EXHIBIT 4.1
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
TO
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of March 18, 2008
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 and Indenture, dated as of March 18, 2008
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Trust Indenture
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Act Section
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Indenture Section
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310
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(a)(l)
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609
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(a)(2)
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609
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(a)(3)
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Not Applicable
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(a)(4)
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Not Applicable
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(b)
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608
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610
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311
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(a)
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613(a)
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(b)
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613(b)
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(b)(2)
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703(a)(2)
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703(b)
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312
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(a)
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701
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702(a)
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(b)
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702(b)
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(c)
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702(c)
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313
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(a)
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703(a)
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(b)
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703(b)
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(c)
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703(a), 703(b)
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(d)
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703(c)
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314
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(a)
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704
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(b)
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Not Applicable
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(c)(1)
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102
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(c)(2)
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102
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(c)(3)
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Not Applicable
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(d)
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Not Applicable
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(e)
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102
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315
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(a)
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601(a)
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(b)
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602
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703(a)(6)
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(c)
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601(b)
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(d)
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601(c)
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(d)(1)
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601(a)(1)
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(d)(2)
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601(c)(2)
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(d)(3)
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601(c)(3)
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(e)
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514
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316
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(a)
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101
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(a)(1)(A)
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502
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512
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(a)(1)(B)
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513
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(a)(2)
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Not Applicable
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(b)
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508
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317
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(a)(1)
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503
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(a)(2)
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504
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(b)
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1003
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318
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(a)
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107
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NOTE:
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This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
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1
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ARTICLE ONE
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DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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SECTION 101.
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Definitions
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SECTION 102.
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Compliance Certificates and Opinions
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SECTION 103.
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Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
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SECTION 104.
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Acts of Holders; Record Dates
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SECTION 105.
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Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company
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SECTION 106.
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Notice to Holders; Waiver
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SECTION 107.
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Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
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SECTION 108.
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Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
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SECTION 109.
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Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 110.
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Separability Clause
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SECTION 111.
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Benefits of Indenture
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SECTION 112.
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Governing Law
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SECTION 113.
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Legal Holidays
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ARTICLE TWO
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SECURITY FORMS
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SECTION 201.
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Forms Generally
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SECTION 202.
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Form of Face of Security
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SECTION 203.
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Form of Reverse of Security
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SECTION 204.
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Additional Provisions Required in Global Security
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SECTION 205.
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Form of Trustees Certificate of Authentication
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NOTE:
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This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
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ARTICLE THREE
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THE SECURITIES
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SECTION 301.
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Title and Terms
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SECTION 302.
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Denominations
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SECTION 303.
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Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
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SECTION 304.
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Temporary Securities
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SECTION 305.
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Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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SECTION 306.
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
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SECTION 307.
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Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
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SECTION 308.
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Persons Deemed Owners
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SECTION 309.
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Cancellation
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SECTION 310.
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Computation of Interest
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SECTION 311.
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CUSIP Numbers
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ARTICLE FOUR
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
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SECTION 401.
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Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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SECTION 402.
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Application of Trust Money
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ARTICLE FIVE
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REMEDIES
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SECTION 501.
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Events of Default
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SECTION 502.
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Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
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SECTION 503.
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Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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SECTION 504.
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Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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SECTION 505.
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Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
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SECTION 506.
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Application of Money Collected
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SECTION 507.
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Limitation on Suits
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NOTE:
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This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
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SECTION 508.
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Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
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SECTION 509.
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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SECTION 510.
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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SECTION 511.
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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SECTION 512.
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Control by Holders
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SECTION 513.
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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SECTION 514.
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Undertaking for Costs
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SECTION 515.
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Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
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ARTICLE SIX
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THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 601.
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Certain Duties and Responsibilities
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SECTION 602.
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Notice of Defaults
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SECTION 603.
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Certain Rights of Trustee
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SECTION 604.
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Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
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SECTION 605.
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May Hold Securities
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SECTION 606.
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Money Held in Trust
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SECTION 607.
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Compensation and Reimbursement
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SECTION 608.
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Disqualification; Conflicting Interests
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SECTION 609.
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Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
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SECTION 610.
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Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
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SECTION 611.
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Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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SECTION 612.
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Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
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SECTION 613.
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Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
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SECTION 614.
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Appointment of Authenticating Agent
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NOTE:
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This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
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ARTICLE SEVEN
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HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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SECTION 701.
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Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
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SECTION 702.
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Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
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SECTION 703.
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Reports by Trustee
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SECTION 704.
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Reports by Company
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ARTICLE EIGHT
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CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
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SECTION 801.
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Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
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SECTION 802.
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Successor Corporation Substituted
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ARTICLE NINE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
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SECTION 901.
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Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
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SECTION 902.
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Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders
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SECTION 903.
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Execution of Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 904.
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Effect of Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 905.
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Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
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SECTION 906.
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Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE TEN
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COVENANTS
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SECTION 1001.
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Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
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SECTION 1002.
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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SECTION 1003.
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Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
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SECTION 1004.
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Corporate Existence
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SECTION 1005.
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Payment of Taxes and Other Claims
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SECTION 1006.
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Restrictions on Liens
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SECTION 1007.
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Statement by Officers as to Default
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NOTE:
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This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
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SECTION 1008.
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Waiver of Certain Covenants
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SECTION 1009.
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Restrictions on Sale and Leasebacks
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
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REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 1101.
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Applicability of Article
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SECTION 1102.
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Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
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SECTION 1103.
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Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
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SECTION 1104.
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Notice of Redemption
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SECTION 1105.
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Deposit of Redemption Price
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SECTION 1106.
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Securities Payable on Redemption Date
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SECTION 1107.
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Securities Redeemed in Part
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ARTICLE TWELVE
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SINKING FUNDS
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SECTION 1201.
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Applicability of Article
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SECTION 1202.
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Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
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SECTION 1203.
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Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
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DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
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SECTION 1301.
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Applicability of Article: Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1302.
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Defeasance and Discharge
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SECTION 1303.
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Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1304.
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Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1305.
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Deposited Money and U.S.
Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions
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NOTE:
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This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
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INDENTURE,
dated as of March 18, 2008, from Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the Company),
having its principal office at 100 Parsons Pond Drive, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, 07417, to U.S.
Bank Trust National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for
the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of
indebtedness (herein called the Securities), to be issued in one or more series as in this
Indenture provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance
with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all
Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101.
Definitions
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For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in
this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act,
either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and,
except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term generally accepted
accounting principles with respect to any computation required or permitted
hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the
date of such computation;
(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an Article or a
Section refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;
and
(5) the words herein, hereof and hereunder and other words of similar
import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section
or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that Article.
Act, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
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 Investment.
applicants has the meaning specified in Section 702.
Attributable Debt in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at the time of
determination, the present value of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments
(excluding, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee, whether or not designated as
rent or additional rent, on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments,
water rates or similar charges or any amounts required to be paid by such lessee thereunder
contingent upon the amount of sales or similar contingent amounts) during the remaining term of the
lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction including any period for which such lease has
been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such present value shall be
calculated using a discount rate equal to the rate of interest implicit in such lease, determined
in accordance with GAAP.
Authenticating Agent means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.
Board of Directors means either the board of directors of the Company or any committee of
that board duly authorized to act hereunder.
Board Resolution means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full
force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
Business Day when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of
Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
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Capital Stock means:
(1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;
(2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;
(3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or
membership interests (whether general or limited); and
(4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to
receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing Person, but excluding any debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable
for, such Capital Stock.
Commission means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned
to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
Company means Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any and all
successors thereto.
Company Request or Company Order means a written request or order signed in the name of
the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means total assets (less accumulated depreciation and
valuation reserves and other reserves and items deductible from gross book value of specific asset
accounts under GAAP) after deducting therefrom (a) all current liabilities, (b) any item
representing investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries and (c) all goodwill, recorded intangible
assets, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount, organization expenses and
other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of the relevant Person
and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with GAAP.
Corporate Trust Office means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at
which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which as of the date hereof is 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600,
New York, New York 10005, Attention: Corporate Trust Services.
corporation includes a corporation, association, company, companies or business trust.
covenant defeasance has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
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Defaulted Interest has the meaning specified in Section 307.
defeasance has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
Depositary means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole
or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the
Company pursuant to Section 301, and if at any time there is more than one such Person,
Depositary as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Depositary with
respect to the Securities of such series.
Equity Interests means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire
Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for,
Capital Stock).
Event of Default has the meaning specified in Section 501.
Expiration Date has the meaning specified in Section 104.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time in the
United States of America.
Global Security means a Security in the form prescribed in Section 204 evidencing all or
part of a series of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such series or its nominee, and
registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.
Holder means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
Indenture means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
interest, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security that by its terms
bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
Interest Payment Date when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of
an installment of interest on such Security.
Investment Company Act means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
Lien means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, security interest or
other encumbrance;
provided
that in no event shall an operating lease or any Uniform
Commercial Code financing statement filed in respect thereof be deemed to constitute a Lien.
mandatory sinking fund payment has the meaning specified in Section 1201.
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Maturity when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of
such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided,
whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
Notice of Default means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4) or 501(5).
Officers Certificate means a certificate signed on behalf of the Company by two officers of
the Company, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer,
the treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
Opinion of Counsel means a written opinion of legal counsel, who may be counsel for the
Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
optional sinking fund payment has the meaning specified in Section 1201.
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 502.
Outstanding when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination,
all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
except
:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent
(other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by
the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the
Holders of such Securities;
provided
that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities which have been defeased pursuant to Section 1302
hereof; and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in
whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
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provided
,
however
, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (i) the
principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding
shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal
amount of a Security denominated in a foreign currency or currencies shall be the U.S. dollar
equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount
(or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent on the date of
original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (i) above) of such
Security, and (iii) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only
Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded obligor.
Paying Agent means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
Person means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association,
joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company, 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 premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series
are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
Predecessor Security of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all
or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes
of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
Principal Property means (a) the land, land improvements, buildings and fixtures (to the
extent they constitute real property interests, including any leasehold interest therein)
constituting the principal corporate office, any automated dispensing pharmacy, prescription
processing center, call center, data center or office (whether now owned or hereafter acquired)
which is owned by the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries and is located in the United
States;
provided
that no such property shall be deemed a Principal Property if its gross
book value (before deducting accumulated depreciation) is less than 1% of the Companys
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, and (b) any Capital Stock or indebtedness of any Restricted
Subsidiary owning any such property;
provided
that Principal Property shall not include
any facility that in the opinion of the Companys Board of Directors is not of material importance
to the total business conducted by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, considered as a
whole.
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Receivables and Related Assets means accounts receivable, instruments, chattel paper,
obligations, general intangibles and other similar assets, including interests in merchandise or
goods, the sale or lease of which give rise to the foregoing, related contractual rights,
guarantees, insurance proceeds, collections, other related assets and proceeds of all the
foregoing.
Receivables Program means, with respect to any Person, any accounts receivable
securitization program pursuant to which such Person pledges, sells or otherwise transfers or
encumbers its accounts receivable.
Redemption Date when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
Redemption Price when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at
which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities
of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
Responsible Officer when used with respect to the Trustee, means any Vice President, any
assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, or any
other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of
the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
Restricted Subsidiary means a Subsidiary which owns or leases any Principal Property.
Sale and Leaseback Transactions means any direct arrangement relating to a Principal
Property now owned or hereafter acquired whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers
such Principal Property to another Person and the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from
such other Person.
Securities has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more
particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
Security
Register has the meaning specified in Section 305.
Security Registrar has the meaning specified in Section 305.
Special Record Date for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
Stated Maturity, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal
thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date
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on which
the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
Subsidiary means a corporation, partnership or trust more than 50% of the outstanding Voting
Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other
Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries.
Trust Indenture Act means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of
which the relevant instrument was executed, except as provided in Section 905.
Trustee means the Person named as the Trustee in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter Trustee shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, Trustee as used with respect to
the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Securities of that series.
U.S. Government Obligations has the meaning specified in Section 1304(l).
Vice President, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title
vice president.
Voting Stock means stock or other interests evidencing ownership in a corporation,
partnership or trust which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, or other
persons performing equivalent functions, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of
stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary of any specified Person means a Subsidiary of such Person, all of
the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors
qualifying shares) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such
Person.
SECTION 102.
Compliance Certificates and Opinions
.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, upon any application or request by
the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company
shall furnish to the Trustee (i) an Officers Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if
any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and
(ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions
precedent, if any, have been complied with;
provided
,
however
, that in the case of
any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically
required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request,
including any request to authenticate and deliver Securities of any series pursuant to Section 303,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for in this Indenture shall include
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(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has
read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) 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;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed
opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103.
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by
the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document,
but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to
such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to
legal matters, upon a certificate or Opinion of Counsel, or representations by counsel, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel or representations by
counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with
respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or
in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
SECTION 104.
Acts of Holders; Record Dates
.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor
signed by such Holders in person or by an 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 and, where it is
hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
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instrument or instruments (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the Act of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor
of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or
writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or
writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same
Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer
thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done,
omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted
by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series,
provided
that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not
apply with respect to, the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in
Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512. If any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record
date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such
Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided
that no such action shall be effective
hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action
for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record
date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no
effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the
date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders
and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
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With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the Company may designate any
day as the Expiration Date and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day;
provided
that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new
Expiration Date is given to the Trustee in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the
relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration
Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this
Section, the Company shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record
date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration
Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
SECTION 105.
Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company
.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or
filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and
mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address
of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at
any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106.
Notice to Holders; Waiver
.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in
the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular
Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with
the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
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SECTION 107.
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such
required provision shall control.
SECTION 108.
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109.
Successors and Assigns
.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110.
Separability Clause
.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111.
Benefits of Indenture
.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112.
Governing Law
.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 113.
Legal Holidays
.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any
Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if
any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity;
provided
that, unless otherwise
provided in the terms of the Securities, no interest shall accrue for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
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ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201.
Forms Generally
.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or
in such other form (including permanent global form) as shall be established by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted
by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such
legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. If the
form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a
copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company
Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of
the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to
be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of
issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be
delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
The Trustees certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in
this Article.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders
or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 202.
Form of Face of Security
.
[
Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.
]
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
CUSIP No.
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
Delaware (herein called the Company, which term includes any successor corporation under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to, or registered
assigns, the principal sum of
Dollars
on
,
[
If the
Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert
, and to pay interest thereon from
or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, semi-annually on
and
in each year,
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commencing
, at the rate of ___% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment
[
If applicable, insert
and (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of ___% per annum on any overdue principal and
premium and on any overdue installment of interest
]
.[ Interest on this Security shall be calculated
on a pro rata basis using twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. ] The interest so payable, and
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such
Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest,
which shall be the ______ or
______ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the
Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange,
all as more fully provided in said Indenture
]
.
[
If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert
The principal of
this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon
acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this
Security shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in payment
to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for. Interest on any overdue
principal shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so
paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for
payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and such interest
shall also be payable on demand.
]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
[
if applicable, insert
any
such
]
interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
]
, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts
[
if
applicable, insert
;
provided
,
however
, that at the option of the Company
payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such address shall appear in the Security Register
]
.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at
this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to
on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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The Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meaning
assigned to them in the Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its
corporate seal.
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MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
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Attest:
SECTION 203.
Form of Reverse of Security
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This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called
the Securities), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of
March 18, 2008 (herein called the Indenture), from the Company to U.S. Bank Trust National
Association, as Trustee (herein called the Trustee, which term includes any successor trustee
under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the
series designated on the face hereof
[
, limited in aggregate principal amount to $___
]
.
[
If applicable insert
The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon
not less than 30 days notice by mail,
[
if
applicable, insert
(1) on ______ in any
year commencing with the year ______ and ending with the year
______ through operation of the sinking
fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)
]
at any time
[
on or after ______, 20____
]
, as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company,
[
at the
following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed
[
on or
before ______, ______%, and if
redeemed
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during the 12-month period beginning
______ of the
years indicated,
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and thereafter
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at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case
of any such redemption
[
if applicable, insert
(whether through operation of the sinking
fund or otherwise)
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if applicable insert
plus
[ ]
]
with accrued and unpaid
interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to
such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates referred to on
the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
]
[
If applicable, insert
The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon
not less than 30 days notice by mail, (1) on
______ in any year commencing with the year ______
and ending with the year ______ through operation of sinking fund for this series at the Redemption
Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the
principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time
[
on or
after ______
]
, as
a whole or in part, at the election of the Company,
[
at the Redemption Prices for redemption
otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12 month period beginning
______ of the years indicated,
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at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case
of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)
[
if
applicable insert
plus
[ ]
]
with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable
to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.
]
[
The
sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ______ in
each year beginning with the year ______ and ending with the
year ______ of
[
not less than
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$___
[
(mandatory sinking fund) and not more than $______
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aggregate principal amount of Securities of
this series.
[
Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by
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the Company otherwise than through
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mandatory
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sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent
[
mandatory
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sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made.
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In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this
series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[
If applicable, insert
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time
of
[
the entire indebtedness of this Security
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or
] [
certain restrictive covenants and Events of
Default with respect to this Security
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, in each case
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upon compliance with certain conditions set
forth in the Indenture.
]
[
If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert
If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of
the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.
]
[
If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert
If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of
principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to
insert formula for
determining the amount
. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, overdue premium and overdue interest (in each case
to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Companys
obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the
Securities of this series shall terminate.
]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the
Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the
Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the
time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by
the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture
and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any
Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
[
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security
shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall
have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to
the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee
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to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the
Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction
inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days
after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal
hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
]
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture
shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate,
and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security
for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated
transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $______ and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a
like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different
authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be
overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meaning
assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 204.
Additional Provisions Required in Global Security
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Any Global Security issued hereunder shall, in addition to the provisions contained in
Sections 202 and 203, bear a legend in substantially the following form:
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This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee
of a Depositary. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the
name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a
whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the
Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities, any Global Security shall provide, in addition to the provisions set forth in Sections
202 and 203 and the preceding paragraph, that the Depositary will not sell, assign, transfer or
otherwise convey any beneficial interest in such Global Security unless such beneficial interest is
in an amount equal to an authorized denomination for Securities of such series, and that the
Depositary, by accepting such Global Security, agrees to be bound by such provision.
SECTION 205.
Form of Trustees Certificate of Authentication
.
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: ________
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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
As Trustee
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301.
Title and Terms
.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant
to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided,
in an Officers Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to
the issuance of Securities of any series,
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(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the
series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304,
305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303,
shall not have been issued and sold by the Company and are therefore deemed never to
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be
payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record
Date for such interest;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the series is
payable;
(5) the rate or rates (or the formula pursuant to which such rate or rates
shall be determined) at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if
any, including the rate of interest applicable on overdue payments of principal or
interest, if different from the rate of interest stated in the title of the
Security; the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest
Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date
for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase Securities of
this series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of
a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof,
the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(10) the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in which
payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of the
series shall be payable if other than the currency of the United States, which may
be different for principal, premium, if any, and interest;
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(11) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a
Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies other than that on which the Securities
are stated to be payable, the currency or currencies in which payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of such series as to
which such election is made shall be payable, and the period or periods within
which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;
(12) if the amount of payments of principal of and any premium or interest on
the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index, the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal
amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
(14) any Event of Default with respect to the Securities of the series, if not
set forth herein;
(15) the application, if any, of either or both of Section 1302 and Section
1303 to the Securities of the series; and
(16) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in part
in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities, which Depositary shall be, if then required by
applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
(17) any mandatory or optional sinking fund or analogous provisions or
provisions for redemption at the option of the Company;
(18) if applicable, the date after which and the price at which, the periods
within which, and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the series
may, pursuant to any optional or mandatory redemption provisions, be redeemed and
other detailed terms and provisions of those optional or mandatory redemption
provisions, if any;
(19) if applicable, the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the
series may be repayable prior to final maturity at the option of the Holder thereof
(which option may be conditional);
(20) if the Securities of the series may be converted into or exercised or
exchanged for other Securities of the Company or other securities or debt or equity
securities of third parties, the terms on which conversion, exercise or exchange may
occur, including whether conversion, exercise or exchange is mandatory, at the
option of the Holder or at the option of the Company, the period during which
conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, the initial conversion, exercise or
exchange price or rate and the circumstances or manner in which the
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amount of other Securities of the Company or other securities or the debt or
equity securities of third parties issuable upon conversion, exercise or exchange
may be adjusted;
(21) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in
Article 10 which applies to Securities of the series; and
(22) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with
the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination
and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above
and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers
Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any
one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened
for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of
the Officers Certificate setting forth the terms of the series. If all of the Securities of any
series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time,
it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each
Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before
the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.
SECTION 302.
Denominations
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The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in such
denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such
provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303.
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
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The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its
Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, attested by its Secretary
or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may
be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the
proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any
of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of
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such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and
make available for delivery such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series are not to be
issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series
shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the
issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such
as interest rate, maturity date, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue. In
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture
in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section
601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established
in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and
issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such
Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the
Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors rights and to general
equity principles and, if applicable, to provisions of law which may require that a
judgment for money damages rendered by a court in the United States be expressed in
United States dollars.
If such forms or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate
such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the
Trustees own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in
a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all
Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to
deliver the Officers Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order
and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the
time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior
to the time of authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
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Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver
such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written
statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes
of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304.
Temporary Securities
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Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and
upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, reproduced or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities
of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at
the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in
exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series and tenor of
authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such
series.
SECTION 305.
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register
(the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place
of Payment being herein sometimes referred to as the Security Register) in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of
Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed Security Registrar for
the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at the office or
agency in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of
like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
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At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of
the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities
are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, the Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if
so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly
executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities,
but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any
Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Securities of like tenor and of the series of which such Security is a part
and ending at the close of business on the date of such mailing to all Holders of Securities of
such series to be redeemed, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being
redeemed in part.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to this
Section 305 for Securities registered in the names of Persons other than the Depositary or its
nominee for such Global Security only if (i) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time such
Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the Depositary for such Global Security is then required by applicable law or
regulation to be so registered, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company
Order that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be
continuing an Event of Default or an event which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or
both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Securities. Any Global Security that
is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered
in such names as the Depositary shall direct.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, a Global Security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with respect to such Global Security to a
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nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another
nominee of such Depositary. Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities evidenced in whole or in part by a Global Security, the Depositary may
not sell, assign, transfer or otherwise convey any beneficial interest in a Global Security
evidencing all or part of the Securities of such series unless such beneficial interest is in an
amount equal to an authorized denomination for Securities of such series.
SECTION 306.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
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If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and
of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction
of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to
become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay
such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected
therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all
other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307.
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
.
Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for
such interest.
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Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called Defaulted Interest) shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been such holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Person or Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date
of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in
respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be not
more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of
the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special
Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of
such series at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10
days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close
of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to
the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of
any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as
may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the
Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment
shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this
Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such
other Security.
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SECTION 308.
Persons Deemed Owners
.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is
registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as
between a Depositary and holders of beneficial interests in any Global Security, the operation of
customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary as Holder of such Global
Security.
SECTION 309.
Cancellation
.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or
for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any
time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the
Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in
accordance with the Trustees customary procedures, or at the request of the Company, by return to
the Company.
SECTION 310.
Computation of Interest
.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series,
interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 311.
CUSIP Numbers
.
The Company in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use), and,
if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders;
provided
that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such
numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP
numbers.
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401.
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided
for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held
in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium,
if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which
have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the
case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder
by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
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provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the
Company to the Trustee under Section 607, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under
Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402.
Application of Trust Money
.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine,
to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose
payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501.
Events of Default
.
Event of Default, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series
when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(2) default in the payment when due of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security of that series; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the
terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant of the Company in
this Indenture (other than a covenant default in whose performance or whose breach
is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been
included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than
that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days
after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a
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written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a Notice of Default hereunder; or
(5) acceleration of any debt aggregating in excess of $100,000,000 (including
debt securities of any series other than that series), if such acceleration has not
been rescinded or annulled within 20 days after written notice given to the Company
by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
debt securities of such series; or
(6) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any
applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its
affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such
other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(7) failure to pay one or more final, non-appealable judgments (i) for the
payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $100,000,000 (except to the
extent covered by insurance or other right of reimbursement or indemnification), or
(ii) which results, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a material adverse
effect, rendered against the Company, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof,
which remains undischarged for a period of 60 consecutive days during which
execution shall not be effectively stayed or bonded pending appeal; or
(8) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or
the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement
of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it
of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition
or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment to the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company
in furtherance of any such action; or
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(9) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that
series.
SECTION 502.
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs
and is continuing and has not been cured, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not
less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the
principal amount (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the
terms thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable.
If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or 501(8) with respect to Securities of any
series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series
(or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) shall automatically,
and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become
immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the
Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities or that
series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor
in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than
the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of that series which have
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become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment
thereof, with respect to Securities of a series all or part of which is represented by a Global
Security, the Trustee shall establish a record date for determining Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series entitled to join in such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the
Trustee receives such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be.
The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to join in such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may
be, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided
, that
unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall
have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the day
which is 90 days after such record date, such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be
cancelled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new declaration of
acceleration, or rescission or annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a
declaration of acceleration, or rescission or annulment thereof, which has been cancelled pursuant
to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 502.
SECTION 503.
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such
interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days,
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on)
any Security at the Maturity thereof, or
(3) default is made in the making or satisfaction of any sinking fund payment
or analogous obligation when the same becomes due pursuant to the terms of any
Security,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal, including any
sinking fund payment or analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal (and
premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
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If the Company fails to pay such amounts promptly upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of
the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein,
or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504.
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim
for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official
in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to
or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding;
provided, however,
that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or
similar official and be a member of a creditors or other similar committee.
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SECTION 505.
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and
enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof
in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in
respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506.
Application of Money Collected
.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following
order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on
account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of
which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if
any) and interest, respectively.
SECTION 507.
Limitation on Suits
.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or
trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee
hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such
request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer
of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
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(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the
Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb
or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
SECTION 508.
Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired
without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509.
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has
been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to
any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and
remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
SECTION 510.
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of
any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511.
Delay or Omission Not Waiver
.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right
or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of any such Event of Default or acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this
Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to
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time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case
may be.
SECTION 512.
Control by Holders
.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with
respect to the Securities of such series,
provided
that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is
not inconsistent with such direction.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any such direction with respect to Securities of a series all
or part of which is represented by a Global Security, the Trustee shall establish a record date for
determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such direction,
which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such direction.
The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to join in such direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record
date;
provided
, that unless such majority in principal amount shall have been obtained
prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such direction shall automatically and
without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no further effect. Nothing in this
paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such
90-day period, a new direction identical to a direction which has been cancelled pursuant to the
proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant
to the provisions of this Section 512.
SECTION 513.
Waiver of Past Defaults
.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default
hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security of such series affected.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of
determining the Persons entitled to waive any past default hereunder. If a record date is fixed,
the Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to waive any default hereunder, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such
record date;
provided
, that unless such majority in principal amount shall have been
obtained
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prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such waiver previously given
shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no further effect.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514.
Undertaking for Costs
.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit
of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys fees and expenses, against any party litigant in
such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such
party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date).
SECTION 515.
Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time
insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any
stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully
do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will
not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601.
Certain Duties and Responsibilities
.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
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(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely,
as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to
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) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of
the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and shall use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct,
except
that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection
(a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment reasonably made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted
to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any series, determined
as provided in Section 512, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of
such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk
its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any
of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating
to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 602.
Notice of Defaults
.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder known
to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived;
provided
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however
, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or in the payment of any sinking fund
installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a
trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that
the withholding of such notice is in the best interest of the Holders of Securities of such series;
and
provided
,
further
, that in the case of any default of the character specified
in Section 501(5) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be
given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the
term default means any event that, after giving effect to any applicable grace period, is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities
of such series.
SECTION 603.
Certain Rights of Trustee
.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting
upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently
evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order or as otherwise expressly provided herein
and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed)
may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant
to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred
by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness
or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
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Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent
or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties hereunder) either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or
attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the
names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified
actions pursuant to this Indenture; and
(i) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee,
including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be
enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder.
SECTION 604.
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the trust, registrar certificates
of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605.
May Hold Securities
.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar
or such other agent.
SECTION 606.
Money Held in Trust
.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
SECTION 607.
Compensation and Reimbursement
.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be
agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered
by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in
regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
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(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee
upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and
counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to
its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all
loss, liability, damage, claim or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith
on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration
of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance
of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
SECTION 608.
Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the
manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest
with respect to Securities of any series by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with
respect to any particular series of Securities.
SECTION 609.
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital
and surplus of at least $50,000,000 subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority and having its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article Six.
SECTION 610.
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
.
If the instruments of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the
Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
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(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by
giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the
Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request
therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to
resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of
its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect
to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees
with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and
that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after
such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon
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its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section
611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent
supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and removal of the Trustee with respect
to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
(g) If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not
have been delivered to the Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the
Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
SECTION 611.
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring
Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1)
shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those
series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring
Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
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necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than
one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee
of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered
by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but,
on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all
such rights, powers and trusts referred to in Subsection (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case
may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 612.
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which
the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided
such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee
then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee
may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as
if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613.
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor
under the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 614.
Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities
of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial
redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
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authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustees certificate of
authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws
to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000
and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating
Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of
said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent,
shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee
and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by
giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 106 to all Holders of Securities of
the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating
Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers
and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under
the provisions of this Section.
The Trustee may pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation as
shall be agreed to in writing between the Trustee and each Authenticating Agent for all services
under this Section, and, if so paid, the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such
payments, subject to the provisions of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustees certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE
AND COMPANY
SECTION 701.
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually, either (i) not later than March 31 and September 30 in each year in
the case of Original Issue Discount Securities of any series which by their terms do not
bear interest prior to Maturity, or (ii) not more than 15 days after each Regular Record
Date in the case of Securities of any other series, a list, each in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of
such series as of the preceding March 16 or September 15 or as of such Regular Record Date,
as the case may be; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after
the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a
date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding
from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar.
SECTION 702.
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names
and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as applicants) apply in writing to the
Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security
for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and
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such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy
of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the
Trustee shall, within five business days after the receipt of such application, at its election,
either
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders
whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by
the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), and as to the approximate
cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if
any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information, the
Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to each Holder whose name and
address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a) a copy of the form of proxy or other communication that is specified in such request with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or
provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after
such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a
copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders or would be in
violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If
the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written
statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after
the entry of an order, sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall
enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Holders
with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise
the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and
the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable (i) by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses
of the Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, or (ii) by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under
Section 702(b).
SECTION 703.
Reports by Trustee
.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the
manner provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Trustee shall, within sixty days after each May 15 following the date of the
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initial issuance of Securities under this Indenture deliver to Holders a brief report, dated
as of such May 15, which complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a).
(b) At the time of such transmission to the Holders, a copy of each such report shall be filed
by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission
and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any
stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.
SECTION 704.
Reports by Company
.
The Company shall:
(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company files the same with
the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and
other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission
may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company files
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not required to file information,
documents; or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with
the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security listed and registered
on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with
the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time
by such rules and regulations; and transmit by mail to all Holders, at their names
and addresses as they appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the
filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and
reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of
this Section, as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by the Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801.
Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or sell, transfer or
lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the
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Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or
sell its assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by
such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any
State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on all the Securities and the performance of every
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction no Event of Default,
and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of
Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation or transfer and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
SECTION 802.
Successor Corporation Substituted
.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger by the Company into, any other Person or
any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed
to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein,
and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
SECTION 901.
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and
the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more
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indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following
purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the
Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of
all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of
less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being
included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power
herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default; or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent
as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer
form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest
coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated
form; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided
that any such change or elimination shall become effective only
when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution
of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision;
or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by
Sections 201 and 301; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to
or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611(b); or
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which
may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision, herein, or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture,
provided
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders
of Securities of any series in any material respect.
SECTION 902.
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders
.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
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Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities;
of such series under this Indenture;
provided
,
however
, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or
the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or
reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would
be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502, or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for,
the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation, or change any Place of
Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or the
interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the
case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) or impair the Holders right,
if any, to exchange or convert the Security for or into other property, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance
with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1008,
except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions
of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
provided
,
however
, that
this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to
changes in the references to the Trustee and concomitant changes in this Section
and Section 1008, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Sections 611(b) and 901(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this
Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series
of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series; with
respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of
determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture supplemental hereto. If a record date
is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly designated proxies and only such Persons,
shall be entitled to consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date;
provided
, that unless such consent shall have become
effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the date which is 90
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days after such record date, any such consent previously given shall automatically and without
further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no further effect.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular
form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve
the substance thereof.
SECTION 903.
Execution of Supplemental Indentures
.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustees own rights, duties or immunities
under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904.
Effect of Supplemental Indentures
.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated
and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905.
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 906.
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall, if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in
form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by
the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities
of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001.
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will
duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of
that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
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SECTION 1002.
Maintenance of Office or Agency
.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this
Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with
the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent
to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where
the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes
and may from time to time rescind such designations;
provided
,
however
, that no
such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or
rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003.
Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any
Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and
premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided;
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(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor
upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal (and
premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written
request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by
such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay,
to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company in trust
for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series
and remaining unclaimed for two (2) years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of
the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company
as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease;
provided
,
however
, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the request and at
the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English
language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004.
Corporate Existence
.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory)
and franchises;
provided
,
however
, that the Company shall not be required to
preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company.
SECTION 1005.
Payment of Taxes and Other Claims
.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall
become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the
Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary,
and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a
lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary;
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provided
,
however
, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge
or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
SECTION 1006.
Restrictions on Liens
.
The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume
or permit to exist any indebtedness secured by any Lien upon (i) any of its Principal Property or
the Principal Property of any Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) any Equity Interest of a Restricted
Subsidiary, unless, in each case (i) or (ii), the outstanding Securities shall be secured equally
and ratably with (or prior to) such indebtedness secured by such Lien;
provided
that the
foregoing restrictions do not apply to indebtedness secured by:
(1) Liens on any assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of the Company or of any
Restricted Subsidiary, securing indebtedness under any credit agreement to which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is a party;
(2) Liens on property or assets of a Person existing at the time such Person (a) is merged
with or into or consolidated with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (b) otherwise
becomes a Subsidiary of the Company;
provided
, that such Liens were in existence prior
to such merger or consolidation or such Persons becoming a Subsidiary and do not extend to any
assets other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the Company or the
Companys Subsidiary;
(3) Liens on property existing at the time of purchase, lease or other acquisition
thereof, or to secure the payment of all or part of the purchase price of such property, or to
secure debt incurred or guaranteed for the purpose of financing all or part of the purchase
price of such property or construction or improvements thereon, which indebtedness is incurred
or guaranteed prior to, at the time of, or within 180 days after the later of such acquisition,
completion of such improvements or construction, or commencement of full operation of such
property;
(4) Liens existing on the date hereof;
(5) Liens for taxes, assessments, governmental charges, levies or claims that are not yet
delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly
instituted and diligently concluded;
(6) Liens on receivables and related assets to reflect sales of receivables pursuant to a
Receivables Program;
(7) Liens securing hedging obligations;
(8) Liens on the Companys property or that of a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of the
United States or any state or political subdivision thereof, or in favor of any other country
or political subdivision thereof, created in connection with certain payments pursuant to any
contract or statute or indebtedness incurred or guaranteed for the purpose of financing all or
any part of the purchase price or the cost of construction of the property subject to such
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Liens (including, but not limited to, indebtedness secured by Liens incurred in connection
with pollution control industrial revenue bond or similar financing);
(9) Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds,
performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
(10) Liens securing indebtedness or other obligations of a Subsidiary owing to the Company
or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(11) Liens to secure obligations under capital leases;
(12) mechanics or other similar Liens;
(13) Liens arising out of litigation or judgments being contested;
(14) Liens in favor of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(15) Liens permitted under Section 1009; or
(16) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or
replacements), in whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in any of the foregoing clauses.
Notwithstanding the above, the Company or the Subsidiaries may, without securing the
Securities, issue, assume or guarantee secured indebtedness which would otherwise be subject to the
foregoing restrictions;
provided
that after giving effect thereto the aggregate amount of
indebtedness that would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions then outstanding (not
including (i) secured indebtedness permitted under the foregoing exceptions, (ii) indebtedness that
is secured equally and ratably with (or on a basis subordinated to) the Securities or (iii) the
Securities) does not exceed 15% of the Companys Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the end of
the previous fiscal year.
SECTION 1007.
Statement by Officers as to Default
.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of
the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers Certificate signed by the principal
executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, stating whether or
not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and
observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of Sections 1004, 1006 and 1009, and if
the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1008.
Waiver of Certain Covenants
.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or
condition set forth in Sections 1004 and 1005, inclusive, with respect to the Securities of any
series if before the time for such compliance the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Security such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or
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condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or
condition shall remain in full force and effect.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of
determining the Persons entitled to waive compliance with any term, provision or condition referred
to in the immediately preceding paragraph. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record
date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to waive
compliance with any such term, provision or condition, whether or not such Holders remain Holders
after such record date; provided, that unless such requisite percentage in principal amount shall
have been obtained prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such waiver
previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of
no further effect.
SECTION 1009.
Restrictions on Sale and Leasebacks
.
If so provided in the action establishing the terms of a series of Securities, sale and
leaseback transactions of any Principal Property by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary are
prohibited unless:
(1) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled hereunder to issue, assume
or guarantee indebtedness secured by a Lien upon such Principal Property at least equal in
amount to the Attributable Debt in respect of such transaction without equally and ratably
securing the debt securities,
provided
that such Attributable Debt shall thereupon be
deemed to be debt subject to the provisions described above under Restrictions on Liens;
(2) the Company applies an amount in cash equal to such Attributable Debt to the retirement
of non-subordinated indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary within 180 days;
(3) the Company applies an amount in cash equal to such Attributable Debt to the
purchase of other property that will constitute Principal Property having a value at
least equal to the net proceeds of the sale; or
(4) the Company or that Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, delivers to the
Trustee for cancellation debt securities in an aggregate principal amount at least equal
to the net proceeds of the sale.
The restrictions described under clauses (1) through (4) above shall not apply to:
(1) any transaction involving a lease with a term of up to five years;
(2) leases between the Company and a Subsidiary or between Subsidiaries; or
(3) leases of any Principal Property entered into within 120 days after the later of the
acquisition, completion of construction or commencement of full operation of such Principal
Property.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary here, the Company may enter into Sale and Leaseback
Transactions that would not otherwise be permitted in accordance with the limitations described
above if the sum of the aggregate amount of all of the Companys indebtedness and the indebtedness
of the Companys Restricted Subsidiaries that is secured by Liens on any of the Companys Principal
Properties and the Principal Properties of any of the Companys Restricted Subsidiaries (other than
(i) indebtedness secured solely by liens permitted under Section 1006, (ii) indebtedness that is
secured equally and ratably with (or on a basis subordinated to) the Securities and (iii) the
Securities) and the aggregate amount of all the Companys Attributable Debt and the Attributable
Debt of the Companys Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to all Sale and Leaseback Transactions
outstanding at such time (other than Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted in accordance
herewith) would not exceed 15% of the Companys Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101.
Applicability of Article
.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable
in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301
for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1102.
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution.
In case of any redemption at the election of the Company including a redemption of less than all
the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date
fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the
Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the tenor, if applicable, of the Securities to be redeemed, and
of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption
of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms
of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103.
Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all of the Securities
of a specified tenor are to be redeemed), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be
selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series subject to such redemption and not previously called for redemption, by
such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the election
for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that
series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such varies of a
denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series. If less
than all of the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not
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more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities
of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the
preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to
be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been
or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104.
Notice of Redemption
.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed,
at his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,
(4) the CUSIP numbers of the Securities to be redeemed,
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and
payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest
thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(6) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment
of the Redemption Price, and
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be
given by the Company or, at the Companys request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of
the Company.
SECTION 1105.
Deposit of Redemption Price
.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust
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as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and
(except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106.
Securities Payable on Redemption Date
.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall,
on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from
and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security
for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the
Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date;
provided
,
however
, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates
according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
SECTION 1107.
Securities Redeemed in Part
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Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment
therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new
Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed
portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered. If a Global Security is so surrendered,
such new Security so issued shall be a new Global Security.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201.
Applicability of Article
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The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series is herein referred to as a mandatory sinking fund payment, and any payment in excess of
such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as
an optional sinking fund payment. If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to
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reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.
SECTION 1202.
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously
called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been
redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through
the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with
respect to the Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such
Securities as provided for by the terms of such series;
provided
that such Securities have
not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by
the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203.
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities,
the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers Certificate specifying the amount of the next
ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which
is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202
and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior
to each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon
such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner
provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities
shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1301.
Applicability of Article: Companys Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
Unless provision is made pursuant to Section 301 for neither (a) defeasance of the Securities
of a series under Section 1302 nor (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of a series under
Section 1303, then the provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with
the other provisions of this Article Thirteen, shall be applicable to the Securities of such
series, and the Company may, at its option, by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the
Securities of such series, elect to have either Section 1302 (if applicable) or Section 1303 (if
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applicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1302.
Defeasance and Discharge
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Upon the Companys exercise of the above option applicable to this Section, the Company shall
be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities
of such series on and after the date the conditions precedent set forth below are satisfied but
subject to satisfaction of the conditions subsequent set forth below (hereinafter, defeasance).
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to
have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such
Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise
terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities of such
series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth
in such Section, payments of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities
when such payments are due, (B) the Companys obligations with respect to such Securities under
Sections 304, 305, 306, 1001, 1002 and 1003, and (C) such obligations, rights, powers, trusts, as
shall be provided in respect of this Article Thirteen. Subject to compliance with this Article
Thirteen, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1302 notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 1303 with respect to the Securities of such series. Following
a defeasance, payment of the Securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an Event
of Default.
SECTION 1303.
Covenant Defeasance
.
Upon the Companys exercise of the above option applicable to this Section, the Company shall
be released from its obligations under Section 801, Sections 1005, 1006, and 1009, any covenants
provided pursuant to Section 901 for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any other
Section applicable to such Securities that are determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to
this provision and the occurrence of an event of default specified in Sections 501(4) through
501(8), inclusive, shall be deemed not to be an Event of Default with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series on and after the date the conditions precedent set forth below are
satisfied but subject to satisfaction of the conditions subsequent set forth below (hereinafter,
covenant defeasance). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section, whether
directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason
of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but
the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby. Following a
covenant defeasance, payment of the Securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an
Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or by reference to such other Section specified above
in this Section 1303.
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SECTION 1304.
Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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The following shall be the conditions precedent or, as specifically noted below, subsequent to
application of either Section 1302 or Section 1303 to the Outstanding Securities of such series:
(1) the Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with
the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 609 who shall
agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Thirteen applicable to it) as
trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through
the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance
with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any
payment, money in an amount, or (C) 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 and discharge, and
which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and
discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Outstanding Securities of such series to maturity or redemption, as the case may be,
and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to the
Outstanding Securities of such series on the due dates thereof. Before such a
deposit, the Company may make arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
for the redemption of Securities at a future date or dates in accordance with
Article Eleven, which shall be given effect in applying the foregoing. For this
purpose, U.S. Government Obligations means securities that are (x) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith
and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and
acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment
of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at
the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued
by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended)
as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific
payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation held by
such custodian for the account of the holder of such depository receipt,
provided
that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized
to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government
Obligation or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S.
Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.
(2) No Event of Default or event which, after giving effect to any applicable
grace period, with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing
(A) on the date of such deposit or (B) insofar as Subsections
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501(6) and (7) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 90th
day after the date of such deposit.
(3) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not (A) cause the Trustee for
the Securities of such series to have a conflicting interest as defined in Section
608 or for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the
Company or (B) result in the trust arising from such deposit to constitute, unless
it is qualified as, a regulated investment company under the Investment Company Act.
(4) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under any other agreement or instrument to
which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(5) In the case of an election under Section 1302, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the
applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities
of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on
the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the
case if such defeasance had not occurred.
(6) In the case of an election under Section 1303, the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the
Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(7) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with
any additional terms, conditions or limitations that may be imposed on the Company
in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for
relating to either the defeasance under Section 1302 or the covenant defeasance
under Section 1303, as the case may be, have been complied with.
SECTION 1305.
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government
Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or
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other qualifying trustee collectively, for purposes of this Section 1305, the Trustee)
pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be held in
trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (but not including the
Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such
Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any)
and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed
on or assessed against the money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304
or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other
charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the
Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it
as provided in Section 1304 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in
excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent
defeasance or covenant defeasance.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, if and to the extent the deposited money or
U.S. Government Obligations (or the proceeds thereof) either (i) cannot be applied by the Trustee
in accordance with this Section because of a court order or (ii) are for any reason insufficient in
amount, then the Companys obligations to pay principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on
the Securities of such series shall be reinstated to the extent necessary to cover the deficiency
on any due date for payment. In any case specified in Clause (i), the Companys interest in the
deposited money and U.S. Government Obligations (and proceeds thereof) shall be reinstated to the
extent the Companys payment obligations are reinstated.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto
affixed and attested, all as
of the day and year first above written.
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MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
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/s/ Peter Gaylord
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Name:
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Peter Gaylord
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Senior Vice President and Treasurer
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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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/s/ Thomas E. Tabor
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Thomas E. Tabor
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Vice President
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