Exhibit 4.1

 

Execution Version

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY RESOURCES LLC,

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY FINANCE CORP.,

 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

 

and

 

CITIBANK, N.A., as Securities Administrator

 

 

FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

Dated as of March 10, 2014

 

to

 

Indenture

 

Dated as of November 25, 2009

 

8.250% Senior Notes due 2017

 

 

THIS FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “ Supplemental Indenture ”), dated as of March 10, 2014, is by and among Cloud Peak Energy Resources LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “ Company ”), Cloud Peak Energy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “ Co-Issuer ” and together with the Company, the “ Issuers ”), Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association, as securities administrator (the “ Securities Administrator ”).

 

WHEREAS, the Issuers, the Guarantors party thereto, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator have heretofore executed and delivered that certain Indenture, dated as of November 25, 2009 (as heretofore supplemented, the “ Indenture ”);

 

WHEREAS, on November 25, 2009, the Issuers issued $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of their 8.250% Senior Notes due 2017 (collectively, the “ Notes ”);

 

WHEREAS, $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes is currently outstanding;

 

WHEREAS, Section 9.02 of the Indenture provides that, with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, the Issuers, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Indenture for the purpose of amending or supplementing (i) the Indenture with respect to the Notes and (ii) the Notes (subject to certain exceptions);

 

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been authorized by each of the Issuers;

 

WHEREAS, the Company desires and has requested the Trustee and the Securities Administrator to join with the Company and the Co-Issuer in entering into this Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of amending the Indenture and the Notes in certain respects as permitted by Section 9.02 of the Indenture;

 

WHEREAS, the Company has been soliciting consents to this Supplemental Indenture upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in its Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated February 25, 2014 and the related consent and letter of transmittal (which together, including any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto, constitute the “ Tender Offer ”);

 

WHEREAS, (1) the Company has received the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, all as certified by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, (2) the Company has delivered to the Trustee and the Securities Administrator simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture an Opinion of Counsel relating to this Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Section 9.03 of the Indenture and (3) the Issuers have satisfied all other conditions required under Article 9 of the Indenture to enable the Issuers, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator to enter into this Supplemental Indenture.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above premises, each party hereby agrees, for the benefit of the others and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

AMENDMENTS TO INDENTURE AND NOTES

 

Section 1.1 Amendments to Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Indenture .  The Indenture is hereby amended with respect to the Notes by (1) substituting the words “three Business Days” for “30” in Section 3.02(a) of the Indenture and (2) deleting the following Sections, paragraphs or clauses of the Indenture and all references and definitions related thereto in their entirety:

 

Section 3.03 (Offer to Purchase);

Section 4.04 (Payment of Taxes and other Claims);

Section 4.06 (Limitation on Debt and Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock);

 

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Section 4.07 (Limitation on Restricted Payments);

Section 4.08 (Limitation on Liens);

Section 4.09 (Limitation on Dividend and other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries);

Section 4.10 (Guaranties by Restricted Subsidiaries);

Section 4.11 (Repurchase of Notes Upon a Change of Control);

Section 4.12 (Limitation on Asset Sales);

Section 4.13 (Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates);

Section 4.14 (Limitation on Business of the Co-Issuer);

Section 4.15 (Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries);

Section 4.16 (Financial Reports);

Section 4.17(a)(2) (Reports to Trustee and the Securities Administrator);

Clauses (2) and (3) of Section 5.01(a) (Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets by the Company);

Section 5.02 (Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets by the Co-Issuer);

Section 5.03 (Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets by a Guarantor); and

Clauses (3)-(6) of Section 6.01 (Events of Default);

 

Section 1.2    Amendments to Notes .  The Notes are hereby amended to delete all provisions inconsistent with the other amendments to the Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture.

 

ARTICLE II

 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 2.1    Defined Terms .  For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise defined or unless the context otherwise requires, terms used in capitalized form in this Supplemental Indenture and defined in the Indenture have the meanings specified in the Indenture.

 

Section 2.2    Indenture .  Except as amended hereby, the Indenture and the Notes are in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be bound hereby and all terms and conditions of both shall be read together as though they constitute a single instrument, except that in the case of conflict the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall control. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Supplemental Indenture shall affect any provision of the Indenture applicable to the other series of debt securities issued under the Indenture, the 8.500% Senior Notes due 2019.

 

Section 2.3    Governing Law .  THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

Section 2.4    Successors .  All agreements of the Issuers in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind their respective successors.  All agreements of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind their respective successors.

 

Section 2.5    Duplicate Originals .  All parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the same agreement.  It is the express intent of the parties to be bound by the exchange of signatures on this Supplemental Indenture via telecopy or other form of electronic transmission.

 

Section 2.6    Severability .  In case any one or more of the provisions in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

Section 2.7    Disclaimer .  The Trustee and the Securities Administrator accept the amendments of the Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture and agree to execute the trust created by the

 

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Indenture as hereby amended, but on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, including the terms and provisions defining and limiting the liabilities and responsibilities of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator, which terms and provisions shall in like manner define and limit their respective liabilities and responsibilities in the performance of the trust created by the Indenture as hereby amended, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or with respect to any of the recitals or statements contained herein, all of which recitals or statements are made solely by the Issuers, and neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator makes any representation with respect to any such matters. Additionally, neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator makes any representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 2.8    Effectiveness .  The provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be effective only upon execution and delivery of this instrument by the parties hereto.  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall become operative only upon the purchase by the Company, pursuant to the Tender Offer, of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, with the result that the amendments to the Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be revoked retroactive to the date hereof if such purchase shall not occur.  The Company shall notify the Trustee and the Securities Administrator in writing promptly after the occurrence of such purchase or promptly after the Company shall determine that such purchase will not occur.

 

Section 2.9    Endorsement and Change of Form of Notes .  Any Notes authenticated and delivered after the close of business on the date that this Supplemental Indenture becomes operative in substitution for Notes then outstanding and all Notes presented or delivered to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator on and after that date for such purpose shall be stamped, imprinted or otherwise legended by the Company, with a notation as follows:

 

“Effective as of March 10, 2014, certain restrictive covenants of the Issuers and certain Events of Default applicable to the Notes have been eliminated and the minimum notice period for optional redemptions of the Notes has been reduced from 30 days to three Business Days, all as provided in the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2014.  Reference is hereby made to such Fourth Supplemental Indenture, copies of which are on file with the Trustee and the Securities Administrator, for a description of the amendments made therein.”

 

Section 2.10 Effect of Headings .  The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction thereof.

 

[THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year written above.

 

	COMPANY :
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY RESOURCES LLC
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
		Corporate Secretary
	CO-ISSUER :
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY FINANCE CORP.
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
		Corporate Secretary

 

[Signature Page to Fourth Supplemental Indenture]

 

 

	TRUSTEE :
	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY , as Trustee
	By:	/s/ W. Thomas Morris, II
		Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Fourth Supplemental Indenture]

 

 

	SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR :
	CITIBANK, N. A. , as Securities Administrator
	By:	/s/ Louis Piscitelli
		Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Fourth Supplemental Indenture]

 

Exhibit 4.2

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY RESOURCES LLC

 

and

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY FINANCE CORP.,

 

as Issuers,

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY INC.,

 

as Guarantor,

 

THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO,

 

as Subsidiary Guarantors,

 

and

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

as Trustee

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of March 11, 2014

 

Senior Debt Securities

 

 

 

CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

TIA Section				Indenture Section
310	(a)			7.10
	(b)			7.10
	(c)			N.A.
311	(a)			7.11
	(b)			7.11
	(c)			N.A.
312	(a)			5.01
	(b)			5.02
	(c)			5.02
313	(a)			5.03
	(b)			5.03
	(c)			13.03
	(d)			5.03
314	(a)			4.05
	(b)			N.A.
	(c)(1)			13.05
	(c)(2)			13.05
	(c)(3)			N.A.
	(d)			N.A.
	(e)			13.05
	(f)			N.A.
315	(a)			7.01
	(b)			6.07 & 13.03
	(c)			7.01
	(d)			7.01
	(e)			6.08
316	(a) (last sentence)			1.01
	(a)(1)(A)			6.06
	(a)(1)(B)			6.06
	(a)(2)			9.01(d)
	(b)			6.04
	(c)			5.04
317	(a)(1)			6.02
	(a)(2)			6.02
	(b)			4.04
318	(a)			13.07

 

N.A. means Not Applicable

 

NOTE:  This Cross-Reference table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed part of this Indenture.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01	Definitions	1
Section 1.02	Other Definitions	6
Section 1.03	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	7
Section 1.04	Rules of Construction	7
ARTICLE II
DEBT SECURITIES
Section 2.01	Forms Generally	7
Section 2.02	Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication	8
Section 2.03	Principal Amount; Issuable in Series	8
Section 2.04	Execution of Debt Securities	10
Section 2.05	Authentication and Delivery of Debt Securities	11
Section 2.06	Denomination of Debt Securities	12
Section 2.07	Registration of Transfer and Exchange	12
Section 2.08	Temporary Debt Securities	13
Section 2.09	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt Securities	14
Section 2.10	Cancellation of Surrendered Debt Securities	15
Section 2.11	Provisions of this Indenture and Debt Securities for the Sole Benefit of the Parties and the Holders	15
Section 2.12	Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved	15
Section 2.13	Securities Denominated in Dollars	16
Section 2.14	Wire Transfers	16
Section 2.15	Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security	16
Section 2.16	Medium Term Securities	18
Section 2.17	Defaulted Interest	19
Section 2.18	CUSIP Numbers	20
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES
Section 3.01	Applicability of Article	20
Section 3.02	Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities	20
Section 3.03	Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption	21
Section 3.04	Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds	22
Section 3.05	Redemption of Debt Securities for Sinking Fund	22

 

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ARTICLE IV
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE ISSUERS AND THE GUARANTOR
Section 4.01	Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Debt Securities	24
Section 4.02	Maintenance of Offices or Agencies for Registration of Transfer, Exchange and Payment of Debt Securities	24
Section 4.03	Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in the Office of Trustee	25
Section 4.04	Duties of Paying Agents, etc	25
Section 4.05	SEC Reports; Financial Statements	26
Section 4.06	Compliance Certificate	26
Section 4.07	Further Instruments and Acts	27
Section 4.08	Existence	27
Section 4.09	Maintenance of Properties	27
Section 4.10	Payment of Taxes and Other Claims	27
Section 4.11	Waiver of Certain Covenants	28
Section 4.12	Business Activities of Co-Issuer	28
ARTICLE V
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01	Company to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses of Holders; Preservation of Information	28
Section 5.02	Communications to Holders	29
Section 5.03	Reports by Trustee	29
ARTICLE VI
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS IN EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 6.01	Events of Default	29
Section 6.02	Collection of Debt by Trustee, etc	31
Section 6.03	Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee	33
Section 6.04	Limitation on Suits by Holders	33
Section 6.05	Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission in Exercise of Rights Not a Waiver of Default	34
Section 6.06	Rights of Holders of Majority in Principal Amount of Debt Securities to Direct Trustee and to Waive Default	34
Section 6.07	Trustee to Give Notice of Defaults Known to It, but May Withhold Such Notice in Certain Circumstances	35
Section 6.08	Requirement of an Undertaking to Pay Costs in Certain Suits under the Indenture or Against the Trustee	35
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01	Certain Duties and Responsibilities	35

 

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Section 7.02	Certain Rights of Trustee	37
Section 7.03	Trustee Not Liable for Recitals in Indenture or in Debt Securities	38
Section 7.04	Trustee, Paying Agent or Registrar May Own Debt Securities	38
Section 7.05	Moneys Received by Trustee to Be Held in Trust	38
Section 7.06	Compensation and Reimbursement	39
Section 7.07	Right of Trustee to Rely on an Officers’ Certificate Where No Other Evidence Specifically Prescribed	39
Section 7.08	Separate Trustee; Replacement of Trustee	39
Section 7.09	Successor Trustee by Merger	41
Section 7.10	Eligibility; Disqualification	41
Section 7.11	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company	41
Section 7.12	Compliance with Tax Laws	41
ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 8.01	Evidence of Action by Holders	41
Section 8.02	Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Debt Securities	42
Section 8.03	Who May Be Deemed Owner of Debt Securities	42
Section 8.04	Instruments Executed by Holders Bind Future Holders; Record Date	42
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01	Purposes for Which Supplemental Indenture May Be Entered into Without Consent of Holders	43
Section 9.02	Modification of Indenture with Consent of Holders of Debt Securities	44
Section 9.03	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	45
Section 9.04	Debt Securities May Bear Notation of Changes by Supplemental Indentures	46
ARTICLE X
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
Section 10.01	Consolidations and Mergers of the Issuers	46
Section 10.02	Rights and Duties of Successor Issuer	46
ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 11.01	Applicability of Article	47
Section 11.02	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Defeasance	47
Section 11.03	Conditions of Defeasance	48
Section 11.04	Application of Trust Money	49
Section 11.05	Repayment to Company	49
Section 11.06	Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations	49

 

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Section 11.07	Reinstatement		50
ARTICLE XII
[RESERVED]
ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 13.01	Successors and Assigns of Issuers Bound by Indenture		50
Section 13.02	Acts of Board, Committee or Officer of Successor Issuer Valid		50
Section 13.03	Required Notices or Demands		50
Section 13.04	Indenture and Debt Securities to Be Construed in Accordance with the Laws of the State of New York		51
Section 13.05	Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Furnished upon Application or Demand by an Issuer		51
Section 13.06	Payments Due on Legal Holidays		52
Section 13.07	Provisions Required by TIA to Control		52
Section 13.08	Computation of Interest on Debt Securities		52
Section 13.09	Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar		52
Section 13.10	No Recourse Against Others		52
Section 13.11	Severability		53
Section 13.12	Effect of Headings		53
Section 13.13	Indenture May Be Executed in Counterparts		53
ARTICLE XIV
GUARANTEE
Section 14.01	Unconditional Guarantee		53
Section 14.02	Execution and Delivery of Notation of Guarantee		55
Section 14.03	Limitation on Liability of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors		55
Section 14.04	Release of Guarantor or Subsidiary Guarantors from Guarantee		56
Section 14.05	Contribution		57
Notation of Guarantee		Annex A

 

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THIS INDENTURE dated as of March 11, 2014 is among Cloud Peak Energy Resources LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), Cloud Peak Energy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), Cloud Peak Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), the Subsidiary Guarantors party hereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY, THE CO-ISSUER,
THE GUARANTOR AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

 

The Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Company’s or the Issuers’ nonconvertible debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series unlimited as to principal amount (herein called the “Debt Securities”), and the guarantee by the Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors of the Debt Securities, as in this Indenture provided.

 

The Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors are members of the same consolidated group of companies.  The Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors will derive direct and indirect economic benefit from the issuance of the Debt Securities.  Accordingly, the Guarantor and each Subsidiary Guarantor have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for its full, unconditional and joint and several guarantee of the Debt Securities to the extent provided in or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH

 

That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Debt Securities are authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises, and of the purchase and acceptance of the Debt Securities by the holders thereof, the Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee covenant and agree with each other, for the benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Debt Securities or any series thereof, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.01          Definitions .

 

“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. The Trustee

 

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may request and may conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate to determine whether any Person is an Affiliate of any specified Person.

 

“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

 

“Board of Directors” means the board of members of the Company (or, if the Company has no board of members, then the board of directors of the Guarantor) or any authorized committee of the board of members of the Company (or, if the Company has no board of members, then any authorized committee of the board of directors of the Guarantor) or any members, directors and/or officers of the Company (or the Guarantor, as applicable) to whom such board of members (or such board of directors, as applicable) or such committee shall have duly delegated its authority to act hereunder.

 

“Business Day” means any day other than a Legal Holiday.

 

“capital stock” of any Person means and includes any and all shares, rights to purchase, warrants or options (whether or not currently exercisable), participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity (which includes, but is not limited to, common stock, preferred stock and partnership and joint venture interests) of such Person (excluding any debt securities that are convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity).

 

“Co-Issuer” means the Person named as the “Co-Issuer” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Co-Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.

 

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

 

“Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” means the corporate trust office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business in Dallas, Texas shall be administered, which office at the date of execution of this Indenture is located at 750 N. St. Paul Place, Suite 1750, Dallas, Texas 75201.

 

“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

“Debt” of any Person at any date means any obligation created or assumed by such Person for the repayment of borrowed money and any guarantee thereof.

 

“Debt Security” or “Debt Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any debt security or debt securities, as the case may be, of any series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

 

“Default” means any event, act or condition that is, or after notice or the passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

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“Depositary” means, unless otherwise specified by the Company pursuant to either Section 2.03 or 2.15, with respect to Debt Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, or any successor thereto registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulations.

 

“Dollar” or “$” means such currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor statute.

 

“Floating Rate Security” means a Debt Security that provides for the payment of interest at a variable rate determined periodically by reference to an interest rate index specified pursuant to Section 2.03.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as in effect from time to time.

 

“Global Security” means, with respect to any series of Debt Securities issued hereunder, a Debt Security which is executed by the Issuers and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture, or resolution of the Board of Directors and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and which shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series or any portion thereof, in either case having the same terms, including, without limitation, the same original issue date, date or dates on which principal is due and interest rate or method of determining interest.

 

“guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt or other obligation of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt or other obligation of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (b) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Debt or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.  The term “guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

 

“Guarantor” means the Person named as the “Guarantor” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Guarantor” shall mean such successor Person.

 

“Holder,” “Holder of Debt Securities” or other similar terms means, a Person in whose name a Debt Security is registered in the Debt Security Register (as defined in Section 2.07(a)).

 

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“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed, or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented and shall include the form and terms of particular series of Debt Securities as contemplated hereunder, whether or not a supplemental Indenture is entered into with respect thereto.

 

“Issuer Request,” when used with respect to any series of Debt Securities, means a written request or order signed in the name of each Issuer of such series by the Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President of such Issuer, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Issuer, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Legal Holiday” means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York, New York or at a Place of Payment are authorized by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed.  If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

 

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, security interest, pledge, charge or other encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law.

 

“Officer” means, with respect to a Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, Controller, Secretary, Assistant Secretary or any Assistant Vice President of such Person.

 

“Officers’ Certificate,” when used with respect to any series of Debt Securities, means a certificate signed by two Officers of each Issuer of such series, one of whom must be the chief executive officer, chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of such Issuer.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee.  The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or the Trustee.

 

“Original Issue Discount Debt Security” means any Debt Security which 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 6.01.

 

“Outstanding,” when used with respect to any series of Debt Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Debt Securities of that series theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

 

(a)                                  Debt Securities of that series theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

(b)                                  Debt Securities of that series 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 Debt Securities; provided, that, if such Debt Securities are to be redeemed,

 

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notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and

 

(c)                                   Debt Securities of that series which have been paid pursuant to Section 2.09 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Debt Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Debt Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Debt Securities are held by a protected purchaser in whose hands such Debt Securities are valid obligations of the Issuers;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of any series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Debt Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt 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 or waiver, only Debt Securities which a Trust Officer actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Debt Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Debt Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or an Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.  In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Debt Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Debt Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.01.

 

“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or other agency or political subdivision thereof or other entity of any kind.

 

“Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Debt Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the control of the issuer unless such contingency has occurred).

 

“Subsidiary” of any Person means:

 

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(1)                                  any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of equity interests entitled, without regard to the occurrence of any contingency, to vote in the election of directors, managers, trustees or equivalent Persons thereof is at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person or combination thereof; or

 

(2)                                  in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the partners’ equity interests, considering all partners’ equity interests as a single class, is at such time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person or combination thereof.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantors” means any Subsidiary of the Company that executes this Indenture, or a supplement thereto, for the purpose of providing a Guarantee of Debt Securities pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §77aaa-77bbbb), as in effect on the date of this Indenture as originally executed and, to the extent required by law, as amended.

 

“Trustee” initially means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and any other Person or Persons appointed as such from time to time pursuant to Section 7.08, and, subject to the provisions of Article VII, includes its or their successors and assigns.  If at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Debt Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of that series.

 

“Trust Officer” means any officer or assistant officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters and every other person who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

 

“U.S. Government Obligations” means direct obligations of the United States, obligations on which the payment of principal and interest is fully guaranteed by the United States or obligations or guarantees for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged.

 

“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to maturity, calculated at the time of issuance of a series of Debt Securities, or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series and calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.

 

Section 1.02          Other Definitions .

 

Term		Defined in Section
“Debt Security Register”		2.07
“Defaulted Interest”		2.17
“Event of Default”		6.01

 

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Term		Defined in Section
“Funding Guarantor”		14.05
“Guarantees”		14.01
“Place of Payment”		2.03
“Registrar”		2.07
“Successor Issuer”		10.01

 

Section 1.03          Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act .  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.

 

All terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.

 

Section 1.04          Rules of Construction .  Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(a)           a term has the meaning assigned to it;

 

(b)           an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

 

(c)           “or” is not exclusive;

 

(d)           words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;

 

(e)           “including” means including without limitation; and

 

(f)            the principal amount of any noninterest bearing or other discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

ARTICLE II
DEBT SECURITIES

 

Section 2.01          Forms Generally .  The Debt Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form established without the approval of any Holder by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors 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 the Issuers may deem appropriate (and, if not contained in a supplemental Indenture entered into in accordance with Article IX, as are not prohibited by the provisions of this Indenture) or as may be required or appropriate to comply with any law or with any rules made pursuant thereto or with any rules of any securities exchange on which such series of Debt Securities may be listed, or to conform to general usage, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Debt Securities as evidenced by their execution of the Debt Securities.

 

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The definitive Debt Securities of each series 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 Debt Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Debt Securities.

 

Section 2.02          Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication .  The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Debt Securities authenticated by the Trustee shall be in substantially the following form:

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Debt Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

	WELLS FARGO BANK,
	NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
	As Trustee
	By:
		Authorized Signatory

 

Section 2.03          Principal Amount; Issuable in Series .  The aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities which may be issued, executed, authenticated, delivered and outstanding under this Indenture is unlimited.

 

The Debt Securities may be issued in one or more series in fully registered form.  There shall be established, without the approval of any Holders, in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more Indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Debt Securities of any series any or all of the following:

 

(a)           the title of the Debt Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Debt Securities of the series from all other Debt Securities);

 

(b)           any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Debt Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Debt Securities of the series pursuant to this Article II);

 

(c)           the date or dates on which the principal and premium, if any, of the Debt Securities of the series are payable;

 

(d)           the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) at which the Debt Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method of determining such rate or rates, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be payable, or the method by which such date will be determined, the record dates for the determination of Holders thereof to whom such interest is payable; and the basis upon which interest will be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve thirty-day months;

 

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(e)           the place or places, if any, in addition to or instead of the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, where the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, Debt Securities of the series shall be payable (“Place of Payment”);

 

(f)            the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Debt Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Issuers or otherwise;

 

(g)           whether the Co-Issuer will co-issue the Debt Securities of the series and whether such Debt Securities are entitled to the benefits of any Guarantee of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to this Indenture;

 

(h)           the obligation, if any, of the Issuers to redeem, purchase or repay Debt Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Debt Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligations;

 

(i)            [intentionally omitted];

 

(j)            if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which Debt Securities of the series shall be issuable;

 

(k)           if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on Debt Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts will be determined;

 

(l)            if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of Debt Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to such Stated Maturity, the amount which will be deemed to be such principal amount as of any such date for any purpose, including the principal amount thereof which will be due and payable upon any maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which will be deemed to be Outstanding as of any such date (or, in any such case, the manner in which such deemed principal amount is to be determined);

 

(m)          any additional covenants pertaining to the Debt Securities of the series and any changes or additions to Article XI, including the addition of additional covenants that may be subject to the covenant defeasance option pursuant to Section 11.02(b);

 

(n)           if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Debt Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.01 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 6.02;

 

(o)           the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or assignment as security for the Debt Securities of the series of any properties, assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral, including whether certain provisions of the TIA are applicable and any corresponding changes to provisions of this Indenture as currently in effect;

 

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(p)           any addition to or change in the Events of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the Holders to declare the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, such Debt Securities due and payable;

 

(q)           if the Debt Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of a Global Security or Securities, the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security or Securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual Debt Securities in definitive registered form; and the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities and the form of any legend or legends to be borne by any such Global Security or Securities in addition to or in lieu of the legend referred to in Section 2.15(a);

 

(r)            any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents or registrars;

 

(s)            the applicability of, and any addition to or change in the covenants and definitions currently set forth in this Indenture or in the terms currently set forth in Article X, including conditioning any merger, conveyance, transfer or lease permitted by Article X upon the satisfaction of any Debt coverage standard by the Issuers and Successor Issuer (as defined in Article X);

 

(t)            with regard to Debt Securities of the series that do not bear interest, the dates for certain required reports to the Trustee;

 

(u)           if other than Dollars, the coin or currency or currencies or units of two or more currencies in which payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, Debt Securities of the series shall be payable;

 

(v)           applicable CUSIP numbers; and

 

(w)          any other terms of the Debt Securities of the series (which terms shall not be prohibited by the provisions of this Indenture).

 

The Debt Securities shall not be convertible into, or exchangeable for, any capital stock of any Person.

 

All Debt Securities of any one series appertaining thereto shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such resolution of the Board of Directors and as set forth in such Officers’ Certificate or in any such Indenture supplemental hereto.

 

Section 2.04          Execution of Debt Securities .  The Debt Securities shall be signed on behalf of each Issuer by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President of such Issuer and, if the seal of an Issuer is reproduced thereon, it shall be attested by its Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer.  Such signatures upon the Debt Securities may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized officers and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Debt Securities.  The seal of an Issuer, if any, may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Debt Securities.

 

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Only such Debt Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, signed manually by the Trustee, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.  Such certificate by the Trustee upon any Debt Security executed by each Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Debt Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

In case any Officer of an Issuer who shall have signed any of the Debt Securities shall cease to be such Officer before the Debt Securities so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by an Issuer, such Debt Securities nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Debt Securities had not ceased to be such Officer; and any Debt Security may be signed on behalf of an Issuer by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Debt Security, shall be the proper Officers of such Issuer, although at the date of such Debt Security or of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such Officer.

 

Section 2.05          Authentication and Delivery of Debt Securities .  At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Debt Securities of any series executed by each Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Debt Securities to or upon an Issuer Request.  In authenticating such Debt Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Debt Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

 

(a)           a copy of any resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, certified by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company, authorizing the terms of issuance of any series of Debt Securities;

 

(b)           an executed supplemental Indenture, if any;

 

(c)           an Officers’ Certificate; and

 

(d)           an Opinion of Counsel prepared in accordance with Section 13.05 substantially to the effect that:

 

(i)            that the form of such Debt Securities has been established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors or by a supplemental Indenture as permitted by Section 2.01 in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(ii)           that the terms of such Debt Securities have been established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors or by a supplemental Indenture as permitted by Section 2.03 in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

 

(iii)          that such Debt Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by each Issuer in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Issuer, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’

 

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rights generally and rights of acceleration and the availability of equitable remedies may be limited by equitable principles of general applicability.

 

Such Opinion of Counsel need express no opinion as to whether a court in the United States would render a money judgment in a currency other than Dollars.

 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Debt Securities under this Section 2.05 if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors, trustees or vice presidents (or any combination thereof) shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.

 

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate Debt Securities of any series.  Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Debt Securities whenever the Trustee may do so.  Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent.  An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, paying agent or agent for service of notices and demands.

 

Unless otherwise provided in the form of Debt Security for any series, each Debt Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

Section 2.06          Denomination of Debt Securities .  Unless otherwise provided in the form of Debt Security for any series, the Debt Securities of each series shall be issuable only as fully registered Debt Securities in such Dollar denominations as shall be specified or contemplated by Section 2.03.  In the absence of any such specification with respect to the Debt Securities of any series, the Debt Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

 

Section 2.07          Registration of Transfer and Exchange .

 

(a)           The Company shall keep or cause to be kept a register for each series of Debt Securities issued hereunder (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Debt Security Register”), in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of all Debt Securities and the transfer of Debt Securities as in this Article II provided.  At all reasonable times the Debt Security Register shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.  Subject to Section 2.15, upon due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debt Security at any office or agency to be maintained by the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.02, each Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a new Debt Security or Debt Securities of authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.  In no event may Debt Securities be issued as, or exchanged for, bearer securities.

 

Unless and until otherwise determined by the Company, the register of the Company for the purpose of registration, exchange or registration of transfer of the Debt Securities shall be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and, for this purpose, the Trustee shall be designated “Registrar.”

 

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Debt Securities of any series (other than a Global Security) may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities of the same series of other authorized denominations.  Subject to Section 2.15, Debt Securities to be exchanged shall be surrendered at the office or agency to be maintained by the Company as provided in Section 4.02, and each Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor the Debt Security or Debt Securities which the Holder making the exchange shall be entitled to receive.

 

(b)           All Debt Securities presented or surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange or payment shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar) be duly endorsed or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

All Debt Securities issued in exchange for or upon transfer of Debt Securities shall be the valid obligations of each Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Debt Securities surrendered for such exchange or transfer.

 

No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Debt Securities (except as provided by Section 2.09), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto, other than those expressly provided in this Indenture to be made at the Company’s own expense or without expense or without charge to the Holders.

 

The Issuers shall not be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Debt Securities of a series either (i) during a period beginning 15 days next preceding any selection for redemption of Debt Securities of such series and ending on the close of business on the day of giving the relevant notice of redemption or (ii) between a record date and the next succeeding interest payment date, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange any Debt Security called for redemption (except, in the case of Debt Securities to be redeemed in part, the portion not to be redeemed).

 

Specific procedures for registration of transfer and exchange of any series of Debt Securities may be set forth in the applicable supplemental Indenture for such Debt Securities.

 

Section 2.08          Temporary Debt Securities .  Pending the preparation of definitive Debt Securities of any series, each Issuer may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Debt Securities (printed, lithographed, photocopied, typewritten or otherwise produced) of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Debt Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Debt Securities, all as may be determined by the Company with the concurrence of the Trustee.  Temporary Debt Securities may contain such reference to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate.  Every temporary Debt Security shall be executed by each Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive Debt Securities.

 

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If temporary Debt Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Debt Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Debt Securities of such series, the temporary Debt Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Debt Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Debt Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company at a Place of Payment for such series, without charge to the Holder thereof, except as provided in Section 2.07 in connection with a transfer. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Debt Securities of any series, each Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Debt Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor.  Until so exchanged, temporary Debt Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debt Securities of such series, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03(q) with respect to the payment of interest on Global Securities in temporary form.

 

Upon any exchange of a portion of a temporary Global Security for a definitive Global Security or for the individual Debt Securities represented thereby pursuant to Section 2.07 or this Section 2.08, the temporary Global Security shall be endorsed by the Trustee to reflect the reduction of the principal amount evidenced thereby, whereupon the principal amount of such temporary Global Security shall be reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged and endorsed.

 

Section 2.09          Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt Securities .  If (a) any mutilated Debt Security is surrendered to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office or (b) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Debt Security, and there is delivered to each Issuer and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any paying agent harmless, and neither the Company nor the Trustee receives written notice that such Debt Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, then each Issuer shall execute and, upon an Issuer Request, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Security, a new Debt Security of the same series of like tenor, form, terms and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously Outstanding.  Upon the issuance of any substituted Debt Security, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith.  In case any Debt which has matured or is about to mature or which has been called for redemption shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, each Issuer may, instead of issuing a substituted Debt Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Debt Security) if the applicant for such payment shall furnish each Issuer and the Trustee with such security or indemnity as either may require to save it harmless from all risk, however remote, and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to the satisfaction of the Company and the Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft of such Debt Security and of the ownership thereof.

 

Every substituted Debt Security of any series issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.09 by virtue of the fact that any Debt Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of each Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Security shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Debt Securities of

 

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that series duly issued hereunder.  All Debt Securities shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Securities, and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies, notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

 

Section 2.10          Cancellation of Surrendered Debt Securities .  All Debt Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying agent or a Registrar, be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation by it, or if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be canceled by it, and no Debt Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture.  All canceled Debt Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in its customary manner.  On request of the Company, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company canceled Debt Securities held by the Trustee.  If either Issuer shall acquire any of the Debt Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Debt represented thereby unless and until the same are delivered or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Issuers may not issue new Debt Securities to replace Debt Securities that have been redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

Section 2.11          Provisions of this Indenture and Debt Securities for the Sole Benefit of the Parties and the Holders .  Nothing in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, the Holders or any Registrar or paying agent, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Indenture, or under any covenant, condition or provision herein contained, all its covenants, conditions and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto, the Holders and any Registrar and paying agents.

 

Section 2.12          Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved .

 

(a)           Interest on any Debt Security that is payable and is punctually paid or duly provided for on any interest payment date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Debt Security is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest notwithstanding the cancellation of such Debt Security upon any transfer or exchange subsequent to the regular record date.  Payment of interest on Debt Securities shall be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03), or at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Debt Security Register or, if provided pursuant to Section 2.03 and in accordance with arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee, at the option of the Holder by wire transfer to an account designated by the Holder.

 

(b)           Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12 and Section 2.17, each Debt Security of a particular series delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Debt Security of the same series shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Debt Security.

 

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Section 2.13          Securities Denominated in Dollars .  Except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03 for Debt Securities of any series, payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, Debt Securities of such series will be made in Dollars.

 

Section 2.14          Wire Transfers .  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company (or any other obligor on a particular series of Debt Securities) may make any payment of moneys required to be deposited with the Trustee on account of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities (whether pursuant to optional or mandatory redemption payments, interest payments or otherwise) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Trustee before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date such moneys are to be paid to the Holders of the Debt Securities in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

Section 2.15          Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security .

 

(a)           If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03 that the Debt Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, then each Issuer shall execute and the Trustee or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 2.05, authenticate and deliver, such Global Security or Securities, which shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, the Outstanding Debt Securities of such series to be represented by such Global Security or Securities, or such portion thereof as the Company shall specify in an Officers’ Certificate, shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or its nominee, shall be delivered by the Trustee or its agent to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instruction and shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect:

 

“UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN,”

 

or such other legend as may then be required by the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities.

 

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(b)           Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.15 or of Section 2.07 to the contrary, and subject to the provisions of clause (c) below, unless the terms of a Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive Debt Securities in registered form, a Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part and in the manner provided in Section 2.07, only by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary for such Global Security, or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary, or by the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary to a successor Depositary for such Global Security selected or approved by the Company, or to a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

(c)           (i)            If at any time the Depositary for a Global Security or Securities notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or if at any time the Depositary for the Debt Securities for such series shall no longer be eligible or in good standing under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute, rule or regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to such Global Security or Securities.  If a successor Depositary for such Global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, each Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon receipt of an Issuer Request for the authentication and delivery of such individual Debt Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver, individual Debt Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.

 

(ii)           The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine, subject to the Depositary’s rules, that the Debt Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or Securities.  In such event each Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Request for the authentication and delivery of individual Debt Securities of such series in exchange in whole or in part for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver individual Debt Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such series or portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.

 

(iii)          If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03 with respect to Debt Securities issued or issuable in the form of a Global Security, the Depositary for such Global Security may surrender such Global Security in exchange in whole or in part for individual Debt Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company, the Trustee and such Depositary.  Thereupon each Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent upon receipt of an Issuer Request for the authentication and delivery of definitive Debt Securities of such series shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge, to each Person specified by such Depositary a new Debt Security or Securities of the same series of like tenor and terms and of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person’s beneficial interest in the Global Security; and to such Depositary a new Global Security of like

 

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tenor and terms and in an authorized denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities delivered to Holders thereof, unless such Global Security is endorsed by the Trustee or other custodian to reflect a reduction of such aggregate principal amount, in which case no new Global Security need to be authenticated and delivered.

 

(iv)          In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding three subclauses, each Issuer will execute and the Trustee or its agent will authenticate and deliver individual Debt Securities. Upon the exchange of the entire principal amount of a Global Security for individual Debt Securities, such Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee or its agent.  Debt Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or the Registrar in accordance with its applicable procedures.  The Trustee or the Registrar shall deliver such Debt Securities to the Persons in whose names such Debt Securities are so registered.

 

(v)           Payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on any Debt Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee will be payable to the Depositary or such nominee in its capacity as the registered owner of such Global Security.  None of the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee, any Registrar, the paying agent or any agent of any of them will have any responsibility or liability for (a) any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of the beneficial ownership interests of the Global Security by the Depositary or its nominee or any of the Depositary’s direct or indirect participants, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records of the Depositary, its nominee or any of the Depositary’s direct or indirect participants relating to the beneficial ownership interests of the Global Security, (b) the payments to the beneficial owners of the Global Security of amounts paid to the Depositary or its nominee, or (c) any other matter relating to the actions and practices of the Depositary, its nominee or any of the Depositary’s direct or indirect participants.  None of the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee or any such agent will be liable for any delay by the Depositary, its nominee, or any of its direct or indirect participants in identifying the beneficial owners of the Debt Securities, and the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may conclusively rely on, and will be protected in relying on, instructions from the Depositary or its nominee for all purposes (including with respect to the registration and delivery, and the respective principal amounts, of the Debt Securities to be issued).

 

Section 2.16          Medium Term Securities .  Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein, if all Debt Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary for the Company to deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate, resolutions of the Board of Directors, supplemental Indenture, Opinion of Counsel or written order or any other document otherwise required pursuant to Section 2.01, 2.03, 2.05 or 13.05 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Debt Security of such series if such documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first such Debt

 

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Security of such series to be issued; provided, that any subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to authenticate Debt Securities of such series upon original issuance shall be in writing and shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Company that, as of the date of such request, the statements made in the Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.05 or 13.05 shall be true and correct as if made on such date and that the Opinion of Counsel delivered at or prior to such time of authentication of an original issuance of Debt Securities shall specifically state that it shall relate to all subsequent issuances of Debt Securities of such series that are identical to the Debt Securities issued in the first issuance of Debt Securities of such series.

 

An Issuer Request delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the circumstances set forth in the preceding paragraph, may provide that Debt Securities which are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or its agent on original issue from time to time upon the written order of Persons designated in such written order and that such Persons are authorized to determine, consistent with the Officers’ Certificate, supplemental Indenture or resolution of the Board of Directors relating to such written order, such terms and conditions of such Debt Securities as are specified in such Officers’ Certificate, supplemental Indenture or such resolution.

 

Section 2.17          Defaulted Interest .  Any interest on any Debt Security of a particular series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on the dates and in the manner provided in the Debt Securities of such series and in this Indenture (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant record date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by each Issuer, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

 

(a)           Each Issuer may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Debt Securities of such series are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Debt 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 pre-paid, to each Holder thereof at its address as it appears in the Debt 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 Debt Securities of such series are registered at the close of business on such special record date.

 

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(b)           Each Issuer may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Debt Securities of such series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Debt Securities of such series 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.

 

Section 2.18          CUSIP Numbers .  The Issuers in issuing the Debt 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 Debt 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 Debt 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.

 

ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

 

Section 3.01          Applicability of Article .  The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Debt Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03 for Debt Securities of such series.

 

Section 3.02          Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities .  In case an Issuer shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Debt Securities of any series in accordance with their terms, by resolution of the Board of Directors or a supplemental Indenture, the Company shall fix a date for redemption and shall give notice of such redemption at least 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the Holders of Debt Securities of such series so to be redeemed as a whole or in part, in the manner provided in Section 13.03.  The notice if given in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice.  In any case, failure to give such notice or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Debt Security of a series designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Debt Security of such series.

 

Each such notice of redemption shall specify the Redemption Date, the redemption price at which Debt Securities of such series are to be redeemed (or the method of calculating such redemption price if it is not then determinable), the Place or Places of Payment that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities, that any interest accrued to the Redemption Date will be paid, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment, as specified in said notice, that the redemption is for a sinking fund payment (if applicable), that, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment, on and after the Redemption Date any interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue, that in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities original issue discount accrued after the Redemption Date will cease to accrue, the terms of the Debt Securities of that series pursuant to which the Debt Securities of that series are being redeemed and that no representation is made as to the correctness of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Debt Securities

 

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of that series.  If less than all the Debt Securities of a series are to be redeemed the notice of redemption shall specify the certificate numbers of the Debt Securities of that series to be redeemed, unless such Debt Securities are in global form.  In case any Debt Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Debt Security, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities of that series will be issued in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof.

 

At least five Business Days before the giving of any notice of redemption, unless the Trustee consents to a shorter period, the Company shall give written notice to the Trustee of the Redemption Date, the principal amount of Debt Securities to be redeemed and the series of the Debt Securities pursuant to which such redemption will occur.  Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel from the Company to the effect that such redemption will comply with the conditions herein.

 

By 11 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date for any Debt Securities, the Company (or any other obligor on such Debt Securities) 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) an amount of money in Dollars (except as provided pursuant to Section 2.03) sufficient to pay the redemption price of such Debt Securities or any portions thereof that are to be redeemed on that date, together with any interest accrued to the Redemption Date.

 

If less than all the Debt Securities of like tenor and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair, the Debt Securities of that series or portions thereof (in multiples of $1,000) to be redeemed; provided, however, that if at such time such Debt Securities are represented by a Global Security, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for determining the principal amount of such Debt Securities that are to be redeemed, it being understood that such determination shall be made by the Depositary in accordance with its applicable procedures. In any case where more than one Debt Security of such series is registered in the same name, the Trustee may treat the aggregate principal amount so registered as if it were represented by one Debt Security of such series.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Debt Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Debt Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.  If any Debt Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof on such Redemption Date, the principal, premium, if any, and interest shall bear interest until paid from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Debt Securities of that series.  If less than all the Debt Securities of unlike tenor and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the particular Debt Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Debt Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Debt Securities called for redemption.

 

Section 3.03          Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption .  If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 3.02, the Debt Securities or portions of Debt Securities of the series with respect to which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the date and at the Place or Places of Payment stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together with any interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on and

 

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after said date (unless the Company (or any other obligor on such Debt Securities) shall default in the payment of such Debt Securities at the applicable redemption price, together with any interest accrued to said date) any interest on the Debt Securities or portions of Debt Securities of any series so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and any original issue discount in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities shall cease to accrue.  On presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities at the Place or Places of Payment in said notice specified, the said Debt Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed at the applicable redemption price, together with any interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption.

 

Any Debt Security that is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment specified in the notice given pursuant to Section 3.02 with, if the Company, the Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and each Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Debt Security without service charge, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities of the same series, of like tenor and form, 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 Debt Security so surrendered; except that if a Global Security is so surrendered, each Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Depositary for such Global Security, without service charge, a new Global Security in a denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Global Security so surrendered.  In the case of a Global Security providing appropriate space for such notation, the Trustee or a custodian, in lieu of delivering a new Debt Security or Debt Securities as aforesaid, may make a notation on such Global Security of the payment of the redeemed portion thereof.

 

Section 3.04          Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds .  The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Debt Securities of any series, resolution of the Board of Directors or a supplemental Indenture 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 Debt Securities of any series, resolution of the Board of Directors or a supplemental Indenture is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.”

 

In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any Debt Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at its option (a) deliver to the Trustee Debt Securities of that series theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by an Issuer or (b) receive credit for the principal amount of Debt Securities of that series which have been redeemed either at the election of an Issuer pursuant to the terms of such Debt Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Debt Securities, resolution or supplemental Indenture; provided, that such Debt Securities have not been previously so credited.  Such Debt Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the redemption price specified in such Debt Securities, resolution or supplemental Indenture for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

 

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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, any resolution or supplemental Indenture, 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 Debt Securities of that series pursuant to this Section 3.05 (which Debt Securities, if not previously redeemed, will accompany such certificate) and whether either Issuer intends to exercise its right to make any permitted optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series.  Such certificate shall also state that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to such series.  Such certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery each Issuer shall be obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, by 11 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date.  Failure of the Company to deliver such certificate (or to deliver the Debt Securities specified in this paragraph) shall not constitute a Default, but such failure shall require that the sinking fund payment due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date for that series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the principal amount of such Debt Securities subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the option to deliver or credit Debt Securities as provided in this Section 3.05 and without the right to make any optional sinking fund payment, if any, with respect to such series.

 

Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash which shall equal or exceed $100,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request) with respect to the Debt Securities of any particular series shall be applied by the Trustee on the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such payment is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date following the date of such payment) to the redemption of such Debt Securities at the redemption price specified in such Debt Securities, resolution or supplemental Indenture for operation of the sinking fund together with any accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption.  Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the Trustee to the redemption of Debt Securities shall be added to the next cash sinking fund payment received by the Trustee for such series and, together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.05.  Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Debt Securities of any particular series held by the Trustee on the last sinking fund payment date with respect to Debt Securities of such series and not held for the payment or redemption of particular Debt Securities shall be applied by the Trustee, together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Debt Securities of that series at its Stated Maturity.

 

The Trustee shall select the Debt Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in the last paragraph of Section 3.02, and the Company shall cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the manner provided in Section 3.02, except that the notice of redemption shall also state that the Debt Securities are being redeemed by operation of the sinking fund.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Debt Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 3.03.

 

The Trustee shall not redeem any Debt Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption of such Debt Securities by operation of the sinking fund for such series during the continuance of a Default in payment of interest on such Debt Securities or of any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default occurring as a consequence of this

 

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paragraph) with respect to such Debt Securities, except that if the notice of redemption of any such Debt Securities shall theretofore have been mailed in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee shall redeem such Debt Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the Trustee for that purpose in accordance with the terms of this Article III.  Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such Default or Event of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter paid into such sinking fund shall, during the continuance of such Default or Event of Default, be held as security for the payment of such Debt Securities; provided, however, that in case such Default or Event of Default shall have been cured or waived as provided herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next sinking fund payment date for such Debt Securities on which such moneys may be applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.05.

 

ARTICLE IV
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE ISSUERS AND THE GUARANTOR

 

Section 4.01          Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Debt Securities .  Each Issuer, for the benefit of each series of Debt Securities, will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, each of the Debt Securities at the place, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein or in the Debt Securities.  Each installment of interest on any Debt Securities not in global form may at the Company’s option be paid by mailing checks for such interest payable to the Person entitled thereto to the address of such Person as it appears on the Debt Security Register.

 

Principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of Debt Securities of any series shall be considered paid on the date due if, by 11 a.m., New York City time, on such date the Trustee or any paying agent holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal, premium and interest then due.

 

Each Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal or premium, if any, at the rate specified therefor in the Debt Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

 

Section 4.02          Maintenance of Offices or Agencies for Registration of Transfer, Exchange and Payment of Debt Securities .  The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Debt Securities an office or agency where Debt Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for payment, and it shall also maintain in the United States (in or outside such Place of Payment) an office or agency where Debt Securities of such series may be surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Debt Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served. Initially, such office or agency shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that the office or agency where such notices and demands to or upon the Company may be served shall be the office of the Trustee indicated in Section 13.03 hereof. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any 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 presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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The Company may also from time to time designate different or additional offices or agencies to be maintained for such purposes (in or outside such Place of Payment), and may from time to time rescind any such designation; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligations described in the preceding paragraph.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such additional designation or rescission of designation and any change in the location of any such different or additional office or agency.

 

Section 4.03          Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in the Office of Trustee .  The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.08, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of Debt Securities.

 

Section 4.04          Duties of Paying Agents, etc .

 

(a)           The Company shall cause each paying agent, if any, other than the Trustee, to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04,

 

(i)            that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities of any series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the Debt Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series;

 

(ii)           that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the Debt Securities of such series) to make any payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities of such series when the same shall be due and payable; and

 

(iii)          that it will at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held by it as such agent.

 

(b)           If the Company shall act as its own paying agent, it will, no later than 11 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, the Debt Securities of any series, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, or interest so becoming due.  The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure by the Company to take such action or the failure by any other obligor on such Debt Securities to make any payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, such Debt Securities when the same shall be due and payable.

 

(c)           Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by it or any paying agent, as required by this Section 4.04, 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.

 

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(d)           Whenever the Company shall have one or more paying agents with respect to any series of Debt Securities, it (or any other obligor on such Debt Securities) will, no later than 11 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, any Debt Securities of such series, deposit with any such paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal, premium or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless any such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

(e)           Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 4.04 is subject to the provisions of Section 11.05.

 

Section 4.05          SEC Reports; Financial Statements .

 

(a)           So long as any of the Debt Securities are Outstanding, the Guarantor (or the Company, if the Guarantor has not guaranteed such Debt Securities) shall deliver to the Trustee, within 15 days after it files the same with the SEC, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports that the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.  If the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) is not subject to the requirements of such Section 13 or 15(d), the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) shall deliver to the Trustee, within 15 days after it would have been required to file the same with the SEC, financial statements, including any notes thereto (and with respect to annual financial statements, an auditors’ report by a firm of established national reputation), and a “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” both comparable to that which the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) would have been required to include in such annual reports, information, documents or other reports if it had been subject to the requirements of such Section 13 or 15(d).  The Company (and each other obligor on any Outstanding Debt Securities) shall also comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(a).

 

(b)           The availability of the foregoing information, documents or reports on the SEC’s website or the Company’s website shall be deemed to satisfy the foregoing delivery obligations.

 

(c)           Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuers’ or Guarantor’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

 

(d)           The Company shall, so long as any of the Notes are Outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days of any Officer of the Company becoming aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

Section 4.06          Compliance Certificate .  The Company shall, so long as any of the Debt Securities are Outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the

 

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supervision of the signing Officers of the Company with a view to determining whether each obligor on such Debt Securities has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his knowledge each obligor on such Debt Securities has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice required by this Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which such Officer may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto).

 

Section 4.07          Further Instruments and Acts .  The Issuers will, upon request of the Trustee, execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may reasonably be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of this Indenture.

 

Section 4.08          Existence .  Except as permitted by Article X hereof, each Issuer shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and all rights (charter and statutory) of such Issuer, provided 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 4.09          Maintenance of Properties .  So long as any of the Debt Securities are Outstanding, the Guarantor (or the Company, if the Guarantor has not guaranteed such Debt Securities) shall cause all material properties owned by the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) or any of its Subsidiaries or used or held for use in the conduct of its business or the business of any such Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the management of the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the management of the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be), desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any such Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

Section 4.10          Payment of Taxes and Other Claims .  So long as any of the Debt Securities are Outstanding, the Guarantor (or the Company, if the Guarantor has not guaranteed such Debt Securities) shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) or any of its Subsidiaries or upon the income, profits or property of the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) or any of its Subsidiaries, if failure to pay or discharge the same could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Issuers or any other obligor on the Debt Securities of any series to perform its obligations hereunder and (ii) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon the property of the Guarantor (or

 

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the Company, as the case may be) or any of its Subsidiaries, except for any Lien permitted to be incurred under the terms of this Indenture, if failure to pay or discharge the same could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) or any other obligor on the Debt Securities of any series to perform its obligations hereunder; provided, however, that the Guarantor (or the Company, as the case may be) 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 4.11          Waiver of Certain Covenants .  The Issuers, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor may, with respect to the Debt Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant set forth in this Article IV (except Sections 4.01 through 4.08) or made applicable to such Debt Securities pursuant to Section 2.03, if, before or after the time for such compliance, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series affected, waive such compliance in such instance with such covenant, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Issuers, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant shall remain in full force and effect.

 

Section 4.12          Business Activities of Co-Issuer .  The Co-Issuer may not engage in any business not directly or indirectly related to obtaining money or arranging financing for the Company or its other Subsidiaries.

 

ARTICLE V
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE

 

Section 5.01          Company to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses of Holders; Preservation of Information .  The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of each series:

 

(a)           not more than 10 days after each record date with respect to the payment of interest, if any, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such record date, 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 contents as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;

 

provided, however, that so long as the Trustee shall be the Registrar, such lists shall not be required to be furnished.

 

The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders (i) contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in this Section 5.01 or (ii) received by it in the capacity of paying agent or Registrar (if so acting) hereunder.

 

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The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in this Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

 

Section 5.02          Communications to Holders .  Holders may communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the TIA with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Debt Securities.  The Issuers, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the TIA.

 

Section 5.03          Reports by Trustee .  Within 60 days after each January 31, beginning with the first January 31 following the date of this Indenture, and in any event on or before April 1 in each year, the Trustee shall mail to Holders a brief report dated as of such January 31 that complies with TIA Section 313(a); provided, however, that if no event described in TIA Section 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months preceding the reporting date, no report need be transmitted.  The Trustee also shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).

 

Reports pursuant to this Section 5.03 shall be transmitted by mail:

 

(a)           to all Holders, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear in the Debt Security Register; and

 

(b)           except in the cases of reports under Section 313(b)(2) of the TIA, to each Holder of a Debt Security of any series whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 5.01.

 

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange (if any) on which the Debt Securities of any series are listed.  The Company agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Debt Securities of any series become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

 

ARTICLE VI
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS IN EVENT OF DEFAULT

 

Section 6.01          Events of Default .  If any one or more of the following shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Debt Securities of any series (each of the following, an “Event of Default”):

 

(a)           default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same shall become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

 

(b)           default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same shall become due and payable, whether at Stated Maturity, upon redemption, by declaration, upon required repurchase or otherwise; or

 

(c)           default in the payment of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Debt Securities of that series as and when the same shall become due and payable; or

 

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(d)                                  failure on the part of an Issuer, or if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, duly to observe or perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of such Issuer or, if applicable, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, in the Debt Securities of that series, in any resolution of the Board of Directors authorizing the issuance of that series of Debt Securities or in this Indenture with respect to such series (other than a covenant a default in the performance of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), continuing for a period of 60 days after the date on which written notice specifying such failure and requiring such Issuer or, if applicable, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, to remedy the same shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to such Issuer or, if applicable, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, by the Trustee or to such Issuer or, if applicable, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series at the time Outstanding; or

 

(e)                                   an Issuer, or if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law,

 

(i)                                      commences a voluntary case,

 

(ii)                                   consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

 

(iii)                                consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or

 

(iv)                               makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

 

(f)                                    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

 

(i)                                      is for relief against an Issuer, or if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, as debtor in an involuntary case,

 

(ii)                                   appoints a Custodian of an Issuer, or if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, or a Custodian for all or substantially all of the property of such Issuer or, if applicable, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, or

 

(iii)                                orders the liquidation of an Issuer, or if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors,

 

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and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

 

(g)                                   if any series of Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture is entitled to the benefits of a Guarantee by the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors, any Guarantee of the Guarantor or a Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be in full force and effect with respect to Debt Securities of that series (except as otherwise provided in this Indenture) or is declared null and void in a judicial proceeding or, if applicable, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors denies or disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or such Guarantee; or

 

(h)                                  any other Event of Default provided with respect to Debt Securities of that series as contemplated by Section 2.03(p);

 

then and in each and every case that an Event of Default described in clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (g), or (h) with respect to Debt Securities of that series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, unless the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Debt Securities of that series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series then Outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal of (or, if the Debt Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Debt Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series), premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Debt Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities of that series contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  If an Event of Default described in clause (e) or (f) occurs, then and in each and every such case, unless the principal of and interest on all the Debt Securities shall have become due and payable, the principal of (or, if any Debt Securities are Original Issue Discount Debt Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms thereof), premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Debt Securities then Outstanding hereunder shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration of acceleration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders, anything in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

 

The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of a particular series by written notice to the Trustee may rescind any declaration of acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction already rendered and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium, if any, or interest that has become due solely because of the declaration of acceleration.  Upon any such rescission, the parties hereto shall be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the parties hereto shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.

 

Section 6.02                              Collection of Debt by Trustee, etc .  If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid or enforce the performance of any provision of the Debt Securities of the affected series or this Indenture, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment

 

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or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series (and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series wherever situated the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable).

 

In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of any series under any Bankruptcy Law, or in case a Custodian shall have been appointed for its property, or in case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of any series, its creditors or its property, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of Debt Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.02, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and interest (or, if the Debt Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Debt Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and unpaid in respect of the Debt Securities of such series, 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 reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of its negligence or willful misconduct) and of the Holders thereof allowed in any such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities of such series, its creditors or its property, and to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of such Holders and of the Trustee on their behalf, and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby authorized by each of such Holders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Holders, to pay to the Trustee such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of its negligence or willful misconduct.

 

All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Debt Securities of any series, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any such Debt Securities, or the production thereof in any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment (except for any amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06) shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of all the Debt Securities in respect of which such action was taken.

 

In case of an Event of Default hereunder the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

 

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Section 6.03                              Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee .  Any moneys or other property collected by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.02 with respect to Debt Securities of any series shall be applied, in the order following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such moneys or other property, upon presentation of the several Debt Securities of such series in respect of which moneys or other property has been collected, and the notation thereon of the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

 

FIRST:  To the payment of all money due the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06;

 

SECOND:  In case the principal of the Outstanding Debt Securities in respect of which such moneys have been collected shall not have become due, to the payment of interest on the Debt Securities of such series in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the rate or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Debt Securities) specified in the Debt Securities of such series, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;

 

THIRD:  In case the principal of the Outstanding Debt Securities in respect of which such moneys have been collected shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon the Debt Securities of such series for principal and premium, if any, and interest, with interest on the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Debt Securities) specified in the Debt Securities of such series; and, in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Debt Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and premium, if any, and interest, without preference or priority of principal and premium, if any, over interest, or of interest over principal and premium, if any, or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Debt Security of such series over any Debt Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and premium, if any, and interest; and

 

FOURTH:  The remainder, if any, shall be paid to the Company, its successors or assigns, or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

 

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.03.  At least 15 days before such record date, the Company shall mail to each Holder and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.

 

Section 6.04                              Limitation on Suits by Holders .  No Holder of any Debt Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default with respect to Debt Securities of that same series and of the continuance thereof and unless the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the

 

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Outstanding Debt Securities of that series shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity or security as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity or security shall have failed to institute any such action or proceedings and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the Holder of every Debt Security with every other Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any Holders, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all such Holders.  For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 6.04, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, however, the right of any Holder of any Debt Security to receive payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.17) interest on, such Debt Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Debt Security, and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

Section 6.05                              Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission in Exercise of Rights Not a Waiver of Default .  All powers and remedies given by this Article VI to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid, shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, every power and remedy given by this Article VI or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.

 

Section 6.06                              Rights of Holders of Majority in Principal Amount of Debt Securities to Direct Trustee and to Waive Default .  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any series at the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or of exercising any right, trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Debt Securities of such series; provided, however, that such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture, and that subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee being advised by counsel shall determine that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Trustee shall by a Trust Officer or Officers determine that the action so directed would involve it in personal liability or would be unduly prejudicial to Holders of Debt Securities of such series not taking part in such direction; and provided, further, however, that nothing in this Indenture contained shall impair the right of the Trustee to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee

 

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and which is not inconsistent with such direction by such Holders.  Prior to the acceleration of the maturity of the Debt Securities of any series as provided in Section 6.01, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of that series at the time Outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all the Debt Securities of that series waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences for that series, except a Default in the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, any of the Debt Securities and a Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected thereby.  In case of any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture, and the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantor, each Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Debt Securities of that series shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

Section 6.07                              Trustee to Give Notice of Defaults Known to It, but May Withhold Such Notice in Certain Circumstances .  The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a Default known to it, or if later, within 30 days after the Trustee obtains actual knowledge of the Default, with respect to a series of Debt Securities give to the Holders thereof, in the manner provided in Section 13.03, notice of all Defaults with respect to such series known to the Trustee, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided, that, except in the case of Default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, any of the Debt Securities of such series or in the making of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Debt 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 committee of directors or responsible officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders thereof.

 

Section 6.08                              Requirement of an Undertaking to Pay Costs in Certain Suits under the Indenture or Against the Trustee .  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Debt Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit in the manner and to the extent provided in the TIA, 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 6.08 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than ten percent in principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of that 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 Debt Security on or after the due date for such payment expressed in such Debt Security.

 

ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

 

Section 7.01                              Certain Duties and Responsibilities .  The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have

 

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occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture.  In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

 

No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

(a)                                  this paragraph shall not be construed to limit the effect of the first paragraph of this Section 7.01;

 

(b)                                  prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities of a series and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:

 

(i)                                      the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to Debt Securities of any series shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations with respect to such series as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to such series shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee;

 

(ii)                                   the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any 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; but the Trustee shall examine the evidence furnished to it pursuant to Sections 4.05 and 4.06 to determine whether or not such evidence conforms to the requirement of this Indenture;

 

(iii)                                the Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

 

(iv)                               the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Debt Securities of any series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of that series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to Debt Securities of such series.

 

None of the provisions of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable

 

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grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

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 7.02                              Certain Rights of Trustee .  Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:

 

(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 or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

 

(b)                                  any request, direction, order or demand of an Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;

 

(c)                                   the Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;

 

(d)                                  the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Holders of Debt Securities of any series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;

 

(e)                                   the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

 

(f)                                    prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default which may have occurred, 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, approval or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Debt Securities of a series affected by such matter; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is not, in the opinion of the Trustee, reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to so proceeding, and the reasonable expense of every such investigation shall be paid by the Company or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company upon demand;

 

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(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 by it with due care hereunder;

 

(h)                                  if any property other than cash shall at any time be subject to a Lien in favor of the Holders, the Trustee, if and to the extent authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of competent jurisdiction or by the supplemental instrument subjecting such property to such Lien, shall be entitled to make advances for the purpose of preserving such property or of discharging tax Liens or other prior Liens or encumbrances thereon;

 

(i)                                      the Trustee shall not be liable for special, indirect or consequential damages;

 

(j)                                     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, and to each agent, custodian and other Person employed by the Trustee to act hereunder; and

 

(k)                                  the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of such event is sent to the Trustee in accordance with Section 13.03, and such notice references the Debt Securities.

 

Section 7.03                              Trustee Not Liable for Recitals in Indenture or in Debt Securities .  The recitals contained herein and in the Debt Securities (except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the obligors on such Debt Services, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debt Securities of any series, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Debt Securities and perform its obligations hereunder, and that the statements made by it or to be made by it in a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate.  The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuers of any of the Debt Securities or of the proceeds thereof.

 

Section 7.04                              Trustee, Paying Agent or Registrar May Own Debt Securities .  The Trustee or any paying agent or Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Debt Securities and subject to the provisions of the TIA relating to conflicts of interest and preferential claims may otherwise deal with the Issuers with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent or Registrar.

 

Section 7.05                              Moneys Received by Trustee to Be Held in Trust .  Subject to the provisions of Section 11.05, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder.  So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all interest allowed on any such moneys shall be paid from time to time to the Company upon an Issuer Request.

 

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Section 7.06                              Compensation and Reimbursement .  The Company covenants and agrees to pay in Dollars to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust), and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Company will pay or reimburse in Dollars the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents, attorneys and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ), including Section 6.02, except any such expense, disbursement or advances as may arise from its negligence or willful misconduct.  The Company also covenants to indemnify in Dollars the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim of liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.  The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.06 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.  Each Issuer and the Holders agree that such additional indebtedness shall be secured by a Lien prior to that of the Debt Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee, as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, particular Debt Securities.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(e) or (f) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law.

 

Section 7.07                              Right of Trustee to Rely on an Officers’ Certificate Where No Other Evidence Specifically Prescribed .  Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may in good faith be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee and such certificate, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.

 

Section 7.08                              Separate Trustee; Replacement of Trustee .  The Company may, but need not, appoint a separate Trustee for any one or more series of Debt Securities.  The Trustee may resign with respect to one or more or all series of Debt Securities at any time by giving notice to the Company.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debt Securities of a particular series may remove the Trustee for such series and only such series by so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee.  The Company shall remove the Trustee if:

 

(a)                                  the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

 

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(b)                                  the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

 

(c)                                   a Custodian takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

 

(d)                                  the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

 

If the Trustee resigns, is removed by the Company or by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debt Securities of a particular series and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee, or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any other reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of this Section 7.08.

 

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to each Issuer.  Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.  The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders of Debt Securities of each applicable series.  The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.06.

 

If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee gives notice of resignation or is removed, the retiring Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any applicable series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee for the Debt Securities of such series.

 

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder of Debt Securities of any applicable series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee for the Debt Securities of such series.

 

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.06 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

 

In the case of the appointment hereunder of a separate or successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of one or more series, the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors, any retiring Trustee and each successor or separate Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an Indenture supplemental hereto (i) which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of any retiring Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities of any series as to which any such retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in such retiring Trustee and (ii) that shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental Indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such separate, retiring or successor 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.

 

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Section 7.09                              Successor Trustee by Merger .  If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation or banking association without any further act shall be the successor Trustee, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VII, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.  As soon as practicable, the successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to the Issuers and the Holders of the Debt Securities then Outstanding.

 

In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Debt Securities shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Debt Securities so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Debt Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Debt Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Debt Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.

 

Section 7.10                              Eligibility; Disqualification .  The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the TIA.  The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recently published annual report of condition.  No obligor upon the Debt Securities of a particular series or Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such obligor shall serve as Trustee upon the Debt Securities of such series.  The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA this Indenture or any indenture or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other securities of an Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA are met.

 

Section 7.11                              Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .  The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the TIA, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the TIA.  A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of the TIA to the extent indicated therein.

 

Section 7.12                              Compliance with Tax Laws .  The Trustee hereby agrees to comply with all U.S. federal income tax information reporting and withholding requirements applicable to it with respect to payments of principal, premium (if any) and interest on the Debt Securities, whether acting as Trustee, Registrar, paying agent or otherwise with respect to the Debt Securities.

 

ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS

 

Section 8.01                              Evidence of Action by Holders .  Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any or all series may take action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any direction, notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the fact that at the time

 

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of taking any such action the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may make, (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders or (d) in the case of Debt Securities evidenced by a Global Security, by any electronic transmission or other message, whether or not in written format, that complies with the Depositary’s applicable procedures.

 

Section 8.02                              Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Debt Securities .  Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.02 and 13.09, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The ownership of Debt Securities of any series shall be proved by the Debt Security Register or by a certificate of the Registrar for such series. The Trustee may require such additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section 8.02 as it shall deem necessary.

 

Section 8.03                              Who May Be Deemed Owner of Debt Securities .  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debt Security, each Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee, any paying agent and any Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name any Debt Security shall be registered upon the Debt Security Register as the absolute owner of such Debt Security (whether or not such Debt Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.17) interest on such Debt Security and for all other purposes, and none of the Issuers, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; and all such payments so made to any such Holder for the time being, or upon his order, shall be valid and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Debt Security.

 

Section 8.04                              Instruments Executed by Holders Bind Future Holders; Record Date .  At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of any series specified in this Indenture in connection with such action and subject to the following paragraph, any Holder of a Debt Security which is shown by the evidence to be included in the Debt Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02 (or, in the case of Debt Securities evidenced by a Global Security, by complying with the Depositary’s applicable procedures respecting revocation of consents), revoke such action so far as concerns such Debt Security.  Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any Debt Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued upon transfer thereof or in exchange or substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Debt Security or such other Debt Securities.  Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt

 

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Securities of any series specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon each Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Debt Securities of such series.

 

The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Debt Securities entitled to give their consent or take any other action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture.  If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders of Debt Securities at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders of Debt Securities after such record date.  No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 180 days after such record date unless the consent of the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities of such series specified in this Indenture shall have been received within such 180-day period.

 

ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

Section 9.01                              Purposes for Which Supplemental Indenture May Be Entered into Without Consent of Holders .  The Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time, without the consent of Holders, enter into an Indenture or Indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the TIA as in force at the date of the execution thereof) for one or more of the following purposes:

 

(a)                                  to cure any ambiguity or omission or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any Debt Securities of any series that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in the Debt Securities of such series;

 

(b)                                  to evidence the succession pursuant to Article X of another Person to an Issuer, or successive successions, and the assumption by the Successor Issuer (as defined in Section 10.01) of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the predecessor Issuer in this Indenture and in the Debt Securities;

 

(c)                                   to add the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantors with respect to any or all of the Debt Securities;

 

(d)                                  to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities; to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuers, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors; and to add to the covenants of the Issuers, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions for the protection of the Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Debt Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders of such Debt Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a Default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or

 

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any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture; provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such supplemental Indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after Default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other Defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such Default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of any or all series of Debt Securities to waive such default;

 

(e)                                   to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder under this Indenture;

 

(f)                                    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor or separate Trustee with respect to the Debt 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;

 

(g)                                   to secure any or all of the Debt Securities;

 

(h)                                  to permit the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA as then in effect, except that nothing herein contained shall permit or authorize the inclusion in any Indenture supplemental hereto of the provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA; and

 

(i)                                      to establish the form or terms of Debt Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03.

 

The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuers, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors in the execution of any such supplemental Indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental Indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

Any supplemental Indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 9.01 may be executed by the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.02.

 

Section 9.02                              Modification of Indenture with Consent of Holders of Debt Securities .  Without notice to any Holder but with the consent (evidenced as provided in Section 8.01) of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series affected by such supplemental Indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for any such series of Debt Securities), the Issuers, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors, when authorized by resolutions of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an Indenture or Indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the TIA as in force at the date of execution thereof) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series; provided, that no such supplemental Indenture,

 

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without the consent of the Holders of each Debt Security so affected, shall: reduce the percentage in principal amount of Debt Securities of any series whose Holders must consent to an amendment; reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Debt Security; reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any Debt Security; reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Debt Security or change the time at which any Debt Security may or shall be redeemed in accordance with Article III; make any Debt Security payable in currency other than the Dollar; impair the right of any Holder to receive any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, such Holder’s Debt Securities on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment with respect to such Holder’s Debt Securities; release any security that may have been granted in respect of the Debt Securities, other than in accordance with this Indenture; make any change in Section 6.06 or this Section 9.02; or, except as provided in Section 14.04, release the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantors or modify any Guarantee in any manner adverse to the Holders.

 

A supplemental Indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has been expressly included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Debt Securities or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Debt 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 Debt Securities of any other series.

 

Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of resolutions of the Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such supplemental Indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Issuers, the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors in the execution of such supplemental Indenture unless such supplemental Indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion but shall not be obligated to enter into such supplemental Indenture.

 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental Indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.

 

After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to Holders of Debt Securities of each series affected thereby a notice briefly describing such amendment.  The failure to give such notice to all such Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.02.

 

Section 9.03                              Effect of Supplemental Indentures .  Upon the execution of any supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental Indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

 

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The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02, may receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such supplemental Indenture complies with the provisions of this Article IX.

 

Section 9.04                              Debt Securities May Bear Notation of Changes by Supplemental Indentures .  Debt Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX 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.  New Debt Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental Indenture may be prepared and executed by each Issuer, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Debt Securities of such series then Outstanding.  Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Debt Security of such series shall not affect the validity of such amendment.

 

ARTICLE X
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE

 

Section 10.01                       Consolidations and Mergers of the Issuers .  Neither of the Issuers shall consolidate with or merge with or into any Person, or sell, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its assets to any Person, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, unless:  (a) either (i) such Issuer shall be the continuing Person in the case of a merger or (ii) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person if other than such Issuer (the “Successor Issuer”), shall be a partnership, limited liability company or corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, except that any Successor Issuer to the Co-Issuer shall be such a corporation for so long as the Company is not organized as a corporation, and the Successor Issuer shall expressly assume, by an Indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of such Issuer under this Indenture and the Debt Securities according to their tenor; (b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions (and treating any Debt which becomes an obligation of the Successor Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Successor Issuer as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the Successor Issuer or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default would occur or be continuing; (c) if such Issuer is not the continuing Person, then each of the Guarantor and any Subsidiary Guarantor, unless it has become the Successor Issuer, shall confirm that its Guarantee shall continue to apply to the obligations of such Issuer under the Debt Securities and this Indenture; and (d) such Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or disposition and such supplemental Indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture.

 

Section 10.02                       Rights and Duties of Successor Issuer .  In case of any consolidation or merger where an Issuer is not the continuing Person, or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of an Issuer in accordance with Section 10.01, the Successor Issuer shall succeed to and be substituted for such Issuer with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the respective party to this Indenture, and the predecessor entity shall be released from all liabilities and obligations under this Indenture and the Debt Securities, except that no such release will occur in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of its assets.  The Successor Issuer thereupon

 

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may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the predecessor Issuer, any or all the Debt Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the predecessor Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of the Successor Issuer, instead of the predecessor Issuer, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Debt Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the predecessor Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Debt Securities which the Successor Issuer thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose.  All the Debt Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Debt Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all such Debt Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

 

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or disposition such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Debt Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

 

ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS

 

Section 11.01                       Applicability of Article .  The provisions of this Article XI relating to defeasance of Debt Securities shall be applicable to each series of Debt Securities except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03 for Debt Securities of such series.

 

Section 11.02                       Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Defeasance .

 

(a)                                  If at any time the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Debt Securities of any series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than any Debt Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09 and Debt Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company as provided in Section 11.05) or all Debt Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms will become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all Debt Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest due or to become due on such date of Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, and if in either case the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company (or any other obligor on the Debt Securities of such series), then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as provided in clause (c) below) with respect to the Debt Securities of such series, and the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such series.

 

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(b)                                  Subject to Sections 11.02(c), 11.03 and 11.07, the Company at any time may terminate, with respect to Debt Securities of a particular series, all of the obligations of the Company and any other obligor on such series under the Debt Securities of such series and this Indenture with respect to the Debt Securities of such series (“legal defeasance option”) or the operation of (x) the covenants in Sections 4.09 and 4.10, (y) any covenant made applicable to such Debt Securities pursuant to Section 2.03 and (z) Section 6.01(d), but only as it relates to any such covenant (“covenant defeasance option”).  If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, each Guarantee will terminate with respect to that series of Debt Securities.  The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option.

 

If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the Debt Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.  If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the Debt Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in clause (z) of the preceding paragraph.

 

(c)                                   Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the Company’s obligations in Sections 2.07, 2.09, 4.02, 4.04, 5.01, 7.06, 11.05, 11.06 and 11.07 shall survive until the Debt Securities of the defeased series have been paid in full.  Thereafter, the Company’s obligations in Sections 7.06, 11.05 and 11.06 shall survive.

 

Section 11.03                       Conditions of Defeasance .  The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option with respect to Debt Securities of a particular series only if:

 

(a)                                  the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Debt Securities of such series to its Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

(b)                                  the Company delivers to the Trustee a certificate from a nationally recognized firm of independent accountants expressing their opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and without reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any deposited money without investment will provide cash at such times and in such amounts as will be sufficient to pay the principal, premium and interest when due on all the Debt Securities of such series to its Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

(c)                                   91 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 91-day period no Default specified in Section 6.01(e) or (f) with respect to an Issuer occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;

 

(d)                                  no Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit and after giving effect thereto;

 

(e)                                   the deposit does not constitute a default under any agreement (other than this Indenture) binding on an Issuer;

 

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(f)                                    in the event of the legal defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Company has received from the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case of the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of Debt 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;

 

(g)                                   in the event of the covenant defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of Debt 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; and

 

(h)                                  the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the Debt Securities of such series as contemplated by this Article XI have been complied with.

 

Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Debt Securities of such series at a future date in accordance with Article III.

 

Section 11.04                       Application of Trust Money .  The Trustee shall hold in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this Article XI.  It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations through any paying agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Debt Securities of the defeased series.  Prior to the maturity of such defeased series, the Trustee may, upon receipt of an Issuer Request, invest such money in U.S. Government Obligations.

 

Section 11.05                       Repayment to Company .  The Trustee and any paying agent shall promptly turn over to the Company upon request any excess money or securities held by them at any time.

 

Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and any paying agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal, premium or interest that remains unclaimed for two years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Company or any other obligor on the particular Debt Securities for payment as general creditors.

 

Section 11.06                       Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations .  The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee and the Holders against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.

 

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Section 11.07                       Reinstatement .  If the Trustee or any paying agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article XI by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or government authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, each Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture and the Debt Securities of the defeased series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article XI until such time as the Trustee or any paying agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article XI.

 

ARTICLE XII
[RESERVED]

 

This Article XII has been intentionally omitted.

 

ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 13.01                       Successors and Assigns of Issuers Bound by Indenture .  All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Trustee shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

Section 13.02                       Acts of Board, Committee or Officer of Successor Issuer Valid .  Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or officer of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any successor Issuer, Guarantor or Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

Section 13.03                       Required Notices or Demands .  Any notice or communication by the Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Trustee to the others is duly given if in writing (in the English language) and delivered in person or mailed by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested), telecopier or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the other’s address:

 

If to the Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors:

 

c/o Cloud Peak Energy Inc.
505 S. Gillette Avenue
Gillette, WY  82716

 

Attention:  Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy No. (307) 687-6015

 

If to the Trustee:

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
750 St. Paul Place, Suite 1750
Dallas, Texas 75201

 

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Attention: Corporate, Municipal & Escrow Services
Telecopy No. (214) 756-7401

 

The Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Trustee by notice to the others may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

 

All notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given:  at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; on the first Business Day on or after being sent, if telecopied and the sender receives confirmation of successful transmission; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.

 

Any notice required or permitted to a Holder by the Company, the Co-Issuer, the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture shall be deemed to be properly mailed by being deposited postage prepaid in a post office letter box in the United States addressed to such Holder at the address of such Holder as shown on the Debt Security Register.  Any report pursuant to Section 313 of the TIA shall be transmitted in compliance with subsection (c) therein.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, any notice to Holders of Floating Rate Debt Securities regarding the determination of a periodic rate of interest, if such notice is required pursuant to Section 2.03, shall be sufficiently given if given in the manner specified pursuant to Section 2.03.

 

In the event of suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give notice by mail, then such notification as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice for every purpose hereunder.

 

In the event it shall be impracticable to give notice by publication, then such notification as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice for every purpose hereunder.

 

Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it or any defect in any notice by publication as to a Holder shall not affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.  If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, it is conclusively presumed duly given.

 

Section 13.04                       Indenture and Debt Securities to Be Construed in Accordance with the Laws of the State of New York .  THIS INDENTURE, EACH DEBT SECURITY AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE NEW YORK CONTRACTS, AND FOR ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF SAID STATE.

 

Section 13.05                       Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Furnished upon Application or Demand by an Issuer .  Upon any application or demand by an Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in

 

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this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such document is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

Section 13.06                       Payments Due on Legal Holidays .  In any case where the date of maturity of interest on or principal of and premium, if any, on the Debt Securities of a series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any Debt Security or the making of any sinking fund payment shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment for the Debt Securities of such series, then payment of interest or principal and premium, if any, or the making of such sinking fund payment need not be made on such date at such Place of Payment, 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 date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.  If a record date is not a Business Day, the record date shall not be affected.

 

Section 13.07                       Provisions Required by TIA to Control .  If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of Sections 310 to 318, inclusive, of the TIA, such required provision shall control.

 

Section 13.08                       Computation of Interest on Debt Securities .  Interest, if any, on the Debt Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to Section 2.03.

 

Section 13.09                       Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar .  The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Holders.  The Registrar and any paying agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.

 

Section 13.10                       No Recourse Against Others .  The managers, directors, officers, employees, incorporators, members, partners and stockholders of the Issuers, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantors, as such, shall have no liability for any obligations of the Issuers, the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors under the Debt Securities, this Indenture or the Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a Debt Security, each Holder shall be deemed to have waived and

 

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released all such liability.  The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issuance of the Debt Securities.

 

Section 13.11                       Severability .  In case any provision in this Indenture or the Debt 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 13.12                       Effect of Headings .  The article and section headings herein and in the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

Section 13.13                       Indenture May Be Executed in Counterparts .  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture, and each party hereto may sign any number of separate copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.  The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes.  Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

ARTICLE XIV
GUARANTEE

 

Section 14.01                       Unconditional Guarantee .

 

(a)                                  Notwithstanding any provision of this Article XIV to the contrary, the provisions of this Article XIV relating to the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantors shall be applicable only to, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Debt Securities of any series designated, pursuant to Section 2.03, as entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee of any of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

 

(b)                                  For value received, the Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby fully, unconditionally and absolutely guarantee (the “Guarantees”) to the Holders and to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Debt Securities and all other amounts due and payable under this Indenture (including under Section 7.06) and the Debt Securities by the Issuers, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the stated maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, according to the terms of the Debt Securities and this Indenture, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 14.03.

 

(c)                                   Failing payment when due of any amount guaranteed pursuant to this Article XII, for whatever reason, the Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors will be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately.  Each Guarantee hereunder is intended to be a general, unsecured, senior obligation of the Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors and will rank pari passu in right of payment with all Debt of the Guarantor and such Subsidiary Guarantor that is not, by its terms, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee.  Each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be full, unconditional and absolute, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Debt Securities, the Guarantees (including the Guarantee of the Guarantor or any

 

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Subsidiary Guarantor) or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Debt Securities with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against an Issuer, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or any action to enforce the same or any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors.  Each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees that in the event of a default in payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Debt Securities, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders or, subject to Section 6.04, by the Holders, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against the Guarantor and such Subsidiary Guarantor to enforce their respective Guarantees without first proceeding against an Issuer or any other Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

(d)                                  The obligations of the Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Article XIV shall be as aforesaid full, unconditional and absolute and shall not be impaired, modified, released or limited by any occurrence or condition whatsoever, including, without limitation, (A) any compromise, settlement, release, waiver, renewal, extension, indulgence or modification of, or any change in, any of the obligations and liabilities of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors contained in the Debt Securities or this Indenture, (B) any impairment, modification, release or limitation of the liability of an Issuer, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiary Guarantors or any of their respective estates in bankruptcy, or any remedy for the enforcement thereof, resulting from the operation of any present or future provision of any applicable Bankruptcy Law, as amended, or other statute or from the decision of any court, (C) the assertion or exercise by an Issuer, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Trustee of any rights or remedies under the Debt Securities or this Indenture or their delay in or failure to assert or exercise any such rights or remedies, (D) the assignment or the purported assignment of any property as security for the Debt Securities, including all or any part of the rights of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Indenture, (E) the extension of the time for payment by an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors of any payments or other sums or any part thereof owing or payable under any of the terms and provisions of the Debt Securities or this Indenture or of the time for performance by an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors of any other obligations under or arising out of any such terms and provisions or the extension or the renewal of any thereof, (F) the modification or amendment (whether material or otherwise) of any duty, agreement or obligation of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors set forth in this Indenture, (G) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets, marshaling of assets and liabilities, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of, or other similar proceeding affecting, an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors or any of their respective assets, or the disaffirmance of the Debt Securities, any Guarantee or this Indenture in any such proceeding, (H) the release or discharge of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors from the performance or observance of any agreement, covenant, term or condition contained in any of such instruments by operation of law, (I) the unenforceability of the Debt Securities, any Guarantee or this Indenture or (J) any other circumstances (other than payment in full or discharge of all amounts guaranteed pursuant to the Guarantee) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor.

 

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(e)                                   Each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby (A) waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of the merger, insolvency or bankruptcy of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, and all demands whatsoever, (B) acknowledges that any agreement, instrument or document evidencing its Guarantee may be transferred and that the benefit of its obligations hereunder shall extend to each holder of any agreement, instrument or document evidencing the Guarantee without notice to it and (C) covenants that its Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the Guarantee.  Each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors further agrees that if at any time all or any part of any payment theretofore applied by any Person to its Guarantee is, or must be, rescinded or returned for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation, the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of an Issuer, the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Guarantee shall, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned, be deemed to have continued in existence notwithstanding such application, and the Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, as though such application had not been made.

 

(f)                                    The Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders and the Trustee against each Issuer in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor or such Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, provided, however, that the Guarantor or such Subsidiary Guarantor, shall not be entitled to enforce or to receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all of the Debt Securities shall have been paid in full or discharged.

 

Section 14.02                       Execution and Delivery of Notation of Guarantee .  To further evidence its Guarantee set forth in Section 14.01, each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees that a notation relating to such Guarantee, substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex A, shall be endorsed on each Debt Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and executed by either manual or facsimile signature of an Officer of the Guarantor or an Officer of such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be.  Each of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in Section 14.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Debt Security a notation relating to the Guarantee.  If any Officer of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor whose signature is on a notation of its Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates such Debt Security or at any time thereafter, the Guarantee of such Debt Security shall be valid nevertheless.  The delivery of any Debt Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantees set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

 

The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture upon the terms and conditions herein set forth.

 

Section 14.03                       Limitation on Liability of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors .  The Guarantor and by its acceptance hereof each Holder of a Debt Security entitled to the benefits of its Guarantee hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by the Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any federal or state law.  To effectuate the foregoing intention, each Holder of a Debt Security entitled to the benefits of such Guarantee and the Guarantor and the

 

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Subsidiary Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of the Guarantor under its Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of the Guarantor and to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee, result in the obligations of the Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal or state law.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor and by its acceptance hereof each Holder of a Debt Security entitled to the benefits of its Guarantee hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any federal or state law.  To effectuate the foregoing intention, each Holder of a Debt Security entitled to the benefits of such Guarantee and the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Subsidiary Guarantor and to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of the obligations of the Guarantor or such other Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee, result in the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under Federal or state law.

 

Section 14.04                       Release of Guarantor or Subsidiary Guarantors from Guarantee .

 

(a)                                  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Guarantee of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor may be released upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Section 14.04. Provided that no Default shall have occurred and shall be continuing under this Indenture with respect to a series of Debt Securities, any Guarantee of such series of Debt Securities incurred by the Guarantor or a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to this Article XIV shall be unconditionally released and discharged (i) in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor, automatically upon (A) any sale, exchange or transfer, whether by way of merger or otherwise, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, of a sufficient amount of the Company’s direct or indirect partnership or other equity interests in such Subsidiary Guarantor so that it no longer qualifies hereunder as a Subsidiary of the Company (provided such sale, exchange or transfer is not prohibited by this Indenture), (B) the merger of such Subsidiary Guarantor into the Company, the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary Guarantor or the liquidation and dissolution of such Subsidiary Guarantor (in each case to the extent not prohibited by this Indenture) or (C) following delivery of a written notice by the Company to the Trustee of the release or discharge of all guarantees by such Subsidiary Guarantor of any Debt of an Issuer other than obligations arising under this Indenture and any Debt Securities issued hereunder, except a discharge or release by or as a result of payment under such guarantees, or (ii) in the case of the Guarantor or a Subsidiary Guarantor, automatically upon the Company’s exercise of its legal defeasance option or the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such series of Debt Securities, in each case in accordance with Article XI hereof or (iii) in the case of the Guarantor, automatically upon the merger of the Guarantor into the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor or the liquidation or dissolution of the Guarantor (in each case to the extent not prohibited by this Indenture).

 

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(b)           The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing any release of the Guarantor or a Subsidiary Guarantor from its Guarantee upon receipt of an Issuer Request of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel that the Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, is entitled to such release in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.  The Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor not so released shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on the Debt Securities entitled to the benefits of its Guarantee as provided in this Indenture, subject to the limitations of Section 14.03.

 

Section 14.05       Contribution .  In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Guarantor hereby agree, inter se , that in the event any payment or distribution is made by the Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor (a “Funding Guarantor”) under its Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from the Guarantor and each other Subsidiary Guarantor (as applicable) in a pro rata amount based on the net assets of the Guarantor and each Subsidiary Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging each Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Debt Securities or any other Subsidiary Guarantor’s or the Guarantor’s obligations with respect to its Guarantee.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY RESOURCES LLC,
	as the Company
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY FINANCE CORP.,
	as Co-Issuer
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY INC.,
	as Guarantor
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 

 

	ARROWHEAD I LLC
	ARROWHEAD II LLC
	ARROWHEAD III LLC
	YOUNGS CREEK HOLDINGS I LLC
	YOUNGS CREEK HOLDINGS II LLC
	YOUNGS CREEK MINING COMPANY, LLC
	BIG METAL COAL CO. LLC
	CORDERO MINING LLC
	CORDERO MINING HOLDINGS LLC
	CORDERO OIL AND GAS LLC
	CABALLO ROJO LLC
	CABALLO ROJO HOLDINGS LLC
	NERCO LLC
	NERCO COAL LLC
	ANTELOPE COAL LLC
	SPRING CREEK COAL LLC
	NERCO COAL SALES LLC
	PROSPECT LAND AND DEVELOPMENT LLC
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY LOGISTICS LLC
	KENNECOTT COAL SALES LLC
	RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT LLC
	WESTERN MINERALS LLC
	SEQUATCHIE VALLEY COAL CORPORATION
	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY SERVICES COMPANY
	as Subsidiary Guarantors
	By:	/s/ Bryan Pechersky
		Bryan Pechersky
		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 

 

	WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
	as Trustee
	By:	/s/ Patrick T. Giordano
		Patrick T. Giordano
		Vice President

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 

 

ANNEX A

 

NOTATION OF GUARANTEE

 

The Guarantor and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), have fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Debt Securities and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Debt Securities by the Company.

 

The obligations of the Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors to the Holders of Debt Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee.

 

	CLOUD PEAK ENERGY INC.
	By:
	Name:
	Title:
	[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR(S)]
	By:
	Name:
	Title:

 

A-1

Exhibit 4.3

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY RESOURCES LLC,

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY FINANCE CORP., as Issuers,

 

CLOUD PEAK ENERGY INC., as Parent Guarantor,

 

THE SUBSIDIARIES NAMED HEREIN, as Subsidiary Guarantors

 

and

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

 

 

6.375% Senior Notes due 2024

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

Dated as of March 11, 2014

 

 

CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*

 

Trust Indenture Act Section		Supplemental Indenture Section(s)
310(a)(1)		8.10
(a)(2)		8.10
(a)(3)		N.A.
(a)(4)		N.A.
(a)(5)		8.10
(b)		8.10
(c)		N.A.
311 (a)		8.11
(b)		8.11
(c)		N.A.
312(a)		3.08
(b)		13.02
(c)		13.02
313(a)		8.06
(b)(1)		N.A.
(b)(2)		8.06
(c)		8.06; 13.02
(d)		8.06
314(a)		5.03; 5.17; 13.02
(b)		N.A.
(c)(1)		13.04
(c)(2)		13.04
(c)(3)		N.A.
(d)		N.A.
(e)		12.05
(f)		N.A.
315(a)		7.01
(b)		8.05; 13.02
(c)		8.01
(d)		8.01; 7.05
(e)		7.11
316(a)(last sentence)		3.11
(a)(1)(A)		7.05
(a)(1)(B)		7.04
(a)(2)		N.A.
(b)		7.07
(c)		10.04
317(a)(1)		7.08
(a)(2)		7.09
(b)		3.07
318(a)		13.01
(b)		N.A.

 

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Trust Indenture Act Section		Supplemental Indenture Section(s)
(c)		13.01

 

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N.A. means not applicable.

 

*              This Cross-Reference Table is not part of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I APPLICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE				2
Section 1.01	Application of this Supplemental Indenture			2
Section 1.02	Effect of Supplemental Indenture			2
ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE				4
Section 2.01	Definitions			4
Section 2.02	Other Definitions			30
Section 2.03	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act			31
Section 2.04	Rules of Construction			31
ARTICLE III THE NOTES				32
Section 3.01	Forms Generally			32
Section 3.02	Form of Legend for Global Notes			33
Section 3.03	Title and Terms			33
Section 3.04	Denominations			34
Section 3.05	Execution and Authentication			34
Section 3.06	Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange			35
Section 3.07	Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust			36
Section 3.08	Holder Lists			37
Section 3.09	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes			37
Section 3.10	Outstanding Notes			37
Section 3.11	Treasury Notes			38
Section 3.12	Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved			38
Section 3.13	Persons Deemed Owners			39
Section 3.14	Temporary Notes			39
Section 3.15	Cancellation			39
Section 3.16	Computation of Interest			39
Section 3.17	Global Securities			39
Section 3.18	CUSIP Numbers			40
ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT OF NOTES				40
Section 4.01	Notices to Trustee			40
Section 4.02	Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed			40
Section 4.03	Notice of Redemption			41
Section 4.04	Effect of Notice of Redemption			42
Section 4.05	Deposit of Redemption Price			42
Section 4.06	Notes Redeemed in Part			42
Section 4.07	Optional Redemption			42

 

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