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EXECUTION COPY
FRANKLIN AUTO TRUST 2008-A
$75,000,000.00 CLASS A-1 2.72588% Asset-Backed Notes
$190,000,000.00 CLASS A-2 Floating Rate Asset-Backed
Notes
$69,000,000.00 CLASS A-3 Floating Rate Asset-Backed
Notes
$40,300,000.00 CLASS A-4a 5.36% Asset-Backed Notes
$20,000,000.00 CLASS A-4b Floating Rate Asset-Backed
Notes
$13,400,000.00 CLASS B 6.10% Asset-Backed Notes
$37,600,000.00 CLASS C 7.16% Asset-Backed Notes
$40,110,946.28 CLASS D 8.18% Asset-Backed Notes
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INDENTURE
among
FRANKLIN AUTO TRUST 2008-A,
as Issuer,
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Indenture Trustee and as Indenture Collateral
Agent,
and
CITIBANK, N.A.,
as Indenture Administrator
Dated as of May 1, 2008
CROSS REFERENCE TABLE
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TIA
Section
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Indenture
Section
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310
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(a)
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(1)
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6.11
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(a)
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(2)
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6.11
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(3)
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6.10;
6.11
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(4)
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N.A.
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(5)
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6.11
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(b)
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6.8;
6.11
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(c)
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N.A.
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311
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6.12
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(b)
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6.12
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(c)
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N.A.
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312
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7.1
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(b)
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7.2
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(c)
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7.2
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313
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7.4
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(b)
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(1)
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7.4
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(b)
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(2)
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7.4
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(c)
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11.5
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(d)
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7.3
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314
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3.9;
7.3
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(b)
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11.15
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(c)
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(1)
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11.1
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(2)
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11.1
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(3)
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11.1
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(d)
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11.1
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(e)
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1.1;
11.1
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(f)
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11.1
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315
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6.1
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(b)
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6.5;
11.5
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(c)
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6.1
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(d)
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6.1
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(e)
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5.14
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(last
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1.1
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5.12
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5.13
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(2)
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N.A.
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(b)
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5.7;
5.8
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(c)
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N.A
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317
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(1)
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5.3
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(2)
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5.3
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(b)
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3.3
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318
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11.7
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N.A.
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(c)
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11.7
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______________________
1
Note: This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose,
be deemed to be part of this Indenture.
2.
N.A. means Not Applicable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
SECTION 1.1
Definitions
3
SECTION 1.2
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
14
SECTION 1.3
Rules of Construction
14
ARTICLE II
The Notes
SECTION 2.1
Form.
15
SECTION 2.2
Execution, Authentication and Delivery
15
SECTION 2.3
Temporary Notes
16
SECTION 2.4
Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange
16
SECTION 2.5
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
18
SECTION 2.6
Persons Deemed Owner
18
SECTION 2.7
Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest
19
SECTION 2.8
Cancellation
20
SECTION 2.9
Release of Collateral
20
SECTION 2.10
Book-Entry Notes
20
SECTION 2.11
Notices to Clearing Agency
21
SECTION 2.12
Definitive Notes
21
ARTICLE III
Covenants
SECTION 3.1
Payment of Principal and Interest
22
SECTION 3.2
Maintenance of Office or Agency
22
SECTION 3.3
Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust
22
SECTION 3.4
Existence
24
SECTION 3.5
Protection of Trust Estate
24
SECTION 3.6
Opinions as to Trust Estate
25
SECTION 3.7
Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
25
SECTION 3.8
Negative Covenants
26
SECTION 3.9
Annual Statement as to Compliance
27
SECTION 3.10
Issuer May Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms
28
SECTION 3.11
Successor or Transferee
29
SECTION 3.12
No Other Business
29
SECTION 3.13
No Borrowing
30
SECTION 3.14
Servicer’s Obligations
30
SECTION 3.15
Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
30
SECTION 3.16
Capital Expenditures
30
SECTION 3.17
Compliance with Laws
30
SECTION 3.18
Restricted Payments
30
SECTION 3.19
Notice of Events of Default
31
SECTION 3.20
Further Instruments and Acts
31
SECTION 3.21
Amendments of Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust Agreement
31
SECTION 3.22
Income Tax Characterization
31
SECTION 3.23
Article Nine Provisions
31
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.1
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
32
SECTION 4.2
Application of Trust Money
34
SECTION 4.3
Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent
34
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.1
Events of Default
34
SECTION 5.2
Rights Upon Event of Default
36
SECTION 5.3
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee
36
SECTION 5.4
Remedies
39
SECTION 5.5
Optional Preservation of the Receivables
40
SECTION 5.6
Priorities
40
SECTION 5.7
Limitation of Suits
41
SECTION 5.8
Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and
Interest
42
SECTION 5.9
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
42
SECTION 5.10
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
43
SECTION 5.11
Delay or Omission Not a Waiver
43
SECTION 5.12
Control by Noteholders
43
SECTION 5.13
Waiver of Past Defaults
43
SECTION 5.14
Undertaking for Costs
44
SECTION 5.15
Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
44
SECTION 5.16
Action on Notes
44
SECTION 5.17
Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations
44
ARTICLE VI
The Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral
Agent and the Indenture Administrator
SECTION 6.1
Duties of Indenture Trustee
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SECTION 6.2
Rights of Indenture Trustee
47
SECTION 6.3
Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee
49
SECTION 6.4
Disclaimer of the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral
Agent
49
SECTION 6.5
Notice of Defaults
49
SECTION 6.6
Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders
49
SECTION 6.7
Compensation and Indemnity
49
SECTION 6.8
Replacement of Indenture Trustee and of Indenture Collateral
Agent
50
SECTION 6.9
Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger
52
SECTION 6.10
Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee
52
SECTION 6.11
Eligibility; Disqualification
54
SECTION 6.12
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer
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SECTION 6.13
Appointment and Powers
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SECTION 6.14
[Reserved]
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SECTION 6.15
[Reserved]
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SECTION 6.16
[Reserved]
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SECTION 6.17
Compensation of the Indenture Collateral Agent
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SECTION 6.18
[Reserved]
56
SECTION 6.19
Waiver of Setoffs
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SECTION 6.20
Representations and Warranties of the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Collateral Agent
56
SECTION 6.21
Appointment and Powers of the Indenture Administrator
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SECTION 6.22
Performance of Duties of the Indenture Administrator
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SECTION 6.23
Limitation on Liability of the Indenture Administrator
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SECTION 6.24
Successor Indenture Administrator
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SECTION 6.25
Compensation and Indemnity of the Indenture Administrator
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SECTION 6.26
Representations and Warranties of the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Collateral Agent
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SECTION 6.27
Encryption of Communications
60
ARTICLE VII
Noteholders’ Lists and Reports
SECTION 7.1
Issuer To Furnish To 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 Issuer
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SECTION 7.4
Reports by Trustee
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ARTICLE VIII
Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
SECTION 8.1
Collection of Money
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SECTION 8.2
Trust Accounts
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SECTION 8.3
General Provisions Regarding Accounts
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SECTION 8.4
Release of Trust Estate
64
SECTION 8.5
Opinion of Counsel
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ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
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
68
SECTION 9.4
Effect of Supplemental Indenture
68
SECTION 9.5
Conformity With Trust Indenture Act
68
SECTION 9.6
Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures
68
ARTICLE X
Redemption of Notes
SECTION 10.1
Redemption
69
SECTION 10.2
Form of Redemption Notice
69
SECTION 10.3
Notes Payable on Redemption Date
70
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.1
Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
70
SECTION 11.2
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
72
SECTION 11.3
Acts of Noteholders
73
SECTION 11.4
Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies
73
SECTION 11.5
Notices to Noteholders; Waiver
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SECTION 11.6
Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions
75
SECTION 11.7
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
75
SECTION 11.8
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
75
SECTION 11.9
Successors and Assigns
75
SECTION 11.10
Separability
75
SECTION 11.11
Benefits of Indenture
75
SECTION 11.12
Legal Holidays
76
SECTION 11.13
Governing Law
76
SECTION 11.14
Counterparts
76
SECTION 11.15
Recording of Indenture
76
SECTION 11.16
Trust Obligation
76
SECTION 11.17
No Petition
77
SECTION 11.18
Inspection
77
SECTION 11.19
No Joint Venture
77
SECTION 11.20
Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness
77
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A
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SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES
EXHIBIT B
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SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT C
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NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT D-1 -
FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTES
EXHIBIT D-2 -
FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTES
EXHIBIT D-3 -
FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTES
EXHIBIT D-4-a -
FORM OF CLASS A-4a NOTES
EXHIBIT D-4-b -
FORM OF CLASS A-4b NOTES
EXHIBIT D-5 -
FORM OF CLASS B NOTES
EXHIBIT D-6 -
FORM OF CLASS C NOTES
EXHIBIT D-7 -
FORM OF CLASS D NOTES
INDENTURE dated as of May 1, 2008, among
FRANKLIN AUTO TRUST 2008-A, a Delaware statutory trust, as
issuer (the “Issuer”), WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as
indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”) and as
indenture collateral agent (the “Indenture Collateral
Agent”), and CITIBANK, N.A., as indenture administrator
(the “Indenture Administrator”).
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of
the other party, and the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Issuer’s Class A-1 2.72588% Asset-Backed
Notes (the “Class A-1 Notes”), Class A-2 Floating
Rate Asset-Backed Notes (the “Class A-2 Notes”),
Class A-3 Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes (the “Class A-3
Notes”), Class A-4a 5.36% Asset-Backed Notes (the
“Class A-4a Notes”), Class A-4b Floating Rate
Asset-Backed Notes (the “Class A-4b Notes” and
together with the Class A-4a Notes, the “Class A-4
Notes”), Class B 6.10% Asset-Backed Notes (the
“Class B Notes”), Class C 7.16% Asset-Backed Notes
(the “Class C Notes”) and Class D 8.18% Asset-Backed
Notes (the “Class D Notes” and, together with the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the
Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes, the
“Notes”):
As security for the payment and performance by
the Issuer of its obligations under this Indenture and the
Notes, the Issuer has agreed to assign the Collateral (as
defined below) as collateral to the Indenture Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuer
Secured Parties.
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture
Collateral Agent at the Closing Date, for the benefit of the
Issuer Secured Parties to secure the Issuer Secured Obligations,
all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to,
whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising,
(a) the Receivables and all monies received thereon on and after
the Cutoff Date; (b) the security interests in the
Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the
Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in the Financed
Vehicles; (c) any proceeds with respect to the Receivables
repurchased by a Dealer, pursuant to a Dealer Agreement, as a
result of a breach of representation or warranty in the related
Dealer Agreement; (d) any proceeds with respect to the
Receivables from claims on any physical damage, credit life or
disability insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or
Obligors and any proceeds from the liquidation of the
Receivables; (e) any extended warranty service contracts on the
related Financed Vehicles; (f) all funds on deposit from time to
time in the Trust Accounts, and in all investments and proceeds
thereof and all rights of the Issuer therein (including all
income thereon); (g) the Receivables Files; (h) the
Issuer’s rights and benefits, but none of its obligations
or burdens, under the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including
all rights of the Depositor under the Purchase Agreement
assigned to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) (i) all rights, title and interest of the Issuer in
and to the Swap Agreement; and (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 of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the
conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid
property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable,
notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit
accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to
payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and
receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any
of the foregoing (collectively, the
“Collateral”).
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure
the payment of principal of and interest on, and any other
amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably
without prejudice, priority or distinction except as set forth
herein, the payment of all amounts payable by the Issuer to the
Letter of Credit Provider, the payment of all amounts payable by
the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement and
to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all
as provided in this Indenture.
The Indenture Collateral Agent, for the benefit
of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes
and for the benefit of the Swap Counterparty and the Letter of
Credit Provider, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts
under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this
Indenture to the best of its ability to the end that the
interests of the Holders of the Notes may be adequately and
effectively protected.
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
SECTION 1.1 Definitions
. Except as otherwise specified herein, the following
terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all
purposes of this Indenture.
“ Act ” has the meaning
specified in Section 11.3(a).
“ Affiliate ” means, with
respect to any specified Person, any other Person controlling or
controlled by or under common control with such specified
Person. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” when used with respect to any specified
Person means the power to direct the management and policies of
such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms “controlling” and “controlled”
have meanings correlative to the foregoing. A Person shall
not be deemed to be an Affiliate of any person solely because
such other Person has the contractual right or obligation to
manage such Person unless such other Person controls such Person
through equity ownership or otherwise.
“ Authorized Officer ” means,
with respect to the Issuer and the Servicer, any officer (or
agent acting under a power of attorney) of the Owner Trustee or
the Servicer, as applicable, who is authorized to act for the
Owner Trustee or the Servicer, as applicable, in matters
relating to the Issuer or the Servicer and who is identified on
the list of Authorized Officers delivered by each of the Owner
Trustee and the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing
Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to
time thereafter).
“ Basic Documents ” means the
Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, this Indenture, the Note Depository
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Letter of Credit, the
Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement, the Servicer Deposit
Support Agreement, the Swap Agreement and other documents and
certificates delivered in connection therewith.
“ Book Entry Notes ” means a
beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as
described in Section 2.10.
“ Business Day ” means a day
other than a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks located in the states of California, Delaware, New York or
Utah are authorized or obligated to be closed.
“ Certificate of Trust ”
means the certificate of trust of the Issuer substantially in
the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement.
“ Class A-1 Notes ” means the
Class A-1 2.72588% Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the form
of Exhibit D-1.
“ Class A-1 Interest Rate ”
means 2.72588% per annum (computed on the basis of the actual
number of days elapsed and a 360-day year).
“ Class A-2 Notes ” means the
Class A-2 Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the
form of Exhibit D-2.
“ Class A-2 Interest Rate ”
means One-Month LIBOR + 1.00% per annum (computed on the basis
of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day year).
“ Class A-3 Notes ” means the
Class A-3 Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes, substantially
in the form of Exhibit D-3.
“ Class A-3 Interest Rate ”
means One-Month LIBOR + 1.58% per annum (computed on the basis
of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day year).
“ Class A-4 Notes ” means,
collectively, the Class A-4a Notes and the Class A-4b Notes.
“ Class A-4a Notes ” means
the Class A-4a 5.36% Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the
form of Exhibit D-4.
“ Class A-4a Interest Rate ”
means 5.36% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months).
“ Class A-4b Notes ” means
the Class A-4b Floating Rate Asset-Backed Notes, substantially
in the form of Exhibit D-5.
“ Class A-4b Interest Rate ”
means One-Month LIBOR + 1.95% per annum (computed on the basis
of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day year).
“ Class B Notes ” means the
Class B 6.10% Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D-6.
“ Class B Interest Rate ”
means 6.10% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months).
“ Class C Notes ” means the
Class C 7.16% Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D-7.
“ Class C Interest Rate ”
means 7.16% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months).
“ Class D Notes ” means the
Class D 8.18% Asset-Backed Notes, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D-8.
“ Class D Interest Rate ”
means 8.18% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months).
“ Clearing Agency ” means an
organization registered as a “clearing agency”
pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
“ Clearing Agency Participant
” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
“ Closing Date ” means June
13, 2008.
“ Code ” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Collateral ” has the
meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this Indenture.
“ Corporate Trust Office ”
means (i) with respect to the Indenture Trustee, the office at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall
be administered, which office at date of the execution of this
Agreement is located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market
Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001, Attn: Corporate Trust
Administration and (ii) with respect to the Indenture
Administrator (a) solely for purposes of the transfer, surrender
or exchange of the Notes, 111 Wall Street, 15 th
Floor Window, New York, New York 10005, Attn: Corporate Trust
Services – Franklin Auto Trust 2008-A, and (b) for all
other purposes, 388 Greenwich Street, 14 th Floor,
New York, New York 10013, Attn: Structured Finance Agency and
Trust – Franklin Auto Trust 2008-A or at such other
address as the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture Administrator,
as applicable, may designate from time to time by notice to the
Noteholders, the Servicer and the Issuer, or the principal
corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee or
successor Indenture Administrator (the address of which the
successor Indenture Trustee or the successor Indenture
Administrator will notify the Servicer, the Noteholders and the
Issuer).
“ Default ” means any
occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default.
“ Definitive Notes ” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.10.
“ ERISA ” means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“ Event of Default ” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“ Exchange Act ” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Executive Officer ” means,
with respect to any corporation, the Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President,
Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or
the Treasurer of such corporation; and with respect to any
partnership, any general partner thereof.
“ Grant ” means mortgage,
pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release,
convey, assign, transfer, create, grant a lien upon or a
security interest in or right of set-off against, deposit, or
set over and confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant
of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall
include all rights, powers and options (but none of the
obligations) of the Granting party thereunder, including the
immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive
and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect
of the Collateral and all other moneys payable thereunder, to
give and receive notices and other communications, to make
waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options,
to bring proceedings in the name of the Granting party or
otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the
Granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder
or with respect thereto.
“ Holder ” or “
Noteholder ” means the Person in whose name a Note
is registered on the Note Register.
“ Indebtedness ” means, with
respect to any Person at any time, (a) indebtedness or liability
of such Person for borrowed money whether or not evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other instruments, or for the
deferred purchase price of property or services (including trade
obligations); (b) obligations of such Person as lessee under
leases which should have been or should be, in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, recorded as capital
leases; (c) current liabilities of such Person in respect of
unfunded vested benefits under plans covered by Title IV of
ERISA; (d) obligations issued for or liabilities incurred on the
account of such Person; (e) obligations or liabilities of such
Person arising under acceptance facilities; (f) obligations of
such Person under any guarantees, endorsements (other than for
collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) and
other contingent obligations to purchase, to provide funds for
payment, to supply funds to invest in any Person or otherwise to
assure a creditor against loss; (g) obligations of such Person
secured by any lien on property or assets of such Person,
whether or not the obligations have been assumed by such Person;
or (h) obligations of such Person under any interest rate or
currency exchange agreement.
“ Indenture ” means this
Indenture as amended and supplemented from time to time.
“ Indenture Administrator ”
means Citibank, N.A., a national banking association, or any
successor under this Indenture.
“ Indenture Collateral Agent
” means, initially, Wilmington Trust Company, in its
capacity as collateral agent on behalf of the Issuer Secured
Parties, including its successors in interest, until and unless
a successor Person shall have become the Indenture Collateral
Agent pursuant to Section 6.17 hereof, and thereafter
“Indenture Collateral Agent” shall mean such
successor Person.
“ Indenture Trustee ”
means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation,
not in its individual capacity but as indenture trustee under
this Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under this
Indenture.
“ Independent ” means,
when used with respect to any specified Person, that the person
(a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor upon
the Notes, the Depositor and any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing persons, (b) does not have any direct financial
interest or any material indirect financial interest in the
Issuer, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any Affiliate
of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with
the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer,
employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or
Person performing similar functions.
“ Independent Certificate ”
means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the Indenture
Collateral Agent, Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture
Administrator under the circumstances described in, and
otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section
11.1, prepared by an Independent appraiser or other expert
appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture
Trustee or the Indenture Administrator in the exercise of
reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate shall state
that the signer has read the definition of
“Independent” in this Indenture and that the signer
is Independent within the meaning thereof.
“ Interest Rate ” means, with
respect to the (i) Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-1 Interest Rate,
(ii) Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-2 Interest Rate, (iii) Class
A-3 Notes, the Class A-3 Interest Rate, (iv) Class A-4a
Notes, the Class A-4a Interest Rate, (v) Class A-4b Notes, the
Class A-4b Interest Rate, (vi) Class B Notes, the Class B
Interest Rate, (vii) Class C Notes, the Class C Interest
Rate and (viii) Class D Notes, the Class D Interest
Rate.
“ ISDA ” means the
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
“ Issuer ” means the
party named as such in this Indenture until a successor replaces
it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other
obligor on the Notes.
“ Issuer Order ” and “
Issuer Request ” means a written order or request
signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized
Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
“ Issuer Secured Obligations
” means the Letter of Credit Provider Issuer Secured
Obligations, the Swap Counterparty Issuer Secured Obligations
and the Trustee Issuer Secured Obligations.
“ Issuer Secured Parties ”
means the Indenture Trustee in respect of the Trustee Issuer
Secured Obligations, the Letter of Credit Provider in respect of
the Letter of Credit Provider Issuer Secured Obligations and the
Swap Counterparty in respect of the Swap Counterparty Issuer
Secured Obligations.
“ Letter of Credit Provider Issuer
Secured Obligations ” means all amounts and
obligations which the Issuer may at any time owe to the Letter
of Credit Provider under any of the Basic Documents.
“ LIBOR Business Day ” means
any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or any other day on
which banks in London are required or authorized to be
closed.
“ LIBOR Determination Date ”
means, for each Interest Period, the second LIBOR Business Day
before the beginning of that Interest Period, or, in the case of
the initial Distribution Date, on the day that is two LIBOR
Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
“ Net Swap Payment ” means
the net amount with respect to regularly scheduled payments, if
any, owed by the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty on any
Distribution Date, including prior unpaid Net Swap Payments and
any accrued interest thereon under the Swap Agreement, but
excluding any Swap Termination Payment.
“ Net Swap Receipt s” means
the net amounts owed by the Swap Counterparty to the Issuer, if
any, on any Distribution Date, but excluding any Swap
Termination Payment.
“Note ” means a Class A-1
Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note, a Class A-4a Note, a
Class A-4b Note, a Class B Note, a Class C Note and a Class D
Note.
“ Note Depository Agreement ”
means the agreement between the Issuer and The Depository Trust
Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated June 12, 2008
substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
“ Note Owner ” means, with
respect to a Book-Entry Note, the person who is the owner of
such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of the Clearing
Agency, or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with
such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant
or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with
the rules of such Clearing Agency).
“ Note Register ” and “
Note Registrar ” have the respective meanings
specified in Section 2.4.
“ Notice ” has the meaning
specified in Section 5.18(b).
“ Officer’s Certificate
” means a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of
the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 and
TIA § 314, and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless
otherwise specified, any reference in this Indenture to an
Officer’s Certificate shall be to an Officer’s
Certificate of any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.
“ One-Month LIBOR ” means,
with respect to any Interest Period, the rate for deposits in
U.S. Dollars for a period of one month which appears on the
Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on
the LIBOR Determination Date as reported by Bloomberg Financial
Commodities News. If that rate does not appear on the Reuters
Screen LIBOR01 Page, then One-Month LIBOR will be the Reference
Bank Rate.
“ Opinion of Counsel ” means
one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as
otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be employees of
or counsel to the Issuer, the Depositor or the Servicer and who
shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Administrator and addressed to the Indenture Trustee
and the Indenture Administrator, and which shall comply with any
applicable requirements of Section 11.1, and shall be in form
and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and shall
be addressed to the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator.
“ Outstanding ” means, as of
the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture except:
(i)
Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar
or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;
(ii)
Notes or portions thereof the payment for which
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the
Holders of such Notes ( provided , however , that
if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision
therefor, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee); and
(iii)
Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes
which have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is
presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide
purchaser;
provided , however , that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite Outstanding
Amount of the Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or
under any Basic Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, any other
obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of
the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver,
only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee
either actually knows to be so owned or has received written
notice thereof shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned
that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of
the Indenture Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with
respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer,
any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor or any Affiliate
of any of the foregoing Persons.
“ Outstanding Amount ” means
the aggregate principal amount of all Notes, or class of Notes,
as applicable, Outstanding at the date of determination.
“ Paying Agent ” means
initially Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as paying agent on
behalf of the Indenture Trustee, including its successors in
interest until and unless a successor person, that meets the
eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in
Section 6.11 and is authorized by the Issuer to make the
payments to and distributions from the Collection Account, the
Note Distribution Account and the Spread Account, including
payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of
the Issuer, shall have become paying agent.
“ Payment Date ” means a
Distribution Date.
“ Plan ” means an employee
benefit plan, as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA, that is
subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan, as defined in
section 4975(e)(1) of the Code.
“ Predecessor Note ” means,
with respect to any particular Note, every previous Note
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this
definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section
2.5 in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall
be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note.
“ Proceeding ” means any suit
in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative
proceeding.
“ Record Date ” means, with
respect to a Payment Date or Redemption Date, the close of
business on the last Business Day immediately preceding such
Payment Date or Redemption Date.
“ Redemption Date ” means in
the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section
10.1(a) or a payment to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.1(c),
the Payment Date specified by the Servicer or the Issuer
pursuant to Section 10.1(a) or (c) as applicable.
“ Redemption Price ” means
(a) in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section
10.1(a), an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of each
class of Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon to but excluding the Redemption Date plus any amounts
owing to the Letter of Credit Provider plus any amount payable
by the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement
or (b) in the case of a payment made to Noteholders pursuant to
Section 10.1(c), the amount on deposit in the Note Distribution
Account, but not in excess of the amount specified in clause (a)
above.
“ Regulation AB ” means
Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation
AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be
amended from time to time, and subject to such clarification and
interpretation as have been provided by the Commission in the
adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act
Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005))
or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided by the
Commission or its staff from time to time.
“ Responsible Officer ”
means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Administrator, respectively, any officer within the Corporate
Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or any officer within the
Agency and Trust Group (or any successor group thereto) of the
Indenture Administrator, as applicable, including any Vice
President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant Treasurer,
Assistant Secretary, or any other officer of the Indenture
Trustee or the Indenture Administrator customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and, with respect to a particular matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of
such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject, in each case having direct responsibility
for the administration of this Indenture.
“ Reuters LIBOR01 Page ”
means the display page so designated on the Reuters Monitor
Money Rates Service or any other page that may replace that page
on that service for the purpose of displaying comparable rates
or prices as reported by Bloomberg Financial Commodities
News.
“ Sale and Servicing Agreement
” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of May
1, 2008, among the Issuer, the Representative, the Depositor and
the Servicer, substantially in the form of Exhibit B as the same
may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
“ Schedule of Receivables ”
means the listing of the Receivables set forth in Exhibit A
(which Exhibit may be in the form of microfiche).
“ Senior Swap Termination Payment
” means any Swap Termination Payment owed by the Issuer to
the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement resulting from
(1) a Tax Event or Illegality (each as defined in the Swap
Agreement) under the Swap Agreement or (2) any other
“event of default” or “termination
event” under the Swap Agreement where the Swap
Counterparty is neither the defaulting party nor the sole
affected party.
“ Servicing Criteria ” means
the “servicing criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB, as such may be amended from time to time.
“ Sponsor ” means Franklin
Capital Corporation, in its capacity as sponsor under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, and any successor sponsor
thereunder.
“ State ” means any one of
the 50 states of the United States of America or the District of
Columbia.
“ Subcontractor ” means
any vendor, subcontractor or other Person that is not
responsible for the overall servicing (as
“servicing” is commonly understood by participants
in the asset-backed securities market) of the Receivables but
performs one or more discrete functions identified in Item
1122(d) of Regulation AB with respect to the Receivables under
the direction or authority of the Servicer or a Subservicer.
“ Subordinated Swap Termination
Payment ” means any Swap Termination Payment owed by
the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement
other than a Senior Swap Termination Payment.
“ Subservicer ” means any
Person that services Receivables on behalf of the Servicer or
any Subservicer and is responsible for the performance (whether
directly or through Subservicers or Subcontractors) of a
substantial portion of the material servicing functions required
to be performed by the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement that are identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation
AB.
“ Swap Agreement ” means 1992
ISDA Master Agreement dated as of June 13, 2008, including all
schedules and confirmations thereto, between the Issuer and the
Swap Counterparty, as modified, amended, supplemented, renewed,
extended or replaced from time to time.
“ Swap Counterparty ” means
Citibank, N.A. or its successor or replacement under the Basic
Documents.
“ Swap Counterparty Issuer Secured
Obligations ” means all amounts and obligations which
the Issuer may at any time owe to the Swap Counterparty under
any of the Basic Documents.
“ Swap Termination Paymen t”
means payments due to the Swap Counterparty by the Issuer or to
the Issuer by the Swap Counterparty, including interest that may
accrue thereon and costs of collections, if applicable, under
the Swap Agreement, due to a termination of the Swap Agreement
due to an “event of default” or “termination
event” under the Swap Agreement.
“ Termination Date ” means
the latest of (i) the date on which the Indenture Trustee shall
have received payment and performance of all Trustee Issuer
Secured Obligations, (ii) the date on which the Letter of Credit
Provider shall have received payment and performance of all
Letter of Credit Provider Issuer Secured Obligations and (iii)
the date on which the Swap Counterparty shall have received
payment and performance of all Swap Counterparty Issuer Secured
Obligations.
“ Trust Estate ” means all
money, instruments, rights and other property that are subject
or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest of
this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders, the Letter of
Credit Provider and the Swap Counterparty (including all
property and interests Granted to the Indenture Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Issuer Secured Parties), including all
proceeds thereof.
“ Trust Indenture Act ” or
“ TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically
provided.
“ Trustee Issuer Secured
Obligations ” means all amounts and obligations which
the Issuer may at any time owe to the Indenture Trustee for the
benefit of the Noteholders under this Indenture or the
Notes.
“ UCC ” means, unless the
context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial Code, as in
effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to
time.
(a)
Except as otherwise specified herein, the
following terms have the respective meanings set forth in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date
for all purposes of this Indenture, and the definitions of such
terms are equally applicable both to the singular and plural
forms of such terms:
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Term
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Section of Sale and Servicing Agreement
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Available
Collections
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Section
1.1
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Available
Funds
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Section
1.1
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Annual
Percentage Rate or APR
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Section
1.1
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Capitalized Interest Account
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Section 1.1
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Certificateholders
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Section
1.1
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Class
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Section
1.1
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Closing
Date
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Section
1.1
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Collection
Account
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Section
1.1
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Collection
Period
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Section
1.1
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Contract
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Section
1.1
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Controlling
Class
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Section
1.1
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Cutoff
Date
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Section
1.1
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Depositor
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Section
1.1
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Determination Date
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Section
1.1
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Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Distribution Date
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Section
1.1
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Eligible
Deposit Account
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Section
1.1
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Eligible
Investments
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Section
1.1
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Final
Scheduled Distribution Date
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Section
1.1
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Final
Scheduled Maturity Date
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Section
1.1
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Financed
Vehicle
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Section
1.1
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First
Priority Principal Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Franklin
Capital
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Section
1.1
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Interest
Period
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Section
1.1
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Insolvency
Proceeds
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Section
1.1
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Letter of
Credit
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Section
1.1
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Letter of
Credit Provider
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Section
1.1
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Letter of
Credit Reimbursement Agreement
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Section
1.1
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LIBOR
Business Day
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Section
1.1
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Lien
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Section
1.1
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Liquidated
Receivables
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Section
1.1
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Monthly
Period
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Section
1.1
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Note
Distribution Account
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Section
1.1
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Noteholders’ Distributable Amount
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Section
1.1
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Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount
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Section
1.1
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Noteholders’ Percentage
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Section
1.1
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Obligor
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Section
1.1
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Original
Pool Balance
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Section
1.1
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Owner
Trustee
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Section
1.1
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Person
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Section
1.1
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Pool
Balance
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Section
1.1
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Purchase
Agreement
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Section
1.1
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Purchased
Receivable
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Section
1.1
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Rating
Agency
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Section
1.1
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Rating
Agency Condition
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Section
1.1
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Receivables
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Section
1.1
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Reference
Bank Rate
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Section
1.1
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Reference
Banks
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Section
1.1
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Regular
Principal Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Representative
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Section
1.1
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Second
Priority Principal Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Securities
Act
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Section
1.1
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Servicer
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Section
1.1
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Servicer
Default
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Section
1.1
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Spread
Account
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Section
1.1
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Third
Priority Principal Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Total
Distribution Amount
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Section
1.1
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Trust
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Section
1.1
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Trust
Accounts
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Section
1.1
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Trust Agreement
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Section 1.1
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(b)
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1.2 Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act . Whenever this
Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the
following meanings:
“Commission” means the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
“indenture securities” means the
Notes.
“indenture security holder” means a
Noteholder.
“indenture to be qualified” means
this Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or
“institutional trustee” means the Indenture
Trustee.
“obligor” on the indenture
securities means the Issuer and any other obligor on the
indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that
are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another
statute or defined by Commission rule have the meaning assigned
to them by such definitions.
SECTION 1.3 Rules of
Construction . Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i)
a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii)
an accounting term not otherwise defined has the
meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles as in effect from time to time;
(iii)
“or” is not exclusive;
(iv)
“including” means including without
limitation; and
(v)
words in the singular include the plural and
words in the plural include the singular.
ARTICLE II
The Notes
SECTION 2.1 Form .
The Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4a Notes, the
Class A-4b Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the
Class D Notes and in each case together with the Indenture
Administrator’s certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibits D-1, D-2, D-3,
D-4a, D-4b, D-5, D-6 and D-7, respectively, with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and
may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing
such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes.
Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on
the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on
the face of the Note.
The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten,
printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination
of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all
as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced
by their execution of such Notes.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in
Exhibits D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4a, D-4b, D-5, D-6 and D-7,
respectively, are part of the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.2 Execution,
Authentication and Delivery . The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer or by any of its Authorized
Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on
the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature
of individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the
Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices
prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
The Indenture Administrator shall upon receipt
of the Issuer Order authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes for
original issue in an aggregate principal amount of
$75,000,000.00, Class A-2 Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $190,000,000.00, Class A-3 Notes
for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of
$69,000,000.00, Class A-4a Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $40,300,000.00, Class A-4b Notes
for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of
$20,000,000.00, Class B Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $13,400,000.00, Class C Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $37,600,000.00 and
Class D Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal
amount of $40,110,946.28. The aggregate principal amounts
of the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class
A-4a Notes, Class A-4b Notes, Class B Notes, Class C Notes and
Class D Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed such
amounts except as provided in Section 2.5.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as registered
Notes in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in integral
multiples of $1,000 thereof (except for one Note of each class
which may be issued in a denomination other than an integral
multiple of $1,000).
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless
there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Indenture Administrator by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall
be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.3 Temporary
Notes . Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes,
the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order, the
Indenture Administrator shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of the
Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such
variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as
the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by
their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will
cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary
Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender
of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to
be maintained as provided in Section 3.2, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture
Administrator shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of
authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.4 Registration;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange .
(a) The Issuer shall cause to be kept a
register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer
shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration
of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Administrator shall
be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering
Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any
resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly
appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an
appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.
If a Person other than the Indenture
Administrator is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the
Issuer will give the Indenture Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note
Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location,
of the Note Register, and the Indenture Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note
Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof,
and the Indenture Administrator and the Indenture Trustee shall
have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of
the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the
names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the
principal amounts and number of such Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of
any Note at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained
as provided in Section 3.2, if the requirements of Section
8-401(1) of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute and upon
its request the Indenture Administrator shall authenticate and
the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Administrator, in
the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or
more new Notes, in any authorized denominations, of the same
class and a like aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be
exchanged for other Notes in any authorized denominations, of
the same class and a like aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.
Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the
requirements of Section 8-401(1) of the UCC are met the Issuer
shall execute and upon its request the Indenture Administrator
shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the
Indenture Administrator, the Notes which the Noteholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of
the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon
such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed
by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Administrator duly executed
by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the
requirements of the Note Registrar which requirements include
membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agents
Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other
“signature guarantee program” as may be determined
by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for,
STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii)
accompanied by such other documents as the Indenture
Administrator may require.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for
any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Note
Registrar 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.
The preceding provisions of this section
notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make and
the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of
Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a period of 15
days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the
Note.
(b)
Each Person that acquires a Note will be deemed
to represent by its acceptance of the Note, that (i) it is
not, and is not acquiring the Note on behalf of or with the
assets of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to any
applicable similar law (“Similar Law”), or
(ii) its acquisition and holding of the Note are eligible
for relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
(“PTCE”) 84-14, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 91-38,
PTCE 95-60, PTCE 96-23 or a similar exemption, or, in the
case of an employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, do not
result in a nonexempt violation of Similar Law. Any
transfer with respect to which the representation in clause (i)
or (ii) above is not true shall be void ab initio .
SECTION 2.5 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . If (i) any mutilated
Note is surrendered to the Indenture Administrator, or the
Indenture Administrator receives evidence to its satisfaction of
the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is
delivered to the Indenture Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to
hold the Issuer, the Indenture Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer,
the Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Administrator that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405
of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute and upon its
request the Indenture Administrator shall authenticate and
deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note;
provided , however , that if any such destroyed,
lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become
or within seven days shall be due and payable, or shall have
been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement
Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note
when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without
surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such
replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide
purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement
Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the
Issuer and the Indenture Administrator shall be entitled to
recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person
to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement
Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was
delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a bona fide
purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage,
cost or expense incurred by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Indenture Administrator in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under
this Section, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder
of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and
any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses
of the Indenture Administrator or the Indenture Trustee)
connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this
Section in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable
by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and
shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.6 Persons Deemed
Owner . Prior to due presentment for registration of
transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Administrator,
the Indenture Trustee and any of their respective agents may
treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the
day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose
of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on
such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture
Administrator, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the
Issuer, the Indenture Administrator or the Indenture Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.7 Payment of
Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest .
(a) The Notes shall accrue interest as
provided in the forms of the Class A-1 Note, the Class A-2 Note,
the Class A-3 Note, the Class A-4a Note, the Class A-4b Note,
the Class B Note, the Class C Note and the Class D Note set
forth in Exhibits D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4a, D-4b, D-5, D-6 and D-7,
respectively, and such interest shall be payable on each Payment
Date as specified therein. Any installment of interest or
principal, if any, payable on any Note which is punctually paid
or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one
or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date, by
check mailed first-class, postage prepaid, to such
Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on
such Record Date, except that, unless Definitive Notes have been
issued pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect to Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the
Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payment will be made by wire transfer in immediately available
funds to the account designated by such nominee and except for
the final installment of principal payable with respect to such
Note on a Payment Date or on the Final Scheduled Distribution
Date (and except for the Redemption Price for any Note called
for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1(a)) which shall be
payable as provided below. The funds represented by any
such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance
with Section 3.3.
(b)
The principal of each Note shall be payable in
installments on each Payment Date as provided in the forms of
the Class A-1 Note, the Class A-2 Note, the Class A-3 Note, the
Class A-4a Note, the Class A-4b Note, the Class B Note, the
Class C Note and the Class D Note set forth in Exhibits D-1,
D-2, D-3, D-4a, D-4b, D-5, D-6 and D-7, respectively.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal
amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously
paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, if the Indenture Administrator or
the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class
have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the
manner provided in Section 5.2. All principal payments on
each class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of
such class entitled thereto. The Indenture Administrator shall
notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the
close of business on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date
on which the Issuer expects that the final installment of
principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such
notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
final Payment Date and shall specify that such final installment
will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such
Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for payment of such installment.
Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be
mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2.
(c)
If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest
on the Notes, the Issuer shall pay defaulted interest (plus
interest on such defaulted interest to the extent lawful) at the
applicable Interest Rate. The Issuer may pay such
defaulted interest to the Persons who are Noteholders on a
subsequent special record date, which date shall be at least
five Business Days prior to the payment date. The Issuer
shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and
payment date, and, at least 15 days before any such special
record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder, the
Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Administrator a notice that
states the special record date, the payment date and the amount
of defaulted interest to be paid.
SECTION 2.8 Cancellation
. Subject to Section 2.7(d),
all Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer,
exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Indenture Administrator, be delivered to the Indenture
Administrator and shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture
Administrator. Subject to Section 2.7(d), the Issuer may
at any time deliver to the Indenture Administrator for
cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly
canceled by the Indenture Administrator. No Notes shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled
as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by
this Indenture. Subject to Section 2.7(d), all canceled
Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture Administrator
in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as
in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an
Issuer Order that they be destroyed or returned to it;
provided that such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes
have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture
Administrator.
SECTION 2.9 Release of
Collateral . The Indenture Collateral Agent shall, on
or after the Termination Date, release any remaining portion of
the Trust Estate from the lien created by this Indenture and the
Indenture Administrator shall deposit in the Collection Account
any funds then on deposit in any other Trust Account. The
Indenture Collateral Agent shall release property from the lien
created by this Indenture pursuant to this Section 2.9 only upon
receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s
Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificates
in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the
applicable requirements of Section 11.1.
SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry
Notes . The Notes, upon original issuance, will be
issued in the form of typewritten Notes representing the
Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust
Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the
Issuer. Such Notes shall initially be registered on the
Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the
initial Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner will receive a
Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in
such Note, except as provided in Section 2.12. Unless and
until definitive, fully registered Notes (the “Definitive
Notes”) have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.12:
(i)
the provisions of this Section shall be in full
force and effect;
(ii)
the Issuer, the Note Registrar, the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Administrator shall be entitled to
deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture
(including the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes
and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the
sole Holder of the Notes, and shall have no obligation to the
Note Owners;
(iii)
to the extent that the provisions of this
Section conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture,
the provisions of this Section shall control;
(iv)
the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised
only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Note Owners and
the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants.
Pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.12, the
initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the
Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments
of principal of and interest on the Notes to such Clearing
Agency Participants;
(v)
whenever this Indenture requires or permits
actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions of
Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes (or any Class thereof,
including the Controlling Class), the Clearing Agency shall be
deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or
Clearing Agency Participants or Persons acting through Clearing
Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such
required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes (or
Class thereof, including the Controlling Class) and has
delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Administrator; and
(vi)
Note Owners may receive copies of any reports
sent to Noteholders pursuant to this Indenture, upon written
request, together with a certification that they are Note Owners
and payment of reproduction and postage expenses associated with
the distribution of such reports, from the Indenture Trustee or
the Indenture Administrator.
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
Administrator shall give all such notices and communications
specified herein to be given to Holders of the Notes to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to the Note
Owners.
SECTION 2.12 Definitive
Notes . If (i) the Servicer advises the Indenture
Administrator in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer
willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with
respect to the Notes, and the Servicer is unable to locate a
qualified successor or (ii) after the occurrence of an Event of
Default, Note Owners representing beneficial interests
aggregating at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes advise the Indenture Administrator through 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 Administrator of the occurrence of
any such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to
Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Indenture Administrator of the typewritten Note or Notes
representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall
execute and the Indenture Administrator shall authenticate the
Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or
the Indenture Administrator 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 Administrator
shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders.
ARTICLE III
Covenants
SECTION 3.1 Payment of
Principal and Interest . The Issuer will duly and
punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Issuer will cause to
be distributed all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution
Account on a Payment Date deposited therein pursuant to the Sale
and Servicing Agreement (i) for the benefit of the Class A-l
Notes, to Class A-1 Noteholders, (ii) for the benefit of the
Class A-2 Notes, to Class A-2 Noteholders, (iii) for the benefit
of the Class A-3 Notes, to Class A-3 Noteholders, (iv) for
the benefit of the Class A-4a Notes, to Class A-4a Noteholders,
(v) for the benefit of the Class A-4b Notes, to Class A-4b
Noteholders, (vi) for the benefit of the Class B Notes, to
Class B Noteholders, (vii) for the benefit of the Class C
Notes, to Class C Noteholders and (viii) for the benefit of
the Class D Notes, to Class D Noteholders. Amounts
properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to
any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be considered
as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all
purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of
Office or Agency . The Issuer will maintain in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The
Issuer hereby initially appoints the Indenture Administrator to
serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer
will give prompt written notice to the Indenture Administrator
of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such
office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to
maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Indenture Administrator with the address thereof, such
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Administrator
and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Administrator as
its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and
demands.
SECTION 3.3 Money for
Payments To Be Held in Trust . As provided in Sections
8.2(a) and (b), all payments of amounts due and payable with
respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn
from the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account
shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture
Administrator or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so
withdrawn from the Collection Account, the Spread Account and
the Note Distribution Account for payments of Notes shall be
paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this Section.
At least one Business Day before each Payment
Date and Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit or cause to
be deposited in immediately available funds in the Note
Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the
amounts then becoming due under the Notes, such sum to be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and
(unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture Administrator) shall
promptly notify the Indenture Administrator of its action or
failure so to act.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other
than the Indenture Trustee and the initial Paying Agent to
execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee
(and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so
agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section, that such
Paying Agent will:
(i)
hold all sums held by it for the payment of
amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay
such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
(ii)
give the Indenture Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (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 Administrator all sums held by it
in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to
meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the
time of its appointment; and
(v)
comply with all requirements of the Code with
respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any
Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and
with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in
connection therewith.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of
obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or
for any other purpose, by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent
to pay to the Indenture Administrator all sums held in trust by
such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture
Administrator upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums
were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such a payment by any
Paying Agent to the Indenture Administrator, such Paying Agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to the
escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Administrator
or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due
with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged
from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Request, and
the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof
(but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer),
and all liability of the Indenture Administrator, the Indenture
Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money
shall thereupon cease; provided , however , that
the Indenture Administrator or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense of the
Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that
such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of
such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture
Administrator shall also adopt and employ, at the expense of the
Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such
repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such
repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not
been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in
moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the
records of the Indenture Administrator or of any Paying Agent,
at the last address of record for each such Holder).
SECTION 3.4 Existence .
Except as otherwise permitted by the provisions of Section
3.10, the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State
of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer
hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other
state or of the United States of America, in which case the
Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be
necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this
Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument
or agreement included in the Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.5 Protection of
Trust Estate . The Issuer intends the security
interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the
Issuer Secured Parties to be prior to all other liens in respect
of the Trust Estate (other than tax liens, mechanics’
liens, and other liens specified in Section 3.8(iii)(B)), and
the Issuer shall take all actions necessary to obtain and
maintain, in favor of the Indenture Collateral Agent, for the
benefit of the Issuer Secured Parties, a first lien on and a
first priority, perfected security interest in the Trust Estate
(other than with respect to tax liens, mechanics’ liens,
and other liens specified in Section 3.8(iii)(B)). The
Issuer will from time to time prepare (or shall cause to be
prepared), authorize and deliver all such supplements and
amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and
other instruments, and will take such other action necessary or
advisable to:
(i)
Grant more effectively all or any portion of the
Trust Estate;
(ii)
maintain or preserve the lien and security
interest (and the priority thereof) in favor of the Indenture
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Issuer Secured Parties
created by this Indenture or carry out more effectively the
purposes hereof;
(iii)
perfect, publish notice of or protect the
validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iv)
enforce the rights of the Indenture Collateral
Agent, the Issuer Secured Parties and the Noteholders in any of
the Collateral;
(v)
preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate
and the rights of the Indenture Collateral Agent in such Trust
Estate against the claims of all persons and parties; and
(vi)
pay all taxes or assessments levied or assessed
upon the Trust Estate when due.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture
Collateral Agent its agent and attorney-in-fact to execute any
financing statement or continuation statement reasonably
required pursuant to this Section.
SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to
Trust Estate . (a)
On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to
the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Collateral Agent and the
Indenture Administrator an Opinion of Counsel if then required
by the TIA 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 and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect and make
effective the first priority lien and security interest in favor
of the Indenture Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Issuer
Secured Parties, created by this Indenture and reciting the
details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, no such action is necessary to make such lien and
security interest effective.
(a)
Within 30 days after the beginning of each
calendar year, beginning with the first calendar year beginning
more than three months after the Closing Date, the Issuer shall
cause the Servicer to furnish to the Indenture Trustee, the
Indenture Administrator and the Indenture Collateral Agent 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 and filing of
any financing statements and continuation statements as are
necessary to maintain the lien and perfected first priority
security interest created by this Indenture and reciting the
details of such action or stating that in the opinion of such
counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien and
security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also
describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of
this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and the authorization and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements that will, in
the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain such lien
and security interest of this Indenture until January 30 in the
following calendar year.
SECTION 3.7 Performance of
Obligations; Servicing of Receivables .
(a) The Issuer will not take any
action and will use its best efforts not to permit any action to
be taken by others that would release any Person from any of
such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any
instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate or that
would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination,
termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or
effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
ordered by any bankruptcy or other court or as expressly
provided in this Indenture, the Basic Documents or such other
instrument or agreement.
(b)
The Issuer may contract with other Persons, such
Person being an Eligible Institution or being acceptable to the
Rating Agencies, to assist it in performing its duties under
this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person
identified to the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator in an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer
shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.
Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer to
assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this
Indenture.
(c)
The Issuer will punctually perform and observe
all of its obligations and agreements contained in this
Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the instruments and
agreements included in the Trust Estate, including but not
limited to preparing (or causing to be prepared) and filing (or
causing to be filed) all UCC financing statements and
continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of
this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in
accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein
and therein. Except as otherwise expressly permitted
herein or therein, the Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify,
supplement or terminate any Basic Document or any provision
thereof without the consent of the Indenture Trustee or the
Holders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes.
(d)
If a responsible officer of the Owner Trustee
shall have actual knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer
Default under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Administrator and the Rating Agencies thereof in accordance with
Section 11.4, and shall specify in such notice the action, if
any, the Issuer is taking in 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 Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall take all reasonable steps
available to it to remedy such failure.
(e)
If the Indenture Administrator on behalf of the
Indenture Trustee has given notice of termination to the
Servicer of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to
Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as promptly as
possible thereafter, the Indenture Administrator shall appoint a
successor Servicer in accordance with Section 8.2 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
(f)
Upon any termination of the Servicer’s
rights and powers pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Administrator. As soon as a successor Servicer
(other than the Indenture Administrator) is appointed, the
Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator of such appointment, specifying in such notice the
name and address of such successor Servicer.
(g)
The Issuer agrees that it will not waive timely
performance or observance by the Servicer, the Depositor or the
Representative of their respective duties under the Basic
Documents if the effect thereof would adversely affect the
Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 3.8 Negative
Covenants . So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the
Issuer shall not:
(i)
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture
or the other Basic Documents, sell, transfer, exchange or
otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the
Issuer, including those included in the Trust Estate, unless
directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii)
claim any credit on, or make any deduction from
the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes
(other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under
the Code) or assert any claim against any present or former
Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or
assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate;
(iii)
(A) permit the validity or effectiveness
of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien in favor of
the Indenture Collateral Agent created by this Indenture to be
amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged,
or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or
obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture
except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any
lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or
other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be
created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the
Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens
and other liens, in each case on a Financed Vehicle and arising
solely as a result of an action or omission of the related
Obligor) or (C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to
constitute a valid first priority (other than with respect to
any such tax, mechanics’ or other lien) perfected security
interest in the Trust Estate; or
(iv)
dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part.
SECTION 3.9 Annual
Statement as to Compliance . (a) The Issuer will
deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year
of the Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year ended September
30, 2008), and otherwise in compliance with the requirements of
TIA Section 314(a)(4) an Officer’s Certificate stating, as
to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s
Certificate, that
(i)
a review of the activities of the Issuer during
such year and of performance under this Indenture has been made
under such Authorized Officer’s supervision; and
(ii)
to the best of such Authorized Officer’s
knowledge, based on such review, the Issuer has complied with
all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout
such year, or, if there has been a default in the compliance of
any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default
known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status
thereof.
(b)
On or before December 1 of each calendar year,
commencing in 2008, until a Form 15 Suspension Notification is
filed, the Indenture Administrator shall:
(i)
deliver to the Issuer and the Servicer a report
(in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Servicer,
acting on behalf of the Issuer) regarding the Indenture
Administrator’s assessment of compliance with the
Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar
year, as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange
Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be
addressed to the Issuer and signed by an authorized officer of
the Indenture Administrator; and
(ii)
deliver to the Issuer and the Servicer a report
of a registered public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to
the Issuer and the Servicer that attests to, and reports on, the
assessment of compliance made by the Indenture Administrator and
delivered pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Such
attestation shall be in accordance with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and
2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act.
SECTION 3.10 Issuer May
Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms .
(a) The Issuer shall not
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless
(i)
the Person (if other than the Issuer) 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 and the Indenture Administrator, in form satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Administrator, 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 Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii)
immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing;
(iii)
the Rating Agency Condition shall have been
satisfied with respect to such transaction;
(iv)
the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of
Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the
Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Administrator) to the effect
that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax
consequence to the Trust, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v)
any action as is necessary to maintain the lien
and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi)
the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Administrator an Officer’s
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).
(b)
The Issuer shall not convey or transfer all or
substantially all of its properties or assets, including those
included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless
(i)
the Person that acquires by conveyance or
transfer the properties and assets of the Issuer the conveyance
or transfer of which is hereby restricted shall (A) be a United
States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws
of the United States of America or any state, (B) expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and
the Indenture Administrator, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or
observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture and
each of the Basic Documents on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly
agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all right,
title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject
and subordinate to the rights of Holders of the Notes, (D)
unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture,
expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising
under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E)
expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that
such Person (or if a group of persons, then one specified
Person) shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) and make all
filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person)
required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii)
immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing;
(iii)
the Rating Agency Condition shall have been
satisfied with respect to such transaction;
(iv)
the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of
Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the
Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Administrator) to the effect
that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax
consequence to the Trust, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;
(v)
any action as is necessary to maintain the lien
and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi)
the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Administrator an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).
SECTION 3.11 Successor or
Transferee . (a) Upon any
consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section
3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the
Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b)
Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets
and properties of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b),
Franklin Auto Trust 2008-A will be released from every covenant
and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on
the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately
upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee and
the Indenture Administrator stating that Franklin Auto Trust
2008-A is to be so released.
SECTION 3.12 No Other
Business . The Issuer shall not engage in any business
other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing
the Receivables in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and
the other Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto.
SECTION 3.13 No
Borrowing . The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly,
for any Indebtedness except for (i) the Notes, (ii) obligations
owing from time to time to the Letter of Credit Provider under
the Letter of Credit and the Letter of Credit Reimbursement
Agreement, (iii) obligations owing from time to time to the Swap
Counterparty under the Swap Agreement and (iv) any other
Indebtedness permitted by or arising under the Basic Documents
or the Issuer’s compliance therewith. The proceeds
of the Notes shall be used exclusively to fund the
Issuer’s purchase of the Receivables and the other assets
specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and to pay the
Issuer’s organizational, transactional and start-up
expenses.
SECTION 3.14
Servicer’s Obligations . The Issuer shall
cause the Servicer to comply with Sections 4.9, 4.10, 4.11 and
5.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.15 Guarantees,
Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities . Except as
contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this
Indenture, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or
credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an
instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment
or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or
otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable,
directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations,
stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire
(or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets
or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital
contribution to, any other Person.
SECTION 3.16 Capital
Expenditures . The Issuer shall not make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for
capital assets (either realty or personalty) other than the
purchase of the Receivables and the related property pursuant to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
SECTION 3.17 Compliance
with Laws . The Issuer shall comply with the
requirements of all applicable laws, the non-compliance with
which would, individually or in the aggregate, materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Issuer to perform its
obligations under the Notes, this Indenture or any Basic
Document.
SECTION 3.18 Restricted
Payments . The Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by
reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property,
securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with
respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of
the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or
otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity
interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate
any amounts for any such purpose; provided ,
however , that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made,
distributions to the Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Letter of Credit
Provider, the Swap Counterparty, the Indenture Collateral Agent
and the Certificateholders as permitted by, and to the extent
funds are available for such purpose under, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Trust Agreement or this Indenture.
The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments
to or distributions from the Collection Account except in
accordance with this Indenture and the other Basic
Documents.
SECTION 3.19 Notice of
Events of Default . Upon a responsible officer of the
Owner Trustee having actual knowledge thereof, the Issuer agrees
to give the Indenture Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the
Letter of Credit Provider, the Swap Counterparty and the Rating
Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default
hereunder, and each default on the part of the Servicer or the
Depositor of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
SECTION 3.20 Further
Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee or the Indenture Administrator, the Issuer will execute
and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as
may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.21 Amendments of
Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust Agreement . The
Issuer shall not agree to any amendment to Section 11.1 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 11.1 of the Trust
Agreement to eliminate the requirements thereunder that the
Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Administrator, the Letter of
Credit Provider, the Swap Counterparty or the Holders of the
Notes consent to amendments thereto as provided therein.
SECTION 3.22 Income Tax
Characterization . The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee,
the Indenture Administrator and the Indenture Collateral Agent
hereby agree, and each Noteholder by its acceptance of a Note
agrees, to treat the Notes as indebtedness for federal income
tax purposes and for purposes of applicable state, local, or any
other income tax, franchise tax, or other tax imposed upon or
measured by net income. Each Noteholder agrees (by its
acceptance of a Note) that it will cause any person acquiring an
interest in a Note through it to comply with this Section 3.22
relating to the treatment of the Notes as indebtedness.
Subject to the following sentence of this Section 3.22,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Administrator,
the Indenture Collateral Agent and each Noteholder (by its
acceptance of a Note) agree and acknowledge their intention that
the Issuer shall, for federal income tax purposes and, to the
extent permitted by law, applicable state income or franchise
tax purposes, be disregarded as an entity apart from its owner,
the Depositor, in the event the Depositor is the sole
Certificateholder, or treated as a partnership if there is more
than one Certificateholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this Section 3.22, if any Class of Notes is deemed
for federal income tax purposes (or for purposes of any state,
local, or other income tax, franchise tax or other tax imposed
upon or measured by net income) to represent an equity interest
in the Issuer it is the intent and agreement of the parties
hereto (and of each Noteholder by its acceptance of a Note) that
the Issuer shall, to the extent permitted by law, be treated for
purposes of any such tax which treats Notes in such manner as a
partnership among the affected Class of Noteholders and the
Certificateholder. If such a partnership is deemed to
exist for applicable tax purposes, the taxable income of the
Issuer shall be allocated in such manner as to cause, to the
greatest extent possible, the Certificateholder and each
affected Noteholder to recognize taxable income or loss at such
time, and in such amounts, as each such person would have
recognized such income or loss if such Class of Notes had not
been recharacterized as an equity interest in the Issuer.
SECTION 3.23 Article Nine
Provisions . The representations and warranties set
forth in this Section 3.23 speak as of the execution and
delivery of this Indenture and as of the Closing Date, but shall
survive the pledge of the Receivables to the Indenture
Collateral Agent. The representations set forth in this
Section 3.23 may not be waived.
(a)
This Indenture creates a valid and continuing
security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the
Receivables in favor of the Indenture Collateral Agent, which
security interest is prior to all other Liens, and is
enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from
the Issuer.
(b)
The Issuer has taken all steps necessary to
perfect its security interest against the Depositor in the
Receivables.
(c)
The Receivables constitute “tangible
chattel paper” within the meaning of the applicable
UCC.
(d)
The Issuer owns and has good and marketable
title to the Receivables free and clear of any Lien, claim or
encumbrance of any Person.
(e)
The Issuer has caused or will have caused,
within ten days, the filing of all appropriate financing
statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate
jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the
security interest in the Receivables granted to the Indenture
Collateral Agent hereunder.
(f)
Other than the security interest granted to the
Indenture Collateral Agent pursuant to this Indenture, the
Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security
interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Receivables.
The Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not
aware of any financing statements against the Issuer that
include a description of collateral covering the Receivables
other than any financing statement relating to the security
interest granted to the Indenture Collateral Agent hereunder or
that has been terminated. The Issuer is not aware of any
judgment or tax lien filings against the Issuer.
(g)
Franklin Capital has in its possession all
original copies of Receivables Files that constitute or evidence
the Receivables. The Receivables Files that constitute or
evidence the Receivables do not have any marks or notations
indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise
conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Collateral
Agent. All financing statements filed or to be filed
against the Depositor, the Trust or the Issuer in favor of the
Indenture Collateral Agent in connection herewith describing the
Receivables contain a statement to the following effect:
“A purchase of or security interest in any
collateral described in this financing statement will violate
the rights of the Indenture Collateral Agent.”
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, and 3.22, (v) the rights, obligations and
immunities of the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 6.7, the rights of the Indenture
Administrator under Section 6.25 and the obligations of the
Indenture Administrator under Section 4.2) and (vi) the rights
of Noteholders and the Swap Counterparty as beneficiaries hereof
with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Administrator payable to all or any of
them, and the Indenture Administrator, on demand of and at the
expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, when
(A)
either
(1)
all Notes theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost
or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.5 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has
theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have
been delivered to the Indenture Administrator for cancellation
and the Swap Agreement has been terminated and all Net Swap
Payments and, if applicable, any Swap Termination Payments owed
by the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty have been paid; or
(2)
all Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Indenture Administrator for cancellation
(i)
have become due and payable,
(ii)
will become due and payable at their respective
Final Scheduled Distribution Dates within one year, or
(iii)
are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Administrator
for the giving of notice of redemption by the Indenture
Administrator in the name, and at the expense, of the
Issuer,
and the Issuer, in the case of (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Collateral Agent cash
or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United
States of America (which will mature prior to the date such
amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Administrator
for cancellation when due to the Final Scheduled Distribution
Date or Redemption Date (if Notes shall have been called for
redemption pursuant to Section 10.1(a)), as the case may be and
all amounts due to the Swap Counterparty, as determined by the
Servicer;
(B)
the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all
Issuer Secured Obligations; and
(C)
the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Collateral Agent and the Indenture
Administrator an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel and, if required by the TIA, the Indenture Trustee, the
Indenture Collateral Agent or the Indenture Administrator 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 moneys deposited with the Indenture
Administrator pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof shall be held in
trust and applied by it (a) in accordance with the provisions of
the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Administrator may
determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for the
payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited
with the Indenture Administrator, of all sums due and to become
due thereon for principal and interest and (b) in accordance
with instructions from the Servicer, on which instructions the
Indenture Administrator may conclusively rely, which
instructions shall provide for payments due to the Letter of
Credit Provider and for Net Swap Payments or Swap Termination
Payments due to the Swap Counterparty; but such moneys need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by
law.
SECTION 4.3 Repayment of
Moneys Held by Paying Agent . In connection with the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the
Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Administrator under the provisions of this Indenture
with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be
paid to the Indenture Administrator 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
moneys.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.1 Events of
Default . “Event of Default”, wherever
used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body):
(i)
default in the payment of any interest on any
Note of the Controlling Class when the same becomes due and
payable, and such default shall continue for a period of five
days after receipt of notice thereof from the Indenture
Administrator; or
(ii)
default in the payment of the principal of or
any installment of the principal of any Note when the same
becomes due and payable on the related Final Scheduled
Distribution Date; or
(iii)
default in the observance or performance of any
covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture
(other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance
or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty of
the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other
writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the
time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall
continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in
respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was
incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for
a period of 30 days (or for such longer period, not in excess of
90 days, as may be reasonably necessary to remedy such default;
provided that such default is capable of remedy within 90 days
or less and the Servicer on behalf of the Issuer delivers an
Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Administrator to the effect that the Issuer has
commenced, or will promptly commence and diligently pursue, all
reasonable efforts to remedy such default) after there shall
have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer
by the Indenture Administrator or to the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Administrator by the Holders of at
least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the
Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such default or
incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder; or
(iv)
the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the
Issuer 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
Issuer or for any substantial part of the Trust Estate, or
ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer’s
affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(v)
the commencement by the Issuer 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 Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in
an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the
Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of
the Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuer of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the
Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or
the taking of action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the
foregoing.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Administrator and the Swap Counterparty,
within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in
the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event which
with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an
Event of Default under clause (iii), its status and what action
the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.
SECTION 5.2 Rights Upon
Event of Default . (a) If the Notes
shall have been declared immediately due and payable following
an Event of Default, the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the
Controlling Class may exercise any of the remedies specified in
Section 5.4(a).
(b)
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Indenture Trustee in its discretion may, or
if so requested in writing by Holders holding Notes representing
not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
of the Controlling Class, shall declare by written notice to the
Issuer that the Notes become, whereupon they shall become,
immediately due and payable at par, together with accrued
interest thereon.
(c)
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, then at any time after such declaration of
acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the
Indenture Trustee or the Indenture Administrator as hereinafter
in this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the
Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
(i)
the Issuer has paid or deposited with the
Indenture Administrator as an agent of the Indenture Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay
(A)
all payments of principal of and interest on all
Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or
upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such
acceleration had not occurred;
(B)
all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture
Administrator as an agent of the Indenture Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Administrator and their agents and counsel; and
(C)
any Net Swap Payments and any Swap Termination
Payments then due and payable to the Swap Counterparty under the
Swap Agreement; and
(ii)
all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment
of the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section
5.12.
(d)
Promptly after the occurrence of an Event of
Default and after the Notes becoming immediately due and
payable, the Indenture Administrator shall send notice of such
event to the Rating Agencies.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent
default or impair any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.3 Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee
. (a) The Issuer covenants that if
(i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note
when the same becomes due and payable, and such default
continues for a period of five days, or (ii) default is made in
the payment of the principal of or any installment of the
principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable, the
Issuer will, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee or the
Indenture Administrator, pay to the Indenture Administrator, for
the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then
due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with
interest upon the overdue principal, and, to the extent payment
at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon
overdue installments of interest, at the applicable Interest
Rate and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Indenture Administrator, the Indenture
Trustee and their agents and counsel.
(b)
In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay
such amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and
may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and
may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon
such Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Issuer 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
law.
(d)
Reserved.
(e)
In case there shall be pending, relative to the
Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having
or claiming an ownership interest in the Trust Estate,
proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any
other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in
bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or
similar official shall have been appointed for or taken
possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor
or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial
proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the
Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such
other obligor, the Indenture Administrator as an agent of 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 Administrator as an agent of the Indenture Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in
such proceedings or otherwise:
(i)
to file and prove a claim or claims for the
whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of
the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee or the
Indenture Administrator and each predecessor Indenture Trustee
or the Indenture Administrator, except as a result of
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct) and of the
Noteholders allowed in such proceedings;
(ii)
unless prohibited by applicable law and
regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any
election of a trustee, a standby trustee or person performing
similar functions in any such proceedings;
(iii)
to collect and receive any moneys or other
property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to
distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of
the Noteholders, the Swap Counterparty 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, the Swap Counterparty or the
Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to
the Issuer, 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 Administrator, and, in the event that the Indenture
Administrator shall consent to the making of payments directly
to such Noteholders and the Swap Counterparty, to pay to the
Indenture Administrator such amounts as shall be sufficient to
cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Administrator,
each predecessor Indenture Administrator and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture
Administrator and each predecessor Indenture Administrator
except as a result of negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct.
(f)
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.
(g)
All rights of action and of asserting claims
under this Indenture or under any of the Notes, may be enforced
by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the
Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other
proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings
instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements
and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys,
shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes and
the Swap Counterparty.
(h)
In any proceedings brought by the Indenture
Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation
of any provision of this Indenture), the Indenture Trustee shall
be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall
not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such
proceedings.
SECTION 5.4 Remedies .
(a) If the Notes shall have been declared
immediately due and payable following an Event of Default, the
Indenture Trustee may and shall, at the direction of Holders of
a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the
Controlling Class, do one or more of the following (subject to
Section 5.5):
(i)
institute Proceedings in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts
then payable on the Notes, to the Swap Counterparty or under
this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or
otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the
Issuer, the Swap Counterparty and any other obligor upon such
Notes moneys adjudged due;
(ii)
institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect
to the Trust Estate;
(iii)
exercise any remedies of a secured party under
the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and
enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the
Holders of the Notes; and
(iv)
direct the Indenture Collateral Agent to sell
the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and
conducted in any manner permitted by law; provided ,
however , that the Indenture Collateral Agent shall not,
sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event
of Default unless:
(A)
such Event of Default is of the type described
in Section 5.1(i) or (ii); or
(B)
any of
(x)
the Holders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes consent thereto;
(y)
the proceeds of such sale or liquidation
distributable to the Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in
full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Notes for
principal and interest; or
(z)
the Indenture Trustee determines that the Trust
Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they would
have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and
payable, and the Indenture Trustee provides prior written notice
to the Rating Agencies and obtains the consent of Holders of
66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency
with respect to clause (B) (y) and (z), 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 5.5 Optional
Preservation of the Receivables . If the Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2 following
an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences
have not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may,
but need not, elect to cause the Indenture Collateral Agent to
maintain possession of the Trust Estate on behalf of the
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders. In
determining whether to cause the Indenture Collateral Agent so
to maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture
Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national
reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as
to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
SECTION 5.6 Priorities
.
(a)
Following (1) the acceleration of the Notes
pursuant to Section 5.2 (and the related declaration of
acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled) or (2) the
receipt of Insolvency Proceeds pursuant to Section 9.1(b) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Distribution Amount, including
any money or property collected pursuant to Section 5.4 of the
Indenture and any such Insolvency Proceeds, shall be applied by
the Indenture Trustee on the related Payment Date in the
following order of priority:
FIRST:
pro rata, to pay any amounts due and owing (a)
to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Administrator and the Indenture Collateral Agent for
compensation, reimbursement of expenses or indemnification as
provided hereunder or the other Basic Documents and to the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.6(a)(i)
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
(b) to the Letter of Credit Provider
the amounts pursuant to Section 5.6(a)(ii) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and (c) to the Swap Counterparty the amounts
pursuant to Section 5.6(a)(iii) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement;
SECOND:
pro rata, based on amounts due and owing under
this clause SECOND, (a) to the Swap Counterparty for any due and
unpaid Senior Swap Termination Payment and (b) to the Class A
Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for
interest;
THIRD:
to the Class A-1 Noteholders for amounts due and
unpaid on the Class A-1 Notes for principal until the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes shall have been
paid in full;
FOURTH:
to the Class A-2 Noteholders for amounts due and
unpaid on the Class A-2 Notes for principal until the entire
unpaid principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes shall have been
paid in full;
FIFTH:
to the Class A-3 Noteholders for amounts
due and unpaid on the Class A-3 Notes for principal until the
entire unpaid principal amount of the Class A-3 Notes shall have
been paid in full;
SIXTH:
pro rata, to the Class A-4a Noteholders for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class A-4a Notes for principal and
to the Class A-4b Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class A-4b Notes for principal, until each such principal amount
shall have been paid in full;
SEVENTH:
to the Class B Noteholders first for amounts due
and unpaid on the Class B Notes for interest and then for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class B Notes for principal until
the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class B Notes shall
have been paid in full;
EIGHTH:
to the Class C Noteholders first for amounts due
and unpaid on the Class C Notes for interest and then for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class C Notes for principal until
the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class C Notes shall
have been paid in full;
NINTH:
to the Class D Noteholders first for amounts due
and unpaid on the Class D Notes for interest and then for
amounts due and unpaid on the Class D Notes for principal until
the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class D Notes shall
have been paid in full;
TENTH:
amounts due and owing and required to be
distributed to the Letter of Credit Provider pursuant to Section
5.6(a)(xiv) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and not
previously distributed;
ELEVENTH:
to the Swap Counterparty, any due and unpaid
Subordinated Swap Termination Payment;
TWELFTH:
amounts due and owing and required to be
distributed to the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.6(a)(xiii) of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
THIRTEENTH:
to or upon the order of the Owner Trustee for
distribution pursuant to Section 5.2(a) of the Trust
Agreement.
(b)
The Indenture Administrator may fix a record
date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to
this Section. At least 15 days before such record date the
Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder, the Indenture
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the
record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
SECTION 5.7 Limitation of
Suits . No Holder of any Note shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to
this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(i)
such Holder has previously given written notice
to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(ii)
the Holders of not less than 25% of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes 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;
(iii)
such Holder or Holders have offered to the
Indenture Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
complying with such request;
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its
receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has
failed to institute such proceedings;
(v)
no direction inconsistent with such written
request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such
60-day period by the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class; and
(vi)
such Event of Default actually shall have
occurred and be continuing;
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 or to enforce any
right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive
conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or
more groups of Holders of Notes of the Controlling Class, each
representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall proceed in accordance
with the request of the greater majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class, as determined by
reference to such requests.
SECTION 5.8 Unconditional
Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest .
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture,
the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute
and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and
interest, if any, on such Note on or after the respective due
dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or,
in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and
such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder.
SECTION 5.9 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 Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such
Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their
former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and
remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 5.10 Rights and
Remedies Cumulative . No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee, the Swap
Counterparty 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 5.11 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 5.12 Control by
Noteholders of the Controlling Class . The Holders of
a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes 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 with respect to the Notes or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture
Trustee; provided that:
(i)
such direction shall not be in conflict with any
rule of law or with this Indenture;
(ii)
any direction to the Indenture Trustee to cause
the Indenture Collateral Agent to sell or liquidate the Trust
Estate shall be governed by the provisions of Section
5.4(a)(iv);
(iii)
if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have
been satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the
Trust Estate pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the
Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than
100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling
Class to cause the Indenture Collateral Agent to sell or
liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect;
and
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee may take any other action
deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent
with such direction;
provided , however , that, subject
to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action
that it determines might involve it in liability or might
materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not
consenting to such action.
SECTION 5.13 Waiver of Past
Defaults . Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section
5.2(c), the Holders of Notes of not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class may
waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences
except a Default (a) in payment of principal of or interest on
any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision
hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent
of the Holder of each Note. In the case of any such
waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the
Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease
to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have
occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to
any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 5.14 Undertaking
for Costs . All parties to this Indenture agree, and
each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance
thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the
Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by
it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good
faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but
the provisions of this Section shall not apply to (a) any suit
instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by
any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in
the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes (or in the case of a right or remedy under this Indenture
which is instituted by the Controlling Class, more than 10% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class) or
(c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of
the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after
the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this
Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.15 Waiver of Stay
or Extension Laws . The Issuer covenants (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time
insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect
the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the
Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and
covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no
such law had been enacted.
SECTION 5.16 Action on
Notes . The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek
and recover judgment on the Notes, under the Swap Agreement 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 Issuer or by the
levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of
the Trust Estate or upon any of the assets of the Issuer.
SECTION 5.17 Performance
and Enforcement of Certain Obligations .
(a) Promptly following a request from the
Indenture Trustee to do so and at the Servicer’s expense, the
Issuer agrees to take all such lawful action as the Indenture
Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and
observance by the Representative, the Depositor, the Servicer and
the Swap Counterparty, as applicable, of each of their obligations
to the Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Swap Agreement in accordance with the terms
thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and
privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection
with the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Swap Agreement to the
extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee,
including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the
Depositor or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal
or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure
performance by the Depositor or the Servicer of each of their
obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Swap
Counterparty of its obligations under the Swap Agreement.
(b)
If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction
(which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed
in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of a majority of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class
shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and
claims of the Issuer against the Depositor or the Servicer and
the Swap Counterparty under or in connection with the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Swap Agreement, including the right
or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or
observance by the Depositor or the Servicer and the Swap
Counterparty of each of their obligations to the Issuer
thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction,
approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the Swap Agreement, and any right of the Issuer to
take such action shall be suspended.
ARTICLE VI
The Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Collateral Agent and the
Indenture Administrator
SECTION 6.1 Duties of
Indenture Trustee and Indenture Collateral Agent .
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, and of which a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee shall have actual knowledge, the Indenture
Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by
this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in
their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own
affairs.
(b)
Except during the continuance of an Event of
Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee
or the Indenture Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge
and at all times regarding the Indenture Collateral Agent:
(i)
the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Collateral Agent each undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and
no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent, as applicable; and
(ii)
in the absence of negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct on its part, the Indenture Trustee or
Indenture Collateral Agent, as applicable, 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 or Indenture Collateral
Agent, as applicable, and conforming to the requirements of this
Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee or Indenture
Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall examine the certificates
and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the
requirements of this Indenture and, if applicable, the Basic
Documents to which the Indenture Trustee or Indenture Collateral
Agent, as applicable, is a party; provided ,
however , that the Indenture Trustee or Indenture
Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall not be responsible for
the accuracy or content of any of the aforementioned documents
and the Indenture Trustee or Indenture Collateral Agent, as
applicable, shall have no obligation to verify or re-compute any
numeric information provided to it pursuant to the Basic
Documents.
(c)
Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Indenture
Collateral Agent may be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own
willful misconduct, except that:
(i)
this paragraph does not limit the effect of
paragraph (b) of this Section;
(ii)
neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Indenture
Collateral Agent shall be liable for any error of judgment or
mistake of fact made in good faith by a Responsible Officer
unless it is proven that the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent, as applicable, 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 Section
5.12.
(d)
Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Indenture
Collateral Agent shall be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent, as applicable, may agree in writing with the
Issuer.
(e)
Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee or
the Indenture Collateral Agent need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this
Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(f)
No provision of this Indenture shall require the
Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
incur financial liability in the performance of any of its
duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or
powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(g)
Every provision of this Indenture relating to
the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the TIA.
(h)
The Indenture Trustee shall, and hereby agrees
that it will, perform all of the obligations and duties required
of it under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(i)
[Reserved].
(j)
Without limiting the generality of this Section
6.1 and except during such time, if any, as the Indenture
Trustee shall be successor to, and be vested with the rights,
duties, powers and privileges of, the Servicer in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and subject to the other provisions of this Indenture,
the Indenture Trustee shall have no duty (i) to see to any
recording, filing or depositing of this Indenture or any
agreement referred to herein or any financing statement
evidencing a security interest in the Financed Vehicles, or to
see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing or
depositing or to any recording, refiling or redepositing of any
thereof, (ii) to see to any insurance of the Financed Vehicles
or Obligors or to effect or maintain any such insurance, (iii)
to see to the payment or discharge of any tax, assessment or
other governmental charge or any Lien or encumbrance of any kind
owing with respect to, assessed or levied against any part of
the Trust, (iv) to confirm or verify the contents of any reports
or certificates delivered to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement believed by
the Indenture Trustee to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties, or (v) to inspect the
Financed Vehicles at any time or ascertain or inquire as to the
performance or observance of any of the Issuer’s, the
Depositor’s or the Servicer’s representations,
warranties or covenants or the Servicer’s duties and
obligations as Servicer and as custodian of the Receivable Files
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
(k)
Whenever any action under the Basic Documents
requires the approval or disapproval of Certificateholders, the
Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with, and subject to,
Section 2.13 of the Trust Agreement, instruct the
Certificateholders to act in accordance with the written
directions, received from Holders of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes.
(l)
Except as otherwise required or permitted by the
TIA, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee (in its capacity as such) to engage in any
business operations or any activities other than those set forth
in this Indenture. Specifically, the Indenture Trustee (in
its capacity as such) shall have no authority to engage in any
business operations, acquire any assets other than those
specifically included in the Collateral under this Indenture or
otherwise vary the assets held by the Issuer.
(m)
The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to
take notice or be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any
Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee shall have received written notice thereof.
In the absence of receipt of such notice, the Indenture
Trustee may conclusively assume that there is no Default or
Event of Default.
(n)
Anything in this Indenture to the contrary
notwithstanding, in no event shall the Indenture Trustee be
liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of
any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits),
even if the Indenture Trustee has been advised of the likelihood
of such loss or damage regardless of the form of action.
SECTION 6.2 Rights of
Indenture Trustee . (a) Subject to
Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely on and
shall be protected in acting upon or refraining from acting upon
any resolution, Officer’s Certificate, Opinion of Counsel,
certificate of auditors or any other certified statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
person. Subject to Section 6.1, 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, suffers or omits to take in good faith
which it believes to be authorized or within the rights or
powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; provided ,
however , that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does
not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e)
The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel,
and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal
matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full
and complete authorization and protection from liability in
respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder
in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of
such counsel.
(f)
The Indenture Trustee shall be under no
obligation to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under
this Indenture or in relation to this Indenture, at the request,
order or direction of any of the Holders of Notes, pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders of Notes
shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that
may be incurred therein or thereby.
(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, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper
or document, unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders
of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount
thereof; provided , however , that if the payment
within a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee of the costs,
expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the
making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture
Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Indenture Trustee by the
security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture or the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such cost, expense or liability as
a condition to so proceeding; the reasonable expense of every
such examination shall be paid by the Person making such
request, or, if paid by the Indenture Trustee, shall be
reimbursed by the Person making such request upon demand.
(h)
The right of the Indenture Trustee to perform
any discretionary act enumerated in this Indenture shall not be
construed as a duty, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be
answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct
in the performance of such act.
(i)
The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to
give any surety or bond in respect to the execution of the Trust
Estate created hereby or the powers granted hereunder.
SECTION 6.3 Individual
Rights of Indenture Trustee . The Indenture Trustee in
its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not
Indenture Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar,
co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like
rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with
Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
SECTION 6.4 Disclaimer of
the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent .
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes shall be
taken as the statements of the Issuer or the Depositor, as the
case may be, and neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Indenture
Collateral Agent assumes any responsibility for their
correctness. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the
Indenture Collateral Agent shall be responsible for nor makes
any representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Indenture, the Trust Estate or the Notes, they shall not be
accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the
Notes, and they shall not be responsible for any statement of
the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued in
connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other
than, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee’s certificate of authentication.
SECTION 6.5 Notice of
Defaults . If a Default occurs and is continuing and
if it is either known by, or written notice of the existence
thereof has been delivered to, a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder notice of the Default within 90 days after such
knowledge or notice occurs. Except in the case of a
Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note
(including payments pursuant to the mandatory partial prepayment
provisions of such Note), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the
notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers
in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the
interests of Noteholders.
SECTION 6.6 Reports by
Indenture Trustee to Holders . The Indenture Trustee
shall deliver to each Noteholder such information requested by
such Holder or the Depositor in writing as may be reasonably
required to enable such Holder to prepare its Federal and state
income tax returns.
SECTION 6.7 Compensation
and Indemnity . (a) The Issuer shall
or shall cause the Servicer to, pay to the Indenture Trustee
from time to time compensation for its services in accordance
with a separate agreement between the Servicer and the Indenture
Trustee. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall
not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an
express trust. The Issuer shall or shall cause the
Servicer to reimburse the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Collateral Agent for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred or made by them, including costs of collection, in
addition to the compensation for their services. Such expenses
shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s or
the Indenture Collateral Agent’s agents, counsel,
accountants and experts. The Issuer shall or shall cause
the Servicer to indemnify the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Collateral Agent and their respective officers, directors,
employees and agents against any and all loss, liability or
expense (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred
by it in connection with the acceptance or the administration of
this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder.
The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the
Servicer promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.
Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer
and the Servicer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations
hereunder or the Servicer of its obligations under Article X of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Issuer shall or
shall cause the Servicer to defend the claim, the Indenture
Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall or shall
cause the Servicer to pay the fees and expenses of such counsel.
Neither the Issuer nor the Servicer need reimburse any
expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense
incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture
Trustee’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
Notwithstanding anything provided herein, the indemnification
provided herein shall not constitute a claim against the Issuer
other than in accordance with Section 5.6(a)(xvi) of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or 5.6(a) hereof.
(b)
The Issuer’s obligations to the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent pursuant to this
Section shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and
removal or resignation of the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Collateral Agent. When the Indenture Trustee
incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in
Section 5.1(iv) or (v) with respect to the Issuer, 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.
Notwithstanding anything else set forth in this Indenture
or the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee agrees that the
obligations of the Issuer (but not the Servicer) to the
Indenture Trustee hereunder and under the Basic Documents shall
be recourse to the Trust Estate only and specifically shall not
be recourse to the assets of any Certificateholder.
Subject to Section 5.6 of this Indenture, the Indenture
Trustee agrees that its recourse to the Issuer, the Trust
Estate, the Certificateholders and the Depositor shall be
limited to the right to receive the distributions referred to in
Section 5.6(a)(xvii) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
Section 5.6(a) hereof.
SECTION 6.8 Replacement of
Indenture Trustee and of Indenture Collateral Agent .
No resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the
Indenture Collateral Agent and no appointment of a successor
Indenture Trustee and a successor Indenture Collateral Agent
shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by
the successor Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture
Collateral Agent pursuant to this Section 6.8. The
Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent may resign
at any time by so notifying the Issuer, the Indenture
Administrator and the Swap Counterparty. The Holders of a
majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may remove the
Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent by so
notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral
Agent and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee and a
successor Indenture Collateral Agent. The Issuer shall remove
the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent,
if:
(i)
the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with
Section 6.11;
(ii)
a court having jurisdiction in the premises in
respect of the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture Collateral
Agent in an involuntary case or proceeding under federal or
state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter
constituted, or any other applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, shall have entered
a decree or order granting relief or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator,
sequestrator (or similar official) for the Indenture Trustee or
the Indenture Collateral Agent or for any substantial part of
the Indenture Trustee’s or the Indenture Collateral
Agent’s property, or ordering the winding-up or
liquidation of the Indenture Trustee’s or the Indenture
Collateral Agent’s affairs;
(iii)
an involuntary case under the federal bankruptcy
laws, as now or hereafter in effect, or another present or
future federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law is
commenced with respect to the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent and such case is not dismissed within 60
days;
(iv)
the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent commences a voluntary case under any federal or
state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter
constituted, or any other applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or consents to the
appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator (or
other similar official) for the Indenture Trustee or for the
Indenture Collateral Agent, as applicable, or for any
substantial part of the Indenture Trustee’s or the
Indenture Collateral Agent’s property, or makes any
assignment for the benefit of creditors or fails generally to
pay its debts as such debts become due or takes any corporate
action in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or
(v)
either of the Indenture Trustee or the Indenture
Collateral Agent otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Collateral Agent resign or are removed or if a vacancy exists in
the offices of Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Collateral
Agent for any reason (the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Collateral Agent in such event being referred to herein as the
retiring Indenture Trustee and the retiring Indenture Collateral
Agent), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture
Trustee and a successor Indenture Collateral Agent.
A successor Indenture Trustee and a successor
Indenture Collateral Agent shall deliver a written acceptance of
appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee, the retiring
Indenture Collateral Agent, the Swap Counterparty and to the
Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Indenture Trustee and the retiring Indenture Collateral
Agent shall become effective, and the successor Indenture
Trustee and the successor Indenture Collateral Agent shall have
all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee and
the Indenture Collateral Agent under this Indenture subject to
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition. The successor
Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture Collateral Agent
shall mail a notice of their succession to the Noteholders and
the Swap Counterparty. Each of the retiring Indenture
Trustee and the retiring Indenture Collateral Agent shall
promptly transfer all property held by them as Indenture Trustee
and as Indenture Collateral Agent to the successor Indenture
Trustee and the successor Indenture Collateral Agent, as
appropriate.
If both a successor Indenture Trustee and a
successor Indenture Collateral Agent do not take office within
60 days after notice of resignation or removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee and the retiring Indenture Collateral Agent,
the retiring Indenture Trustee and the retiring Indenture
Collateral Agent, the Issuer, or the Holders of a majority in
Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Indenture Trustee and a successor Indenture
Collateral Agent.
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
Indenture Collateral Agent, and the appointment of a successor
Indenture Trustee and a successor Indenture Collateral
Agent.
Any resignation or removal of the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent and appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee and a successor Indenture Collateral
Agent pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the
successor Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture
Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.8 and payment of all fees
and expenses owed to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the
retiring Indenture Collateral Agent.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Collateral Agent pursuant to this
Section, the Issuer’s and the Servicer’s obligations
under Section 6.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring
Indenture Trustee and the retiring Indenture Collateral
Agent.
SECTION 6.9 Successor
Indenture Trustee by Merger . If the Indenture Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to,
another corporation or banking association, the resulting,
surviving or transferee corporation without any further act
shall be the successor Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies prior written notice
of any such transaction unless otherwise prohibited by
applicable law or the applicable agreement.
In case at the time such successor or successors
by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee
shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the
Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such
successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor indenture trustee, and deliver
such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the
Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name
of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to
the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates
shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or
in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture
Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.10 Appointment of
Co-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 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 a separate
trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and
to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the
benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Trust, or any part
hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such
powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture
Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or
separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor indenture 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 hereof.
The appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall
not relieve the Indenture Trustee of any of its obligations
hereunder.
(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 separ
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