EXHIBIT 4.1
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2008-2
Class A-1 2.78345% Asset Backed Notes
Class A-2a 3.74% Asset Backed Notes
Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes
Class A-3a 4.68% Asset Backed Notes
Class A-3b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes
Class A-4 5.42% Asset Backed Notes
Class B 6.46% Asset Backed Notes
Class C 7.96% Asset Backed Notes
Class D 8.25% Asset Backed Notes
INDENTURE
Dated as of May 14, 2008
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Indenture Trustee
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE
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SECTION 1.1 Definitions
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SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust
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ARTICLE II THE NOTES
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SECTION 2.1 Form
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SECTION 2.2 Execution, Authentication and
Delivery
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SECTION 2.3 Temporary Notes
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SECTION 2.4 Registration of Notes; Registration of
Transfer and Exchange of Notes
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SECTION 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Notes
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SECTION 2.6 Persons Deemed Noteholders
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SECTION 2.7 Payment of Principal and
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SECTION 2.8 Cancellation of Notes
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SECTION 2.9 Release of Collateral
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SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes
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SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing Agency
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SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes
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SECTION 2.13 Depositor as Noteholder
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SECTION 2.14 Tax Treatment
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SECTION 2.15 Special Terms Applicable to the Private
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ARTICLE III COVENANTS
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SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and
Interest
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SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of Agency
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SECTION 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in
Trust
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SECTION 3.4 Existence
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SECTION 3.5 Protection of Trust Estate;
Acknowledgment of Pledge
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SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate
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SECTION 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of
Receivables
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SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants
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SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to
Compliance
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SECTION 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of Issuing
Entity; Disposition of Trust Assets
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SECTION 3.11 Successor or Transferee
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SECTION 3.12 No Other Business
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SECTION 3.13 No Borrowing
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SECTION 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities
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SECTION 3.15 Servicer’s
Obligations
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SECTION 3.16 Capital Expenditures
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SECTION 3.17 Removal of Administrator
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SECTION 3.18 Restricted Payments
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SECTION 3.19 Notice of Events of Default
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SECTION 3.20 Further Instruments and
Acts
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SECTION 3.21 Indenture Trustee’s Assignment of
Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables
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SECTION 3.22 Representations and Warranties by the
Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee
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ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
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SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money
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SECTION 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying
Agent
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SECTION 4.4 Duration of Position of Indenture
Trustee
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ARTICLE V DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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SECTION 5.1 Events of Default
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SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment
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SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 5.4 Remedies; Priorities
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SECTION 5.5 Optional Preservation of the
Receivables
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SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits
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SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To
Receive Principal and Interest
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SECTION 5.8 Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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SECTION 5.9 Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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SECTION 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a
Waiver
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SECTION 5.11 Control by Noteholders
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SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults
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SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs
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SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension
Laws
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SECTION 5.15 Action on Notes
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SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations
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ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE
TRUSTEE
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SECTION 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 6.3 Indenture Trustee May Own
Notes
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SECTION 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults
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SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture
Trustee
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SECTION 6.7 Compensation; Indemnity
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SECTION 6.8 Replacement of Indenture
Trustee
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SECTION 6.9 Merger or Consolidation of Indenture
Trustee
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SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or
Separate Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 6.11 Eligibility;
Disqualification
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SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Issuing Entity
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SECTION 6.13 Representations and Warranties of
Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 6.14 Indenture Trustee May Enforce Claims
Without Possession of Notes
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SECTION 6.15 Suit for Enforcement
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SECTION 6.16 Rights of Noteholders to Direct
Indenture Trustee
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ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND
REPORTS
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SECTION 7.1 Issuing Entity To Furnish Indenture
Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders
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SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information,
Communications to Noteholders
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SECTION 7.3 Reports by Issuing Entity
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SECTION 7.4 Reports by Trustee
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ARTICLE VIII ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND
RELEASES
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SECTION 8.1 Collection of Money
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SECTION 8.2 Designated Accounts;
Payments
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SECTION 8.3 General Provisions Regarding
Accounts
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SECTION 8.4 Release of Trust Estate
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SECTION 8.5 Opinion of Counsel
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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES
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SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Noteholders
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SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Noteholders
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SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental
Indenture
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SECTION 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture
Act
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SECTION 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental
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ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF
NOTES
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SECTION 10.1 Redemption
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SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice
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SECTION 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption
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ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions,
etc
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SECTION 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture
Trustee
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SECTION 11.3 Acts of Noteholders
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SECTION 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee,
Issuing Entity and Rating Agencies
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SECTION 11.5 Notices to Noteholders;
Waiver
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SECTION 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice
Provisions
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SECTION 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture
Act
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SECTION 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents
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SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 11.10 Severability
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SECTION 11.11 Benefits of Indenture
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SECTION 11.12 Legal Holidays
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SECTION 11.13 Governing Law
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SECTION 11.14 Counterparts
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SECTION 11.15 Recording of Indenture
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SECTION 11.16 No Recourse
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SECTION 11.17 No Petition
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SECTION 11.18 Inspection
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SECTION 11.19 Indemnification by and Reimbursement of
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EXHIBIT A
LOCATIONS OF SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES
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EXHIBIT B FORM OF
NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT FOR THE NOTES
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EXHIBIT C-1 FORM
OF CLASS A-1 FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES, RULE 144A
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EXHIBIT C-2 FORM
OF CLASS A-1 FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES, REGULATION S
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EXHIBIT C-3 FORM
OF TEMPORARY CLASS A-1 FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES, REGULATION
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EXHIBIT C-4 FORM
OF CLASS A-2A, CLASS A-3A AND CLASS A-4 FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED
NOTES
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EXHIBIT C-5 FORM
OF CLASS A-2B AND CLASS A-3B FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES
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EXHIBIT C-6 FORM
OF CLASS B AND CLASS C FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES, RULE
144A
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EXHIBIT C-7 FORM
OF CLASS B AND CLASS C FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES, REGULATION
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EXHIBIT C-8 FORM
OF TEMPORARY CLASS B AND CLASS C FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES,
REGULATION S
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EXHIBIT C-9 FORM
OF CLASS D FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES
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EXHIBIT D FORM OF
CLEARING SYSTEM CERTIFICATE
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EXHIBIT E FORM OF
CERTIFICATION
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INDENTURE,
dated as of May 14, 2008, between CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES
ASSET TRUST 2008-2, a Delaware statutory trust (the “
Issuing Entity ”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST
COMPANY, N.A., a national banking association organized under the
laws of the United States of America, as trustee and not in its
individual capacity (the “ Indenture Trustee
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Each
party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for
the equal and ratable benefit of the Secured Parties (only to the
extent expressly provided herein):
GRANTING CLAUSE
The
Issuing Entity hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the
Closing Date, as trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties
(only to the extent expressly provided herein):
(a) all
right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under
the Receivables listed on the Schedule of Receivables and all
monies received thereon on and after the Cutoff Date, exclusive of
any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral
protection insurance required by the Servicer of the Receivables,
covering any related Financed Vehicle;
(b) the
interest of the Issuing Entity in the security interests in the
Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables
and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;
(c) the
interest of the Issuing Entity in any proceeds from claims on any
physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance
policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors;
(d) the
interest of the Issuing Entity in any proceeds from recourse
against Dealers on the Receivables;
(e) all
right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under
the First Step Receivables Assignment;
(f) all
right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under
the Second Step Receivables Assignment;
(g) all
right, title and interest in the Reserve Account Property and all
other funds on deposit from time to time in the Collection Account
and the Note Distribution Account;
(h) all
right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under
the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and any other Further
Transfer and Servicing Agreements, including all rights of the
“Depositor” under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement
and the Custodian Agreement assigned to the Issuing Entity pursuant
to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(i) all
right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under
any Third Party Instrument; and
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(j) 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 the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion
of any or all of the foregoing, 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, investment property, payment
intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to
payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and
receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of
the foregoing (collectively, the “ Collateral
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The
foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the Secured Obligations,
equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and
to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as
provided in this Indenture. This Indenture constitutes a security
agreement under the UCC.
The
foregoing Grant includes all rights, powers and options (but none
of the obligations, if any) of the Issuing Entity under any
agreement or instrument included in the Collateral, including the
immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and
give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the
Receivables included in the Collateral and all other monies payable
under the Collateral, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise
all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the
Issuing Entity or otherwise and generally to do and receive
anything that the Issuing Entity is or may be entitled to do or
receive under or with respect to the Collateral.
The
Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties and
(only to the extent expressly provided herein) the
Certificateholders, acknowledges such Grant and accepts the trusts
under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Definitions .
Certain capitalized terms used in this Indenture shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of
Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof (as amended from time to time, the
“ Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement ”), among
the Issuing Entity, Capital Auto Receivables LLC and GMAC LLC. All
references in this Indenture to Articles, Sections, subsections and
Exhibits are to the same contained in or attached to this Indenture
unless otherwise specified. All terms defined in this Indenture
shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate,
notice, Note or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto
unless otherwise defined therein. The rules of construction set
forth in Part II of Appendix A to the Trust
Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be applicable to this
Indenture.
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SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by
Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture
refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is incorporated by
reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA
terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
“ Commission ” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ indenture securities ” means
the Notes.
“ indenture security holder ”
means a Noteholder.
“ indenture to be qualified ”
means this Indenture.
“ indenture trustee ” means
the Indenture Trustee.
“ obligor ” on the indenture
securities means the Issuing Entity and any other obligor on the
indenture securities.
All
other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by reference to another statute or defined by a Commission
rule have the respective meanings assigned to them by such
definitions.
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1 Form .
(a) Each
of the Class A-1 Notes, together, with the Indenture
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-1 ,
Exhibit C-2 or Exhibit C-3 , as applicable, each
of the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-3a Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes, together, in each case, with the Indenture
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-4 ,
each of the Class A-2b Notes and the Class A-3b Notes,
together, in each case, with the Indenture Trustee’s
certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit C-5 , each of the Class B
Notes and the Class C Notes together, in each case, with the
Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-6 ,
Exhibit C-7 or Exhibit C-8 , as applicable,
and the Class D Notes, together, in each case, with the
Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-9 , in
each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are permitted or required by
this Indenture and each such Note may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements
placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of
the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on
the reverse thereof with an appropriate reference thereto on the
face of the Note.
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(b) 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.
(c) The
terms of each class of Notes as provided for in Exhibits C-1
, C-2 , C-3 , C-4 , C-5 , C-6 ,
C-7 , C-8 and C-9 hereto are part of the terms
of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.2 Execution,
Authentication and Delivery .
(a) Each
Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall be
issuable as a registered Note in the minimum denomination of $1,000
and in integral multiples thereof (except, if applicable, for one
Note representing a residual portion of each class which may be
issued in a different denomination).
(b) 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.
(c) Notes
bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were
at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuing Entity shall bind
the Issuing Entity, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them have ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication
and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date
of such Notes.
(d) The
Indenture Trustee, in exchange for the Grant of the Receivables and
the other components of the Trust Estate, simultaneously with the
Grant to the Indenture Trustee of the Receivables and the
constructive delivery to the Indenture Trustee of the Receivables
Files and the other assets and components of the Trust Estate,
shall cause to be authenticated and delivered to or upon the order
of the Issuing Entity Notes for original issue in the aggregate
principal amount of $1,575,111,000 comprised of
(i) Class A-1 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$285,000,000 (ii) Class A-2 Notes in the aggregate
principal amount of $500,000,000, (iii) Class A-3 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $520,000,000,
(iv) Class A-4 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$187,002,000, (v) Class B Notes in the aggregate
principal amount of $51,448,000, (vi) Class C Notes in
the aggregate principal amount of $23,746,000 and
(vii) Class D Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$7,915,000. The aggregate principal amount of all Notes outstanding
at any time may not exceed $1,575,111,000, except as provided in
Section 2.5 .
(e) 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 set
forth in Exhibit C-1 , C-2 , C-3 ,
C-4 , C-5 , C-6 , C-7 , C-8 or
C-9 , as applicable, executed by the Indenture Trustee by
the manual signature of one of its Authorized Officers; such
certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
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SECTION 2.3 Temporary Notes
.
(a) Pending
the preparation of Definitive Notes, if any, the Issuing Entity may
execute, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, such Temporary Notes which
are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which
they are issued and with such variations as are consistent with the
terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
(b) If
Temporary Notes are issued, the Issuing Entity shall 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 Agency Office of the Issuing Entity to be maintained
as provided in Section 3.2 , without charge to the
Noteholder. 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 delivered in exchange, the Temporary Notes shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.4 Registration of Notes;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes .
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept the Note Register, comprising
separate registers for each class of Notes, in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as the Issuing Entity may prescribe,
the Issuing Entity shall provide for the registration of the Notes
and the registration of transfers and exchanges of the Notes. The
Indenture Trustee shall initially be the Note Registrar for the
purpose of registering the Notes and transfers of the Notes as
herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the
Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a successor Note Registrar
or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties
of the Note Registrar.
(b) If
a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Issuing Entity as Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity will give the
Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such
Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location,
of the Note Register. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to
inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain
copies thereof. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely
upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an
Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the
Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such
Notes.
(c) Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate
Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the
Issuing Entity (and following the delivery, in the former case, of
such Notes to the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee), 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.
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(d) At
the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other
Notes of the same class in any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount; and upon surrender of such Notes to be
exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or
the Agency Office of the Issuing Entity (and following the
delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the Issuing Entity
by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall execute, and
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall
obtain from the Indenture Trustee, such Notes which the Noteholder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(e) All
Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of other
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.
(f) Every
Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof
or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with
such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company
located, or having a correspondent located, in the City of New York
or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture
Trustee is located, or by a member firm of a national securities
exchange, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may
require.
(g) No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity or Indenture
Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with
any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 2.3 or 9.6 not
involving any transfer.
(h) By
acquiring a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C
Note, each purchaser and transferee shall be deemed to represent
and warrant that either (i) it is not acquiring the Note with
the plan assets of a Benefit Plan or other plan that is subject to
any law that is substantially similar to ERISA or Section 4975
of the Code or (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Note
will not give rise to a non-exempt prohibited transaction under
Section 406(a) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a
violation of any substantially similar applicable law.
(i) The
preceding provisions of this Section 2.4
notwithstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not be required to
transfer or make exchanges, and the Note Registrar need not
register transfers or exchanges, of Notes that (i) have been
selected for redemption pursuant to Article X , if
applicable, or (ii) are due for repayment within fifteen
(15) days of submission to the Corporate Trust Office or the
Agency Office.
SECTION 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed,
Lost or Stolen Notes .
(a) 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
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by it to
hold the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then,
in the absence of notice to the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar
or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a
protected purchaser, the Issuing Entity shall execute and upon the
Issuing Entity’s 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 a
like class and aggregate principal amount; provided ,
however , that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note,
but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven
(7) days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called
for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuing
Entity may make payment to the Holder of such destroyed, lost or
stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date, if
applicable, without surrender thereof.
(b) If,
after the delivery of a replacement Note or payment in respect of a
destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to subsection (a) ,
a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such
replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original
Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from
(i) any Person to whom it was delivered, (ii) the Person
taking such replacement Note from the Person to whom such
replacement Note was delivered; or (iii) any assignee of such
Person, except a protected purchaser, and the Issuing Entity and
the Indenture Trustee 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.
(c) In
connection with the issuance of any replacement Note under this
Section 2.5 , 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 all fees and
expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
(d) Any
duplicate Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.5 in
replacement for 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 found at any time or be enforced by any
Person, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly
issued hereunder.
(e) The
provisions of this Section 2.5 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
Noteholders . 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 Noteholder for the purpose of receiving
payments of principal of and interest 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.
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SECTION 2.7 Payment of Principal
and Interest .
(a) Interest
on each class of Notes shall accrue in the manner set forth in
Exhibit C-1 , C-2 , C-3 , C-4 ,
C-5 , C-6 , C-7 , C-8 or C-9 ,
as applicable for such class, at the applicable Interest Rate for
such class and will be due and payable on each Distribution Date in
accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 8.2(c) . Any installment of interest payable on
any Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit
by or at the direction of the Issuing Entity into the Note
Distribution Account on the applicable Distribution Date and shall
be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable 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;
provided , however , that, unless and until
Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to
Section 2.12 , with respect to Notes registered on the
applicable Record Date in the name of the Note Depository
(initially, Cede & Co.), payment shall be made by wire transfer
in immediately available funds to the account designated by the
Note Depository; provided , further , that with
respect to any Private Notes (other than Private Notes registered
on the applicable Record Date in the name of the Note Depository),
upon written request of the Holder thereof, payment shall be made
by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account
designated by such Holder until further written notice from such
Holder.
(b) Prior
to the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration in
accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have
become immediately due and payable, the principal of each class of
Notes shall be payable in full on the Final Scheduled Distribution
Date for such class and, to the extent of funds available therefor,
in installments on the Distribution Dates (if any) preceding the
Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such class, in the amounts
and in accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 8.2(c)(ii) or 8.2(c)(iii) , as
applicable. All principal payments on each class of Notes on any
Distribution Date shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such
class entitled thereto. Any instalment of principal payable on any
Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by
or at the direction of the Issuing Entity into the Note
Distribution Account on the applicable Distribution Date and shall
be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable 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;
provided , however , that, (A) unless and until
Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to
Section 2.12 , with respect to Notes registered on the
Record Date in the name of the Note Depository, payment shall be
made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by the Note Depository and (B) with respect to any
Private Notes (other than Private Notes registered on the
applicable Record Date in the name of the Note Depository), upon
written request of the Holder thereof, payment shall be made by
wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account
designated by such Holder until further written notice from such
Holder, except for, in each case: (i) the final instalment of
principal on any Note; and (ii) the Redemption Price for the
Notes redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1 , which, in
each case, shall be payable as provided herein. The funds
represented by any such checks in respect of interest or principal
returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with
Section 3.3 .
(c) From
and after the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration
in accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have
become immediately due and payable, until
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such
time as all Events of Default have been cured or waived as provided
in Section 5.2(b) , all interest and principal payments
shall be allocated:
(i) first,
for payment of interest pro rata on the Class A Notes, the
Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount;
(ii) second,
an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class A
Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal
Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution
Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution
Date) for payment of principal on the Class A Notes,
sequentially by Class, as follows:
(A)
to the Class A-1 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the
Class A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;
(B)
to the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes, ratably
in accordance with the Note Principal Balance of the
Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes, until the
Outstanding Amounts of the Class A-2a Notes and
Class A-2b Notes are reduced to zero;
(C)
to the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes, ratably
in accordance with the Note Principal Balance of the
Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes, until the
Outstanding Amounts of the Class A-3a Notes and
Class A-3b Notes are reduced to zero;
(D)
to the Class A-4 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the
Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;
(iii) third,
an amount equal to the Aggregate Class B Interest
Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class B
Notes;
(iv) fourth,
an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class B
Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal
Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution
Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution
Date) for payment of principal on the Class B Notes;
(v) fifth,
an amount equal to the Aggregate Class C Interest
Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class C
Notes;
(vi) sixth,
an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class C
Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal
Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution
Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution
Date) for payment of principal on the Class C Notes;
(vii) seventh,
an amount equal to the Aggregate Class D Interest
Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class D
Notes; and
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(viii) eighth,
an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class D
Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal
Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution
Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution
Date) for payment of principal on the Class D Notes.
(d) With
respect to any Distribution Date on which the final instalment of
principal and interest on a class of Notes is to be paid, the
Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity shall notify each
Noteholder of record of such class as of the Record Date for such
Distribution Date of the fact that the final instalment of
principal of and interest on such Note is to be paid on such
Distribution Date. With respect to any such class of Notes, such
notice shall be sent (i) on such Record Date by facsimile, if
Book-Entry Notes are outstanding; or (ii) not later than three
(3) Business Days after such Record Date in accordance with
Section 11.5(a) if Definitive Notes are outstanding,
and shall specify that such final instalment shall 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 instalment and the manner in which such payment shall be
made. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be
mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2 .
Within sixty (60) days of the surrender pursuant to this
Section 2.7(d) or cancellation pursuant to
Section 2.8 of all of the Notes of a particular class,
the Indenture Trustee if requested shall provide each of the Rating
Agencies with written notice stating that all Notes of such class
have been surrendered or canceled.
SECTION 2.8 Cancellation of
Notes . All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, exchange
or registration of transfer 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 which 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 2.8 , 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 destroyed or
returned to it; provided , however , that such
Issuing Entity Order is timely and the Notes have not been
previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee shall certify to the Issuing Entity upon request that
surrendered Notes have been duly canceled and retained or
destroyed, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.9 Release of
Collateral . The Indenture Trustee shall not release property
from the Lien of this Indenture other than as permitted by
Sections 3.21 , 8.2 , 8.4 and 11.1
, and then only upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Request
accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel (to the extent required by the TIA) and Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA §§314(c) and
314(d)(1).
SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes
. Except as set forth in Section 2.15 with respect to
the Retained Notes, the Notes, upon original issuance, shall be
issued in the form of a typewritten Note or Notes representing the
Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company,
as the initial Clearing Agency, or its custodian, by or on behalf
of the Issuing
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Entity.
Such Note or Notes shall be registered on the Note Register in the
name of the Note Depository, and no Note Owner shall receive a
Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in
such Note, except as provided in Section 2.12 . Unless
and until the Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners
pursuant to Section 2.12 :
(a) the
provisions of this Section 2.10 shall be in full force
and effect;
(b) the
Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal
with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture
(including the payment of principal of and interest on such Notes
and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole
Holder of such Notes and shall have no obligation to the Note
Owners;
(c) to
the extent that the provisions of this Section 2.10
conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the
provisions of this Section 2.10 shall control;
(d) the
rights of the 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. Unless and until
Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.12 ,
the initial Clearing Agency shall make book-entry transfers between
the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments
of principal of and interest on such Notes to such Clearing Agency
Participants, pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement; and
(e) 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 Controlling
Class, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such
percentage only to the extent that it has (i) 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; and
(ii) delivered such instructions to the Indenture
Trustee.
SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing
Agency . Whenever a notice or other communication to the
Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until
Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.12 , the Indenture Trustee shall give all
such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Noteholders to the Clearing Agency and shall have no other
obligation to the Note Owners.
SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes
. If (i) the Administrator advises the Indenture Trustee in
writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to
properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Notes
and the Issuing Entity is unable to locate a qualified successor;
(ii) the Administrator, at its option, advises the Indenture
Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency; or (iii) after the
occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Note
Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class advise
the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the
best interests of the Note Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall
notify all Note Owners and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence
of any such event and
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of the
availability of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten
Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing
Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuing
Entity shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. None of the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar or
the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of
such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of
Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Holders
of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
SECTION 2.13 Depositor as
Noteholder . The Depositor in its individual or any other
capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes of any class and
may otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity or its affiliates with
the same rights it would have if it were not the Depositor.
SECTION 2.14 Tax Treatment .
The Depositor and the Indenture Trustee, by entering into this
Indenture, and the Noteholders, by acquiring any Note or interest
therein, (i) express their intention that the Notes qualify
under applicable tax law as indebtedness secured by the Collateral,
and (ii) unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing
authorities, agree to treat the Notes as indebtedness secured by
the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, state and
local income and franchise taxes, Michigan single business tax, and
any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or
net income.
SECTION 2.15 Special Terms
Applicable to the Private Notes.
(a) None
of the Private Notes has been or will be registered under the
Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction.
Consequently, the Private Notes are not transferable other than
pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and satisfaction of certain other provisions
specified herein.
(b) No
sale, pledge or other transfer of Private Notes or an interest in
the Private Notes may be made by any person other than to
(i) a person who the transferor reasonably believes is a
“qualified institutional buyer” (“ QIB
”) as defined under Rule 144A under the Securities Act
(“ Rule 144A ”) and is purchasing for its
own account (and not for the account of others) or as a fiduciary
or agent for others (which others also are “QIBs”) and
is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A or (ii) in the case of the Class A-1
Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes only, a
non-U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S under the
Securities Act (“ Regulation S ”)) who
acquired the Class A-1 Note, the Class B Note and the
Class C Note, as applicable, outside of the United States in
accordance with Regulation S.
(c) [RESERVED]
(d) No
sale, pledge or other transfer of Class D Notes may be made to
any one person for Class D Notes with an initial principal balance
of less than $500,000, and, in the case of any person acting on
behalf of one or more third parties (other than a
“bank,” as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act, acting in its fiduciary capacity), for Class D
Notes with a face amount of less than such amount for each such
third party. Any attempted transfer in
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contravention of the immediately preceding restriction will be void
ab initio and the purported transferor will continue to be treated
as the owner of the Class D Notes for all purposes.
(e) The
Class D Notes may not be acquired by or for the account of
(i) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA), that is subject to the provisions of
Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, or (iii) any entity whose
underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of an
employee benefit plan’s or a plan’s investment in the
entity, other than an “insurance company general
account” (as defined in Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption (“ PTCE ”) 95-60) whose
underlying assets include less than 25% “plan assets”
and for which the purchase and holding of Class D Notes is
eligible for and satisfies all conditions for relief under PTCE
95-60. The Class D Notes also may not be acquired by or for
the account of an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject
to the provisions of Title I of ERISA (including, without
limitation, foreign or governmental plans) if such acquisition
would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a
violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
(f) Each
Private Note shall bear a legend to the effect set forth in the
first two sentences of subsection (a) above.
(g) The
Retained Notes shall be issued as Definitive Notes.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal
and Interest . The Issuing Entity shall duly and punctually pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the
terms of the Notes and this Indenture. On each Distribution Date
and on the Redemption Date (if applicable), the Issuing Entity
shall cause amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account to
be distributed to the Noteholders in accordance with
Sections 2.7 and 8.2 , less amounts properly
withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any
Noteholder of interest and/or principal. Any amounts so withheld
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 Agency
Office . As long as any of the Notes remains outstanding, the
Issuing Entity shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City
of New York, an office (the “Agency Office”), being an
office or agency where Notes may be surrendered to the Issuing
Entity 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 shall give prompt
written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any
change in the location, of the Agency Office. If at any time the
Issuing Entity shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or
shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address
thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served
at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, 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 .
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(a) As
provided in Sections 8.2(a) and 8.2(b) , all
payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that
are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Note Distribution
Account pursuant to Section 8.2(c) shall be made on
behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by another
Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Note
Distribution Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to
the Issuing Entity except as provided in this
Section 3.3 .
(b) On
or before each Distribution Date or the Redemption Date (if
applicable), the Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause to be
deposited in the Note Distribution Account pursuant to
Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement
an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due
with respect to the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto.
(c) The
Issuing Entity shall 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 3.3 , that such Paying Agent shall:
(i) hold
all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to
the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed
of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein
provided;
(ii) give
the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuing Entity
(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 in effect at the time of determination; and
(v) comply
with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding
from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any
applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.
(d) 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.
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(e) 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 one year after such amount has become due and payable
shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuing
Entity on Issuing Entity Request; and the Holder of such Note shall
thereafter, as a general unsecured 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 payment, may at the expense of the
Issuing Entity cause to be published once, in a newspaper published
in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in the City of New York, notice that
such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from
the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then remaining shall be paid to the Issuing Entity. The Indenture
Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuing
Entity, any other reasonable means of notification of such payment
(including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such payment 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 shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuing Entity
hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other
State or of the United States of America, in which case the Issuing
Entity shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall
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 Trust
Estate; Acknowledgment of Pledge .
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall from time to time execute and deliver all such
supplements and amendments hereto and authorize or execute, as
applicable, and deliver all such financing statements, continuation
statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments,
and shall take such other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain
or preserve the Lien (and the priority thereof) of this Indenture
or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof, including by
making the necessary filings of financing statements or amendments
thereto within sixty (60) days after the occurrence of any of
the following and by promptly notifying the Indenture Trustee of
any such filings: (A) any change in the Issuing Entity’s
true legal name or any of its trade names, (B) any change in
the location of the Issuing Entity’s principal place of
business, (C) any merger or consolidation or other change in
the Issuing Entity’s identity or organizational structure or
jurisdiction of organization or in which the Issuing Entity is
located for purposes of the UCC and (D) any other change or
occurrence that would make any financing statement or amendment
thereto seriously misleading within the meaning of the UCC;
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(ii) perfect,
publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to
be made by this Indenture and the priority thereof;
(iii) enforce
the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in any of
the Collateral; or
(iv) preserve
and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Secured Parties in such Trust Estate
against the claims of all persons and parties,
and the
Issuing Entity hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent
and attorney-in-fact to authorize and/or execute any financing
statement, continuation statement or other instrument required by
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.5
.
(b) The
Indenture Trustee acknowledges the pledge by the Issuing Entity to
the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to the Granting Clause of
this Indenture, of all the Issuing Entity’s right, title and
interest in and to the Reserve Account Property in order to provide
for the payment to the Securityholders and the Servicer in
accordance with Sections 4.06(c) and 4.06(d) of
the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, to assure availability of
the amounts maintained in the Reserve Account for the benefit of
the Securityholders and the Servicer, and as security for the
performance by the Depositor of its obligations under the Trust
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(c) The
Issuing Entity hereby authorizes the Indenture Trustee to file all
financing statements naming the Issuing Entity as debtor that are
necessary or advisable to perfect, make effective or continue the
lien and security interest of this Indenture, and authorizes the
Indenture Trustee to take any such action without its
signature.
SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to Trust
Estate .
(a) On
the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion
of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the
recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental
hereto and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the
authorization, execution and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements as are necessary to perfect and make
effective the Lien of this Indenture and reciting the details of
such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to make such Lien effective.
(b) On
or before March 15 in each calendar year, beginning
March 15, 2009, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to
the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture,
any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite
documents and with respect to the authorization, execution and
filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as
is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this Indenture and
reciting the details of such action or stating that in the opinion
of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain the Lien
created by this Indenture. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also
describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any
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indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents
and the authorization, execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of
such counsel, be required to maintain the Lien of this Indenture
until March 15 in the following calendar year.
SECTION 3.7 Performance of
Obligations; Servicing of Receivables .
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall not take any action and shall use all
reasonable efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others
that would release any Person from any of such Person’s
material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement
included in the Trust Estate or that would result in the amendment,
hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or
impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or
agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, the Administration 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 the
Basic Documents or an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing
Entity shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuing Entity.
Initially, the Issuing Entity has contracted with the Servicer and
the Administrator to assist the Issuing Entity in performing its
duties under this Indenture.
(c) The
Issuing Entity shall 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 the terms of this Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in accordance
with and within the time periods provided for herein and
therein.
(d) If
the Issuing Entity shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Default under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuing Entity shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the
Rating Agencies thereof, and shall specify in such notice the
response or action, if any, the Issuing Entity has taken or is
taking with respect of such default. If a Servicer Default shall
arise from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties
or obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables,
the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall take all
reasonable steps available to them pursuant to the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to
remedy such failure.
(e) Without
derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted to
the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuing Entity agrees that, except
as permitted by the Basic Documents, it shall not, without the
prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of at
least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, as
applicable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, amend,
modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree to any
amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or
surrender of, the terms of any Collateral or any
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of the
Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the
Servicer or the Depositor under the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Custodian Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, the Administrator under the Administration Agreement or
GMAC under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants
. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall
not:
(a) sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or
assets of the Issuing Entity, except as permitted in
Section 3.10(b) and except the Issuing Entity may cause
the Servicer to (i) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise
dispose of Receivables (including Warranty Receivables,
Administrative Receivables and Liquidating Receivables),
(ii) make cash payments out of the Designated Accounts and the
Certificate Distribution Account and (iii) take other actions,
in each case as permitted by the Basic Documents;
(b) 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;
(c) voluntarily
commence any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets
and liabilities or other proceeding, or apply for an order by a
court or agency or supervisory authority for the winding-up or
liquidation of its affairs or any other event specified in
Section 5.1(f) ; or
(d) either
(i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture or
any other Basic Document 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, (ii) 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 (other
than tax liens, mechanics’ liens and other liens that arise
by operation of law, in each case on a Financed Vehicle and arising
solely as a result of an action or omission of the related
Obligor), or (iii) permit the Lien of this Indenture not to
constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Trust
Estate (other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics’
or other lien).
SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to
Compliance . The Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee on or before March 15 of each year, beginning
March 15, 2009, an Officer’s Certificate signed by an
Authorized Officer, dated as of December 31 of the immediately
preceding year, in each case stating that:
(a) a
review of the activities of the Issuing Entity during the preceding
12-month period (or, with respect to the first such Officer’s
Certificate, such period as shall have elapsed since the Closing
Date) and of performance under this Indenture has been made under
such Authorized Officer’s supervision; and
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(b) to
the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuing Entity has fulfilled all of its
obligations under this Indenture throughout such period, or, if
there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation,
specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and
the nature and status thereof. A copy of such certificate may be
obtained by any Noteholder by a request in writing to the Issuing
Entity addressed to the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture
Trustee.
SECTION 3.10 Consolidation,
Merger, etc., of Issuing Entity; Disposition of Trust Assets
.
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall not consolidate or merge with or into any
other Person, unless:
(i) the
Person (if other than the Issuing Entity) formed by or surviving
such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America, or any
State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and timely 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 merger or consolidation, 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 and such Person;
(iv) any
action as is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this
Indenture shall have been taken; and
(v) the
Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to
the Issuing Entity, each stating:
(A)
that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Section 3.10 ;
(B)
that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture
shall have no material adverse tax consequence to the Issuing
Entity or any Financial Party; and
(C)
that all conditions precedent herein provided for in this
Section 3.10 have been complied with, which shall
include any filing required by the Exchange Act.
(b) Except
as otherwise expressly permitted by this Indenture or the other
Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity shall not sell, convey,
exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or
assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any
Person, unless:
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(i) the
Person that acquires such properties or assets of the Issuing
Entity (1) shall be a United States citizen or a Person
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any State and (2) by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee:
(A)
expressly assumes 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;
(B)
expressly agrees that all right, title and interest so sold,
conveyed, exchanged, transferred or otherwise disposed of shall be
subject and subordinate to the rights of the Secured Parties;
(C)
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
(D)
expressly agrees 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 and such Person;
(iv) any
action as is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this
Indenture shall have been taken; and
(v) the
Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to
the Issuing Entity, each stating that:
(A)
such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Section 3.10
;
(B)
such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such
supplemental indenture have no material adverse tax consequence to
the Trust or to any Financial Parties; and
(C)
all conditions precedent herein provided for in this
Section 3.10 have been complied with, which shall
include any filing required by the Exchange Act.
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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 and the
other Basic Documents with the same effect as if such Person had
been named as the Issuing Entity herein.
(b) Upon
a conveyance or transfer of substantially all the assets and
properties of the Issuing Entity pursuant to
Section 3.10(b) , the Issuing Entity shall be released
from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture and the other
Basic Documents 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 from the Person
acquiring such assets and properties 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 or activity
other than acquiring, holding and managing the Collateral and the
proceeds therefrom in the manner contemplated by the Basic
Documents, issuing the Notes and the Certificates, making payments
on the Notes and the Certificates and such other activities that
are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing
or are incidental thereto, as set forth 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 for money borrowed other than indebtedness for money
borrowed in respect of the Notes or otherwise in accordance with
the Basic Documents.
SECTION 3.14 Guarantees, Loans,
Advances and Other Liabilities . Except as contemplated by this
Indenture or the other Basic Documents, 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 3.15 Servicer’s
Obligations . The Issuing Entity shall use its best efforts to
cause the Servicer to comply with its obligations under
Section 3.10 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and
Sections 4.01 and 4.02 of the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.16 Capital
Expenditures . The Issuing Entity shall not make any
expenditure (whether by long-term or operating lease or otherwise)
for capital assets (either real, personal or intangible property)
other than the purchase of the Receivables and other property and
rights from the Depositor pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
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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 . Except for payments of principal or interest on or
redemption of the Notes, so long as any Notes are Outstanding, the
Issuing Entity shall not, directly or indirectly:
(a) pay
any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or
otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest
in the Issuing Entity or otherwise, in each case with respect to
any ownership or equity interest or similar security in or of the
Issuing Entity or to the Servicer;
(b) redeem,
purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership
or equity interest or similar security; or
(c) 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
Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, and the
Financial Parties as permitted by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose under, the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. The
Issuing Entity shall not, directly or indirectly, make payments to
or distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance
with the Basic Documents.
SECTION 3.19 Notice of Events of
Default . The Issuing Entity agrees to give the Indenture
Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event
of Default hereunder, each Servicer Default, each default on the
part of the Depositor or the Servicer of its respective obligations
under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and each default on
the part of the Seller or the Servicer of its respective
obligations under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.20 Further Instruments
and Acts . Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing
Entity shall 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 Indenture
Trustee’s Assignment of Administrative Receivables and
Warranty Receivables . Upon receipt of the Administrative
Purchase Payment, the Warranty Payment or the Liquidation Proceeds
with respect to an Administrative Receivable, a Warranty Receivable
or a Liquidating Receivable, as the case may be, the Servicer, the
Warranty Purchaser, or the purchaser and assignee of the
Liquidating Receivable, as applicable, shall thereupon own such
purchased or repurchased Receivable, all monies due thereon, the
security interest in the related Financed Vehicle, proceeds from
any Insurance Policies, proceeds from recourse against the Dealer
on such Receivable and the interests in certain rebates of premiums
and other amounts relating to the Insurance Policies and any
documents relating thereto. Any
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such
Administrative Receivable, Warranty Receivable or Liquidating
Receivable shall be deemed to be automatically released from the
Lien of this Indenture without any action being taken by the
Indenture Trustee upon payment of the Administrative Purchase
Payment or Warranty Payment or upon receipt of the Liquidation
Proceeds, as applicable, and the Servicer, Warranty Purchaser, or
purchaser or assignee of the Liquidating Receivable, as applicable,
shall own, such Administrative Receivable, Warranty Receivable, or
Liquidating Receivable, as applicable, and all such security and
documents, free of any further obligation to the Indenture Trustee,
the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with respect thereto. If
in any enforcement suit or legal proceeding it is held that the
Servicer or other purchaser of an Administrative Receivable,
Warranty Receivable or Liquidating Receivable may not enforce a
Receivable on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or
a holder entitled to enforce the Receivable, the Indenture Trustee
shall, at the Servicer’s, Warranty Purchaser’s or such
other purchaser’s or assignee’s expense, as applicable,
take such steps as the Servicer, Warranty Purchaser or such other
purchaser or assignee deems necessary to enforce the Receivable,
including bringing suit in the Indenture Trustee’s name or
the names of the Noteholders or, pursuant to Section 4.4, the
Certificateholders.
SECTION 3.22 Representations and
Warranties by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee . The
Issuing Entity hereby represents and warrants to the Indenture
Trustee as follows:
(a)
Good Title . No Receivable has been sold, transferred,
assigned or pledged by the Issuing Entity to any Person other than
the Indenture Trustee; immediately prior to the conveyance of the
Receivables pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuing Entity had good
and marketable title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution
and delivery of this Indenture by the Issuing Entity, the Indenture
Trustee shall have a Lien on all of the right, title and interest
of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Receivables, the unpaid
indebtedness evidenced thereby and the collateral security
therefor, and such right, title and interest are free of any Lien
other than the Lien of this Indenture; and
(b)
All Filings Made . All filings (including UCC filings)
necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Indenture Trustee a first
priority perfected security interest in the Receivables shall have
been made.
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) Sections 3.3 ,
3.4 , 3.5 , 3.8 , 3.10 , 3.12 ,
3.13 , 3.19 and 3.21 ; (v) 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 Sections 4.2 and 4.4 ); and
(vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee
payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand
of and at the expense of the Issuing
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Entity,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, if:
(a) either:
(i) all
Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(A) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.5
and (B) 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
(ii) all
Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation:
(A)
have become due and payable,
(B)
will be due and payable on their respective Final Scheduled
Distribution Dates within one year, or
(C)
are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Issuing Entity or such Notes have been redeemed in
accordance with Section 10.1 ,
and the
Issuing Entity, in the case of clauses (A) , (B) or
(C) of subsection 4.1(a)(ii) above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture
Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by
the United States of America (which will mature prior to the date
such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire unpaid principal and
accrued interest on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled
Distribution Date for such Notes or the Redemption Date for such
Notes (if such Notes have been called for redemption pursuant to
Section 10.1 ), as the case may be;
(b) the
Issuing Entity has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder or under any Third Party Instrument by the Issuing
Entity; and
(c) the
Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity, an Opinion of
Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an
Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public
accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of
Section 11.1(a) and each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
SECTION 4.2 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
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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 and to payment of any other Secured Party or
any holder of any Third Party Instrument of all sums, if any, due
or to become due to any other Secured Party or any holder of any
Third Party Instrument under and in accordance with this Indenture;
but such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required herein, in the Trust 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 the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes
shall, upon demand of the Issuing Entity, be paid to the Indenture
Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.3
and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such monies.
SECTION 4.4 Duration of Position
of Indenture Trustee . Notwithstanding the earlier payment in
full of all principal and interest due to the Noteholders under the
terms of the Notes and the cancellation of the Notes pursuant to
Section 3.1 , the Indenture Trustee shall continue to
act in the capacity as Indenture Trustee hereunder for the benefit
of the Certificateholders, for purposes of compliance with, and the
Indenture Trustee shall comply with, its obligations under
Sections 5.01(a) , 7.02 and 7.03 of the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, as appropriate, until such time
as all distributions due to the Certificateholders have been paid
in full and in such capacity the Indenture Trustee shall have the
rights, benefits and immunities set forth in Article VI
hereof.
ARTICLE V
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 5.1 Events of Default
. For the purposes of this Indenture, “Event of
Default” wherever used herein, means any one of the following
events:
(a) failure
to pay the full Note Class Interest Distributable Amount to
the Controlling Class on any Distribution Date, and such default
shall continue for a period of five (5) days; or
(b) except
as set forth in Section 5.1(c) , failure to pay any
instalment of the principal of any Note as and when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default continues unremedied for
a period of thirty (30) days after there shall have been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Servicer by the
Indenture Trustee or to the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee by
the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such default and
demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a
“ Notice of Default ” hereunder; or
(c) failure
to pay in full the outstanding principal balance of any class of
Notes by the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such class;
or
(d) default
in the observance or performance in any material respect 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 specifically
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dealt
with in this Section 5.1 ) which failure materially and
adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders, and such default
shall continue or not be cured, for a period of thirty
(30) days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuing Entity and the Depositor (or the
Servicer, as applicable) by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuing
Entity and the Depositor (or the Servicer, as applicable) and the
Indenture Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding
Amount of the Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such
default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice
is a “ Notice of Default ” hereunder; or
(e) 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 ninety
(90) consecutive days; or
(f) 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, within five
(5) Business Days after learning of the occurrence thereof,
written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any
event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would
become an Event of Default under Section 5.1(d) , 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 .
(a) If
an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in
every such case, unless the principal amount of the Notes shall
have already become due and payable, either the Indenture Trustee
or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of
the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class 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 the
Noteholders) setting forth the Event or Events of Default, and upon
any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of such Notes,
together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date
of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.
(b) At
any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity of the
Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due thereunder has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee
as hereinafter provided in this Article V , the Holders
of
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Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuing Entity and the
Indenture Trustee, may waive all Defaults set forth in the notice
delivered pursuant to Section 5.2(a) , and rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences; provided , that
no such rescission and annulment shall extend to or affect any
other Default or impair any right consequent thereto; and
provided further , that if the Indenture Trustee
shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and
such Proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because
of such rescission and annulment or for any other reason, or such
Proceedings shall have been determined adversely to the Indenture
Trustee, then and in every such case, the Indenture Trustee, the
Issuing Entity and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall be
restored respectively to their former positions and rights
hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Indenture
Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Noteholders, as the case may
be, shall continue as though no such Proceedings had been
commenced.
SECTION 5.3 Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee .
The Issuing Entity covenants that if an Event of Default occurs and
such Event of Default has not been waived pursuant to
Section 5.12 (or rescinded pursuant to
Section 5.2(b)) , the Issuing Entity shall, upon demand
of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture Trustee, for the
ratable benefit of the Noteholders in accordance with their
respective outstanding principal amounts, the whole amount then due
and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest
upon the overdue principal, at the rate borne by the Notes 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) If
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, 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 may 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) If
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, by such appropriate Proceedings as the
Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce
any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy
or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this
Indenture or by applicable law.
(d) If
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 if a receiver,
assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuing Entity or its property or such
other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable
judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or other
obligor upon the
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Notes,
or to the creditors or property of the Issuing Entity or such other
obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant
to the provisions of this Section 5.3 , 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 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 trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith)
and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless
prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of
the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby
trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such
Proceedings;
(iii) to
collect and receive any 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, custodian or other similar official
in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such
Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture Trustee for
application in accordance with the priorities set forth in the
Basic Documents, and, if 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
trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all
other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by
the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee except as a
result of negligence or bad faith.
(e) Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee
to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any
Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding
except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in
bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All
rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production
thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any
such
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Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and
compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the benefit of
the Secured Parties in accordance with the priorities set forth in
the Basic Documents.
(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 Noteholders,
and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any
such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.4 Remedies;
Priorities .
(a) If
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Notes have been accelerated under Section 5.2(a) , the
Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to
Sections 5.3 and 5.5 ):
(i) institute
Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for
the collection of all amounts then due and payable on the Notes or
under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration
of acceleration 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 and the Noteholders; and
(iv) sell
the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law or elect to have the
Issuing Entity maintain possession of the Receivables and continue
to apply collections on such Receivables as if there had been no
declaration of acceleration; provided , however ,
that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the
Trust Estate following an Event of Default and acceleration of the
Notes, unless (i) (A) the Holders of all of the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Notes consent thereto or (B) the
proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the
Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full the principal of
and the accrued interest on the Notes, at the date of such sale or
liquidation or (C) (x) there has been an Event of Default
under Section 5.1(a) , 5.1(b) or 5.1(c)
or otherwise arising from a failure to make a required payment of
principal on any Notes, (y) 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 and
when they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared
due and payable, and (z) the Indenture Trustee obtains the
consent of Holders of 66 2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class and (ii) ten (10) days’ prior
written notice of sale or liquidation has been given to the Rating
Agencies. In determining such
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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;
provided , however , that prior to the exercise of
the right to sell all or any portion of the Trust Estate as
provided herein, the Indenture Trustee shall provide a notice in
writing to the Issuing Entity (with a copy to the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee) (the “ Event of Default Sale Notice
”) of its intention to sell all or any portion of the Trust
Estate (the part to be sold being the “ Subject Estate
”), and if the Subject Estate is less than all of the Trust
Estate, the portion of the Trust Estate to be sold. The Indenture
Trustee shall not consummate any sale until at least seven Business
Days after the Event of Default Sale Notice has been given to the
Issuing Entity (with a copy to the Depositor).
(b) If
the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to
this Article V , it shall pay out the money or property in
the following order:
FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee
for amounts due under Section 6.7 and then to the Owner
Trustee for amounts due to the Owner Trustee (not including amounts
due for payments to the Certificateholders) under the Trust
Agreement or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
SECOND: to the Collection
Account, for distribution pursuant to Sections 8.01(b)
and 8.01(e) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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 in accordance with Section 5.2(b) ,
the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to take and maintain
possession of the Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties
hereto and the Secured Parties that there be at all times
sufficient funds for the payment of the Secured Obligations to the
Secured Parties and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire
into account when determining whether or not to take and maintain
possession of the Trust Estate. In determining whether to take and
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:
(a) such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default;
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(b) the
Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class 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;
(c) such
Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in complying with such request;
(d) the
Indenture Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute
such Proceedings; and
(e) no
direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to
the Indenture Trustee during such sixty (60) day period by the
Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
Class;
it being
understood and intended that no one or more Holders 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 Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other Holders of Notes or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal, ratable (on the basis of the respective
aggregate amount of principal and interest, respectively, due and
unpaid on the Notes held by each Noteholder) and common benefit of
all holders of Notes. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section 5.6 , each and every
Noteholder shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either
at law or in equity.
If the
Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent
requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes,
each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class, 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
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,
if applicable, 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 to their respective 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.
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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 any Note 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 V 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 a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Controlling Class shall, subject to provision being
made for indemnification against costs, expenses and liabilities in
a form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, have the right to
direct in writing 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, however, that:
(a) such
direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with
this Indenture;
(b) 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 the Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes;
(c) if
the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been
satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust
Estate pursuant to Section 5.5 , 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
(d) the
Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such
direction;
provided , however , that, subject to
Section 6.1 , the Indenture Trustee need not take any
action that it determines might cause it to incur any liability or
might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not
consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past
Defaults .
(a) Prior
to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes
as provided in Section 5.2 , the Holders of not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class
may waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences
except a Default (i) in the payment of principal of or
interest on any of the Notes or (ii) in respect of a
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covenant
or provision hereof which 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 Noteholders shall
be restored to their respective former positions and rights
hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
(b) 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 Event of
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 Proceeding for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any Proceeding against the Indenture Trustee
for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture
Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such Proceeding of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such Proceeding, and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in
such Proceeding, 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 5.13 shall not apply
to:
(a) any
Proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee;
(b) any
Proceeding instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders,
in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class; or
(c) any
Proceeding 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).
SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or
Extension Laws . The Issuing Entity covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it shall 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. 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
shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Indenture Trustee, but shall 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
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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 agrees to take
all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to
compel or secure the performance and observance by the Depositor
and the Servicer of their respective obligations to the Issuing
Entity under or in connection with the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or by GMAC of its
obligations under or in connection with the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof or by any obligor
under a Third Party Instrument of its obligations under or in
accordance with the Third Party Instrument 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 Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement and any Third Party Instrument to the
extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee,
including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the
Depositor, the Servicer, or any obligor under a Third Party
Instrument thereunder and the institution of legal or
administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure
performance by the Depositor or the Servicer or any obligor under a
Third Party Instrument of their respective obligations under the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement and any Third Party Instrument.
(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 or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter))
of the Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers,
privileges and claims of the Issuing Entity against the Depositor,
the Servicer or any obligor under a Third Party Instrument under or
in connection with the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement or a Third Party Instrument,
including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure
performance or observance by the Depositor 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 Trust 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 or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter))
of the Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims
of the Depositor against GMAC under or in connection with the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to
take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by
GMAC of each of its obligations to the Depositor thereunder and to
give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension
or waiver under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and any right
of the Depositor to take such action shall be suspended.
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ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties of 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 its 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:
(i) the
Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and the
Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture, the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement or any other Basic Document 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 ,
that 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
Section 6.1(c) does not limit the effect of
Section 6.1(b) ;
(ii) the
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved
that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(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 any provision of this Indenture or any
other Basic Document.
(d) 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.
(e) Money
held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of
this Indenture or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
Trust Agreement.
(f) No
provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document 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
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shall
have reasonable grounds to believe that repayments of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(g) Every
provision of this Indenture and each other Basic Document relating
to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 6.1 and to the provisions of the TIA.
(h) The
Indenture Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility for the
acts or omissions of any other party to any of the Basic
Documents.
(i) In
no event shall the Indenture Trustee be liable for any damages in
the nature of special, indirect or consequential damages, however
styled, including lost profits.
(j) If
and for so long as Certificates representing in the aggregate a
100% beneficial interest in the Trust are held by the Depositor,
the Indenture Trustee shall make distributions to the Depositor,
rather than the Certificate Distribution Account, under the
circumstances described in Section 5.2 of the Trust
Agreement.
SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture
Trustee .
(a) The
Indenture Trustee may rely on any document 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 the 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 or attorneys or a custodian or 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
hereunder.
(d) The
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or
omits to take in good faith which 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
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suffered
by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or
opinion of such counsel.
(f) The
Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee
security or indemnity satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee against
the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it
in compliance with such request or direction.
(g) The
Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Indenture Trustee,
in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation
into such facts or matters as it may see fit.
(h) The
Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
Default, Event of Default or Servicer Default unless a Responsible
Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or
unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default
is received by the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office
of the Indenture Trustee, and such notice references the Securities
and this Indenture.
(i) The
rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to
the Indenture Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to
be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the
Indenture Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, including
its capacity under Section 4.4 hereof, and in
connection with the performance of any of its duties or obligations
under any of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.3 Indenture Trustee May
Own Notes . The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any
other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may
otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or any of
their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have if
it were not Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that the
Indenture Trustee shall comply with Sections 6.10 and
6.11 . Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or
co-paying agent may do the same with like rights.
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 any Basic Document, including this Indenture or the
Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuing Entity’s
use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible
for any statement of the Issuing Entity in the 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 if it is known to a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
shall mail to each Noteholder notice of the Default within the
later of (a) ninety (90) days after it occurs or (b) ten
(10) days after it is known to a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee. Except in the case of a Default in payment of
principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee
may
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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.
SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture
Trustee .
(a) The
Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder the documents
and information set forth in Article VII and, in
addition, all such information with respect to the Notes as may be
required to enable such Holder to prepare its federal and state
income tax returns.
(b) The
Indenture Trustee shall:
(i) deliver
to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer a report of
its assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria regarding
general servicing, cash and collection administration, investor
remittances and reporting, and pool asset administration during the
preceding calendar year, including disclosure of any material
instance of non-compliance identified by the Indenture Trustee, as
required by Rule 13a-18 and Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange
Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB under the Securities
Act;
(ii) cause
a firm of registered public accountants that is qualified and
independent within the meaning of Rule 2-01 of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to deliver to the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer an attestation report
that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18
under the Exchange Act, as applicable, on the assessment of
compliance with Servicing Criteria with respect to the prior
calendar year for inclusion in the Issuing Entity’s 10-K
filing; such attestation report shall be in accordance with
Rule 1-02(a)(3) and Rule 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X
under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act; and
(iii) deliver
to the Depositor and any other Person that will be responsible for
signing the certification (a “ Sarbanes Certification
”) required by Rule 13a-14(d) and Rule 15d-14(d)
under the Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) on behalf of the Issuing Entity or the
Depositor with respect to this securitization transaction a
certification substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit E or such form as mutually agreed upon by the
Depositor and the Indenture Trustee; the Indenture Trustee
acknowledges that the parties identified in this clause
(iii) may rely on the certification provided by the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to such clause in signing a Sarbanes Certification
and filing such with the Commission.
(c) The
reports referred to in Section 6.6(b) shall be
delivered on or before March 15 of each year that a 10-K
filing is required to be filed by the Issuing Entity, beginning
March 15, 2009, unless the Issuing Entity is not required to
file periodic reports under the Exchange Act or any other law, in
which case such reports may be delivered on or before April 30
of each calendar year, beginning April 30, 2009.
SECTION 6.7 Compensation;
Indemnity .
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer pursuant to
Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to
pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable
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compensation for its services. 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 cause the
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement 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, external counsel, accountants and experts.
The Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to indemnify the
Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 6.01 of
the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) The
Issuing Entity’s obligations to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall survive the discharge of
this Indenture. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after
the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.1(e)
or 5.1(f) with respect to the Issuing Entity, 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
Indenture Trustee .
(a) The
Indenture Trustee may at any time give notice of its intent to
resign by so notifying the Issuing Entity; provided ,
however , that no such resignation shall become effective
and the Indenture Trustee shall not resign prior to the time set
forth in Section 6.8(c) . The Holders of a majority in
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may remove the
Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and may
appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. Such resignation or removal
shall become effective in accordance with Section 6.8(c) .
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 bankrupt or insolvent;
(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.
(b) If
the Indenture Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is
removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the 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 and designate a successor Indenture
Trustee.
(c) A
successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of
its appointment and designation 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
Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer
all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor
Indenture Trustee.
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(d) If
a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within sixty
(60) days after the Indenture Trustee gives notice of its
intent to resign or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuing
Entity or the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment and designation of a successor
Indenture Trustee.
(e) 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.
(f) Notwithstanding
the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Section 6.8 , the Issuing Entity’s obligations under
Section 6.7 and the Servicer’s corresponding
obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall continue for the benefit of
the retiring Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.9 Merger or
Consolidation of Indenture Trustee .
(a) Any
corporation into which the Indenture Trustee may be merged or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger or consolidation to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust
business of the Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor of the
Indenture Trustee under this Indenture; provided ,
however , that such corporation shall be eligible under the
provisions of Section 6.11 , without the execution or
filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of
the parties to this Indenture, anything in this Indenture to the
contrary notwithstanding.
(b) If
at the time such successor or successors by merger 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 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 predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor
to the Indenture Trustee. In all such cases such certificate of
authentication shall have the same full force as is provided
anywhere in the Notes or herein with respect to the certificate of
authentication of the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 6.10 Appointment of
Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture 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 or any Financed Vehicle 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
Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee
or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and
to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the
benefit of the Secured Parties (only to the extent expressly
provided herein), such title to the Trust Estate, or any part
hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section 6.10 , such powers, duties, obligations, rights
and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or
desirable. No co-trustee or
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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 or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee
shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, 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 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 Indenture 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
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, 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 Indenture 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.
SECTION 6.11 Eligibility;
Disqualification . The Indenture Trustee shall at all times
satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a). 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 (unless waived by Moody’s Investors Service,
Inc.) it shall have a long term
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unsecured debt rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s Investors
Service, Inc. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA §
310(b); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the
operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures 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.
SECTION 6.12 Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Issuing Entity . The Indenture
Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A trustee who has
resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to
the extent indicated.
SECTION 6.13 Representations and
Warranties of Indenture Trustee . The Indenture Trustee
represents and warrants as of the Closing Date that:
(a) the
Indenture Trustee (i) is a national banking association duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the United States of America and (ii) satisfies the
eligibility criteria set forth in Section 6.11 ;
(b) the
Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to
execute, deliver and perform this Indenture, and has taken all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by it of this Indenture;
(c) the
execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of
this Indenture (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or
regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Indenture
Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court,
arbitrator, or governmental authority applicable to the Indenture
Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any
provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Indenture
Trustee, or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or
constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default
under, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any
properties included in the Trust Estate pursuant to the provisions
of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other
undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or
Lien could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse
effect on the Indenture Trustee’s performance or ability to
perform its duties under this Indenture or on the transactions
contemplated in this Indenture;
(d) the
execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of
this Indenture shall not require the authorization, consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration
with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any
governmental authority or agency regulating the banking and
corporate trust activities of the Indenture Trustee; and
(e) this
Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of
the Indenture Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its
terms.
SECTION 6.14 Indenture Trustee May
Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes . All rights of
action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the
possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any
proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by
the Indenture
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Trustee
shall be brought in its own name as Indenture Trustee. Any recovery
of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Indenture Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable
benefit of the Noteholders and (only to the extent expressly
provided herein) the Certificateholders in respect of which such
judgment has been obtained.
SECTION 6.15 Suit for
Enforcement . If an Event of Default shall occur and be
continuing, the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion may, subject
to the provisions of Section 6.1 , proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders under this
Indenture by Proceeding whether for the specific performance of any
covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the
execution of any power granted in this Indenture or for the
enforcement of any other legal, equitable or other remedy as the
Indenture Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any of the rights of the Indenture
Trustee or the Noteholders.
SECTION 6.16 Rights of Noteholders
to Direct Indenture Trustee . Holders of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
Class shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture
Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture
Trustee; provided, however, that subject to Section 6.1
, the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow
any such direction if the Indenture Trustee being advised by
counsel determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be
taken, or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith shall, by a
Responsible Officer, determine that the proceedings so directed
would be illegal or subject it to personal liability or be unduly
prejudicial to the rights of Noteholders not parties to such
direction; and provided, further, that nothing in this Indenture
shall impair the right of the Indenture Trustee to take any action
deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction by 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 shall furnish or cause to be furnished by the
Servicer to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five
(5) days before each Distribution 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 the close of business on
the related Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the
Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within fourteen
(14) 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 ten (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
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Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
(b) Noteholders
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 fifteen (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 foregoing
as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations
prescribe) which the Issuing Entity may be required to file with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act or Item 1122 of Regulation AB;
(ii) file
with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission in accordance with
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 as may be required from time to time by
such rules and regulations; 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) of this Section 7.3(a) as may be required by 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 such year.
SECTION 7.4 Reports by Trustee
.
(a) If
required by TIA § 313(a), within sixty (60) days after
each August 15, beginning with August 15, 2008, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA
§ 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies
with TIA § 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply
with TIA § 313(b). A copy of any report delivered pursuant to
this Section 7.4(a) shall, at the time of its mailing to
Noteholders, be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission
and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The
Issuing Entity shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the
Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
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(b) On
each Distribution Date the Indenture Trustee shall include with
each payment to each Noteholder a copy of the statement for the
related Monthly Period or Periods applicable to such Distribution
Date as required pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Trust
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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 and the Trust Sale and Servicing
Agreement. 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 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 Designated Accounts;
Payments .
(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 Financial Parties (and with respect
to the Reserve Account, for the benefit of the Servicer) the
Designated Accounts as provided in Articles IV and V
of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(b) On
or before each Distribution Date, (i) amounts shall be
deposited in the Collection Account as provided in
Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement
and (ii) the Aggregate Noteholders’ Interest
Distributable Amount and the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal
Distributable Amount shall be transferred from the Collection
Account to the Note Distribution Account as and to the extent
provided in Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(c) On
each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the
Account Holder to apply and, as required, distribute to the
Noteholders all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account
(subject to the Servicer’s rights under
Section 5.03 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement
to Investment Earnings) in the following order of priority and in
the amounts determined as described below:
(i) On
each Distribution Date, except as otherwise provided in clause
(iii) below, the amount deposited in the Note Distribution
Account in respect of interest on the Notes shall be applied in the
following order of priority, to the extent of remaining funds after
all
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earlier
priorities have been satisfied, and any amount so applied shall be
paid on such Distribution Date to the holders of Notes of each
applicable Class:
(A)
the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount shall be
paid to the holders of the Class A Notes;
(B)
the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount shall be
paid to the holders of the Class B Notes;
(C)
the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount shall be
paid to the holders of the Class C Notes; and
(D)
the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount shall be
paid to the holders of the Class D Notes;
provided however , if there are not sufficient funds
to so pay the entire amount specified in any of the foregoing
priorities for a particular class of Notes, then the amount
available for such class of Notes shall be paid to the Holders
thereof ratably on the basis of the total amount of accrued and
unpaid interest owing to each such Holder.
(ii) Unless
otherwise provided in clause (iii) below, (A) an amount
equal to the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable
Amount shall be applied to each class of Notes in the following
amounts and in the following order of priority and any amount so
applied shall be paid on such Distribution Date to the Holders of
such class of Notes:
(1) to the Class A-1 Notes,
until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes is reduced
to zero;
(2) to the Class A-2a Notes and
the Class A-2b Notes, ratably in accordance with the Note
Principal Balance of the Class A-2a Notes and the
Class A-2b Notes, until the Outstanding Amounts of the
Class A-2a Notes and Class A-2b Notes are reduced to
zero;
(3) to the Class A-3a Notes and
the Class A-3b Notes, ratably in accordance with the Note
Principal Balance of the Class A-3a Notes and the
Class A-3b Notes, until the Outstanding Amounts of the
Class A-3a Notes and Class A-3b Notes are reduced to
zero;
(4) to the Class A-4 Notes,
until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes is reduced
to zero;
(5) to the Class B Notes, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes is reduced to
zero;
(6) to the Class C Notes, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes is reduced to zero;
and
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(7) to the Class D Notes, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes is reduced to
zero.
(iii) If
the Notes have been declared immediately due and payable following
an Event of Default as provided in Section 5.2 , until
such time as all Events of Default have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 5.2(b) , any amounts deposited in
the Note Distribution Account shall be applied in accordance with
Section 2.7(c) .
SECTION 8.3 General Provisions
Regarding Accounts
(a) So
long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occ
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