Dated as of June 30,
2009
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE
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Section 1.2. Other Definitions
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Section 1.3. Incorporation by Reference of
Trust Indenture Act
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Section 1.4. Rules of
Construction
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ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES
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Section 2.1. Issuable in Series
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Section 2.2. Establishment of Terms of
Series of Securities
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Section 2.3. Execution and
Authentication
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Section 2.4. Registrar and Paying
Agent
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Section 2.5. Paying Agent to Hold Money in
Trust
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Section 2.6. Securityholder
Lists
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Section 2.7. Transfer and
Exchange
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Section 2.8. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities
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Section 2.9. Outstanding
Securities
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Section 2.10. Treasury
Securities
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Section 2.11. Temporary
Securities
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Section 2.12. Cancellation
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Section 2.13. Defaulted Interest
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Section 2.14. Global Securities
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Section 2.15. CUSIP Numbers
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Section 3.1. Notice to Trustee
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Section 3.2. Selection of Securities to be
Redeemed
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Section 3.3. Notice of
Redemption
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Section 3.4. Effect of Notice of
Redemption
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Section 3.5. Deposit of Redemption
Price
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Section 3.6. Securities Redeemed in
Part
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Section 4.1. Payment of Principal and
Interest
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Section 4.3. Compliance
Certificate
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Section 4.4. Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws
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Section 4.5. Corporate Existence
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Section 5.1. Consolidation, Merger and Sale
of Assets
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Section 5.2. Successor Corporation
Substituted
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ARTICLE VI. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
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Section 6.1. Events of Default
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Section 6.2. Acceleration of Maturity;
Rescission and Annulment
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Section 6.3. Collection of Indebtedness and
Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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Section 6.4. Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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Section 6.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims
Without Possession of Securities
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Section 6.6. Application of Money
Collected
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Section 6.7. Limitation on Suits
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Section 6.8. Unconditional Right of Holders
to Receive Principal and Interest
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Section 6.9. Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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Section 6.10. Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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Section 6.11. Delay or Omission Not
Waiver
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Section 6.12. Control by Holders
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Section 6.13. Waiver of Past
Defaults
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Section 6.14. Undertaking for
Costs
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Section 7.1. Duties of Trustee
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Section 7.2. Rights of Trustee
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Section 7.3. Individual Rights of
Trustee
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Section 7.4. Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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Section 7.5. Notice of Defaults
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Section 7.6. Reports by Trustee to
Holders
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Section 7.7. Compensation and
Indemnity
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Section 7.8. Replacement of
Trustee
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Section 7.9. Successor Trustee by Merger,
etc.
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Section 7.10. Eligibility;
Disqualification
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Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of
Claims Against Company
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ARTICLE VIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE;
DEFEASANCE
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Section 8.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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Section 8.2. Application of Trust Funds;
Indemnification
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Section 8.3. Legal Defeasance of Securities
of any Series
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Section 8.4. Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.5. Repayment to
Company
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Section 8.6. Reinstatement
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ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Section 9.1. Without Consent of
Holders
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Section 9.2. With Consent of
Holders
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Section 9.4. Compliance with Trust
Indenture Act
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Section 9.5. Revocation and Effect of
Consents
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Section 9.6. Notation on or Exchange of
Securities
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Section 9.7. Trustee Protected
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Section 10.1. Trust Indenture Act
Controls
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Section 10.3. Communication by Holders with
Other Holders
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Section 10.4. Certificate and Opinion as to
Conditions Precedent
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Section 10.5. Statements Required in
Certificate or Opinion
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Section 10.6. Rules by Trustee and
Agents
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Section 10.7. Legal Holidays
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Section 10.8. No Recourse Against
Others
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Section 10.9. Counterparts
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Section 10.10. Governing Laws
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Section 10.11. No Adverse Interpretation of
Other Agreements
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Section 10.12. Successors
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Section 10.13. Severability
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Section 10.14. Table of Contents, Headings,
Etc.
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Section 10.15. Securities in a Foreign
Currency
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Section 10.16. Judgment Currency
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ARTICLE XI. SINKING FUNDS
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Section 11.1. Applicability of
Article
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Section 11.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund
Payments with Securities
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Section 11.3. Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund
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Reconciliation and tie between Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 and
Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2009
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7.10
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7.10
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7.10
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7.10
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7.11
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7.11
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2.6
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10.3
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10.3
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7.6
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7.6
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7.6
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7.6
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7.6
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4.2,
4.3
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10.4
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10.4
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10.5
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7.1
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7.5
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7.1
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7.1
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6.14
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2.10
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6.12
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6.13
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6.8
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6.3
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6.4
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2.5
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10.1
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Note:
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This
reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of the Indenture.
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iv
Indenture dated as
of June 30, 2009 between Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts
corporation (“Company”), and The Bank of New York
Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association
(“Trustee”).
Each party agrees
as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this
Indenture.
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
“Affiliate” of any specified person means any
other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or
under common control with such specified person. For the purposes
of this definition, “control” (including, with
correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and
“under common control with”), as used with respect to
any person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities or by agreement or otherwise.
“Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or
Service Agent.
“Board
of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
“Board
Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been
adopted by the Board of Directors or any duly authorized committee
thereof or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors or
any duly authorized committee thereof and to be in full force and
effect on the date of the certificate and delivered to the
Trustee.
“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided
by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental
indenture hereto for a particular Series, any day except a
Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York on
which banking institutions are authorized or required by law,
regulation or executive order to close.
“Capital
Stock” means any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock.
“Company” means the party named as such above
until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the
successor.
“Company
Order” means a written order signed in the name of the
Company by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s
principal executive officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer.
“Company
Request” means a written request signed in the name of
the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice
President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be principally administered.
“Default” means any event which is, or after
notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of
Default.
“Depositary” means, with respect to the
Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in
the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as
Depositary for such Series by the Company, which Depositary shall
be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at
any time there is more than one such person,
“Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of
any Series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities
of such Series.
“Discount Security” means any Security that
provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount
thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of
the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.
“Dollars” and “$” means the
currency of The United States of America.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
“Foreign
Currency” means any currency or currency unit issued by a
government other than the government of The United States of
America.
“Foreign
Government Obligations” means, with respect to Securities
of any Series that are denominated in a Foreign Currency,
(i) direct obligations of the government that issued or caused
to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its
full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a
person controlled or supervised by or acting as an agency or
instrumentality of such government the timely payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by
such government, which, in either case under clauses (i) or
(ii), are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer
thereof.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting
principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the
Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by
such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of
the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of
determination.
“Global
Security” or “Global Securities” means
a Security or Securities, as the case may be, in the form
established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of
a Series of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such Series or
its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or
nominee.
“Holder” or “Securityholder”
means a person in whose name a Security is registered.
“Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or
supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms
of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated
hereunder.
“interest” with respect to any Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity.
“Maturity” when used with respect to any
Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at
the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for
redemption or otherwise.
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“Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer,
President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any
Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a
certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the
Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial
officer or principal accounting officer.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who
is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or
counsel to the Company.
“person” means any individual, corporation,
partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company,
joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
“principal” of a Security means the principal of
the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on the
Security.
“Responsible Officer” means any officer of the
Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office having direct responsibility
for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with
respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer
to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or
her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular
subject.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission.
“Securities” means the debentures, notes or
other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture.
“Series” or “Series of
Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or
other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to
Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.
“Stated
Maturity” when used with respect to any Security, means
the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the
principal of such Security or interest is due and
payable.
“Subsidiary” of any specified person means any
corporation, association or other business entity of which more
than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to
vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is
at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such
person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a
combination thereof.
“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15
U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of
this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA”
means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act as so amended.
“Trustee” means the person named as the
“Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Trustee” shall mean or include each person who is then
a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such
person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the
Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that Series.
“ U.S.
Government Obligations” means securities which are
(i) direct obligations of The United States of America for the
payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or
(ii) obligations of a
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person
controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of The United States of America the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by The United States of America, and which in the case
of (i) and (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository
receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect
to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of
interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation
held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a
depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such
custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount
received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government
Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of
the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
Section 1.2.
Other Definitions
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SECTION
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6.1
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6.1
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6.1
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10.16
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10.7
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“mandatory sinking fund
payment”
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11.1
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10.15
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10.16
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“optional sinking fund
payment”
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11.1
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2.4
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2.4
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10.16
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2.4
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Section 1.3.
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 SEC.
“indenture securities” means the
Securities.
“indenture security holder” means a
Securityholder.
“indenture to be qualified” means this
Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or “institutional
trustee” means the Trustee.
“obligor” on the indenture securities means the
Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.
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All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA
reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA
and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so
defined.
Section 1.4.
Rules of Construction
Unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a) a term
has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) an
accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to
it in accordance with GAAP;
(c)
“or” is not exclusive;
(d) words in
the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the
singular; and
(e) provisions
apply to successive events and transactions.
ARTICLE II.
THE SECURITIES
Section 2.1.
Issuable in Series
The aggregate
principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be
issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be
identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner
provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or
Officers’ Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms
thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In
the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time,
the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’
Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to
authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the
method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity
date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to
be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of
any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be
equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the
Indenture.
Section 2.2.
Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities
At or prior to the
issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be
established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection
2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to
the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through
2.2.25) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or
determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution,
supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate:
2.2.1 the title of
the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that
particular Series from the Securities of any other
Series);
2.2.2 the price or
prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof)
at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;
2.2.3 any limit
upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered
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upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8,
2.11, 3.6 or 9.6);
2.2.4 the date or
dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is
payable;
2.2.5 the rate or
rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable,
the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not
limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or
financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear
interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if
any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if
any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for
the interest payable on any interest payment date;
2.2.6 the place or
places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the
Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of
such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be
served, and the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail
or other means;
2.2.7 if
applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices
at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of
the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of
the Company;
2.2.8 the
obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the
Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms
and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
2.2.9 the dates,
if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of
the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the
Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such
repurchase obligations;
2.2.10 if other
than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the
denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be
issuable;
2.2.11 the forms
of the Securities of the Series and whether the Securities will be
issuable as Global Securities;
2.2.12 if other
than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal
amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 6.2;
2.2.13 the
currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may
be Dollars or any Foreign Currency;
2.2.14 the
designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which
payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities
of the Series will be made;
2.2.15 if payments
of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the
Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency units
other than that or those in which such Securities are denominated,
the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments
will be determined;
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2.2.16 the manner
in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if
any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such
amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a
currency or currencies other than that which the Securities are
denominated or designated to be payable or by reference to a
commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial
index;
2.2.17 the
provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the
Securities of the Series;
2.2.18 any
addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any
Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee
or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the
principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to
Section 6.2;
2.2.19 any
addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or
V which applies to Securities of the Series;
2.2.20 whether the
Securities of the Series will be listed on a securities
exchange;
2.2.21 the initial
public offering price, if any has been established for the
Securities of the Series;
2.2.22 any other
terms of the Securities of the Series (which may supplement, modify
or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to
such Series);
2.2.23 any
depositaries, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate
calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of
such Series if other than those appointed herein;
2.2.24 the
provisions, if any, relating to conversion of any Securities of
such Series, including if applicable, the conversion price, the
conversion period, provisions as to whether conversion will be
mandatory, at the option of the Holders thereof or at the option of
the Company, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion
price and provisions affecting conversion if such Series of
Securities are redeemed; and
2.2.25 whether the
Securities of such Series will be senior debt securities or
subordinated debt securities and, if applicable, a description of
the subordination terms thereof.
All Securities of
any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be
issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this
Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution,
supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate
referred to above.
Section 2.3.
Execution and Authentication
An Officer shall
sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile
signature.
If an Officer
whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the
time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless
be valid.
A Security shall
not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the
Trustee or an authenticating agent. The signature shall be
conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under
this Indenture.
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The Trustee shall
at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for
original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board
Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’
Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Such
Company Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to
oral or electronic instructions from the Company or its duly
authorized agent or agents, which oral instructions shall be
promptly confirmed in writing. Each Security shall be dated the
date of its authentication unless otherwise provided by a Board
Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’
Certificate.
The aggregate
principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any
time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for
such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental
indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant
to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.
Prior to the
issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have
received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected
in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental
indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate establishing the
form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that
Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of
Securities within that Series, (b) an Officers’
Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of
Counsel complying with Section 10.4.
The Trustee shall
have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any
Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised
by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully;
or (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors
or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors
and/or vice presidents shall determine that such action would
expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then
outstanding Series of Securities.
The Trustee may
appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to
authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate
Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this
Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication
by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an
Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company.
Section 2.4.
Registrar and Paying Agent
The Company shall
maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place
or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to
Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such
Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying
Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”)
and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served
(“Service Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register
with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and
exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or
address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. If at
any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent or shall fail to furnish
the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may
also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars,
additional paying agents or additional service agents and may from
time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no
such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its
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obligations to
maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent in each place
so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any
Series for such purposes.
The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such
co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional service agent.
The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar; the
term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying
agent; and the term “Service Agent” includes any
additional service agent.
The Company hereby
appoints the Trustee the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and
Service Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying
Agent or Service Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to
the time Securities of that Series are first issued.
Section 2.5.
Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust
The Company shall
require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in
writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit
of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all
money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or
interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee
of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any
such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to
pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time
may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the
Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if
other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have
no further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary
of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in
a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any
Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying
Agent.
Section 2.6.
Securityholder Lists
The Trustee shall
preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most
recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise
comply with TIA § 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before
each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee
may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as
the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
Securityholders of each Series of Securities.
Section 2.7.
Transfer and Exchange
Where Securities
of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a
request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal
principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar
shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its
requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations
of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate
Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge
shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except
as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company or the
Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection
therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental
charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6
or 9.6).
Neither the
Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue,
register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for
the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days
immediately preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities of that Series and ending at the close of business on
the day of such mailing, or (b) thereafter to issue, register
the transfer of or exchange (i) any Securities of a Series for
which notice has been given calling for redemption of such Series
as a
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whole, or
(ii) that portion of the Securities of a Series to be redeemed
for which notice has been given calling for redemption of the
Series in part.
Section 2.8.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
If any mutilated
Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor
a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
If there shall be
delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then,
in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such
Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company
shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate
and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of
like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is
about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance
of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected
therewith.
Every new Security
of any Series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the destroyed, lost or stolen Security 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
Securities of that Series 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
Securities.
Section 2.9.
Outstanding Securities
The Securities
outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the
Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for
cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security
effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof
and those described in this Section as not outstanding.
If a Security is
replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding
until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.
If the Paying
Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a
Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that
date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series
cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to
accrue.
A Security does
not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company holds the Security.
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In determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the
principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal
thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.
Section 2.10.
Treasury Securities
In determining
whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities
of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned
by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be
disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether
the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver only
Securities of a Series that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.
Section 2.11.
Temporary Securities
Until definitive
Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the
Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company
Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of
definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company
considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without
unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon
request shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series
and date of maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so
exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under
this Indenture as the definitive Securities.
Section 2.12.
Cancellation
The Company at any
time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any
Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities
surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or
cancellation and shall destroy such canceled Securities (subject to
the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act) and, upon the
Company’s written request, deliver a certificate of such
destruction to the Company. The Company may not issue new
Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation.
Section 2.13.
Defaulted Interest
If the Company
defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities, it
shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent required by
the notes in such Series and to the extent permitted by law, any
interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are
Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date.
The Company shall fix the record date and payment date. At least
10 days before the record date, the Company shall mail to the
Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that
states the record date, the payment date and the amount of interest
to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other
lawful manner.
Section 2.14.
Global Securities
2.14.1 Terms of
Securities . A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture
hereto or an Officers’ Certificate shall establish whether
the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in
the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities.
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2.14.2 Transfer
and Exchange . Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary
contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition
thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to
Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the
names of Holders other than the Depositary for such Security or its
nominee only if (i) such Depositary notifies the Company that
it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global
Security or if at any time such Depositary ceases to be a clearing
agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the
Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary registered as a
clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such
event or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee
an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such Global
Security shall be so exchangeable. Any Global Security that is
exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be
exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the
Depositary shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like
tenor and terms.
Except as provided
in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with respect to
such Global Security to a nominee of such Depositary, by a nominee
of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such
Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor
Depositary or a nominee of such a successor Depositary.
2.14.3
Legend . Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
“This
Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the
Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary. This Security is
exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person
other than the Depositary or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Indenture, and may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the
Depositary, by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such
nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such a successor
Depositary.”
2.14.4 Acts of
Holders . The Depositary, as a Holder, may appoint agents and
otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the
Indenture.
2.14.5
Payments . Notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any,
on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder
thereof.
2.14.6
Consents, Declaration and Directions . Except as provided in
Section 2.14.5, the Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall
treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of
outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global
Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the
Depositary with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of
obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions
required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this
Indenture.
Section 2.15.
CUSIP Numbers
The Company in
issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use
“CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a
convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state
that no representation is made as to the correctness of such
numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any
notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the
other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any
such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission
of such numbers. The Company shall
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promptly notify
the Trustee of any Series, in writing, of any change in the
“CUSIP” numbers of that Series.
Section 3.1.
Notice to Trustee
The Company may,
with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to
redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem
and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the
Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided
for in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and
the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated
Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant
to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee of the
redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to
be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice at least
30 days before the redemption date (or such shorter notice as
may be acceptable to the Trustee).
Section 3.2.
Selection of Securities to be Redeemed
Unless otherwise
indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, if
less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select the Securities of the Series to be redeemed in
any manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate. The Trustee
shall make the selection from Securities of the Series outstanding
not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for
redemption portions of the principal of Securities of the Series
that have denominations larger than $1,000. Securities of the
Series and portions of them it selects shall be in amounts of
$1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities
of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to
Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination for each
Series and integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture
that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also
apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for
redemption.
Section 3.3.
Notice of Redemption
Unless otherwise
indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, at
least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a
redemption date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by
first-class mail to each Holder whose Securities are to be
redeemed.
The notice shall
identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall
state:
(b) the
redemption price;
(c) the name
and address of the Paying Agent;
(d) that
Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered
to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;
(e) that
interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases
to accrue on and after the redemption date;
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(f) the CUSIP
number, if any; and
(g) any other
information as may be required by the terms of the particular
Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.
At the
Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company’s name and at its
expense.
Section 3.4.
Effect of Notice of Redemption
Once notice of
redemption is mailed or published as provided in Section 3.3,
Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable
on the redemption date and at the redemption price. A notice of
redemption may not be conditional. Upon surrender to the Paying
Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus
accrued interest to the redemption date.
Section 3.5.
Deposit of Redemption Price
On or before
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the
Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay
the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all
Securities to be redeemed on that date.
Section 3.6.
Securities Redeemed in Part
Upon surrender of
a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate
for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same
maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the
Security surrendered.
Section 4.1.
Payment of Principal and Interest
The Company
covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series
of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of
and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in
accordance with the terms of such Securities and this
Indenture.
The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with
the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of
the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe)
which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also
shall comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a).
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee
is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt
of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its
covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely
exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).
Section 4.3.
Compliance Certificate
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The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each
fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate stating
that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries
during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the
supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining
whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its
obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each
such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/her
knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled
each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in
default in the performance or observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events
of Default of which he may have knowledge).
The Company will,
so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the
Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of
Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or
Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes
to take with respect thereto.
Section 4.4.
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.
The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will
not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or
usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force,
which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture
or the Securities; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully
do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law,
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted
to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every
such power as though no such law has been enacted.
Section 4.5.
Corporate Existence
Subject to
Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
corporate existence and rights (charter and statutory); provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any
such right if the Board of Directors shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and
that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the
Holders.
Section 5.1.
Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets
The Company shall
not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or
lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any
person (a “successor person”) unless:
(a) the
Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if
other than the Company) is a corporation organized and validly
existi
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