PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE,
L.P.
PAA FINANCE CORP.
as Issuers
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS NAMED
HEREIN
as Guarantors
5.75% SENIOR NOTES DUE
2020
Dated as of September 4,
2009
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
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Section 1.01. Establishment
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ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
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Section 2.01. Definitions
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Section 2.02. Other Definitions
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Section 3.02. Issuance of Additional
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Section 3.03. Global Security
Legend
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ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
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Section 4.01. Optional
Redemption
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Section 5.01. Compliance
Certificate
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Section 5.02. Limitations on
Liens
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Section 5.03. Restriction of Sale-leaseback
Transactions
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Section 5.04. SEC Reports; Financial
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Section 5.05. Additional Subsidiary
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Section 6.01. Consolidation and Mergers of
the Issuers
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Section 6.02. Rights and Duties of
Successor
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Section 6.03. Supplemental
Indenture
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ARTICLE VII DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
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Section 7.01. Events of Default
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ARTICLE VIII LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT
DEFEASANCE
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Section 8.01. Option to Effect Legal
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Section 8.02. Legal Defeasance and
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Section 8.03. Covenant
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Section 8.04. Conditions to Legal or
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Section 8.05. Deposited Money and U.S.
Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions
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Section 8.06. Repayment to
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Section 8.07. Reinstatement
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ARTICLE IX SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
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Section 9.01. Subsidiary
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Section 9.02. Limitation on
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Section 9.03. Successors and
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Section 9.06. Execution of Supplemental
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Section 9.07. Release of
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Section 10.01. Additional
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Section 10.03. Adoption, Ratification and
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EXHIBIT B: Form of Supplemental
Indenture
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SEVENTEENTH
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of September 4, 2009 (this
“Supplemental Indenture”) among PLAINS ALL AMERICAN
PIPELINE, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
“Partnership”), PAA FINANCE CORP., a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Partnership and a Delaware corporation
(“PAA Finance” and, together with the Partnership, the
“Issuers”), and the subsidiary guarantors signatory
hereto (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), and U.S. BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the
“Trustee”).
WHEREAS,
the Issuers have heretofore entered into an Indenture, dated as of
September 25, 2002 (the “Original Indenture”),
with U.S. Bank National Association (successor to Wachovia Bank,
National Association), as trustee;
WHEREAS,
the Original Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental
Indenture, is herein called the “Indenture;”
WHEREAS,
under the Original Indenture, a new series of Debt Securities may
at any time be established by the Boards of Directors of the
Managing General Partner and PAA Finance in accordance with the
provisions of the Original Indenture and the form and terms of such
series may be established by a supplemental indenture executed by
the Issuers and the Trustee;
WHEREAS,
also under the Original Indenture, guarantors with respect to a
series of Debt Securities may be added as parties to the Indenture
by a supplemental indenture executed by themselves, the Issuers and
the Trustee;
WHEREAS,
the Issuers propose to create under the Indenture a new series of
Debt Securities, such series to be guaranteed by the Subsidiary
Guarantors;
WHEREAS,
additional Debt Securities of other series hereafter established,
except as may be limited in the Original Indenture as at the time
supplemented and modified, may be issued from time to time pursuant
to the Original Indenture as at the time supplemented and modified;
and
WHEREAS,
all conditions necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of
this Supplemental Indenture and to make it a valid and binding
obligation of the Issuers and the Subsidiary Guarantors have been
done or performed.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
Section 1.01.
Establishment . (a) There is hereby established a new
series of Debt Securities to be issued under the Indenture, to be
designated as the Issuers’ 5.75% Senior Notes due 2020 (the
“Notes”).
(b) There
are to be authenticated and delivered $500,000,000 principal amount
of Notes on the Issue Date, and from time to time thereafter there
may be authenticated and delivered an unlimited principal amount of
Additional Notes.
(c) The
Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global
Securities in substantially the form set out in Exhibit A
hereto. The Depositary with respect to the Notes shall be The
Depository Trust Company.
(d) Each
Note shall be dated the date of authentication thereof and shall
bear interest from the date of original issuance thereof or from
the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for.
(e) If
and to the extent that the provisions of the Original Indenture are
duplicative of, or in contradiction with, the provisions of this
Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental
Indenture shall govern.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 2.01.
Definitions . All capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined below shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in
the Original Indenture. The following are additional definitions
used in this Supplemental Indenture:
“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 purposes of this
definition, “control,” as used with respect to any
Person, shall mean the possession directly or indirectly of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by agreement or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling,” “controlled by” and
“under common control with” shall have correlative
meanings.
“Attributable
Indebtedness,” when used with respect to any Sale-leaseback
Transaction, means, as at the time of determination, the present
value (discounted at the rate set forth or implicit in the terms of
the lease included in such transaction) of the total obligations of
the lessee for rental payments (other than amounts required to be
paid on account of property taxes, maintenance, repairs, insurance,
assessments, utilities, operating and labor costs and other items
that do not constitute payments for property rights) during the
remaining term of the lease included in such Sale-leaseback
Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been
extended). In the case of any lease that is terminable by the
lessee upon the payment of a penalty or other termination payment,
such amount shall be the lesser of the amount determined assuming
termination upon the first date such lease may be terminated (in
which case the amount
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shall also
include the amount of the penalty or termination payment, but no
rent shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease
subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated) or
the amount determined assuming no such termination.
“Capital
Interests” means any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
capital stock, including, without limitation, with respect to
partnerships, partnership interests (whether general or limited)
and any other interest or participation that confers on a Person
the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or
distributions of assets of, such Person.
“Consolidated
Net Tangible Assets” means, at any date of determination, the
total amount of assets after deducting therefrom: (1) all
current liabilities (excluding (a) any current liabilities
that by their terms are extendible or renewable at the option of
the obligor thereon to a time more than 12 months after the
time as of which the amount thereof is being computed; and (b)
current maturities of long-term debt); and (2) the amount, net
of any applicable reserves, of all goodwill, trade names,
trademarks, patents and other like intangible assets, all as set
forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the Partnership for its
most recently completed fiscal quarter, prepared in accordance with
GAAP.
“Debt”
means any obligation created or assumed by any Person for the
repayment of money borrowed, any purchase money obligation created
or assumed by such Person, and any guarantee of the
foregoing.
“Funded
Debt” means all Debt maturing one year or more from the date
of the creation thereof, all Debt directly or indirectly renewable
or extendible, at the option of the debtor, by its terms or by the
terms of any instrument or agreement relating thereto, to a date
one year or more from the date of the creation thereof, and all
Debt under a revolving credit or similar agreement obligating the
lender or lenders to extend credit over a period of one year or
more.
“Guarantee”
means a guarantee of the Notes given by a Subsidiary Guarantor
pursuant to the Indenture, including all obligations under
Article IX hereof.
“General
Partner” means PAA GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, and its successors and permitted assigns as general
partner of the Partnership.
“Issue
Date” means, with respect to the Notes, the date on which the
Notes are initially issued.
“Managing
General Partner” means (i) Plains All American GP LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and
permitted assigns as the general partner of the sole member of the
General Partner or (ii) the business entity with the ultimate
authority to manage the business and operations of the
Partnership.
“Notes”
has the meaning assigned to it in Section 1.01(a) hereof, and
includes both the Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional
Notes issued thereafter.
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“Obligations”
means any principal, interest, liquidated damages, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursement obligations, damages and other
liabilities payable under the documentation governing any
Debt.
“Pari
Passu Debt” means any Funded Debt of either of the Issuers,
whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter created,
incurred or assumed, unless, in the case of any particular Funded
Debt, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding expressly provides that such Funded
Debt shall be subordinated in right of payment to the
Notes.
“Partnership
Agreement” means the Third Amended and Restated Agreement of
Limited Partnership of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., amended
and restated effective as of June 27, 2001, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 thereto dated as of April 15, 2004,
Amendment No. 2 thereto dated as of November 15, 2006,
Amendment No. 3 thereto dated as of August 16, 2007,
Amendment No. 4 thereto dated April 14, 2008, to be
effective as of January 1, 2007, Amendment No. 5 thereto
dated as of May 28, 2008, Amendment No. 6 thereto dated
as of September 3, 2009 and as such may be otherwise amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time.
(1) Liens upon
rights-of-way for pipeline purposes;
(2) any statutory
or governmental Lien or Lien arising by operation of law, or any
mechanics’, repairmen’s, materialmen’s,
suppliers’, carriers’, landlords’,
warehousemen’s or similar Lien incurred in the ordinary
course of business which is not yet due or which is being contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings and any undetermined Lien
which is incidental to construction, development, improvement or
repair;
(3) the right
reserved to, or vested in, any municipality or public authority by
the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or
by any provision of law, to purchase or recapture or to designate a
purchaser of, any property;
(4) Liens of taxes
and assessments which are (A) for the then current year,
(B) not at the time delinquent, or (C) delinquent but the
validity of which is being contested at the time by an Issuer or
any Restricted Subsidiary in good faith;
(5) Liens of, or
to secure performance of, leases, other than capital
leases;
(6) any Lien upon,
or deposits of, any assets in favor of any surety company or clerk
of court for the purpose of obtaining indemnity or stay of judicial
proceedings;
(7) any Lien upon
property or assets acquired or sold by an Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary resulting from the exercise of any rights arising out of
defaults on receivables;
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(8) any Lien
incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with
worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, temporary
disability, social security, retiree health or similar laws or
regulations or to secure obligations imposed by statute or
governmental regulations;
(9) any Lien in
favor of an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(10) any Lien in
favor of the United States of America or any state thereof, or any
department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision of
the United States of America or any state thereof, to secure
partial, progress, advance, or other payments pursuant to any
contract or statute, or any Debt incurred by an Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of financing all or any part
of the purchase price of, or the cost of constructing, developing,
repairing or improving, the property or assets subject to such
Lien;
(11) any Lien
securing industrial development, pollution control or similar
revenue bonds;
(12) any Lien
securing Debt of an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, all or a
portion of the net proceeds of which are used, substantially
concurrently with the funding thereof (and for purposes of
determining such “substantial concurrence,” taking into
consideration, among other things, required notices to be given to
Holders of Outstanding Debt Securities (including the Notes) in
connection with such refunding, refinancing or repurchase, and the
required corresponding durations thereof), to refinance, refund or
repurchase all Outstanding Debt Securities (including the Notes),
including the amount of all accrued interest thereon and reasonable
fees and expenses and premium, if any, incurred by the Issuers or
any Restricted Subsidiary in connection therewith;
(13) Liens in
favor of any Person to secure obligations under the provisions of
any letters of credit, bank guarantees, bonds or surety obligations
required or requested by any governmental authority in connection
with any contract or statute;
(14) any Lien upon
or deposits of any assets to secure performance of bids, trade
contracts, leases or statutory obligations;
(15) any Lien or
privilege vested in any grantor, lessor or licensor or permittor
for rent or other charges due or for any other obligations or acts
to be performed, the payment of which rent or other charges or
performance of which other obligations or acts is required under
leases, easements, rights-of-way, licenses, franchises, privileges,
grants or permits, so long as payment of such rent or the
performance of such other obligations or acts is not delinquent or
the requirement for such payment or performance is being contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(16) easements,
exceptions or reservations in any property of the Partnership or
any of the Restricted Subsidiaries granted or reserved for the
purpose of pipelines, roads, the removal of oil, gas, coal or other
minerals, and other like purposes for the joint or common use of
real property, facilities and equipment, which are incidental to,
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not materially
interfere with, the ordinary conduct of its business or the
business of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole;
(17) Liens arising
under operating agreements, joint venture agreements, partnership
agreements, oil and gas leases, farmout agreements, division
orders, contracts for sale, transportation or exchange of oil and
natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements,
area of mutual interest agreements and other agreements arising in
the ordinary course of the Partnership’s or any Restricted
Subsidiary’s business that are customary in the business of
marketing, transportation and terminalling of crude oil and/or
marketing of liquefied petroleum gas; or
(18) any
obligations or duties to any municipality or public authority with
respect to any lease, easement, right-of-way, license, franchise,
privilege, permit or grant.
“Principal
Property” means, whether owned or leased on the Issue Date or
thereafter acquired: (1) any of the pipeline assets of the
Partnership or the pipeline assets of any Subsidiary of the
Partnership, including any related facilities employed in the
transportation, distribution, terminalling, gathering, treating,
processing, marketing or storage of crude oil or refined petroleum
products, natural gas, natural gas liquids, fuel additives or
petrochemicals, and (2) any processing or manufacturing plant
or terminal owned or leased by the Partnership or any Subsidiary of
the Partnership; except, in the case of either clause (1) or
(2), (a) any such assets consisting of inventories, furniture,
office fixtures and equipment, including data processing equipment,
vehicles and equipment used on, or useful with, vehicles, and
(b) any such assets, plant or terminal which, in the good
faith opinion of the Board of Directors, is not material in
relation to the activities of the Partnership or the activities of
the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Restricted
Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Partnership owning or
leasing, directly or indirectly through ownership in another
Subsidiary, any Principal Property.
“Sale-leaseback
Transaction” means the sale or transfer by an Issuer or any
Subsidiary of the Partnership of any Principal Property to a Person
(other than an Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Partnership) and the
taking back by an Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Partnership, as
the case may be, of a lease of such Principal Property.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person: (1) any other Person of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares or other
Capital Interests entitled, without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency, to vote in the election of directors, managers or
trustees (or equivalent persons) thereof is at the time owned
or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or
more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person or a combination
thereof; or (2) in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of
the partners’ Capital Interests, considering all
partners’ Capital Interests as a single class, is at the time
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one
or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person or a combination
thereof.
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“Subsidiary
Guarantors” means each of:
(1) the
Subsidiaries of the Partnership named as the “Subsidiary
Guarantors” on the signature pages of this Supplemental
Indenture;
(2) any other
Subsidiary that executes a supplemental Indenture to provide a
Guarantee in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture;
and
(3) their
respective successors and assigns.
Notwithstanding
anything in the Indenture to the contrary, PAA Finance, PAA/Vulcan
Gas Storage, LLC and its Subsidiaries, Pacific Pipeline System LLC,
Plains West Coast Terminals LLC, Pacific Energy Management LLC,
Pacific Energy GP, LP, SLC Pipeline LLC, Plains Marketing
Bondholder, LLC and CDM Max, LLC shall not be Subsidiary
Guarantors.
Section 2.02.
Other Definitions .
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7.01
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8.02
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9.01
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7.01
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5.04
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6.01
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Section 3.01.
Form . The Notes shall be issued initially in the form of
one or more Global Securities. The Notes and Trustee’s
certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A hereto, the terms of which are incorporated in and
made a part of this Supplemental Indenture, and the Issuers and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental
Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be
bound thereby.
Section 3.02.
Issuance of Additional Notes . The Issuers may, from time to
time, issue an unlimited amount of additional Notes
(“Additional Notes”) under the Indenture, which shall
be issued in the same form as the Notes issued on the Issue Date
and which shall have identical terms as the Notes issued on the
Issue Date other than with respect to the issue date, the date of
first payment of interest, if applicable, and the payment of
interest accruing prior to the issue date. The Notes issued on
the Issue Date shall be limited in aggregate principal amount to
$500,000,000. The Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional
Notes subsequently
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issued shall be
treated as a single series for all purposes under the Indenture,
including waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to
purchase.
Section 3.03.
Global Security Legend . Each of the Global Securities shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS
GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE DEPOSITARY (AS
DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS NOTE) IN CUSTODY FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO
ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (A) THE TRUSTEE
MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2.08 OF THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE, (B) THIS GLOBAL
SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2.15 OF THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE, (C) THIS GLOBAL
SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT
TO SECTION 2.10 OF THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE AND (D) THIS GLOBAL
SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR ITS
NOMINEE WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUERS.
ARTICLE IV
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
Section 4.01.
Optional Redemption .
(a) At
their option at any time prior to maturity, the Issuers may choose
to redeem all or any portion of the Notes, at once or from time to
time.
(b) To
redeem the Notes, the Issuers must pay a redemption price in an
amount determined in accordance with the provisions of paragraph
number 5 of the form of Note in Exhibit A hereto, plus accrued
and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the
right of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest
due on the relevant interest payment date).
(c) Any
redemption pursuant to this Section 4.01 shall otherwise be
made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.03
of the Original Indenture. The actual redemption price shall be set
forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no
later than two Business Days prior to each redemption
date.
Section 5.01.
Compliance Certificate . (a) In lieu of the
Officers’ Certificate required by Section 4.05 of the
Original Indenture, the Issuers and Subsidiary Guarantors shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of each
fiscal year, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review
of the activities of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries during
the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of
the signing Officers (one of whom shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of each Issuer and Subsidiary
Guarantor)
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with a view to
determining whether the Issuers have kept, observed, performed and
fulfilled their obligations under the Indenture, and further
stating, as to each such person signing such certificate, that to
the best of his or her knowledge the Issuers have kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in the
Indenture and are not in default in the performance or observance
of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of the Indenture
(or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred,
describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or
she may have knowledge and what action the Issuers are taking or
propose to take with respect thereto).
(b) The
Issuers shall, so long as any of the Notes are outstanding, deliver
to the Trustee, forthwith and in any event within five days upon
any officer of an Issuer becoming aware of any Default or Event of
Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers’
Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what
action the Issuers are taking or propose to take with respect
thereto.
Section 5.02.
Limitations on Liens . The Issuers will not, nor will they
permit any Subsidiary of the Partnership to, create, assume, incur
or suffer to exist any Lien upon any Principal Property or upon any
Capital Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary, whether owned or
leased on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, to secure any Debt
of an Issuer or any other Person (other than Debt Securities),
without in any such case making effective provision whereby all of
the Notes shall be secured equally and ratably with, or prior to,
such Debt so long as such Debt shall be so secured. This
restriction shall not apply to:
(b) any
Lien upon any property or assets created at the time of acquisition
of such property or assets by an Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary or within one year after such time to secure all or a
portion of the purchase price for such property or assets or Debt
incurred to finance such purchase price, whether such Debt was
incurred prior to, at the time of or within one year after the date
of such acquisition;
(c) any
Lien upon any property or assets to secure all or part of the cost
of construction, development, repair or improvements thereon or to
secure Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within one year
after completion of such construction, development, repair or
improvements or the commencement of full operations thereof
(whichever is later), to provide funds for any such
purpose;
(d) any
Lien upon any property or assets existing thereon at the time of
the acquisition thereof by an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary
(whether or not the obligations secured thereby are assumed by an
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary); provided, however, that such
Lien only encumbers the property or assets so acquired;
(e) any
Lien upon any property or assets of a Person existing thereon at
the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary by
acquisition, merger or otherwise; provided, however, that such Lien
only encumbers the property or assets of such Person at the time
such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;
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(f) any
Lien upon any property or assets of an Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary in existence on December 10, 2003 or provided for
pursuant to agreements existing on December 10,
2003;
(g) Liens
imposed by law or order as a result of any proceeding before any
court or regulatory body that is being contested in good faith, and
Liens which secure a judgment or other court-ordered award or
settlement as to which an Issuer or the applicable Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, has not exhausted its appellate
rights;
(h) any
extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement (or
successive extensions, renewals, refinancings, refundings or
replacements) of Liens, in whole or in part, referred to in clauses
(a) through (g), inclusive, of this Section 5.02;
provided, however, that any such extension, renewal, refinancing,
refunding or replacement Lien shall be limited to the property or
assets covered by the Lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded
or replaced and that the obligations secured by any such extension,
renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement Lien shall be in an
amount not greater than the amount of the obligations secured by
the Lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and
any expenses of the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries
(including any premium) incurred in connection with such extension,
renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement; or
(i) any
Lien resulting from the deposit of moneys or evidence of
indebtedness in trust for the purpose of defeasing Debt of an
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.02, the Issuers
may, and may permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume,
incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any Principal Property or
Capital Interests of a Restricted Subsidiary to secure Debt of an
Issuer or any Person (other than Debt Securities) that is not
excepted by clauses (a) through (i), inclusive, of this
Section 5.02 without securing the Notes, provided that the
aggregate principal amount of all Debt then outstanding secured by
such Lien and all other Liens not excepted by clauses
(a) through (i), inclusive, of this Section 5.02,
together with all Attributable Indebtedness from Sale-leaseback
Transactions (excluding Sale-leaseback Transactions permitted by
clauses (a) through (d), inclusive, of Section 5.03),
does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
Section 5.03.
Restriction of Sale-leaseback Transactions . The Issuers
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of the Partnership to,
engage in a Sale-leaseback Transaction, unless:
(a) such
Sale-leaseback Transaction occurs within one year from the date of
completion of the acquisition of the Principal Property subject
thereto or the date of the completion of construction, development
or substantial repair or improvement, or commencement of full
operations on such Principal Property, whichever is
later;
(b) the
Sale-leaseback Transaction involves a lease for a period, including
renewals, of not more than three years;
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(c) the
Attributable Indebtedness from that Sale-leaseback Transaction is
an amount equal to or less than the amount the Issuers or such
Subsidiary would be allowed to incur as Debt secured by a Lien on
the Principal Property subject thereto without equally and ratably
securing the Notes under Section 5.02; or
(d) the
Issuers or such Subsidiary, within a one-year period after such
Sale-leaseback Transaction, applies or causes to be applied an
amount not less than the net sale proceeds from such Sale-leaseback
Transaction to (A) the prepayment, repayment, redemption,
reduction or retirement of any Pari Passu Debt of an Issuer or any
Subsidiary of the Partnership, or (B) the expenditure or
expenditures for Principal Property used or to be used in the
ordinary course of business of the Partnership or its
Subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.03, the Issuers
may, and may permit any Subsidiary of the Partnership to, effect
any Sale-leaseback Transaction that is not excepted by clauses
(a) through (d), inclusive, of this Section 5.03,
provided that the Attributable Indebtedness from such
Sale-leaseback Transaction, together with the aggregate principal
amount of then outstanding Debt (other than Debt Securities)
secured by Liens upon Principal Properties not excepted by clauses
(a) through (i), inclusive, of Section 5.02, does not
exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
Section 5.04.
SEC Reports; Financial Statements .
(a) Whether
or not the Partnership is then subject to the reporting
requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the
Partnership shall electronically file with the Commission, so long
as the Notes are Outstanding, the annual, quarterly and other
periodic reports that the Partnership is required to file (or would
otherwise be required to file) with the Commission pursuant to
Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and such documents
shall be filed with the Commission on or prior to the respective
dates (the “Required Filing Dates”) by which the
Partnership is required to file (or would otherwise be required to
file) such documents, unless, in each case, such filings are not
then permitted by the Commission.
(b) If
such filings are not then permitted by the Commission, or such
filings are not generally available on the Internet free of charge,
the Issuers shall provide the Trustee with, and the Trustee will
mail to any Holder of Notes requesting in writing to the Trustee
copies of, such annual, quarterly and other periodic reports
specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act within
15 days after the respective Required Filing Dates.
(c) [Intentionally
omitted.]
(d) The
Partnership shall provide the Trustee with a sufficient number of
copies of all reports and other documents and information that the
Trustee may be required to deliver to Holders of Notes under clause
(b) of this Section 5.04.
(e) 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 constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein,
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including the
Partnership’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on
Officers’ Certificates).
Section 5.05.
Additional Subsidiary Guarantees . If any Subsidiary (or its
successor) of the Partnership that is not then a Subsidiary
Guarantor guarantees Debt of either of the Issuers or any other
Subsidiary of the Partnership, in either case after the Issue Date,
then such Subsidiary (or successor) shall execute and deliver a
supplemental Indenture providing for the guarantee of the payment
of the Notes pursuant to Article IX hereof.
With
respect to the Notes, the provisions of this Article VI shall
preempt the provisions of Article X of the Original Indenture
in their entirety.
Section 6.01.
Consolidation and Mergers of the Issuers . Neither Issuer
shall consolidate or amalgamate 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, except
(1) in accordance with the provisions of the Partnership
Agreement, and (2) unless: (a) either (i) such
Issuer shall be the surviving Person in the case of a merger or
(ii) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person if other
than such Issuer (the “Successor Company”) 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 (provided that PAA Finance may not merge,
amalgamate or consolidate with or into another Person other than a
corporation satisfying such requirement for so long as the
Partnership is not a corporation) and the Successor Company shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on all of the Notes, and the due and punctual
performance or observance of all the other obligations under the
Indenture to be performed or observed by such Issuer;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or
series of transactions, no Default or Event of Default would occur
or be continuing; (c) if such Issuer is not the continuing
Person, then each Subsidiary Guarantor, unless it has become the
Successor Company, shall confirm that its Guarantee shall continue
to apply to the obligations under the Notes and the Indenture; and
(d) such Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer, lease or other disposition and such supplemental
Indenture (if any) comply with this Section 6.01 and any other
applicable provisions of the Indenture.
Section 6.02.
Rights and Duties of Successor . In case of any
consolidation, amalgamation 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 6.01, the
Successor Company 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 the Indenture, and the predecessor entity shall
be released from all liabilities and obligations under the
Indenture and the Notes, except that no such release will occur in
the case of a lease of all or substantially all of an
Issuer’s assets. In case of any such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or
other
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disposition,
such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be
made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be
appropriate.
Section 6.03.
Supplemental Indenture . Section 9.01 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended, with respect to the Notes, by adding
the words “or the confirmation of a Subsidiary
Guarantor’s” immediately after the word
“Issuer’s” in Section 9.01(c).
ARTICLE VII
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 7.01.
Events of Default . With respect to the Notes, the
provisions of this Section 7.01 shall preempt the provisions
of the first and final paragraphs of Section 6.01 of the
Original Indenture in their entirety.
(a) An
“Event of Default” occurs if:
(i) the Issuers
default for 60 days in the payment when due of interest on the
Notes;
(ii) the Issuers
default in the payment when due of principal of or premium, if any,
on the Notes at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise;
(iii) failure by
an Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor for 90 days after
receipt of notice by the Issuers from the Trustee or to the Issuers
and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Notes then Outstanding to comply with any other term,
covenant or warranty in the Indenture or the Notes (
provided that notice need not be given, and an Event of
Default shall occur, 90 days after any breach of the
provisions of Section 6.01 hereof);
(iv) default under
any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be
issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Debt of an
Issuer or any of the Partnership’s Subsidiaries (or the
payment of which is guaranteed by the Partnership or any of its
Subsidiaries), whether such Debt or guarantee now exists or is
created after the Issue Date, if that default (A) is caused by
a failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
such Debt prior to the expiration of the grace period provided in
such Debt (a “Payment Default”) or (B) results in
the acceleration of the maturity of such Debt to a
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