Exhibit 4.1
FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
among
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC., AS
ISSUER
INDIANA GAS COMPANY, INC., AS
GUARANTOR
SOUTHERN INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC
COMPANY, AS GUARANTOR
VECTREN ENERGY DELIVERY OF OHIO,
INC., AS GUARANTOR
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRUSTEE
Dated October 18,
2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.1. DEFINITION OF
TERMS.
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ARTICLE II GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
NOTES
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SECTION 2.1. DESIGNATION AND PRINCIPAL AMOUNT;
GUARANTEES.
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SECTION 2.2. MATURITY.
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SECTION 2.3. FORM AND PAYMENT.
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SECTION 2.4. GLOBAL NOTE.
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SECTION 2.5. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND
INTEREST.
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ARTICLE III REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES;
DEFEASANCE
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SECTION 3.1. REDEMPTION AT THE COMPANY’S
OPTION.
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SECTION 3.2. NO SINKING FUND.
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SECTION 3.3. DEFEASANCE.
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SECTION 3.4. REDEMPTION UPON DEATH OF A
BENEFICIAL OWNER.
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ARTICLE IV SPECIAL INSURANCE
PROVISIONS
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SECTION 4.1. SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES.
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SECTION 4.2. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES.
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SECTION 4.3. INSURANCE POLICY PAYMENT
PROCEDURES.
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SECTION 4.4. APPLICATION OF TERM
“OUTSTANDING” TO IQ NOTES.
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SECTION 4.5. INSURER AS THIRD PARTY
BENEFICIARY.
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SECTION 4.6. DEFEASANCE
PROVISIONS.
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SECTION 4.7. NOTICE ADDRESSES.
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SECTION 4.8. CONCERNING THE SPECIAL INSURANCE
PROVISIONS.
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ARTICLE V MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 5.1. RATIFICATION OF
INDENTURE.
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SECTION 5.2. TRUSTEE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
RECITALS.
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SECTION 5.3. GOVERNING LAW.
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SECTION 5.4. SEPARABILITY.
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SECTION 5.5. COUNTERPARTS.
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SECTION 5.6. AMENDMENTS.
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ANNEX
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A - FORM OF
REDEMPTION REQUEST
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EXHIBIT
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B -
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
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FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated
as of October 18, 2006 (the “Fifth Supplemental
Indenture”), among Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., an Indiana
corporation (the “Company”), Indiana Gas Company, Inc.,
an Indiana corporation and an Ohio corporation (“Indiana
Gas”), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, an Indiana
corporation (“SIGECO”) and Vectren Energy Delivery of
Ohio, Inc., an Ohio corporation (“VEDO”, and together
with Indiana Gas and SIGECO, the “Initial Guarantors”)
and U.S. Bank National Association (the
“Trustee”).
WHEREAS, the Company and the Initial
Guarantors executed and delivered the Indenture dated as of
October 19, 2001 (the “Base Indenture”) to the
Trustee to provide for the Company’s unsecured notes,
debentures or other evidence of indebtedness of the Company
(collectively, the “Securities”), and the Guarantees
(as hereinafter defined), to be issued from time to time in one or
more series, as might be determined by the Company under the Base
Indenture;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of
the Base Indenture, the Company desires to provide for the
establishment of a new series of Debt Securities, the 5.95% Insured
Quarterly Notes due 2036 (the “IQ Notes”), and the
unconditional guarantees by the Guarantors (as defined herein) of
the payment of the amounts owed with respect to the IQ Notes (the
“Guarantees”), the form and terms of such IQ Notes and
the terms, provisions and conditions of the IQ Notes and the
Guarantees to be set forth as provided in the Base Indenture and
this Fifth Supplemental Indenture (together, the
“Indenture”);
WHEREAS, the Company and the Initial
Guarantors requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this
Fifth Supplemental Indenture and all requirements necessary to make
this Fifth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and enforceable
instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the IQ Notes,
when executed, authenticated and delivered by the Company and with
the Guarantees endorsed thereon and executed by the Guarantors, the
valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company and the
Guarantors, as applicable, have been made:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the purchase and acceptance of the IQ Notes by the Holders thereof,
and for the purpose of setting forth, as provided in the Base
Indenture, the form and terms of the IQ Notes, each of the Company
and the Initial Guarantors, as applicable, covenants and agrees
with the Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. Definition of
Terms.
(a) Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(b) a term defined in the Base
Indenture has the same meaning when used in this Fifth Supplemental
Indenture;
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(c) a term defined anywhere in this
Fifth Supplemental Indenture has the same meaning
throughout;
(d) the singular includes the plural
and vice versa;
(e) headings are for convenience of
reference only and do not affect interpretation;
(f) the following terms have the
meanings given to them in this Section 1.1(f):
“Beneficial Owner” has
the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Fiscal Agent” means
U.S. Bank Trust National Association, New York, New York, or its
successor.
“Global Note” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 2.4.
“Guarantors” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 2.1.
“Initial Period” has the
meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Insurance Agreement”
means that certain Insurance Agreement, dated as of
October 18, 2006, by and between the Company and the
Insurer.
“Insurer” means
Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, a New York stock insurance
corporation, or any successor thereto.
“Interest Payment Date”
means January 1, April 1, July 1 and
October 1 of each year, beginning January 1,
2007.
“Maturity Date” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 2.2.
“Original Issue Date”
means October 18, 2006.
“Participants” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Policy” shall mean the
surety bond for the benefit of the Holders of the IQ Notes issued
by the Insurer with respect to payments due for principal of and
interest on the IQ Notes as provided in such surety
bond.
“Redemption Price” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“Redemption Request”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Regular Record Date”
means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date for the IQ Notes,
the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a
Business Day) prior to such Interest Payment Date.
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“Representatives” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
“Subsequent Period”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.4.
The following terms shall have the
respective meanings set forth in the recitals to this Fifth
Supplemental Indenture:
“Base
Indenture”
“Company”
“Guarantees”
“Indenture”
“Indiana Gas”
“Initial
Guarantors”
“IQ Notes”
“Fifth Supplemental
Indenture”
“Securities”
“SIGECO”
“Trustee”
“VEDO”
ARTICLE II
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1. Designation and
Principal Amount; Guarantees.
There is hereby authorized a new
series of Securities, designated the 5.95% Insured Quarterly Notes
due 2036, limited (except as otherwise provided in Article 2 of the
Base Indenture) in aggregate principal amount to $100,000,000. The
IQ Notes may be issued from time to time upon written order of the
Company for the authentication and delivery of IQ Notes pursuant to
Section 2.03 of the Base Indenture. Each of the Initial
Guarantors (together with each other subsidiary of the Company that
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture guarantees the
Company’s obligations under the IQ Notes and the Indenture,
the “Guarantors”) fully and unconditionally and jointly
and severally guarantees to the Holders of the IQ Notes upon which
the Guarantees are endorsed, upon authentication and delivery by
the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and
interest on, and any Redemption Price with respect to, the IQ
Notes, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether
at the Maturity Date, upon acceleration or redemption or otherwise,
in accordance with the terms of the IQ Notes and of the
Indenture.
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SECTION 2.2.
Maturity.
The date upon which the principal on
the IQ Notes shall become due and payable at final maturity is
October 1, 2036 (the “Maturity Date”) if not
redeemed in full previously in accordance with Article III of this
Fifth Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 2.3. Form and
Payment.
The IQ Notes shall be issued in
fully registered certificated form without interest coupons,
bearing identical terms (except as otherwise provided in Article 2
of the Base Indenture). Principal of, and interest on, and any
Redemption Price with respect to, the IQ Notes will be payable, the
transfer of such IQ Notes will be registrable and such IQ Notes
will be exchangeable for IQ Notes bearing identical terms at the
office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose as
described below.
The Company hereby designates the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York as a place of payment
(“Place of Payment”) for the IQ Notes, and the office
or agency maintained by the Company in such Place of Payment for
the purposes contemplated by this Section 2.3 shall initially
be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee at 100 Wall Street,
Suite 2000, New York, New York 10005, Attention: Richard
Prokosch.
The IQ Notes shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
The IQ Notes may be issued, in whole
or in part, in permanent global form and, if issued in permanent
global form, the Depository shall be The Depository Trust Company
or such other depositary as any officer of the Company may from
time to time designate.
The Registrar, the Paying Agent and
the transfer agent for the IQ Notes shall initially be the
Trustee.
The IQ Notes shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A
hereto.
SECTION 2.4. Global
Note.
(a) Unless and until it is exchanged
for IQ Notes in registered certificated form, a global note in
principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the IQ
Notes (the “Global Note”) may be transferred, in whole
but not in part, only to the Depository or a nominee of the
Depository, or to a successor Depository or to a nominee of such
successor Depository.
(b) If at any time (i) the
Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as a Depository for the Global Note and no successor
Depository shall have been appointed within 90 days after such
notification, (ii) the Depository ceases to be a clearing
agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any
other applicable rule or regulation and no successor Depository
shall have been appointed within 90 days after the Company becoming
aware of the Depository’s ceasing to be so registered,
(iii) the Company, in its sole discretion,
determines
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that the Global Note shall be so exchangeable or
(iv) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default, the Company will execute, and, subject to Article 2 of the
Base Indenture, the Trustee, upon written notice from the Company,
will authenticate and deliver IQ Notes, with the Guarantees
endorsed thereon and executed by the Guarantors, in registered
certificated form without coupons, in authorized denominations, and
in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Global Note in exchange for such Global Note. Upon the exchange
of the Global Note for such IQ Notes in registered certificated
form without coupons, in authorized denominations, the Global Note
shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Such IQ Notes in registered
certificated form issued in exchange for the Global Note shall be
registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as
the Depository, pursuant to instructions from its direct or
indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The
Trustee shall deliver such IQ Notes to the Depository for delivery
to the Persons in whose names such IQ Notes are so
registered.
SECTION 2.5. Payment of Principal
and Interest.
The IQ Notes shall bear interest at
the per annum rate of 5.95%.
Interest shall be paid quarterly in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date commencing on January 1,
2007. Payments of interest on the IQ Notes will include interest
accrued from, and including, the immediately preceding Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for
(or from, and including, the Original Issue Date if no interest has
been paid or duly provided for) to, but excluding, the applicable
Interest Payment Date or date of earlier redemption, as the case
may be. Interest payments for the IQ Notes shall be computed and
paid on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months.
The interest so payable and
punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date
will be paid to the Holder(s) of the IQ Notes as of the Regular
Record Date for such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest that
is not so punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest
Payment Date will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders of
the IQ Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record
Date and may either be paid to the Person or Persons in whose name
such IQ Notes are registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed
by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of the IQ
Notes by the Trustee not less than fifteen (15) days prior to
such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner, all as more fully provided in the Base
Indenture.
Payment of the principal of, and any
interest (other than interest due on an Interest Payment Date) on,
the IQ Notes due on the Maturity Date or date of earlier
redemption, as the case may be, shall be made in immediately
available funds, upon presentation and surrender of the applicable
IQ Notes at the office or agency maintained by the Company for that
purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
currently the office of the Trustee located at 100 Wall Street,
Suite 2000, New York, New York 10005, or at such other paying
agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as the
Company may determine. Payment of interest due on any Interest
Payment Date will be made by wire transfer to the Holders entitled
thereto of immediately
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available funds at such place and to such
account at a banking institution in the United States as may be
designated in wire transfer instructions received in writing by the
Trustee at least sixteen (16) days prior to such Interest
Payment Date or, if not so received, by check mailed to the address
of the applicable Holders in the Security Register. Any such wire
transfer instructions received by the Trustee shall remain in
effect until revoked by such Holder.
Any payments on the IQ Notes will be
made in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at
the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts.
In the event that any Interest
Payment Date or the Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption
falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the required payment of
principal and/or interest payable on such date shall be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue
with respect to such payment for the period from and after such
Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date or date of earlier
redemption, as the case may be, to the date of such payment on the
next succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 2.6. Events of
Default
An “Event of Default”
with respect to the IQ Notes means, in addition to those Events of
Default set forth at Section 6.01 of the Base Indenture, the
following:
(a) the occurrence of a declaration
of acceleration with regard to the Securities of any other Series
issued under the Base Indenture; or
(b) the occurrence of an event of
default under the Insurance Agreement that is not waived or
consented to by the Insurer.
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES;
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 3.1. Redemption at the
Company’s Option.
The IQ Notes shall be subject to
redemption at the option of the Company, in whole or in part,
without premium or penalty, at any time in whole, and from time to
time in part, on or after October 1, 2011. The IQ Notes shall
also be subject to redemption at the option of the Company,
(i) in whole or in part, in the event of a Transfer of a
Guarantor under Section 10.02 of the Base Indenture, in an
amount equal to the intercompany debt representing that portion of
the IQ Notes previously loaned by the Company to such Guarantor
that is repaid by such Guarantor to the Company pursuant to
Section 10.02(1) of the Base Indenture minus any amount of
such repayment that the Company loans to another Guarantor that is
a signatory hereto, or (ii) in whole, if we have agreed to
enter into a transaction that, upon the consummation thereof, would
result in there no longer being at least one Guarantor which, as of
the date hereof, is a public utility regulated by the Indiana
Utility Regulatory Commission.
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The Company shall exercise such
optional redemption upon not less than 30 nor more than 60
days’ notice by mail, at a redemption price (the
“Redemption Price”) equal to 100% of the principal
amount to be redeemed plus any unpaid interest accrued thereon to
but excluding the applicable redemption date; provided, however,
that interest payable on an IQ Note with respect to an Interest
Payment Date that falls on or before such redemption date shall be
made to the Holder thereof on the Regular Record Date related to
such Interest Payment Date.
In the event of redemption of the IQ
Notes in part only, a new IQ Note or IQ Notes for the unredeemed
portion will be issued in the name or names of the Holders thereof
upon the presentation and surrender thereof, as set forth in
Section 3A.08 of the Base Indenture.
Notice of redemption shall be given
as provided in Section 3A.05 of the Base Indenture.
Any redemption of less than all of
the IQ Notes shall, with respect to the principal thereof, be
divisible by $1,000.
SECTION 3.2. No Sinking
Fund.
The IQ Notes are not subject to, or
entitled to the benefit of, any sinking fund.
SECTION 3.3.
Defeasance.
Article 8 of the Base Indenture
describing Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance shall apply to the IQ
Notes.
SECTION 3.4. Redemption upon
Death of a Beneficial Owner.
Unless the IQ Notes have been
declared due and payable prior to the Maturity Date by reason of an
Event of Default, or have been previously redeemed or otherwise
repaid in accordance with their terms, the Representative (as
hereinafter defined) of a deceased Beneficial Owner (as hereinafter
defined) of the IQ Notes has the right to request redemption prior
to the Maturity Date of all or part of his or her IQ Notes, and the
Company will redeem the same, subject to the limitations that the
Company will not be obligated to redeem, during the period from the
Original Issue Date through and including October 1, 2007 (the
“Initial Period”), and, during any twelve-month period
that ends on and includes each October 1 thereafter (each such
twelve-month period being hereinafter referred to as a
“Subsequent Period”), on behalf of a deceased
Beneficial Owner, (i) IQ Notes with an aggregate principal
amount in excess of $25,000 or (ii) IQ Notes exceeding
$2,000,000 in aggregate principal amount from all deceased
Beneficial Owners.
The Company may, at its option,
redeem any deceased Beneficial Owner’s IQ Notes in the
Initial Period or any Subsequent Period in excess of the $25,000
limitation. Any such redemption by the Company, to the extent that
it exceeds the $25,000 limitation for any deceased Beneficial
Owner, shall not be included in the computation of the $2,000,000
aggregate limitation for the IQ Notes for such Initial Period or
such Subsequent Period, as the case may be, or for any succeeding
Subsequent
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Period. The Company may, at its option, redeem
deceased Beneficial Owners’ IQ Notes in the Initial Period or
in any Subsequent Period in an aggregate principal amount exceeding
the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation. Any such redemption by the
Company, to the extent it exceeds the $2,000,000 aggregate
limitation, shall not reduce the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation
for any succeeding Subsequent Period. On any determination by the
Company to redeem IQ Notes in excess of the $25,000 limitation or
the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation, such IQ Notes shall be
redeemed in the order of the receipt of Redemption Requests (as
hereinafter defined) by the Trustee.
A request for redemption of an IQ
Note may be initiated by the personal representative or other
person authorized to represent the estate of the deceased
Beneficial Owner or from a surviving joint tenant(s) or tenant(s)
by the entirety or the trustee of a trust (each, a
“Representative”). A Representative may initiate a
request for redemption at any time and in any principal amount,
provided that the principal amount is in integral multiples of
$1,000. The Representative shall deliver its request to the
Participant (as hereinafter defined) through whom the deceased
Beneficial Owner owned the Note to be redeemed, in form
satisfactory to the Participant, together with evidence of the
death of such Beneficial Owner, evidence of the authority of the
Representative satisfactory to the Participant, any waivers,
notices or certificates as may be required under applicable state
or federal law and any other evidence of the right to such
redemption as the Participant requires. The request must specify
the principal amount of the IQ Notes to be redeemed. Subject to the
rules and arrangements applicable to the Depository, the
Participant will then deliver to the Depository a request for
redemption substantially in the form attached to the IQ Notes as
Annex A (a “Redemption Request”). The Depository will,
upon receipt of a Redemption Request, forward the same to the
Trustee. The Trustee is required to maintain records with respect
to Redemption Requests received by it, including the date of
receipt, the name of the Participant filing the Redemption Request
and the status of each Redemption Request with respect to the
$25,000 limitation and the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation. The
Trustee will immediately file with the Company each Redemption
Request it receives, together with the information regarding the
eligibility of the Redemption Request with respect to the $25,000
limitation and the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation. The Company,
the Depository and the Trustee may conclusively assume, without
independent investigation, that the statements contained in each
Redemption Request are true and correct and shall have no
responsibility (a) for reviewing any documents submitted to
the Participant by the Representative or (b) for determining
whether the applicable decedent is in fact the Beneficial Owner of
the interest in the IQ Notes to be redeemed or is in fact deceased
and whether the Representative is duly authorized to request
redemption on behalf of the applicable Beneficial Owner.
Subject to the $25,000 limitation
and the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation, the Company will, after
the death of any Beneficial Owner, redeem such Beneficial
Owner’s IQ Note on the next Interest Payment Date occurring
not less than 30 days following receipt by the Company of a
Redemption Request from the Trustee. If Redemption Requests exceed
the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation during the Initial Period or
any Subsequent Period, then such excess Redemption Requests will be
applied, in the order received by the Trustee to successive
Subsequent Periods, regardless of the number of Subsequent Periods
required to redeem such interests. The Company may, at any
time,
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notify the Trustee that it will redeem, on the
next Interest Payment Date not less than 30 days thereafter, all or
any lesser amount of IQ Notes for which Redemption Requests have
been received but which are not then eligible for redemption by
reason of the $25,000 limitation or the $2,000,000 aggregate
limitation. Any IQ Notes so redeemed shall be redeemed in the order
of receipt of Redemption Requests by the Trustee.
The price to be paid by the Company
for the IQ Notes to be redeemed pursuant to a Redemption Request is
100% of the principal amount thereof plus any unpaid interest
accrued thereon to but excluding the applicable redemption date;
provided, however, that interest payable on an IQ Note with respect
to an Interest Payment Date that falls on or before such redemption
date shall be made to the Holder thereof on the Regular Record Date
related to such Interest Payment Date. Subject to arrangements with
the Depository, payment for IQ Notes to be redeemed shall be made
to the Depository upon presentation of the IQ Notes to the Trustee
for redemption in the aggregate principal amount specified in the
Redemption Requests submitted to the Trustee by the Depository
which are to be fulfilled in connection with such redemption. The
principal amount of any IQ Notes acquired or redeemed by the
Company other than by redemption at the option of any
Representative of a deceased Beneficial Owner pursuant to this
Section 3.4 shall not be included in the computation of either
the $25,000 limitation or the $2,000,000 aggregate limitation for
the Initial Period or any Subsequent Period.
For purposes of this section, a
“Beneficial Owner” means the person who has the right
to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of an IQ Note and the right
to receive the proceeds therefrom, as well as the interest and
principal payable to the Holder thereof. In general, a
determination of beneficial ownership in the IQ Notes will be
subject to the rules, regulations and procedures governing the
Depository and institutions (“Participants”) that have
accounts with the Depository or a nominee thereof.
For purposes of this section, an IQ
Note held in tenancy by the entirety, by joint tenancy or by
tenants in common will be deemed to be held by a single Beneficial
Owner, and the death of a tenant by the entirety, joint tenant or
tenant in common will be deemed the death of a Beneficial Owner.
The death of a person who, during his or her lifetime, was entitled
to substantially all of the rights of a Beneficial Owner of an
interest in the IQ Notes will be deemed the death of the Beneficial
Owner, regardless of the recordation of such ownership on the
records of the Participant, if such rights can be established to
the satisfaction of the Participant and the Company.
In the case of a Redemption Request
that is presented on behalf of a deceased Beneficial Owner and that
has not been fulfilled at the time the Company gives notice of its
election to redeem the IQ Notes pursuant to Section 3.1
hereof, the IQ Notes that are the subject of such pending
Redemption Request shall be redeemed pursuant to Section 3.1
hereof prior to any other IQ Notes.
Any Redemption Request may be
withdrawn by the person(s) presenting such request upon delivery of
a written request for such withdrawal given by the Participant on
behalf of such person(s) to the Depository and by the Depository to
the Trustee not less than 60 days prior to the Interest Payment
Date on which such IQ Notes are first eligible for
redemption.
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The Company may, at its option,
purchase any IQ Notes for which Redemption Requests have been
received in lieu of redeeming such IQ Notes. Any IQ Notes so
purchased by the Company shall be presented to the Trustee for
redemption and cancellation.
During such time or times as the IQ
Notes are not represented by a Global Security and are issued in
certificated form, all references to Participants and the
Depository, including the Depository’s governing rules,
regulations and procedures, shall be deemed deleted, all
determinations which under this Section the Participants are
required to make shall be made by the Company (including, without
limitation, determining whether the applicable decedent is in fact
the Beneficial Owner of the interest in the IQ Notes to be redeemed
or is in fact deceased and whether the Representative is duly
authorized to request redemption on behalf of the applicable
Beneficial Owner), and all Redemption Requests, to be effective,
shall be delivered by the Representative to the Trustee, with a
copy to the Company, and shall be in the form of a Redemption
Request (with appropriate changes mutually agreed to by the Trustee
and the Company to reflect the fact that such Redemption Request is
being executed by a Representative (including provision for
signature guarantees)) and, in addition to all documents that are
otherwise required to accompany a Redemption Request, shall be
accompanied by the IQ Note that is the subject of such request and,
if applicable, a properly executed assignment or endorsement. If
the Holder of the IQ Note is held by a nominee of the deceased
Beneficial Owner, a certificate or letter from such nominee
attesting to the deceased’s ownership of a beneficial
interest in the IQ Note must also be delivered.
ARTICLE IV
SPECIAL INSURANCE
PROVISIONS
SECTION 4.1. Supplemental
Indentures.
For so long as the Policy is in
effect (and the Insurer is not in default thereunder) or any
obligation by the Company or a Guarantor to reimburse the Insurer
for any payment made by the Insurer under the Policy remains
unpaid, the consent of the Insurer shall be required with respect
to any amendment or supplement to the Indenture or Guarantees,
except that the Insurer’s consent shall not be required for
any supplemental indenture entered