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EXHIBIT 4.1
EXECUTION COPY
JOHN
DEERE OWNER TRUST 2008
Class
A-1 2.74080% Asset Backed Notes
Class
A-2 3.63% Asset Backed Notes
Class
A-3 4.18% Asset Backed Notes
Class
A-4 4.89% Asset Backed Notes
___________________________
INDENTURE
Dated
as of April 15, 2008
_______________________
U.S.
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Indenture
Trustee
Table of Contents
Page
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
| SECTION
1.01. |
Definitions |
2 |
| SECTION
1.02. |
Incorporation by
Reference of Trust Indenture Act |
8
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| SECTION
1.03. |
Rules of
Construction |
9
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| SECTION
1.04. |
Calculations of
Interest |
9
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ARTICLE
II
THE
NOTES
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SECTION
2.01.
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Form
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10
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SECTION
2.02.
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Execution,
Authentication and Delivery
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10
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SECTION
2.03.
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Temporary
Notes
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11
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SECTION
2.04.
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Registration;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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11
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SECTION
2.05.
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Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
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12
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SECTION
2.06.
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Persons
Deemed Owner
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13
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SECTION
2.07.
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Payment
of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest
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13
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SECTION
2.08.
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Cancellation
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14
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SECTION
2.09.
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Release
of Collateral
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14
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SECTION
2.10.
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Book-Entry
Notes
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15
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SECTION
2.11.
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Notices
to Clearing Agency
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15
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SECTION
2.12.
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Definitive
Notes
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16
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SECTION
2.13.
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Notes
as Indebtedness for Tax Purposes
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16
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ARTICLE
III
COVENANTS
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SECTION
3.01.
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Payment
of Principal and Interest
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16
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SECTION
3.02.
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Maintenance
of Office or Agency
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16
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SECTION
3.03.
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Money
for Payments To Be Held in Trust
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17
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SECTION
3.04.
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Existence
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18
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SECTION
3.05.
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Protection
of Trust Estate
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18
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SECTION
3.06.
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Opinions
as to Trust Estate
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20
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SECTION
3.07.
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Performance
of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
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20
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SECTION
3.08.
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Negative
Covenants
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22
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SECTION
3.09.
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Annual
Statement as to Compliance
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23
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SECTION
3.10.
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Issuing
Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms
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23
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SECTION
3.11.
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Successor
or Transferee
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25
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SECTION
3.12.
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No
Other Business
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25
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SECTION
3.13.
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No
Borrowing
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25
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SECTION
3.14.
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Servicer’s
Obligations
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25
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SECTION
3.15.
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Guarantees,
Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
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25
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SECTION
3.16.
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Capital
Expenditures
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25
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SECTION
3.17.
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Removal
of Administrator
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26
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SECTION
3.18.
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Restricted
Payments
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26
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SECTION
3.19.
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Notice
of Events of Default
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26
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SECTION
3.20.
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Further
Instruments and Acts
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26
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ARTICLE
IV
SATISFACTION
AND DISCHARGE
|
SECTION
4.01.
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Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture |
26
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SECTION
4.02. |
Application
of Trust Money |
27 |
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SECTION
4.03. |
Repayment
of Moneys Held by Paying Agent |
28 |
ARTICLE
V
REMEDIES
| SECTION
5.01. |
Events of
Default |
28
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| SECTION
5.02. |
Acceleration of
Maturity; Rescission and Annulment |
29
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| SECTION
5.03. |
Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee |
30
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| SECTION
5.04. |
Remedies;
Priorities |
32
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| SECTION
5.05. |
Optional
Preservation of the Receivables |
33
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| SECTION
5.06. |
Limitation of
Suits |
33
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| SECTION
5.07. |
Unconditional
Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest |
34
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| SECTION
5.08. |
Restoration of
Rights and Remedies |
34
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| SECTION
5.09. |
Rights
and Remedies Cumulative |
34
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| SECTION
5.10. |
Delay or Omission
Not a Waiver |
34
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| SECTION
5.11. |
Control by
Noteholders |
35
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| SECTION
5.12. |
Waiver of Past
Defaults |
35
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| SECTION
5.13. |
Undertaking for
Costs |
35
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| SECTION
5.14. |
Waiver of Stay or
Extension Laws |
36
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| SECTION
5.15. |
Action on
Notes |
36
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| SECTION
5.16. |
Performance and
Enforcement of Certain Obligations |
36
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ARTICLE
VI
THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE
| SECTION
6.01. |
Duties of Indenture
Trustee |
37
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| SECTION
6.02. |
Rights of Indenture
Trustee |
39
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| SECTION
6.03. |
Individual Rights
of Indenture Trustee |
40
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| SECTION
6.04. |
Indenture
Trustee’s Disclaimer |
40
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| SECTION
6.05. |
Notice of
Defaults |
40
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| SECTION
6.06. |
Reports by
Indenture Trustee to Holders |
40
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| SECTION
6.07. |
Compensation and
Indemnity |
40
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| SECTION
6.08. |
Replacement of
Indenture Trustee |
41
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| SECTION
6.09. |
Successor Indenture
Trustee by Merger |
42
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| SECTION
6.10. |
Appointment of
Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee |
42
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| SECTION
6.11. |
Eligibility;
Disqualification |
44
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| SECTION
6.12. |
Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Issuing Entity |
44
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ARTICLE
VII
NOTEHOLDERS’
LISTS AND REPORTS
| SECTION
7.01. |
Issuing Entity To
Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders |
44
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| SECTION
7.02. |
Preservation of
Information; Communications to Noteholders |
44
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| SECTION
7.03. |
Reports by Issuing
Entity
|
44
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| SECTION
7.04. |
Reports by
Indenture Trustee |
45 |
ARTICLE
VIII
ACCOUNTS,
DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
| SECTION
8.01. |
Collection of
Money |
45
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| SECTION
8.02. |
Trust
Accounts |
46
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| SECTION
8.03. |
General Provisions
Regarding Accounts |
46
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| SECTION
8.04. |
Release of Trust
Estate |
47
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| SECTION
8.05. |
Opinion of
Counsel |
48
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ARTICLE
IX
SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES
| SECTION
9.01. |
Supplemental
Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders |
48
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| SECTION
9.02. |
Supplemental
Indentures with Consent of Noteholders |
49
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| SECTION
9.03. |
Execution of
Supplemental Indentures |
51
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| SECTION
9.04. |
Effect of
Supplemental Indenture |
51
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| SECTION
9.05. |
Conformity with
Trust Indenture Act |
51
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| SECTION
9.06. |
Reference in Notes
to Supplemental Indentures |
51
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ARTICLE
X
REDEMPTION
OF NOTES
| SECTION
10.01. |
Redemption |
52
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| SECTION
10.02. |
Form
of Redemption Notice |
52
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| SECTION
10.03. |
Notes Payable on
Redemption Date |
53
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ARTICLE
XI
MISCELLANEOUS
| SECTION
11.01. |
Compliance
Certificates and Opinions, etc |
53
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| SECTION
11.02. |
Form of Documents
Delivered to Indenture Trustee |
54
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| SECTION
11.03. |
Acts of
Noteholders |
55
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| SECTION
11.04. |
Notices, etc., to
Indenture Trustee, Issuing Entity and Rating Agencies |
56
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| SECTION
11.05. |
Notices to
Noteholders; Waiver |
56
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| SECTION
11.06. |
Alternate Payment
and Notice Provisions |
57
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| SECTION
11.07. |
Conflict with Trust
Indenture Act |
57
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SECTION
11.08.
|
Effect of Headings
and Table of Contents |
57
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| SECTION
11.09. |
Successors and
Assigns |
57
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| SECTION
11.10. |
Separability |
57
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| SECTION
11.11. |
Benefits of
Indenture |
58
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SECTION
11.12.
|
Legal
Holidays |
58
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| SECTION
11.13. |
GOVERNING
LAW |
58
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| SECTION
11.14. |
Counterparts |
58
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| SECTION
11.15. |
Recording
of Indenture
|
58
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| SECTION
11.16. |
Trust
Obligation
|
58
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| SECTION
11.17. |
No
Petition
|
58
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| SECTION
11.18. |
Subordination
Agreement |
59
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| SECTION
11.19. |
No
Recourse |
59
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| SECTION
11.20. |
Inspection
|
59
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| SECTION
11.21. |
Limitation of
Liability |
59
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EXHIBITS
Testimonium,
Signatures and Seals Acknowledgments
| Exhibit
A |
Schedule of
Receivables |
| Exhibit
B |
Form of Sale and
Servicing Agreement |
| Exhibit
C |
Form of Depository
Agreement |
| Exhibit
D |
Form of Class A-1
Note |
| Exhibit
E |
Form of Class A-2
Note |
| Exhibit
F |
Form of Class A-3
Note |
| Exhibit
G |
Form of Class A-4
Note |
INDENTURE
dated as of April 15, 2008, between JOHN DEERE OWNER TRUST
2008, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing
Entity”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national
banking association, solely as trustee and not in its
individual capacity (the “Indenture
Trustee”).
Each
party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Issuing Entity’s Class A-1 2.74080% Asset Backed Notes
(the “Class A-1 Notes”), Class A-2 3.63% Asset
Backed Notes (the “Class A-2 Notes”), Class A-3
4.18% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-3 Notes”)
and the Class A-4 4.89% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class
A-4 Notes” and together with the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, the
“Notes”):
GRANTING
CLAUSE
The
Issuing Entity hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the
Closing Date, as trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the
Notes, all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title and
interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to
(a) the Receivables and all moneys due thereon on or after the
Cut-off Date; (b) the security interests in the Financed
Equipment granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and
any other interest of the Issuing Entity in the Financed
Equipment; (c) any proceeds with respect to the Receivables
from claims on any physical damage, credit life or disability
insurance policies covering Financed Equipment or Obligors;
(d) the Purchase Agreement, including the right assigned to
the Issuing Entity to cause JDCC to repurchase Receivables
from the Seller under certain circumstances; (e) all funds on
deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts, including the
Reserve Account Initial Deposit, and in all investments and
proceeds thereof (including all income thereon); (f) the Sale
and Servicing Agreement (including all rights of the Seller
under the Purchase Agreement assigned to the Issuing Entity
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement); and (g) all
present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in
action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all
payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature
whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing,
including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash
proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts,
insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of
any and every kind and other forms of obligations and
receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of
any of the foregoing (collectively, the
“Collateral”). This Indenture shall
constitute a security agreement for purposes of the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the States of New York and
Delaware on the date hereof.
The
foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in
respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice,
priority or distinction and to secure compliance with the
provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this
Indenture.
The
Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Holders of the Notes, acknowledges such Grant, and accepts the
trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions
of this Indenture for the use and benefit of such
Holders.
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION
1.01. Definitions
. (a) Except as otherwise specified
herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following
terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all
purposes of this Indenture.
“
Act
” has the meaning specified in Section
11.03(a).
“
Administration
Agreement ” means the Administration Agreement
dated as of April 15, 2008, among the Administrator, the
Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee as amended or
supplemented from time to time.
“
Administrator
” means the administrator under the Administration
Agreement.
“
Affiliate
” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person controlling or controlled by or under 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.
“
Authorized
Officer ” means, with respect to the Issuing
Entity, any officer of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to
act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuing
Entity and who is identified on the list of Authorized
Officers, containing the specimen signature of each such
Person, delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture
Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or
supplemented from time to time thereafter) and, so long as the
Administration Agreement is in effect, any Assistant
Treasurer, any Vice President or more senior officer of the
Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator
in matters relating to the Issuing Entity and to be acted upon
by the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement
and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers
(containing the specimen signatures of such officers)
delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture Trustee on the
Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented
from time to time thereafter); provided, however, that for
purposes of Section 3.09 and Section 1(a)(J) of the
Administration Agreement such officer of the Administrator
must be any of the president, controller, chief executive
officer, chief financial officer or chief accounting
officer.
“
Bankruptcy
Code ” means the United States Bankruptcy Code,
Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended.
“
Basic
Documents ” means this Indenture, the Certificate
of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement,
the Depository Agreement and other documents and certificates
delivered in connection therewith.
“
Book
Entry Notes ” means a beneficial interest in the
Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section
2.10.
“
Business
Day ” means any day other than a Saturday, a
Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust
companies in The City of New York, Chicago, Illinois or St.
Paul, Minnesota are authorized or obligated by law, regulation
or executive order to remain closed.
“
Certificate
” has the meaning assigned to it in the Trust
Agreement.
“
Certificate of
Trust ” means the certificate of trust of the
Issuing Entity substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the
Trust Agreement.
“
Class A-1
Note ” means a Class A-1 2.74080% Asset-Backed
Note, substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
“
Class A-1 Note
Interest Rate ” means 2.74080% per
annum.
“
Class A-2
Note ” means a Class A-2 3.63% Asset Backed Note,
substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
“
Class A-2 Note
Interest Rate ” means 3.63% per
annum.
“
Class A-3
Note ” means a Class A-3 4.18% Asset Backed Note,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
“
Class A-3 Note
Interest Rate ” means 4.18% per
annum.
“
Class A-4
Note ” means a Class A-4 4.89% Asset Backed Note,
substantially in the form of Exhibit G.
“
Class A-4 Note
Interest Rate ” means 4.89% per
annum.
“Clearing Agency ” means an organization
registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section
17A of the Exchange Act.
“
Clearing Agency
Participant ” means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to
time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and
pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing
Agency.
“
Closing
Date ” means April 16, 2008.
“
Code
” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“
Collateral
” has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of
this Indenture.
“
Corporate Trust
Office ” means the office of the Indenture
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered which office at the date
of
the
execution of this Indenture is located at 209 South LaSalle Street,
Suite 300, Chicago, Illinois 60604, Attention: John
Deere Owner Trust 2008, facsimile No.: 312-325-8905, or at such
other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to
time by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuing Entity, or the
corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the
address of which the successor Indenture Trustee will notify the
Noteholders and the Issuing Entity).
“
Default
” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the
lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default.
“
Definitive
Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section
2.10.
“
Depository
Agreement ” means the agreement among the Issuing
Entity and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial
Clearing Agency, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the
form of Exhibit C, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“
ERISA
” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended.
“
Event of
Default ” has the meaning specified in Section
5.01.
“
Exchange
Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.
“
Executive
Officer ” means, with respect to any
(i) corporation, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief
Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President,
Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or
the Treasurer of such corporation; and (ii) partnership,
any general partner thereof.
“
Grant
” means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant,
alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create,
and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of
set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to
this Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any
other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers
and options (but none of the obligations) of the Granting
party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right
to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal
and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all
other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices
and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements,
to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in
the name of the Granting party or otherwise and generally to
do and receive anything that the Granting party is or may be
entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect
thereto.
“
Holder” or
“Noteholder ” means the Person in whose
name a Class A-1 Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note or a
Class A-4 Note is registered on the Note
Register.
“
Indenture
” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
“
Indenture
Trustee ” means U.S. Bank National Association, a
national banking association, as Indenture Trustee under this
Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under this
Indenture.
“
Independent
” means, when used with respect to any specified Person,
that the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuing
Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller and any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have
any direct financial interest or any material indirect
financial interest in the Issuing Entity, any such other
obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons and (c) is not connected with the Issuing Entity, any
such other obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter,
underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing
similar functions.
“
Independent
Certificate ” means a certificate or opinion to
be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances
described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01, made by an Independent
appraiser, firm of certified public accountants or other
expert appointed by an Issuing Entity Order and acceptable to
the Indenture Trustee, and such opinion or certificate shall
state that the signer has read the definition of
“Independent” in this Indenture and that the
signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.
“
Issuing
Entity ” means John Deere Owner Trust 2008 until
a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor
and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and
required by the TIA, each other obligor on the
Notes.
“
Issuing Entity
Order ” and “ Issuing Entity
Request ” means a written order or request signed
in the name of the Issuing Entity by any one of its Authorized
Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
“
JDCC
” means John Deere Capital Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
“
Note
Interest Rate ” means the per annum interest rate
borne by a Note.
“
Note
Owner ” means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note,
the Person who is the owner of such Book-Entry Note, as
reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or on the books
of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency
(directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect
participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
“
Note
Register ” and “ Note
Registrar ” have the respective meanings
specified in Section 2.04.
“
Notes
” means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.
“
Officer’s
Certificate ” means a certificate signed by any
Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity, under the
circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the
applicable requirements of Section 11.01, and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any
reference in this Indenture to an Officer’s Certificate
shall be to an Officer’s Certificate of any Authorized
Officer of the Issuing Entity.
“
Opinion of
Counsel ” means one or more written opinions of
counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in
this Indenture, be employees of or counsel to the Issuing
Entity and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the
Indenture Trustee as Indenture Trustee, and shall comply with
any applicable requirements of Section 11.01.
“
Outstanding
” means, as of the date of determination, all Notes
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
except:
(i) Notes
theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or delivered to
the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii) Notes
or portions thereof the payment for which money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders
of such Notes (provided, however, that if such Notes are to be
redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor, satisfactory
to the Indenture Trustee); and
(iii) Notes
in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture unless
proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that
any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser;
provided that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite Outstanding Amount of the Notes have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder or under any Basic Document, Notes owned by the Issuing
Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether
the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Indenture
Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the
pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Notes and that
the pledgee is not the Issuing Entity, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons.
“
Outstanding
Amount ” means the aggregate principal amount of
all Notes, or a Class of Notes, as applicable, Outstanding at
the date of determination.
“
Owner
Trustee ” means BNYM (Delaware) not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement, or any successor Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement.
“
Paying
Agent ” means the Indenture Trustee, U.S. Bank
National Association or any Person that meets the eligibility
standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.11
and is authorized by the Issuing Entity to make the payments
to and distributions from the Collection Account and the Note
Distribution Account, including payment of principal of or
interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuing
Entity.
“
Payment
Date ” means the 15th day of each month, or, if
any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing May 15, 2008; provided
, however ,
that if any Class A-1 Notes are outstanding after the Payment
Date in April 2009, Payment Date shall also mean, solely in
the context of determining the date for final payment of the
Class A-1 Notes and the interest accrual period for the Class
A-1 Notes from the Payment Date in April 2009 to but excluding
such final payment, the Special Payment Date.
“
Person
” means any individual, corporation, limited liability
company, estate, partnership, joint venture, association,
joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary
thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
“
Predecessor
Note ” means, with respect to any particular
Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the
same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for
the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and
delivered under Section 2.05 in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen
Note.
“
Proceeding
” means any suit in equity, action at law or other
judicial or administrative proceeding.
“
Protected
Purchaser ” has the meaning specified in Article
Eight of the UCC.
“
Rating
Agency ” means Moody’s and Standard &
Poor’s. If no such organization or successor
is any longer in existence, “Rating Agency” shall
be a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or
other comparable Person designated by the Issuing Entity,
notice of which designation shall be given to the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.
“
Rating Agency
Condition ” means, with respect to any action,
that each Rating Agency shall have been given 10 days’
prior notice thereof and that each of the Rating Agencies
shall have notified the Seller, the Servicer and the Issuing
Entity in writing that such action will not result in a
reduction or withdrawal of the then current ratings of the
Notes.
“
Record
Date ” means, with respect to a Payment Date or
Redemption Date, the close of business on the day immediately
preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date, unless
Definitive Notes are issued, in which case the Record Date
with respect to such Definitive Notes as to any Payment Date
shall be the last day of the immediately preceding calendar
month.
“
Redemption
Date ” means the Payment Date specified by the
Servicer or the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or
(b), as applicable.
“
Redemption
Price ” means in the case of (a) a redemption of
the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01(a), an amount equal to the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and
unpaid interest on the Notes at the related Note Interest Rate
to but excluding the Redemption Date, or (b) a payment made to
Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.01(b), the amount on
deposit in the Note Distribution Account, but not in excess of
the amount specified in clause (a) above.
“
Registered
Holder ” means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record
Date.
“
Responsible
Officer ” means, with respect to the Indenture
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the
Indenture Trustee who shall have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture, including any Vice
President, Assistant Vice President, or any other officer of
the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar
to those performed by any of the above designated officers and
also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer
to whom such matter is referred because of such
officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
“
Sale
and Servicing Agreement ” means the Sale and
Servicing Agreement dated as of April 15, 2008 among the
Issuing Entity, the Seller and the Servicer, in the form of
Exhibit B, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“
Schedule of
Receivables ” means the listing of the
Receivables set forth in Exhibit A (which Exhibit may be in
the form of microfiche).
“
Special Payment
Date ” means May 8, 2009 with respect to the
Class A-1 Notes only if any of the Class A-1 Notes are
outstanding after the Payment Date in April 2009.
“
State
” means any one of the 50 states of the United States of
America or the District of Columbia.
“
Successor
Servicer ” has the meaning specified in Section
3.07(e).
“
Trust
Accounts ” mean the Collection Account, the Note
Distribution Account and the Reserve Account established
pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
“
Trust
Estate ” means all money, instruments, rights and
other property that are subject or intended to be subject to
the lien and security interest of this Indenture for the
benefit of the Noteholders (including, without limitation, all
property and interests Granted to the Indenture Trustee),
including all proceeds thereof.
“
Trust Indenture
Act ” or “TIA” means the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as in force on the date hereof, unless
otherwise specifically provided.
“
UCC
” means, unless the context otherwise requires, the
Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the relevant
jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.
(b) Except
as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise
require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION
1.02. 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. The following TIA terms used
in this Indenture have the following meanings:
“Commission”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“indenture
securities” means the Notes.
“indenture
security holder” means a Noteholder.
“indenture
to be qualified” means this Indenture.
“indenture
trustee” or “institutional trustee” means
the Indenture Trustee.
“obligor”
on the indenture securities means the Issuing Entity and any
other obligor on the indenture securities.
All
other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by
Commission rule have the meaning assigned to them by such
definitions.
SECTION
1.03. Rules of
Construction . Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i)
a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii)
an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States as in effect from
time to time;
(iii) “or”
is not exclusive;
(iv) “including”
means “including without limitation”;
and
(v) words
in the singular include the plural and words in the plural
include the singular.
SECTION
1.04. Calculations of
Interest . All calculations of interest in
respect of the Class A-1 Notes made hereunder shall be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the
related period of accrual divided by 360. Interest
in respect of the Class A-1 Notes shall accrue from and
including the Closing Date or from and including the most
recent Payment Date to which interest has been paid to but
excluding the current Payment Date. For the
avoidance of doubt, if any Class A-1 Notes are outstanding
after the Payment Date in April 2009, interest on the Class
A-1 Notes will accrue from and including the Payment Date in
April 2009 to but excluding the Special Payment Date. All
calculations of interest in respect of the Class A-2 Notes,
the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes made hereunder
shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months. Interest on the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes in respect
of a Payment Date will accrue from and including the 15th day
of the month preceding such Payment Date (or the Closing Date
in the case of the first Payment Date) to and including the
14th day of the month of such Payment Date.
ARTICLE
II
THE
NOTES
SECTION
2.01. Form
. The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3 and Class A-4
Notes, in each case together with the Indenture
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the forms set forth in Exhibits D, E, F and G,
respectively, with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers
or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced
by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the
text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with
an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the
Note.
The
Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed
or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods
(with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by
the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their
execution of such Notes.
Each
Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in
Exhibits D, E, F and G are part of the terms of this
Indenture.
SECTION
2.02. Execution,
Authentication and Delivery . The Notes
shall be executed on behalf of the Issuing Entity by any of
its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such
Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes
bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who
were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuing Entity
shall bind the Issuing Entity, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices
prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
The
Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuing Entity Order authenticate
and deliver Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $197,800,000, Class A-2 Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $194,800,000, Class
A-3 Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount
of $151,270,000 and Class A-4 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000. The
aggregate principal amount of Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3
and Class A-4 Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed
such amounts, respectively, except as provided in Section
2.05.
Each
Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as
registered Notes in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in
integral multiples thereof.
No
Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears
on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in
the form provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee
by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories,
and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION
2.03. Temporary
Notes . Pending the preparation of
definitive Notes, the Issuing Entity may execute, and upon
receipt of an Issuing Entity Order the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced,
of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are
issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the
terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes
may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Notes.
If
temporary Notes are issued, the Issuing Entity will cause
definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Notes,
the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive Notes
upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency
of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section
3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender
for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the
Issuing Entity shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal
amount of definitive Notes of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Notes.
SECTION
2.04. Registration;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange . The
Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept a register (the
“Note Register”) in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuing Entity
shall provide for the registration of Notes and the
registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture
Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose
of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein
provided. Upon any resignation of any Note
Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a
successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment,
assume the duties of Note Registrar.
If
a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Issuing Entity as Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity will give
the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment
of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in
the location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture Trustee
shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all
reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the
Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a
certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an
Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the
Holders of the Notes and the principal amounts and number of
such Notes.
Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the
office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as
provided in Section 3.02, if the requirements of Section
8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Issuing Entity shall execute,
and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations,
of a like aggregate principal amount.
At
the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other
Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a
like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes
to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever
any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements
of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met the Issuing Entity
shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes
which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All
Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuing Entity,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
Every
Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in the form attached to the
form of the applicable Note duly executed by the Holder
thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in
writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible
guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the
Indenture Trustee which requirements will include membership
or participation in STAMP or such other “signature
guarantee program” as may be determined by the Indenture
Trustee in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Exchange Act, and such other documents as
the Indenture Trustee may require.
No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration
of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 2.03 or 9.06 not involving any
transfer.
Each
Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner,
by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note) will be
deemed to have represented that (x) it is not, and is not
acquiring the Note on behalf of, or with “plan
assets” (as determined under Department of Labor
Regulation § 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of, an
“employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section
3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, or a
“plan” (as defined in section 4975 of the Code)
that is subject to 4975 of the Code, or any employee benefit
plan subject to a federal, state, or local law similar to
Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or (y) its
acquisition and holding of the Note do not give rise to a
transaction prohibited under Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code or under any applicable similar law for which
an exemption, all of the conditions of which are satisfied, is
not available.
SECTION
2.05. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the
Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is
delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity
as may be required by it to hold the Issuing Entity and the
Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar or the Indenture
Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a Protected
Purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405
of the UCC are met, the Issuing Entity shall execute and upon
its request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the same
Class; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or
stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or
within seven days shall be due and payable, or shall have been
called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note,
the Issuing Entity may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note
when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without
surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such
replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen
Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a
Protected Purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such
replacement Note was issued presents for payment
such
original
Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from
the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such
replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was
delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a Protected
Purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost
or expense incurred by the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee
in connection therewith.
Upon
the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the
Issuing Entity may require the payment by the Holder of such
Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto
and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected
therewith.
Every
replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note
shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation
of the Issuing Entity, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the
benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The
provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude
(to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION
2.06. Persons Deemed
Owner . Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuing Entity, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the
Indenture Trustee shall treat the Person in whose name any
Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the
owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of
principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all
other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be
overdue, and neither the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee
nor any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION
2.07. Payment of
Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest
. (a) The Notes shall accrue interest as
provided in the forms of the Class A-1 Note, Class A-2 Note,
Class A-3 Note and Class A-4 Note set forth in Exhibits D, E,
F and G, respectively, and such interest shall be payable on
each Payment Date as specified therein. Any
installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any
Note which is punctually paid or duly provided for by the
Issuing Entity on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to
the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) is registered on the Record Date, by check mailed
first-class, postage prepaid to such Person’s address as
it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except
that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to
Section 2.12, with respect to Notes registered on the Record
Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payment will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee and except for the final
installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on
a Payment Date (and except for the Redemption Price for any
Note called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.01(a)) which
shall be payable as provided below. The funds
represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be
held in accordance with Section 3.03.
(b) The
principal of each Note shall be payable in installments on
each Payment Date as provided in the forms of the Class A-1
Note, Class A-2 Note, Class A-3 Note and Class A-4 Note set
forth in Exhibits D, E, F and G,
respectively. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and
payable, if not previously paid, on the date on which an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in
the manner provided in Section
5.02. All principal payments on each
Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of
such Class entitled thereto. Upon notice to the
Indenture Trustee by the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at
the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Payment
Date on which the Issuing Entity expects that the final
installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be
paid. Such notice shall be mailed no later than
five Business Days prior to such final Payment Date and shall
specify that such final installment will be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the
place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for
payment of such installment. Notices in connection
with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as
provided in Section 10.02.
(c) If
the Issuing Entity defaults in a payment of interest on the
Notes, the Issuing Entity shall pay defaulted interest (plus
interest on such defaulted interest at a rate per annum equal
to the sum of (i) the applicable Note Interest Rate and (ii)
1.0%, to the extent lawful) in any lawful
manner. The Issuing Entity may pay such defaulted
interest and interest on such defaulted interest to the
persons who are Noteholders on a subsequent special record
date, which date shall be at least five Business Days prior to
the payment date. The Issuing Entity shall fix or
cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment
date, and, at least 10 days before any such special record
date, the Issuing Entity shall mail to each Noteholder a
notice that states the special record date, the payment date
and the amount of defaulted interest and interest on such
defaulted interest to be paid.
SECTION
2.08. Cancellation
. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration
of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to
any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to
the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the
Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity may at any
time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any
Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which
the Issuing Entity may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by
the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard
retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless
the Issuing Entity shall direct by an Issuing Entity Order
that they be returned to it; provided that the Notes have not
been previously disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee.
SECTION
2.09. Release of
Collateral . Subject to Section 11.01, the
Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this
Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Request
accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel and Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA
§§ 314(c) and 314(d)(l) or an Opinion of Counsel in
lieu of
such
Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does not
require any such Independent Certificates.
SECTION
2.10. Book-Entry
Notes . The Notes, upon original issuance,
will be issued in the form of a typewritten Note or Notes
representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The
Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or
on behalf of, the Issuing Entity. Such Note shall
initially be registered on the Note Register in the name of
Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency,
and no Note Owner will receive a Definitive Note (as
hereinafter defined) representing such Note Owner’s
interest in such Note, except as provided in Section
2.12. Unless and until definitive, fully registered
Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to
Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12:
(i) the
provisions of this Section shall be in full force and
effect;
(ii) the
Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to
deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest
on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions
hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes, and shall have no
obligation to the Note Owners;
(iii) to
the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with
any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this
Section shall control;
(iv) the
rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the
Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by
law and agreements between such Note Owners and the Clearing
Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants; pursuant to
the Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Notes
are issued pursuant to Section 2.12, the initial Clearing
Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing
Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of
principal of and interest on the Notes to such Clearing Agency
Participants; and
(v) whenever
this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based
upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing
a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
(or any Class thereof), the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to
represent such percentage only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or
Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing,
respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial
interest in the Notes (or any Class thereof) and has delivered
such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION
2.11. Notices to
Clearing Agency . Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Noteholders is required under this
Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been
issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12, the Indenture
Trustee shall give all such notices and communications
specified herein to be given to Holders of the Notes to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to the Note
Owners or other Holders of the Notes.
SECTION
2.12. Definitive
Notes . If (i) the Administrator advises the
Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no
longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Notes, and the
Administrator is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii)
the Administrator at its option advises the Indenture Trustee
in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of
an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Note Owners
representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes advise the
Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in
the best interests of the Note Owners, then the Clearing
Agency shall notify all Note Owners and the Indenture Trustee
of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of
Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of
the typewritten Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry
Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Issuing Entity shall execute and the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in
accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. None of the Issuing Entity, the Note
Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any
delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively
rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive
Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Holders of
the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
SECTION
2.13. Notes as
Indebtedness for Tax Purposes . The Issuing
Entity is entering into this Indenture with the intention
that, for federal, State and local income and franchise tax
purposes, each Note will qualify as indebtedness secured by
the Collateral.
ARTICLE
III
COVENANTS
SECTION
3.01. Payment of
Principal and Interest . The Issuing
Entity will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the
Notes and this Indenture. Without limiting the
foregoing, the Issuing Entity will cause to be distributed all
amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account on a
Payment Date. Amounts properly withheld under the
Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of
interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been
paid by the Issuing Entity to such Noteholder for all purposes
of this Indenture.
SECTION
3.02. Maintenance of
Office or Agency . The Issuing Entity will
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an
office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and
demands to or upon the Issuing Entity in respect of the Notes
and this Indenture may be served. The Issuing
Entity hereby initially appoints U.S. Bank National
Association to serve as its agent for the foregoing
purposes. The Issuing Entity will give prompt
written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and
of any change in the location, of any such office or
agency. If at any time the Issuing Entity shall
fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuing Entity hereby appoints
the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such
surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION
3.03. Money for
Payments To Be Held in Trust . As provided
in Section 8.02(a) and (b), all payments of amounts due and
payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from
amounts withdrawn from the Collection Account and the Note
Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.02(c) shall be made
on behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by
another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the
Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account for
payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuing Entity
except as provided in this Section.
At
or before noon (New York time) on each Payment Date and
Redemption Date, the Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause to
be deposited in the Note Distribution Account an aggregate sum
sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the
Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is the
Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.
The
Issuing Entity will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture
Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree
with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts
as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the
provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
will:
(i) hold
all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with
respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums
to such Persons as herein provided;
(ii) give
the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuing
Entity of which it has actual knowledge (or any other obligor
upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required to be
made with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at
any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying
Agent;
(iv) immediately
resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture
Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes
if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be
met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;
and
(v) comply
with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any
applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect
to any applicable reporting requirements in connection
therewith.
The
Issuing Entity may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any
other purpose, by Issuing Entity Order direct any Paying Agent
to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by
the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which
the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment
by any Paying Agent to the Indenture
Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Subject
to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money
held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for
the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become
due and payable shall be discharged from such trust, and the
Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, as the case may be,
shall give prompt notice of such occurrence to the Issuing
Entity and shall release such money to the Issuing Entity on
Issuing Entity Request; and the Holder of such Note shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Issuing Entity for payment thereof (but only to the extent of
the amounts so paid to the Issuing Entity), and all liability
of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however,
that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the
Issuing Entity cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on
each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of
New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that,
after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the
Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee may also
adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuing Entity, any
other reasonable means of notification of such repayment
(including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such
repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not
been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest
in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from
the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent,
at the last address of record for each such
Holder).
SECTION
3.04. Existence
. The Issuing Entity will keep in full effect its
existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under
the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any
successor Issuing Entity hereunder is or becomes, organized
under the laws of any other State or of the United States of
America, in which case the Issuing Entity will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of
such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its
qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which
such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the
validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the
Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in
the Trust Estate.
SECTION
3.05. Protection of
Trust Estate . (a) The Issuing
Entity will from time to time prepare, execute, deliver and
file all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such
financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of
further assurance and other instruments, and will take such
other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain
or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority
thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the
purposes hereof;
(ii) perfect,
publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or
to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) enforce
any of the Collateral; or
(iv) preserve
and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate
against the claims of all persons and parties.
The
Issuing Entity hereby designates the Indenture Trustee, and
hereby authorizes the Indenture Trustee as its agent and
attorney-in-fact, to execute any financing statement,
continuation statement or other instrument delivered to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section.
(b) The
Issuing Entity hereby represents and warrants that, as to the
Collateral pledged to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of
the Noteholders, on the Closing Date:
(i) the
Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as
defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral that is in
existence in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security
interest is prior to all other liens, and is enforceable as
such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuing
Entity;
(ii) the
Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper”
under the applicable UCC;
(iii) the
Issuing Entity owns and has good and marketable title to such
Collateral free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances
of any Person, other than the interest Granted under this
Indenture;
(iv) the
Issuing Entity has acquired its ownership in such Collateral
in good faith without notice of any adverse
claim;
(v) the
Trust Accounts are not in the name of any person other than
the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity has not consented
to the bank maintaining the Trust Accounts to comply with the
instructions of any person other than the Indenture
Trustee;
(vi) the
Issuing Entity has not assigned, pledged, sold, granted a
security interest in or otherwise conveyed any interest in
such Collateral (or, if any such interest has been assigned,
pledged or otherwise encumbered, it has been released) other
than interests Granted pursuant to this
Indenture;
(vii) the
Issuing Entity has caused or will have caused, within ten days
after the Closing Date, the filing of all appropriate
financing statements in the proper filing office in the
appropriate jurisdiction under the applicable law in order to
perfect the security interest Granted hereunder in the
Receivables;
(viii)
other than its Granting hereunder, the Issuing Entity has not
Granted such Collateral, the Issuing Entity has not authorized
the filing of and is not aware of any financing statements
against the Issuing Entity that include a description of such
Collateral other than the financing statement in favor of the
Indenture Trustee, and the Issuing Entity is not aware of any
judgment or tax lien filing against it; and
(ix) the
information relating to such Collateral set forth in the
Schedule of Receivables (attached hereto as Exhibit A) is
correct.
SECTION
3.06. Opinions as to
Trust Estate . (a) On the Closing
Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with
respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto, and any other requisite
documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements, as are
necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and security
interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such
action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to make such lien and security
interest effective.
(b) On
or before February 28 in each calendar year, beginning in
2009, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with
respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of
this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any
other requisite documents and with respect to the execution
and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of
such action or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no
such action is necessary to maintain such lien and security
interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the
recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements that will, in
the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien
and security interest of this Indenture until February 28 in
the following calendar year.
SECTION
3.07. Performance of
Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
. (a) The Issuing Entity will not take
any action and will use its best efforts not to permit any
action to be taken by others that would release any Person
from any of such Person’s material covenants or
obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the
Trust Estate or that would result in the amendment,
hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or
impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument
or agreement, except as expressly provided in this Indenture,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement or such other instrument or
agreement.
(b) The
Issuing Entity may contract with other Persons to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any
performance of such duties by a Person identified to the
Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of the
Issuing Entity shall be deemed to be action taken by the
Issuing Entity. Initially, the Issuing Entity has
contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist
the Issuing Entity in performing its duties under this
Indenture.
(c) The
Issuing Entity will punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the
Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included
in the Trust Estate, including but not limited to filing or
causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and
continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of
this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in
accordance with and within the time periods provided for
herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly
provided
therein,
the Issuing Entity shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or
terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without the
consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
(d) If
the Issuing Entity shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Default under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuing Entity shall promptly notify a Responsible Officer of
the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies thereof, and
shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuing
Entity is taking with respect to such default. If a
Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer
to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the
Issuing Entity shall take all reasonable steps available to it
to remedy such failure.
(e) As
promptly as possible after the giving of notice of termination
to the Servicer of the Servicer’s rights and powers
pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Issuing Entity shall appoint a successor servicer (the
“Successor Servicer”), and such Successor Servicer
shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. In the event
that a Successor Servicer has not been appointed and accepted
its appointment at the time when the Servicer ceases to act as
Servicer, the Indenture Trustee without further action shall
automatically be appointed the Successor Servicer, subject to
Section 8.02 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Indenture Trustee may resign as the
Servicer by giving written notice of such resignation to the
Issuing Entity and in such event will be released from such
duties and obligations, such release not to be effective until
the date a new servicer enters into a servicing agreement with
the Issuing Entity as provided below. In each case
of either the appointment of the Indenture Trustee (or any
Affiliate as provided below) as Successor Servicer, or
resignation of the Indenture Trustee as Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee shall provide to the Depositor, in writing,
such information as reasonably requested by the Depositor to
comply with its reporting obligation under the Exchange Act
with respect to a successor Servicer or the resignation of the
Servicer. Upon delivery of any such notice to the
Issuing Entity, the Issuing Entity shall obtain a new servicer
as the Successor Servicer under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. Any Successor Servicer other than the
Indenture Trustee shall (i) be an established financial
institution having a net worth of not less than $50,000,000
and whose regular business includes the servicing of equipment
receivables, (ii) enter into a servicing agreement with the
Issuing Entity having substantially the same provisions as the
provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement applicable to
the Servicer and (iii) shall provide to the Depositor, in
writing, such information as reasonably requested by the
Depositor to comply with its reporting obligation under the
Exchange Act with respect to a successor
Servicer. If within 30 days after the delivery of
the notice referred to above, the Issuing Entity
shall not have obtained such a new servicer, the Indenture
Trustee may appoint, or may petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Servicer. In
connection with any such appointment, the Indenture Trustee
may make such arrangements for the compensation of such
successor as it and such successor shall agree, subject to the
limitations set forth below and in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and in accordance with Section 8.02 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity shall enter into an
agreement with such successor for the servicing of the
Receivables (such agreement to be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the
Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the Servicer’s duties
as servicer of the Receivables as provided herein, it shall do
so in its capacity as servicer and not in its capacity as
Indenture Trustee and, accordingly, the provisions of Article
VI hereof
shall
be inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its duties as the
successor to the Servicer and the servicing of the
Receivables. In case the Indenture Trustee shall become
successor to the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as Servicer any
one of its affiliates, provided that it shall be fully liable for
the actions and omissions of such affiliate in such capacity as
Successor Servicer.
(f) Upon
any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuing
Entity shall promptly notify the Indenture
Trustee. As soon as a Successor Servicer is
appointed, the Issuing Entity shall notify the Indenture
Trustee of such appointment, specifying in such notice the
name and address of such Successor Servicer.
(g) Without
derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted
to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of
the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuing Entity agrees
that it will not, without the prior written consent of the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of at least a majority in
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, amend, modify, waive,
supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree to any amendment,
modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender of,
the terms of any Collateral (except to the extent otherwise
provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement) or the Basic
Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the
Servicer or the Seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or JDCC under the Purchase Agreement; provided, however, that
no such amendment shall (i) increase or reduce in any manner
the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of,
collections of payments on Receivables or
distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of
the Noteholders or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the
Notes which are required to consent to any such amendment,
without the consent of the holders of all the outstanding
Notes. If any such amendment, modification,
supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture
Trustee or such Holders, the Issuing Entity agrees, promptly
following a request by the Indenture Trustee to do so, to
execute and deliver, in its own name and at its own expense,
such agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as
the Indenture Trustee may reasonably deem necessary or
appropriate in the circumstances.
SECTION
3.08. Negative
Covenants . So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not:
(i) except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Purchase
Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of
any of the properties or assets of the Issuing Entity,
including those included in the Trust Estate, unless directed
to do so by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) claim
any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or
interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts
properly withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert
any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason
of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part
of the Trust Estate; or
(iii) (A)
permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be
impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended,
hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or
permit any Person to be released from any covenants or
obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture
except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any
lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or
other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to
be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden
the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein
or the proceeds thereof (other than tax liens,
mechanics’ liens and other liens that arise by operation
of law, in each case on a Financed Equipment and arising
solely as a result of an action or omission of the related
Obligor) or (C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to
constitute a valid first priority (other than with respect to
any such tax, mechanics’ or other lien arising by
operation of law) security interest in the Trust
Estate.
SECTION
3.09. Annual Statement
as to Compliance . The Issuing Entity will
deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Issuing Entity (commencing with
the fiscal year ending in 2008), an Officer’s
Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such
Officer’s Certificate, that
(i) a
review of the activities of the Issuing Entity during the
12-month period ending at the end of such fiscal year (or in
the case of the fiscal year ending October 2008, the period
from the Closing Date to October 31, 2008) and of performance
under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized
Officer’s supervision; and
(ii) to
the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based
on such review, the Issuing Entity has complied with all
conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such
year, or, if there has been a default in the compliance of any
such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known
to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status
thereof.
SECTION
3.10. Issuing Entity
May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
. (a) The Issuing Entity shall not
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person,
unless
(i) the
Person (if other than the Issuing Entity) formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and
interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of
every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of
the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as
provided herein;
(ii) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the
Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect
to such transaction;
(iv) the
Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee)
to the effect that such transaction will not have any material
adverse tax consequence to the Trust, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v) any
action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
and
(vi) the
Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee
an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation or merger and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing
required by the Exchange Act).
(b) The
Issuing Entity shall not convey or transfer any of its
properties or assets, including those included in the Trust
Estate, to any Person, unless
(i) the
Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties
and assets of the Issuing Entity the conveyance or transfer of
which is hereby restricted shall (A) be a United States
citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of
the United States of America or any State, (B) expressly
assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or
observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture
on the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed,
all as provided herein, (C) expressly agrees by means of such
supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so
conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to
the rights of Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise
provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuing Entity against
and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or
related to this Indenture and the Notes, (E) expressly agrees
by means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or
if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make
all filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate
Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the
Notes and (F) such conveyance or transfer is expressly
permitted by this Indenture, the Purchase Agreement, the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement;
(ii) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the
Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect
to such transaction;
(iv) the
Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee)
to the effect that such transaction will not have any material
adverse tax consequence to the Trust, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v) any
action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
and
(vi) the
Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee
an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with (including any filing required by the
Exchange Act).
SECTION
3.11. Successor or
Transferee . (a) Upon any
consolidation or merger of the Issuing Entity in accordance
with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuing Entity)
shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Issuing Entity under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been
named as the Issuing Entity herein.
(b) Upon
a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of
the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuing
Entity will be released from every covenant and agreement of
this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the
Issuing Entity with respect to the Notes immediately upon the
delivery to and acceptance by the Indenture Trustee of the
Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel specified
in Section 3.10(b)(vi) stating that the Issuing Entity is to
be so released.
SECTION
3.12. No Other
Business . The Issuing Entity shall not
engage in any business other than financing, purchasing,
owning, selling and managing the Receivables in the manner
contemplated by this Indenture and the Basic Documents,
issuing the Notes and Certificates and activities incidental
thereto.
SECTION
3.13. No
Borrowing . The Issuing Entity shall not
issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable,
directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the
Notes.
SECTION
3.14. Servicer’s
Obligations . The Issuing Entity shall cause
the Servicer to comply with Sections 4.09, 4.10, 4.11 and 5.06
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION
3.15. Guarantees,
Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
. Except as contemplated by the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall not make
any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or
indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring
another’s payment or performance on any obligation or
capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise
become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in
connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or
own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to
do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any
other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any
other Person.
SECTION
3.16. Capital
Expenditures . The Issuing Entity shall not
make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or
otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or
personality).
SECTION
3.17. Removal of
Administrator . So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not remove the
Administrator without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition
shall have been satisfied in connection with such
removal.
SECTION
3.18. Restricted
Payments . The Issuing Entity shall not,
directly or indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any
distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether
in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the
Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuing Entity or otherwise with respect to any ownership or
equity interest or security in or of the Issuing Entity or to
the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise
acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or
security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts
for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuing
Entity may make, or cause to be made, (x) distributions to the
Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders as
permitted by, and to the extent funds are available for such
purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and (y)
payments to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii)
of the Administration Agreement. The Issuing Entity will not,
directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from
the Collection Account except in accordance with this
Indenture and the Basic Documents.
SECTION
3.19. Notice of Events
of Default . The Issuing Entity agrees to
give a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee and the
Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default
hereunder and, within five days after obtaining knowledge of
any of the following occurrences, written notice of each
default on the part of the Servicer or the Seller of its
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and each
default on the part of JDCC of its obligations under the
Purchase Agreement.
SECTION
3.20. Further
Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity will execute and deliver
such further instruments and do such further acts as may be
reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively
the purpose of this Indenture.
ARTICLE
IV
SATISFACTION
AND DISCHARGE
SECTION
4.01. Satisfaction and
Discharge of Indenture . This Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes
except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and
exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03,
3.04, 3.05, 3.08, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the rights,
obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder
(including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section
6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 4.02) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as
beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited
with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and
the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the
Issuing Entity, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
the Notes, when
(A) either
(1) all
Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)
Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.05 and (ii)
Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited
in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuing Entity
and thereafter repaid to the Issuing Entity or discharged from
such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered
to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) all
Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation
(a) have
become due and payable,
(b) will
become due and payable at the Class A-4 Final Scheduled
Payment Date within one year, or
(c) are
to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice
of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Issuing Entity, and the Issuing Entity, in the
case of clause (a), (b) or (c) immediately above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited
with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or
obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which
will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in
trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation as of such day of discharge or when due on the
Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date or Redemption Date (if
Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to
Section 10.01(a)), as the case may be;
(B) the
Issuing Entity has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Issuing Entity; and
(C) the
Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of
certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01(a) and each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with.
SECTION
4.02. Application of
Trust Money . All moneys deposited with the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of
the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes
for
the
payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with
the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon
for principal and interest; but such moneys need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.
SECTION
4.03. Repayment of
Moneys Held by Paying Agent . In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent
other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this
Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the
Issuing Entity, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held
and applied according to Section 3.03 and thereupon such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such moneys.
ARTICLE
V
REMEDIES
SECTION
5.01. Events of
Default . “Event of Default”,
wherever used herein, means any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation
of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any
court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative
or governmental body):
(i) default
in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue for a
period of five days; or
(ii) default
in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the
principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable;
or
(iii) default
in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement
of the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture (other than a
covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or
performance of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the Issuing
Entity made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other
writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of
the time when the same shall have been made, and such default
shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or
condition in respect of which such representation or warranty
was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise
cured, for a period of 30 days after there shall have been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuing Entity
by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuing Entity and the
Indenture Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, a written notice specifying
such default or incorrect representation or warranty and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
“Notice of Default” hereunder; or
(iv) the
filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuing Entity
or any substantial part of the Trust Estate in an involuntary
case under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or
appointing a receiver,
liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for
the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Trust Estate,
or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuing
Entity’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain
unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days;
or
(v) the
commencement by the Issuing Entity of a voluntary case under
any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent
by the Issuing Entity to the entry of an order for relief in
an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the
Issuing Entity to the appointment or taking possession by a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing Entity or for
any substantial part of the Trust Estate, or the making by the
Issuing Entity of any general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the failure by the Issuing Entity generally to
pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of
action by the Issuing Entity in furtherance of any of the
foregoing.
The
Issuing Entity shall deliver to a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee, within five days after the occurrence
thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s
Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and
the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under
clause (iii), (iv) and (v), its status and what action the
Issuing Entity is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.
SECTION
5.02. Acceleration of
Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . If an
Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in
every such case the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
may declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable,
by a notice in writing to the Issuing Entity (and to the
Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such
declaration the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, together
with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of
acceleration, shall become immediately due and
payable.
At
any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, by written notice to the Issuing Entity and the
Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
(i) the
Issuing Entity has paid or deposited with the Indenture
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all
payments of principal of and interest on all Notes and all
other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon such
Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration
had not occurred; and
(B) all
sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel;
and
(ii) all
Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal
of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section
5.12.
No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereto.
SECTION
5.03. Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee . (a) The Issuing Entity
covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of any
interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable,
and such default continues for a period of five days, or (ii)
default is made in the payment of the principal of or any
installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes
due and payable, the Issuing Entity will, upon demand of the
Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders
of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the
overdue principal, and, to the extent payment at such rate of
interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue
installments of interest, at a rate per annum equal to the sum
of (i) the respective Note Interest Rate borne by such Notes
and (ii) 1.0% and in addition thereto such further amount as
shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its
agents and counsel.
(b) In
case the Issuing Entity shall fail forthwith to pay such
amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid,
and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree,
and may enforce the same against the Issuing Entity or other
obligor upon such Notes and collect in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Issuing Entity or other obligor
upon such Notes, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or
decreed to be payable.
(c) If
an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.04, in
its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and
the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings
as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect
and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or
in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to
enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right
vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by
law.
(d) In
case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuing Entity or
any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or
claiming an ownership interest in the Trust Estate,
Proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable
federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law,
or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official
shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the
Issuing Entity or its property or such other obligor or
Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial
Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or other obligor
upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuing
Entity or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then
be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether
the
Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to
file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and
each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of
negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in
such Proceedings;
(ii) unless
prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a
standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any
such Proceedings;
(iii) 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 the Noteholders and of
the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to
file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any
judicial proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity, its
creditors and its property; and any trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such
Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to
make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that
the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments
directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee
such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and
all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence
or bad faith.
(e) Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture
Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or
adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or
the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in
any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar
Person.
(f) All
rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture,
or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture
Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the
production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative
thereto, and any such action or Proceedings instituted by the
Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee
of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to
the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of
the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture
Trustee
and
their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
(g) In
any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of
this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a
party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all
the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to
make any Noteholder a party to any such
Proceedings.
SECTION
5.04. Remedies;
Priorities . (a) If an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture
Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to
Section 5.05):
(i) institute
Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust
for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or
under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by
declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and
collect from the Issuing Entity and any other obligor upon
such Notes moneys adjudged due;
(ii) institute
Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial
foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust
Estate;
(iii) exercise
any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any
other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and
remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the
Notes; and
(iv) sell
the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law; provided
, however ,
that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate
the Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than an
Event of Default described in Section 5.01(i) or (ii), unless
(A) the Holders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation
distributable to the Noteholders are sufficient to discharge
in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Notes for
principal and interest or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines
that the Trust Estate will not con
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