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Exhibit 4.9
RASER TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.,
Issuer
And
[
],
Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of [
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Senior Debt
Securities
Reconciliation and tie
between
Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(the “Trust Indenture Act”)
and Indenture
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Trust Indenture Act
Section
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Indenture Section |
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§310(a)(1)
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6.7 |
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(a)(2)
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6.7 |
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(b)
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6.8 |
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§311
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6.4 |
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§312(a)
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7.1 |
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(b)
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7.2 |
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(c)
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7.2 |
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§313(a)
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7.3 |
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(c)
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7.3 |
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(d)
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7.3 |
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§314(a)
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7.4 |
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(c)(l)
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1.2 |
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(c)(2)
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1.2 |
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(e)
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1.1, 1.2 |
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(f)
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1.2 |
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§315(a)-(d)
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3.3 |
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(b)
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6.2 |
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(c)
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6.1 |
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(d)
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6.1 |
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(e)
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5.15 |
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§316(a) (last sentence)
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1.1 |
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(a)(l)(A)
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5.12 |
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(a)(1)(B)
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5.13 |
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(b)
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5.8 |
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§317(a)(1)
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5.3 |
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(a)(2)
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5.4 |
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(b)
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10.3 |
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§318(a)
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1.8 |
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall
not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the
Indenture.
Table of Contents
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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Section 1.1
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Definitions
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Act
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Affiliate
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Authenticating Agent
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Authorized Newspaper
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Authorized Officer
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Bankruptcy Law
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Bearer Security
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Board of Directors
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Board Resolution
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Business Day
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Capital Stock
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Capitalized Lease
Obligation
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Commission
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Common Stock
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Company
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Company Request and Company
Order
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Conversion Event
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Corporate Trust Office
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Corporation
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Coupon
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Currency
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CUSIP number
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Custodian
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Defaulted Interest
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Dollars or $
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Event of Default
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Foreign Currency
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Government Obligations
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Holder
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Indebtedness
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Indenture
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Independent Public
Accountants
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Indexed Security
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Interest
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Interest Payment Date
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Judgment Currency
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Lien
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Maturity
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New York Banking Day
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Office or Agency
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Officers’
Certificate
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Opinion of Counsel
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Original Issue Discount
Security
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Outstanding
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Paying Agent
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Person
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Place of Payment
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Predecessor Security
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Preferred Stock
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Redemption Date
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Redemption Price
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Registered Security
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Regular Record Date
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Required Currency
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Responsible Officer
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Security
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Security Register
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Special Record Date
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Stated Maturity
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Subsidiary
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Trust Indenture Act
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Trustee
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United States
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U.S. Depository or
Depository
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Vice President
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Section 1.2
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Compliance Certificates and
Opinions
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Section 1.3
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Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustee
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Section 1.4
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Acts of Holders
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Section 1.5
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Notices, etc. to Trustee and
Company
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Section 1.6
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Notice to Holders of Securities;
Waiver
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Section 1.7
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Language of Notices
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Section 1.8
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Conflict with Trust Indenture
Act
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Section 1.9
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Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents
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Section 1.10
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Successors and Assigns
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Section 1.11
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Separability Clause
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Section 1.12
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Benefits of Indenture
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Section 1.13
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Governing Law
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Section 1.14
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Legal Holidays
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Section 1.15
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Counterparts
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Section 1.16
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Judgment Currency
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Section 1.17
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No Security Interest Created
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Section 1.18
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Limitation on Individual
Liability
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ARTICLE 2 |
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SECURITIES FORMS |
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Section 2.1
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Forms Generally
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Section 2.2
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Form of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication
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Section 2.3
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Securities in Global Form
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ARTICLE 3 |
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THE SECURITIES |
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Section 3.1
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Amount Unlimited; Issuable in
Series
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Section 3.2
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Currency; Denominations
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Section 3.3
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Execution, Authentication, Delivery and
Dating
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Section 3.4
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Temporary Securities
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Section 3.5
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Registration, Transfer and
Exchange
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Section 3.6
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities
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Section 3.7
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Payment of Interest; Rights to Interest
Preserved
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Section 3.8
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Persons Deemed Owners
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Section 3.9
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Cancellation
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Section 3.10
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Computation of Interest
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ARTICLE 4 |
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT
DEFEASANCE
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Section 4.1
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Satisfaction and Discharge
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Section 4.2
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Defeasance and Covenant
Defeasance
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Section 4.3
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Application of Trust Money
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Section 4.4
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Reinstatement
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ARTICLE 5 |
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REMEDIES |
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Section 5.1
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Events of Default
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Section 5.2
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Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment
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Section 5.3
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Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee
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Section 5.4
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Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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Section 5.5
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Trustee May Enforce Claims without
Possession of Securities or Coupons
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Section 5.6
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Application of Money
Collected
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Section 5.7
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Limitations on Suits
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Section 5.8
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Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal and any Premium and Interest
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45 |
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Section 5.9
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Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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45 |
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Section 5.10
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Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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45 |
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Section 5.11
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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46 |
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Section 5.12
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Control by Holders of
Securities
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46 |
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Section 5.13
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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46 |
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Section 5.14
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Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension
Laws
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Section 5.15
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Undertaking for Costs
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ARTICLE 6 |
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THE TRUSTEE |
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Section 6.1
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Certain Rights of Trustee
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Section 6.2
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Notice of Defaults
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Section 6.3
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Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance
of Securities
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49 |
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Section 6.4
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May Hold Securities
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Section 6.5
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Money Held in Trust
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Section 6.6
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Compensation and
Reimbursement
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Section 6.7
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Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility
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Section 6.8
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Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor
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Section 6.9
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Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor
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Section 6.10
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Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business
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Section 6.11
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Appointment of Authenticating
Agent
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Section 6.12
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Appointment of
Attorney-in-Fact
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ARTICLE 7 |
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HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND
COMPANY |
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Section 7.1
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Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders
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Section 7.2
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Preservation of Information;
Communications to Holders
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Section 7.3
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Reports by Trustee
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Section 7.4
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Reports by Company
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ARTICLE 8 |
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CONSOLIDATION, AMALGAMATIONS, MERGER AND SALES |
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Section 8.1
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Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on
Certain Terms
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Section 8.2
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Successor Person Substituted for
Company
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ARTICLE 9 |
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
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Section 9.1
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Supplemental Indentures without Consent
of Holders
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Section 9.2
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Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Holders
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Section 9.3
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Execution of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 9.4
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Effect of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 9.5
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Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 9.6
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Conformity with Trust Indenture
Act
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Section 9.7
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Notice of Supplemental
Indenture
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ARTICLE 10 |
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COVENANTS |
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Section 10.1
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Payment of Principal, any Premium,
Interest
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Section 10.2
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Maintenance of Office or
Agency
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Section 10.3
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Money for Securities Payments to Be Held
in Trust
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Section 10.4
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Limitations on Pledges and
Liens
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Section 10.5
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Corporate Existence
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Section 10.6
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Waiver of Certain Covenants
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Section 10.7
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Company Statement as to Compliance;
Notice of Certain Defaults
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69 |
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ARTICLE 11 |
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REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES |
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Section 11.1
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Applicability of Article
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Section 11.2
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Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee
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Section 11.3
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Selection by Trustee of Securities to be
Redeemed
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Section 11.4
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Notice of Redemption
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Section 11.5
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Deposit of Redemption Price
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Section 11.6
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Securities Payable on Redemption
Date
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Section 11.7
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Securities Redeemed in Part
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Section 11.8
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Cancellation and Destruction of
Securities
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73 |
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ARTICLE 12 |
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SINKING FUNDS |
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Section 12.1
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Applicability of Article
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Section 12.2
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Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments
with Securities
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Section 12.3
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Redemption of Securities for Sinking
Fund
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ARTICLE 13 |
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REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS |
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Section 13.1
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Applicability of Article
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ARTICLE 14 |
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SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES |
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Section 14.1
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Applicability of Article
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ARTICLE 15 |
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MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES |
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Section 15.1
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Purposes for Which Meetings May Be
Called
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Section 15.2
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Call, Notice and Place of
Meetings
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Section 15.3
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Persons Entitled to Vote at
Meetings
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Section 15.4
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Quorum; Action
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Section 15.5
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Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct
and Adjournment of Meetings
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Section 15.6
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Counting Votes and Recording Action of
Meetings
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Section 15.7
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Preservation of Rights of Trustee and
Holders
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v
INDENTURE, dated as of [
], [
] (the “Indenture”), between Raser Technologies, Inc.,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (the “Company”) and [
], as trustee (the “Trustee”).
RECITALS
The Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide
for the issuance from time to time of its senior unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the
“Securities”), unlimited as to principal amount, to
bear such rates of interest, to mature at such time or times, to be
issued in one or more series and to have such other provisions as
shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
The Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture. All things
necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company,
in accordance with its terms, have been done.
This Indenture is subject to
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and
the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission
promulgated thereunder that are required to be part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by such
provisions.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS
INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of
the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders (as
herein defined) thereof, it is mutually covenanted, declared and
agreed by and between the parties hereto, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any
series thereof and any Coupons (as herein defined) as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1
Definitions.
Except as otherwise specified
with respect to any Securities issued pursuant to Section 3.1,
and except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, or unless the context otherwise requires, for all
purposes of this Indenture:
(1) the terms defined in this
Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used
herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to
them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States of America and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the terms “generally accepted accounting
principles” or “GAAP” with respect to any
computation required or
1
permitted hereunder shall
mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the
United States of America at the date or time of such
computation;
(4) the words
“herein,” “hereof,” “hereto”
and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer
to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision; and
(5) the word “or”
is always used inclusively (for example, the phrase “A or
B” means “A or B or both,” not “either A or
B but not both”).
Certain terms used
principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those
Articles.
“ Act ,”
when used with respect to any Holders, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.4.
“ Affiliate
” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control,” when used with respect to any
specified Person, means the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms “controlling” and “controlled”
have the meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“ Authenticating
Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.11 to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of one or more series.
“ Authorized
Newspaper ” means a newspaper, in an official language of
the place of publication or in the English language, customarily
published on each day that is a Business Day in the place of
publication, whether or not published on days that are legal
holidays in the place of publication, and of general circulation in
each place in connection with which the term is used or in the
financial community of each such place. Where successive
publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the
successive publications may be made in the same or in different
newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and
in each case on any day that is a Business Day in the place of
publication.
“ Authorized
Officer ” means, when used with respect to the Company,
the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman, the
President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial
Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer,
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company.
“ Bankruptcy Law
” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.1(6).
“ Bearer
Security ” means any Security in the form established
pursuant to Section 2.1 which is payable to bearer.
“ Board of
Directors ” means the board of directors of the Company
or any committee of that board duly authorized to act generally or
in any particular respect for the Company hereunder.
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“ Board
Resolution ” means a copy of one or more resolutions,
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company
to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in
full force and effect on the date of such certification, delivered
to the Trustee.
“ Business Day
,” with respect to any Place of Payment or other location,
means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
banking institutions in such Place of Payment or other location are
authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to
close.
“ Capital Stock
” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights
to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents
of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person,
including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities
convertible into such equity.
“ Capitalized Lease
Obligation ” means an obligation under a lease that is
required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the
amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation shall be the
capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with
such principles.
“ Commission
” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this
Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties
now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
“ Common Stock
” in respect of any Corporation means Capital Stock of any
class or classes (however designated) which has no preference as to
the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon
any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such
Corporation, and which is not subject to redemption by such
Corporation.
“ Company
” means the Person named as the “Company” in the
first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall
have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such
successor Person, and any other obligor upon the
Securities.
“ Company Request
and Company Order ” mean, respectively, a written request
or order, as the case may be, signed in the name of the Company by
an Authorized Officer, and delivered to the Trustee.
“ Conversion
Event ” means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign
Currency both by the government of the country or the confederation
which issued such Foreign Currency and for the settlement of
transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of or
within the international banking community or (ii) any
currency unit or composite currency for the purposes for which it
was established.
“ Corporate Trust
Office ” means the principal corporate trust office of
the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at the date of
original execution of this Indenture is located at [
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“ Corporation
” means corporations and limited liability companies and,
except for purposes of Article 8, associations, companies and
business trusts.
“ Coupon ”
means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
“ Currency
,” with respect to any payment, deposit or other transfer in
respect of the principal of or any premium or interest on any
Security, means Dollars or the Foreign Currency, as the case may
be, in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to
be made by or pursuant to the terms hereof or such Security and,
with respect to any other payment, deposit or transfer pursuant to
or contemplated by the terms hereof or such Security, means
Dollars.
“ CUSIP number
” means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a Security
by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service, CUSIP Service
Bureau.
“ Custodian
” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.1(6).
“ Defaulted
Interest ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.7.
“ Dollars or $
” means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for
payment of public or private debts in the United States of
America.
“ Event of
Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.1.
“ Foreign
Currency ” means any currency, currency unit or composite
currency, including, without limitation, the euro, issued by the
government of one or more countries other than the United States of
America or by any recognized confederation or association of such
governments.
“ Government
Obligations ” means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America or the other government
or governments which issued the Foreign Currency in which the
principal of or any premium or interest on such Security shall be
payable, in each case where the payment or payments thereunder are
supported by the full faith and credit of such government or
governments or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the
United States of America or such other government or governments,
in each case where the timely payment or payments thereunder are
unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by
the United States of America or such other government or
governments, and which, in the case of (i) or (ii), are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer or issuers
thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a
bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such
Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or
principal of or other amount with respect to any such Government
Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of
a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by
law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from
the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from
any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government
Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of
or other amount with respect to the Government Obligation evidenced
by such depository receipt.
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“ Holder
,” in the case of any Registered Security, means the Person
in whose name such Security is registered in the Security Register
and, in the case of any Bearer Security, means the bearer thereof
and, in the case of any Coupon, means the bearer
thereof.
“ Indebtedness
” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s
(i) obligations for borrowed money, (ii) obligations
representing the deferred purchase price of property or services
other than accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of such
Person’s business, (iii) obligations, whether or not
assumed, secured by Liens on property now or hereafter owned or
acquired by such Person (other than carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, repairmen’s or other
like nonconsensual statutory Liens arising in the ordinary course
of business), (iv) obligations which are evidenced by notes,
acceptances, or other similar instruments, (v) capitalized
lease obligations, (vi) contingent obligations with respect to
the Indebtedness of another Person, including but not limited to
the obligation or liability of another which such Person assumes,
guarantees, endorses, contingently agrees to purchase or provide
funds for the payment of, or otherwise becomes contingently liable
upon; provided that any Indebtedness owing by the Company to
any of its Subsidiaries or by any Subsidiary of the Company to the
Company or by any Subsidiary of the Company to any other Subsidiary
of the Company or any contingent obligation in respect thereof
shall not constitute Indebtedness for purposes of this Agreement,
and (vii) obligations for which such Person is obligated in
respect of a letter of credit. For purposes of this Indenture,
Indebtedness shall not include (A) any indebtedness of such
Person to the extent (I) such indebtedness does not appear on
the financial statement of such Person, (II) such indebtedness is
recourse only to certain assets of such Person, and (III) the
assets to which such indebtedness is recourse only appear on the
financial statements of such Person net of such indebtedness, or
(B) any indebtedness or other obligations issued by any Person
(or by a trust or other entity established by such Person or any of
its affiliates) which are primarily serviced by the cash flows of a
discrete pool of receivables, leases or other financial assets
which have been sold or transferred by the Company or any
Subsidiary in securitization transactions which, in accordance with
GAAP, are accounted for as sales for financial reporting purposes.
It is understood and agreed that (1) the amount of any
Indebtedness described in clause (iii) for which recourse is
limited to certain property of such Person shall be the lower of
(x) the amount of the obligation and (y) the fair market
value of the property of such Person securing such obligation, and
(2) the amount of any obligation described in clause
(vi) shall be the lower of (x) the stated or determinable
amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such
contingent obligation is made, and (y) the maximum amount for
which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the
agreement embodying such contingent obligation unless such primary
obligation and the maximum amount for which such Person may be
liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of
such contingent obligation shall be such Person’s maximum,
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined
by such Person in good faith.
“ Indenture
” means this instrument as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such
supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument, and,
with respect to any Security, by the terms and provisions of such
Security and any Coupon appertaining thereto established pursuant
to Section 3.1 (as such terms and provisions may be amended
pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof).
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“ Independent Public
Accountants ” means accountants or a firm of accountants
that, with respect to the Company and any other obligor under the
Securities or the Coupons, are independent public accountants
within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder,
who may be the independent public accountants regularly retained by
the Company or who may be other independent public accountants.
Such accountants or firm shall be entitled to rely upon any Opinion
of Counsel as to the interpretation of any legal matters relating
to this Indenture or certificates required to be provided
hereunder.
“ Indexed
Security ” means a Security the terms of which provide
that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be
more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original
issuance.
“ Interest
” means interest payable after Maturity with respect to any
Original Issue Discount Security which, by its terms, bears
interest only after Maturity.
“ Interest Payment
Date ,” with respect to any Security, means the Stated
Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
“ Judgment
Currency ” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.16.
“ Lien ”
has the meaning specified in Section 10.4.
“ Maturity
,” with respect to any Security, means the date on which the
principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes
due and payable as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture,
whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration,
notice of redemption or repurchase, notice of option to elect
repayment or otherwise, and includes the Redemption
Date.
“ New York Banking
Day ” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.16.
“ Office or
Agency ” with respect to any Securities, means an office
or agency of the Company maintained or designated in a Place of
Payment for such Securities pursuant to Section 10.2 or any
other office or agency of the Company maintained or designated for
such Securities pursuant to Section 10.2 or, to the extent
designated or required by Section 10.2 in lieu of such office
or agency, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
“ Officers’
Certificate ” means a certificate signed by the Chairman,
Vice Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer or a Vice
President and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary of
the Corporation, and delivered to the Trustee.
“ Opinion of
Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
an employee of or counsel for the Company or other counsel who
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that, if required by
the Trust Indenture Act, complies with the requirements of
Section 314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
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“ Original Issue
Discount Security “ means a Security issued pursuant to
this Indenture which provides for declaration of an amount less
than the principal face amount thereof to be due and payable upon
acceleration pursuant to Section 5.2.
“ Outstanding
,” when used with respect to any Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all such Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
except:
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any such Security theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or the
Security Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or the Security
Registrar for cancellation; |
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any such Security for whose payment at the Maturity thereof
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
pursuant hereto with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than
the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the
Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto,
provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice
of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture
or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made; |
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any such Security with respect to which the Company has
effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance pursuant to the
terms hereof, except to the extent provided in
Section 4.2; |
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any such Security which has been paid pursuant to
Section 3.6 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture, unless there shall have been presented to the Trustee
proof satisfactory to it that such Security is held by a bona fide
purchaser in whose hands such Security is a valid obligation of the
Company; and |
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any such Security converted or exchanged as contemplated by
this Indenture into other securities of the Company or another
issuer, if the terms of such Security provide for such conversion
or exchange pursuant to Section 3.1; |
provided , however , that
in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or
are present at a meeting of Holders of Securities for quorum
purposes, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination
and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall
be equal to the amount of the principal thereof that pursuant to
the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security would be
declared (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 at
the time of such determination, and (ii) the principal amount
of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such
determination and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such
purposes shall be equal to the
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principal face amount of such Indexed
Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture, and (iii) the principal amount of
a Security denominated in a Foreign Currency shall be the Dollar
equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such
Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original
Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of
original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as
provided in (i) above) of such Security, and
(iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon
the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding,
except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in making any such determination or relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned
which shall have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee (A) the pledgee’s right so to act with respect
to such Securities and (B) that the pledgee is not the Company
or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Coupons
appertaining thereto or an Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor.
“ Paying Agent
“ means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of, or any premium or interest on, any Security or any
Coupon on behalf of the Company.
“ Person “
means any individual, Corporation, partnership, joint venture,
joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
“ Place of
Payment ,” with respect to any Security, means the place
or places where the principal of, or any premium or interest on,
such Security is payable as provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or such Security.
“ Predecessor
Security “ of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same
Indebtedness as that evidenced by such particular Security; and,
for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and
delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a
lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security or any Security to
which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains
shall be deemed to evidence the same Indebtedness as the lost,
destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security or the Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains.
“ Preferred
Stock “ in respect of any Corporation means Capital Stock
of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as
to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets
upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of
such Corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class
of such Corporation.
“ Redemption
Date “ with respect to any Security or portion thereof to
be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture or such Security.
“ Redemption
Price “ with respect to any Security or portion thereof
to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed as
determined by or pursuant to this Indenture or such
Security.
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“ Registered
Security “ means any Security in the form established
pursuant to Section 2.1 which is registered in a Security
Register.
“ Regular Record
Date “ for the interest payable on any Registered
Security on any Interest Payment Date therefor means the date, if
any, specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security as
the “Regular Record Date”.
“ Required
Currency “ has the meaning specified in
Section 1.16.
“ Responsible
Officer “ means any officer within the corporate trust
office of the Trustee, which may include the chairman and vice
chairman of the board of directors, the president, the chairman of
the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of
the trust committee, every vice president or officer senior
thereto, every assistant vice president, the secretary, every
assistant secretary, the treasurer, every assistant treasurer,
every trust officer, every assistant trust officer, and every other
officer and assistant officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time
shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate
trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of, and
familiarity with, a particular subject.
“ Security
“ or “ Securities ” means any note or
notes, bond or bonds, debenture or debentures, or any other
evidences of Indebtedness, as the case may be, authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture; provided , however ,
that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as
Trustee under this Indenture, “Securities,” with
respect to any such Person, shall mean Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities
of any series as to which such Person is not Trustee.
“ Security
Register “ and “ Security Registrar ”
have the respective meanings specified in
Section 3.5.
“ Special Record
Date “ for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on any
Registered Security means a date fixed by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.7.
“ Stated
Maturity ,” with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the
date established by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security
as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is, due and
payable.
“ Subsidiary
“ means with respect to the Company, such Person which, at
the time of determination, more than 50% of the voting power of the
shares of its Capital Stock or other interests (including
partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence
of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers
or trustees thereof is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by (i) the Company and/or (ii) one or more Subsidiaries
of the Company; provided, however, that the term Subsidiary shall
not include any Person, if the earnings of such Person are not
consolidated with the financial statements of the Company in
accordance with the requirements of GAAP.
“ Trust Indenture
Act “ means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended,
and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular
provision thereof shall mean such Act
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or provision, as the case may be, as
amended or replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time
to time by rules or regulations adopted by the Commission under or
in furtherance of the purposes of such Act or provision, as the
case may be.
“ Trustee
” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the
first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall
have become such with respect to one or more series of Securities
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter “Trustee” shall mean each Person who is then
a Trustee hereunder; provided , however , that if at
any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee”
shall mean each such Person and as used with respect to the
Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
“ United States
,” except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or any Security, means the United States of America
(including the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its
territories and possessions and other areas subject to its
jurisdiction.
“ U.S. Depository or
Depository ” means, with respect to any Security issuable
or issued in the form of one or more global Securities, the Person
designated as U.S. Depository or Depository by the Company in or
pursuant to this Indenture, which Person must be, to the extent
required by applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and, if so provided with respect to any Security, any successor to
such Person. If at any time there is more than one such Person,
“U.S. Depository” or “Depository” shall
mean, with respect to any Securities, the qualifying entity that
has been appointed with respect to such Securities.
“ Vice President
” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means
any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word
or words added before or after the title “Vice
President”.
Section 1.2 Compliance
Certificates and Opinions.
Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture, upon any application or request by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of
this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent,
if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions
precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of
such documents or any of them is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application
or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion
with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that the
individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such
condition or covenant and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to
the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which
the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion
are based;
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(3) a statement that, in the
opinion of such individual, he has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed
opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant has been
complied with; and
(4) a statement as to
whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3 Form of
Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several
matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one
document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with
respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of
an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to
legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, provided that
such officer, after reasonable inquiry, has no reason to believe
and does not believe that the Opinion of Counsel with respect to
the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based is
erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it
relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company, stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Company, provided that such counsel, after
reasonable inquiry, has no reason to believe and does not believe
that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required
to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments
under this Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.4 Acts of
Holders.
(1) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments
of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by an agent duly appointed in writing. If, but only if, Securities
of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively, be
embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of
such series voting in favor thereof, either in person or by proxies
duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities
of such series duly called and held in accordance with the
provisions of Article 15, or a combination of such instruments and
any such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced
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thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such
instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any
such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee, the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the
Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The record
of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the
manner provided in Section 15.6.
Without limiting the
generality of this Section 1.4, unless otherwise provided in
or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a U.S.
Depository that is a Holder of a global Security, may make, give or
take, by a proxy or proxies, duly appointed in writing, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made,
given or taken by Holders, and a U.S. Depository that is a Holder
of a global Security may provide its proxy or proxies to the
beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security through
such U.S. Depository’s standing instructions and customary
practices.
The Company shall fix a
record date for the purpose of determining the Persons who are
beneficial owners of interest in any permanent global Security held
by a U.S. Depository entitled under the procedures of such U.S.
Depository to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly
appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders.
If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date or
their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such Persons, shall
be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act,
whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date.
No such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act shall be valid or effective if made, given or
taken more than 90 days after such record date.
(2) The fact and date of the
execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing referred
to in this Section 1.4 may be proved in any reasonable manner;
and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with
respect to any of the matters referred to in this
Section.
(3) The ownership, principal
amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held by any
Person, and the date of the commencement and the date of the
termination of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(4) The ownership, principal
amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by any Person,
and the date of the commencement and the date of the termination of
holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Bearer
Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any
trust company, bank, banker or other depositary reasonably
acceptable to the Company, wherever situated, if such certificate
shall be deemed by the Company and the Trustee to be satisfactory,
showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on
deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to
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it, the Bearer Securities
therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate
or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such
certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be
satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such
ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (i) another
certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of
the same Bearer Security is produced, or (ii) such Bearer
Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or
(iii) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a
Registered Security, or (iv) such Bearer Security is no longer
Outstanding. The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of
Bearer Securities held by the Person so executing such instrument
or writing and the date of the commencement and the date of the
termination of holding the same may also be proved in any other
manner, which the Company and the Trustee deem
sufficient.
(5) If the Company shall
solicit from the Holders of any Registered Securities any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act, the Company may at its option (but is not obligated to), by
Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders of Registered Securities entitled to give
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act. If such a record date is fixed, such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the
Holders of Registered Securities of record at the close of business
on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purpose
of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding
Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that
no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders of
Registered Securities shall be deemed effective unless it shall
become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not
later than six months after the record date.
(6) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by
the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the
Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such Act is made upon
such Security.
Section 1.5 Notices, etc.
to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture
to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder
or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if
made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee
at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(2) the Company, by the
Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed,
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first-class postage prepaid,
to the Company, addressed to the attention of its Treasurer, with a
copy to the attention of its General Counsel, at the address of its
principal office specified herein or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
Section 1.6 Notice to
Holders of Securities; Waiver.
Except as otherwise expressly
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any
event,
(1) such notice shall be
sufficiently given to Holders of Registered Securities if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of
a Registered Security affected by such event, at his address as it
appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date,
and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice; and
(2) such notice shall be
sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer Securities, if any, if
published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York and,
if such Securities are then listed on any stock exchange outside
the United States, in an Authorized Newspaper in such city as the
Company shall advise the Trustee that such stock exchange so
requires, on a Business Day at least twice, the first such
publication to be not earlier than the earliest date and the second
such publication not later than the latest date prescribed for the
giving of such notice.
In any case where notice to
Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so
mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders
of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein. Any notice
that is mailed in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given or provided. In the case by reason
of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other
cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then
such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose
hereunder.
In case by reason of the
suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper or Authorized
Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearers
Securities as provided above, then such notification to Holders of
Bearer Securities as shall be given with the approval of the
Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such Holders for
every purpose hereunder. Neither failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency
of any notice mailed to Holders of Registered Securities as
provided above.
Where this Indenture provides
for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by
the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be
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filed with the Trustee, but such filing
shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
All communications hereunder
will be in writing and will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and
confirmed to the party receiving such communication at its address
indicated below:
If to the Company:
Raser Technologies,
Inc.
5152 North Edgewood Drive,
Suite 375
Provo, UT 84604
Attention: General
Counsel
If to the Trustee:
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Attention: [
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Section 1.7 Language of
Notices.
Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or waiver
required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that, if the Company so elects, any published
notice may be in an official language of the country of
publication.
Section 1.8 Conflict with
Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with any duties under any required
provision of the Trust Indenture Act imposed hereon by
Section 318(c) thereof, such required provision shall
control.
Section 1.9 Effect of
Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section
headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.10 Successors
and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.11 Separability
Clause.
In case any provision in this
Indenture, any Security or any Coupon shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
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Section 1.12 Benefits of
Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture,
any Security or any Coupon, express or implied, shall give to any
Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any
Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors
hereunder and the Holders of Securities or Coupons, any benefit or
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 1.13 Governing
Law.
This Indenture, the
Securities and any Coupons shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made or instruments entered into and, in each case,
performed in said state.
Section 1.14 Legal
Holidays.
Unless otherwise specified in
or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, in any case where
any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or Maturity of any
Security, or the last date on which a Holder has the right to
convert or exchange Securities of a series that are convertible or
exchangeable, shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, any
Security or any Coupon other than a provision in any Security or
Coupon that specifically states that such provision shall apply in
lieu hereof) payment need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, and such Securities need not be converted or exchanged
on such date, but such payment may be made, and such Securities may
be converted or exchanged, on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day at such Place of Payment, and no interest shall accrue
on the amount payable on such date or at such time for the period
from and after such Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity,
Maturity or last day for conversion or exchange, as the case may
be, to such next succeeding Business Day, except that if such next
succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year,
such payment may be made, and such Securities may be converted or
exchanged, on the immediately preceding Business Day (in the case
of each of the foregoing, with the same force and effect as if made
on such Interest Payment Date or at such Stated Maturity or
Maturity or on such last day for conversion or exchange, as the
case may be).
Section 1.15
Counterparts.
This Indenture may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same
instrument.
Section 1.16 Judgment
Currency.
The Company agrees, to the
fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law,
that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court
it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal
of, or premium or interest, if any, (the “Required
Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be
rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of
exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New
York the requisite amount of the Required Currency with the
Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on
which a final unappealable judgment is given and (b) its
obligations under this Indenture to make payments in
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the Required Currency (i) shall not
be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant
to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with clause
(a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to
the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual
receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency
expressed to be payable in respect of such payments,
(ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional
cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required
Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall
fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed
to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment
being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For
purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means
any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of
New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New
York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive
order to be closed.
Section 1.17 No Security
Interest Created.
Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.4, nothing in this Indenture or in any Securities,
express or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security
interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation,
as now or hereafter enacted and in effect in any jurisdiction where
property of the Company or its Subsidiaries is or may be
located.
Section 1.18 Limitation on
Individual Liability.
No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in
any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in
respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator,
shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future,
of the Company, either directly or through the Company, whether by
virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the
enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being
expressly understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued
hereunder are solely corporate obligations, and that no such
personal liability whatever shall attach to, or is or shall be
incurred by, the incorporators, shareholders, officers or
directors, as such, of the Company, or any of them, because of the
creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by
reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in
this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom; and that
any and all such personal liability of every name and nature,
either at common law or in equity or by constitution or statute,
of, and any and all such rights and claims against, every such
incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, because of
the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by
reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in
this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom, are hereby
expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a
consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issuance
of such Security.
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ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES
FORMS
Section 2.1 Forms
Generally
Each Registered Security,
Bearer Security, Coupon and temporary or permanent global Security
issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in the form established
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, shall have such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture or any indenture
supplemental hereto 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 Security or Coupon as evidenced by their
execution of such Security or Coupon, or as may be required to
comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant
thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on
which the Securities may be listed.
Unless otherwise provided in
or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, the Securities
shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons and shall not
be issuable upon the exercise of warrants.
Definitive Securities and
definitive Coupons shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other
manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing
such Securities or Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities or Coupons.
Section 2.2 Form of
Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
Subject to Section 6.11,
the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities
of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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Section 2.3 Securities in
Global Form.
Unless otherwise provided in
or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, the Securities
shall not be issuable in temporary or permanent global form. If
Securities of a series shall be issuable in global form, as
specified and contemplated by Section 3.1, any such
Security
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may provide that it or any number of
such Securities shall represent the aggregate amount of all
Outstanding Securities of such series (or such lesser amount as is
permitted by the terms thereof) from time to time endorsed thereon
and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby may from time to time be increased
or reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of any Security in
global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in
the amount, or changes in the rights of Holders, of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby shall be made in such manner and by
such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the
Company Order to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.3 or 3.4
with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.3
and, if applicable, Section 3.4, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver, in each case at the Company’s expense, any
Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon
instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in
the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to
Section 3.3 or 3.4 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered,
any instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in
global form shall be in writing but need not be accompanied by or
contained in an Officers’ Certificate and need not be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 3.7, unless otherwise specified in or
pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, payment of principal
of, any premium and interest on, any Security (i) in temporary
form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein, and
(ii) in global form and registered in the name of a Depository
or its nominee shall be made to the Depository or its nominee as
the Holder of such global Security. Neither the Company nor the
Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect
of the records relating to, or payments made on account of,
beneficial ownership interests of a global Security, or for
maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to
beneficial ownership interests, and each of the Company and the
Trustee may act or refrain from acting without liability on any
information provided by the Depository.
Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 3.8 and except as provided in the
preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal
amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a global Security
(i) in the case of a global Security in registered form, the
Holder of such global Security in registered form, or (ii) in
the case of a global Security in bearer form, the Person or Persons
specified pursuant to Section 3.1.
ARTICLE 3
THE
SECURITIES
Section 3.1 Amount
Unlimited; Issuable in Series
The aggregate principal
amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or
more series.
With respect to any
Securities to be authenticated and delivered hereunder, there shall
be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and set forth
in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto,
(1) the title and series of
such Securities, which may include medium-term notes;
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(2) the total principal
amount of the series of such Securities and whether there shall be
any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of such Securities
that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Securities of such series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5,
3.6, 9.5 or 11.7);
(3) if such Securities are to
be issuable as Registered Securities, as Bearer Securities or
alternatively as Bearer Securities and Registered Securities, and
whether the Bearer Securities are to be issuable with Coupons,
without Coupons or both, and any restrictions applicable to the
offer, sale or delivery of the Bearer Securities and the terms, if
any, upon which Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered
Securities and vice versa;
(4) if any of such Securities
are to be issuable in global form, when any of such Securities are
to be issuable in global form and (i) whether such Securities
are to be issued in temporary or permanent global form or both,
(ii) whether beneficial owners of interests in any such global
Security may exchange such interests for Securities of the same
series and of like tenor and of any authorized form and
denomination, and the circumstances under which any such exchanges
may occur, if other than in the manner specified in
Section 3.5, and (iii) the name of the Depository or the
U.S. Depository, as the case may be, with respect to any such
global Security;
(5) if any of such Securities
are to be issuable as Bearer Securities or in global form, the date
as of which any such Bearer Security or global Security shall be
dated (if other than the date of original issuance of the first of
such Securities to be issued);
(6) if any of such Securities
are to be issuable as Bearer Securities, whether interest in
respect of any portion of a temporary Bearer Security in global
form payable in respect of an Interest Payment Date therefor prior
to the exchange, if any, of such temporary Bearer Security for
definitive Securities shall be paid to any clearing organization
with respect to the portion of such temporary Bearer Security held
for its account and, in such event, the terms and conditions
(including any certification requirements) upon which any such
interest payment received by a clearing organization will be
credited to the Persons entitled to interest payable on such
Interest Payment Date;
(7) the date or dates, or the
method or methods, if any, by which such date or dates shall be
determined, on which the principal of and premium, if any, on the
Securities shall be payable;
(8) the Person to whom any
interest on a Security shall be payable, if other than the Person
in whose name that Security is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest; the rate or rates at
which such Securities shall bear interest, if any, which rate may
be zero in the case of certain Securities issued at an issue price
representing a discount from the principal amount payable at
Maturity, or the method by which such rate or rates will be
determined (including, if applicable, any
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remarketing option or similar
method), and the date or dates from which such interest, if any,
will accrue or the method by which such date or dates will be
determined, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated
if other than that of a 360 day year of twelve 30-day
months;
(9) the date or dates on
which interest, if any, on such Securities shall be payable and any
Regular Record Dates applicable to the date or dates on which
interest will be so payable;
(10) if in addition to or
other than the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the
place or places where the principal of or any premium or interest
on such Securities shall be payable, where any of such Securities
that are issued in registered form may be surrendered for
registration of, transfer or exchange, and where any such
Securities may be surrendered for conversion or exchange and
notices of demands to or upon the Company in respect of such
Securities and this Indenture may be served, the extent to which,
the manner in which, any interest payment on a global Security on
an Interest Payment Date, will be paid and the manner in which any
principal of or premium, if any, on any global Security will be
paid;
(11) if such Securities are
to be redeemable at the Company’s option, the date or dates
on which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices
at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such
Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the
Company’s option pursuant to any sinking fund or
otherwise;
(12) provisions specifying
whether the Company shall be obligated to redeem, purchase or repay
any of such Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of any Holder of such Securities and, if
so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which,
the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions
upon which such Securities shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid,
in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation, and any
provisions for the remarketing of such Securities so redeemed or
purchased;
(13) if other than
denominations of $1,000, and any integral multiple thereof, the
denominations in which any Securities to be issued in registered
form will be issuable and, if other than a denomination of $5,000,
the denominations in which any Securities to be issued in bearer
form will be issuable;
(14) provisions specifying
whether the Securities will be convertible into other securities of
the Company and/or exchangeable for Securities of the Company or
other obligors and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which such
Securities shall be so convertible or exchangeable;
(15) if other than the
principal amount, the portion of the principal amount (or the
method by which such portion will be determined) of such Securities
that will be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture;
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(16) if other than Dollars,
the Currency of payment, including composite Currencies and Foreign
Currencies, of the principal of, any premium or interest on any of
such Securities;
(17) if other than as
provided in Section 4.2, the manner in which the Securities of
the series are to be defeased;
(18) provisions specifying
whether the principal of, or any premium or interest on such
Securities shall be payable, at the election of the Company or a
Holder of Securities, in a Currency other than that in which such
Securities are stated to be payable and the date or dates on which,
the period or periods within which, and the other terms and
conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and
manner of determining the exchange rate;
(19) any index, formula or
other method used to determine the amount of payments of principal
of, or any premium or interest on such Securities;
(20) provisions specifying
whether such Securities are to be issued in the form of one or more
global Securities and, if so, the identity of the Depositary for
such global Security or Securities;
(21) any deletions from,
modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants
of the Company that are contained herein with respect to such
Securities;
(22) terms specifying whether
the provisions described below under Section 4.2 shall be
applicable to such Securities;
(23) terms specifying whether
any of such Securities are to be issued upon the exercise of
warrants, and the time, manner and place for such Securities to be
authenticated and delivered; and
(24) any other terms of such
Securities and any other deletions from or modifications or
additions to this Indenture in respect of such
Securities.
All Securities of any one
series and all Coupons, if any, appertaining to Bearer Securities
of such series shall be substantially identical except as to
Currency of payments due thereunder, denomination and the rate of
interest thereon, or method of determining the rate of interest, if
any, Maturity, and the date from which interest, if any, shall
accrue and except as may otherwise be provided by the Company in or
pursuant to the Board Resolution and set forth in the
Officers’ Certificate or in any indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto pertaining to such series of Securities. The
terms of the Securities of any series may provide, without
limitation, that the Securities shall be authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee on original issue from time to time upon
written order of persons designated in the Officers’
Certificate or supplemental indenture and that such persons are
authorized to determine, consistent with such Officers’
Certificate or any applicable supplemental indenture, such terms
and conditions of the Securities of such series as are specified in
such Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture. All
Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time
and, unless otherwise so provided, a series may be reopened for
issuances of additional Securities of such series or to establish
additional terms of
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such series of Securities. The Company
also may issue, and the Trustee may authenticate, Securities with
the same terms as previously issued Securities.
If any of the terms of the
Securities of any series shall be established by action taken by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Board Resolution shall be
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of such
series.
Section 3.2 Currency;
Denominations.
Unless otherwise provided in
or pursuant to this Indenture, the principal of, and any premium
and interest, if any, on, the Securities shall be payable in
Dollars. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, Registered Securities denominated in Dollars shall be
issuable in registered form without Coupons in denominations of
$1,000, and any integral multiple thereof, and the Bearer
Securities denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in
denominations of $5,000. Securities not denominated in Dollars
shall be issuable in such denominations as are established with
respect to such Securities in or pursuant to this
Indenture.
Section 3.3 Execution,
Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Securities shall be executed
on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, a Vice
Chairman, its President, its Chief Executive Officer, its Chief
Financial Officer, its Treasurer or a Vice President under its
corporate seal reproduced thereon and attested by its Secretary or
one of its Assistant Secretaries. Coupons shall be executed on
behalf of the Company by the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer
of the Company. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto may be manual or
facsimile.
Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company
shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Securities and Coupons or did
not hold such offices at the date of original issuance of such
Securities or Coupons.
At any time and from time to
time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities, together with any Coupons
appertaining thereto, executed by the Company, to the Trustee for
authentication and, provided that the Board Resolution and
Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture or indentures
with respect to such Securities referred to in Section 3.1 and
a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities have been delivered to the Trustee, the Trustee in
accordance with the Company Order and subject to the provisions
hereof and of such Securities shall authenticate and deliver such
Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Trustee
shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a)
through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected
in relying upon,
(1) an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that:
(a) the form or forms and the
terms of such Securities and any Coupons have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
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(b) such Securities, together
with any Coupons appertaining thereto, when completed by
appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture,
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this
Indenture and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to
any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights, to general equitable principles and to
such other qualifications as such counsel shall conclude do not
materially affect the rights of Holders of such Securities and any
Coupons; and
(2) an Officers’
Certificate stating that, to the best knowledge of the Persons
executing such certificate, all conditions precedent to the
execution, authentication and delivery of such Securities and
Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto, have been complied with, and
no event which is, or after notice or lapse of time would become,
an Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall
have occurred and be continuing.
If all the Securities of any
series are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary
to deliver an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate
at the time of issuance of each Security, but such Opinion of
Counsel and Officers’ Certificate, with appropriate
modifications, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance
of the first Security of such series. After any such first
delivery, any separate written request by an Authorized Officer of
the Company or any person designated in writing by an Authorized
Officer that the Trustee authenticate and deliver Securities of
such series for original issue will be deemed to be a certification
by the Company that all conditions precedent provided for in this
Indenture relating to authentication and delivery of such
Securities continue to have been complied with and that no Event of
Default with respect to any of the Securities has occurred or is
continuing.
The Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate or to cause an Authenticating Agent to
authenticate any Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own
rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this
Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee or if the Trustee, being advised by
counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be
taken.
Each Registered Security
shall be dated the date of its authentication. Each Bearer Security
and any Bearer Security in global form shall be dated as of the
date specified in or pursuant to this Indenture.
No Security or Coupon
appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there
appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for in Section 2.2 or 6.11
executed
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by or on behalf of the Trustee or by the
Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of its
authorized officers. Such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has
been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Except as
permitted by Section 3.6, the Trustee shall not authenticate
and deliver any Bearer Security unless all Coupons appertaining
thereto then matured have been detached and cancelled.
Section 3.4 Temporary
Securities.
Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities, the Company may execute and deliver to the
Trustee and, upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the manner provided in Section 3.3, temporary
Securities in lieu thereof which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive
Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form or,
if authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture, in bearer form with
one or more Coupons or without Coupons and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as
conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such
temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of
temporary Securities in global form, which shall be exchanged in
accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary Securities are
issued, the Company shall cause definitive Securities to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities of the same series and containing terms and
provisions that are identical to those of any temporary Securities,
such temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for such definitive
Securities upon surrender of such temporary Securities at an Office
or Agency for such Securities, without charge to any Holder
thereof. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons
appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor an equal
aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized
denominations of the same series and containing identical terms and
provisions; provided , however , that no definitive
Bearer Security, except as provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Registered Security; and provided , further , that a
definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a
temporary Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions
set forth in or pursuant to this Indenture. Unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to a
temporary global Security, until so exchanged the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such
series.
Section 3.5 Registration,
Transfer and Exchange.
With respect to the
Registered Securities of each series, if any, the Company shall
cause to be kept a register (each such register being herein
sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) at an
Office or Agency for such series in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall
provide for the registration of the Registered Securities of such
series and of transfers of the Registered Securities of such
series. Such Office or Agency shall be the “Security
Registrar” for that series of Securities. Unless otherwise
specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities, the
Trustee shall be the initial Security Registrar for each series of
Securities. The Company shall have the right to remove and replace
from time to
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time the Security Registrar for any
series of Securities; provided that no such removal or replacement
shall be effective until a successor Security Registrar with
respect to such series of Securities shall have been appointed by
the Company and shall have accepted such appointment by the
Company. In the event that the Trustee shall not be or shall cease
to be Security Registrar with respect to a series of Securities, it
shall have the right to examine the Security Register for such
series at all reasonable times. The Company shall be required to
maintain a Security Registrar in each place where the principal of
and premium or interest on any Security is payable. There shall be
only one Security Register for each series of
Securities.
Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series
at any Office or Agency for such series, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered
Securities of the same series denominated as authorized in or
pursuant to this Indenture, of a like aggregate principal amount
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding and containing
identical terms and provisions.
At the option of the Holder,
certificated Securities (including Bearer Securities) and the right
to receive the principal, premium and interest, if any, on any
certificated Security may be transferred by a Holder by
surrendering such certificate representing the certificated
Securities at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Such
certificate representing the certificated Securities may be
reissued by the Company or the Trustee to a new Holder or a new
certificate representing the certificated Securities may be issued
by the Company or the Trustee to a new Holder.
At the option of the Holder,
Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series containing identical terms
and provisions, in any authorized denominations, and of a like
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series. Whenever any
Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Registered Securities that the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
If provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture, with respect to Securities of any series, at the
option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of such series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of such series containing
identical terms, denominated as authorized in or pursuant to this
Indenture and in the same aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any Office or
Agency for such series, with all unmatured Coupons and all matured
Coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer
Security is unable to produce any such unmatured Coupon or Coupons
or matured Coupon or Coupons in default, such exchange may be
effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in
funds acceptable to the Company and the Trustee in an amount equal
to the face amount of such missing Coupon or Coupons, or the
surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security
or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any
Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer
Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing
Coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such
payment; provided , however , that, except as
otherwise provided in Section
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10.2, interest represented by Coupons
shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those
Coupons at an Office or Agency for such series located outside the
United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer
Security of any series is surrendered at any such Office or Agency
for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such
series and like tenor after the close of business at such Office or
Agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening
of business at such Office or Agency on the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and
before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the
related date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer
Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date of payment, as the case may
be (or, if such Coupon is so surrendered with such Bearer Security,
such Coupon shall be returned to the Person so surrendering the
Bearer Security), and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case
may be, shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the
Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security,
but shall be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
If provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture with respect to Securities of any series, at the
option of the Holder, Registered Securities of such series may be
exchanged for Bearer Securities upon such terms and conditions as
may be provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to
such series.
Whenever any Securities are
surrendered for exchange as contemplated by the immediately
preceding two paragraphs, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture, any global Security shall be exchangeable for
certificated Securities only if (i) the Depository is at any
time unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as depository and
a successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 90
days of the date the Company is so informed in writing,
(ii) the Company, in its discretion, determines not to require
all of the Securities of a series to be represented by a global
Security and notifies the Trustee of its decision by executing and
delivering to the Trustee a Company Order to the effect that such
global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company, the Trustee,
the Registrar and the Paying Agent shall have notified the
Depository that the global Security shall be exchangeable for
certificated Securities. If the beneficial owners of interests in a
global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for
definitive Securities as the result of an event described in clause
(i), (ii) or (iii) of the preceding sentence, then
without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the
earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities in such
form and denominations as are required by or pursuant to this
Indenture, and of the same series, containing identical terms and
in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the earliest
date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such global
Security shall be surrendered from time to time by the U.S.
Depository or such other Depository as shall be specified in the
Company Order with respect thereto, and in accordance with
instructions given to the Trustee and the U.S. Depository or such
other Depository, as the case may be (which instructions
shall
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be in writing but need not be contained
in or accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate or be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the
Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the
Company’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole
or in part, for definitive Securities as described above without
charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in exchange for each portion of such surrendered global
Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of
like tenor as the portion of such global Security to be exchanged,
which (unless such Securities are not issuable both as Bearer
Securities and as Registered Securities, in which case the
definitive Securities exchanged for the global Security shall be
issuable only in the form in which the Securities are issuable, as
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture) shall be in the form of
Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination
thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof, but
subject to the satisfaction of any certification or other
requirements to the issuance of Bearer Securities; provided
, however , that (unless otherwise provided in or pursuant
to this Indenture) no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a
portion of a global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered
to any location in the United States. Promptly following any such
exchange in part, such global Security shall be returned by the
Trustee to such Depository or the U.S. Depository, as the case may
be, or such other Depository or U.S. Depository referred to above
in accordance with the instructions of the Company referred to
above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any
portion of a global Security after the close of business at the
Office or Agency for such Security where such exchange occurs on or
after (i) any Regular Record Date for such Security and before
the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record
Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such
Office or Agency on the related proposed date for payment of
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, interest shall
not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for
payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered
Security, but shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date or
proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person
to whom interest in respect of such portion of such global Security
shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
All Securities issued upon
any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt and
entitling the Holders thereof to the same benefits under this
Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of
transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or the
Security Registrar for such Security) be duly endorsed, or be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar for such
Security duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange, or redemption of
Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any stamp tax or other governmental charge and any other
reasonable expenses (including fees and expenses of the Trustee)
that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer
or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to
Section 3.4, 3.6, 9.5 or 11.7 not involving any
transfer.
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Except as otherwise provided
in or pursuant to this Indenture, the Company shall not be required
(i) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any
series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before the day the Company transmits a notice of redemption of
Securities of the series selected for redemption and ending at the
close of business on the day of the transmission, or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Security selected for
redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of any Security
to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed, or
(iii) to exchange any Bearer Security selected for redemption
except, to the extent provided with respect to such Bearer
Security, that such Bearer Security may be exchanged for a
Registered Security of like tenor and the same series, provided
that such Registered Security shall be immediately surrendered for
redemption with written instruction for payment consistent with the
provisions of this Indenture or (iv) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Security which, in accordance with its
terms, has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the
Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so
repaid.
Section 3.6 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security or
a Security with a mutilated Coupon appertaining to it is
surrendered to the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this
Section 3.6, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the
same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount
and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with
Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons, if any,
appertaining to the surrendered Security.
If there be delivered to the
Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of
the destruction, loss or theft of any Security or Coupon, and
(ii) such securi
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