPLICATION OF MONEYS COLLECTED BY TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 5.4 PROCEEDINGS BY SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 5.5 PROCEEDINGS BY TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 5.6 REMEDIES CUMULATIVE AND CONTINUING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 5.7 DIRECTION OF PROCEEDINGS; WAIVER OF DEFAULTS BY MAJORITY OF
SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 5.8 NOTICE OF DEFAULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 5.9 UNDERTAKING TO PAY COSTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Section 5.10 TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIM WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Section 5.11 WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEE; DURING DEFAULT;
PRIOR TO DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 6.2 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF THE TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Section 6.3 TRUSTEE NOT RESPONSIBLE RECITALS, DISPOSITION OF SECURITIES
OR APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS THEREOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 6.4 TRUSTEE AND AGENTS MAY HOLD SECURITIES; COLLECTIONS, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 6.5 MONEYS HELD BY TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 6.6 COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE AND ITS PRIOR CLAIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Section 6.7 RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO RELY ON OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Section 6.8 QUALIFICATION OF TRUSTEE; CONFLICTING INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Section 6.9 PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT AS TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Section 6.10 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Section 6.11 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Section 6.12 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS
OF TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Section 6.13 PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE ISSUER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Section 6.14 APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
Section 7.1 EVIDENCE OF ACTION TAKEN BY SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Section 7.2 PROOF OF EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS AND OF HOLDING OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Section 7.3 HOLDERS TO BE TREATED AS OWNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Section 7.4 SECURITIES OWNED BY ISSUER DEEMED NOT OUTSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Section 7.5 RIGHT OF REVOCATION OF ACTION TAKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Section 7.6 RECORD DATE FOR CONSENTS AND WAIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ARTICLE VIII
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 8.1 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 8.2 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Section 8.3 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Section 8.4 DOCUMENTS TO BE GIVEN TO TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Section 8.5 NOTATION ON SECURITIES IN RESPECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Section 8.6 SUBORDINATION UNIMPAIRED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
ARTICLE IX
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, EXCHANGE
OR OTHER DISPOSITION
Section 9.1 ISSUER MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ON CERTAIN TERMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Section 9.2 SUCCESSOR CORPORATION TO BE SUBSTITUTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 9.3 OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE GIVEN TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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ARTICLE X
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 10.1 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 10.2 APPLICATION BY TRUSTEE OF FUNDS DEPOSITED FOR PAYMENT OF
SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 10.3 REPAYMENT OF MONEYS HELD BY PAYING AGENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 10.4 RETURN OF MONEYS HELD BY TRUSTEE AND PAYING AGENT UNCLAIMED
FOR TWO YEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 10.5 INDEMNITY FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.1 PARTNERS, INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF ISSUER
EXEMPT FROM INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 11.2 PROVISIONS OF INDENTURE FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF PARTIES AND HOLDERS OF
SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS AND OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 11.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS OF ISSUER BOUND BY INDENTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 11.4 NOTICES AND DEMANDS ON ISSUER, TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 11.5 OFFICER'S CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS OF COUNSEL; STATEMENTS TO BE
CONTAINED THEREIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 11.6 PAYMENTS DUE ON SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 11.7 CONFLICT OF ANY PROVISION OF INDENTURE WITH TRUST INDENTURE
ACT OF 1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 11.8 GOVERNING LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 11.9 COUNTERPARTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 11.10 EFFECT OF HEADINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 11.11 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE XII
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 12.2 NOTICE OF REDEMPTION; PARTIAL REDEMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 12.3 PAYMENTS OF SECURITIES CALLED FOR REDEMPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 12.4 EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN SECURITIES FROM ELIGIBILITY FOR SELECTION FOR
REDEMPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 12.5 MANDATORY AND OPTIONAL SINKING FUNDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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ARTICLE XIII
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 13.2 EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 13.3 FRACTIONAL INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 13.4 ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 13.5 CONTINUATION OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE IN CASE OF MERGER,
CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Section 13.6 NOTICE OF CERTAIN EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Section 13.7 TAXES ON CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Section 13.8 ISSUER TO PROVIDE STOCK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Section 13.9 DISCLAIMER OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CERTAIN MATTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Section 13.10 RETURN OF FUNDS DEPOSITED FOR REDEMPTION OF CONVERTED SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ARTICLE XIV
SUBORDINATION
Section 14.1 SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Section 14.2 RELIANCE ON CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT; FURTHER EVIDENCE
AS TO OWNERSHIP OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Section 14.3 PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Section 14.4 DISPUTES WITH HOLDERS OF CERTAIN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 14.5 TRUSTEE NOT CHARGED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PROHIBITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 14.6 TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 14.7 RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Section 14.8 ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Section 14.10 TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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THIS SENIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of _____, 1996 between
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, a Texas corporation (the "Issuer"), and
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the "Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of
its unsecured senior subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of
indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (the "Securities") up to such
principal amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture:
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the authentication, delivery
and administration of the Securities; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture
and agreement according to its terms have been undertaken and completed;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by
the Holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for
the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time
of the Securities as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 For all purposes of this Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings specified in this Section 1.1 (except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise clearly requires). All other terms used in
this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including
terms defined therein by reference to the Securities Act of 1933, shall have
the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said
Securities Act as in force at the date of this Indenture (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires).
All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have
the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and the terms "generally accepted accounting principles"
means such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of
execution and delivery of this Indenture.
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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. The expressions "date of the
Indenture", "date hereof", "date as of which this Indenture is dated" and "date
of execution and delivery of this Indenture" and other expressions of similar
import refer to the effective date of the original execution and delivery of
this Indenture, viz. _______________________, 1996.
The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them
in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular.
"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.
"Associated Rights" means any rights to purchase shares of the
Issuer's capital stock or other securities that are associated with any class
of stock constituting Common Stock for purposes hereof it at the time of the
issuance thereof such rights are not separable from any class of stock except
upon the occurrence of a contingency, whether such rights exist at the date of
the execution hereof or are thereafter issued by the Company as a dividend on
any such class of stock or otherwise.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6.14.
"Bankruptcy Code" means the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 United
States Code Sec. 101 et seq., or any successor statute thereto.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Issuer
or any committee of such Board duly authorized to act on its behalf.
"Board Resolution" means one or more resolutions, certified by the
secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer to have been duly adopted or
consented to by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect.
"Business Day" means, with respect to any Security, a day that (a) in
the Place of Payment (or in any of the Places of Payment, if more than one) in
which amounts are payable, as specified in the form of such Security, and (b)
in the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located, is not a day on
which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to
close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
or, if at any time after the
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execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now to it under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, then the
body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Stock" means the common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of
the Issuer as the same exists at the date of execution and delivery of this
Indenture or other capital stock of the Issuer into which such common stock is
reclassified or changed from time to time.
"Conversion Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2.
"Conversion Price" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.4.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located in Houston, Texas, except that with respect to the
presentation of Securities for payment, for conversion or for registration of
transfer and exchange, such term shall also mean the office of the Trustee's
agent in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, at which at
any particular time its corporate agency business shall be conducted.
"Date of Conversion" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.2.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.3 until a
successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and, therefore "Depositary" shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and, if at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities
of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Global
Securities of such series.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 5.1.
"Global Security" means a Security evidencing all or a part of a
series of Securities issued to the Depositary for such series in accordance
with Section 2.3 and bearing the legend prescribed in Section 2.4.
"Holder", "Holder of Securities", "Securityholder" or other similar
terms mean, in the case of any Security, the Person in whose name such Security
is registered in the security register kept by the Issuer for that purpose in
accordance with the terms hereof.
"Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Person.
(a) (i) the principal of and interest and premium, if
any, on indebtedness for money borrowed of such Person evidenced by
bonds, notes,
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debentures or similar obligations, including any guaranty by such
Person of any indebtedness for money borrowed of any other Person,
whether any such indebtedness or guaranty is outstanding on the date
of this Indenture or is thereafter created, assumed or incurred, (ii)
the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on indebtedness for
money borrowed, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by such Person in
connection with the acquisition by it or any of its subsidiaries of
any other businesses, properties or other assets and (iii) lease
obligations which such Person capitalizes in accordance with Statement
of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13 promulgated by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or such other generally accepted accounting
principles as may be from time to time in effect;
(b) any other indebtedness of such Person, including any
indebtedness representing the deferred and unpaid balance of the
purchase price of any property or interest and unpaid balance of the
purchase price of any property or interest therein, including any such
balance that constitutes a trade account payable, and any guaranty,
endorsement or other contingent obligation of such Person in respect
of any indebtedness of another, which is outstanding on the date of
this Indenture or is thereafter created, assumed or incurred by such
person; and
(c) any amendments, modifications, refundings, renewals
or extensions of any indebtedness or obligation described as
Indebtedness in clause (a) or (b) above.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered
or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented or both, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any
such supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 that are
deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplement,
respectively, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of
Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
The term "interest" means, when used with respect to non-interest
bearing Securities (including, without limitation, any Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after maturity or upon default
in any other payment due on such Security), interest payable after maturity
(whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or redemption or otherwise) or
after the date, if any, on which the Issuer becomes obligated to acquire a
Security, whether upon conversion, by purchase or otherwise.
"Issuer" means (except as otherwise provided in Section 6.8) Service
Corporation International, a Texas corporation, and subject to Article IX, its
successors and assigns.
"Issuer Order" means a written statement, request or order of the
Issuer which is signed in its name by the chairman of the Board of Directors,
the president, any vice president or the treasurer of the Issuer.
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"Last Sale Price" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.3.
"Officer's Certificate", when used with respect to the Issuer, means a
certificate signed by the chairman of the Board of Directors, the president, or
any vice president and by the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the
controller, any assistant controller, the secretary or any assignment secretary
of the Issuer. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for
in Section 11.5, if and to the extent required by the provisions of such
Section 11.5. One of the officers signing any Officer's Certificate given
pursuant to Section 4.3 shall be the principal executive, financial or
accounting officer of the Issuer.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by the general
counsel of the Issuer or by such other legal counsel who may be an employee of
or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. Each
such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 11.5, if and
to the extent required by the provisions of such Section 11.5.
The terms "original issue date" of any Security (or portion thereof)
means the earlier of (a) the date of such Security or (b) the date of any
Security (or portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or
indirectly) on registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
The term "original issue discount" of any debt security, including any
Original Issue Discount Security, means the difference between the principal
amount of such debt security and the initial issue price of such debt security
(as set forth in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security on the face of
such Security).
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Outstanding" (except as otherwise provided in Section 6.8), when used
with reference to Securities, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 7.4,
mean, as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities (other than Securities of any series as to
which the provisions of Article X hereof shall not be applicable), or
portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys or
U.S. Government Obligations (as provided for in Section 10.1) in the
necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee
or with any Paying Agent (other than the Issuer) or shall have been
set aside, segregated and held in trust by the Issuer for the Holders
of such Securities (if the Issuer shall act as its own Paying Agent),
provided that, if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be
redeemed prior to the maturity
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thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as herein
provided, or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been
made for giving such notice;
(c) Securities which shall have been paid or in
substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.9 (except with
respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the
Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a Person in whose
hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Issuer); and
(d) Securities converted into Common Stock pursuant
hereto prior to the applicable record date and, for purposes of
selection for redemption, Securities not deemed Outstanding pursuant
to Section 12.2; provided, however, that Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period between the close of business on any
record date for such Security and the opening of business on the
related interest payment date (or on the related interest payment
date) shall be considered Outstanding for purposes of payment of
interest on such related interest payment date.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate
principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be
deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the portion of the
principal amount thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination (as certified by the Issuer to the Trustee) upon a declaration of
acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Paying Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from
time to time, the specific terms of which Securities, including, without
limitation, the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the stated maturity
or maturities thereof and the redemption and conversion provisions, if any,
with respect thereto, are to be determined by the Issuer or its agents upon the
issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, estate,
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 the principal of and interest, if any,
on the Securities of such series are payable as determined in accordance with
Section 2.3.
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The term "principal" of a debt security, including any Security, means
the amount (including, without limitation, if and to the extent applicable, any
premium and, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, any accrued
original issue discount, but excluding interest) that is payable with respect
to such debt security as of any date and for any purpose (including, without
limitation, in connection with any sinking fund, upon any redemption at the
option of the Issuer, upon any purchase or exchange at the option of the Issuer
or the holder of such debt security and upon any acceleration of the maturity
of such debt security).
The term "principal amount" of a debt security, including any
Security, means the principal amount as set forth on the fact of such debt
security.
The term "record date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2.7.
"Registrar" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means
any officer assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in Section
6.8) has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture or, as the
case may be, securities that have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to
this Indenture.
"Senior Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Issuer outstanding at
any time except (a) any Indebtedness of the Issuer that pursuant to its terms
or the terms of any agreement relating thereto or by operation of law if
subordinate or junior in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the
Issuer, provided that no Indebtedness of the Issuer shall be deemed to be
subordinate to any other Indebtedness of the Issuer solely by virtue of any
such other Indebtedness being secured or otherwise having the benefit of any
lien or security interest, (b) any Indebtedness as to which, by the terms of
the instrument creating or evidencing the same, it is provided that such
Indebtedness is not senior in right of payment to the Securities, (c) the
Securities, (d) the Issuer's subordinated indebtedness, (e) any Indebtedness of
the Issuer to a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Issuer, (f) interest accruing
after the filing of a petition initiating certain bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings unless such interest is an allowed claim enforceable against the
Issuer in a proceeding under federal or state bankruptcy laws and (g) trade
accounts payable.
"Subsidiary" means any corporation of which the Issuer, or the Issuer
and one or more Subsidiaries, or any one or more Subsidiaries, directly or
indirectly own voting securities entitling any one or more of the Issuer and
its Subsidiaries to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation,
either at all times or so long as there is no default or contingency which
permits the holders of any other class or classes of securities to vote for the
election of one or more directors.
"Trading Day" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.3.
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"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in
Sections 8.1, 8.2 and 13.5) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, as in force at the date as of which
this Indenture is originally executed.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article VI, shall also
include any successor trustee. "Trustee" shall also 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 such series.
"U.S. Government Obligations" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 10.1(B).
The term "vice president", when used with respect to the Issuer or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of
Securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and
calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice or as
otherwise provided in the terms of such series of Securities.
ARTICLE II
SECURITIES
Section 2.1 FORMS GENERALLY. The Securities of each series shall
be substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall
be established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions (as set forth in
a Board Resolution or, to the extent established pursuant to rather than set
forth in a Board Resolution, an Officer's Certificate detailing such
establishment) or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have imprinted or
otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends or endorsements, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to
comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with
any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may
be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all
as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
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Section 2.2 FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be
substantially as follows:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed with
respect to any series of Securities, then the Securities of such series shall
bear, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication which shall be substantially as follows:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
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as Authenticating Agent
By:
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Authorized Signatory
Section 2.3 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 and the Securities
of each such series shall rank equally and pari passu with the Securities of
each other series, but all Securities issued hereunder shall be subordinate and
junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner set forth in
Article XIV, to all Senior Indebtedness. There shall be established in or
pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions (and, to the extent established
pursuant to rather than set forth in a Board Resolution, in an Officer's
Certificate detailing such establishment) or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the initial issuance of Securities of
any series:
(1) the designation of the Securities of the
series, which shall distinguish the Securities of the series
from the Securities of all other series;
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(2) whether the Securities will be convertible
into Common Stock (or cash in lieu thereof) and, if so, the
terms and conditions upon which such conversion will be
effected including the initial Conversion Price and any
adjustments thereto in addition to or different from those set
forth in Section 13.4, the conversion period and other
provisions in addition to or in lieu of those set forth
herein;
(3) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount
of the Securities of the series that may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of,
or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Section 2.8, 2.9, 2.11, 8.5, 12.3 or 13.2);
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of
the Securities of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of
the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from
which any such interest shall accrue, on which any such
interest shall be payable and on which a record shall be taken
for the determination of Holders to whom any such interest is
payable or the method by which such rate or rates or date or
dates shall be determined or both;
(6) the place or places where and the manner in
which the principal of and any interest on Securities of the
series shall be payable and the office or agency for the
Securities of the series maintained by the Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.2 (if other than as provided in Section 3.2);
(7) any provisions relating to the issuance of
Securities of such series at an original issue discount
(including, without limitation, the issue price thereof, the
rate or rates at which such original issue discount shall
accrue, if any, and the date or dates from or to which or
period or periods during which such original issue discount
shall accrue at such rate or rates);
(8) the right, if any, of the Issuer to redeem,
purchase or repay Securities of the series, in whole or in
part, at its option and the period or periods within which,
the price or prices (or the method by which such price or
prices shall be determined or both) at which, the form or
method of payment therefor if other than in cash and any terms
and conditions upon which and the manner in which (if
different from the provisions of Article XII) Securities of
the series may be so redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole
or in part, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
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(9) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to
redeem, purchase or repay Securities of the series, in whole
or in part, pursuant to any mandatory redemption, sinking fund
or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof
and the period or periods within which, the price or price (or
the method by which such price or prices shall be determined
or both) at which, the form or method of payment therefor if
other than in cash and any terms and conditions upon which and
the manner in which (if different from the provisions of
Article XII) Securities of the series shall be redeemed,
purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which
Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(11) if other than the principal amount thereof,
the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the
series which shall be payable upon acceleration of the
maturity thereof;
(12) whether the Securities of the series will be
issuable as Global Securities;
(13) if the 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, the form and terms of such
certificates, documents or conditions;
(14) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or
paying agents, transfer agents or registrars, conversion
agents or any other agents with respect to the Securities of
such series;
(15) any deleted, modified or additional events of
default or remedies or any additional covenants with respect
to the Securities of such series;
(16) whether the provisions of Section 10.1(C)
will be applicable to Securities of such series;
(17) if the amounts of payment of principal of and
interest on the Securities of such series are to be determined
with reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts
shall be determined; and
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(18) any other terms of the series (which terms
shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical,
except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided by or
pursuant to the Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate referred to above or
as set forth in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any
one series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to
time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided or pursuant
to such Board Resolution, such Officer's Certificate or in any such indenture
supplemental hereto.
Any such Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate referred to above
with respect to Securities any series filed with the Trustee on or before the
initial issuance of the Securities of such series shall be incorporated herein
by reference with respect to Securities of such series and shall thereafter be
deemed to be a part of this Indenture for all purposes relating to Securities
of such series as fully as if such Board Resolution or Officer's Certificate
were set forth herein in full.
Section 2.4 AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES. The
Issuer may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Issuer to the
Trustee for authentication together with the applicable documents referred to
below in this Section 2.4, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and
deliver such Securities to, or upon the order of, the Issuer (contained in the
Issuer Order referred to below in this Section 2.4) or pursuant to such
procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such recipients as may be specified
from time to time by an Issuer Order. The maturity date, original issue date,
interest rate, if any, and any other terms of the Securities of such series
shall be determined by or pursuant to such Issuer Order and procedures. If
provided for in such procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize authentication
and delivery pursuant to oral instructions from the Issuer or its duly
authorized agent, which instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing.
In authenticating the Securities of such series and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive (in the case of subparagraphs (2), (3) and
(4) below only at or before the time of the first request of the Issuer to the
Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series) and (subject to Section 6.1)
shall be fully protected in relying upon, unless and until such documents have
been superseded or revoked:
(1) an Issuer Order requesting such
authentication and setting forth delivery instructions if the
Securities of such series are not to be delivered to the
Issuer, provided that, with respect to Securities of a series
subject to a Periodic Offering, (a) such Issuer Order may be
delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee prior to the delivery
to the Trustee of such Securities for authentication and
delivery, (b) the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
Securities of such series for original issue from time to
time, in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the
aggregate principal amount established for such series,
pursuant to an Issuer Order or
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pursuant to procedures acceptable to the Trustee as may be
specified from time to time by an Issuer Order, (c) the
maturity date or dates, original issue date or dates, interest
rate or rates, if any, and any other terms of Securities of
such series shall be determined by an Issuer Order or pursuant
to such procedures, (d) if provided for in such procedures,
such Issuer Order may authorize authentication and delivery
pursuant to telecommunication or electronic instructions from
the Issuer or its duly authorized agent or agents, and (e)
after the original issuance of the first Security of such
series to be issued, any separate request by the Issuer that
the Trustee authenticate Securities of such series for
original issuance will be deemed to be a certification by the
Issuer that it is in compliance with all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication
and delivery of such Securities;
(2) the Board Resolutions, Officer's Certificate
or executed supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.1
and 2.3 by or pursuant to which the form or forms and terms of
the Securities of such series were established;
(3) an Officer's Certificate setting forth the
form or forms and terms of the Securities stating that the
form or forms and terms of the Securities have been
established pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and comply with
this Indenture and covering such other matters as the Trustee
may reasonably request; and
(4) at the option of the Issuer, either an
Opinion of Counsel, or a letter from legal counsel addressed
to the Trustee permitting it to rely on an Opinion of Counsel,
substantially to the effect that:
(A) in the case of an underwritten
offering, the Securities of such series are in the
form or forms contemplated by this Indenture and have
been duly and validly authorized as contemplated by
this Indenture;
(B) in the case of an offering that is
not underwritten, the Securities of such series are
in the form or forms contemplated by this Indenture,
certain terms of the Securities of such series have
been established pursuant to a Board Resolution, an
Officer's Certificate or a supplemental indenture in
accordance with this Indenture, and when such other
terms as ar to be established pursuant to procedures
set forth in an Issuer Order shall have been
established, all such terms will have been duly
authorized by the Issuer and will have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
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(C) when the Securities of such series
have been executed by the Issuer and authenticated by
the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture and delivered against payment therefor by
the purchasers thereof, they will be valid and
legally binding obligations of the Issuer,
enforceable in accordance with their respective
terms, and will be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture; and
(D) to such counsel's knowledge after
the inquiry indicated therein, the execution and
delivery by the Issuer of, and the performance by the
Issuer of its obligations under, the Securities of
such series will not contravene any provision of
applicable law or the articles of incorporation or
by-laws of the Issuer or any agreement or other
instrument binding upon the Issuer or any of its
Subsidiaries that is material to the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, or any
judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency
or any court having jurisdiction over the Issuer or
any Subsidiary, and no consent, approval or
authorization of any governmental body or agency is
required for the performance by the Issuer of its
obligations under the Securities, except such as are
specified and have been obtained and such as may be
required by the securities or blue sky laws of the
various states in connection with the offer and sale
of the Securities.
In rendering such opinions, such counsel may qualify any opinions as
to enforceability by stating that such enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, moratorium and other
similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and is subject to
general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such counsel may rely, as to
all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than the State of Texas
and the federal law of the United States, upon opinions of other counsel
(copies of which shall be delivered to the Trustee), who shall be counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, in which case the opinion shall state
that such counsel believes that both such counsel and the Trustee are entitled
so to rely. Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves
factual matters, such counsel has relied, to the extent such counsel deems
proper, upon certificates of officers of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries and
certificates of public officials.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
delivery any Securities of any series under this Section 2.4 if the Trustee,
being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken
by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or
board of trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors or
trustees or Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose
the Trustee to personal
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liability to existing Holders or would adversely affect the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under the Securities, this Indenture or otherwise.
If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 2.3 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in the form of one or more Global
Securities, then the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance
with this Section 2.4 and the Issuer Order with respect to such series,
authenticate and deliver one or more Global Securities that (i) shall represent
and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount
of all of the Securities of such series to be issued in the form of Global
Securities and not yet cancelled, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or the nominee of such
Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or
pursuant to such Depositary's instructions, and (iv) shall bear a legend
substantially to the following effect: "Unless and until it is exchanged in
whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered form, this Security
may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to the nominee of
the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary."
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.3 must, at the time
of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
other applicable statute or regulation.
Section 2.5 EXECUTION OF SECURITIES. The Securities shall be
signed on behalf of the Issuer by the chairman of the Board of Directors, the
president, any vice president or the treasurer of the Issuer, under its
corporate seal which may, but need not, be attested by its secretary or one of
its assistant secretaries. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future such officers. The seal of the Issuer
may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed,
imprinted or otherwise reproduced in the Securities. Typographical and other
minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of the seal or any such
signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Security that
has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case of any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the
Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Security so signed shall
be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Issuer,
such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as
though the person who signed such Security had not ceased to be such officer of
the Issuer; and any Security may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such
persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Security, shall be the
proper officers of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and
delivery of this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Section 2.6 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. Only such Securities
as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized signatories, or its Authenticating Agent,
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shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose. The execution of such certificates by the Trustee, or its
Authenticating Agent, upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be
conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication
by the Trustee includes authentication by an agent appointed pursuant to
Section 6.14.
Section 2.7 DENOMINATION AND DATE OF SECURITIES; PAYMENTS OF
INTEREST. The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form
in denominations established as contemplated by Section 2.3 or, with respect to
the Securities of any series, if not so established, in denominations of $1,000
and any integral multiple thereof. The Securities of each series shall be
numbered, lettered or other distinguished in such manner or in accordance with
such plan as the officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with
the approval of the Trustee, as evidenced by the execution and authentication
thereof.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. The
Securities of each series shall bear interest, if any, from the date, and such
interest, if any, shall be payable on the dates, established as contemplated by
Section 2.3.
The Person in whose name any Security of any series is registered at
the close of business on any record date applicable to a particular series with
respect to any interest payment date for such series shall be entitled to
receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest payment date
notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Security subsequent to the
record date and prior to such interest payment date, except if and to the
extent the Issuer shall default in the payment of the interest due on such
interest payment date for such series, in which case such defaulted interest
shall be paid to the Persons in whose names Outstanding Securities for such
series are registered (a) at the close of business on a subsequent record date
(which shall be not less than five Business Days prior to the date of payment
of such defaulted interest) established by notice given by mail by or on behalf
of the Issuer to the Holders of Securities not less than 15 days preceding such
subsequent record date or (b) as determined by such other procedure as is
mutually acceptable to the Issuer and the Trustee. The term "record date" as
used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of
defaulted interest) for the Securities of series shall mean the date specified
as such in the terms of the Securities of such series established as
contemplated by Section 2.3, or, if no such date is so established, if such
interest payment date is the first day of a calendar month, the fifteenth day
of the next preceding calendar month or, if such interest payment date is the
fifteenth day of a calendar month, the first day of such calendar month,
whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
Section 2.8 REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. The Issuer will
keep at the office of each Registrar for each series of Securities a register
or registers in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, it will provide for the registration of Securities of each series
and the registration of transfer of Securities of such series. Each such
register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form
capable of being converted into
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such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such register or
registers shall be open for inspection and available for copying by the
Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security of
any series at the office of any Registrar, the Issuer shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or
transferees a new Security or Securities of the same series, maturity date,
interest date, if any, and original issue date in authorized denominations for
a like aggregate principal amount.
All Securities presented for registration of transfer shall (if so
required by the Issuer or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied
by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Issuer and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
At the option of the Holder thereof, Securities of any series (other
than a Global Security, except as set forth below) may be exchanged for a
Security or Securities of such series having authorized denominations and an
equal aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Securities to be
exchanged at the office of the Registrar.
The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for
any such transaction or for any exchange of Securities of any series for any
such transaction or for any exchange of Securities of any series as
contemplated by the immediately preceding paragraph.
The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of
(a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the
first mailing or publication of notice of redemption of Securities of such
series to be redeemed, (b) any Securities selected, called or being called for
redemption, in whole or inpart, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in
part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed or (c) any Security if the
Holder thereof has exercised his right, if any, to require the Issuer to
repurchase such Security in whole or in part, except the portion of such
Security not required to be repurchased.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.8, unless and
until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive
registered form, a Global Security representing all or a part of the Securities
of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such
series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to
such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or
any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such
successor Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for any Securities of a series
represented by one or more Global Securities notifies the Issuer that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Securities or if at any
time the Depositary for such Securities shall no longer be eligible under
Section 2.4, the Issuer shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to
such
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Securities. If a successor Depositary for such Securities is not appointed by
the Issuer within 90 days after the Issuer receives such notice or becomes aware
of such ineligibility, the Issuer's election pursuant to Section 2.3 that such
Securities be represented by one or more Global Securities shall no longer be
effective and the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of
such series, will authenticate and deliver Securities of such series in
definitive registered form, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security or
Securities representing such Securities in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
The Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that
the Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more Global
Securities shall no longer be represented by a Global Security or Securities.
In such event the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officer's Certificate for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Securities of such series, shall authenticate and deliver, Securities of such
series in definitive registered form, in any authorized denominations, in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security
or Securities representing such Securities, in exchange for such Global
Security or Securities.
If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.3 with respect to
Securities represented by a Global Security, the Depositary for such Global
Security may surrender such Global Security in exchange in whole or in part for
Securities of the same series in definitive registered form on such terms as
are acceptable to the Issuer and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without service
charge,
(i) to the Person specified by such Depositary, a
new Security or Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations as requested by such Person, in an
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such
Person's beneficial interest in the Global Security; and
(ii) to such Depositary a new Global Security in a
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the
aggregate principal amount of Securities authenticated and
delivered pursuant to clause (i) above.
Upon the exchange of a Global Security for Securities in definitive
registered form in authorized denominations, such Global Security shall be
cancelled by the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. Securities
in definitive registered form issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant
to this Section 2.8 shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to
instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall
instruct the Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. The Trustee or
such agent shall deliver at its office such Securities to or as directed by the
Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
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All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Section 2.9 MUTILATED, DEFACED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN
SECURITIES. In case any temporary or definitive Security shall become
mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its
discretion may execute, and upon the written request of any officer of the
Issuer, the Trustee, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that such Security
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, shall authenticate and deliver a
new Security of the same series, maturity date, interest rate, if any, and
original issue date, bearing a number or other distinguishing symbol not
contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated
or defaced Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Security so
destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substitute
Security shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by the
Trustee to indemnity and defend and to save each of the Trustee and the Issuer
harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the
ownership thereof and in the case of mutilation or defacement, shall surrender
the Security to the Trustee or such agent.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security, the Issuer 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 or its agent) connected therewith. In case
any Security which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for
redemption in full or is being surrendered for conversion in full shall become
mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may instead of
issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same or the
conversion of such Security (without surrender thereof except in the case of a
mutilated or defaced Security), if the applicant for such payment or conversion
shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or
the Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them may require to hold each
of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the
applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee evidence to the Trustee's satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security of any series issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 2.9 by virtue of the fact that any such Security is
destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation
of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be
at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
(but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set forth in) this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such
series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Securities shall be
held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law,
the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment
or conversion of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and
shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or
statute existing or
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hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement payment or
conversion of negotiable instruments or other securities without their
surrender.
Section 2.10 CANCELLATION OF SECURITIES; DISPOSITION THEREOF. All
Securities surrendered for payment, purchase, redemption, registration of
transfer, exchange or conversion, or for credit against any payment in respect
of a sinking or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee or any agent of the Trustee, shall be delivered to
the Trustee or its agent for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Trustee,
shall be cancelled by it; and no Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof
except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The
Trustee or its agent shall dispose of cancelled Securities held by it, or hold
such Securities in accordance with its standard retention policy, and deliver a
certificate of disposition or retention to the Issuer. If the Issuer or its
agent shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate
as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee or its agent
for cancellation.
Section 2.11 TEMPORARY SECURITIES. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form
satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be
issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the
definitive Securities of such series but with such missions, insertions and
variations as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be
determined by the Issuer with the concurrence of the Trustee as evidenced by
the execution and authentication thereof. Temporary Securities may contain
such references to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate.
Every Temporary Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated
by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner,
and with like effect, as the definitive Securities. Without reasonable delay
the Issuer shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series
and thereupon temporary Securities of such series may be surrendered in
exchange therefor without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by
the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.2 and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such
series an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same
series having authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series, unless otherwise established
pursuant to Section 2.3.
Section 2.12 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 2.1 for Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of 12 30-day months.
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ARTICLE III
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
Section 3.1 PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST. The Issuer
covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid
the principal of and interest, if any, on each of the Securities at the place,
at the respective times and in the manner provided in the Securities.
Section 3.2 OFFICE FOR NOTICES AND PAYMENTS, ETC.. So long as
any of the Securities are Outstanding, the Issuer will maintain in each Place
of Payment, an office or agency where the Securities may be presented for
payment ("Paying Agent"), an office or agency where the Securities may be
presented for registration of transfer and for exchange ("Registrar") and, if
applicable, an office or agency where the Securities may be presented for
conversion ("Conversion Agent") as in this Indenture provided, and an office or
agency where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the
Securities or of this Indenture may be served. In case the Issuer shall at any
time fail to maintain any such office or agency, or shall fail to give notice
to the Trustee of any change in the location thereof, presentation may be made
and notice and demand may be served in respect of the Securities or of this
Indenture at the Corporate Trust Office. The Issuer hereby initially
designates the Corporate Trust Office for each such purpose and appoints the
Trustee as Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent and as the agent upon whom
notices and demands may be served with respect to the Securities.
Section 3.3 NO INTEREST EXTENSION. In order to prevent any
accumulation of claims for interest after maturity thereof, the Issuer will not
directly or indirectly extend or consent to the extension of the time for the
payment of any claim for interest on any of the Securities and will not
directly or indirectly be a party to or approve any such arrangement by the
purchase or funding of said claims or in any other manner; provided, however,
that this Section 3.3 shall not apply in any case where an extension shall be
made pursuant to a plan proposed by the Issuer to the Holders of all Securities
of any series then Outstanding.
Section 3.4 APPOINTMENTS TO FILL VACANCIES IN TRUSTEE'S OFFICE.
The Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of the
Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.10, a Trustee so
that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 3.5 PROVISION AS TO PAYING AGENT.
(a) If the Issuer shall appoint a Paying Agent other than
the Trustee, it will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to
the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 3.5,
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(1) that it will hold all sums held by it as such
agent for the payment of the principal of or interest, if any,
on the Securities (whether such sums have been paid to it by
the Issuer or by any other obligor on the Securities) in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee; and
(2) that it will give the Trustee notice of any
failure by the Issuer (or by the other obligor on the
Securities) to make any payment of the principal of or
interest, if any, on the Securities when the same shall be due
and payable; and
(3) that it will, at any time during the
continuance of any such failure, upon the written request of
the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in
trust by such Paying Agent.
(b) If the Issuer shall act as its own Paying Agent, it
will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interests, if
any, on the Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities a sum sufficient to pay such
principal or interest, if any, so becoming due and will notify the
Trustee of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the
Issuer (or by any other obligor under the Securities) to make any
payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities
when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 3.5 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Issuer may, at any time, for the purpose of
obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any
other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by it, or any Paying Agent hereunder, as required by this
Section 3.5, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts
herein contained.
(d) Anything in this Section 3.5 to the contrary
notwithstanding, any agreement of the Trustee or any Paying Agent to
hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 3.5 is subject to
Sections 10.3 and 10.4.
(e) Whenever the Issuer shall have one or more Paying
Agents, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or
interest, if any, on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay the principal or interest, if any, so becoming due,
such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such principal or interest, if any, and (unless such Paying Agent
is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
Section 3.6 CORPORATE EXISTENCE. Subject to, and except as
otherwise provided in, Article IX, the Issuer will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, and franchise to be a corporation, and will remain qualified as a
foreign corporation in good standing in each jurisdiction wherein the
ownerships of its assets or the conduct of its business requires it to be so
qualified, except where the failure
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to so qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
Section 3.7 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES. The Issuer will cause all
properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any
Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working
order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment
and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements,
betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Issuer may
be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be
properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section shall prevent the Issuer from discontinuing the
operation or maintenance of any of such properties is such discontinuance is,
in the judgment of the Issuer, desirable in the conduct of its business or the
business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to
the Holders.
Section 3.8 PAYMENT OF TEXAS AND OTHER CLAIMS. The Issuer will
pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall
become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied
or imposed upon the Issuer or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or
property of the Issuer or Subsidiary, and (2) all lawful claims for labor,
materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the
property of the Issuer or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Issuer
shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity
is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
Section 3.9 PROHIBITION ON INCURRENCE OF SENIOR SUBORDINATED
DEBT. The Issuer will not incur or suffer to exist Indebtedness that is or
purports to be, pursuant to its terms or the terms of any agreement relating
thereto, senior in right of payment to the Securities and subordinate or junior
in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Issuer; provided that no
Indebtedness of the Issuer shall be deemed to be subordinate to any other
Indebtedness of the Issuer solely by virtue of any such other Indebtedness
being secured or otherwise having the benefit of any lien or security interest.
ARTICLE IV
SECURITYHOLDERS LIST AND REPORTS BY THE
ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 4.1 ISSUER TO FURNISH TRUSTEE INFORMATION AS TO NAMES AND
ADDRESSES OF SECURITYHOLDERS. The Issuer and any other obligor on the
Securities covenant and agree that they will furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Trustee a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the
names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities of each series as of a
date not more than 15 days prior to the time such information is furnished;
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(a) semiannually and not more than 15 days after each
March 1 and September 1; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such
request;
provided that if and so long as Trustee shall be the Registrar for such series,
such List shall not be required to be furnished.
Section 4.2 PRESERVATION AND DISCLOSURE OF SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses
of the Holders of each series of Securities (i) contained in the most
recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1, and (ii)
received by it in its capacity of Registrar or Paying Agent for such
series, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to
it as provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) In case three or more Holders of Securities
(hereinafter referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the
Trustee and furnished to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such
applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states
that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders of
Securities of a particular series (in which case the applicants must
all hold Securities of such series) or with Holders of all Securities
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such
Securities, and such application is accompanied by a copy of the form
of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford to such applicants access to the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance
with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.2, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders of Securities of such series of all
Securities, as the case may be, whose names and addresses
appear in the information preserved at the time by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a)
of this Section 4.2, and as to the approximate cost of mailing
to such Securityholders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford to such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Securityholder of such series or all Holders of
Securities, as the case may be, whose name and address appears in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of subsection
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(a) of this Section 4.2, a copy of the form of proxy or other communication
which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender
to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for
the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing , unless within five days
after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written
statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would
be contrary to the best interests of the Holders of Securities of such series
or of all Securities, as the case may be, or would be in violation of
applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such
opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the
objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order
refusing to sustain any of such objections or, if, after entry of an order
sustaining one or more of such objection, the Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have
been met, and shall enter an order to declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies
of such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable promptness after
the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee
shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Each and every Holder of Securities, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Issuer and the Trustee that neither
the Issuer nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee
shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities
in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section
4.2, 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 such subsection
(b).
Section 4.3 REPORTS BY THE ISSUER. The Issuer covenants:
(a) to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the
Issuer is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the
annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or
copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may
from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Issuer
may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the
Issuer is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of such Sections, then to 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 in
respect of debt security listed and registered on a national
securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(b) to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations presented from time to time by
the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports
with respect to compliance by the Issuer with the conditions and
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covenants provided for in this Indenture as may be required fro time
to time by such rules and regulations;
(c) to transmit by mail 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 4.4(c), such summaries of
any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the
Issuer pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 4.3 as may
be required to be transmitted to such Holders by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission; and
(d) furnish to the Trustee, not less then annually, a
brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal
financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his knowledge
of the Issuer's compliance with all conditions and covenants under
this Indenture. For purposes of this subsection (d), such compliance
shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or
requirement of notice provided under this Indenture.
Section 4.4 REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE.
(a) Within 60 days after September 15 of each year
commencing with the year 1997, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
the Holders of Securities, as provided in subsection (c) of this
Section 4.4, a brief report dated as of such September 15 with respect
to any of the following events which may have occurred within the last
12 months (but if no such event has occurred within such period, no
report need be transmitted):
(i) any change to its eligibility under Section
6.9 and its qualification under Section 6.8;
(ii) the creation of, or any material change to, a
relationship specified in paragraph (i) through (x) of Section
6.8(c);
(iii) the character and amount of any advances (and
if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such)
which remain unpaid on the date of such report and for the
reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or
charge, prior to that of the Securities of any series, on any
property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except
that the Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to
report such advances if such advances so remaining unpaid
aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the principal amount of
all Securities Outstanding on the date of such report;
(iv) the amount, interest rate, if any, and
maturity date of all other indebtedness owing by the Issuer
(or by any other obligor on the Securities) to the Trustee in
its individual capacity on the date of such report, with a
brief
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description of any property held as collateral security
therefor, except any indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in Section
6.13(b)(2), (3) (4) or (6);
(v) any change to the property and funds, if any,
physically in the possession of the Trustee (as such) on the
date of such report;
(vi) any additional issue of Securities which the
Trustee has not previously reported; and
(vii) any action taken by the Trustee in the
performance of its duties under this Indenture which it has
not previously reported and which in its opinion material
affects the Securities, except action in respect of a default,
notice of which has been or is to be withheld by it in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5.8.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit to the Securityholders of
each series, as provided in subsection (c) of this Section 4.4, a
brief report with respect to the character and amount of any advances
(and if the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding
the making thereof) made by the Trustee, as such, since the date of
the last report transmitted pursuant to the provisions of subsection
(a) of this Section 4.4 (or if no such report has yet been so
transmitted, since the date of this Indenture) for the reimbursement
of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge prior to that of the
Securities of such series on property or funds held or collected by it
as Trustee and which it has not previously reported pursuant to this
subsection (b), except that the Trustee shall not be required (but may
elect) to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at
any time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of all
Securities Outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted
within 90 days after such time.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted
by mail:
(i) to all Holders of Securities, as the names
and addresses of such Holders appear upon the registry books
of the Issuer; and
(ii) to all other Persons to whom such reports are
required to be transmitted pursuant to Section 313(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
(d) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Securityholders, be furnished to the Issuer and be
filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the
Securities of any applicable series are listed and also with the
Commission. The Issuer agrees to notify the Trustee with respect to
any series when and as the Securities of such series become admitted
to trading on any national securities exchange.
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ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON
EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 5.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT. "Event of Default", wherever used
herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one or more of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article XIV or otherwise), unless it
is earlier inapplicable to a particular series or is specifically deleted or
modified in or pursuant to the Board Resolutions or supplemental indenture
establishing such series of Securities or in the form of Security for such
series:
(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest
upon any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall
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 any of the
Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and
payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or
otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment or satisfaction of any sinking
fund or other purchase obligation with respect to the Securities of
such series, as and when such obligation shall become due and payable;
or
(d) failure on the part of the Issuer duly to observe or
perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the
Issuer in the Securities of such series or in this Indenture continued
for a period of 60 days after the date on which written notice of such
failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to
the Issuer by the Trustee by registered mail, or to the Issuer and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding; or
(e) without the consent of the Issuer a court having
jurisdiction shall enter an order for relief with respect to the
Issuer under the Bankruptcy Code or without the consent of the Issuer
a court having jurisdiction shall enter a judgment, order or decree
adjudging the Issuer a bankrupt or insolvent, or enter an order for
relief for reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of
or in the respect to the Issuer under the Bankruptcy Code or
applicable state insolvency law and the continuance of any such
judgment, order or decree is unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(f) the issuer shall institute proceedings for entry of
an order for relief with respect to the Issuer under the Bankruptcy
Code or for an adjudication of insolvency, or shall consent to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or
shall
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file a petition seeking, or seek or consent to reorganization,
arrangement, composition or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any
applicable state law, or shall consent to filing of such petition or
to the appointment of a receiver, custodian, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or of
substantially all of its property or the Issuer shall make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors as recognized under the
Bankruptcy Code; or
(g) default under any bond, debenture, note or other
evidence of Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Issuer or under 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 by the Issuer, whether such Indebtedness exists on the date
hereof or shall hereafter be created, which default shall have
resulted in such Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and
payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have been due
and payable, or any default in payment of such Indebtedness (after the
expiration of any applicable grace periods and the presentation of any
debt instruments, if required), if the aggregate amount of all such
Indebtedness which has been so accelerated and with respect to which
there has been such a default in payment shall exceed $5,000,000,
without each such default and acceleration having been rescinded or
annulled within a period of 30 days after there shall have been given
to the Issuer by the Trustee by registered mail, or the Issuer and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding, a written
notice specifying each such default and requiring the Issuer to cause
each such default and acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(h) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
the Securities of such series.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series then
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every such case,
unless the principal of all of the Securities of such series shall have already
become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25
percent in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then
Outstanding, by notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the trustee if given by
Securityholders), may declare the unpaid principal amount (or, if the
Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) of all
the Securities of such series and the interest, if any, accrued thereon to be
due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall
become and shall be immediately and due and payable, anything in this Indenture
or in the Securities of such series contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
This provision, however, is subject to the condition that, if at any time after
the unpaid principal amount (or such specified amount) of the Securities of
such series shall have been so declared due and payable and before any judgment
or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered
as hereinafter provided, the Issuer shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee
a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest, if any, upon all
of the Securities of such series and
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the principal of any and all Securities of such series which shall have become
due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of
interest, if any, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law and on such principal at the rate borne by the Securities
of such series to the date of such payment or deposit) and the reasonable
compensation, disbursements, expenses and advances of the Trustee, its agents,
attorneys and counsel, and any and all defaults under this Indenture, other
than the nonpayment of such portion of the principal amount of and accrued
interest, if any, on Securities of such series which shall have become due by
acceleration, shall have been cured or shall have been waived in accordance
with Section 5.7 or provision deemed by the Trustee to be adequate shall have
been made therefor -- then and in every such case the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding,
by written notice to the Issuer and to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences; but no such rescission and annulment shall
extent to or shall affect any subsequent default, or shall impair any right
consequent thereon. If any Event of Default with respect to the issuer
specified in Section 5.1(e) or 5.1(f) occurs, the unpaid principal amount (or,
if the Securities of any series then Outstanding are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amounts as may be specified in the
terms of each such series) and accrued interest on all Securities of each
series then outstanding shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and
payable without any declaration or other act by the Trustee or any
Securityholder.
If the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned
because of such rescission or annulment or for any other reason or shall have
been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall be restored respectively to
their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and
powers of the Issuer the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as
though no such proceeding had been taken.
Except with respect to an Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.1(a),
(b) or (c), the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of
Default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to a Responsible
Officer by the Issuer, a Paying Agent or any Securityholder.
Section 5.2 PAYMENT OF SECURITIES ON DEFAULT; SUIT THEREFOR. The
Issuer covenants that (a) if default shall be made in the payment of any
installment of interest upon any of the Securities of any series then
Outstanding as and when the same shall become due and payable, and such default
shall have continued for a period of 30 days, or (b) if default shall be made
in the payment of the principal of any of the Securities of such series as and
when the same shall have become due and payable, whether at maturity of the
Securities of such series or upon redemption or by declaration or
otherwise--then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer will pay to the
Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities, the whole amount
that then shall have become due and payable on all such Securities of such
series for principal or interest, if any, or both, as the case may be, with
interest upon the overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law) upon the overdue installments of
interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Securities of such series; and, in
addition thereto,
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such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses or
liabilities incurred by the Trustee hereunder other than through its negligence
or bad faith.
If the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall
be entitled and empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Issuer or any other obligor on the
Securities of such series and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities of such series,
wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
If there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the
reorganization of the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities of any
series then Outstanding under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or if a receiver or trustee or similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or if a receiver or trustee or similar official shall have
been appointed for the property of the Issuer or such other obligor, or in the
case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or other
obligor upon the Securities of such series, or to the creditors or property of
the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of the Securities of such series shall then be due and payable as
therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Trustee shall have mad any demand pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 5.2, shall be entitled and empowered by intervention in such
proceedings or otherwise to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole
amount of principal and interest, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities of such series, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file
such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the Securityholders
allowed in such judicial proceedings relating to the Issuer or any other
obligor on the Securities of such series, its or their creditors, or its or
their property, and to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable
or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the
deduction of its charges and expenses, and any receiver, assignee or trustee or
similar official in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby authorized by each
of the Securityholders to make such payments to the Trustee, and, if the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for compensation and
expenses, including counsel fees incurred by it up to the date of such
distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation,
expenses and counsel fees out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be
denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and
shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, moneys, securities
and other property which the Holders of the Securities of such series may be
entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any
plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
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All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities, or the production thereof at any trial or
other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suits or proceeding instituted
by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust,
and any recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of
the Securities of the series in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
Section 5.3 APPLICATION OF MONEYS COLLECTED BY TRUSTEE. Any
moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.2 with respect to
Securities of any series then Outstanding shall be applied in the order
following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of
such moneys, upon presentation of the several Securities of such series, and
stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender
thereof, if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses of collection and
reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and
of all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the
trustee pursuant to Section 6.6 except as a result of its negligence or bad
faith;
SECOND: If the principal of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest, if any, on
the Securities of such series, in the order of the maturity of the installments
of such interest, if any, with interest (to the extent that such interest has
been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest, if
any, at the rate borne by the Securities of such series, such payment to be
made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
THIRD: If the principal of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, to the payment of the whole
amount then owing and unpaid upon the Securities of such series for principal
and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent
that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments
of interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Securities of such series; and in
case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due
and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such
principal and interest, if any, without preference or priority of principal
over interest, or of interest over principal, or of any installment of
interest, or of any other installment of interest, or of any Security over any
other Security, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and
unpaid interest; and
FOURTH: To the payment of any surplus then remaining to the Issuer,
its successors or assigns, or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive
the same.
No claim for interest which in any manner at or after maturity shall
have been transferred or pledged separate or apart from the Securities to which
it relates, or which in any manner shall have been kept alive after maturity by
an extension (otherwise than pursuant to an extension made pursuant to a plan
proposed by the Issuer to the Holders of all Securities of any series then
Outstanding), purchase, funding or otherwise by or on behalf or with the
consent or approval
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of the Issuer shall be entitled, in case of a default hereunder, to any benefit
of this Indenture, except after prior payment in full of the principal of all
Securities of any series then Outstanding and of all claims for interest not so
transferred, pledged, kept alive, extended, purchased or funded.
Section 5.4 PROCEEDINGS BY SECURITYHOLDERS. No Holder of any
Securities of any series then Outstanding shall have any right by virtue of or
by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or
proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture
of the Securities or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or similar
official, or for any other remedy hereunder or thereunder, unless such holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless the Holders of not
less than 25 percent in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such
series then Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder
and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may
require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or
thereby, and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such
action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being
expressly covenanted by the Holder of every Security of such series with every
other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of
Securities of such series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue
of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture or of the Securities to
affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder of such Securities
of such series, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference as
to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture or the
Securities, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all Holders of Securities of such series.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, but subject to
Article XIV, the right of any Holder of any Security to receive payment of the
principal of and interest, if any, on such Security, on or after the respective
due dates expressed in such Security, or, if applicable, to convert such
Security as provided in Article XIII, or to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment on or after such respective dates or for the enforcement of
any such right to convert shall not be impaired or affected without the consent
of such Holder.
Section 5.5 PROCEEDINGS BY TRUSTEE. In case of an Event of
Default hereunder, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any
of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceedings
in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of
any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable
right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
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Section 5.6 REMEDIES CUMULATIVE AND CONTINUING. All powers and
remedies given by this Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders
shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive
of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or
the Securityholders, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the
performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this
Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any default occurring and continuing
as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be
a waiver of any such default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to the
Provisions of Section 5.4, every power and remedy given by this Article V or by
law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders.
Section 5.7 DIRECTION OF PROCEEDINGS; WAIVER OF DEFAULTS BY
MAJORITY OF SECURITYHOLDERS. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any series then Outstanding 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 Securities of such series; provided, however, that
(subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have the right to
decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee shall determine upon advice
of counsel that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken
or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, its execution
committee, or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers or both
shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed would involve the
Trustee in personal liability. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any series then Outstanding may on behalf
of the Holders of all of the Securities of such series waive any past default
or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except a default in the
payment of interest, if any, on, or the principal of, the Securities of such
series. The provisions of Section 316(a)(1)(B) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 are expressly excluded herefrom. Upon any such waiver the Issuer, the
Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of such series shall be restored to
their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default or Event or Default
hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 5.7, said default
or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Securities and this Indenture
be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.
Section 5.8 NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. The Trustee shall, within 90
days after the occurrence of a default, with respect to Securities of any
series then Outstanding, mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as
the names and the addresses of such Holders appear upon the Security register,
notice of all defaults known to the Trustee with respect to such series, unless
such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such notice (the term
"defaults" for the purpose of this Section 5.8 being hereby defined to be the
events specified in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) of
Sections 5.1, not including periods of grace, if any, provided for therein and
irrespective of the giving of the written notice specified in said clause (d) or
(g) but in the case of any default of the character specified in said clause (d)
or (g) no such notice to Securityholder shall be given until at least 60 days
after the giving of written notice thereof to
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the Issuer pursuant to said clause (d) or (g), as the case may be); provided,
however, that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of
or interest, if any, on any of the Securities, or in the payment or
satisfaction of any sinking fund or other purchase obligation, 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 or
Responsible Officers or both of the Trustee in good faith determine that the
withholding of such notice is in the best interests of the Securityholders.
Section 5.9 UNDERTAKING TO PAY COSTS. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require,
in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or
in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as
Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay
the cost of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section 5.9 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Securityholder or group of Securityholders, holding in the
aggregate more than ten percent in principal amount of the Securities of any
series then Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholders for
the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, or interest, if any, on any
Security against the Issuer on or after the due date expressed in such Security
or for the enforcement of the right to convert any Security in accordance with
Article XIII. The provisions of Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 are expressly excluded herefrom.
Section 5.10 TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIM WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceedings relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.11 WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS. The Issuer
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 Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants
that it 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.
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ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEE; DURING
DEFAULT; PRIOR TO DEFAULT. With respect to the Holders of any series of
Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event
of Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect
to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or
waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of Securities
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.
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
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or
waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to such series
which may have occurred;
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture,
and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance
of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth
in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of
the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon any statements, certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such
statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision
hereof are specifically required to be furnished by 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) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
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(c) 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 pursuant to Section 5.7 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.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that
the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
Section 6.2 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF THE TRUSTEE. Subject to Section
6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate
or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security 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, direction, order or demand of the Issuer
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's
Certificate or Issue Order (unless other evidence in respect thereof
be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of
Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified
by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any written
advice or any Opinion of Counsel and shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture (including, without limitation,
pursuant to Section 5.1), unless such Securityholders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or
thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken
or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default
hereunder and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default,
the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
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investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to
do by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of all series affected then Outstanding;
provided that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee
of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in
the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee,
not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it
by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to
proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall
be paid by the Issuer or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer upon demand; and
(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 not regularly in its employ and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on
the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
Section 6.3 TRUSTEE NOT RESPONSIBLE RECITALS, DISPOSITION OF
SECURITIES OR APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS THEREOF. The recitals contained herein
and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication,
shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture, of the
Securities or of any prospectus used to sell the Securities. The Trustee shall
not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the
Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.4 TRUSTEE AND AGENTS MAY HOLD SECURITIES; COLLECTIONS,
ETC. The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in its individual
or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the
same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent and, subject
to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Issuer and receive,
collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.
Section 6.5 MONEYS HELD BY TRUSTEE. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.4 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or
applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they
were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither the Trustee nor any agent of
the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any
moneys received by it hereunder.
Section 6.6 COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE AND ITS
PRIOR CLAIM. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to
time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation (which
shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees
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to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request
for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or
on behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of
its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ)
except any such expense, disbursements or advance as may arise from its
negligence or bad faith. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including the costs
and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim or
liability in the premises. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section
6.6 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to
pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for expenses,
disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder,
shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the
resignation or removal of the Trustee and shall not be subordinate to the
payment of the Senior Indebtedness pursuant to Article XIV. Such additional
indebtedness shall be a senior claim to that of the Securities upon all
property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held
in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities, and the
Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim. When the Trustee
incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1 or in connection with Article V hereof, the expenses
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services in connection therewith are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law.
Section 6.7 RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO RELY ON OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE,
ETC. Subject to Section 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the
trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established
by an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in
the absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be
full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith hereof.
Section 6.8 QUALIFICATION OF TRUSTEE; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting
interest (as defined in subsection (c)), then within 90 days after
ascertaining that it has such conflicting interest, and if the default
(as defined in subsection (c)) to which such conflicting interest
relates has not been cured or duly waived or otherwise eliminated
before the end of such 90-day period, the Trustee shall either
eliminate such conflicting interest or, except as otherwise provided
below, resign, and the Issuer shall take prompt steps to have a
successor appointed in the manner provided in Section 6.10.
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(b) If the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of subsection (a), the Trustee shall, within 10 days after
the expiration of such 90-day period, transmit notice of such failure
to the Securityholders in the manner and to the extent provided in
Section 4.4 and, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9, unless the
Trustee's duty to resign is stayed as provided below, any
Securityholder who has been a bond fide holder of Securities for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all other similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal
of the Trustee, and the appointment of a successor, if the Trustee
fails, after written request thereof by such Securityholder, to comply
with the provisions of subsection (a).
Except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal of or interest on any Security, or in the payment of any
sinking or purchase fund installment, the Trustee shall not be
required to resign as provided by this Section 6.8 if the Trustee
shall have sustained the burden of proving, on application to the
Commission and after opportunity for hearing thereon, that
(i) the default under this Indenture may be cured
or waived during a reasonable period and under the procedures
described in such application, and
(ii) a stay of the Trustee's duty to resign will
not be inconsistent with the interests of Holders of the
Securities.
The filing of such an application shall automatically stay the
performance of the duty to resign until the Commission orders
otherwise. Any resignation of the Trustee shall become effecting only
upon the appointment of a successor trustee in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6.10 and such successor's acceptance of such an
appointment.
(c) For the purposes of this Section 6.8, the Trustee
shall be deemed to have a conflicting interest with respect to
Securities of any series if the Securities of such series are in
default (as determined in accordance with the provisions of Section
5.1, but exclusive of any period of grace or requirement of notice)
and
(i) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture
with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any other series
or is a trustee under another indenture under which any other
securities, or certificates of interest or participation in
any other securities, of the Issuer are outstanding, unless
such other indenture is a collateral trust indenture under
which the only collateral consists of Securities issued under
this Indenture; provided that there shall be excluded from the
operation of this paragraph, this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of any other series and there shall also be so
excluded any other indenture or indentures under which other
securities, or certificates of interest or participation in
other securities, of the Issuer are outstanding if (x) this
Indenture is and, if applicable, this Indenture and any series
issued pursuant to this Indenture and such other
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indenture or indentures are wholly unsecured and rank equally,
and such other indenture or indentures are hereafter qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, unless the Commission
shall have found and declared by order pursuant to Section
305(b) or Section 307(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
that differences exist between the provisions of this
Indenture with respect to Securities of such series and one or
more other series, or the provisions of this Indenture and the
provisions of such other indenture or indentures which are so
likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to make
it necessary in the public interest or for the protection of
investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under
this Indenture with respect to Securities to such series and
such other series or under this Indenture or such other
indenture or indentures, or (y) the Issuer shall have
sustained the burden of proving, on application to the
Commission and after opportunity for hearing thereon, that
trusteeship under this Indenture with respect to Securities of
such series and such other series, or under this Indenture and
such other indenture or indentures is not so likely to involve
a material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the
public interest or for the protection of investors to
disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under this
Indenture with respect to Securities of such series and such
other series, or under this Indenture and such other
indentures;
(ii) the Trustee or any of its directors or
executive officers is an underwriter for the Issuer;
(iii) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls
or is directly or indirectly controlled by or is under direct
or indirect common control with an underwriters for the
Issuer;
(iv) the Trustee or any of its directors or
executive officers is a director, officer, partner, employee,
appointee, or representative of the Issuer, or of an
underwriter (other than the Trustee itself) for the Issuer who
is currently engaged in the business of underwriting, except
that (x) one individual may be a director or an executive
officer, or both, of the Trustee and a director or an
executive officer, or both, of the Issuer, but may not be at
the same time an executive officer or both the Trustee and the
Issuer; (y) if and so long as the number of directors of the
Trustee in office is more than nine, one additional individual
may be a director or an executive officer, or both, of the
Trustee and a director of the Issuer, and (z) the Trustee may
be designated by the Issuer or by any underwriter for the
Issuer to act in the capacity of transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent, or
depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to
the provisions of subsection (c)(i) of this Section, to act as
trustee, whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(v) 10% or more of the voting securities of the
Trustee is beneficially owned either by the Issuer or by any
director, partner or executive officer
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thereof, or 20% or of such voting securities is beneficially
owned, collectively, by any two or more of such person; or 10%
or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by an underwriter for the Issuer or
by any director, partner, or executive officer thereof, or is
beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or more such
persons;
(vi) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or
holds as collateral security for an obligation which is in
default, (x) 5% or more of the voting securities of 10% or
more of any other class of security of the Issuer, not
including the Securities issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under which the
Trustee is also trustee, or (y) 10% or more of any class of
security of an underwriter for the Issuer;
(vii) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or
holds as collateral security for an obligation which is in
default, 5% or more of the voting securities of any person
who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns 10% or more of the
voting securities of, or controls directly or indirectly or is
under direct or indirect common control with, the Issuer;
(viii) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or
holds as collateral Security for an obligation which is in
default, 10% or more of any class of security of any person
who, to the knowledge of the Trustees, owns 50% or more of the
voting securities of the Issuer;
(ix) the Trustee owns on the date of default (as
determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.1,
but exclusive of any period of grace or requirement of notice)
or on any anniversary of such default while such default
remains outstanding, in the capacity of executor,
administrator, testamentary or inter vivos trustee, guardian,
committee or conservator, or in any other similar capacity, an
aggregate of 25% or more of the voting securities, or of any
class security, of any person, the beneficial ownership of a
specified percentage of which would have constituted a
conflicting interest under paragraphs (vi), (vii) or (viii) of
this subsection. As to any such securities of which the
Trustee acquired ownership through becoming executor,
administrator, or testamentary trustee of an estate which
included them, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall
not apply, for a period of two years from the date of such
acquisition, to the extent that such securities included in
such estate do not exceed 25% of such voting securities of 25%
of any such class of security. Promptly after the dates of
any such default and annually in each succeeding year that the
Securities remain in default, the Trustee shall make a check
of its holdings of such securities in any of the
above-mentioned capacities as of such dates. If the Issuer
fails to make payment in full of principal of or interest on
any of the Securities when and as the same becomes due and
payable, and such failure continues for 30 days thereafter,
the Trustee shall make a prompt check
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of this holdings of such Securities in any of the
above-mentioned capacities as of the date of the expiration of
such 30-day period, and after such date, notwithstanding the
foregoing provisions of this paragraph, all such Securities so
held by the Trustee, with sole or joint control over such
Securities vested in it, shall, but only so long as such
failure shall continue, be considered as though beneficially
owned by the Trustee for the purposes of paragraphs (vi),
(vii) and (viii) of this subsection; or
(x) except under the circumstances described in
paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of Section 6.13(b), the
Trustee shall or shall become creditor of the Issuer.
For purposes of subsection (c)(i), the term "series of securities" or
"series" means a series, class or group of securities issuable under an
indenture pursuant to whose terms holders of one such series may vote to direct
the Trustee, or otherwise take action pursuant to a vote of such holders,
separately from holders of another such series; provided, that "series of
securities" or "series" shall not include any series of securities issuable
under an indenture if all such series rank equally and are wholly unsecured.
The specification of percentages in subsections (c)(v) to (ix),
inclusive, of this Section 6.8 shall not be construed as indicating that the
ownership of such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not
necessary or sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control of the
purposes of subsections (c)(iii) or (vii) of this Section 6.8.
For the purposes of subsections (c)(vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of
this Section 6.8, only,
(i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include
only such securities as are generally known as corporate securities,
but shall not include any note or other evidence of indebtedness
issued to evidence an obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by
one or more banks, trust companies, or banking firms, or any
certificate of interest or participation in any such note or evidence
of indebtedness;
(ii) an obligation shall be deemed to be in default when a
default in payment of principal shall have continued for 30 days or
more and shall not have been cured; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to be the owner or
holder of (x) any security which it holds as collateral security, as
trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in default as
defined in clause (ii) above, or (y) any Security which it holds as
collateral security under this Indenture, irrespective of any default
hereunder, or (z) any security which it holds as agent for collection,
or as custodian, escrow agent, or depositary, or in any similar
representative capacity.
Except as provided above, the word "security" or "securities" as used
in this Section 6.8 shall mean any note, stock, treasury stock, bond,
debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate
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of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral trust
certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share,
investment contract, voting trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a
security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas or other mineral rights,
or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a "security", or
any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim
certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant to right to subscribe to
or purchase, any of the foregoing.
(d) For purposes of this Section 6.8:
(i) the term "underwriter" when used with
reference to the Issuer shall mean every person who, within a
one year period prior to the time as of which the
determination is made, was an underwriter of any security of
the Issuer outstanding at the time of the determination;
(ii) the term "director" shall mean any director
of a corporation or any individual performing similar
functions with respect to any organization whether
incorporated or unincorporated;
(iii) the term "person" shall mean an individual, a
corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock
company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, or a
government or political subdivision thereof; as used in this
paragraph, the term "trust" shall include only a trust where
the interest or interests of the beneficiary or beneficiaries
are evidenced by a security;
(iv) the term "voting security" shall mean any
security presently entitling the owner or holder thereof to
vote in the direction or management of the affairs of a
person, or any Security issued under or pursuant to any trust,
agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or trustee or agent
or agents for the owner or holder of such security are
presently entitled to vote in the direction or management of
the affairs of a person;
(v) the term "Issuer" shall mean any obligor upon
the Securities; and
(vi) the term "executive officer" shall mean the
president, every vice president, every trust officer, the
cashier, the secretary, and the treasurer of a corporation,
and any individual customarily performing similar functions
with respect to any organization whether incorporated or
unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of the
board of directors.
(e) The percentage of voting securities and other
securities specified in this Section 6.8 shall be calculated in
accordance with the following provisions:
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(i) a specified percentage of the voting
securities of the Trustee, the Issuer or any other person
referred to in this Section 6.8 (each of whom is referred to
in this Section 6.8 (each of whom is referred to as a "person"
in this paragraph) means such amount of the outstanding voting
securities of such person as entitled the holder or holders
thereof to cast such specified percentage of the aggregate
votes which the holders of all the outstanding voting
securities of such person ar entitled to cast in the direction
or management of the affairs of such person;
(ii) a specified percentage of a class of
securities of a person means such percentage amount of
securities of the class outstanding;
(iii) the term "amount", when used in regard to
securities, means the principal amount if relating to
evidences of indebtedness, the number of shares if relating to
capital shares, and the number of units if relating to any
other kind of Security;
(iv) the term "outstanding" means issued and not
held by or for the account for the Issuer; the following
securities shall not be deemed within the meaning of this
definition;
(A) securities of an issuer held in a
sinking fund relating to securities of the Issuer of
the same class;
(B) securities of an issuer held in a
sinking fund relating to another class of securities
of the Issuer, if the obligation evidenced by such
other class of securities is not in default as to
principal or interest or otherwise;
(C) securities pledged by the Issuer
thereof as security for an obligation of the issuer
not in default as to principal or interest or
otherwise; and
(D) securities held in escrow if placed
in escrow by the issuer thereof;
provided, that any voting securities of an issuer shall be deemed outstanding
if any person other than the Issuer is entitled to exercise the voting rights
thereof; and
(v) a security shall be deemed to be of the same
class as another security if both securities confer upon the
holder or holders thereof substantially the same rights and
privileges; provided that, in the case of secured evidences of
indebtedness, all of which are issued under the single
indenture, differences in the interest rates or maturity dates
of various series thereof shall not be deemed
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sufficient to constitute such series different classes and
provided, further, that, in the case of unsecured evidences of
indebtedness, differences in the interest rates or maturity
dates thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to constitute
them securities of different classes, whether or not they are
issued under a single indenture.
Section 6.9 PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT AS TRUSTEE. The
Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all times be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America or of any state or the District of Columbia having a combined capital
and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and which is authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or examination by
federal, state or District of Columbia authority, or a corporation or other
Person permitted to act as trustee by the Commission. If such corporation
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 6.9, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published. No obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliates of such obligor shall serve as Trustee upon the
Securities. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.9, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10.
Section 6.10 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR
TRUSTEE.
(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter
appointed, may at any time resign with respect to one or more or all
series of Securities by giving written notice of resignation to the
Issuer and by mailing notice of such resignation to the Holders of
then Outstanding Securities of each series affected at their addresses
as they shall appear on the registry books. Upon receiving such
notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor
trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable series by written
instrument in duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee or trustees.
If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to
any series and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the
mailing of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor trustee, or any Securityholder who has been bona fide Holder
of a Security or Securities of the applicable series for at least six
months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for
the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon,
after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe,
appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
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(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of Section 6.8 with respect to any series of
Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by
any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security or Securities of such series at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 6.9 and shall fail
to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by
any such Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting
with respect to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged
a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator 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, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so
removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of
Section 5.9, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
or Securities 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 removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee with
respect to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any,
as it may deed proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
trustee.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of each series then Outstanding may at any
time remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and
appoint a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series by delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the successor
trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the evidence provided for in
Section 7.1 of the action in that regard taken by the Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with
respect to any series and any appointment of a successor trustee with
respect to such series pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Section 6.10 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment
by the successor trustee as provided in Section 6.11.
Section 6.11 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.10 shall execute and
deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor to an instrument accepting such
appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become
effective as such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations
with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, when like effect as
if originally named as trustee for such series
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hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Issuer or of the
successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing
to act shall, subject to Section 10.4, pay over to the successor trustee all
moneys at time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Issuer shall
execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting
in and confirming to such successor trustee all rights and powers. Any trustee
ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or
funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it
pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor trustee and each
successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor trustee, and shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental indenture shall constitute such trustees co-trustees of the same
trust and that each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under
separate indentures.
No successor trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall
accept appointment as provided in this Section 6.11 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under the provisions of
Section 6.8 and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in
this Section 6.11, the Issuer shall give notice thereof to the Holders of
Securities of each series affected, by mailing such notice to such Holders at
their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books. If the acceptance
of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the
notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice
called for by Section 6.10. If the Issuer fails to give such notice within ten
days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor
trustees shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Issuer.
Section 6.12 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS OF TRUSTEE. 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 the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such
corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 6.8 and eligible
under the provisions of Section 6.9, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
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In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to
the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such
cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the
Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of
Trustee shall have; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any
series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor
or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 6.13 PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE ISSUER.
(a) Subject to the provisions of this Section, if the
Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly,
secured or unsecured, of the Issuer within three months prior to a
default, as defined in subsection (c) of this Section 6.13, or
subsequent to such a default, then, unless and until such default
shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special
account for the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of
the Securities and the holders of other indenture securities (as
defined in this Section 6.13);
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in
the amount due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in
respect of principal or interest, effected after the beginning
of such three month period and valid as against the Issuer and
its other creditors, except any such reduction resulting from
the receipt or disposition of any property described in
subsection (a)(2) of this Section, or from the exercise of any
right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised if a
petition in bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Issuer
upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in
respect of any claim a such creditor, either as security
therefor, or in satisfaction or composition thereof, or
otherwise, after the beginning of such three month period, or
an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if
disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the
Issuer and its other creditors in such property or such
proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the
Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i)
payments made on account of any such claim any Person
(other than the Issuer) who is liable thereon, (ii)
the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim
by the Trustee to a third Person, and (iii)
distributions made in cash, securities or other
property in respect of claims filed against the
Issuer in bankruptcy or
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receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state
law;
(B) to realize, for its own account,
upon any property held by it as security for any such
claim, if such property was so held prior to the
beginning of such three month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but
only to the extent of the claim hereinafter
mentioned, upon any property held by it as security
for any such claim, if such claim was created after
the beginning of such three month period and such
property was received as security therefor
simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the
Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at
the time such property was so received the Trustee
had no reasonable cause to believe that a default as
defined in subsection (c) of this Section would occur
within three months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim
referred to in paragraph (B) or (C), against the
release of any property held as security for such
claim as provided in such paragraph (B) or (C), as
the case may be, to the extent of the fair value of
such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted
after the beginning of such three month period for property held as security at
the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the
property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the
extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the propose of repaying or refunding
any pre- existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
between the Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders of other indenture
securities in such manner that the Trustee, such Securityholders and the
holders of other indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from
such special account and payments of dividends on claims filed against the
Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, the same percentage of
their respective claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee
anything on account of the receipt by it from the Issuer of the funds and
property in such special account and before crediting to the respective claims
of the Trustee, such Securityholders and the holders of other indenture
securities dividends on claims filed against the Issuer in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Bankruptcy
Code or applicable state law, but after crediting thereon receipt on account of
the indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other
than from such dividends and from the funds and property so held in such
special account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the
term "dividends" shall include any distribution with
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respect to such claim, in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law, whether
such distribution is made in cash, securities or other property, but shall not
include any such distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of
such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceeding for
reorganization is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the
Trustee, such Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities, in
accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, the funds and property held
in such special account and the proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such
apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph
due consideration in determining the fairness of the distributions to be made
to the Trustee, such Securityholders and the holders of other indenture
securities with respect to their respective claims, in which event it shall not
be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value of any securities or other
property held in such special account or as security for any such claim, or to
make a specific allocation of such distributions as between the secured and
unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this
paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee who has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such three month period shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection
(a) as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has
resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such three month period, it
shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection (a) if and only if the
following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim
which would have given rise to the obligation to account, if
such Trustee had continued as trustee, occurred after the
beginning of such three month period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of
claim occurred within three months after such resignation or
removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of this
Section 6.13 a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities
issued under any indenture or any security or securities
having a maturity of one year or more at the time of
acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or
bankruptcy court of competent jurisdiction, or by this
Indenture, for the purpose of preserving any property which
shall at any time be subject to the lien of this Indenture or
of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or encumbrances
thereon, if notice of such advance and of the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof is given to the Securityholders
at the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
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(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of
business in the capacity of trustee under an indenture,
transfer agent, registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal
agent or depositary, or other similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of
services rendered or premises rented or an indebtedness
created as a result of goods or securities sold in a cash
transaction as defined in subsection (c)(2) of this Section
6.13;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities
of a corporation organized under the provisions of Section
25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is
directly or indirectly a creditor of the Issuer; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or
negotiation of any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or
obligations which fall within the classification of self
liquidating paper as defined in subsection (c)(3) of this
Section 6.13.
(c) As used in this Section 6.13:
(1) the term "default" shall mean any failure to
make payment in full of the principal of or interest on any of
the Securities when and as such principal or interest become
due and payable;
(2) the term "cash transaction" shall mean any
transaction in which full payment for goods or securities sold
is made within seven days after delivery of the goods or
securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon
banks or bankers and payable upon demand;
(3) the term "self-liquidating paper" shall mean
any draft, bill of exchange, acceptance or obligation which is
made, drawn, negotiated or incurred by the Issuer for the
purpose of financing the purchase, processing, manufacturer
shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or merchandise and
which is secured by documents evidencing title to, possession
of, or a lien upon the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods,
wares or mechandise previously constituting the security,
provided the security is received by the Trustee
simultaneously with the creation of the creditor relationship
with the Issuer arising from the making, drawing, negotiating
or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange, acceptance or
obligation; and
(4) the term "Issuer" shall mean any obligor upon
the Securities.
Section 6.14 APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. As long as any
Securities of a series remain Outstanding, the Trustee may, by an instrument in
writing, appoint with the approval the Issuer an authenticating agent (the
"Authenticating Agent") which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities, including Securities issued
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upon exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption or pursuant to
Section 2.9. Securities of each such series authenticated by such
Authenticating Agent shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and
shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee. Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication
and delivery of Securities of any series 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
for such series and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the
Trustee by such authenticating Agent. Such authenticating Agent shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws the United
States of America or of any state or the District of Columbia, authorized under
such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,00,000 (determined as provided in Section 6.9 with
respect to the Trustee) and subject to supervision or examination by federal or
state authority.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted, or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency
business of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the authenticating
Agent with respect to all series of Securities for which it served as
Authenticating Agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent. Any
Authenticating Agent may at any time, and if it shall cease to be eligible
shall, resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the
Issuer. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating
Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the
Issuer.
Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a termination,
or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.14 with respect to one or more
series of Securities, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent
which shall be acceptable to the Issuer and the Issuer shall provide notice of
such appointment to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner and
to the extent provided in Section 11.4. Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all
rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent. The Issuer agrees
to pay to the Authenticating Agent for such series from time to time reasonable
compensation. The Authenticating Agent for the Securities of any series shall
have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such at the
direction of the Trustee.
Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 7.3 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.
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ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
Section 7.1 EVIDENCE OF ACTION TAKEN BY SECURITYHOLDERS. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified
percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person
or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument
or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose
of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article VII.
Section 7.2 PROOF OF EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS AND OF HOLDING OF
SECURITIES. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument
by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in the following
manner:
(a) The fact and date of the execution by any Holder of
any instrument may be proved by the certificate of any notary public
or other officer of any jurisdiction authorized to take
acknowledgements of deeds or administer oaths that the person
executing such instruments acknowledged to him the execution thereof,
or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution sworn to before any
such notary or other such officer. Where such execution is by or on
behalf of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate
or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of the authority
of the person executing the same.
(b) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Security register or by a certificate of the Security registrar.
Section 7.3 HOLDERS TO BE TREATED AS OWNERS. The Issuer, the
Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may deem and treat the
Person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security
register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether not
such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or
other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of
the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest, if
any, on such Security and for all other purposes; and neither the Issuer nor
the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any
notice to the contrary.
Section 7.4 SECURITIES OWNED BY ISSUER DEEMED NOT OUTSTANDING.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities
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which are owned by the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with
respect to which such determination is being made or by any Affiliate of the
Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such
determination is being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the
purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any
such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which the Trustee knows are
so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Issuer or any other obligor on the
Securities. In case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel shall
be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Trustee in accordance
with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee, the Issuer shall furnish to the
Trustee promptly an Officer's Certificate listing and identifying all
Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned or held by or for the
account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Sections 6.1 and
6.2, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer's Certificate as
conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all
Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purposes of any such
determination.
Section 7.5 RIGHT OF REVOCATION OF ACTION TAKEN. At any time
prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section
7.1, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be,
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a
Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included
among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented
to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and
upon proof of holding as provided in this Article VII, revoke such action so
far as concerns such Security, provided that such revocation shall not become
effective until three business days after such filing. Except as aforesaid any
such action taken by the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of
any Securities issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration
of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard
thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all
series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such
action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and the
Holders of all the Securities affected by such action.
Section 7.6 RECORD DATE FOR CONSENTS AND WAIVER. The Issuer may,
but shall not be obligated to, direct the Trustee to establish a record date
for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to (i) waive any past
default with respect to the Securities of such series in accordance with
Section 5.7 of this Indenture, (ii) consent to any supplemental indenture in
accordance with Section 8.2 of this Indenture, or (iii) waive compliance with
any term, condition or provision of any covenant hereunder. If a record date
is fixed, the Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies,
and any such Persons, shall be entitled to waive any such past default, consent
to any such supplemental indenture or waive compliance with any such term,
condition or provision, whether or not such Holder remains a Holder after such
record
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date; provided, however, that unless such waiver or consent is obtained from
the Holders, or duly designated proxies, of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series prior to the date which is the 180th day
after such record date, any such waiver or consent previously given shall
automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no
further effect.
ARTICLE VIII
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 8.1 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF
SECURITYHOLDERS. The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of the Board of
Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such
action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined
in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee may from
time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 as in force at the date of the execution thereof) for one or more of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to
the Issuer, or successive successions, and the assumption by the
successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of
the Issuer pursuant to Article IX;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Issuer and
the Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders of
all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants, restrictions,
conditions or provisions are to be for the protection of less than all
series of Securities, stating that the same are expressly being
included solely for the protection of such series), and to make the
occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any
such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an
Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the
several remedies provided, in this Indenture as herein set forth;
provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant,
restriction, condition or provision such supplemental indenture may
provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period
may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other
defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an
Event of Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee
upon such an Event of Default or may limit the right of the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such
series to waive such Event of Default;
(c) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may
be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein
or in any supplemental indenture, or to make any other provisions as
to the Issuer may deem necessary or desirable, provided that no such
action shall adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the
Securities;
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(d) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any
series as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and to provide for
adjustment of conversion rights pursuant to Section 13.5; and
(e) 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 6.11.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property
thereunder, but the Trustee 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.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section 8.1 may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Securities then Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section
8.2.
Section 8.2 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF
SECURITYHOLDERS. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article VII) of the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then Outstanding of any series affected by such supplemental
indenture, the Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of the Board of
Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such
action and may provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined
in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee may, from
time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture act of 1939 as in force at the date of execution thereof) for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of such
series; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall (a) extend the
final maturity of any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or
reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest, if any, thereon (or,
in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, reduce the rate of accrual
of original issue discount thereon), or reduce or alter the method of
computation of any amount payable on redemption, repayment or purchase by the
Company thereof (or the time at which any such redemption, repayment or
purchase may be made), or make the principal thereof (including any amount in
respect of original issue discount), or interest, if any, thereon payable in
any coin or currency other than that provided in the Securities or in
accordance with the terms of the Securities, or reduce the portion of the
principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and
payable upon an acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or
the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.2, or impair or
affect the right of any Securityholder to
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institute suit for the payment or conversion thereof or materially and
adversely affect the right to convert the Securities in accordance herewith or,
if the Securities provide therefor, any right of repayment or purchase at the
option of the Securityholder, in each case without the consent of the Holder of
each Security so affected, or change, amend or modify the subordination
provisions of Article XIV of this Indenture or Section 3.9 of this Indenture or
any of the definitions used in such Article XIV or Section 3.9 or consent to
the departure from any of the terms of such Article XIV or Section 3.9, in each
case in any manner that would adversely affect the Holders of any Securities of
any series issued under this Indenture or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage
of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required
for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each
Security so affected. No consent of any Holder of any Security shall be
necessary under this Section 8.2 to permit the Trustee and the Issuer to
execute supplemental indentures pursuant to Sections 8.1, 9.2 and 13.5.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant,
Event of Default 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 Holders of Securities of such series, with
respect to such covenant or provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights
under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a copy of a resolution
of the Board of Directors (which resolution may provide general terms or
parameters for such action and may provide that the specific terms of such
action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order)
certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer authorizing
the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the
Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of the Securities and
aforesaid and other documents, if any required by Section 7.1, the Trustee
shall join with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under
this Section 8.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.2, the
Trustee shall give notice thereof to the Holders of then Outstanding Securities
of each series affected thereby, by mailing a notice thereof by first-class
mail to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security
register. Any failure of the Issuer to give such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.
Section 8.3 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and be deemed
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to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of Securities of each series
affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced
hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all
the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be
deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all
purposes and every Holder of Securities of each series affected thereby
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby.
Section 8.4 DOCUMENTS TO BE GIVEN TO TRUSTEE. The Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be entitled to receive
an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that
any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article VIII complies with
the applicable provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.5 NOTATION ON SECURITIES IN RESPECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article VIII may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such
series as to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to
any action taken by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so
determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Issuer, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of
such series then Outstanding.
Section 8.6 SUBORDINATION UNIMPAIRED. This Indenture may not be
amended to alter the subordination of any Outstanding Securities without the
written consent of each holder of Senior Indebtedness then outstanding that
would be adversely affected thereby.
ARTICLE IX
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, EXCHANGE
OR OTHER DISPOSITION
Section 9.1 ISSUER MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ON CERTAIN TERMS.
Subject to the provisions of Section 9.2, nothing contained in this Indenture
or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the
Issuer with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not
affiliated with the Issuer), or successive consolidations or mergers in which
the Issuer or its successors or successors shall be a party or parties, or
shall prevent any sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or
substantially all the property and assets of the Issuer to any other
corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Issuer) authorized to acquire
and operate the same; provided, however, and the Issuer hereby covenants and
agrees, that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition shall be upon the conditions that (a) immediately after such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other disposition the
corporation (whether the Issuer or such other corporation) formed by or
surviving
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any such consolidation or merger, or to which such sale, lease, exchange or
other disposition shall have been made, shall not be in default in the
performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants and conditions of this
Indenture to be kept or performed by the Issuer; (b) the corporation (if other
than the Issuer) formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger, or to
which such sale, lease, exchange or other disposition shall have been made,
shall be a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; and (c) the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on all the
Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed by the Issuer, shall be expressly assumed and the conversion rights,
if any, shall be provided for in accordance with this Indenture, by
supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and
delivered to the Trustee, by the corporation (if other than the Issuer) formed
by such consolidation, or into which the Issuer shall have been merged, or by
the corporation which shall have acquired or leased such property.
Section 9.2 SUCCESSOR CORPORATION TO BE SUBSTITUTED. In case of
any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other disposition and
upon the assumption by the successor corporation, by supplemental indenture,
executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee,
of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on
all of the Securities and the due and punctual performance of all of the
covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Issuer, such
successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for the Issuer, with
the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part,
and the Issuer (including any intervening successor to the Issuer which shall
have become the obligor hereunder) shall be relieved of any further obligation
under this Indenture and the Securities; provided, however, that in the case of
a lease of the property and assets of the Issuer (including any such
intervening successor), the Issuer (including any such intervening successor)
shall continue to be liable on its obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities to the extent, but only to the extent, of liability to pay the
principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities at the time, places and
rate prescribed in this Indenture and the Securities. Such successor
corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own
name or in the name of the Issuer, any and all of the Securities issuable
hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor corporation
instead of the Issuer and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations
in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver
any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the
officers of the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities
which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and
delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall
in all respects have been the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture
as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date
of the execution hereof.
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In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or
other disposition such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance)
may be made in the Securities, thereafter to be issued, as may be appropriate.
Section 9.3 OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE GIVEN TRUSTEE. The Trustee,
subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Officer's Certificate and
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger,
sale, lease, exchange or other disposition and any such assumption and any such
provision for conversion rights comply with the provisions of this Article IX.
ARTICLE X
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 10.1 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. (A) If at
any time (a) the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of
and interest, if any, on all the Securities Outstanding (other than Securities
which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 2.9) as and when the same shall have become due and
payable, or (b) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
all Securities theretofore authenticated (other than Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.9); and if, in any such case, the Issuer shall also pay or cause to
be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer, then this Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that all conditions precedent relating to the satisfaction and discharge
contemplated by this provision have been complied with, and at the cost and
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such
satisfaction and discharging this Indenture. The Issuer agrees to reimburse
the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly
incurred, and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably
and properly rendered, by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the
Securities.
(B) If at any time (a) the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be
paid the principal of and interest, if any, on all the Securities of any series
Outstanding (other than Securities of such series which have been destroyed,
lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9)
as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (b) the Issuer shall
have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series
theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities of such series which have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided
in Section 2.9), or (c) in the case of any series of Securities with respect to
which the exact amount described in clause (ii) below can be determined at the
time of making the deposit referred to in such clause (ii), (i) all the
Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become
due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of
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notice of redemption, and (ii) the Issuer shall have irrevocably deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as funds in trust, specifically pledged
as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of
Securities of such series, cash in an amount (other than moneys repaid by the
Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Issuer in accordance with Section 10.4) or
direct obligations of the United States of America, backed by its full faith
and credit ("U.S. Government Obligations"), maturing as to principal and
interest, if any, at such times and in such amounts as will insure the
availability of cash, or a combination thereof, sufficient in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the
principal of and interest, if any, on all Securities of such series on each
date that such principal or interest, if any, is due and payable, and (B) any
mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such payments are due and
payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of
such series; then the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the
entire indebtedness on all the Securities of such series on the date of the
deposit referred to in clause (ii) above and the provisions of this Indenture
with respect to the Securities of such series shall no longer be in effect
(except, in the case of clause (c) of this Section 10.1(B), as to (i) rights of
registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such series, (ii)
substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities of
such series, (iii) rights of Holders of Securities of such series to receive
payments of principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon upon the original
stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), and remaining rights of
the Holders of Securities of such series to receive mandatory sinking fund
payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder, (v) the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series
as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the
Trustee payable to all or any of them, (vi) the obligations of the Issuer under
Section 3.2 with respect to Securities of such series and (vii) the obligations
of the Issuer under Article XIII) and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer
accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that all conditions precedent contemplated by this provision have been complied
with, and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same.
(C) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of each
series (other than Securities that are convertible into Common Stock) unless
specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate or
indenture supplement hereto provided pursuant to Section 2.3. In addition to
discharge of this Indenture pursuant to the next preceding paragraph, in the
case of any series of Securities with respect to which the exact amount
described in subparagraph (a) below can be determined at the time of making the
deposit referred to in such subparagraph (a), the Issuer shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Securities of such
a series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in
subparagraph (a) below, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series shall no longer be in effect (except as to (i)
rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such series,
(ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities
of such series, (iii) rights of Holders of Securities of such series to receive
payments of principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon upon the original
stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), and remaining rights of
the Holders of Securities of such
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series to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights,
obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (v) the rights of
the Holders of Securities of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect
to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them,
(vi) the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.2 with respect to Securities
of such series and (vii) the obligations of the Issuer under Article XIII) and
the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer accompanied by an Officer's Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
contemplated by this provision have been complied with, and at the cost and
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same,
if
(a) with reference to this provision the Issuer has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the
Trustee as funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and
dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of Securities of such
series (i) cash in an amount, or (ii) U.S. Government Obligations,
maturing as to principal and interest, if any, at such times and in
such amounts as will insure the availability of cash, or (iii) a
combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (A) the
principal of and interest, if any, on all Securities of such series on
each date that such principal or interest, if any, if due and payable,
and (B) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and the Securities of such series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to
which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel based on the fact that (x) the Issuer has received from, or
there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or
(y), since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable
United States federal income tax law, in either case to the effect
that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the 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.
Section 10.2 APPLICATION BY TRUSTEE OF FUNDS DEPOSITED FOR PAYMENT
OF SECURITIES. Subject to Section 10.4, all moneys and U.S. Government
Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.1 shall be held
in trust, and such moneys and all moneys from such U.S. Government Obligations
shall be applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any Paying
Agent (including the Issuer acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of
the particular Securities of such series for the payment or redemption of which
such moneys and U.S. Government Obligations have been deposited with the
Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest,
if any, but such moneys need not be segregated
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from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee and any
Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuer, upon the written request of the
Issuer, any excess moneys or U.S. Government Obligations held by them at any
time, including all moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section
10.1(B) and held by it or any Paying Agent for the payment of Securities
subsequently converted.
Section 10.3 REPAYMENT OF MONEYS HELD BY PAYING AGENT. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect
to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent under the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities shall,
upon demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and thereupon
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such moneys.
Section 10.4 RETURN OF MONEYS HELD BY TRUSTEE AND PAYING AGENT
UNCLAIMED FOR TWO YEARS. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or
any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on
any Security of any series and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two
years after the date upon which such principal or interest, if any, shall have
become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of that Issuer and
unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or
abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for
such series or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of the Securities of such
series shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable
escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the
Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all
liability of the Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall
thereupon cease.
Section 10.5 INDEMNITY FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS. The
Issuer shall pay and indemnity the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 10.1 or the principal or interest received in respect of
such obligations.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.1 PARTNERS, INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS OF ISSUER EXEMPT FROM INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY. No recourse under or
upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in
any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had
against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future
stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Issuer, or any partner of the
Issuer or of any successor, either directly or through the Issuer or any
successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the
enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or
otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the
acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the
consideration for the issue of the Securities.
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Section 11.2 PROVISIONS OF INDENTURE FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF
PARTIES AND HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS AND OF SECURITIES. Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be
construed to give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their
successors and the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the
Securities, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture
or under any covenant or provisions herein contained, all such covenants and
provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their
successors, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the
Securities.
Section 11.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS OF ISSUER BOUND BY INDENTURE.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture
contained by or on behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
Section 11.4 NOTICES AND DEMANDS ON ISSUER, TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS OF
SECURITIES. Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is
required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders of
Securities to or on the Issuer, or as required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid,
first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed
(until another address of the Issuer is filed by the Issuer with the Trustee)
to Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, P. O. Box 130548,
Houston, Texas 77019, Attention: Secretary. Any notice, direction, request or
demand by the Issuer or any Holder of Securities to or upon the Trustee shall
be deemed to have been sufficiently given or served by being deposited postage
prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein)
addressed (until another address of the Trustee is filed by the Trustee with
the Issuer) to Texas Commerce Bank National Association, 600 Travis, 8th Floor,
Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Vice President, Corporate Trust Department.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Securities,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
entitled thereto, at his last address as it appears in the Security register.
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 Holder shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing
shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail any notice when such notice is
required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any
manner of giving such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
shall be deemed to be sufficient notice.
Section 11.5 OFFICER'S CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS OF COUNSEL;
STATEMENTS TO BE CONTAINED THEREIN. Upon any application or demand by the
Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this
Indenture, or as required pursuant to the Trust
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Indenture Act of 1939, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent 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 have been complied with, except that in the case of any
such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture (other than
a certificate provided pursuant to Section 4.3(d)) and delivered to the Trustee
with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this
Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an opinion as to whether
or not such covenant or condition has been complied with, and (d) a statement
as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant
has been complied with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it related to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon
which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are
erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are
erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is
in the possession of the Issuer, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of
or representations by an officer or officers of the Issuer, unless such counsel
knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with
respect to the matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be
based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer or
of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representation by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or
opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with and directed to the Trustee shall contain a statement
that such firm in independent.
Section 11.6 PAYMENTS DUE ON SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS. If
the date of maturity of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of
any series or the date fixed for
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redemption, purchase or repayment of any such Security or at the last date for
conversion of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest,
if any, or principal need not be made on such date and such conversion need not
be made by such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with
the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed
for redemption, purchase or repayment or the last date of such conversion, and,
in the case of payment, no interest shall accrue for the period after such
date.
Section 11.7 CONFLICT OF ANY PROVISION OF INDENTURE WITH TRUST
INDENTURE ACT OF 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this
Indenture Limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in
this Indenture which is required to be included herein by any of Sections 310
to 317, inclusive, or is deemed applicable to this Indenture by virtue of the
provisions of this Trust Indenture Act of 1939, such required provision shall
control.
Section 11.8 GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH SECURITY
SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND FOR
ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW.
Section 11.9 COUNTERPARTS. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 11.10 EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Article and Section headings
herein and in the Table Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.
Section 11.11 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. In case any provision of this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
ARTICLE XII
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are
redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series except as otherwise specified, as contemplated by
Section 2.3 for Securities of such series.
Section 12.2 NOTICE OF REDEMPTION; PARTIAL REDEMPTIONS. Notice of
redemption to the Holders of Securities of any series to be redeemed as a whole
or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by mailing notice of such
redemption by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days and not more
than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to such Holders of
Securities of such series at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the
registry
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books. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in the
notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption as a
whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify the
principal amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be
redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or
places of payment, that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of
such Securities, that such redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional
sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, that interest, if any, (or, in the
case of Original issue Discount Securities, original issue discount) accrued to
the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such notice and that
on and after said date interest, if any, thereon or on the portions thereof to
be redeemed (or, in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities, original
issue discount) will cease to accrue and, if applicable, shall also specify the
Conversion Price then in effect and the date on which the right to convert such
Securities or the portions thereof to be redeemed will expire. In case any
Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and
shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of
such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at
the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.
On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption
given as provided in this Section 12.2, the Issuer will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its
own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section
3.5) an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the
Outstanding Securities of such series so called for redemption (other than
those theretofore surrendered for conversion into Common Stock and deemed not
to be Outstanding hereunder) at the appropriate redemption price, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption on all the
Outstanding Securities of such series so called for redemption (other than
those theretofore surrendered for conversion into Common Stock and deemed not
to be Oustanding hereunder). If any Security called for redemption is
converted pursuant hereto, any moneys deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security
shall be paid to the Issuer upon the Issuer's request, or, if then held by the
Issuer, shall be discharged from such trust. The Issuer will deliver to the
Trustee at least 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) an Officer's Certificate
stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be redeemed. In case
of a redemption at the election of the Issuer prior to the expiration of any
restriction on such redemption, the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, prior
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to the giving of any notice of redemption to Holders pursuant to this Section
12.2, an Officer's Certificate stating that such restriction has been complied
with.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair,
Securities of such series to be redeemed. Securities may be redeemed in part
in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of
such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for redemption and,
in the case of any Securities of such series 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 of any series 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. If any
Security selected for partial redemption is surrendered for conversion after
such selection, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far
as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Upon any redemption of
less than all the Securities of a series, for purposes of selection for
redemption the Issuer and the Trustee may treat as Outstanding Securities
surrendered for conversion during the period of 15 days next preceding the
mailing of a notice of redemption, and need not treat as Outstanding any
Security authenticated and delivered during such period in exchange for the
unconverted portion of any Security converted in part during such period.
Section 12.3 PAYMENTS OF SECURITIES CALLED FOR REDEMPTION. If
notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or
portions of Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on
the date and at the place or places stated in such notice at the applicable
redemption price, together with interest, if any, accrued to the date fixed for
redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Issuer shall default in the
payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with interest, if
any, accrued to said date) interest (or, in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities, original issue discount) on the Securities or portions of
Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and such Securities
shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption (unless an earlier
date shall be specified in a Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate or
executed supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or
pursuant to which the form and terms of the Securities of such series were
established) to be convertible into Common Stock, and, except as provided in
Sections 6.5 and 10.4, to be entitled to any other benefit or security under
this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such
Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid
interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and surrender of
such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice, said Securities
or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at
the applicable redemption price, together with interest, if any, accrued
thereon on the date fixed for redemption; provided that payment of interest, if
any, becoming due on or prior to the date fixed for redemption shall be payable
to the Holders of Securities registered as such on the relevant record date
subject to the terms and provisions of Sections 2.3 and 2.7 hereof.
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If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the redemption price shall, until paid or
duly provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate
of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security) borne by such Security, and such Security shall remain convertible
into Common Stock until the redemption price of such Security (together with
such interest thereon) shall have been paid or duly provided for.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order
of the Holder thereof, at the expenses of the Issuer, a new Security or
Securities of such series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations, in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
Section 12.4 EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN SECURITIES FROM ELIGIBILITY FOR
SELECTION FOR REDEMPTION. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for
selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate
number in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee at least 45 days
prior to the last date on which notice of redemption may be given as being
owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by, either
(a) the Issuer or (b) a Person specifically identified in such written
statement as an Affiliate of the Issuer.
Section 12.5 MANDATORY AND OPTIONAL SINKING FUNDS. The minimum
amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the 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 the
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment". The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein
referred to as the "sinking fund payment date".
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its
option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the
mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such
series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired
(except as aforesaid) by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for Securities (not
previously so credited) converted into common Stock and so delivered to the
trustee for cancellation, (c) receive credit for optional sinking fund payments
(not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section 12.5, or (d) receive
credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited) redeemed by
the Issuer through any optional redemption provision contained in the terms of
such series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be received or credited
by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price specified in such
Securities.
On or before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund payment
date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be
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satisfied by credit of Securities of such series and the basis for such credit,
(b) stating that none of the Securities of such series to be so credited has
theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in the payment of
interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have occurred (which
have not been waived or cured or otherwise ceased to exist) and are continuing,
and (d) stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make
an optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so,
specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer
intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any
Securities of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the
Trustee in order for the Issue to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid
which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such Officer's
Certificate (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee).
Such Officer's Certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the
Trustee the issuer shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash
payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure to the Issuer, on or before any
such 60th day, to deliver such Officer's Certificate and Securities (subject to
the parenthetical clause in the second preceding sentence) specified in this
paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on and
as such date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the mandatory
sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding sinking fund
payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to deliver or
credit Securities of such series in respect thereof, and (ii) that the Issuer
will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series as
provided in this Section 12.5.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or
both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus
any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall
exceed $50,000 or a lesser sum if the Issuer shall so request with respect to
the Securities of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such
series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest, if
any, to the date fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less
and the Issuer makes no such request, then it shall be carried over until a sum
in excess of $50,000 is available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner
provided in Section 12.2, for redemption on such sinking fund payment date a
sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to absorb said cash,
as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform
the Issuer of the serial numbers of the Securities of such series (or portions
thereof) so selected. The Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the
Issuer (or the Issuer, if it shall so request the Trustee in writing) shall
cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series to be given in
substantially the manner provided in Section 12.2 (and with the effect provided
in Section 12.3) for the redemption of Securities of such series in part at the
option of the Issuer. The amount of any sinking fund payments not so applied
or allocated to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to
the next cash sinking fund payment for such series and, together with such
payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section
12.5. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the stated maturity date of the
Securities of any particular series (or earlier, if such maturity is
accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption of particular
Securities
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of such series shall be applied, together with other moneys, if necessary,
sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of and interest, if
any, on, the Securities of such series at maturity.
On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall pay to
the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all interest,
if any, accrued to the date fixed for redemption of Securities to be redeemed
on such sinking fund payment date.
The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities of
a series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of redemption of
Securities for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the
continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any
Event of Default with respect to such series except that, where the giving of
notice of redemption of any Securities shall theretofore have been made, the
Trustee shall redeem or cause to be redeemed such Securities, provided that it
shall have received from the Issuer a sum sufficient for such redemption.
Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time
when any such default or Event of Default shall occur, and any moneys
thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of such
default or Event of Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article V
and held for the payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of Default
shall have been waived as provided in Section 5.7 or the default cured on or
before the 60th day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such
moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment
date in accordance with this Section 12.5 to the redemption of such Securities.
ARTICLE XIII
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are
convertible into Common Stock or, if so provided in a Board Resolution,
Officer's Certificate or executed supplemental indenture referred to in
Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to which the form and terms of the
Securities of such series were established, cash in lieu thereof, as and to the
extent provided by the terms of the Securities of such series.
Section 13.2 EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE. In order to
exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any Security to be converted
shall surrender such Security to the Conversion Agent at any time during usual
business hours at its office or agency maintained for the purpose as provided
in this Indenture, accompanied by a fully executed written notice, in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security, that the
Holder elects to convert such Security or a stated portion thereof constituting
a multiple of $1,000 in principal amount, and, if such Security is surrendered
for conversion during the period between the close of business on any record
date for such Security and the opening of business on the related interest
payment date (or on such interest payment date), accompanied also by payment of
an amount equal to the interest payable on such interest payment date on the
portion of the principal amount
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of the Security being surrendered for conversion. Such notice shall also state
the name or names (and address) in which the certificate or certificates for
shares of common Stock shall be issued (or to whom payment in cash in lieu of
Common Stock shall be made). Securities surrendered for conversion shall (if so
required by the Issuer or the Conversion Agent) be duly endorsed by, or be
accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Issuer and the Conversion Agent duly executed by, the
Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. As promptly as practicable
after the receipt of such notice and the surrender of such Security as
aforesaid, the Issuer shall, subject to the provisions of Section 13.7, issue
and deliver at such office or agency to such Holder, or on his written order,
a certificate or certificates for the number of all shares of Common Stock
issuable on conversion of such Security in accordance with the provisions of
such Security and cash, as provided in Section 13.3, in respect of any fraction
of a share of Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such conversion or, if so
provided in a Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate or executed supplemental
indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to which the form
and terms of the Securities of such series were established, cash in lieu of
shares of Common Stock. Such conversion shall be at the Conversion Price in
effect, and shall be deemed to have been effected, immediately prior to the
close of business on the date (herein called the "Date of Conversion") on
which such notice in proper form shall have been received by the Conversion
Agent and such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid, and the Person
or Persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of
Common Stock shall be issuable, if any, upon such conversion shall be deemed to
have become on the Date of Conversion the holder or holders of record of the
shares represented thereby; provided, however, that such surrender on any date
when the stock transfers books of the Issuer shall be closed shall constitute
the Person or Persons in whose name or names the certificate or certificates for
such shares are to be issued, if any, as the record holder or holders thereof
for all purposes at the opening of business on the next succeeding day on which
such stock transfer books are open but such conversion shall nevertheless be at
the Conversion Price in effect at the close of business on the date when such
Security shall have been so surrendered with the conversion notice in proper
form. In the case of conversion of a portion, but less than all, of a Security,
the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a Security or Securities in the
aggregate principal amount of the unconverted portion of the Security
surrendered. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, no
payment or adjustment shall be made for interest accrued on any Security (or
portion thereof) converted or for dividends or distribution on any Common Stock
issued upon conversion of any Security. The right, if any, of a Holder of any
Security to cause the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay such Security shall
terminate upon receipt by the Issuer of any notice of conversion of such
Security.
Section 13.3 FRACTIONAL INTERESTS. No fractions of shares or
script representing fractions of shares shall be issued upon conversion of
Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion at
one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable
upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities so surrendered. If any fraction of a share
of Common Stock would, except for the provisions of this Section 13.3, be
issuable on the conversion of any
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Security or Securities, the Issuer shall make payment in lieu thereof in cash
equal to the value of such fraction computed on the basis of the Last Sale
Price of one share of Common Stock on the most recent Trading Day prior to the
Date of Conversion. "Last Sale Price" on any Trading Day shall mean (i) the
closing price regular way (or, if no closing price is reported the average of
the bid and asked prices) as reported on the New York Stock Exchange Composite
Tape, or (ii) if on such trading Day the Common Stock is not listed or admitted
to trading on such exchange, the closing price regular way (or, if no closing
price is reported the average of the bid and asked prices) on the principal
national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted
to trading, or (iii) if not listed or admitted to trading on any national
securities exchange on such Trading Day, then the average of the closing bid
and asked prices as reported through the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. on its NASDAQ National Market System or NASDAQ System or a
similar organization if NASDAQ is no longer reporting information, of (iv) if
the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any national
securities exchange or quoted on such National Market System or NASDAQ System
on such Trading Day, then the average of the closing bid and asked prices in
the over-the-counter market as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member
firm selected from time to time by the Issuer for that purpose or (v) if not
quoted by any such organization on such Trading Day, the fair value of such
Common Stock on such Trading Day, as determined by the Board of Directors. The
term "Trading Day" shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, other than any day on which securities are not traded on any of the
above-mentioned exchanges or in such markets.
Section 13.4 ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE. The conversion price
or rate (herein called the "Conversion Price") for a series of Securities shall
be as set forth in a Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate or executed
supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to
which the form and terms of the Securities of such series were established,
and, except as otherwise provided therein, shall be subject to adjustment from
time to time as follows:
(a) In case the Issuer shall (1) pay a dividend or make a
distribution in shares of Common Stock on the Common Stock, (2)
subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number
of shares, (3) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares, (4) issue by reclassification of its Common
Stock any shares of capital stock of the Issuer or (5) redeem any
Associated Rights, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to
such action shall be adjusted so that the Holder of any Security
thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to receive
the number of shares of Common Stock or other capital stock of
the Issuer which he would have owned immediately following such
action had such Security been converted immediately prior thereto.
An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a) shall become
effective immediately, except as provided in subsection (e) below,
after the record date in the case of a dividend or distribution
and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in
the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification. If as
a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a), the
Holder of any Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall
become entitled to
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receive shares of two or more classes of capital stock (including
shares of Common Stock and other capital stock) of the Issuer, the
Board of Directors (whose determination shall be conclusive and
shall be described in a statement filed with the Trustee) shall
determine the allocation of the adjusted Conversion Price between
or among shares of such classes of capital stock or shares of Common
Stock and other capital stock.
(b) In case the Issuer shall issue rights or warrants to
all holders of Common Stock entitling them (for a period not exceeding
45 days from the date of such issuance) to subscribe for or purchase
shares of Common Stock at price per share less than the current market
price per share (as determined pursuant to subsection (d) below) of
the Common Stock on the record date mentioned below, the Conversion
Price shall be adjusted to a price, computed to the nearest cent, so
that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying:
(1) the Conversion Price in effect immediately
prior to the date of issuance of such rights or warrants by a
fraction, of which
(2) the numerator shall be (A) the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of
such rights or warrants, immediately prior to such issuance,
plus (B) the number of shares which the aggregate offering
price of the total number of shares so offered for
subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market
price (determined by multiplying such total number of shares
by the exercise price of such rights or warrants and dividing
the product so obtained by such current market price), and of
which
(3) the denominator shall be (A) the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of
such rights or warrants, immediately prior to such issuance,
plus (B) the number of additional shares of Common Stock which
are so offered for subscription or purchase.
Such adjustment shall become effective immediately, except as provide
in subsection (e) below, after the record date for the determination
of holders entitled to receive such rights or warrants.
(c) In case the Issuer shall distribute to substantially
all holders of Common Stock, evidences of indebtedness, equity
securities (including equity interests in the Issuer's Subsidiaries)
other than Common Stock, or other assets (other than cash dividends
paid out of surplus of the Issuer), or shall distribute to
substantially all holders of Common Stock rights or warrants to
subscribe for securities (other than those referred to in subsection
(b) above) then in each such case the Conversion Price shall be
adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the
date of such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall
be the current market price per share (determined as provided in
subsection (d) below) of the Common Stock on the record date mentioned
below less then
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fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall, if made in good faith, be conclusive evidence of
such fair market value) of the portion of the assets so distributed or
of such subscription rights or warrants applicable to one share of
Common Stock, and of which the denominator shall be such current
market price per share of the Common Stock. Such adjustment shall
become effective immediately, except as provided in subsection (e)
below, after the record date for the determination of stockholders
entitled to receive such distribution.
(d) For the purpose of any computation under subsections
(b) and (c) above, the current market price per share of Common Stock
on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the Last Sale Prices
for the 30 consecutive Trading Days commencing 45 Trading Days before
the date in question.
(e) In any case in which this Section 13.4 shall require
that an adjustment be made immediately following a record date, the
Issuer may elect to defer the effectiveness of such adjustment (but in
no event until a date later than the effective time of the event
giving rise to such adjustment), in which case the Issuer shall, with
respect to any Security converted after such record date and before
such adjustment shall have become effective, (i) defer paying any cash
payment pursuant to Section 13.3 or issuing to the Holder of such
Security the number of shares of Common Stock and other capital stock
of the Issuer issuable upon such conversion in excess of the number of
shares of Common Stock and other capital stock of the Issuer issuable
thereupon only on the basis of the Conversion Price prior to
adjustment, and (ii) not later than five Business Days after such
adjustment shall have become effective, pay to such Holder the
appropriate cash payment pursuant to Section 13.3 and issue to such
Holder the additional shares of Common Stock and other capital stock
of the Issuer issuable on such conversion.
(f) No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be
required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease
of at least 1% of the Conversion Price; provided, that any adjustments
which by reason of this subsection (f) are not required to be made
shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent
adjustment and, provided further, that adjustment shall be required
and made in accordance with the provisions of this Article XIII (other
than this subsection (f)) not later than such time as may be required
in order to preserve the tax-free nature of a distribution to the
Holders of Securities or Common Stock. All calculations under this
Article XIII shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest
one-hundredth of a share, as the case may be.
(g) Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein
provided, the Issuer shall promptly (i) file with the Trustee and each
Conversion Agent an Officer's Certificate setting forth the Conversion
Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of
the facts requiring such adjustment, which certificate shall be
conclusive evidence of the correctness of such adjustment, and (ii)
mail or cause to be mailed a notice of such adjustment to each Holder
of Securities in the manner provided in Section 11.4.
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Anything in this Section 13.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Issuer shall
be entitled to make such reductions in the Conversion Price, in addition to
those required by this Section 13.4, as it in its discretion shall determine to
be advisable in order that any stock dividend, subdivision of shares,
distribution of rights or warrants to purchase stock or securities, or
distribution of other assets (other than case dividends) hereafter made by the
Issuer to its stockholders shall not be taxable.
Section 13.5 CONTINUATION OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE IN CASE OF
MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS. If any of the following shall occur,
namely: (a) any consolidation or merger of the Issuer as a result of which the
holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, other securities or
other assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for Common Stock;
or (b) sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all
of the property and assets of the Issuer as an entirety, then the Issuer, or
such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall, as a
condition precedent to such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or
other disposition, execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture
(which shall conform to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date
of the execution thereof) providing that the Holder of each convertible
Security then Outstanding shall have the right to convert such Security into
the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and property
(including cash) receivable upon or in connection with such consolidation,
merger, sale, lease, exchange or other disposition by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Security immediately
prior to such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition. Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments which
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided
for in this Article XIII. If, in the case of any such consolidation, merger,
sale, lease, exchange or other disposition, the stock or other securities and
property (including cash) receivable thereupon or in connection therewith by a
holder of shares of Common Stock includes shares of stock or other securities
and property (including cash) of a corporation other than the successor or
purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such consolidation, merger,
sale, lease, exchange or other disposition, then such supplemental indenture
shall also be executed by such other corporation and shall contain such
additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Securities
as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the
foregoing. The provisions of this Section 13.5 shall similarly apply to
successive consolidations, mergers, sales, leases, exchanges or other
dispositions.
Notice of the execution of each such supplemental indenture shall be
mailed to each Holder of Securities in the manner provided in Section 11.4.
Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any
responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any
such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of
stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders of
Securities upon the conversion of their Securities after any such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease, exchange or other disposition or to any
adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of
Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may accept as
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conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be
protected in relying upon, the Officer's Certificate (which the Issuer shall be
obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such
supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.
Section 13.6 NOTICE OF CERTAIN EVENTS. If:
(a) the Issuer shall declare a dividend (or any other
distribution) payable to the holders of Common Stock otherwise than in
cash; or
(b) the Issuer shall authorize the granting to all
holders of Common Stock of rights to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of stock of any class or of any other rights; or
(c) the Issuer shall authorize any reclassification or
change of the Common Stock (other than a subdivision or combination of
its outstanding shares of Common Stock), or any consolidation or
merger to which the Issuer is a party and for which approval of any
stockholders of the Issuer is required, or the sale, lease, exchange
or other disposition of all or substantially all the property and
assets of the Issuer; or
(d) there shall be authorized or ordered any voluntary or
involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Issuer;
then, the Issuer shall cause to be filed at the office or agency maintained for
the purpose of conversion of the Securities as provided in Section 3.2, and
shall cause to be mailed to each Holder of Securities, in the manner provided
in Section 11.4, at least 20 days before the date hereinafter specified (or the
earlier of the dates hereinafter specified, in the event that more than one
date is specified), a notice stating the date on which (1) a record is expected
to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or rights, or if a
record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of
record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution or rights are to be
determined, or (2) such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is
expected to become effective and the date, if any is to be fixed, as of which
it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to
exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition, dissolution, liquidation or wind-up.
Section 13.7 TAXES ON CONVERSION. The Issuer will pay any and all
documentary, stamp or similar taxes payable to the United States of America or
any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in respect of
the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities
pursuant thereto; provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be required to
pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the
issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than that of the
Holder of the Securities to be converted (or payment of cash in lieu thereof to
a Person other than such Holder) and no such issue or delivery (or payment)
shall be made unless and until the Person requesting such
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issue or delivery (or payment) has paid to the Issuer the amount of any such
tax or has established, to the satisfaction of the Issuer, that such tax has
been paid. The Issuer extends no protection with respect to any other taxes
imposed in connection with conversion of Securities.
Section 13.8 ISSUER TO PROVIDE STOCK. The Issuer shall reserve,
free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares,
sufficient shares to provide for the conversion of convertible Securities from
time to time as such Securities are presented for conversion; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to preclude the
Issuer from satisfying its obligations in respect to the conversion of
Securities by delivery of repurchased shares of Common Stock which are held in
the treasury of the Issuer.
If any shares of Common Stock to be reserved for the purpose of
conversion of Securities hereunder require registration with or approval of any
governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares may be
validly issued or delivered upon conversion, then the Issuer covenants that it
will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible endeavor to secure such
registration or approval, as the case may be; provided, however, that nothing
in this Section 13.8 shall be deemed to affect in any way the obligations of
the Issuer to convert Securities into Common Stock as provided in this Article
XIII.
Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the
Conversion Price below the then par value, if any, of the Common Stock, the
Issuer will take all corporate action which may, in the opinion of counsel, be
necessary in order that the Issuer may validly and legally issue fully paid and
non-assessable shares of Common Stock at such adjusted Conversion Price.
The Issuer covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and
non-assessable by the Issuer and free of preemptive rights.
Section 13.9 DISCLAIMER OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CERTAIN MATTERS.
Neither the Trustee, any Conversion Agent nor any agent of either shall at any
time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities to
determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the
Conversion Price, or with respect to the Officer's Certificate referred to in
Section 13.4(g), or with respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment
when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any
supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. Neither
the Trustee, any Conversion Agent nor any agent of either shall be accountable
with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of
Common Stock, or of any securities or property (including cash), which may at
any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Security; and
neither the Trustee, any Conversion Agent nor any agent of either makes any
representation with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee, any Conversion Agent
nor any agent of either shall be responsible for any failure of the Issuer to
issue, register the transfer of or delivery any shares of Common Stock or stock
certificates or other securities or property (including cash) upon the
surrender of any
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Security for the purpose of conversion or, subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, to
comply with any of the covenants of the Issuer contained in this Article XIII.
Section 13.10 RETURN OF FUNDS DEPOSITED FOR REDEMPTION OF CONVERTED
SECURITIES. Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the
Issuer or on its behalf with the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the purpose of
paying the principal of and interest, if any, on any of the Securities and
which shall not be required for such purposes because of the conversion of such
Securities, as provided in this Indenture, shall forthwith after such
conversion be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee or such Paying Agent.
ARTICLE XIV
SUBORDINATION
Section 14.1 SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. The
Issuer covenants and agrees that anything in this Indenture or the Securities
of any series to the contrary notwithstanding, the indebtedness evidenced by
the Securities or each series is subordinate and junior in right of payment to
all Senior Indebtedness to the extent provided herein, and each Holder of
Securities of each series, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and
agrees to the subordination herein provided and shall be bound by the
provisions hereof.
Subject to Section 14.4, if the Issuer shall default in the payment of
any principal of or interest on any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes
due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by
declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written notice of such
default to the Issuer by the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or any trustee
therefor, unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived or
shall have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to be made on
account of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities, or in respect
of any redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any of the
Securities other than those made in capital stock of the Issuer (or cash in
lieu of fractional shares thereof, pursuant to Article XIII or otherwise made
in capital stock of the Issuer (or cash in lieu of fractional shares thereof).
If (a) without the consent of the Issuer a court having jurisdiction
shall enter an order for relief with respect to the Issuer under the Bankruptcy
Code or without the consent of the Issuer a court having jurisdiction shall
enter a judgment, order or decree adjudging the Issuer as bankruptcy or
insolent, or enter an order for relief for reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer under the Bankruptcy
Code or applicable state insolvency law, or (b) the Issuer shall institute
proceedings for entry of an order for relief with respect to the Issuer under
the Bankruptcy Code or for an adjudication of insolvency, or shall consent to
the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or shall
file a petition seeking, or seek or consent to reorganization, arrangement,
composition or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable state law, or
shall consent to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of a
receiver, custodian, liquidation, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or
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similar official of the Issuer or of substantially all of its property, or the
Issuer shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors as
recognized under the Bankruptcy Code, then all Senior Indebtedness (including
any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such proceedings)
shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution, whether in
cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder of any
Securities on account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash,
securities or other property (other than securities of the Issuer or any other
corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the
payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these
subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness then outstanding and to
any securities issued in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization
or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for these subordination
provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities of any
series shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders
until all Senior Indebtedness (including any interest thereon accruing after
the commencement of any such proceedings) shall have been paid in full. In the
event of any such proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with
respect to Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities, together with
the holders of any obligations of the Issuer ranking on a parity with the
Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the
Issuer the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of
and interest, if any, on the Securities and such other obligations before any
payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property or otherwise, shall be
made on account of any capital stock or any obligations of the Issuer ranking
junior to the Securities and such other obligations.
If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of any
character, whether in cash, securities or other property (other than securities
of the Issuer or any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization
or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent
provided in the subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness then
outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under any such plan
of reorganization or readjustment), shall be received by the Trustee or any
Holder in contravention of any of the terms hereof, such payment or
distribution shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid
over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness
then outstanding in accordance with the priorities then existing among such
holders for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining
unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Indebtedness in full.
In the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder to endorse or assign
any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of Senior Indebtedness
is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the same.
No present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness shall be
prejudiced in the right to enforce subordination of the indebtedness evidenced
by the Securities by any act or failure to act on the part of the Issuer.
Nothing contained herein shall impair, as between the Issuer and the Holders of
Securities of each series, the obligation of the Issuer and the Holders of
Securities of each such series, the obligation of the Issuer to pay to such
Holders the principal of and interest, if any, on such Securities or prevent
the Trustee or the Holder from exercising all
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rights, powers and remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law or hereunder
upon a default or Event of Default hereunder, all subject to the rights of the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, securities or other
property otherwise payable or deliverable to the Holders.
Senior Indebtedness shall not be deemed to have been paid in full
unless the holders thereof shall have received cash, securities or other
property equal to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness then outstanding.
Upon the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of Securities
of each series shall be subrogated to all rights of nay holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive any further payments or distributions applicable to the
Senior Indebtedness until the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities of such
series shall have been paid in full, and such payments or distributions
received by such Holders, by reason of such subrogation, of cash, securities or
other property which otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, shall, as between the Issuer and its creditors other than
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, on the one hand, and such Holders, on the
other hand, be deemed to be a payment by the Issuer on account of Senior
Indebtedness, and not on account of the Securities of such series.
The provisions of this Section 14.1 shall not impair any rights,
interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Issuer in respect
of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
The securing of any obligations of the Issuer, otherwise ranking on a
parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities, shall not be
deemed to prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations
ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
Section 14.2 RELIANCE ON CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT; FURTHER
EVIDENCE AS TO OWNERSHIP OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. Upon any payment or
distribution of assets of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders shall be
entitled to rely upon an order or decree issued by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such dissolution or winding up or liquidation or
reorganization or arrangement proceedings are pending or upon a certificate of
the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or
the Holders, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to
participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and
other indebtedness of the Issuer, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the
amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent
thereto or to this Article XIV. In the absence of any such bankruptcy trustee,
receiver, assignee or other Person, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon
a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) as
evidence that such Person is a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or is such a
trustee or representative). If the Trustee determines, in good faith, that
further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a
holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distributions
pursuant to this Article XIV, the Trustee may request such person to furnish
evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of
Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, as to
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the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, and as to other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person
under this Article XIV, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may
defer any payment to such person pending judicial determination as to the right
of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 14.3 PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT. Nothing contained
in this Article XIV or elsewhere in this Indenture, or in any of the
Securities, shall prevent (a) the Issuer at any time, except during the
pendency of any default in the payment of any principal of or interest on any
Senior Indebtedness as described in Section 14.1 or of any of the events
described in clauses (a) and (b) of Section 14.1, from making payments of the
principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities, or (b) the application by
the Trustee or any Paying Agent of any moneys deposited with it hereunder to
payments of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities, unless and
until the Trustee or such Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall have timely
received the Officer's Certificate or written notice provided for in Section
14.5.
Section 14.4 DISPUTES WITH HOLDERS OF CERTAIN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
Any failure by the Issuer to make any payment on or under any Senior
Indebtedness, other than any Senior Indebtedness as to which the provisions of
this Section 14.4 shall have been waived by the Issuer in the instrument or
instruments by which the Issuer incurred, assumed, guaranteed or otherwise
created such Senior Indebtedness, shall not be deemed a default under Section
14.1 if (i) the Issuer shall be disputing its obligation to make such payment
or perform such obligation, and (ii) either (A) no final judgment relating to
such dispute shall have been issued against the Issuer which is in full force
and effect and is not subject to further review, including a judgment that has
become final by reason of the expiration of the time within which a party may
seek further appeal or review, or (B) in the event of a judgment that is
subject to further review or appeal has been issued, the Issuer shall in good
faith be prosecuting an appeal or other proceeding for review, and a stay of
execution shall have been obtained pending such appeal or review.
Section 14.5 TRUSTEE NOT CHARGED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PROHIBITION.
Anything in this Article XIV or elsewhere in this Indenture contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall not at any time be charged with
knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any
payment of moneys to or by the Trustee and shall be entitled to assume
conclusively that no such facts exist and that no event specified in clauses
(a) and (b) of Section 14.1 has happened, unless and until the Trustee shall
have received an Officer's Certificate to that effect or notice in writing to
that effect signed by or on behalf of the holder or holders, or their
representatives, of Senior Indebtedness who shall have been certified by the
Issuer or otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee
to be such holder or holders or representatives or from any trustee under any
indenture pursuant to which such Senior Indebtedness shall be outstanding;
provided, however, that, if the Trustee shall not have received the Officer's
Certificate or notice provided for in this Section 14.5 at least three Business
Days preceding the date upon which by the terms hereof any such moneys may
become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of
either the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security), then, anything
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full
power and authority to receive such moneys and apply the same to the
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purpose for which they were received and shall not be affected by any notice to
the contrary which may be received by it within three Business Days preceding
such date. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee and to
each Paying Agent of any facts which would prohibit any payment of moneys to or
by the Trustee or any Paying Agent, and the Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of the curing of any default or the elimination of any other fact or
condition preventing such payment or distribution unless and until the Trustee
shall have received an Officer's Certificate to such effect.
Section 14.6 TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION. Each Holder of
Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his
behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination as between such Holder and holders of Senior Indebtedness as
provided in this Article XIV and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.
Section 14.7 RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article XIV
with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be held by it, to
the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness and nothing in this
Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article XIV shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.6.
Section 14.8 ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS. In case at any
time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the
Issuer and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this Article
XIV shall in such case (unless the context shall otherwise require) be construed
as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for
all intents and purposes as if the Paying Agent were named in this Article XIV
in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that Sections
14.5 and 14.7 shall not apply to the Issuer if it acts as Paying Agent.
Section 14.9 SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR
OMISSIONS OF THE ISSUER OR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. No right of any
present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination
as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by
any act or failure to act on the part of the Issuer or by any act or failure to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Issuer
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
The holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time or from time to time and in
their absolute discretion, change the manner, place or terms of payment, change
or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, any such Senior
Indebtedness, or amend or supplement any instrument pursuant to which any such
Senior Indebtedness is issued or by which it may be secured, or release any
security therefor, or exercise or refrain from exercising any other of their
rights under the Senior Indebtedness, including, without limitation, the waiver
of default thereunder, all without notice to or assent from the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee and without affecting the obligations of the Issuer,
the Trustee or the Holders of Securities under this Article XIV.
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Section 14.10 TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR
INDEBTEDNESS. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders
if it shall mistakenly pay over or distribute money or assets to
Securityholders or the Issuer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, effective as of ________________, 1996.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Exhibit 4.4
FIRST AMENDMENT TO SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
THIS FIRST AMENDMENT (this "Amendment") is executed as of August 23,
1996 and is between Service Corporation International (the "Issuer") and Texas
Commerce Bank National Association as trustee (the "Trustee") under that
certain Subordinated Indenture (the "Subordinated Indenture") between the
Issuer and the Trustee dated as of September 1, 1991.
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Trustee are parties to the Subordinated
Indenture; all capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Subordinated Indenture;
WHEREAS, all Securities previously issued under the Subordinated
Indenture have been paid in full and as of the date hereof no Securities are
Outstanding thereunder;
WHEREAS, the Issuer intends from time to time to issue additional
Securities under the Subordinated Indenture and desires to amend the
Subordinated Indenture in certain respects and as more fully described herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Issuer and the Trustee hereby
amend the Subordinated Indenture as follows:
Section 1. Amendment of Section 1.1 Definitions.
Clause (d) of the definition of "Outstanding" in Section 1.1 of the
Subordinated Indenture is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
(d) Securities converted into Common Stock pursuant
hereto prior to the applicable record date and, for purposes of
selection for redemption, Securities not deemed Outstanding pursuant
to Section 12.2; provided, however, that Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period between the close of business on any
record date for such Security and the opening of business on the
related interest payment date (or on the related interest payment
date) shall be considered Outstanding for purposes of payment of
interest on such related interest payment date.
Section 2. Amendment of Section 12.1 Applicability of Article.
Section 12.1 of the Subordinated Indenture is hereby amended to read
in its entirely as follows:
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are
redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the
retirement of Securities of a series or to any Securities of any series
which may be purchased at the option of the Holder upon a Change in
Control, except as otherwise specified, as contemplated by Section 2.3
for Securities of such series.
Section 3. Amendment of Section 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial
Redemption.
The first sentence of the penultimate paragraph of Section 12.2 of the
Subordinated Indenture is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
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On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in this Section 12.2, the Issuer will
deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or, if the
Issuer is acting as its own paying agent, set aside, segregate and
hold in trust as provided in Section 3.5) an amount of money
sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Outstanding
Securities of such series so called for redemption (other than those
theretofore surrendered for conversion into Common Stock and deemed not
to be Outstanding hereunder) at the appropriate redemption price,
together with accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for
redemption on all the Outstanding Securities of such series so called
for redemption (other than those theretofore surrendered for conversion
into Common Stock and deemed not to be Outstanding hereunder).
Section 4. Amendment of Section 13.2 Exercise of Conversion
Privilege.
The first sentence of Section 13.2 of the Subordinated Indenture is
hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of
any Security to be converted shall surrender such Security to the
Conversion Agent at any time during usual business hours at its office
or agency maintained for the purpose as provided in this Indenture,
accompanied by a fully executed written notice, in substantially the
form set forth on the reverse of the Security, that the Holder elects
to convert such Security or a stated portion thereof constituting a
multiple of $1,000 in principal amount, and, if such Security is
surrendered for conversion during the period between the close of
business on any record date for such Security and the opening of
business on the related interest payment date (or on such interest
payment date), accompanied also by payment of an amount equal to the
interest payable on such interest payment date on the portion of the
principal amount of the Security being surrendered for conversion.
Section 5. Ratification of Subordinated Indenture.
The Subordinated Indenture, as amended by this Amendment, is hereby
ratified and confirmed in all respects by the Issuer and the Trustee.
Section 6. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS, AND FOR ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF SUCH STATE OR APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW.
Section 7. Separability Clause.
In case any provision of this Amendment shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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Section 8. Counterparts.
This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but
one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to
be duly executed, effective as of August 23, 1996.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By: /s/ JAMES M. SHELGER
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NAME: James M. Shelger
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Title: Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary
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TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By: /s/ WAYNE MENTZ
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Name: Wayne Mentz
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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Exhibit 4.8
AGREEMENT TO FURNISH INSTRUMENTS
WITH RESPECT TO LONG-TERM DEBT
Pursuant to Item 601(b)(4) of Regulation S-K, there is not filed with
this Registration Statement certain instruments with respect to long-term debt
under which the total amount of securities authorized thereunder does not
exceed 10 percent of the total assets of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on
a consolidated basis. The Registrant agrees to furnish a copy of any such
instrument to the Commission upon request.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By: /s/ James M. Shelger
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James M. Shelger
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary
Date: August 22, 1996
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EXHIBIT 4.9
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SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
AND
______________________________
______________________________
Warrant Agent
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COMMON STOCK WARRANT
Dated as of ___________, 19___
__________
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TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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PARTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RECITALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 2. Form of Warrant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 3. Countersignature and Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 4. Transfers and Exchanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Section 5. Exercise of Warrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Section 6. Payment of Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Section 7. Mutilated or Missing Warrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Section 8. Reservation of Shares, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 9. Warrant Price; Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 10. Notice to Warrantholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 11. Certain Covenants of the Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 12. Disposition of Proceeds, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 13. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Warrant Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 14. Duties of Warrant Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 15. Change of Warrant Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 16. Identity of Transfer Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 17. Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Section 18. Supplements and Amendments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 19. Successors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 20. [Texas] Contract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 21. Benefits of This Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 22. Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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* This Table of Contents does not constitute a part of this Agreement or
have any bearing upon the interpretation of any of its terms and
provisions.
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COMMON STOCK WARRANT AGREEMENT dated as of ___________, 19___, between
Service Corporation International, a Texas corporation (hereinafter called the
"Company"), and ________ having a corporate trust office in ______________, as
warrant agent (hereinafter called the "Warrant Agent").
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to issue [Class ____] Purchase Warrants
entitling the holders thereof to purchase an aggregate of _______________
shares of Common Stock of the Company (par value $1.00 per share) ("Shares") at
an initial cash purchase price of $______ per Share at any time [after
__________ and] prior to 1:00 P.M. Houston, Texas time on _________, 19____
(herein called the "expiration date") (unless extended as provided in Section
9A hereof); and
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the
Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing so to act, in connection with the
issuance, registration, transfer, exchange and exercise of Warrants to be
issued from time to time by the Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby
appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent for the Company in accordance with
the instructions hereinafter in this Agreement set forth, and the Warrant Agent
hereby accepts such appointment.
Section 2. Form of Warrant. The text of the Warrants and the
form of election to purchase Shares to be set forth on the reverse thereof
shall be substantially as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto. Each Warrant
shall, subject to the terms of this Warrant Agreement, entitle the registered
holder thereof to initially purchase the number of Shares specified therein at
an initial exercise price of $_______ per Share; provided, however, that the
warrant exercise price and the number of Shares issuable upon exercise of
Warrants are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events, all
as hereinafter provided. The Warrants shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by the manual or facsimile signature of the present or any future
Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board, Vice
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating
Officer, Vice Chairman, or Vice President of the Company, under its seal,
affixed or in facsimile, and by the manual or facsimile signature of the
present or any future Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
The Company shall promptly notify the Warrant Agent from time to time
in writing of the number of Warrants to be issued and furnish written
instructions in connection therewith signed by an executive officer of the
Company; such notification and instructions may, but need not be, in the form
of a general or continuing authorization to the Warrant Agent.
The Warrants shall be dated by the Warrant Agent as of the date of
each initial issuance, and as of the date of issuance thereof upon any transfer
or exchange thereof.
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Section 3. Countersignature and Registration. The Warrant Agent
shall maintain books for the transfer and registration of the Warrants. Upon
the initial issuance of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall issue and
register the Warrants in the names of the respective registered holders
thereof. The Warrants shall be countersigned by the Warrant Agent (or by any
successor to the Warrant Agent then acting as warrant agent under this
Agreement) and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned.
Such Warrants may be so countersigned, however, by the Warrant Agent (or by its
successor as warrant agent) and be delivered by the Warrant Agent,
notwithstanding that the persons whose manual or facsimile signatures appear
thereon as proper officers of the Company shall have caused to be such officers
at the time of such countersignature or delivery. Upon issuance of any
Warrant, the Company will present the same, or cause the same to be presented,
to the Warrant Agent for countersignature of such Warrant.
Section 4. Transfers and Exchanges. The Warrant Agent shall
transfer from time to time, any outstanding Warrants upon the books to be
maintained by the Warrant Agent for that purpose, upon the surrender thereof
for transfer properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instructions for
transfer. Upon any such transfer, a new Warrant of like tenor shall be issued
to the transferee and the surrendered Warrant shall be cancelled by the Warrant
Agent. All such Warrants so cancelled shall be delivered by the Warrant Agent
to the Company from time to time. The Warrants may be exchanged at the option
of the holder thereof, when surrendered at the office in _____________, of the
Warrant Agent, for another Warrant, or other Warrants of different
denominations, of like tenor and representing in the aggregate the right to
purchase a like number of Shares. The Warrant Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized to countersign and deliver, in accordance with the provisions of
this Section and Section 3 of this Agreement, such new warrants required
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, and the Company, whenever required
by the Warrant Agent, will supply the Warrant Agent with Warrants duly executed
on behalf of the Company for such purpose.
Section 5. Exercise of Warrants. The registered holder of each
Warrant shall have the right, which may be exercised as in such Warrant
expressed, to purchase from the Company (and the Company shall issue and sell
to such registered holder) the number of Shares specified in such Warrants,
upon surrender to the Company at the office in ____________, of the Warrant
Agent of such Warrant, with the form of election to purchase on the reverse
thereof duly filled in and signed, and upon payment to the Warrant Agent for
the account of the Company of the warrant exercise price, determined in
accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of this Agreement, for the number
of Shares in respect of which such Warrant is then exercised. Payment of such
warrant exercise price may be made in case, or by certified check or bank draft
or postal or express money order, payable in United States dollars, to the
order of the Warrant Agent. No adjustment shall be made for any dividend on
any Shares issuable upon exercise of any Warrant. Subject to Section 6, upon
such surrender of Warrants, and payment of the warrant exercise price as
aforesaid, the Company shall issue and cause to be delivered with all
reasonable dispatch to or upon the written order of the registered holder of
such Warrants and in such name or names as such registered holder may
designate, a certificate or certificates for the number of full Shares so
purchased upon the exercise of such Warrants, together with cash,
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as provided in Section 9 of this Agreement, in respect of any fraction of a
Share otherwise issuable upon such surrender. Such certificate or certificates
shall be deemed to have been issued and any person so designated to be named
therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of record of such Shares as of
the date of the surrender of such Warrants and payment of the warrant exercise
price as aforesaid; provided, however, that if, at the date of surrender of
such Warrants and payment of such warrant exercise price, the transfer books
for the Shares purchasable upon the exercise of such Warrants shall be closed,
no such surrender of such Warrants and no such payment of such warrant exercise
price shall be effective to constitute the person so designated to be named
therein as the holder of record of such Shares on such date, but shall be
effective to constitute such person as the holder of record of such Shares for
all purposes at the opening of business on the next succeeding day on which the
transfer books for the Shares purchasable upon the exercise of such Warrants
shall be opened, and the certificates for the Shares in respect of which such
Warrants are then exercised shall be issuable as of the date on which such
books shall next be opened, and until such date the Company shall be under no
duty to deliver any certificate for such Shares. The rights of purchase
represented by the Warrants shall be exercisable, at the election of the
registered holders thereof, either as an entirety or from time to time for part
only of the Shares specified therein and, in the event that any Warrant is
exercised in respect of less than all of the Shares specified therein at any
time prior to the date of expiration of the Warrants, a new Warrant or Warrants
of like tenor will be issued for the remaining number of Shares specified in
the Warrant so surrendered, and the Warrant Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized to countersign and to deliver the required new Warrants pursuant to
the provisions of this Section and of Section 3 of this Agreement, and the
Company, whenever required by the Warrant Agent, will supply the Warrant Agent
with Warrants duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.
Section 6. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay any
documentary stamp taxes attributable to the initial issuance of Shares issuable
upon the exercise of Warrants; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to pay any tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue or delivery of any certificates for Shares in a
name other than that of the registered holder of Warrants in respect of which
such Shares are issued and the Company shall not be required to issue and
deliver the certificates for such Shares unless and until the holder has paid
to the Company the amount of any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in such issuance or shall establish to the satisfaction of
the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 7. Mutilated or Missing Warrants. In case any of the
Warrants shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company will issue
and the Warrant Agent will countersign and deliver in exchange and substitution
for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant, or in lieu of a
substitution for the Warrant lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant of like
tenor and representing an equivalent right or interest, but only upon receipt
of evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent of such loss,
theft or destruction of such Warrants and indemnity, if requested, also
satisfactory to them. Applicants for such substitute Warrants shall also
comply with such other reasonable regulations and pay such other reasonable
charges as the Company or the Warrant Agent may prescribe. Any such new
Warrant shall
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constitute an original contractual obligation of the Company whether or not the
allegedly lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed Warrant shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone.
Section 8. Reservation of Shares, etc. Prior to the issuance of
any Warrants there shall have been reserved, and the Company shall at all times
through the expiration date keep reserved, out of its authorized and unissued
Common Stock, a number of Shares sufficient to provide for the exercise of the
rights of purchase represented by the Warrants, and the Transfer Agent for the
Shares and every subsequent Transfer Agent for the Shares issuable upon the
exercise of any of the rights of purchase aforesaid are hereby irrevocably
authorized and directed at all times to reserve such number of authorized and
unissued Shares as shall be requisite for such purpose. The Company will keep
a copy of this Agreement on file with the Transfer Agent for the Shares
issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the
Warrants. The Warrant Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized to requisition
from time to time from such Transfer Agent certificates required to honor
outstanding Warrants that have been exercised. The Company will supply such
Transfer Agent with duly executed certificates for such purpose and will itself
provide or otherwise make available any cash which may be issuable as provided
in Section 9 of this Agreement. All Warrants surrendered in the exercise of
the rights thereby evidenced or surrendered for transfer, exchange or partial
exercise shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent and shall thereafter be
delivered to the Company.
Section 9. Warrant Price; Adjustments.
A. The warrant price per share at which Shares shall be
purchasable upon exercise of Warrants (herein called the "warrant exercise
price") to and including the expiration date (unless the expiration date is
extended as provided below in this Section 9A) shall be $______ per share, or,
if adjusted as provided in this Section, shall be such price as so adjusted.
The Warrants will not be exercisable prior to [the close of business on the
date of any initial issuance thereof] [____________] and will expire at 1:00
P.M. Houston, Texas time on the expiration date; provided that the Company
reserves the right to, and may, in its sole discretion, at any time and from
time to time, at such time or times at the Company so determines, extend the
expiration date of the Warrants for such periods of time as it chooses; further
provided that in no case may the expiration date of the Warrants (as extended)
be extended beyond five years from the expiration date set forth above.
Whenever the expiration date of the Warrants is so extended, the Company shall
at least 20 days prior to the then expiration date cause to be mailed to the
Warrant Agent and the registered holders of the Warrants in accordance with the
provisions of Section 17 hereof a notice stating that the expiration date has
been extended and setting forth the new expiration date.
B. The above provision is, however, subject to the following:
(1) The warrant exercise price, the number of Shares
purchasable upon exercise of each Warrant and the number of Warrants
outstanding shall be subject to adjustment as follows:
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(a) In case the Company shall at any time after
the date of this Agreement (i) pay a dividend, or make a distribution on, the
Common Stock which is payable in shares of its Common Stock, (ii) subdivide or
reclassify its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of
securities (including shares of Common Stock), or (iii) combine or reclassify
its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares
(including shares of Common Stock), the number of Shares purchasable upon
exercise of each Warrant immediately prior to the occurrence of such event
shall be adjusted so that the holder of each Warrant shall be entitled to
receive upon payment of the warrant exercise price the aggregate number of
shares of the Company which, if such Warrant had been exercised immediately
prior to the occurrence of such event, such holder would have owned or have
been entitled to receive immediately after the occurrence of such event. An
adjustment made pursuant to this subparagraph (a) shall become effective
immediately after the record date in the case of a dividend and shall become
effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision or
combination. If, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this
subparagraph (a), the holder of any Warrant thereafter exercised shall become
entitled to receive shares of two or more classes of capital stock of the
Company, the Board of Directors of the Company (whose determination shall be
conclusive) shall determine the allocation between or among shares of such
classes of capital stock.
In the event that at any time, as a result of
an adjustment made pursuant to this subparagraph (a), the holder of any Warrant
thereafter exercised shall become entitled to receive any shares or other
securities of the Company other than shares of Common Stock, thereafter the
number of such other shares so received upon exercise of any Warrant shall be
subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly
equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the shares of
Common Stock contained in this paragraph, and other provisions of this
paragraph 9B(1) with respect to the shares of Common Stock shall apply on like
terms to any such other shares or other securities.
(b) In case the Company shall fix a record date
for the issuance of rights or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock
entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 days after such record date) to
subscribe for or purchase Common Stock at a price per share less than the
current market price per share of Common Stock (as defined in subparagraph (e)
below) at such record date, the warrant exercise price shall be determined by
multiplying the warrant exercise price in effect immediately prior to such
record date by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of Shares
of Common Stock outstanding on such record date plus the number of Shares of
Common Stock which the aggregate offering price of the total number of Shares
so offered would purchase at such current market price, and the denominator of
which shall be the number of Shares of Common Stock outstanding on such record
date plus the number of additional Shares of Common Stock offered for
subscription or purchase. Such adjustment shall be made successively whenever
such a record date is fixed, and shall become effective immediately after such
record date. In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders
to subscribe for or purchase shares of common stock at less than such current
market price, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares,
there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for
such rights or warrants, the value
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of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company. Common Stock owned by or held for the account of the
Company or any majority owned subsidiary shall not be deemed outstanding for
the purpose of any adjustment required under this subparagraph (b). To the
extent that Shares of Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of
such rights or warrants, the warrant exercise price shall be readjusted to the
warrant exercise price which would then be in effect had the adjustments made
in respect of the issuance of such rights or warrants been made on the basis of
delivery of only the number of Shares of Common Stock actually delivered.
(c) In case the Company shall fix a record date
for making a distribution to all holders of its Common Stock of evidences of
its indebtedness or assets (excluding regular quarterly or other periodic or
recurring cash dividends or distributions and cash dividends or distributions
paid from retained earnings or referred to in subparagraph (a) above) or rights
or warrants to subscribe or warrants to purchase such evidences of indebtedness
or assets (excluding those referred to in subparagraph (b) above), then in each
such case the warrant exercise price shall be determined by multiplying the
warrant exercise price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a
fraction (x) the numerator of which shall be such current market price as
defined in subparagraph (e) below) per Share of Common Stock on such record
date, less the then fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board
of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive) of the portion of the
assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed or of such subscription
rights or warrants applicable to one share of the Common Stock and (y) the
denominator of which shall be the current market price per share of the Common
Stock on such record date. Such adjustment shall be made successively whenever
such a record date is fixed and shall become effective immediately after such
record date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company
shall distribute any rights or warrants to acquire capital stock ("Rights")
pursuant to this subparagraph (c), the distribution of separate certificates
representing such rights subsequent to their initial distribution (whether or
not such distribution shall have occurred prior to the date of the issuance of
such Warrants) shall be deemed to be the distribution of such rights for
purposes of this subparagraph (c), provided that the Company may, in lieu of
making any adjustment pursuant to this subparagraph (c) upon a distribution of
separate certificates representing such Rights, make proper provision so that
each holder of such Warrants who exercises such Warrants (or any portion
thereof) (A) before the record date for such distribution of separate
certificates shall be entitled to receive upon such conversion shares of Common
Stock issued with Rights and (B) after such record date and prior to the
expiration, redemption or termination of such Rights shall be entitled to
receive upon such exercise, in addition to the shares of Common Stock issuable
upon such exercise, the same number of such Rights as would a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock that such Warrants so exercised would have
entitled the holder thereof to purchase in accordance with the terms and
provisions of and applicable to the Rights if such Warrants were exercised
immediately prior to the record date for such distribution. Common Stock owned
by or held for the account of the Company or any majority owned subsidiary
shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any adjustment required
under this subparagraph (c).
(d) After each adjustment of the number of
shares purchasable upon
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exercise of each Warrant pursuant to subparagraph 9B(1)(a), the warrant
exercise price shall be adjusted by multiplying such warrant exercise price
immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction of which the numerator shall
be the number of Shares purchasable upon exercise of each Warrant immediately
prior to such adjustment, and the denominator of which shall be the number of
Shares so purchasable immediately thereafter. After each adjustment of the
warrant exercise price pursuant to subparagraph 9B(1)(b) or (c), the total
number of Shares or fractional part thereof purchasable upon the exercise of
each Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted to such number of shares or
fractional parts thereof as the aggregate warrant exercise price of the number
of shares or fractional part thereof purchasable immediately prior to such
adjustment will buy at the adjusted warrant exercise price.
(e) For the purpose of any computation under
subparagraphs 9B(1)(b) and (c) above, the current market price per Share of
Common Stock at any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing
prices for the 30 consecutive business days commencing 45 business days before
the date in question. The closing price for each day shall be (i) if the
Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading on any national securities
exchange, the last sale price (regular way), or the average of the closing bid
and ask prices, if no sale occurred, of Common Stock on the principal
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed, (ii) if not listed as
described in (i), the mean between the closing high bid and low asked
quotations of Common Stock in the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc., Automated Quotation System, or any similar system or automated
dissemination of quotations or securities prices then in common use, if so
quoted, or (iii) if not quoted as described in clause (ii), the mean between
the high bid and low asked quotations for Common Stock as reported the National
Quotation Bureau Incorporated if at least two securities dealers have inserted
both bid and asked quotations for Common Stock on at least 5 of the 10
preceding days. If none of the conditions set forth above is met, the Closing
Price of Common Stock on any day or the average of such Closing Prices for any
period shall be the fair market value of Common Stock as determined by a member
firm of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. selected by the Company.
(f) (A) Nothing contained herein shall be
construed to require an adjustment as a result of the issuance of Common Stock
pursuant to, or the granting or exercise of any rights under, the Company's
Shareholder Investment Plan or any successor plans providing for the purchase
of shares of Common Stock by the Company's shareholders or employees at a price
not less than 90% of the "average market price" during the "pricing period" as
such terms, or equivalent terms, are defined in, and as calculated pursuant to,
such plans from time to time.
(B) In addition, no adjustment in the
warrant exercise price shall be required unless and until the earlier of the
following shall have occurred: (x) such adjustment would require an increase
or decrease of at least 1% in the warrant exercise price or (y) a period of 3
years shall have elapsed from the date of the occurrence of any event requiring
any such adjustment pursuant to subparagraphs 9B(1)(a), (b) or (c) above. All
adjustments shall be made to the nearest one hundredth of a Share and the
nearest cent, and any adjustments which by reason of this subparagraph (f) are
not required to be made shall be carried forward cumulatively
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and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment which (including such
carry-forward) is required to be made under this subparagraph (f).
(g) In any case in which this subparagraph 9B(1)
shall require that an adjustment be made retroactively immediately following a
record date, the Company may elect to defer (but only until five business days
following the mailing of the notice described in subparagraph 9B(5) below)
issuing to the holder of any Warrant exercised after such record date the
Shares of the Company issuable upon such exercise over and above the Shares
issuable upon such exercise only on the basis of the warrant exercise price
prior to adjustment.
(h) The Company may, at its option, at any time
until the expiration date, reduce the then current warrant exercise price to
any amount deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors of the Company for any
period not exceeding twenty (20) consecutive days (as evidenced in a resolution
adopted by such Board of Directors), but only upon giving the notices required
by subparagraph 9(B)(5) twenty (20) days prior to taking such action.
(i) Except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, no adjustment in the warrant exercise price shall be made by reason
of the issuance of Shares, or securities convertible into or exchangeable for
Shares, or securities carrying the right to purchase any of the foregoing or
for any other reason whatsoever.
(j) Irrespective of any of the adjustments in the
warrant exercise price or the number of Shares, Warrant Certificates
theretofore issued may continue to express the same prices and number of shares
as are stated in a similar Warrant Certificate issuable initially, or at some
subsequent time, pursuant to this Agreement and such number of shares specified
therein shall be deemed to have been so adjusted.
(2) No fractional Shares of Common Stock shall be issued
upon the exercise of Warrants. If more than one Warrant shall be exercised at
one time by the same holder, the number of full Shares which shall be issuable
upon such exercise shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of
Shares purchased pursuant to the Warrants so exercised. Instead of any
fractional Share of Common Stock which would otherwise be issuable upon
exercise of any Warrant, the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect of
such fraction in an amount equal to the same fraction of the last sales price
(or bid price if there were no sales) per Share of Common Stock in either case
as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with
respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock
Exchange on the business day which next precedes the date of exercise or, if
the Common Stock is not then listed or admitted to trading on the New York
Stock Exchange, an amount equal to the same fraction of the market price per
share of Common Stock (as determined in a manner described by the Board of
Directors of the Corporation) at the close of business on the business day
which next precedes the day of exercise.
(3) In case any of the following shall occur while any
warrants are outstanding: (a) any reclassification or change of the
outstanding Shares of Common Stock
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(other than a change in par value), or from par value to no par value, or from
no par value to par value; or (b) any consolidation or merger to which the
Company is a party (other than a consolidation or merger to which the Company
is the continuing corporation and which does not result in any reclassification
of, or change in, the and which does not result in any reclassification of, or
change in, the outstanding shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants); or (c) any sale or conveyance to another corporation of the property
of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety; then the
Company, or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall
make appropriate provision by amendment of this Agreement or otherwise so that
the holders of the Warrants then outstanding shall have the right at any time
thereafter, upon exercise of such Warrants, to purchase the kind and amount of
shares of stock and other securities and property receivable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance as would be
received by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of such Warrant immediately prior to such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance. Such provision shall provide for
adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Section 9. The above provisions of this
paragraph 9B(3) shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, changes,
consolidations, mergers, sales or conveyances.
(4) Before taking any action which would cause an
adjustment decreasing the warrant exercise price so that the warrant exercise
price is below the then par value of the shares of Common Stock, the Company
will take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be
necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid
and nonassessable Shares of Common Stock at the warrant exercise price as so
adjusted.
(5) Whenever the warrant exercise price then in effect is
adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall mail to each holder of the
Warrants at such holder's address as it shall appear on the books of the
Company, a statement setting forth the adjusted warrant exercise price, then
and thereafter effective under the provisions hereof together with the facts,
in reasonable detail, upon which such adjustment is based.
(6) In case (i) the Company shall declare a dividend (or
any distribution) on its Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of its
current or retained earnings, or (ii) the Company shall authorize the granting
to the holders of its Common Stock of rights to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights, or (iii) there is
to be any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company (other than a
subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of Common Stock), or any
consolidation of merger to which the Company is a party and for which approval
of any stockholders of the Company is required, or (iv) any distribution is to
be made on or in respect of the Common Stock in connection with the
dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, then the Company shall
mail to each holder of Warrants at such holder's address as it shall appear on
the books of the Company, at least twenty days (or ten days in the case
specified in clause (i) or (ii) above) prior to the applicable record date
hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the record date for such dividend,
distribution or rights, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of
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which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend,
distribution or rights are to be determined, or (y) the date on which such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, dissolution, liquidation or winding up
is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that
holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of
Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, dissolution, liquidation or winding
up. No failure to mail such notice nor any defect therein or in the mailing
thereof shall affect any such transaction or any adjustment in the warrant
exercise price required by this Section 9.
Section 10. Notice to Warrantholders. Nothing contained in this
Agreement or in any of the Warrants shall be construed as conferring upon the
holders thereof the right to vote or to consent or to receive notice as the
shareholders in respect of the meetings of shareholders or the election of
directors of the Company or any other matter, or any rights whatsoever as
shareholders of the Company.
Section 11. Certain Covenants of the Company.
A. So long as any unexpired Warrants remain outstanding
and if required in order to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Act"), the Company covenants and agrees that it will file such post-
effective amendments to the registration statement filed pursuant to the Act
with respect to the Warrants (File No. 333- ______) (or such other registration
statements or post-effective amendments or supplements) as may be necessary to
permit the Company to deliver to each person exercising a Warrant a prospectus
meeting the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act and otherwise complying
therewith, and will deliver such a prospectus to each such person. The Company
further covenants and agrees that it will obtain and keep effective all
permits, consents and approvals of governmental agencies and authorities, and
will use its best efforts to take all action which may be necessary to qualify
the Shares for sale under the securities laws of such of the United States, as
may be necessary to permit the free exercise of the Warrants, and the issuance,
sale, transfer and delivery of the Shares issued upon exercise of the Warrants,
and to maintain such qualifications during the entire period in which the
Warrants are exercisable.
B. The Company covenants and agrees that it shall take
all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all Shares will at the time
of delivery of certificates for such Shares (subject to payment of the warrant
exercise price) be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and
nonassessable Shares, free from any preemptive rights and taxes, liens, charges
and securities interests created by or imposed upon the Company.
C. The Company covenants and agrees that it will take
all action which may be necessary to cause the Shares to be duly listed on the
New York Stock Exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers
Automated Quotations System ("NASDAQ") or any securities exchange on which the
other shares of Common Stock of the Company are listed at the dates of exercise
of the Warrants.
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Section 12. Disposition of Proceeds, etc.
A. The Warrant Agent shall account promptly to the
Company with respect to Warrants exercised and concurrently pay to the Company
all moneys received by the Warrant Agent for the purchase of Shares through the
exercise of such Warrants.
B. The Warrant Agent shall keep copies of this Agreement
available for inspection by holders of Warrants during normal business hours at
its principal office in the City of ________, _________.
Section 13. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Warrant
Agent. Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent may be merged or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Warrant Agent, shall be the
successor to the Warrant Agent hereunder without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided
that such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a successor Warrant
Agent under the provisions of Section 16 of this Agreement. In case at the
time such successor to the Warrant Agent shall succeed to the agency crated by
this Agreement, any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not
delivered, any such successor to the Warrant Agent may adopt the
countersignature of the original Warrant Agent and deliver such Warrants so
countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Warrants shall not have been
countersigned, any successor to the Warrant Agent may countersign such Warrants
either in the name of the predecessor Warrant Agent or in the name of the
successor Warrant Agent; and in all such cases such Warrant shall have the full
force provided in the Warrants and in this Agreement.
In case at any time the name of the Warrant Agent shall be changed and
at such time any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not
delivered, the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior
name and deliver Warrants so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the
Warrants shall not have been countersigned, the Warrant Agent may countersign
such Warrants either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such
cases such Warrants shall have the full force provided in the Warrants and in
this Agreement.
Section 14. Duties of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent
undertakes the duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the
following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of
Warrants, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound:
A. The statements contained herein and in the Warrants
shall be taken as statements of the Company, and the Warrant Agent assumes no
responsibility for the correctness of any of the same except such as describe
the Warrant Agent or action taken or to be taken by it. The Warrant Agent
assumes no responsibility with respect to the distribution of the Warrants
except as herein otherwise provided.
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B. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any
failure of the Company to comply with any of the covenants contained in this
Agreement or in the Warrants to be complied with by the Company.
C. The Warrant Agent may execute and exercise any of the
rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either
itself or by or through its attorneys, agents or employees, and the Warrant
Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or
misconduct of any such attorneys, agents or employees or for any loss to the
Company resulting from such neglect or misconduct, provided reasonable care
shall have been exercised in the selection and continued employment thereof.
D. The Warrant Agent may consult at any time with
counsel satisfactory to it (who may be counsel for the Company), and the
Warrant Agent shall incur no liability or responsibility to the Company or to
any holder of any Warrant in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion or the advice
of such counsel.
E. The Warrant Agent shall incur no liability or
responsibility to the Company or to any holder of any Warrant for any action
taken in reliance on any notice, resolution, waiver, consent, order,
certificate, or other paper, document or instrument believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or
parties.
F. The Company agrees to pay to the Warrant Agent
reasonable compensation for all services rendered by the Warrant Agent in the
execution of this Agreement, to reimburse the Warrant Agent for all expenses,
taxes and governmental charges and other charges of any kind and nature
incurred by the Warrant Agent in the execution of this Agreement and to
indemnify the Warrant Agent and save it harmless against any and all
liabilities, including judgments costs and counsel fees, for anything done or
omitted by the Warrant Agent in the execution of this Agreement except as a
result of the Warrant Agent's gross negligence or bad faith.
G. The Warrant Agent shall be under no obligation to
institute any action, suit or legal proceeding or to take any other action
likely to involve expense unless the Company or one or more registered holders
of Warrants shall furnish the Warrant Agent with reasonable security and
indemnity for any costs and expenses which may be incurred, but this provision
shall not affect the power of the Warrant Agent to take such action as the
Warrant Agent may consider proper, whether with or without any such security or
indemnity. All rights of action under this Agreement or under any of the
Warrants may be enforced by the Warrant Agent without the possession of any of
the Warrants or the production thereof at any trial or other proceedings
relative thereto, and any such action, suit or proceeding instituted by the
Warrant Agent shall be brought in its name as Warrant Agent, and any recovery
of judgment shall be for the ratable benefit of the registered holders of the
Warrants, as their respective rights or interests may appear.
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H. The Warrant Agent and any stockholder, director,
officer or employee of the Warrant Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the
Warrants or other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in
any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or
lend money to or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not
Warrant Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Warrant
Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal
entity.
I. The Warrant Agent shall act hereunder solely as agent
and not in a ministerial capacity, and its duties shall be determined solely by
the provisions hereof. The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for anything
which it may do or refrain from doing in connection with this Agreement except
for its own gross negligence or bad faith.
Section 15. Change of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may
resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement by giving to the
Company notice in writing, and to the holders of the Warrants notice by
publication, of such resignation, specifying a date when such resignation shall
take effect, which notice shall be published at the expense of the Company at
least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Houston, Texas, and the City of New York, New York,
prior to the date so specified. The Warrant Agent may be removed by the
Company by like notice from the Company to the Warrant Agent and the holders of
Warrants at the expense of the Company. If the Warrant Agent shall resign or
be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company shall
appoint a successor the Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such
appointment within a period of 30 days after such removal or after it has been
notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the resigning or
incapacitated Warrant Agent or by the registered holder of a Warrant (who
shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant for inspection by the Company),
then at the expense of the Company, the Warrant Agent or the registered holder
of any Warrant may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor to the Warrant Agent. Any successor Warrant Agent,
whether appointed by the Company or by such a court, shall be a bank or trust
company, in good standing, incorporated under the Laws of any State or of the
United States of America, having at the time of its appointment as Warrant
Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000. After
appointment the successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with the same powers,
rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named as
Warrant Agent without further act or deed; but the former Warrant Agent shall
deliver and transfer to the successor Warrant Agent any property at the time
held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance,
conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Failure to file or publish
any notice provided for in this Section, however, or any defect therein, shall
not affect the legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the
Warrant Agent or the appointment of the successor Warrant Agent, as the case
may be.
Section 16. Identity of Transfer Agent. Forthwith upon the
appointment of any Transfer Agent for the Shares or of any subsequent Transfer
Agent for Shares issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase
represented by the Warrants, the Company will file with the Warrant Agent a
statement setting forth the name and address of such Transfer Agent.
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Section 17. Notices. Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be
given or made by the Warrant Agent or by the registered holder of any Warrant
to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class
mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by
the Company with the Warrant Agent) as follows:
Service Corporation International
1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77219
Attn:_______________________________
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or by
the registered holder of any Warrant to or on the Warrant Agent shall be
sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Warrant Agent with
the Company) as follows:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Attn:________________________________
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given or made by the
Company or the Warrant Agent to the registered holder of any Warrant shall be
sufficiently given or made (unless otherwise specifically provided for herein)
if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said registered
holder at his address appearing on the Warrant register.
Section 18. Supplements and Amendments. The Company and the
Warrant Agent may from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement without
the approval of any holders of Warrants in order to cure any ambiguity or to
correct or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company and the
Warrant Agent may deem necessary or desirable and which will not materially
adversely affect the interest of the registered holders of the Warrants.
Section 19. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this
Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Warrant Agent shall bind
and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns hereunder.
Section 20. [Texas] Contract. This Agreement and each Warrant
issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the
State of [Texas] and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of said State.
Section 21. Benefits of This Agreement. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to give to any person or entity other than the
Company and the Warrant Agent and the holders of Warrants any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement, but this
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agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company and the
Warrant Agent and the holders of Warrants.
Section 22. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be
deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute
but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By:_____________________________________
Attest:
___________________________________
________________________________________
Warrant Agent
By:_____________________________________
Attest:
___________________________________
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EXHIBIT A
(Form of Warrant)
Unless extended, Void After 1:00 p.m.,
Houston, Texas time, ____(A) _____, 19___
No. WA
Warrant to Purchase _____
Shares of Common Stock
CLASS _____ WARRANT
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Service Corporation International (the "Company"),
upon the surrender [after _________________] and prior to 1:00 p.m., Houston,
Texas time, ____(a) ____, 19__ (unless extended) of this Warrant for exercise,
with the exercise form on the reverse side hereof duly executed, at the office
of _____________________________, will sell and deliver or cause to be sold and
delivered to __________________________ or assigns (the "Warrant Holder") a
certificate or certificates for the number of whole shares purchasable, as
indicated above, of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock ($1.00
par value) of the Company (the "Shares"), for which the Warrant is exercised,
at a price of $_____________ per Share (the "Warrant Price"), subject to all
the terms, provisions and conditions of a Common Stock Warrant Agreement dated
as of ______________, 19___ (the "Warrant Agreement"), executed by the Company
and _____________________________ (the "Warrant Agent"), which Warrant
Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
1. The Warrant Price shall be payable in cash, certified check,
bank draft or postal or express money order, payable in United States dollars,
to the order of the Warrant Agent. In certain events, the Warrant Price and
the number of Shares deliverable on exercise of this Warrant are subject to
adjustments, as provided in the Warrant Agreement. No certificates for a
fractional Share will be issued. As to any fraction of a Share which would
otherwise be purchasable on the exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall pay
the cash value thereof determined as provided in the Warrant Agreement.
2. This Warrant is issued in accordance with the Warrant
Agreement in which the rights of the Warrant Holders and the terms, provisions
and conditions upon which this Warrant has been executed and delivered and may
be exercised are more fully set forth. Every Warrant Holder, by acceptance
hereof, assents to all the terms, provisions and conditions of the Warrant
__________________________________
(A) The expiration date; see page 1 of Warrant Agreement
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Agreement. A counterpart of the Warrant Agreement is on file at the office of
the Company in Houston, Texas, and at the office of the Warrant Agent in
_____________, ______________.
3. In the event this Warrant shall not be exercised on or before
_______(B) ____, 19__, unless said date is extended as provided for in Section
9A of the Warrant Agreement, this Warrant shall become void and all rights
hereunder shall cease.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Warrant set forth
on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Warrant shall not be valid for any purpose until it shall have
been countersigned by the Warrant Agent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed
in its name and on its behalf by the facsimile signatures of its duly
authorized officers and a facsimile of its seal.
Dated: _______________, 19____.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
By:
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Attest:
/s/
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Countersigned:
- ----------------------------------------
- ----------------------------------------
Warrant Agent
By:
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Authorized Signature
__________________________________
(B) The expiration date; see page 1 of Warrant Agreement
A-2
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(REVERSE OF WARRANT)
4. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 contained on the face
of this Warrant, (a) this Warrant, with or without other Warrants, upon
surrender at the office of the Warrant Agent, may be exchanged for another
Warrant or Warrants of like tenor in denominations entitling the Warrant Holder
to purchase a like aggregate number of Shares, but only to the extent provided
in the Warrant Agreement, or (b) this Warrant may be transferred at the office
of the Warrant Agent by the Warrant Holder or his assigns, in person or by
attorney duly authorized in writing, but only in the manner provided in the
Warrant Agreement and upon surrender of this Warrant. If this Warrant shall be
exercised in part, the Warrant Holder shall be entitled to receive, upon
surrender hereof, another Warrant or Warrants of like tenor for the number of
whole Shares not purchased upon such exercise.
5. No Warrant Holder shall be entitled to vote or receive
dividends or be deemed the holder of Shares of the Company for any purpose, nor
shall anything contained in the Warrant Agreement or herein be construed to
confer upon the Warrant Holder, as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of
the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors of the Company,
or upon any matter submitted to shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give
or withhold consent to any action (whether upon any recapitalization, issue of
securities, reclassification of securities, consolidation, merger, conveyance
or otherwise) or to receive notice of meetings or other action affecting
shareholders (except for notices as provided for in the Warrant Agreement), or
to receive dividends or subscription rights or otherwise, until this warrant
shall have been exercised and the Shares purchasable on the exercise thereof
shall have become deliverable as provided in the Warrant Agreement.
6. Every holder of a Warrant, by accepting this Warrant, consents
and agrees with the Company, the Warrant Agent and with every subsequent holder
of this Warrant that until this Warrant is transferred on the books of the
Warrant Agent, the Company and the Warrant Agent may treat the registered
holder hereof as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes notwithstanding any
notice to the contrary.
7. The Company represents and warrants that the Shares to be
issued by it as provided in the Warrant Agreement have been duly authorized
and, when so issued in accordance with the Warrant Agreement, will be validly
issued, fully-paid and non-assessable. The Company represents and warrants
that it has authority to execute and deliver the Warrant Agreement and the
Warrants thereunder, but the Warrant Agent makes no representation with respect
thereto, or with respect to the validity or sufficiency of the Warrants, the
Warrant Agreement or the Shares.
A-3
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FORM OF EXERCISE
(Form of exercise to be executed by the Warrant Holder at the time of exercise)
To:
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Warrant
- ---------------------
Agent:
The undersigned, holder of the within Warrant, (1) exercises his right
to purchase _______ of the Shares of Common Stock ($1.00 par value) of Service
Corporation International, which the undersigned is entitled to purchase under
the terms of the within Warrant, and (2) makes payment in full for the number
of Shares of common Stock so purchased by payment of $______ in cash.
Please issue the certificate for Shares of Common Stock (and any new
Warrants in the case of a partial exercise) as follows:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Print or Type Name
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Social Security or other Identifying Number
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Street Address
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
City State Zip Code
and deliver it (together with any new Warrants in the case of a partial
exercise) to the above address unless a different address is indicated below.
Dated:
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Signature
(Signature must conform in all respects
to name of holder as specified on the
face of the Warrant)
A-4
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To be used only for special instructions for delivery.
Deliver to:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Print or Type Name
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Street Address
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
City State Zip Code
A-5
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ASSIGNMENT
(Form of assignment to be executed if
Warrant Holder desires to transfer Warrant)
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ______________________ hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto _________________________
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Print or Type Name
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Street Address
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
City State Zip Code
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Social Security or other Identifying Number
the right represented by the within Warrant to purchase _____ Shares of Common
Stock ($1.00 par value) of Common Stock ($1.00 par value) of Service
Corporation International to which the within Warrant relates and appoints
____________________________ attorney to transfer such right on the books of
the Warrant Agent with full power of substitution in the premises.
Date:
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Signature
(Signature must conform in all
respects to name of holder as
specified on the face of the Warrant)
Signature Guaranteed
- -----------------------------------
A-6
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Exhibit 5.1
Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P.
3400 Texas Commerce Tower
600 Travis
Houston, Texas 77002-3095
August 26, 1996
Service Corporation International
1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel for Service Corporation
International, a Texas corporation (the "Company"), in connection with its
filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") of a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") with respect
to the Company's (i) unsecured debt securities ("Debt Securities"), (ii) shares
of common stock, $1.00 par value per share, including the preferred stock
purchase rights associated therewith (collectively, "Common Stock"), and (iii)
warrants to purchase Common Stock ("Warrants" and, together with the Debt
Securities and the Common Stock, the "Securities"), to be issued from time to
time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for an
aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $1,000,000,000.
We have examined (i) the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and
Bylaws of the Company, each as amended to date, (ii) a Senior Indenture dated
as of February 1, 1993 (the "Senior Indenture"), between the Company and the
Bank of New York, as Trustee, (iii) a form of Senior Subordinated Indenture
(the "Senior Subordinated Indenture") between the Company and Texas Commerce
Bank National Association ("TCB"), as Trustee, (iv) a Subordinated Indenture
dated as of September 1, 1991 (the "Subordinated Indenture"), between the
Company and TCB, as Trustee, as amended, and (v) such certificates, statutes
and other instruments and documents as we considered appropriate for purposes
of the opinions hereafter expressed.
In connection with this opinion, we have assumed that (i) the
Registration Statement, and any amendments thereto (including post-effective
amendments), will have become effective; (ii) a Prospectus Supplement will have
been prepared and filed with the Commission describing the Securities offered
thereby; (iii) all Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with
applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the
Registration Statement and the appropriate Prospectus Supplement; and (iv) a
definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency or similar agreement with
respect to any Securities offered will have been duly authorized and validly
executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto.
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Service Corporation International
August 26, 1996
Page 2
Based upon and subject to the foregoing, and having regard for such
legal considerations as we have deemed relevant, we are of the opinion that:
1. With respect to shares of Common Stock, when (i) the Board of
Directors of the Company or, to the extent permitted by Article 2.36 of the
Texas Business Corporation Act, as amended, a duly constituted and acting
committee thereof (such Board of Directors or committee being referred to
herein as the "Board"), has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the
issuance of and the terms of the offering of the shares of Common Stock and
related matters; and (ii) certificates representing the shares of Common Stock
have been duly executed, countersigned, registered and delivered either (a) in
accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency
or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration
therefor (not less than the par value of the Common Stock) provided for
therein, or (b) upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any other Security in
accordance with the terms of such Security or the instrument governing such
Security providing for such conversion, exchange or exercise as approved by the
Board, upon payment of the consideration approved by the Board (not less than
the par value of the Common Stock), the shares of Common Stock will be duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
2. With respect to Debt Securities to be issued under the Senior
Indenture, when (i) the Senior Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "TIA"); (ii) the Board has taken
all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of such Debt
Securities, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters; (iii) such
Debt Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in
accordance with the Senior Subordinated Indenture; and (iv) such Debt Securities
have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with
the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency or similar
agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefore
provided for therein, such Debt Securities will be legally issued and will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforcement is subject to
any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to
or affecting creditors' rights generally and general principles of equity and
will be entitled to the benefits of the Senior Indenture.
3. With respect to Debt Securities to be issued under the Senior
Subordinated Indenture, when (i) the Senior Subordinated Indenture shall have
been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and TCB
as Trustee; (ii) the Senior Subordinated Indenture has been duly qualified under
the TIA; (iii) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the
issuance and terms of such Debt Securities, the terms of the offering thereof
and related matters; (iv) such Debt Securities have been duly executed,
authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the
Senior Subordinated Indenture; and (v) such Debt Securities have been duly
executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the applicable
definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency or similar agreement approved by
the Board upon payment of the consideration therefore
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Service Corporation International
August 26, 1996
Page 3
provided for therein, such Debt Securities will be legally issued and will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against
the Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforcement is
subject to any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law
relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and general principles of
equity and will be entitled to the benefits of the Senior Subordinated
Indenture.
4. With respect to Debt Securities to be issued under the
Subordinated Indenture, when (i) the Subordinated Indenture has been duly
qualified under the TIA; (ii) the Board has taken all necessary corporate
action to approve the issuance and terms of such Debt Securities, the terms of
the offering thereof and related matters; (iii) such Debt Securities have been
duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the
provisions of the Subordinated Indenture; and (iv) such Debt Securities have
been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the
applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency or similar agreement
approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor provided for
therein, such Debt Securities will be legally issued and will constitute valid
and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their terms, except as such enforcement is subject to any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or
affecting creditors' rights generally and general principles of equity and will
be entitled to the benefits of the Subordinated Indenture.
5. With respect to the Warrants, when (i) the Board has taken all
necessary corporate action to approve the creation of and the issuance and
terms of the Warrants, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters;
(ii) the warrant agreement or agreements relating to the Warrants have been
duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and the
warrant agent appointed by the Company; (iii) the Warrants or certificates
representing the Warrants have been duly executed, countersigned, registered
and delivered in accordance with the appropriate warrant agreement or
agreements; and (iv) the Warrants or certificates representing the Warrants
have been duly executed, countersigned, registered and delivered in accordance
with applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, sales agency or similar
agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefore
provided for therein, the Warrants will be duly authorized and validly issued.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the statements made with respect to us under the
caption "Legal Matters" in the Prospectus included as part of the Registration
Statement.
Very truly yours,
Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P.
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Exhibit 23.2
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement on Form S-3 of our report, which includes an explanatory paragraph
pertaining to accounting changes, dated March 11, 1996 on our audits of the
consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule of Service
Corporation International as of December 31, 1995 and 1994, and for each of the
three years in the period ended December 31, 1995, which report is included in
the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995. We also
consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Experts."
COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
Houston, Texas
August 26, 1996
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
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(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ R. L. Waltrip
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R. L. Waltrip
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
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(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 13th day of August, 1996.
/s/ George R. Champagne
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George R. Champagne
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 6
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 13th day of August, 1996.
/s/ Wesley T. McRae
-----------------------------------
Wesley T. McRae
<PAGE> 7
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 8
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ Anthony L. Coelho
-----------------------------------
Anthony L. Coelho
<PAGE> 9
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 10
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ Douglas M. Conway
-----------------------------------
Douglas M. Conway
<PAGE> 11
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 12
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ Jack Finkelstein
-----------------------------------
Jack Finkelstein
<PAGE> 13
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 14
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ A. J. Foyt, Jr.
-----------------------------------
A. J. Foyt, Jr.
<PAGE> 15
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 16
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ James J. Gavin, Jr.
-----------------------------------
James J. Gavin, Jr.
<PAGE> 17
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 18
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ James H. Greer
-----------------------------------
James H. Greer
<PAGE> 19
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 20
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ L. William Heiligbrodt
-----------------------------------
L. William Heiligbrodt
<PAGE> 21
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 22
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ B. D. Hunter
-----------------------------------
B. D. Hunter
<PAGE> 23
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 24
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ John W. Mecom, Jr.
-----------------------------------
John W. Mecom, Jr.
<PAGE> 25
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 26
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ Clifton H. Morris, Jr.
-----------------------------------
Clifton H. Morris, Jr.
<PAGE> 27
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 28
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ E. H. Thornton, Jr.
-----------------------------------
E. H. Thornton, Jr.
<PAGE> 29
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 30
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ W. Blair Waltrip
-----------------------------------
W. Blair Waltrip
<PAGE> 31
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an
officer or director, or both, of Service Corporation International, a Texas
corporation (the "Company"), does hereby constitute and appoint George R.
Champagne and James M. Shelger his true and lawful attorneys and agents (each
with authority to act alone), to do any and all acts and things and to execute
any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents deem necessary or
advisable: (i) to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration
under the said Securities Act of the offering, sale and delivery of certain
securities of said corporation as set forth below (the "Securities"), including
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to Registration
Statements or to any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said
Securities, and to any instrument or document filed as part of, as an exhibit
to or in connection with said Registration Statements or amendments; and (ii)
to register or qualify said Securities for sale and to register or license the
Company as a broker or dealer in said Securities under the securities or Blue
Sky laws of all such States as may be necessary or appropriate to permit
therein the offering and sale of said Securities as contemplated by said
Registration Statements, including specifically, without limitation, the power
and authority to sign for and on behalf of the undersigned the name of the
undersigned as officer or director, or both, of the Company to any application,
statement, petition, prospectus, notice or other instrument or document, or to
any amendment thereto, or to any exhibit filed as a part thereof or in
connection therewith, which is required to be signed by the undersigned and to
be filed with the public authority or authorities administering said Securities
or Blue Sky laws for the purpose of so registering or qualifying said
Securities or registering or licensing the Company, and the undersigned does
hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed all that said attorney and
agent shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The Securities of the Company covered by this power of
attorney are:
(i) Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company and the related Series C Junior Participating
Preferred Stock Rights ("Rights"), including without limitation Common Stock of
the Company which may be issued upon conversion of any securities of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights) which may be issued under the Company's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Stock
Option Plan, the Company's Amended 1987 Stock Plan, the Company's 1995 Stock
Plan for Non-Employee Directors, the Company's 1986 Stock Option Plan, the
Company's 1995 Incentive Equity Plan, the Company's 1996 Employee Incentive
Plan, the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any other stock or option
plans;
<PAGE> 32
(iii) Common Stock (including any associated
Rights), convertible debentures of the Company, debt securities of the Company
and of any subsidiary of the Company, and guarantees of promissory notes of
subsidiaries of the Company which may be offered and issued by the Company from
time to time in the acquisition of other businesses or properties;
(iv) Debt securities of the Company consisting of
debentures (whether senior, senior subordinated or subordinated), notes and/or
other unsecured evidences of indebtedness;
(v) Preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share,
of the Company and depositary shares and receipts representing fractional
shares of such stock;
(vi) Warrants to acquire Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company;
(vii) Debt or equity securities of any subsidiary
of the Company, including securities convertible into Common Stock (including
any associated Rights) of the Company; and
(viii) Guarantees by the Company of any debt or
equity securities of any subsidiary of the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these
presents this 15th day of February, 1996.
/s/ Edward E. Williams
-----------------------------------
Edward E. Williams
<PAGE> 1
THIS CONFORMING PAPER FORMAT DOCUMENT IS BEING SUBMITTED
PURSUANT TO RULE 901(d) OF REGULATION S-T
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FORM T-1
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-5160382
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank) identification no.)
48 Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
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Service Corporation International
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Texas 74-1488375
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification no.)
1929 Allen Parkway
Houston, Texas 77019
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
----------------
Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
================================================================================
<PAGE> 2
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.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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Name Address
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S> <C>
Superintendent of Banks of the State of 2 Rector Street, New York,
New York N.Y. 10006, and Albany, N.Y.
12203
Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty Plaza, New York,
N.Y. 10045
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Washington, D.C. 20429
New York Clearing House Association New York, New York
</TABLE>
(B) WHETHER IT IS AUTHORIZED TO EXERCISE CORPORATE TRUST POWERS.
Yes.
2. AFFILIATIONS WITH OBLIGOR.
IF THE OBLIGOR IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TRUSTEE, DESCRIBE EACH SUCH
AFFILIATION.
None. (See Note on page 3.)
16. LIST OF EXHIBITS.
EXHIBITS IDENTIFIED IN PARENTHESES BELOW, ON FILE WITH THE COMMISSION,
ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AS AN EXHIBIT HERETO, PURSUANT TO
RULE 7A-29 UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 (THE "ACT") AND RULE
24 OF THE COMMISSION'S RULES OF PRACTICE.
1. A copy of the Organization Certificate of The Bank of New York
(formerly Irving Trust Company) as now in effect, which
contains the authority to commence business and a grant of
powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 1 to
Amendment No. 1 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement
No. 33-6215, Exhibits 1a and 1b to Form T-1 filed with
Registration Statement No. 33-21672 and Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed with Registration Statement No. 33-29637.)
4. A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to
Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement No. 33-31019.)
-2-
<PAGE> 3
THIS CONFORMING PAPER FORMAT DOCUMENT IS BEING SUBMITTED
PURSUANT TO RULE 901(d) OF REGULATION S-T
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the
Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with Registration Statement
No. 33-44051.)
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee
published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its
supervising or examining authority.
NOTE
Inasmuch as this Form T-1 is filed prior to the ascertainment by the
Trustee of all facts on which to base a responsive answer to Item 2, the answer
to said Item is based on incomplete information.
Item 2 may, however, be considered as correct unless amended by an
amendment to this Form T-1.
- 3 -
<PAGE> 4
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, The Bank of New
York, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New
York, 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 13th day of August, 1996.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By: /S/ NANCY B. GILL
---------------------------
Name: NANCY B. GILL
Title: ASSISTANT TREASURER
-4-
<PAGE> 5
Exhibit 7
_______________________________________________________________________________
Consolidated Report of Condition of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
of 48 Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10286
And Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System, at the close of business March 31,
1996, published in accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of
this District pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Thousands
<S> <C>
Cash and balances due from depos-
itory institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin .................. $ 2,461,550
Interest-bearing balances .......... 835,563
Securities:
Held-to-maturity securities ........ 802,064
Available-for-sale securities ...... 2,051,263
Federal funds sold in domestic of-
fices of the bank:
Federal funds sold ................... 3,885,475
Loans and lease financing
receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned
income .................27,820,159
LESS: Allowance for loan and
lease losses ..............509,817
LESS: Allocated transfer risk
reserve......................1,000
Loans and leases, net of unearned
income, allowance, and reserve 27,309,342
Assets held in trading accounts ...... 837,118
Premises and fixed assets (including
capitalized leases) ................ 614,567
Other real estate owned .............. 51,631
Investments in unconsolidated
subsidiaries and associated
companies .......................... 225,158
Customers' liability to this bank on
acceptances outstanding ............ 800,375
Intangible assets .................... 436,668
Other assets ......................... 1,247,908
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Total assets ......................... $41,558,682
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LIABILITIES
Deposits:
In domestic offices ................ $18,851,327
Noninterest-bearing .......7,102,645
Interest-bearing .........11,748,682
In foreign offices, Edge and
Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs ... 10,965,604
Noninterest-bearing ..........37,855
Interest-bearing .........10,927,749
Federal funds purchased and secu-
rities sold under agreements to re-
purchase in domestic offices of
the bank and of its Edge and
Agreement subsidiaries, and in
IBFs:
Federal funds purchased ............ 1,224,886
Securities sold under agreements
to repurchase .................... 29,728
Demand notes issued to the U.S.
Treasury ........................... 118,870
Trading liabilities .................. 673,944
Other borrowed money:
With original maturity of one year
or less .......................... 2,713,248
With original maturity of more than
one year ......................... 20,780
Bank's liability on acceptances exe-
cuted and outstanding .............. 803,292
Subordinated notes and debentures .... 1,022,860
Other liabilities .................... 1,590,564
-----------
Total liabilities .................... 38,015,103
-----------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Common stock ........................ 942,284
Surplus ............................. 525,666
Undivided profits and capital
reserves .......................... 2,078,197
Net unrealized holding gains
(losses) on available-for-sale
securities ........................ 3,197
Cumulative foreign currency transla-
tion adjustments .................. (5,765)
-----------
Total equity capital ................ 3,543,579
-----------
Total liabilities and equity
capital ........................... $41,558,682
===========
</TABLE>
I, Robert E. Keilman, Senior Vice President and Comptroller of the
above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition has been
prepared in conformance with the instructions issued by the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System and is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
Robert E. Keilman
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and 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
issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is true and
correct.
J. Carter Bacot
Thomas A. Renyi Directors
Alan R. Griffith
_______________________________________________________________________________
<PAGE> 1
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
---------------
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)______
---------------
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
74-0800980
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
712 MAIN STREET
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
---------------
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
TEXAS 74-1488375
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1929 ALLEN PARKWAY
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77019
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
(Title of the indenture securities)
================================================================================
<PAGE> 2
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.
Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System,
Washington, D.C.
(B) WHETHER IT IS AUTHORIZED TO EXERCISE CORPORATE TRUST
POWERS.
Yes.
ITEM 2. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.
IF THE OBLIGOR IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TRUSTEE, DESCRIBE EACH SUCH
AFFILIATION.
The obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.
(See Note on Page 5.)
ITEM 3. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF VOTING
SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE:
<TABLE>
<S> <C>
COL. A COL. B
TITLE OF CLASS AMOUNT OUTSTANDING
-------------- ------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 4. TRUSTEESHIPS UNDER OTHER INDENTURES.
IF THE TRUSTEE IS A TRUSTEE UNDER ANOTHER INDENTURE UNDER WHICH
ANY OTHER SECURITIES, OR CERTIFICATES OF INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY OTHER
SECURITIES, OF THE OBLIGOR ARE OUTSTANDING, FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
(A) TITLE OF THE SECURITIES OUTSTANDING UNDER EACH SUCH OTHER
INDENTURE.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
(B) A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE FACTS RELIED UPON AS A BASIS FOR
THE CLAIM THAT NO CONFLICTING INTEREST WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION
310(B)(1) OF THE ACT ARISES AS A RESULT OF THE TRUSTEESHIP UNDER ANY
SUCH OTHER INDENTURE, INCLUDING A STATEMENT AS TO HOW THE INDENTURE
SECURITIES WILL RANK AS COMPARED WITH THE SECURITIES ISSUED UNDER SUCH
OTHER INDENTURE.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 3
ITEM 5. INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATES AND SIMILAR RELATIONSHIPS WITH
THE OBLIGOR OR UNDERWRITERS.
IF THE TRUSTEE OR ANY OF THE DIRECTORS OR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF
THE TRUSTEE IS A DIRECTOR, OFFICER, PARTNER, EMPLOYEE, APPOINTEE OR
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OBLIGOR OR OF ANY UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR, IDENTIFY
EACH SUCH PERSON HAVING ANY SUCH CONNECTION AND STATE THE NATURE OF EACH SUCH
CONNECTION.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 6. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE OWNED BY THE OBLIGOR OR ITS
OFFICIALS.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF
THE TRUSTEE OWNED BENEFICIALLY BY THE OBLIGOR AND EACH DIRECTOR, PARTNER AND
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE OBLIGOR.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
PERCENTAGE OF
VOTING SECURITIES
REPRESENTED BY
AMOUNT OWNED AMOUNT GIVEN
NAME OF OWNER TITLE OF CLASS BENEFICIALLY IN COL. C
------------- -------------- ---------------------- -------------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 7. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE OWNED BY UNDERWRITERS OR THEIR
OFFICIALS.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF
THE TRUSTEE OWNED BENEFICIALLY BY EACH UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR AND EACH
DIRECTOR, PARTNER AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH SUCH UNDERWRITER.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
PERCENTAGE OF
VOTING SECURITIES
REPRESENTED BY
AMOUNT OWNED AMOUNT GIVEN
NAME OF OWNER TITLE OF CLASS BENEFICIALLY IN COL. C
------------- -------------- ---------------------- -------------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 8. SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR
OWNED BENEFICIALLY OR HELD AS COLLATERAL SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT BY
THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
WHETHER THE AMOUNT OWNED
SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OFCLASS
ARE VOTING AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
OR NONVOTING FOR OBLIGATIONS AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS SECURITIES IN DEFAULT IN COL. C
-------------- -------------------- ----------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 4
ITEM 9. SECURITIES OF UNDERWRITERS OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT ANY SECURITIES OF AN UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES OF SUCH
UNDERWRITER ANY OF WHICH ARE SO OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 10. OWNERSHIP OR HOLDINGS BY THE TRUSTEE OF VOTING SECURITIES OF
CERTAIN AFFILIATES OR SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE OBLIGOR.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT VOTING SECURITIES OF A PERSON WHO, TO THE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE TRUSTEE (1) OWNS 10 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE
OBLIGOR OR (2) IS AN AFFILIATE, OTHER THAN A SUBSIDIARY, OF THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF SUCH PERSON:
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 11. OWNERSHIP OR HOLDINGS BY THE TRUSTEE OF ANY SECURITIES OF A
PERSON OWNING 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE
OBLIGOR.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT ANY SECURITIES OF A PERSON WHO, TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE TRUSTEE, OWNS 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES OF SUCH PERSON
ANY OF WHICH ARE SO OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 5
ITEM 12. INDEBTEDNESS OF THE OBLIGOR TO THE TRUSTEE.
EXCEPT AS NOTED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS, IF THE OBLIGOR IS INDEBTED
TO THE TRUSTEE, FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C
NATURE OF AMOUNT
INDEBTEDNESS OUTSTANDING DATE DUE
------------ ----------- --------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 13. DEFAULTS BY THE OBLIGOR.
(A) STATE WHETHER THERE IS OR HAS BEEN A DEFAULT WITH RESPECT
TO THE SECURITIES UNDER THIS INDENTURE. EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF ANY SUCH
DEFAULT.
There is not, nor has there been, a default with respect to the
securities under this indenture. (See Note on Page 5.)
(B) IF THE TRUSTEE IS A TRUSTEE UNDER ANOTHER INDENTURE UNDER
WHICH ANY OTHER SECURITIES, OR CERTIFICATES OF INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY
OTHER SECURITIES, OF THE OBLIGOR ARE OUTSTANDING, OR IS TRUSTEE FOR MORE THAN
ONE OUTSTANDING SERIES OF SECURITIES UNDER THE INDENTURE, STATE WHETHER THERE
HAS BEEN A DEFAULT UNDER ANY SUCH INDENTURE OR SERIES, IDENTIFY THE INDENTURE
OR SERIES AFFECTED, AND EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF ANY SUCH DEFAULT.
There has not been a default under any such indenture or series.
(See Note on Page 5.)
ITEM 14. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE UNDERWRITERS.
IF ANY UNDERWRITER IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TRUSTEE, DESCRIBE EACH
SUCH AFFILIATION.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 15. FOREIGN TRUSTEE.
IDENTIFY THE ORDER OR RULE PURSUANT TO WHICH THE FOREIGN TRUSTEE
IS AUTHORIZED TO ACT AS SOLE TRUSTEE UNDER INDENTURES QUALIFIED OR TO BE
QUALIFIED UNDER THE ACT.
Not applicable.
<PAGE> 6
ITEM 16. LIST OF EXHIBITS.
LIST BELOW ALL EXHIBITS FILED AS A PART OF THIS STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY.
o1 -- A copy of the articles of association of the trustee as
now in effect.
#2 -- A copy of the certificate of authority of the trustee to
commence business.
*3 -- A copy of the authorization of the trustee to exercise
corporate trust powers.
[ ]4 -- A copy of the existing by-laws of the trustee.
5 -- Not applicable.
*6 -- The consent of the trustee required by Section 321(b) of
the Act.
+7 -- A copy of the latest report of condition of the trustee
published pursuant to law or the requirements of its
supervising or examining authority.
8 -- Not applicable.
9 -- Not applicable.
- ----------------
o Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
33-56195.
# Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Form S-3 File No.
33-42814.
* Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-11 File No.
33-25132.
[ ] Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
33-65055.
+ Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
333-10145.
_______________________________
NOTE
Inasmuch as this Form T-1 is filed prior to the ascertainment by
the trustee of all facts on which to base responsive answers to Items 2 and 13,
the answers to said Items are based on incomplete information. Such Items may,
however, be considered as correct unless amended by an amendment to this Form
T-1.
<PAGE> 7
SIGNATURE
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF
1939 THE TRUSTEE, TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 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
HOUSTON AND STATE OF TEXAS, ON THE 15TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1996.
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Wayne Mentz
----------------------------
Wayne Mentz
Assistant Vice President
<PAGE> 1
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
----------------
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)______
----------------
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
74-0800980
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
712 MAIN STREET
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
----------------
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
TEXAS 74-1488375
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1929 ALLEN PARKWAY
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77019
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES
(Title of the indenture securities)
===============================================================================
<PAGE> 2
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.
Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System,
Washington, D.C.
(B) WHETHER IT IS AUTHORIZED TO EXERCISE CORPORATE TRUST
POWERS.
Yes.
ITEM 2. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.
IF THE OBLIGOR IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TRUSTEE, DESCRIBE EACH SUCH
AFFILIATION.
The obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.
(See Note on Page 5.)
ITEM 3. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF VOTING
SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE:
<TABLE>
<S> <C>
COL. A COL. B
TITLE OF CLASS AMOUNT OUTSTANDING
-------------- ------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 4. TRUSTEESHIPS UNDER OTHER INDENTURES.
IF THE TRUSTEE IS A TRUSTEE UNDER ANOTHER INDENTURE UNDER WHICH
ANY OTHER SECURITIES, OR CERTIFICATES OF INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY OTHER
SECURITIES, OF THE OBLIGOR ARE OUTSTANDING, FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
(A) TITLE OF THE SECURITIES OUTSTANDING UNDER EACH SUCH OTHER
INDENTURE.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
(B) A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE FACTS RELIED UPON AS A BASIS FOR
THE CLAIM THAT NO CONFLICTING INTEREST WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION
310(B)(1) OF THE ACT ARISES AS A RESULT OF THE TRUSTEESHIP UNDER ANY
SUCH OTHER INDENTURE, INCLUDING A STATEMENT AS TO HOW THE INDENTURE
SECURITIES WILL RANK AS COMPARED WITH THE SECURITIES ISSUED UNDER SUCH
OTHER INDENTURE.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 3
ITEM 5. INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATES AND SIMILAR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE
OBLIGOR OR UNDERWRITERS.
IF THE TRUSTEE OR ANY OF THE DIRECTORS OR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF
THE TRUSTEE IS A DIRECTOR, OFFICER, PARTNER, EMPLOYEE, APPOINTEE OR
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OBLIGOR OR OF ANY UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR, IDENTIFY
EACH SUCH PERSON HAVING ANY SUCH CONNECTION AND STATE THE NATURE OF EACH SUCH
CONNECTION.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 6. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE OWNED BY THE OBLIGOR OR ITS
OFFICIALS.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF
THE TRUSTEE OWNED BENEFICIALLY BY THE OBLIGOR AND EACH DIRECTOR, PARTNER AND
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE OBLIGOR.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
PERCENTAGE OF
VOTING SECURITIES
REPRESENTED BY
AMOUNT OWNED AMOUNT GIVEN
NAME OF OWNER TITLE OF CLASS BENEFICIALLY IN COL. C
------------- -------------- ---------------------- -------------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 7. VOTING SECURITIES OF THE TRUSTEE OWNED BY UNDERWRITERS OR THEIR
OFFICIALS.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF
THE TRUSTEE OWNED BENEFICIALLY BY EACH UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR AND EACH
DIRECTOR, PARTNER AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH SUCH UNDERWRITER.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
PERCENTAGE OF
VOTING SECURITIES
REPRESENTED BY
AMOUNT OWNED AMOUNT GIVEN
NAME OF OWNER TITLE OF CLASS BENEFICIALLY IN COL. C
------------- -------------- ---------------------- -------------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 8. SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR
OWNED BENEFICIALLY OR HELD AS COLLATERAL SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT BY
THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
WHETHER THE AMOUNT OWNED
SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OFCLASS
ARE VOTING AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
OR NONVOTING FOR OBLIGATIONS AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS SECURITIES IN DEFAULT IN COL. C
-------------- -------------------- ----------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 4
ITEM 9. SECURITIES OF UNDERWRITERS OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT ANY SECURITIES OF AN UNDERWRITER FOR THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES OF SUCH
UNDERWRITER ANY OF WHICH ARE SO OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 10. OWNERSHIP OR HOLDINGS BY THE TRUSTEE OF VOTING SECURITIES OF
CERTAIN AFFILIATES OR SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE OBLIGOR.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT VOTING SECURITIES OF A PERSON WHO, TO THE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE TRUSTEE (1) OWNS 10 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE
OBLIGOR OR (2) IS AN AFFILIATE, OTHER THAN A SUBSIDIARY, OF THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO THE VOTING SECURITIES OF SUCH PERSON:
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 11. OWNERSHIP OR HOLDINGS BY THE TRUSTEE OF ANY SECURITIES OF A
PERSON OWNING 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE
OBLIGOR.
IF THE TRUSTEE OWNS BENEFICIALLY OR HOLDS AS COLLATERAL SECURITY
FOR OBLIGATIONS IN DEFAULT ANY SECURITIES OF A PERSON WHO, TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE TRUSTEE, OWNS 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE VOTING SECURITIES OF THE OBLIGOR,
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES OF SUCH PERSON
ANY OF WHICH ARE SO OWNED OR HELD BY THE TRUSTEE.
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C COL. D
AMOUNT OWNED
BENEFICIALLY OR HELD PERCENT OF CLASS
AS COLLATERAL SECURITY REPRESENTED BY
NAME OF ISSUER AND AMOUNT FOR OBLIGATIONS IN AMOUNT GIVEN
TITLE OF CLASS OUTSTANDING DEFAULT BY TRUSTEE IN COL. C
- ---------------------------------- ----------- --------------------------------- -----------------------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
<PAGE> 5
ITEM 12. INDEBTEDNESS OF THE OBLIGOR TO THE TRUSTEE.
EXCEPT AS NOTED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS, IF THE OBLIGOR IS INDEBTED
TO THE TRUSTEE, FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
<TABLE>
<S> <C> <C>
COL. A COL. B COL. C
NATURE OF AMOUNT
INDEBTEDNESS OUTSTANDING DATE DUE
------------ ----------- --------
</TABLE>
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 13. DEFAULTS BY THE OBLIGOR.
(A) STATE WHETHER THERE IS OR HAS BEEN A DEFAULT WITH RESPECT
TO THE SECURITIES UNDER THIS INDENTURE. EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF ANY SUCH
DEFAULT.
There is not, nor has there been, a default with respect to the
securities under this indenture. (See Note on Page 5.)
(B) IF THE TRUSTEE IS A TRUSTEE UNDER ANOTHER INDENTURE UNDER
WHICH ANY OTHER SECURITIES, OR CERTIFICATES OF INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY
OTHER SECURITIES, OF THE OBLIGOR ARE OUTSTANDING, OR IS TRUSTEE FOR MORE THAN
ONE OUTSTANDING SERIES OF SECURITIES UNDER THE INDENTURE, STATE WHETHER THERE
HAS BEEN A DEFAULT UNDER ANY SUCH INDENTURE OR SERIES, IDENTIFY THE INDENTURE
OR SERIES AFFECTED, AND EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF ANY SUCH DEFAULT.
There has not been a default under any such indenture or series.
(See Note on Page 5.)
ITEM 14. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE UNDERWRITERS.
IF ANY UNDERWRITER IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TRUSTEE, DESCRIBE EACH
SUCH AFFILIATION.
Not applicable by virtue of Form T-1 General Instruction B and
response to Item 13.
ITEM 15. FOREIGN TRUSTEE.
IDENTIFY THE ORDER OR RULE PURSUANT TO WHICH THE FOREIGN TRUSTEE
IS AUTHORIZED TO ACT AS SOLE TRUSTEE UNDER INDENTURES QUALIFIED OR TO BE
QUALIFIED UNDER THE ACT.
Not applicable.
<PAGE> 6
ITEM 16. LIST OF EXHIBITS.
LIST BELOW ALL EXHIBITS FILED AS A PART OF THIS STATEMENT OF
ELIGIBILITY.
o1 -- A copy of the articles of association of the trustee as
now in effect.
#2 -- A copy of the certificate of authority of the trustee to
commence business.
*3 -- A copy of the authorization of the trustee to exercise
corporate trust powers.
[ ]4 -- A copy of the existing by-laws of the trustee.
5 -- Not applicable.
*6 -- The consent of the trustee required by Section 321(b) of
the Act.
+7 -- A copy of the latest report of condition of the trustee
published pursuant to law or the requirements of its
supervising or examining authority.
8 -- Not applicable.
9 -- Not applicable.
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o Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
33-56195.
# Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Form S-3 File No.
33-42814.
* Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-11 File No.
33-25132.
[ ] Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
33-65055.
+ Incorporated by reference to exhibit bearing the same
designation and previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Form S-3 File No.
333-10145.
_______________________________
NOTE
Inasmuch as this Form T-1 is filed prior to the ascertainment by
the trustee of all facts on which to base responsive answers to Items 2 and 13,
the answers to said Items are based on incomplete information. Such Items may,
however, be considered as correct unless amended by an amendment to this Form
T-1.
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SIGNATURE
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF
1939 THE TRUSTEE, TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 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
HOUSTON AND STATE OF TEXAS, ON THE 15TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1996.
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Wayne Mentz
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Wayne Mentz
Assistant Vice President
