Exhibit 4.1
EXECUTION COPY
CNH EQUIPMENT TRUST
2008-B
INDENTURE
between
CNH EQUIPMENT TRUST
2008-B
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST
COMPANY, N.A.
as Indenture
Trustee.
Dated as of May 1, 2008
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
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Definitions
and Incorporation by Reference
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Section 1.1.
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Definitions
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Section 1.2.
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Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture
Act
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Section 1.3.
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Other Definitional Provisions
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ARTICLE II
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The
Notes
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Section 2.1.
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Form
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Section 2.2.
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Execution, Authentication and
Delivery
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Section 2.3.
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Temporary Notes
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Section 2.4.
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Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange
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Section 2.5.
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Notes
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Section 2.6.
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Persons Deemed Owner
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Section 2.7.
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Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted
Interest
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Section 2.8.
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Cancellation
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Section 2.9.
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Release of Collateral
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Section 2.10.
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Book-Entry Notes
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10
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Section 2.11.
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Notices to Clearing Agency
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10
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Section 2.12.
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Definitive Notes
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Section 2.13.
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Tax
Treatment
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ARTICLE III
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Covenants
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Section 3.1.
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Payment of Principal and Interest
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Section 3.2.
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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Section 3.3.
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Money for Payments To Be Held in
Trust
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Section 3.4.
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Existence
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Section 3.5.
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Protection of the Trust Estate
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Section 3.6.
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Opinions as to the Trust Estate
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Section 3.7.
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Performance of Obligations; Servicing of
Receivables
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Section 3.8.
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Negative Covenants
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Section 3.9.
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Annual Statement as to Compliance
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Section 3.10.
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Issuing Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only
on Certain Terms
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Section 3.11.
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Successor or Transferee
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Section 3.12.
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No
Other Business
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Section 3.13.
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No
Borrowing
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Section 3.14.
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Servicer’s Obligations
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Section 3.15.
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Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities
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Section 3.16.
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Capital Expenditures
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Section 3.17.
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Removal of Administrator
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Section 3.18.
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Restricted Payments
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Section 3.19.
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Notice of Events of Default
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Section 3.20.
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Further Instruments and Acts
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Section 3.21.
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Perfection Representation
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ARTICLE IV
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Satisfaction
and Discharge
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Section 4.1.
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Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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Section 4.2.
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Application of Trust Money
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Section 4.3.
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Repayment of Monies Held by Paying
Agent
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ARTICLE V
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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 Indenture Trustee
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Section 5.4.
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Remedies; Priorities
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Section 5.5.
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Optional Preservation of the
Receivables
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Section 5.6.
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Limitation of Suits
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Section 5.7.
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Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive
Principal and Interest
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Section 5.8.
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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Section 5.9.
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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Section 5.10.
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Delay or Omission Not a Waiver
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Section 5.11.
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Control by Noteholders
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Section 5.12.
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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Section 5.13.
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 5.14.
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Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
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Section 5.15.
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Action on Notes
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Section 5.16.
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Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations
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ARTICLE VI
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The
Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.1.
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Duties of the Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.2.
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Rights of Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.3.
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Individual Rights of the Indenture
Trustee
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Section 6.4.
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Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer
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Section 6.5.
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Notice of Defaults
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Section 6.6.
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Reports by Indenture Trustee to the
Holders
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Section 6.7.
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Compensation and Indemnity
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Section 6.8.
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Replacement of the Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.9.
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Successor Indenture Trustee by
Merger
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Section 6.10.
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Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate
Trustee
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Section 6.11.
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Eligibility; Disqualification
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Section 6.12.
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Preferential Collection of Claims Against the
Issuing Entity
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Section 6.13.
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Information to Be Provided by the Indenture
Trustee
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Section 6.14.
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Representations and Warranties
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ARTICLE VII
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Noteholders’ Lists and Reports
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Section 7.1.
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Issuing Entity To Furnish Indenture Trustee
Names and Addresses of Noteholders
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Section 7.2.
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Preservation of Information; Communications to
Noteholders
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Section 7.3.
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Reports by Issuing Entity
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Section 7.4.
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Required Filings
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ARTICLE VIII
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Accounts,
Disbursements and Releases
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Section 8.1.
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Collection of Money
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Section 8.2.
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Trust Accounts
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Section 8.3.
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General Provisions Regarding
Accounts
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Section 8.4.
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Release of Trust Estate
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Section 8.5.
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Opinion of Counsel
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ARTICLE IX
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Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 9.1.
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Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Noteholders
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Section 9.2.
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Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Noteholders
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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 Indenture
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Section 9.5.
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Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 9.6.
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Reference in Notes to Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 9.7.
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Amendment without Consent
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ARTICLE X
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Redemption of
Notes
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Section 10.1.
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Redemption
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Section 10.2.
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Form of Redemption Notice
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Section 10.3.
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Notes Payable on Redemption Date
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ARTICLE XI
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Miscellaneous
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Section 11.1.
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Compliance Certificates and Opinions,
etc.
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Section 11.2.
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Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture
Trustee
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Section 11.3.
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Acts of Noteholders
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Section 11.4.
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Notices, etc., to the Indenture Trustee,
Issuing Entity, Counterparties and Rating Agencies
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Section 11.5.
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Notices to Noteholders; Waiver
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Section 11.6.
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Alternate Payment and Notice
Provisions
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Section 11.7.
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Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 11.8.
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Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents
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Section 11.9.
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Successors and Assigns
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Section 11.10.
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Severability
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Section 11.11.
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Benefits of Indenture
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Section 11.12.
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Legal Holidays
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Section 11.13.
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Governing Law
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Section 11.14.
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Counterparts
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Section 11.15.
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Recording of Indenture
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Section 11.16.
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Trust Obligation
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Section 11.17.
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No
Petition
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Section 11.18.
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Inspection
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Section 11.19.
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Subordination
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Section 11.20.
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Information Requests
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EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT
A-1
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Form of
A-1 Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-2a
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Form of
A-2a Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-2b
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Form of
A-2b Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-3a
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Form of
A-3a Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-3b
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Form of
A-3b Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-4a
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Form of
A-4a Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-4b
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Form of
A-4b Notes
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EXHIBIT
A-5
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Form of
Class B Notes
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EXHIBIT
B
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Form of
Section 3.9 Officer’s Certificate
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EXHIBIT
C
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Form of
Rule 144A Letter
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SCHEDULES
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SCHEDULE
P
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Perfection
Representations & Warranties
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INDENTURE dated as
of May 1, 2008 between CNH EQUIPMENT TRUST 2008-B, a Delaware
statutory trust (the “ Issuing Entity ”), and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., a national banking
association (“ BNYTC ”), as trustee and not in
its individual capacity (the “ Indenture Trustee
”).
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of
the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Issuing Entity’s 2.91675% Class A-1 Asset
Backed Notes (each an “ A-1 Note ”), 4.04%
Class A-2a Asset Backed Notes (each an “ A-2a
Note ”), Floating Rate Class A-2b Asset Backed Notes
(each an “ A-2b Note ”), 4.78% Class A-3a
Asset Backed Notes (each an “ A-3a Note ”),
Floating Rate Class A-3b Asset Backed Notes (each an “
A-3b Note ”), 5.60% Class A-4a Asset Backed Notes
(each an “ A-4a Note ”), Floating Rate
Class A-4b Asset Backed Notes (each an “ A-4b
Note ”) and the 0.00% Class B Asset Backed Notes
(each a “ Class B Note ”; and together with
the A-1 Notes, the A-2a Notes, the A-2b Notes, the A-3a Notes, the
A-3b Notes, the A-4a Notes and the A-4b Notes, the “
Notes ”).
GRANTING CLAUSE
The
Issuing Entity hereby Grants to BNYTC at the Closing Date, as
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and
the Counterparties, all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title
and interest in, to and under the following, whether now existing
or hereafter arising or acquired (collectively, the “
Collateral ”):
(a)
the Receivables, including all documents constituting chattel paper
included therewith, and all obligations of the Obligors thereunder,
including all monies paid thereunder on or after the Initial Cutoff
Date or the applicable Subsequent Cutoff Date;
(b)
the security interests in the Financed Equipment granted by
Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the
Issuing Entity in the Financed Equipment;
(c)
any proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on
insurance policies covering Financed Equipment or Obligors (to the
extent not used to purchase Substitute Equipment);
(d)
any proceeds from recourse to Dealers with respect to the
Receivables;
(e)
any Financed Equipment that shall have secured a Receivable and
that shall have been acquired by or on behalf of the Trust;
(f)
all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts,
including the Spread Account Initial Deposit, any Principal
Supplement Account Deposit, the Negative Carry Account Initial
Deposit and the Pre-Funded Amount, and all investments and proceeds
thereof (including all income thereon);
(g)
the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including all rights of the
Seller under the Liquidity Receivables Purchase Agreement and the
Purchase Agreement assigned to the Issuing Entity pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement);
(h)
all rights of the Issuing Entity under the Interest Rate Swap
Agreements; and
(i)
all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action
in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or
under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in
respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of
the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid
property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes,
drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts,
insurance proceeds (to the extent not used to purchase Substitute
Equipment), condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every
kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments
and other property that at any time constitute all or part of or
are included in the proceeds of any and all of the foregoing.
The
foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure (x) first, the
payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts
owing in respect of (including the amounts owed in connection with
the Interest Rate Swap Agreements), the Class A Notes, equally
and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and
(y) second, the payment of principal of and interest on, and
any other amounts owing in respect of, the Class B Notes,
equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and
to secure compliance with this Indenture.
BNYTC, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders and the Counterparties, (1) acknowledges such
Grant, and (2) accepts the trusts under this Indenture in
accordance with this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties
required in this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to which
it is a party in accordance with their terms.
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
SECTION 1.1.
Definitions . Capitalized terms used but not
otherwise defined herein are defined in Appendix A hereto.
SECTION 1.2.
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA,
the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of
this Indenture. The following terms, where used in the TIA, shall
have the following meanings for the purposes hereof:
“Commission” means the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
“indenture securities” means the
Notes.
“indenture security holder” means a
Noteholder.
“indenture to be qualified” means
this Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or
“institutional trustee” means the Indenture
Trustee.
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“obligor” on the indenture
securities means the Issuing Entity and any other obligor on the
indenture securities.
All
other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by
Commission rule have the meaning assigned to them by such
definitions.
SECTION 1.3.
Other Definitional Provisions . (a) All
terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(b)
As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other document
made or delivered pursuant hereto, accounting terms not defined in
this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such
certificate or other document to the extent not defined, shall have
the respective meanings given to them under generally accepted
accounting principles as in effect on the date hereof. To the
extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement
or in any such certificate or other document are inconsistent with
the meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting
principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or in any
such certificate or other document shall control.
(c)
The words “hereof”, “herein”,
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement; Section, Schedule and
Exhibit references contained in this Agreement are references
to Sections, Schedules and Exhibits in or to this Agreement unless
otherwise specified; and the term “including” shall
mean “including, without limitation,”.
(d)
The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the
singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the
masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such
terms.
(e)
References to any law or regulation refer to that law or regulation
as amended from time to time and include any successor law or
regulation.
(f)
References to any agreement refer to that agreement as from time to
time amended or supplemented or as the terms of such agreement are
waived or modified in accordance with its terms.
(g)
References to any Person include that Person’s successors and
assigns.
ARTICLE II
The Notes
SECTION 2.1.
Form . The A-1 Notes, A-2a Notes, A-2b Notes, A-3a
Notes, A-3b Notes, A-4a Notes, A-4b Notes and Class B Notes,
together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, shall be in substantially the forms set forth in
Exhibits A-1, A-2a, A-2b, A-3a, A-3b, A-4a, A-4b and A-5
respectively, with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have
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such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon, as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by
their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any
Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate
reference thereto on the face of the Note.
The
Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or
without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such
Notes.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in
Exhibits A-1, A-2a, A-2b, A-3a, A-3b, A-4a, A-4b and
A-5 are part of the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.2.
Execution, Authentication and Delivery . The Notes
shall be executed on behalf of the Issuing Entity by any of its
Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized
Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature
of individuals who were at the time of signature Authorized
Officers of the Issuing Entity shall bind the Issuing Entity,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such
Notes.
The
Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuing Entity Order authenticate and
deliver A-1 Notes, A-2a Notes, A-2b Notes, A-3a Notes, A-3b Notes,
A-4a Notes, A-4b Notes and Class B Notes for original issue in
an aggregate principal amount of $143,974,000, $67,000,000,
$104,000,000, $110,000,000, $60,000,000, $96,257,000, $30,000,000,
and $15,673,959, respectively. The Outstanding Amount of A-1
Notes, A-2a Notes, A-2b Notes, A-3a Notes, A-3b Notes, A-4a Notes,
A-4b Notes and Class B Notes at any time may not exceed such
respective amounts except as provided in Section 2.5
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Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as registered
Notes in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in greater
whole-dollar denominations in excess thereof.
No
Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such
Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual
signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such
certificate of authentication shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.3.
Temporary Notes . Pending the preparation of
Definitive Notes, the Issuing Entity may execute, and upon receipt
of an Issuing Entity Order, the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of
the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued
and with such variations not inconsistent with this Indenture as
the Authorized Officers executing such Notes may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
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If
temporary Notes are issued, the Issuing Entity will cause
Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes
shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the
temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be
maintained as provided in Section 3.2, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Notes, the Issuing Entity shall execute and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like
principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as if they were Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.4.
Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange
. The Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept a register (the
“ Note Register ”) in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuing Entity
shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of
transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall be the
“ Note Registrar ” for the purpose of
registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided.
Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity
shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make
such an appointment, assume the duties of the Note Registrar.
If
a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Issuing Entity as the Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity will give
the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of
such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the
location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture Trustee shall
have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable
times, to obtain copies thereof and to rely upon a certificate
executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer
thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes
and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of
any Note at the office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be
maintained as provided in Section 3.2, if the requirements of
Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met (provided, this
requirement will only apply to transfers of Class B Notes
following (i) the transfer of the Class B Notes to an
entity unaffiliated with the Originator and (ii) the exchange
of the Class B Notes for Class B Notes registered in the
name of a Clearing Agency (or its nominee)), the Issuing Entity
shall execute, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes in
any authorized denominations of a like aggregate principal
amount.
At
the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other new
Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations of a
like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so
surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of
Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met (provided, this
requirement will only apply to exchanges of Class B Notes
following (i) the transfer of the Class B Notes to an
entity unaffiliated with the Originator and (ii) the exchange
of the Class B Notes for Class B Notes registered in the
name of a Clearing Agency (or its nominee)), the Issuing Entity
shall execute, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes that
the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
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By
its acquisition of a Note or any interest therein, each purchaser
or transferee shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either
(a) it is not an “employee benefit plan” within
the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ ERISA
”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan”
as defined in Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), an entity
deemed to hold “plan assets” of any of the foregoing or
a “governmental plan” as defined in Section 3(32)
of ERISA that is subject to any law substantially similar to ERISA
or Section 4975 of the Code or (b) the acquisition and
holding of the Note or any interest therein will not result in a
non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA,
Section 4975 of the Code or any substantially similar
applicable law.
All
Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes
shall be the valid obligations of the Issuing Entity, evidencing
the same debt and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of
transfer or exchange.
No
transfer of a Class B Note shall be made unless such transfer
is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act of 1933 (the “ Securities Act ”)
and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the
registration requirements under said Securities Act and such state
securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in
reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and such laws,
in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such
laws, there shall be delivered to the Issuing Entity and to the
Indenture Trustee a letter in substantially the form of
Exhibit C (the “ Rule 144A Letter
”). Notwithstanding the preceding sentence or anything
else herein, any transfer of the Class B Notes to the
Depositor, the Originator or any of their Affiliates on the Closing
Date, and any transfer from any of such entities to its Affiliate,
and any transfer from any such entity to an initial
purchaser(s) pursuant to an exemption from the registration
requirements, will not require the delivery of a Rule 144A
Letter and may be made regardless of whether such entity is a
“qualified institutional buyer” as defined in the
Securities Act. The Issuing Entity shall provide to any
Holder of a Class B Note and any prospective transferee
designated by any such Holder, information regarding the
Class B Notes and the Receivables and such other information
as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set
forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such
Class B Note without registration thereof under the Securities
Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by
Rule 144A. The Indenture Trustee and the Servicer shall
cooperate with the Issuing Entity in providing the Rule 144A
information referenced in the preceding sentence, including
providing to the Issuing Entity such information regarding the
Class B Notes, the Receivables and other matters regarding the
Trust Estate as the Issuing Entity shall reasonably request to meet
its obligation under the preceding sentence. Each Holder of a
Class B Note desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does
hereby agree to, indemnify the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing
Entity, the Seller and the Servicer against any liability that may
result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in
accordance with such federal and state laws.
Every Class A Note, and every Class B
Note (but, with respect to Class B Notes only, only with
respect to transfers following (i) the transfer of the
Class B Notes to an entity unaffiliated with the Originator
and (ii) the exchange of the Class B Notes for
Class B Notes registered in the name of a Clearing Agency (or
its nominee)), presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied
by a written
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instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the
requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in the Securities Transfer
Agent’s Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or
such other “signature guarantee program” as may be
determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act.
No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to
Sections 2.3 or 9.6 not involving any transfer.
SECTION 2.5.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . If:
(i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture
Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and
(ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security
or indemnity as may be required by the Indenture Trustee and the
Issuing Entity to hold the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing
Entity, respectively, harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee
that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, and
provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are
met, the Issuing Entity shall execute, and upon its request the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a
replacement Note of the same Class; provided ,
however , that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note,
but not a mutilated Note, shall have become, or within seven days
shall be, due and payable, or shall have been called for
redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuing
Entity may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or
payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender
thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note (or
payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso
to the preceding sentence), a bona fide purchaser of the original
Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for
payment such original Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture
Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such
payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person
taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such
replacement Note was delivered (or payment made) or any assignee of
such Person, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to
recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the
extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuing
Entity or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under
this Section, the Issuing Entity may require the payment by the
Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any
other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this
Section in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Issuing Entity, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
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enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly
issued hereunder.
The
provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude
(to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect
to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.6.
Persons Deemed Owner . Prior to due presentment
for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuing Entity, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is
registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such
Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal and
interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the
Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Issuing
Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 2.7.
Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest
. (a) The A-1 Notes, A-2a Notes, A-2b Notes, A-3a
Notes, A-3b Notes, A-4a Notes, A-4b Notes and Class B Notes
shall accrue interest at the A-1 Note Rate, the A-2a Note Rate, the
A-2b Note Rate, the A-3a Note Rate, the A-3b Note Rate, the A-4a
Note Rate, the A-4b Note Rate and the Class B Note Rate,
respectively, and such interest shall be payable on each Payment
Date, subject to Section 3.1. Any installment of
interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note that is
punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuing Entity on the
applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name
such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the
Record Date by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid, to such
Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on such
Record Date. However, unless Definitive Notes have been
issued, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the
name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee
to be Cede & Co.), payment will be made by wire transfer
in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. In addition, so long as Definitive Notes have been issued
with respect to the Class B Notes and the Originator or its
Affiliate is the entity in whose name such Class B Notes are
registered on the Record Date, payment will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated
by the Originator or such Affiliate. Notwithstanding the
above, the final installment of principal payable with respect to
such Note (and except for the Redemption Price for any Note called
for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1(a)) shall be payable
as provided in clause (b)(ii) . The funds represented
by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance
with Section 3.3.
(b)
(i) The principal of each Note shall be payable in
installments on each Payment Date as provided in this Indenture,
and except as provided below each such installment shall be due and
payable only to the extent that there are funds available to make
the payment in accordance with the Basic Documents.
Notwithstanding the foregoing: (A) the entire
Outstanding Amount of each Class of Notes shall be due and
payable on the related Class Final Scheduled Maturity Date,
and (B) the entire Outstanding Amount of all Classes of Notes
shall be due and payable, ratably to all Noteholders, on any date
on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
if the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes have
declared the Notes to be
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immediately
due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2.
All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made
pro rata to the Noteholders of the Class A-1 Notes. All
principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro
rata to the Noteholders of the Class A-2 Notes. All principal
payments on the Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders of the Class A-3 Notes. All principal
payments on the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders of the Class A-4 Notes. All principal
payments on the Class B Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Noteholders of the Class B Notes.
(ii)
The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note
is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding
the Payment Date on which the Issuing Entity expects that the final
installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid.
Such notice shall be mailed no later than five Business Days prior
to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final
installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices
in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to
Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2.
(c)
If the Issuing Entity defaults in a payment of interest on the
Notes, the Issuing Entity shall pay, in any lawful manner,
defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest to the
extent lawful) at the applicable interest rate from the Payment
Date for which such payment is in default. The Issuing Entity
may pay such defaulted interest to the Persons who are Noteholders
on a subsequent special record date, which date shall be at least
five Business Days prior to the special payment date. The
Issuing Entity shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special
record date and special payment date, and, at least 15 days before
any such special record date, shall mail to each Noteholder a
notice that states the special record date, the special payment
date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.
SECTION 2.8.
Cancellation . All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly canceled
by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity may at any time
deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Issuing
Entity may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture
Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this
Section except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.
All canceled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal
policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuing Entity shall
direct by an Issuing Entity Order that they be returned to it;
provided, that such Issuing Entity Order is timely and the Notes
have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.9.
Release of Collateral . Subject to Sections 8.4
and 11.1 and the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall
release property from the Lien of this Indenture only upon receipt
of an Issuing Entity Request accompanied by an Officer’s
Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificates in
accordance with TIA §§314(c) and 314(d)(l), or an
Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the
effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent
Certificates.
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SECTION 2.10.
Book-Entry Notes . The Class A Notes, upon
original issuance, and at any time after the Closing Date at the
Depositor’s request, the Class B Notes, will be issued
in the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes,
to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC
”) (the initial Clearing Agency), or its custodian, by, or on
behalf of, the Issuing Entity. Such Class A Notes shall
initially (and such Class B Notes shall, upon the
Depositor’s request) be registered on the Note Register in
the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner of such Note will receive a
Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in
such Note, except as provided in Section 2.12, and except with
respect to the Class B Notes, which will initially be issued
as Definitive Notes registered in the name of CNH Capital America
LLC. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the
“ Definitive Notes ”) representing Class A
Notes have been issued to Note Owners, and with respect to
Class B Notes, for the period beginning when such Class B
Notes are no longer held as Definitive Notes until such
Class B Notes are again held as Definitive Notes:
(i)
this Section shall be in full force and effect;
(ii)
the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee may deal with the
Clearing Agency for all purposes (including the payment of
principal of and interest on the applicable Notes) as the
authorized representative of the Note Owners;
(iii)
to the extent that this Section conflicts with any other
provisions of this Indenture, this Section shall control;
(iv)
the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the
Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law
and agreements between such Note Owners and the Clearing Agency
and/or the Clearing Agency Participants pursuant to the Note
Depository Agreement. Unless and until Definitive Notes are
issued (and, with respect to the Class B Notes, for any period
during which no Definitive Notes are issued), the Clearing Agency
will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency
Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and
interest on the applicable Notes to such Clearing Agency
Participants; and
(v)
whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken
based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes
evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes (or a Class of Notes), the Clearing Agency shall be
deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or
Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively,
such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes
(or Class of Notes) and has delivered such instructions to the
Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.11.
Notices to Clearing Agency . Whenever a notice or
other communication to the Noteholders is required under this
Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes for the Class A
Notes have been issued (and, with respect to the Class B
Notes, for any period during which no Definitive Notes are issued)
to Note Owners, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices
and communications to the Clearing Agency.
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SECTION 2.12.
Definitive Notes . Notes initially or subsequently
cleared through a clearing agency may be issued in definitive,
fully registered certificated form to Noteholders if requested by
the DTC participants to whom the Notes are credited and in
accordance with DTC’s rules and procedures. Upon
any surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes
representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuing Entity shall
execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate, the
Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. None of the Issuing Entity, the Note
Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and
shall be fully protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall
recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
In addition, Notes issued as Definitive Notes from time to time may
be subsequently issued as Book-Entry Notes and cleared through a
Clearing Agency at the request of applicable Holders of the
Definitive Notes. The Class B Notes are initially issued
only as registered Definitive Notes without coupons in
denominations specified herein.
SECTION 2.13.
Tax Treatment . It is the intent of the Seller,
the Servicer, the Noteholders and the Note Owners that, for
purposes of federal and State income tax and any other tax measured
in whole or in part by income, until the Certificates are held by
other than the Seller, the Trust be disregarded as an entity
separate from the Seller and the Notes be treated as debt of the
Seller. At such time that the Certificates are held by more
than one Person, it is the intent of the Seller, the Servicer, the
Noteholders and the Note Owners that, for such tax purposes, the
Trust be treated as a partnership and the Notes be treated as debt
of the Trust. Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Note, or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Note, agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the
treatment of, the Notes for such tax purposes as provided in this
Section 2.13.
ARTICLE III
Covenants
SECTION 3.1.
Payment of Principal and Interest . The Issuing
Entity will duly and punctually pay the principal and interest, if
any, on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and
this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to
Sections 8.2(c) and (e), the Issuing Entity will cause to be
distributed to Holders of the Notes all amounts on deposit in the
Note Distribution Account on a Payment Date deposited therein for
the benefit of the Notes pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the Code or any
applicable State law by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder
of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been
paid by the Issuing Entity to such Noteholder for all purposes of
this Indenture.
SECTION 3.2.
Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Issuing
Entity will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands
to or upon the Issuing Entity in respect of the Notes and this
Indenture may be served. The Issuing Entity hereby initially
appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the
foregoing purposes. The Issuing Entity will give prompt
written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Counterparties of
the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office
or agency. If
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at any time
the Issuing Entity shall fail to maintain any such office or agency
or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee and the
Counterparties with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office,
and the Issuing Entity hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its
agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and
demands.
SECTION 3.3.
Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust . As
provided in Sections 8.2(a) and (b), all payments of amounts
due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from
amounts withdrawn from the Collection Account and the Note
Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.2(c) or
Section 8.2(e), as applicable, shall be made on behalf of the
Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent,
and no amounts so withdrawn from the Collection Account and the
Note Distribution Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over
to the Issuing Entity except as provided in this Section.
One
Business Day prior to each Payment Date and Redemption Date, the
Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note
Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts
then becoming due under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying
Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Any
Paying Agent shall be appointed by Issuing Entity Order with
written notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee. Any Paying
Agent appointed by the Issuing Entity shall be a Person who would
be eligible to be Indenture Trustee hereunder as provided in
Section 6.11.
The
Issuing Entity will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee
an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying
Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this
Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(i)
hold in trust all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due
with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such
Persons as herein provided;
(ii)
give the Indenture Trustee and the Counterparties notice of any
default by the Issuing Entity (or any other obligor upon the Notes)
of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment
required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii)
at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying
Agent;
(iv)
immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of
Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be
met by a Paying Agent; and
(v)
comply with all requirements of the Code and any applicable State
law with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on
any Notes of any
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applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon
and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in
connection therewith.
The
Issuing Entity may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, by Issuing Entity Order, direct any Paying Agent to pay to
the Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent,
such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts
as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and
upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to
escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any
Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with
respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from
such trust and be paid to the Issuing Entity on Issuing Entity
Order; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an
unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuing Entity for
payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to
the Issuing Entity), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon
cease; provided , however , that the Indenture
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any
such repayment, shall at the expense and direction of the Issuing
Entity cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the
English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of
general circulation in the City of New York, notice that such money
remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which
shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication,
any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt
and employ, at the expense of the Issuing Entity, any other
reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including
mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been
called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right
to or interest in monies due and payable but not claimed is
determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any
Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such
Holder).
SECTION 3.4.
Existence . The Issuing Entity will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and will
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary
to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the
Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement
included in the Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.5.
Protection of the Trust Estate . The Issuing
Entity will from time to time execute and deliver all such
supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing
statements, continuation statements, instruments of further
assurance and other instruments, and will take such other action
necessary or advisable to:
(i)
maintain or preserve the Lien and security interest (and the
priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively
the purposes hereof;
(ii)
perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant
made or to be made by this Indenture;
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(iii)
enforce any of the Collateral; or
(iv)
preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate against
the claims of all Persons.
The
Issuing Entity hereby designates the Indenture Trustee as its agent
and attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement,
continuation statement, instrument of further assurance or other
instrument required to be executed to accomplish the
foregoing.
SECTION 3.6.
Opinions as to the Trust Estate . (a) On the
Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion
of such counsel, such action has been taken or will be taken with
respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents,
and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect
and make effective the Lien and security interest created by this
Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or stating that,
in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make
such Lien and security interest effective.
(b)
On or before April 30 in each calendar year commencing in the
calendar year 2008 the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to
the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture,
any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite
documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements, as is necessary
to maintain the Lien and security interest of this Indenture and
reciting the details of such action, or stating that in the opinion
of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such Lien
and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also
describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents, and the execution and filing of any financing
statements, amendments to financing statements and continuation
statements, that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required
to maintain the Lien and security interest of this Indenture until
April 30 in the following calendar year.
SECTION 3.7.
Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
. (a) The Issuing Entity will not take any action and
will use its best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by
others that would release any Person from any material covenants or
obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Trust
Estate or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation,
subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity
or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
expressly provided in this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or such other instrument or agreement.
(b)
The Issuing Entity may contract with other Persons to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of
such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an
Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity shall be deemed
to be action taken by the Issuing Entity. Initially, the
Issuing Entity has contracted with the Servicer and the
Administrator to assist the Issuing Entity in performing its duties
under this Indenture.
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(c)
The Issuing Entity will punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other
Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in
the Trust Estate, including filing or causing to be filed all UCC
financing statements and continuation statements required to be
filed by this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in
accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and
therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the
Issuing Entity shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or
terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without the
consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
(d)
If the Issuing Entity shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Default, the Issuing Entity shall promptly notify the
Indenture Trustee, the Counterparties and the Rating Agencies
thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the
Issuing Entity is taking with respect to such default. If a
Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to
perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuing
Entity shall take all reasonable steps available to it to remedy
such failure.
(e)
As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of termination
to the Servicer of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant
to Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Backup
Servicer shall become the successor servicer (the “
Successor Servicer ”) (or if there is no Backup
Servicer on such date, then the Issuing Entity shall appoint a
Successor Servicer acceptable to the Indenture Trustee), and such
Successor Servicer shall accept its appointment by a written
assumption in a form acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. In
the event that a Successor Servicer has not been appointed and
accepted its appointment at the time when the previous Servicer
ceases to act as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee without further
action shall automatically be appointed as the Successor
Servicer. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee
shall, if it is unable to so act, (i) notify the Issuing
Entity of its resignation as Successor Servicer and
(ii) appoint or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to
appoint any established institution, having a net worth of not less
than $50,000,000 and whose regular business shall include the
servicing of equipment receivables as the successor to the Servicer
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. In accordance with
Section 8.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuing
Entity shall enter into an agreement with such Successor Servicer
for the servicing of the Receivables (such agreement to be in form
and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the
Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the previous Servicer’s
duties as servicer of the Receivables as provided herein, it
shall do so in its individual capacity and not in its capacity as
Indenture Trustee and, accordingly, the provisions of
Article VI shall be inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in
its duties as the Successor Servicer and the servicing of the
Receivables. In case the Indenture Trustee shall become the
Successor Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to act through or appoint as
Servicer any one of its Affiliates; provided, that it shall be
fully liable for the actions and omissions of such Affiliate in its
capacity as Successor Servicer. Notwithstanding anything else
herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Indenture Trustee be
liable for any servicing fee or for any differential in the amount
of the Servicing Fee paid hereunder and the amount necessary to
induce any successor Servicer to act as Successor Servicer under
this Indenture and the transactions set forth or provided for
herein, or be liable for or be required to make any servicer
advances.
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(f)
Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity
shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the
Counterparties. As soon as a Successor Servicer is appointed,
the Issuing Entity shall notify the Indenture Trustee and the
Counterparties of such appointment, specifying in such notice the
name and address of such Successor Servicer.
SECTION 3.8.
Negative Covenants . So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not:
(i)
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Purchase
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, sell, transfer,
exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of
the Issuing Entity, including those included in the Trust Estate,
unless directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii)
claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or
interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts
properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable
State law) or assert any claim against any present or former
Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed
upon any part of the Trust Estate; or
(iii)
(A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to
be impaired, or permit the Lien of this Indenture to be amended,
hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any
Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with
respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be
expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any Lien (other than
the Lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or
otherwise arise upon or burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof
or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof or (C) permit
the Lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority
(other than with respect to any tax lien, mechanics’ lien or
other lien not considered a Lien) security interest in the Trust
Estate.
SECTION 3.9.
Annual Statement as to Compliance . The Issuing
Entity will deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Issuing Entity, an
Officer’s Certificate, substantially in the form of
Exhibit B, stating that:
(i)
a review of the activities of the Issuing Entity during such year
and of performance under this Indenture has been made under such
Authorized Officer’s supervision; and
(ii)
to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuing Entity has complied with all conditions
and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year or, if
there has been a default in the compliance of any such condition or
covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized
Officer and the nature and status thereof.
SECTION 3.10.
Issuing Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms . (a) The Issuing Entity shall not
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:
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(i)
the Person (if other than the Issuing Entity) formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized
and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment
of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance
or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on
the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as
provided herein;
(ii)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii)
the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect
to such transaction;
(iv)
the Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to
the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse
tax consequence to the Issuing Entity, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v)
any action that is necessary to maintain the Lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi)
the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).
(b)
Except as permitted by the Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity
shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or assets,
substantially as an entirety, including those included in the Trust
Estate, to any Person, unless:
(i)
the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties
and assets of the Issuing Entity the conveyance or transfer of
which is hereby restricted shall: (A) be a United States
citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America or any State, (B) expressly assumes,
by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee,
the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on
all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and
covenant of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents on the
part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as
provided herein, (C) expressly agrees by means of such
supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so
conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of Holders of the Notes and the Counterparties,
(D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture,
expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuing
Entity against and from any loss, liability or expense arising
under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and
(E) expressly agrees
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by
means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a
group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings
with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by
the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii)
the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect
to such transaction;
(iv)
the Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to
the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse
tax consequence to the Issuing Entity, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v)
any action that is necessary to maintain the Lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(vi)
the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).
SECTION 3.11.
Successor or Transferee . (a) Upon any
consolidation or merger of the Issuing Entity in accordance with
Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuing Entity) shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Issuing Entity under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuing Entity
herein.
(b)
Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of
the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuing
Entity will be released from every covenant and agreement of this
Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuing
Entity with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of
written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Counterparties
stating that the Issuing Entity is to be so released.
SECTION 3.12.
No Other Business . The Issuing Entity shall not
engage in any business other than as permitted in Section 2.3
of the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 3.13.
No Borrowing . The Issuing Entity shall not issue,
incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or
indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes.
SECTION 3.14.
Servicer’s Obligations . The Issuing Entity
shall cause the Servicer to comply with Sections 4.8, 4.9, 4.10,
4.11 and 5.11 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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SECTION 3.15.
Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
. Except as contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall not make any loan or
advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an
instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or
performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or
otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable,
directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks
or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree
contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities
of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to,
any other Person.
SECTION 3.16.
Capital Expenditures . The Issuing Entity shall
not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or
otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.17.
Removal of Administrator . So long as any Notes
are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not remove the
Administrator without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition
shall have been satisfied in connection with such removal.
SECTION 3.18.
Restricted Payments . The Issuing Entity shall
not, directly or indirectly: (i) pay any dividend or
make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise),
whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to
the Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing
Entity or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity
interest or security in or of the Issuing Entity or to the Servicer
or the Administrator, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or
otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest
or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any
amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuing
Entity may make, or cause to be made, distributions to the
Servicer, the Trustee, the Certificateholders and the Administrator
as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such
purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Issuing
Entity will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or
distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with
this Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 3.19.
Notice of Events of Default . The Issuing Entity
shall give the Indenture Trustee, the Counterparties and the Rating
Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder,
each default on the part of the Servicer or the Seller of its
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and each default
on the part of CNHCA of its obligations under the Purchase
Agreement.
SECTION 3.20.
Further Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity will execute and deliver such
further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably
necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of
this Indenture.
SECTION 3.21.
Perfection Representation . The Issuing Entity
further makes all the representations, warranties and covenants set
forth in Schedule P.
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ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.1.
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the
Notes except as to: (i) rights of registration of
transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders
to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon,
(iv) rights of the Counterparties to receive Net Swap Payments
(including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payment) and any Swap
Termination Payment owing to such Counterparties, (v)
Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13 ,
(vi) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture
Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee
under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 4.2 ) and (vii) the rights
of Noteholders and the Counterparties as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee
payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand
of and at the expense of the Issuing Entity, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture with respect to the Notes, when:
(A)
either:
(1)
all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than: (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen
and that have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.5 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Issuing Entity and thereafter repaid to the Issuing
Entity or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 3.3 ) have been delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation; or
(2)
all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation:
(i)
have become due and payable,
(ii)
will become due and payable on the respective Class Final
Scheduled Maturity Date within one year, or
(iii)
are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Issuing Entity, and the Issuing Entity, in the case
of clause (2)(i) , (ii) or (iii) , has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with
the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations
guaranteed by the United States of America (which will mature prior
to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose,
in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the respective
Class Final Scheduled Maturity Date or Redemption Date
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(if
Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to
Section 10.1(a) ), as the case may be;
(B)
the Issuing Entity has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder (including amounts due and payable under the
Interest Rate Swap Agreements) by the Issuing Entity; and
(C)
the Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required
by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified
public accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of
Section 11.1(a) and, subject to
Section 11.2 , each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
SECTION 4.2.
Application of Trust Money . All monies deposited
with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1
shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment
or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the
Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for
principal and interest; but such monies need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or as required by law.
SECTION 4.3.
Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent . In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any Paying Agent
other than the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture with respect
to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuing Entity, be paid to
the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to
Section 3.3 , and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such
monies.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.1.
Events of Default . “Event of
Default”, wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by
operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(i)
default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue for a
period of five days;
(ii)
default in the payment of the principal of any Note when the same
becomes due and payable;
(iii)
default in the observance or performance of any covenant or
agreement of the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture (other than
a covenant or agreement a default in the observance or performance
of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt
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with), or any representation or warranty of the
Issuing Entity made in this Indenture or in any certificate or
other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the
time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall
continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in
respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of
30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or
to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders of
at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, a written
notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or
warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a notice of Default hereunder;
(iv)
the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuing Entity or
any substantial part of the Trust Estate in an involuntary case
under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
similar official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part
of the Trust Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of
the Issuing Entity’s affairs, and such decree or order shall
remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;
or
(v)
the commencement by the Issuing Entity of a voluntary case under
any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the
Issuing Entity to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuing
Entity to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar
official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the
Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuing Entity of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the
Issuing Entity generally to pay its debts as such debts become due,
or the taking of action by the Issuing Entity in furtherance of any
of the foregoing.
The
Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the
Counterparties, within five days after the Issuing Entity or the
Administrator obtains actual knowledge thereof, written notice in
the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event that, with
the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, would become an
Event of Default under clause (iii) , its status and
what action the Issuing Entity is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto.
SECTION 5.2.
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
. If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then
and in every such case the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of
Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount may declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable,
by a notice in writing to the Issuing Entity (and to the Indenture
Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the
Outstanding Amount, together with accrued and unpaid interest
thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately
due and payable.
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At
any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money
due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes representing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount, by written notice
to the Issuing Entity, the Counterparties and the Indenture
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(i)
the Issuing Entity has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee
a sum sufficient to pay:
(A)
all amounts owed to the Counterparties under the Interest Rate Swap
Agreements, payments of principal of and interest on all Notes and
all other amounts, in each case, that would then be due hereunder
if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not
occurred; and
(B)
all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(ii)
all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal
of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12 .
No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent to such default.
SECTION 5.3.
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee . (a) The Issuing Entity
covenants that if an Event of Default described in
Section 5.1(i) or (ii) occurs, the
Issuing Entity will, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to
it, for the benefit of the Holders of Notes, the whole amount then
due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with
interest upon the overdue principal at the applicable interest
rate, and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be
legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the
applicable interest rate, and in addition thereto such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents
and counsel.
(b)
In case the Issuing Entity shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts
upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the
collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such
Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes and
collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated,
the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c)
In case an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee may, as more particularly provided in
Section 5.4 , in its discretion, proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders and the
Counterparties, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture
Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any
such
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rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement
in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable
right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by
law.
(d)
In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuing Entity or
any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming
an ownership interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title
11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a
receiver, assignee, trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been
appointed for or taken possession of the Issuing Entity or its
property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other
comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or
other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of
the Issuing Entity or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise
and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made
any demand pursuant to this Section, shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i)
to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and
to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee
(including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of
all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by
the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee,
except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the
Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii)
unless prohibited by applicable law or regulations, to vote on
behalf of the Holders of the Notes in any election of a trustee, a
standby trustee or any Person performing similar functions in any
such Proceedings;
(iii)
to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts
received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the
Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv)
to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial
Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity, its creditors and its
property;
and any
trustee, receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized
by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture
Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent
to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to
the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover
reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or
bad faith.
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(e)
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture
Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt
on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the
rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee
to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such
proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a
trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f)
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture,
or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production
thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any
such action or Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee
shall be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the
expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee,
each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and
attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Notes.
(g)
In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the
Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the
Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party
to any such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.4.
Remedies; Priorities . (a) If the Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2
following an Event of Default, the Indenture Trustee may do one or
more of the following (subject to Section 5.5 ):
(i)
institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes
and to the Counterparties or under this Indenture with respect
thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment
obtained, and collect from the Issuing Entity and any other obligor
upon such Notes monies adjudged due;
(ii)
institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial
foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;
(iii)
exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any
other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and
remedies of the Indenture Trustee, the Counterparties and the
Holders of the Notes;
(iv)
sell the Trust Estate, or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law; and
(v)
make demand upon the Servicer, by written notice, that the Servicer
deliver to the Indenture Trustee all Receivable Files;
provided ,
however , that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or
otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event of Default,
other than an Event of Default described in
Section 5.1(i) or (ii) ,
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unless:
(A) all the Noteholders consent thereto, (B) the proceeds
of such sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders and
the Counterparties are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts
then due and unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest and
under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements for any Net Swap Payments
(including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments) and any Swap
Termination Payments or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines
that the Trust Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds
for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they
would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and
payable, and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Holders
of 66 2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes. In determining
such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clauses
(B) and (C) , the Indenture Trustee may, but need
not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment
banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of
the Trust Estate for such purpose. The Indenture Trustee
shall incur no liability as a result of the sale of the Trust
Estate or any part thereof at any sale pursuant to this
Section 5.4 conducted in a commercially reasonable
manner. Each of the Issuing Entity and Holders hereby waives
any claims against the Indenture Trustee arising by reason of the
fact that the price at which the Trust Estate may have been sold at
such sale was less than the price that might have been obtained,
even if the Indenture Trustee accepts the first offer received and
does not offer the Trust Estate to more than one offeree, so long
as such sale is conducted in a commercially reasonable
manner.
(b)
If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to
this Article V, it shall pay out such money or property in the
following order:
FIRST : to
pay the Backup Servicer its accrued and unpaid Backup Servicer
Fees;
SECOND : to
pay the Servicer its accrued and unpaid Servicing Fee;
THIRD : to
the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.7
and to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 8.1 of
the Trust Agreement;
FOURTH : to
the Administrator its accrued and unpaid Administration Fees;
FIFTH : to
the Note Distribution Account for distribution pursuant to
Section 8.2(e) to the extent of all amounts
payable under such Section, other than any amounts that would be
deposited into the Certificate Distribution Account under such
Section;
SIXTH :
first, to the Backup Servicer, to cover any accrued and unpaid
reimbursable expenses (including the Backup Servicer Expenses) to
the extent unreimbursed after application of
Section 4.12 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
second to the Servicer, to cover any accrued and unpaid
reimbursable expenses;
SEVENTH : to
the Trustee for amounts due to the Trustee under
Article VIII of the Trust Agreement to the extent not
paid under clause THIRD above; and
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EIGHTH : to
the Issuing Entity for distribution to the Certificateholders.
The
Indenture Trustee may fix a special record date and special payment
date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section.
At least 15 days before such special record date, the Issuing
Entity shall mail to each Noteholder, the Counterparties and the
Indenture Trustee a notice that states the special record date, the
special payment date and the amount to be paid.
SECTION 5.5.
Optional Preservation of the Receivables . If the
Notes have been declared to be due and payable under
Section 5.2 following an Event of Default, and such
declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and
annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to
maintain possession of the Trust Estate. It is the desire of
the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times
sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on
the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into
account when determining whether or not to maintain possession of
the Trust Estate. In determining whether to maintain
possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may, but need
not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment
banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of
the Trust Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.6.
Limitation of Suits . No Holder of any Note shall
have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise,
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(i)
such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(ii)
the Holder(s) of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount
of the Notes have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to
institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(iii)
such Holder(s) have offered to the Indenture Trustee indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to
be incurred in complying with such request;
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such
Proceeding; and
(v)
no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes;
it being
understood and intended that no one or more Holder(s) of Notes
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other Holder(s) of Notes or to
obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other
Holder(s) or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except
in the manner herein provided.
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In
the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of
Noteholders, each representing less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole
discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken,
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.7.
Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and
Interest . Notwithstanding any other provisions in
this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which
is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the respective
due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or,
in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such
right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.8.
Restoration of Rights and Remedies . If the
Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding
to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has
been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to such
Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuing Entity, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any
determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and
respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter
all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been
instituted.
SECTION 5.9.
Rights and Remedies Cumulative . No right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee
or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other
right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at
law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of
any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right
or remedy.
SECTION 5.10.
Delay or Omission Not a Waiver . No delay or
omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of Notes to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of
Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or
by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the
case may be.
SECTION 5.11.
Control by Noteholders . The Holders of not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall have
the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with
respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Indenture Trustee; provided , that:
(i)
such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
or with this Indenture;
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(ii)
subject to the express terms of Section 5.4 , any
direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust
Estate shall be by all the Noteholders;
(iii)
if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been
satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust
Estate pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the
Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than 100%
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or liquidate the
Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such
direction;
provided further ,
however , that, subject to Section 6.1 , the
Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might
involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the
rights of any Noteholder(s) not consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.12.
Waiver of Past Defaults . Prior to the time a
judgment or decree for payment of money due has been obtained as
described in Section 5.3 , the Holders of Notes of not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may
waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences
except a Default: (a) in payment of principal of or
interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant
or provision hereof that cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the Holder of each Note. In the case of any such
waiver, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders
of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease
to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred,
and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.13.
Undertaking for Costs . All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of
any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by
it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorney’s fees, against any party litigant in
such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions
of this Section shall not apply to: (a) any suit
instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted
by any Noteholder(s) holding in the aggregate more than 10% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted
by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal
of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates
expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
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SECTION 5.14.
Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . The Issuing
Entity covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner
whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or
extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and the Issuing Entity (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture
Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such
power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 5.15.
Action on Notes . The Indenture Trustee’s
right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this
Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or
application of any other relief under or with respect to this
Indenture. Neither the Lien of this Indenture nor any rights
or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be
impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee
against the Issuing Entity or by the levy of any execution under
such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any of
the assets of the Issuing Entity. Any money or property collected
by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with
Section 5.4(b) .
SECTION 5.16.
Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations
. (a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture
Trustee to do so and at the Administrator’s expense, the
Issuing Entity shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture
Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and
observance by the Seller and the Servicer, as applicable, of each
of their obligations to the Issuing Entity under or in connection
with the Sale and Servicing Agreement or to the Seller under or in
connection with the Purchase Agreement in accordance with the terms
thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and
privileges lawfully available to the Issuing Entity under or in
connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement (or the Seller
under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement) to the extent
and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the
transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller or the
Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative
actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the
Seller or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or the Purchase Agreement.
(b)
If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, and at the direction (which direction shall
be in writing) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall, exercise all rights,
remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuing Entity
against the Seller or the Servicer under or in connection with the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take
any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the
Seller or the Servicer of each of their obligations to the Issuing
Entity thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice,
direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuing Entity to take
such action shall be suspended.
(c)
If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, and at the direction (which direction shall
be in writing) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall, exercise all rights,
remedies,
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powers,
privileges and claims of the Seller against CNHCA under or in
connection with the Purchase Agreement, including the right or
power to take any action to compel or secure performance or
observance by CNHCA, of each of its obligations to the Seller
thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction,
approval, extension or waiver under the Purchase Agreement, and any
right of the Seller to take such action shall be
suspended.
ARTICLE VI
The Indenture Trustee
SECTION 6.1.
Duties of the Indenture Trustee . (a) If an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own
affairs.
(b)
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default actually known
to a Responsible Officer:
(i)
the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii)
in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; provided , however ,
in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the
Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the
certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform
to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c)
The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its
own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own
willful misconduct, except that:
(i)
this clause (c) does not limit the effect of clause
(b) of this Section;
(ii)
the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is
conclusively determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that
the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(iii)
the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a
direction received by it pursuant to the Indenture;
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of an
Event of Default or Servicer Default unless a Responsible Officer
obtains actual knowledge of such event or the Indenture Trustee
receives written notice of such event from the Seller,
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Servicer or Note Owners owning Notes
aggregating not less than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes; and
(v)
the Indenture Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the performance
of the Issuing Entity, the Trustee, the Seller or the Servicer, nor
shall it have any liability in connection with malfeasance or
nonfeasance by the Issuing Entity, the Trustee, the Seller or the
Servicer. The Indenture Trustee shall have no liability in
connection with compliance of the Issuing Entity, the Trustee, the
Seller or the Servicer with statutory or regulatory requirements
related to the Receivables. The Indenture Trustee shall not
make or be deemed to have made any representations or warranties
with respect to the Receivables or the validity or sufficiency of
any assignment of the Receivables to the Trust Estate or the
Indenture Trustee.
(d)
Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Indenture Trustee is subject to clauses (a), (b), (c)
and (g) .
(e)
The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing
with the Issuing Entity.
(f)
Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law, this
Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(g)
No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have
reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability
or expense is not reasonably assured to it.
(h)
Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture
Trustee shall be subject to this Section and the TIA.
SECTION 6.2.
Rights of Indenture Trustee . (a) The
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting on any document reasonably believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
Person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact
or matter stated in any such document.
(b)
Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of
Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the
Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c)
The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents, attorneys, a custodian or a nominee, and the
Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such
agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by
it.
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(d)
The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture
Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith.
(e)
The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or
opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this
Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization
and protection from liability in respect to any action taken,
omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance
with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f)
The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to make any initial or
periodic examination of any files or records related to the
Receivables for the purpose of establishing the presence or absence
of defects, the compliance by the Issuing Entity with its
representations and warranties or for any other purpose.
(g)
In the event that the Indenture Trustee is also acting as Paying
Agent or Note Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections
afforded to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Article VI shall also be afforded to the Indenture
Trustee in its capacity as such Paying Agent or Note Registrar.
SECTION 6.3.
Individual Rights of the Indenture Trustee . The
Indenture Trustee shall not, in its individual capacity, but may in
a fiduciary capacity, become the owner of Notes or otherwise extend
credit to the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee may
otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity or its Affiliates with the
same rights it would have if it were not the Indenture
Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or
co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the
Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and
6.12 .
SECTION 6.4.
Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer . The
Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for, and makes no
representation as to the validity or adequacy of, this Indenture or
the Notes; shall not be accountable for the Issuing Entity’s
use of the proceeds from the Notes; and shall not be responsible
for any statement of the Issuing Entity in this Indenture or in any
document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the
Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of
authentication.
SECTION 6.5.
Notice of Defaults . If a Default occurs and is
continuing and is known to a Responsible Officer, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail to the Counterparties and each Noteholder notice
of the Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the
case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any
Note (including payments pursuant to the mandatory redemption
provisions of such Note), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the
notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in
good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the
interests of Noteholders and the Counterparties.
SECTION 6.6.
Reports by Indenture Trustee to the Holders . The
Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder such information
as may be required to enable such Holder to prepare its federal,
State and other income tax returns. Within 60 days after
each
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December 31, starting with
December 31, 2008, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder a brief report as of such December 31 that complies
with TIA § 313(a) (if required by said
section).
SECTION 6.7.
Compensation and Indemnity . The Issuing Entity
shall, or shall cause the Servicer to, pay to the Indenture Trustee
from time to time reasonable compensation for its services as
agreed to between the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee in
writing. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not
be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express
trust. The Issuing Entity shall, or shall cause the Servicer
to, reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of
collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such
expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s agents,
counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuing Entity shall or
shall cause the Servicer to indemnify the Indenture Trustee and its
officers, directors, employees and agents against any and all loss,
liability or expense (including attorneys’ fees and expenses)
incurred by them in connection with the administration of this
trust and the performance of its duties hereunder. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuing Entity and the Servicer
promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.
Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuing Entity
and the Servicer shall not relieve the Issuing Entity or the
Servicer of its respective obligations hereunder. The Issuing
Entity shall, or shall cause the Servicer to, defend the claim and
the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuing
Entity shall, or shall cause the Servicer to, pay the reasonable
fees and expenses of such counsel. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained herein, neither the Issuing Entity nor
the Servicer need reimburse any expense or indemnify against any
loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee
through the Indenture Trustee’s own willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith.
The
Issuing Entity’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section shall survive the discharge of this
Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Indenture
Trustee. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the
occurrence of a Default specified in
Section 5.1(iv) or (v) , the expenses are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of
the United States Code or any other applicable federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
SECTION 6.8.
Replacement of the Indenture Trustee . No
resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment
of a successor Indenture Trustee shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.8 . The Indenture
Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuing Entity
in writing. The Holders of not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee by
so notifying the Indenture Trustee in writing and may appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity shall remove
the Indenture Trustee if:
(i)
the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11
;
(ii)
the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
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(iii)
a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture
Trustee or its property; or
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If
the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists
in the office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture
Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring
Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee.
A
successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of
its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the
Issuing Entity. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the
successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and
duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The
successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession
to the Counterparties and the Noteholders. The retiring Indenture
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as
Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.
If
a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the
retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity or the Holders of
not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Indenture Trustee.
If
the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11
, any Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Issuing
Entity’s and the Administrator’s obligations under
Section 6.7 shall continue for the benefit of the
retiring Indenture Trustee. The retiring Indenture Trustee
shall have no liability for any act or omission by any successor
Indenture Trustee other than itself, serving again as Indenture
Trustee.
SECTION 6.9.
Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger . If the
Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or
assets to, another corporation or banking association, the
resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further
act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies, the Counterparties and
the Issuing Entity prompt written notice of any such transaction
following the consummation thereof; provided, that such corporation
or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under Section 6.11 .
In
case at the time such successor(s) by merger, conversion or
consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts
created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the
Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of
any predecessor Indenture Trustee, and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may
authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
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predecessor
Indenture Trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor to the
Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates of
authentication shall have the full force and effect to the same
extent given to the certificate of authentication of the Indenture
Trustee anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture.
SECTION 6.10.
Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee .
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture,
at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of
any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate may at the
time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Person(s) to act as co-trustee(s), or separate trustee(s), of
all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person(s),
in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title
to the Trust Estate, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations,
rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary
or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder
shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders
of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required under Section 6.8 .
(b)
Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following
provisions and conditions:
(i)
all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and
exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate
trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such
separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately
without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the
extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act(s) are to be performed, the Indenture Trustee
shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act(s), in
which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including
the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion thereof in
any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by
such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of
the Indenture Trustee;
(ii)
no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii)
the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or
remove, in its sole discretion, any separate trustee or
co-trustee.
(c)
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate
trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of
them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions of this
Article VI . Each separate trustee and
co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be
vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of
appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or
separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting
the liability of, or affording
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protection to,
the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed
with the Indenture Trustee.
(d)
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the
Indenture Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power
and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any
lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and
in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die,
become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and
be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by
law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
(e)
The Indenture Trustee shall have no obligation to determine whether
a co-trustee or separate trustee is legally required in any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate may be
located.
SECTION 6.11.
Eligibility; Disqualification . The Indenture
Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA §
310(a) and, upon Issuing Entity Order,
Section 26(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended. The Indenture Trustee shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its
most recent published annual report of condition and it shall have
a long term senior, unsecured debt rating of “Baa3” or
better by Moody’s (or, if not rated by Moody’s, a
comparable rating by another statistical rating agency). The
Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b), including
the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA
§ 310(b)(9); provided , however , that there
shall be excluded from the operation of TIA §
310(b)(1) any indenture(s) under which other securities
of the Issuing Entity are outstanding if the requirements for such
exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are met.
If
a default occurs under this Indenture, and the Indenture Trustee is
deemed to have a conflicting interest as a result of acting as
trustee for both (1) the Class A Notes and (2) the
Class B Notes, a successor Indenture Trustee shall be
appointed for one or more of such Classes, so that there will be
separate Indenture Trustees for the Class A Notes and the
Class B Notes, respectively. No such event shall alter
the voting rights of the Class A Noteholders or the
Class B Noteholders under this Indenture or any other Basic
Document. However, so long as any amounts remain unpaid with
respect to the Class A Notes, only the Indenture Trustee for
the Class A Noteholders will have the right to exercise
remedies under this Indenture (but subject to the express
provisions of Section 5.4 and to the right of the
Class B Noteholders to receive their respective shares of any
proceeds of enforcement, subject to the subordination of the
Class B Notes to the Class A Notes as described
herein). Upon repayment of the Class A Notes in full,
but so long as any amounts remain unpaid with respect to the
Class B Notes, only the Indenture Trustee for the Class B
Noteholders will have the right to exercise remedies under this
Indenture (but subject to the express provisions of
Section 5.4 ).
In
the case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Indenture
Trustee with respect to any Class of Notes, the Issuing
Entity, the retiring Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture
Trustee with respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and
deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein the each successor
Indenture Trustee shall accept such appointment and which
(i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or
desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
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vest in, the
successor Indenture Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes
of the Class to which the appointment of such successor
Indenture Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Indenture
Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable
to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of each
Class as to which the retiring Indenture Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Indenture
Trustee, and (iii) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for
or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Indenture Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein
or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Indenture
Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Indenture
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate
and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any
other such Indenture Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery
of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the
retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective to the extent
provided therein.
SECTION 6.12.
Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuing
Entity . The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA
§ 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA
§ 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been
removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent
indicated.
SECTION 6.13.
Information to Be Provided by the Indenture Trustee
. At any time when the Issuing Entity’s reporting
obligations under Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act are not suspended, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the
Servicer promptly after the Indenture Trustee becomes aware of
(a) the initiation of any legal proceedings against the
Indenture Trustee, or of which any property of the Indenture
Trustee is subject, that are material to the Noteholders,
(b) any developments in any such proceedings that are material
to the Noteholders and (c) any such material proceedings that
are contemplated by any governmental authority against the
Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.14.
Representations and Warranties . The Indenture
Trustee hereby represents that:
(a)
the Indenture Trustee is duly organized and validly existing as a
national banking corporation in good standing under the laws of the
United States with power and authority to own its properties and to
conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and
such business is presently conducted;
(b)
the Indenture Trustee has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Indenture and to carry out its terms; and the
execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture have been
duly authorized by the Indenture Trustee by all necessary corporate
action;
(c)
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture
and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with,
result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default
under the articles of association or bylaws of the Indenture
Trustee or any material agreement or other instrument to which the
Indenture Trustee is a party or by which it is bound;
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(d)
to best of the Indenture Trustee’s knowledge, there are no
proceedings or investigations pending or threatened before any
court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Indenture Trustee or
its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Indenture, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Indenture or
(iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might
materially and adversely affect the performance by the Indenture
Trustee of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability
of, this Indenture; and
(e)
as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement, the Preliminary
Prospectus Date, the Prospectus Date and the Closing Date, there
are no legal proceedings pending against the Indenture Trustee, or
of which any property of the Indenture Trustee is subject, that are
material to the Noteholders, and no such legal proceedings are
known to the Indenture Trustee to be contemplated by any
governmental authority against the Indenture Trustee that are
material to the Noteholders.
ARTICLE VII
Noteholders’ Lists and Reports
SECTION 7.1.
Issuing Entity To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses
of Noteholders. The Issuing Entity will furnish or
cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee: (a) not
more than five days after the earlier of: (i) each
Record Date and (ii) three months after the last Record Date,
a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of
such Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the Indenture
Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the
Issuing Entity of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such
list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture
Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be
furnished.
SECTION 7.2.
Preservation of Information; Communications to
Noteholders . (a) The Indenture Trustee shall
preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the
names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most
recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in
Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders of
Notes received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note
Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to
it as provided in Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new
list so furnished.
(b)
Three or more Noteholders, or one or more Holder(s) of Notes
evidencing at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, may
communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other
Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or
under the Notes.
(c)
The Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar
shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).
SECTION 7.3.
Reports by Issuing Entity . (a) The Issuing
Entity shall:
(i)
file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuing
Entity is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of
the annual reports and of the information, documents and other
reports (or copies of such portions of any of the
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foregoing as the Commission may from time to
time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuing
Entity may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act;
(ii)
file with the Commission, in accordance with the rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to
compliance by the Issuing Entity with the conditions and covenants
of this Indenture (with a copy of any such filings being delivered
promptly to the Indenture Trustee); and
(iii)
supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA § 313(c))
such summaries of any information, documents and reports required
to be filed by the Issuing Entity pursuant to clauses
(i) and (ii) as may be required by the
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission.
(b)
Unless the Issuing Entity otherwise determines, the fiscal year of
the Issuing Entity shall end on December 31 of each year.
SECTION 7.4.
Required Filings . In no event shall the Indenture
Trustee or any agent of the Indenture Trustee be obligated or
responsible for preparing, executing, filing or delivering in
respect of the Trust Estate or on behalf of another person, either
(A) any report or filing required or permitted by the SEC to
be prepared, executed, filed or delivered by or in respect of the
Trust Estate or another person, or (B) any certification in
respect of any such report or filing; in either case, other than as
required expressly herein or in the other Basic Documents.
ARTICLE VIII
Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
SECTION 8.1.
Collection of Money . Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment
or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without
intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other
intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable
by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as
provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided
in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any
payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is
part of the Collateral and the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee
may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment
or performance, including the institution and prosecution of
appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without
prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under
this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in
Article V .
SECTION 8.2.
Trust Accounts . (a) On or prior to the
Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to
establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for
the benefit of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the
Counterparties, the Trust Accounts as provided in
Section 5.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b)
On or before each Payment Date, the Total Distribution Amount with
respect to the preceding Collection Period will be deposited in the
Collection Account as
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provided in
Section 5.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
On or before each Payment Date, the First Principal Payment Amount
and Noteholders’ Distributable Amount with respect to the
preceding Collection Period will be transferred to the Note
Distribution Account as provided in Sections 5.5 and
5.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(c)
On each Payment Date and Redemption Date prior to an Event of
Default and acceleration of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall
deposit or distribute all amounts on deposit in the Note
Distribution Account to the Noteholders and the Counterparties in
the following amounts and in the following order of priority:
(i)
to the Counterparties for any due and unpaid Net Swap Payments due
to them under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements (including interest
on any overdue Net Swap Payments), if any, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amount due
under each Interest Rate Swap Agreement as Net Swap Payments
(including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments);
(ii)
with the same priority and ratably in proportion to the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A Notes and the amounts due under
clause (y) of this Section 8.2(c)(ii) , to
(x) the Class A Noteholders, the Class Interest
Amount for each Class of Class A Notes; provided, that if
there are not sufficient funds in the Note Distribution Account to
pay the entire amount of accrued and unpaid interest then due on
such Notes, the amount in the Note Distribution Account shall be
applied to the payment of such interest on such Notes pro rata on
the basis of the total such interest due on such Notes, and
(y) the Counterparties, any Priority Swap Termination Payments
due to them under the Class A Swap Agreements, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due to each as Priority Swap Termination Payments under the
Class A Swap Agreements; provided, that if any money or
property remains after making the payments required by the
immediately preceding clause (x) or (y) , such
money or property shall be used to pay any remaining amounts due
and payable under this Section 8.2(c)(ii) before
any such money or property shall be distributed pursuant to
Sections 8.2(c)(iii) through (viii) ;
(iii)
to the Class A Noteholders, an amount equal to the First
Principal Payment Amount in the following order of priority:
(A)
to the A-1 Noteholders, until the Outstanding principal balance of
the A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;
(B)
to the A-2a Noteholders and the A-2b Noteholders, pro rata based
upon the Outstanding principal balances of the A-2a Notes and the
A-2b Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-2a
Notes and the A-2b Notes are reduced to zero;
(C)
to the A-3a Noteholders and the A-3b Noteholders, pro rata based
upon the Outstanding principal balances of the A-3a Notes and the
A-3b Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-3a
Notes and the A-3b Notes are reduced to zero;
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(D)
to the A-4a Noteholders and the A-4b Noteholders, pro rata based
upon the Outstanding principal balances of the A-4a Notes and the
A-4b Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-4a
Notes and the A-4b Notes are reduced to zero;
(iv)
to the Class B Noteholders, the Class Interest Amount for
the Class B Notes;
(v)
to the Class A Noteholders, for payment of principal, in the
following order of priority:
(A)
to the A-1 Noteholders, until the Outstanding principal balance of
the A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;
(B)
to the A-2a Noteholders and the A-2b Noteholders, pro rata based on
the Outstanding principal balances of the A-2a Notes and the A-2b
Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-2a Notes
and the A-2b Notes are reduced to zero;
(C)
to the A-3a Noteholders and the A-3b Noteholders, pro rata based on
the Outstanding principal balances of the A-3a Notes and the A-3b
Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-3a Notes
and the A-3b Notes are reduced to zero;
(D)
to the A-4a Noteholders and the A-4b Noteholders, pro rata based on
the Outstanding principal balances of the A-4a Notes and the A-4b
Notes, until the Outstanding principal balances of the A-4a Notes
and the A-4b Notes are reduced to zero;
(vi)
to the Class B Noteholders, for payment of principal, until
the Outstanding principal balance of the Class B Notes is
reduced to zero;
(vii)
to the Counterparties, any Swap Termination Payments due to them
under the Class A Swap Agreements to the extent not paid
pursuant to clause (ii) above, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due to
each as Class A Swap Termination Payments under the
Class A Swap Agreements; and
(viii)
thereafter, any excess shall be deposited in the Certificate
Distribution Account.
(d)
On the A-1 Note Final Scheduled Maturity Date, the Indenture
Trustee shall distribute to the Class A-1 Noteholders, from
the amount available in the Note Distribution Account, an amount
equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate accrued and unpaid
interest on the Class A-1 Notes as of the A-1 Note Final
Scheduled Maturity Date, and (ii) the amount necessary to
reduce the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes
to zero.
(e)
On each Payment Date and Redemption Date, after an Event of Default
and acceleration of the Notes (and, if any Notes remain outstanding
after the Final Scheduled
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Maturity
Date), the Indenture Trustee shall distribute all amounts on
deposit in the Note Distribution Account to the Noteholders and the
Counterparties in the following amounts and in the following order
of priority:
(i)
to the Counterparties for any due and unpaid Net Swap Payments due
to them under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements (including interest
on any overdue Net Swap Payments), if any, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amount due
under each Interest Rate Swap Agreement as Net Swap Payments
(including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments);
(ii)
with the same priority and ratably in proportion to the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A Notes and the amounts due under
clause (y) of this Section 8.2(e)(ii) , to
(x) Class A Noteholders, the Class Interest Amount
for each Class of Class A Notes; provided , that if
there are not sufficient funds in the Note Distribution Account to
pay the entire amount of accrued and unpaid interest then due on
such Notes, the amount in the Note Distribution Account shall be
applied to the payment of such interest on such Notes pro rata on
the basis of the total such interest due on such Notes and
(y) the Counterparties, any Priority Swap Termination Payments
due to them under the Class A Swap Agreements, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due to each as Priority Swap Termination Payments under the
Class A Swap Agreements; provided, that if any money or
property remains after making the payments required by the
immediately preceding clause (x) , such money or property
shall be used to pay any remaining Priority Swap Termination
Payments due and payable under the Class A Swap Agreements
before any such money or property shall be distributed pursuant to
Sections 8.2(e)(iii) through (vii) ;
(iii)
to the Class A Noteholders, for payment of principal, ratably,
according to the amounts due and payable on each Class of
Class A Notes for principal, without preference or priority of
any kind, until the Outstanding principal balance of each
Class of Class A Notes has been reduced to zero;
(iv)
to the Class B Noteholders, the Class Interest Amount for
the Class B Notes;
(v)
to the Class B Noteholders, for payment of principal, until
the Outstanding principal balance of the Class B Notes is
reduced to zero;
(vi)
to the Counterparties, any Swap Termination Payments due to them
under the Class A Swap Agreements to the extent not paid
pursuant to clause (ii) above, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due to
each as Class A Swap Termination Payments under the
Class A Swap Agreements; and
(vii)
thereafter, any excess shall be deposited in the Certificate
Distribution Account.
SECTION 8.3.
General Provisions Regarding Accounts . (a)
So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Trust Accounts
shall be invested in Eligible Investments and reinvested by the
Indenture
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Trustee upon
Issuing Entity Order, subject to the provisions of
Section 5.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. All income or other gain from investments of
monies deposited in the Trust Accounts shall be deposited by the
Indenture Trustee in the Collection Account, and any loss or
expenses resulting from such investments shall be charged to such
account. The Issuing Entity will not direct the Indenture
Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any
investment held in any of the Trust Accounts unless the security
interest granted and perfected in such account will continue to be
perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in
either case without any further action by any Person, and, in
connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any
such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the
Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to such effect.
(b)
Subject to Section 6.1(c) , the Indenture Trustee shall
not in any way be held liable for the selection of Eligible
Investments or by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust
Accounts resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment
included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture
Trustee’s failure to make payments on such Eligible
Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial
capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance
with their terms; provided, however, that the limitation to the
Indenture Trustee’s liability does not extend to any actions
constituting willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(c)
If (i) the Issuing Entity shall have failed to give investment
directions for any funds on deposit in the Trust Accounts to the
Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) (or such
other time as may be agreed by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture
Trustee) on any Business Day; or (ii) a Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the
Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable
pursuant to Section 5.2 , or, if such Notes shall have
been declared due and payable following an Event of Default, but
amounts collected or receivable from the Trust Estate are being
applied in accordance with Section 5.4(b) as if
there had not been such a declaration; then the Indenture Trustee
shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds
in the Trust Accounts in the Eligible Investments identified in
clause (d) of the definition of Eligible
Investments.
SECTION 8.4.
Release of Trust Estate . (a) Subject to the
payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to
Section 6.7 , the Indenture Trustee may, and when
required by this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release
property from the Lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture
Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under
circumstances that are not inconsistent with this Indenture.
No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture
Trustee as provided in this Article shall be bound to
ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the
satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application
of any monies.
(b)
The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes
Outstanding and all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.7 and the Counterparties under the Interest
Rate Swap Agreements have been paid, release any remaining portion
of the Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the Lien of this
Indenture and release to the Issuing Entity or any other Person
entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Trust
Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from
the Lien of this Indenture pursuant to this paragraph only upon
receipt of an Issuing Entity Request accompanied by an
Officer’s
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Certificate,
an Opinion of Counsel, and (if required by the TIA) Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA §§ 314(c) and
314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of
Section 11.1 or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such
Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does not
require any such Independent Certificates.
SECTION 8.5.
Opinion of Counsel . The Indenture Trustee shall
receive at least seven days’ notice when requested by the
Issuing Entity to take any action pursuant to
Section 8.4(a) , accompanied by copies of any
instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require,
as a condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel stating the
legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to
complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to
the taking of such action have been complied with and such action
will not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes
or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of this
Indenture; provided , however , that such Opinion of
Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair
value of the Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such opinion
may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and
validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the
Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any such Opinion
of Counsel shall include each Counterparty as an addressee
thereof.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.1.
Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Noteholders .
(a)
Without the consent of the Holders of Notes but with prior written
notice to the Rating Agencies, the Issuing Entity, the
Counterparties and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuing Entity Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall
conform to the TIA as in force at the date of the execution
thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of
the following purposes:
(i)
to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the Lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey
and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or
required to be subjected to the Lien of this Indenture, or to
subject to the Lien of this Indenture additional property;
(ii)
to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable
provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuing Entity, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuing
Entity herein and in the Notes;
(iii)
to add to the covenants of the Issuing Entity, for the benefit of
the Holders of Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Issuing Entity;
(iv)
to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or
with the Indenture Trustee;
(v)
to replace the Spread Account with another form of credit
enhancement; provided , the Rating Agency Condition is
satisfied;
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(vi)
to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent
with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or
to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture;
provided, that such action shall not materially adversely affect
the interests of the Holders of Notes;
(vii)
to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment
hereunder by a successor or additional trustee with respect to the
Notes or any class thereof and to add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate
the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or
(viii)
to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of
this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute
hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other
provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA.
The
Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such
supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations that may be therein
contained.
(b)
The Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an
Issuing Entity Order, may, without the consent of any of the
Holders of Notes but with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies and the Counterparties, enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto to cure any ambiguity, to correct or
supplement any provisions in this Indenture or for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of Notes under this Indenture;
provided , however , that such action shall not, as
evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate of the Seller,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Noteholder. A supplemental indenture shall be deemed not to
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Class of Notes if the Rating Agency Condition has been
satisfied with respect to such supplemental indenture for such
Class of Notes.
(c)
With respect to any amendment pursuant to this
Section 9.1 , if any amendment or supplement would
either: (1) materially and adversely affect any of the
Counterparties’ rights or obligations under an Interest Rate
Swap Agreement or any other Basic Document; or (b) materially
and adversely modify the obligations of, or materially and
adversely impact the ability of, the Trust to fully perform any of
the Trust’s obligations under an Interest Rate Swap
Agreement, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee shall be required to
first obtain the written consent of the applicable Counterparties
to the affected Interest Rate Swap Agreements before entering into
any such amendment or supplement (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld).
SECTION 9.2.
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders
. The Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when
authorized by an Issuing Entity Order, may, with prior written
notice to the Rating Agencies and the Counterparties and with the
consent of the Holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by
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Act of such
Holders delivered to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee,
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying
in any manner the rights of the Holders of Notes under this
Indenture; provided , however , that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Note affected thereby:
(i)
delay the Class Final Scheduled Maturity Date of any Note, or
reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or
the Redemption Price with respect thereto or change any place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the
interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit
for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring
the application of funds available therefor, as provided in
Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on or after
the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date);
(ii)
reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount, the consent of the
Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture,
or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver
of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this
Indenture;
(iii)
modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of
“ Outstanding ”;
(iv)
reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount required to direct
the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuing Entity to sell or
liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4
;
(v)
modify any provision of this Section except to increase any
percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional
provisions of this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be
modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby;
(vi)
modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to
affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or
principal due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the
calculation of any of the individual components of such
calculation) or to affect the rights of the Holders of Notes to the
benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption of the Notes
contained herein; or
(vii)
permit the creation of any Lien ranking prior to or on a parity
with the Lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the
Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated
herein, terminate the Lien of this Indenture on any property at any
time subject hereto or deprive any Holder of Notes of the security
provided by the Lien of this Indenture.
It
shall not be necessary for any Act of the Noteholders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining
such consents (and any other
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consents of
Noteholders provided for in this Indenture or in any other Basic
Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution
thereof by Noteholders shall be subject to such reasonable
requirements as the Indenture Trustee may provide.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuing
Entity and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the
Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental
indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the
substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the
Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall
not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such
supplemental indenture.
With respect to any amendment pursuant to this
Section 9.2 , if any amendment or supplement would
either: (1) materially and adversely affect any of the
Counterparties’ rights or obligations under an Interest Rate
Swap Agreement or any other Basic Document; or (b) materially
and adversely modify the obligations of, or materially and
adversely impact the ability of, the Trust to fully perform any of
the Trust’s obligations under an Interest Rate Swap
Agreement, the Administrator shall be required to first obtain the
written consent of the applicable Counterparties to the affected
Interest Rate Swap Agreements before entering into any such
amendment or supplement (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld).
SECTION 9.3.
Execution of Supplemental Indentures . In
executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or
the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture,
the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and, subject to
Sections 6.1 and 6.2 , shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of
such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that
affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.4.
Effect of Supplemental Indenture . Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions
hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and
amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected
thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights,
obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this
Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the
Holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications
and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all
purposes.
SECTION 9.5.
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . Every
amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to
the requirements of the TIA as then in effect so long as this
Indenture shall then be qualified under the TIA.
SECTION 9.6.
Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures .
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and if
required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form
approved by
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the Indenture
Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee
shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity, to any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Issuing Entity and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
SECTION 9.7.
Amendment without Consent . Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary (other than as provided in
Section 9.1(c) and Section 9.2 ), any
term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by the Issuing
Entity and the Indenture Trustee without the consent of the
Noteholders or any other Person to add, modify or eliminate any
provisions as may be necessary or advisable in order to comply with
or obtain more favorable treatment under or with respect to any law
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