Exhibit 4.2
INDENTURE
NISSAN
AUTO RECEIVABLES 2008-B OWNER TRUST
as
Issuer
and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
as
Indenture Trustee
Dated
as of June 19, 2008
(Nissan 2008-B Indenture)
INDENTURE dated as of June 19,
2008 (this “Indenture”), between NISSAN AUTO
RECEIVABLES 2008-B OWNER TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust (the
“Issuer”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a
New York banking corporation, as trustee and not in its individual
capacity (the “Indenture Trustee”).
Each party agrees as follows for the
benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of
(i) the Holders of the Issuer’s 2.78580% Asset Backed
Notes, Class A-1 (the “Class A-1 Notes”),
3.80% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2 (the “Class A-2
Notes”), 4.46% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 (the
“Class A-3 Notes”) and 5.05% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-4 (the “Class A-4 Notes” and,
together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes
and the Class A-3 Notes, the “Notes”) and
(ii) for the purposes of the Granting Clause below, the
Certificateholders:
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the
Indenture Trustee at the Closing Date, as Indenture Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders of the Notes and Certificates the
following:
(i) all right, title and
interest of the Issuer in and to the Receivables (including all
related Receivable Files) and all monies due thereon or paid
thereunder or in respect thereof (including proceeds of the
repurchase of Receivables by the Seller pursuant to
Section 3.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the
purchase of Receivables by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.06 or
9.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) after the Cut-off
Date;
(ii) the Collection Account and
amounts on deposit in the Collection Account and the Yield
Supplement Account;
(iii) the right of the Issuer in
the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by the
Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any related
property;
(iv) the right of the Issuer in
any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life,
credit disability or other insurance policies covering the Financed
Vehicles or the Obligors;
(v) the right of the Issuer
(through the Seller and NMAC) to receive payments in respect of any
Dealer Recourse with respect to the Receivables;
(vi) the rights of the Issuer
under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and, through the Seller,
under the Purchase Agreement and the Assignment;
(vii) the rights of the Issuer
under the Yield Supplement Agreement;
(viii) the right of the Issuer
to realize upon any property (including the right to receive future
Net Liquidation Proceeds) that shall have secured a
Receivable;
(ix) the right of the Issuer in
rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance
policies and other items financed under the Receivables in effect
as of the Cut-off Date;
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(x) all other assets comprising
the Owner Trust Estate; and
(xi) all proceeds of the
foregoing.
The foregoing Grant is made in trust
to secure the payment of principal of and interest on, and any
other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably
without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to secure
compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, and subject to
the subordinate claims thereon of the Holder of the Certificates,
all as provided in this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture
Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes and for the benefit
of the Certificateholders, 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 and the rights of the Certificateholders secured.
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
SECTION 1.01 Definitions .
Except as otherwise specified herein or if the context may
otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Trust Agreement,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and the Securities Account
Control Agreement as the case may be, for all purposes of this
Indenture. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, whenever
used herein the following words and phrases, unless the context
otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:
“ Action ” has the
meaning specified in Section 11.03(a).
“ Administration
Agreement ” means the Administration Agreement, dated as
of the Closing Date, among the Administrator, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.
“ Administrator ”
means NMAC or any successor Administrator under the Administration
Agreement.
“ Applicant ” has
the meaning specified in Section 7.01.
“ Authorized Officer
” means with respect to the Issuer, any officer of the Owner
Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters
relating to the Issuer identified as such on any list of Authorized
Officers delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture
Trustee.
“ Benefit Plan ”
means an “employee benefit plan” as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA, which is subject to the provisions of
Title I of ERISA, a “plan” described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, an entity whose underlying
assets include “plan assets” by reason of an employee
benefit plan’s or plan’s investment in the entity, or
any other employee benefit plan that is subject to a law that is
similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code.
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“ Book-Entry Notes
” means a beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and
transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing
Agency as described in Section 2.10.
“ Business Day ”
means any day except a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banks
in New York, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Irving, Texas or
Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or obligated by law,
regulation, executive order or governmental decree to be
closed.
“ Certificates ”
means the Certificates of the Issuer issued under the Trust
Agreement.
“ Class ” means
any one of the classes of the Notes.
“ Class A-1 Notes
” means the “2.78580% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-1,” substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
“ Class A-1 Rate
” means 2.78580% per annum (computed on the basis of actual
number of days in the related Interest Period and a 360-day
year).
“ Class A-2 Notes
” means the “3.80% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-2,” substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
“ Class A-2 Rate
” means 3.80% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months).
“ Class A-3 Notes
” means the “4.46% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-3,” substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
“ Class A-3 Rate
” means 4.46% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months).
“ Class A-4 Notes
” means the “5.05% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-4,” substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
“ Class A-4 Rate
” means 5.05% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting 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 19, 2008.
“ Code ” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
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“ Collateral ”
means the property of the Issuer subject to the Granting Clause
hereof, the Reserve Account, all amounts held from time to time in
the Reserve Account and all investments therein.
“ Corporate Trust Office
” means the principal office of the Indenture Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office at the date of execution of this
Agreement is located at 60 Wall Street, 26 th Floor, New
York, New York 10005, Attention: Structured Finance Services
– Nissan Auto Receivables 2008-B Owner Trust, or at such
other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to
time by notice to the Noteholders, the Issuer and the
Administrator, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Indenture Trustee at the address designated by such
successor Indenture Trustee by notice to the Noteholders, the
Issuer and the Administrator.
“ Currency Swap
Agreement ” shall mean any currency swap agreement,
including all schedules or confirmations thereto, entered into by
the Issuer and the Currency Swap Counterparty, as the same may be
amended, supplemented, renewed, extended or replaced from time to
time.
“ Currency Swap
Counterparty ” shall mean an unaffiliated third party, as
swap counterparty, under the Currency Swap Agreement, or any
success or replacement Currency Swap Counterparty from time to
time.
“ 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.
“ Event of Default
” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
“ Exchange Act ”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Executive Officer
” means, with respect to any 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, and grant a lien upon
and a security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit,
set over and confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of the
Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include
all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the
granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing
right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal
and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other
moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise
all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the
granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive
anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or
receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
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“ Holder ” or
“ Noteholder ” means the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register.
“ Hybrid Chattel Paper
” has the meaning specified in Section 3.21(b).
“ Indenture Trustee
” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York
banking corporation, 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 is in fact independent of the Seller, the Servicer, the
Administrator, the Issuer or any other obligor on the Notes or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons because, among other
things, such Person (a) is not an employee, officer or
director or otherwise controlled thereby or under common control
therewith, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or
any material indirect financial interest therein (whether as holder
of securities thereof or party to contract therewith or otherwise),
and (c) is not and has not within the preceding twelve months
been a promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person
performing similar functions therefor or otherwise had legal,
contractual or fiduciary or other duties to act on behalf of or for
the benefit thereof.
“ Independent
Certificate ” means a certificate or opinion to be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, made by an Independent
appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved
by the Indenture Trustee 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 Period
” means, with respect to any Distribution Date and the
Class A-1 Notes, the period from (and including) the preceding
Distribution Date to (but excluding) such Distribution Date, except
that the initial Interest Period will be from (and including) the
Closing Date to (but excluding) July 15, 2008, and, with
respect to any Distribution Date and the Class A-2 Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, the period from
(and including) the 15th day of the preceding calendar month to
(but excluding) the 15th day of the month in which such
Distribution Date occurs, except that the initial Interest Period
will be from (and including) the Closing Date to (but excluding)
July 15, 2008.
“ Interest Rate ”
means the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the
Class A-3 Rate or the Class A-4 Rate, as indicated by the
context.
“ Issuer ” means
Nissan Auto Receivables 2008-B Owner Trust unless and 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 ” mean 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.
“ Moody’s ”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
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“ NMAC ” means
Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation, in its individual capacity and
not as Servicer.
“ Note ” means a
Class A-1 Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note
or a Class A-4 Note, as the context may require.
“ Note Depository
Agreement ” means the agreement entitled “Letter of
Representations” dated on or before the Closing Date among
the Clearing Agency, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with
respect to certain matters relating to the duties thereof with
respect to the Book-Entry Notes.
“ Note Owner ”
means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, any Person who is the
beneficial 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 ”
means the Register of Noteholders’ information maintained by
the Note Registrar pursuant to Section 2.04.
“ Note Registrar ”
means the Indenture Trustee unless and until a successor Note
Registrar shall have been appointed pursuant to
Section 2.04.
“ Notes ” has the
meaning set forth in the preamble to this Indenture.
“ 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 11.01, and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
“ Opinion of Counsel
” means one or more written opinions of counsel who may,
except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be an
employee of or counsel to the Issuer, the Seller or the Servicer
and which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Rating Agencies, as the case
may be.
“ Outstanding ”
means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled
by the Note Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for
cancellation;
(b) 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; and
(c) Notes in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Notes 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
protected purchaser;
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provided , that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, or any
Class of 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 Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that,
in determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver, only Notes that the Indenture Trustee
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture
Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such
Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor
upon the Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons.
“ Outstanding Amount
” means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes, or, if
indicated by the context, all Notes of any Class, Outstanding at
the date of determination.
“ Owner Trustee ”
means Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement.
“ Paying Agent ”
means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets the
eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in
Section 6.11 that has been authorized by the Issuer to make
payments to and distributions from the Collection Account,
including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on
behalf of the Issuer.
“ Predecessor Note
” means, with respect to any particular Note, every previous
Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition,
any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 in
lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed
to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or
stolen Note.
“ Proceeding ”
means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.
“ Rating Agency
Condition ” means, with respect to any event or
circumstance and each Rating Agency, either (a) written
confirmation by such Rating Agency that the occurrence of such
event or circumstance will not cause it to downgrade, qualify or
withdraw its rating assigned to any of the Notes or (b) that
such Rating Agency shall have been given notice of such event or
circumstance at least ten days prior to the occurrence of such
event or circumstance (or, if ten days’ advance notice is
impracticable, as much advance notice as is practicable) and such
Rating Agency shall not have issued any written notice that the
occurrence of such event or circumstance will cause it to
downgrade, qualify or withdraw its rating assigned to the
Notes.
“ Rating Event ”
means the qualification, reduction, or withdrawal by a Rating
Agency of its then-current rating of any Class of Notes.
“ Registered Holder
” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the
Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
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“ Responsible Officer
” means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer
within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee,
including any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant
Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or any other officer of the
Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also, with
respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
“ Sale and Servicing
Agreement ” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated
as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, Nissan Auto Receivables
Corporation II, as Seller, and Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation,
as Servicer, and as to which the Indenture Trustee is a third party
beneficiary of certain provisions.
“ Securities Act ”
means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“ Securities Account Control
Agreement ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
“ Seller ” shall
mean Nissan Auto Receivables Corporation II, in its capacity as
seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and its successor in
interest.
“ Servicer ” shall
mean Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation, in its capacity as
servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any Successor
Servicer thereunder.
“ Standard &
Poor’s ” means Standard & Poor’s, a
division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
“ Successor Servicer
” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
“ Trust Estate ”
means all money, instruments, rights and other property that are
subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest
of this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders (including,
without limitation, all property and interests Granted to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Granting Clause), including all
proceeds thereof.
“ Trust Indenture Act
” or “ TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise
specifically provided.
“ UCC ” means,
unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial Code,
as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction at the relevant
time.
SECTION 1.02 Usage of Terms .
With respect to all terms in this Indenture, the singular includes
the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender
include the other genders; references to “writing”
include printing, typing, lithography and other means of
reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and
other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments,
amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes
therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and
not prohibited by this Indenture; references to Persons include
their permitted successors and assigns; references to laws include
their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations
thereunder and any successors thereto; and the term
“including” means “including without
limitation.”
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SECTION 1.03 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 in the TIA, defined in the TIA by
reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the
meanings so assigned to them.
ARTICLE II
The Notes
SECTION 2.01 Form . The
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes, and the Class A-4 Notes, in each case, together with
the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall
be in substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A ,
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 thereof. 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
Exhibit A are part of the terms of this
Indenture.
SECTION 2.02 Execution,
Authentication and Delivery . The Notes shall be executed on
behalf of the Issuer 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
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such
Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate
and deliver the Class A-1 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $275,000,000, the Class A-2 Notes for
original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $288,000,000,
the Class A-3 Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $381,000,000 and the Class A-4 Notes for
original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $250,210,000.
The aggregate principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes, the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed such
respective amounts except as provided in Section 2.05. The
Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in minimum
denominations of $25,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in
excess thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
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 included in
Exhibit A , as the case may be, executed by the
Indenture Trustee by the manual or facsimile signature of one of
its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note
shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.03 Temporary Notes .
Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, the Issuer may
execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of
the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued
and with such variations not inconsistent with 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 3.02,
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of
any one or more temporary Notes of any Class, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of Definitive Notes
of such Class of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.04 Registration;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange .
(a) The Note Registrar shall
maintain a Note Register in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide
for the registration of Notes and transfers and exchanges of Notes
as provided in this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee is hereby
initially appointed Note Registrar for the purpose of registering
Notes and transfers and exchanges of Notes as provided in this
Indenture. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the
Indenture Trustee notifies the Issuer that it is unable to act as
Note Registrar, the Issuer shall appoint another bank or trust
company, having an office or agency located in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with
the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note
Registrar under this Indenture.
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If a Person other than the Indenture
Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the Issuer
will give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the
appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any
change in the location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all
reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on
behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to
the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the
principal amounts and number of such Notes.
(b) Upon the proper surrender
for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of
the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, the
Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or
more new Notes of the same Class in authorized denominations of a
like aggregate principal amount.
(c) At the option of the Holder,
Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Class in any
authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the
Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the
Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to
receive. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the
Note Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the
Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any transfer or exchange of Notes.
(e) All Notes surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and
subsequently destroyed by the Indenture Trustee.
(f) By acquiring a Note, each
Noteholder will be deemed to represent, warrant and covenant that
either (i) it is not acquiring the Note with the assets of a
Benefit Plan; or (ii) the acquisition, holding and disposition
of the Note will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.
SECTION 2.05 Mutilated, Destroyed,
Lost or Stolen Notes . If (i) any mutilated Note is
surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee
receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the
Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by
it to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in
the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the
Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected
purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a
replacement Note of the same Class. In connection with the issuance
of any new Note under this Section 2.05, the Issuer may
require 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.
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If, after the delivery of such
replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a
protected 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 Trustee shall be entitled to
recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to
whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note
from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any
assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be
entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided
therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense
incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection
therewith.
Every replacement Note issued
pursuant to this Section 2.05 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 of the same Class duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this
Section 2.05 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Notes.
SECTION 2.06 Persons Deemed
Owners . Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer
of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the
owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of
principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee
or any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.07 Payments of Principal
and Interest .
(a) The Class A-1 Notes,
the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the
Class A-4 Notes shall accrue interest during each Interest
Period at the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the
Class A-3 Rate and the Class A-4 Rate, respectively, and
such interest shall be payable on each related Distribution Date as
specified in the applicable Note by applying amounts available
pursuant to Section 5.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and to Section 3.01 of this Indenture. Any installment of
interest or principal payable on any Note that is punctually paid
or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Distribution
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 wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated
by such nominee, except for the final installment of principal
payable with respect to such Note on a Distribution Date or on the
applicable Final Scheduled Distribution Date, which shall be
payable as provided below.
(b) The principal of each Note
shall be payable in installments on each Distribution Date by
applying amounts available pursuant to Section 5.06 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and
payable, if not previously paid, from and after the date on which
the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, voting as a single
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class
(excluding for such purpose the outstanding principal amount of any
Notes held of record or beneficially owned by NARC II, NMAC or any
of their Affiliates, unless at such time all of the Notes are held
of record or beneficially owned by NARC II, NMAC or any of their
Affiliates), have declared the Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 in connection
with an Event of Default. All principal payments on each Class of
Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such Class
entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in
whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the
Record Date preceding the Distribution Date on which the final
installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid.
Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile not less
than 15 nor more than 30 days prior to such final Distribution
Date, 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.
SECTION 2.08 Cancellation .
All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer or
exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall
be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at
any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee 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 Trustee. No
Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Notes canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its
standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time
unless the 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 Trustee.
SECTION 2.09 Release of
Collateral . Subject to Sections 8.05 and 11.01 and the
terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture 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)(l) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu
of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does
not require any such Independent Certificates.
SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes
. The Notes, upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of
typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be
delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing
Agency, or a custodian therefor, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer.
The Book-Entry Notes shall be registered initially on the Note
Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner thereof 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 such Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.12:
(a) the provisions of this
Section shall be in full force and effect;
(b) the Note Registrar and the
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing
Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of
principal of and
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interest
on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions
hereunder) as the authorized representative of the Note
Owners;
(c) to the extent that the
provisions of this Section conflict with any other provisions of
this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall control;
(d) 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; and
(e) whenever this Indenture
requires or permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or
directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or of the Notes of any 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 owning or
representing, respectively, such required percentage of the
beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such
instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing
Agency . Whenever a notice or other communication to the
Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until
Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Note Owners
pursuant to Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all
such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Holders of the Notes to the Clearing Agency and shall be deemed to
have been given as of the date of delivery to the Clearing
Agency.
SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes
. If (i) the Seller, the Owner Trustee or the Administrator
advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Notes and the
Seller, the Owner Trustee or the Administrator are unable to locate
a qualified successor (and if the Administrator has made such
determination, the Administrator has given written notice thereof
to the Indenture Trustee), (ii) the Seller, the Indenture
Trustee or the Administrator, at its option and to the extent
permitted by law, advises each other such party in writing that it
elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing
Agency, or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default
or a Servicer Default, Note Owners representing beneficial
interests aggregating a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes of all Classes advise the Indenture Trustee and the Clearing
Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system
through the Clearing Agency or a successor thereto is no longer in
the best interests of the Note Owners acting together as a single
Class, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners and
the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of the
availability of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten
Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute
and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes
in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency.
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None of
the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be
liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture
Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Administrator shall
not be liable for any inability to locate a qualified successor
Clearing Agency. From and after the date of issuance of Definitive
Notes, all notices to be given to Noteholders will be mailed
thereto at their addresses of record in the Note Register as of the
relevant Record Date. Such notices will be deemed to have been
given as of the date of mailing. Interest and principal payments on
the Definitive Notes on each Distribution Date will be made to the
holders in whose names the related Definitive Notes, as applicable,
were registered at the close of business on the related Deposit
Date. Payments will be made by check mailed to the address of such
holders as they appear on the Note register, except that a
Noteholder having original denominations aggregating at least
$1 million may request payment by wire transfer of funds
pursuant to written instructions delivered to the Indenture Trustee
at least five Business Days prior to the Deposit Date. The final
payment on any Definitive Notes will be made only upon presentation
and surrender of the Definitive Notes at the office or agency
specified in the notice of final payment to Noteholders.
SECTION 2.13 Tax Treatment .
The Issuer has entered into this Indenture, and the Notes will be
issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will
qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate
or, for periods during which there is a single beneficial owner of
the Certificates, indebtedness of the Certificateholder issued by
the Trust Estate. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and
each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner
by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry
Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.
ARTICLE III
Covenants, Representations and Warranties
SECTION 3.01 Payment of Principal
and Interest . In accordance with the terms of this Indenture,
the Issuer will duly and punctually (i) pay the principal of
and interest, if any, on the Notes in accordance with the terms of
the Notes and this Indenture and (ii) cause the Servicer to
direct the Indenture Trustee to release from the Collection Account
all other amounts distributable or payable from the Owner Trust
Estate under the Trust Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and the Administration Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing
and in order to fulfill such obligations, pursuant to
Sections 8.02 and 8.03 hereof, the Issuer will cause the
Servicer to direct the Indenture Trustee to apply all amounts on
deposit in the Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the
Yield Supplement Account on a Distribution Date deposited therein
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement (i) (a) for the
benefit of the Class A-1 Notes, to the Class A-1
Noteholders, (b) for the benefit of the Class A-2 Notes,
to the Class A-2 Noteholders, (c) for the benefit of the
Class A-3 Notes, to the Class A-3 Noteholders and
(d) for the benefit of the Class A-4 Notes, to the
Class A-4 Noteholders, and (ii) for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, to or as directed by the Owner Trustee or the
Administrator, as set forth in Section 5.06, 5.07 and 5.08 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under
the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest
and/or principal
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shall be
considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for
all purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.02 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 Trustee to serve as its agent for the
foregoing purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to
the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the
location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer
shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the
Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders,
notices and demands.
SECTION 3.03 Money for Payments To
Be Held in Trust . As provided in Sections 8.02 and 8.03,
all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes
that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Collection
Account, the Reserve Account or the Yield Supplement Account
pursuant to Sections 8.02 and 8.03 shall be made on behalf of
the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by the Paying Agent, and no
amounts so withdrawn from such accounts for payments of Notes shall
be paid over to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Administrator
except as provided in this Section.
On or before each Distribution Date,
the Issuer shall deposit in the Collection Account or, in
accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, cause to be
deposited (including the provision of instructions to the Indenture
Trustee to make any required withdrawals from the Reserve Account
or the Yield Supplement Account and to deposit such amounts in the
Collection Account) an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts
then becoming due under the Notes and the Certificates, such sum to
be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto,
and (unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so
to act.
The Indenture Trustee, as Paying
Agent, hereby agrees with the Issuer that it will, and the Issuer
will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee, as a
condition to its acceptance of its appointment as Paying Agent, to
execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee, subject
to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for
the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes or the
Certificates, or for release to the Issuer for payment on the
Certificates 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 or release such sums to such
Persons as herein provided;
(b) give 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 or the
release of any amounts to the Issuer to be paid to the
Certificateholders;
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(c) 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;
(d) immediately resign as a
Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums
held by it in trust for the payment of Notes (or for release to the
Issuer) 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
(e) comply with all requirements
of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made
by it on any Notes or Certificates (or assisting the Issuer to
withhold from payment to the Certificateholders) 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 Trustee all sums held in trust
by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such
Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Indenture Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with
respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture
Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount
due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed after such
amount has become due and payable and after the Indenture Trustee
has taken the steps described in this paragraph shall be discharged
from such trust and be paid to Second Harvest Food Bank of
Tennessee upon presentation thereto of an Issuer Request; and the
Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease. In the event
that any Noteholder shall not surrender its Notes for retirement
within six months after the date specified in the written notice of
final payment described in Section 2.07, the Indenture Trustee
will give a second written notice to the registered Noteholders
that have not surrendered their Notes for final payment and
retirement. If within one year after such second notice any Notes
have not been surrendered, the Indenture Trustee shall, at the
expense and direction 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 paid to Second Harvest
Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. The Indenture Trustee shall also
adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any
other reasonable means of notification of such repayment specified
by the Issuer or the Administrator.
SECTION 3.04 Existence . 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
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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 or the Owner Trust
Estate.
SECTION 3.05 Protection of Trust
Estate . The Issuer will from time to time execute and deliver
all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing
statements, continuation statements, instruments of further
assurance and other instruments, and will take such other action
necessary or advisable to:
(a) maintain or preserve the
lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) of this
Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;
(b) perfect, publish notice of
or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this
Indenture;
(c) enforce any of the
Collateral; or
(d) preserve and defend title to
the Trust Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders in such Trust Estate against the claims of all persons
and parties.
The Issuer hereby designates the
Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to execute any
financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument
required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.05.
SECTION 3.06 Opinions as to Trust
Estate .
(a) On the Closing Date, the
Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion
of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the
execution, recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures
supplemental hereto, any requisite financing statements and
continuation statements and any other requisite documents necessary
to perfect and make effective the lien and security interest of
this Indenture or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest
effective.
(b) As and when specified in
Section 10.02(h) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion
of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the
execution, recording, filing or re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto, any financing
statements and continuation statements and any other requisite
documents necessary to maintain the lien and security interest
created by this Indenture 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
execution, recording, filing or re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto, any financing
statements and continuation statements and any other documents that
will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the
lien and security interest of this Indenture until the date in the
following calendar year on which such Opinion of Counsel must again
be delivered.
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SECTION 3.07 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 expressly provided in the
Basic Documents.
(b) The Issuer may contract with
other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this
Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person
identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s
Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the
Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and
the Administrator 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 the Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements
included in the Trust Estate, including but not limited to filing
or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and
continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of the
Trust Agreement, this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided
for herein and therein.
(d) If an Authorized Officer of
the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer
Default under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies
thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the
Issuer is taking with respect of such default. If a Servicer
Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to perform any
of its duties or obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
with respect to the Receivables, the Issuer shall take all
reasonable steps available to it to remedy such failure.
(e) As promptly as possible
after the giving of notice of termination to the Servicer of the
Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to Section 8.01 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall
appoint a successor servicer (the “Successor
Servicer”), and such Successor Servicer shall accept its
appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee. In the event that a Successor Servicer has not
been appointed and accepted its appointment as set forth in
Section 8.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be
appointed the Successor Servicer and shall thereafter be entitled
to the Total Servicing Fee. Notwithstanding the above, the
Indenture Trustee shall, if it shall be legally unable so to act,
appoint or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint,
and the predecessor Servicer, if no successor Servicer has been
appointed at the time the predecessor Servicer has ceased to act,
may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any
established institution having a net worth of not less than
$100,000,000 and whose regular business shall include the servicing
of automobile and/or light-duty truck receivables, as the successor
to the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Upon such
appointment, the Indenture Trustee will be released from the duties
and obligations of acting as Successor Servicer, such release
effective upon the effective date of the servicing agreement
entered into between the Successor Servicer and the Issuer.
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In connection with any such
appointment, the Indenture Trustee may make such arrangements for
the compensation of such successor as it and such Successor
Servicer shall agree, subject to the limitations set forth below
and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and in accordance with
Section 8.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall
enter into an agreement with such Successor Servicer for the
servicing of the Receivables (such agreement to be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the Indenture
Trustee shall succeed to the Servicer’s duties as servicer of
the Receivables as provided herein, it shall do so in its
individual capacity and not in its capacity as Indenture Trustee
and, accordingly, the provisions of Article VI hereof shall be
inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its duties as Successor
Servicer and the servicing of the Receivables. In case the
Indenture Trustee shall become the Successor Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as a subservicer any
one of its Affiliates, provided that the Indenture Trustee,
in its capacity as Successor Servicer, shall remain fully liable
for the actions and omissions of such Affiliate.
(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. As soon as a Successor Servicer is appointed, the Issuer
shall notify the Indenture Trustee of such appointment, specifying
in such notice the name and address of such Successor
Servicer.
(g) Without derogating from the
absolute nature of the assignment granted to the Indenture Trustee
under this Indenture or the rights of the Indenture Trustee
hereunder, the Issuer agrees (i) that it will not, without the
prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of a
majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, voting as a single
class (excluding for such purposes the outstanding principal amount
of any Notes held of record or beneficially owned by NMAC, NARC II
or any of their Affiliates, unless at such time all of the Notes
are held of record or beneficially owned by NARC II, NMAC or any of
their Affiliates), amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or
surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver,
supplement, termination or surrender of, the terms of any
Collateral (except to the extent otherwise provided in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement) or the Basic Documents, or waive timely
performance or observance by the Servicer or the Seller under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement; and (ii) that any such amendment
shall not (A) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of,
or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on
the Receivables or distributions that are required to be made for
the benefit of the Noteholders or change the Interest Rate or the
Specified Reserve Account Balance (except as otherwise provided in
the Basic Documents), in each case without the consent of each of
the “adversely affected” Noteholders or (B) reduce
the aforesaid percentage of the Notes that is required to consent
to any such amendment, without the consent of the Holders of all
the outstanding Notes. If any such amendment, modification,
supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture
Trustee or such Holders, the Issuer agrees, promptly following a
request by the Indenture Trustee to agree to such amendment and to
execute and deliver, in its own name and at its own expense, such
agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as the
Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in the
circumstances to implement such amendment and to cause the relevant
Basic Documents, as amended, to be enforceable against the Issuer.
For the purposes of clause (ii) above, an amendment will be
deemed not to “adversely affect” a Noteholder of any
Class, only if each Rating Agency confirms that such amendment will
not result in a reduction or withdrawal of its rating on such Class
of Notes.
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SECTION 3.08 Negative
Covenants . So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer
shall not:
(a) except as expressly
permitted by 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;
(b) claim any credit on, or make
any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of,
the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments
under the Code) or assert any claim against any present or former
Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed
upon any part of the Trust Estate;
(c) except as may be expressly
permitted hereby, (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of
this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture
to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or
discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants
or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture,
(B) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest,
mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this
Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or
burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein
or the proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics’
liens and other liens that arise by operation of law, in each case
on any of the Financed Vehicles and arising solely as a result of
an action or omission of the related Obligor), (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) security interest in the Trust Estate, or (D) dissolve
or liquidate in whole or in part; or
(d) assume or incur any
indebtedness other than the Notes or as expressly contemplated by
this Indenture (in connection with the obligation to reimburse
Advances from the Trust Estate, or to pay expenses from the Trust
Estate) or by the Basic Documents as in effect on the date
hereof.
SECTION 3.09 Annual Statement as
to Compliance . The Issuer will cause the Servicer to deliver
to the Indenture Trustee concurrently with its delivery thereof to
the Issuer the annual statement of compliance described in
Section 4.09 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. In addition,
on the same date annually upon which such annual statement of
compliance is to be delivered by the Servicer, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s
Certificate, that:
(a) a review of the activities
of the Issuer during such year and of its performance under this
Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officer’s
supervision; and
(b) 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
its compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each
such default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and
status thereof.
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:
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(1) 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 or the District of Columbia and
shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the duty to make 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;
(2) immediately after giving effect
to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing;
(3) no Rating Agency shall have
notified the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee that such
transaction might or would result in a Rating Event;
(4) the Issuer shall have received an
Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the
Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not
have any material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any
Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(5) any action that is necessary to
maintain each lien and security interest created by the Trust
Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this Indenture shall
have been taken; and
(6) the Issuer shall have delivered
to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation or merger
and any related supplemental indenture complies with this
Article III and that all conditions precedent provided in this
Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with
(including any filing required by the Exchange Act).
(b) The Issuer shall not convey
or transfer any of its properties or assets, including those
included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:
(1) the Person that acquires by
conveyance or transfer such properties and assets of the Issuer
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 or the District of Columbia, (B) expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee,
the duty to make 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,
(C) expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture
that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall
be subject and subordinate to the rights of Holders of the Notes,
(D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture,
expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer,
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee against and from any
loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this
Indenture and the Notes, and (E) expressly agrees by means of
such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group
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of Persons,
then one specified Person) shall make all filings that counsel
satisfactory to such purchaser or transferee and the Indenture
Trustee determines must be made with (1) the Commission (and any
other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act or the
appropriate authorities in any state in which the Notes have been
sold pursuant to any qualification or exemption under the
securities or “blue sky” laws of such state, in
connection with the Notes or (2) the Internal Revenue Service
or the relevant state or local taxing authorities of any
jurisdiction;
(2) immediately after giving effect
to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing;
(3) no Rating Agency shall have
notified the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee that such
transaction might or would result in the removal or reduction of
the rating then assigned thereby to any Class of Notes;
(4) the Issuer shall have received an
Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the
Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not
have any material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any
Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(5) any action that is necessary to
maintain each lien and security interest created by the Trust
Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this Indenture shall
have been taken; and
(6) the Issuer shall have delivered
to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel each stating that such conveyance or transfer
and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with (including any filing
required by the Exchange Act).
SECTION 3.11 Successor or
Transferee .
(a) Upon any consolidation or
merger of the 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), Nissan Auto Receivables 2008-B Owner Trust
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 and the Certificates immediately upon the
delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that
Nissan Auto Receivables 2008-B Owner Trust is to be so
released.
SECTION 3.12 No Other Business
. Unless and until the Issuer shall have been released from its
duties and obligations hereunder, the Issuer shall not engage in
any business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and
managing the Receivables in the manner contemplated by the Basic
Documents and activities incidental thereto.
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SECTION 3.13 No Borrowing .
Unless and until the Issuer shall have been released from its
duties and obligations hereunder, the Issuer shall not issue,
incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or
indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes or other
obligations permitted hereunder (including the obligation to
reimburse Advances or certain expenses of the Servicer) or under
another Basic Document (including indemnification expenses of the
Issuer and certain fees and expenses of the Administrator).
SECTION 3.14 Servicer’s
Notice Obligations . The Issuer shall cause the Servicer to
comply with all of its duties and obligations with respect to the
preparation of reports, the delivery of Officer’s
Certificates and Opinions of Counsel and the giving of instructions
and notices under the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including, but
not limited to, under Sections 4.08, 4.09, 4.11, 4.13, 5.09
and Article IX thereof).
SECTION 3.15 Guarantees, Loans,
Advances and Other Liabilities . Unless and until the Issuer
shall have been released from its duties and obligations hereunder,
except as contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement, this
Indenture, or the other Basic Documents, 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 . Unless and until the Issuer shall have been
released from its duties and obligations hereunder, the Issuer
shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or
otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.17 Removal of
Administrator . So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the
Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless so
instructed by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and unless
each Rating Agency shall have received 10 days’ written
notice thereof and shall not have notified the Indenture Trustee,
the Administrator or the Owner Trustee that such removal might or
would result in the removal or reduction of the rating, if any,
then assigned thereby to any Class of Notes or the
Certificates.
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 Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any
Certificateholder or otherwise with respect to any ownership or
equity interest or security in or of the Issuer, (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,
(x) distributions to the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or the Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Administration Agreement.
The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or
distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with
the Basic Documents.
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SECTION 3.19 Notice of Events of
Default . The Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee and each
Rating Agency prompt written notice of each Event of Default
hereunder, each default on the part of the Servicer or the Seller
of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement
(including any Servicer Defaults), each default on the part of NMAC
of its obligations under the Purchase Agreement.
The Indenture Trustee shall notify
each Noteholder of record in writing of any Event of Default
promptly upon a Responsible Officer obtaining actual knowledge
thereof. Such notices will be provided in accordance with
Section 2.11.
SECTION 3.20 Further Instruments
and Actions . Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, 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 Representations and
Warranties . The Issuer makes the following representations and
warranties. Such representations and warranties speak as of the
execution and delivery of this Indenture and as of the Closing
Date, but shall survive the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary, the Indenture Trustee shall not waive any breach
of representations or warranties in this Section 3.21 without
the written consent of at least a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes, voting as a single class (excluding for such
purposes the outstanding principal amount of any Notes held of
record or beneficially owned by NMAC, NARC II or any of their
Affiliates, unless at such time all of the Notes are held of record
or beneficially owned by NMAC, NARC II or any of their
Affiliates).
(a) This Indenture creates a
valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the
applicable UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the Indenture
Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and
is enforceable as such as against creditors of any purchasers from
the Issuer.
(b) The Issuer has taken all
steps necessary to perfect its security interest against the
Obligor in the property securing the Receivables.
(c) The Collateral constitutes
“tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel
paper” within the meaning of the applicable UCC, or, in the
case of Receivables originally originated as “electronic
chattel paper” and modified under “tangible
records,” as such term is used in the UCC, consists of a
combination of “electronic records” and “tangible
records,” as such terms are used in the UCC (such Receivables
consisting of a combination of “electronic records” and
“tangible records” are herein called “Hybrid
Chattel Paper”).
(d) The Issuer owns and has good
and marketable title to the Collateral 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 Collateral granted to the Indenture Trustee
hereunder.
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(f) Other than the security
interest granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a
security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Collateral.
The Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any
financing statements against the Issuer that includes a description
of collateral covering the Collateral other than any financing
statement relating to the security interest granted to the
Indenture Trustee hereunder or a financing statement as to which
the security interest covering the Receivables has been released.
The Issuer is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against
the Issuer.
(g) The Servicer, as an agent of
the Issuer, and to the extent allowed by law, has in its possession
all originals or authoritative copies of the tangible records
constituting or forming a part of the Collateral. The Servicer
shall at all times maintain control, as defined in Section 9-105 of
the UCC, of all electronic chattel paper and all electronic records
included in the Hybrid Chattel Paper. The Receivable Files that
constitute or evidence the Collateral do not have any marks or
notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or
otherwise conveyed by the Issuer to any Person other than the
Indenture Trustee. All financing statements filed or to be filed
against the Issuer in favor of the Indenture Trustee in connection
herewith describing the Collateral contain a statement to the
following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any
collateral described in this financing statement, except as
permitted in the Indenture, will violate the rights of the
Indenture Trustee.”
SECTION 3.22 Regulation AB
Representations, Warranties and Covenants . The Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee each agree to perform all duties and obligations
applicable to or required of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
as applicable, set forth in Appendix A to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and each makes the representations and
warranties therein applicable to it.
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.01 Satisfaction and
Discharge of Indenture . This Indenture shall cease to be of
further effect with respect to the Notes except as to
(i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange,
(ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of
principal thereof and interest thereon,
(iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.08, 3.10, 3.12 and
3.13, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture
Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the
Indenture Trustee under Sections 3.03 and 4.02), and
(vi) the rights of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders
as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited
with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the
Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the 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 Notes that have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 2.05 and 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 3.03) have
been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation or
(2) all
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Notes
not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation
have become due and payable or will become due and payable within
one year (either because the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for
the Class A-4 Notes is within one year or because the
Indenture Trustee has received notice of the exercise of the option
granted pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) and the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct
obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of
America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are
payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay
and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due;
(b) the Issuer has paid or
caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer;
and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to
the Indenture Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate, (if required
by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an Independent
Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each
meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01 and,
subject to Section 11.02, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
SECTION 4.02 Application of Trust
Money . All moneys deposited with the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof shall be held in trust and
(a) applied by it in accordance with the provisions of the
Notes and this Indenture to the payment, either directly or through
any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the
Holders of the particular Notes for the payment of which such
moneys have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums
due and to become due thereon for principal and interest or
(b) released to the Owner Trustee for application pursuant to
the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement; but such
moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required
by law.
SECTION 4.03 Repayment of Moneys
Held by Paying Agent . In connection with the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys
then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee
under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes
shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee
to be held and applied according to Section 3.03 or 4.02 and
thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01 Events of Default
. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of
Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
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(a) default in the payment of
any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and
such default shall continue for a period of five days;
(b) default in the payment of
the principal of on the Note Final Scheduled Distribution Date or
the Distribution Date on which the Servicer exercises the Optional
Purchase;
(c) 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) which shall continue or not be cured for a
period of 90 days after there shall have been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture
Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, acting
together as a single 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;
(d) 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 shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect
as of the time when the same shall have been made, and such default
shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in
respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of
30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, acting together as a single
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