POLLUTION CONTROL
CORPORATION
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
Dated as of October 1,
2009
Pollution Control Revenue
Bonds,
2009 Series A
(Tucson Electric Power Company
Navajo Project)
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Section 1.01.
Definitions
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Section 2.01. Creation of
Bonds
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Section 2.02. Form of
Bonds
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Section 2.03. Execution of
Bonds
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Section 2.04. Authentication of
Bonds
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Section 2.05. Bonds Not General
Obligations
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Section 2.06. Prerequisites to
Authentication of Bonds
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Section 2.07. Lost or Destroyed Bonds or
Bonds Canceled in Error
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Section 2.08. Transfer, Registration and
Exchange of Bonds
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Section 2.09. Other
Obligations
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Section 2.10. Temporary
Bonds
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Section 2.11. Cancellation of
Bonds
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Section 2.12. Payment of Principal and
Interest
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Section 2.13. Applicability of
Book-Entry Provisions
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ARTICLE III REDEMPTION OF BONDS
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Section 3.01. Redemption
Provisions
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Section 3.02. Selection of Bonds to be
Redeemed
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Section 3.03. Procedure for
Redemption
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Section 3.04. Payment of Redemption
Price
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Section 3.05. No Partial Redemption
After Default
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Section 4.01. Creation of Bond
Fund
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Section 4.03. Deposits into Bond
Fund
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Section 4.04. Use of Moneys in Bond
Fund
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Section 4.05. Custody of Bond Fund;
Withdrawal of Moneys
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Section 4.06. Bonds Not Presented for
Payment
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Section 4.07. Moneys Held in
Trust
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ARTICLE V DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS
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Section 5.01. Disposition of
Proceeds
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Section 6.01. Investments
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ARTICLE VII GENERAL COVENANTS
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This table of contents is not part of the
Indenture, and is for convenience only. The captions herein are of
no legal effect and do not vary the meaning or legal effect of any
part of the Indenture.
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Section 7.01. No General
Obligations
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Section 7.02. Performance of Covenants
of the Pollution Control Corporation;
Representations
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Section 7.03. Maintenance of Rights and
Powers; Compliance with Laws
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Section 7.04. Enforcement of Obligations
of the Company; Amendments
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Section 7.05. Further
Instruments
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Section 7.06. No Disposition of Trust
Estate
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Section 7.07. Financing
Statements
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Section 7.08. Tax Covenants; Rebate
Fund
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Section 7.09. Notices of
Trustee
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ARTICLE IX DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
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Section 9.01. Events of
Default
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Section 9.03. Restoration to Former
Position
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Section 9.04. Owners’ Right to
Direct Proceedings
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Section 9.05. Limitation on
Owners’ Right to Institute Proceedings
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Section 9.06. No Impairment of Right to
Enforce Payment
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Section 9.07. Proceedings by Trustee
without Possession of Bonds
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Section 9.08. No Remedy
Exclusive
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Section 9.09. No Waiver of
Remedies
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Section 9.10. Application of
Moneys
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Section 9.11. Severability of
Remedies
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ARTICLE X TRUSTEE; PAYING AGENT AND CO-PAYING
AGENTS; REGISTRAR
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Section 10.01. Acceptance of
Trusts
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Section 10.02. No Responsibility for
Recitals
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Section 10.03. Limitations on
Liability
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Section 10.04. Compensation, Expenses
and Advances
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Section 10.05. Notice of Events of
Default
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Section 10.06. Action by
Trustee
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Section 10.07. Good Faith
Reliance
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Section 10.08. Dealings in Bonds and
with the Pollution Control Corporation and the
Company
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Section 10.09. Allowance of
Interest
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Section 10.10. Construction of
Indenture
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Section 10.11. Resignation of
Trustee
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Section 10.12. Removal of
Trustee
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Section 10.13. Appointment of Successor
Trustee
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Section 10.14. Qualifications of
Successor Trustee
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Section 10.15. Judicial Appointment of
Successor Trustee
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Section 10.16. Acceptance of Trusts by
Successor Trustee
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Section 10.17. Successor by Merger or
Consolidation
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Section 10.18. Standard of
Care
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Section 10.19. Notice to Owners of Bonds
of Event of Default
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Section 10.20. Intervention in
Litigation of the Pollution Control Corporation
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Section 10.21. Paying Agent; Co-Paying
Agents
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Section 10.22. Qualifications of Paying
Agent and Co-Paying Agents; Resignation; Removal
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Section 10.24. Qualifications of
Registrar; Resignation; Removal
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Section 10.25. Several
Capacities
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ARTICLE XI EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS BY OWNERS OF
BONDS AND PROOF OF OWNERSHIP OF BONDS
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Section 11.01. Execution of Instruments;
Proof of Ownership
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ARTICLE XII MODIFICATION OF THIS INDENTURE AND
THE LOAN AGREEMENT
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Section 12.01.
Limitations
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Section 12.02. Supplemental Indentures
without Owner Consent
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Section 12.03. Supplemental Indentures
with Consent of Owners
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Section 12.04. Effect of Supplemental
Indenture
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Section 12.05. Consent of the
Company
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Section 12.06. Amendment of Loan
Agreement without Consent of Owners
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Section 12.07. Amendment of Loan
Agreement with Consent of Owners
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ARTICLE XIII MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 13.01. Successors of the
Pollution Control Corporation
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Section 13.02. Parties in
Interest
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Section 13.03.
Severability
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Section 13.04. No Personal Liability of
Pollution Control Corporation Officials
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Section 13.05. Bonds Owned by the
Pollution Control Corporation or the Company
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Section 13.06.
Counterparts
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Section 13.07. Governing
Law
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Section 13.10. Statutory Notice
Regarding Cancellation of Contracts
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Exhibit A — Form of 2009
Series A Bond
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A-1
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Exhibit B — Form of Endorsement of
Transfer
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B-1
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Exhibit C — Form of Certificate of
Authentication
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THIS INDENTURE OF TRUST, dated as of
October 1, 2009 (this “Indenture”), between
COCONINO COUNTY, ARIZONA POLLUTION CONTROL CORPORATION, an Arizona
nonprofit corporation and a political subdivision of the State of
Arizona (hereinafter called the “Pollution Control
Corporation”), and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as
trustee (hereinafter called the “Trustee”),
WHEREAS, the Pollution Control Corporation is
authorized and empowered under Title 35, Chapter 6, Arizona Revised
Statutes, as amended (the “Act”), to issue its bonds in
accordance with the Act and to make secured or unsecured loans for
the purpose of financing or refinancing the acquisition,
construction, improvement or equipping of pollution control
facilities consisting of real and personal properties, including
but not limited to machinery and equipment whether or not now in
existence or under construction, which are used in whole or in part
to control, prevent, abate, alter, dispose or store, solid waste,
thermal, noise, atmospheric or water pollutants, contaminants or
products therefrom, whether such facilities serve one or more
purposes or functions in addition to controlling, preventing,
abating, altering, disposing or storing such pollutants,
contaminants or the products therefrom, and to charge and collect
interest on such loans and pledge the proceeds of loan agreements
as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on
bonds, or designated issues of bonds, issued by the Pollution
Control Corporation and any agreements made in connection
therewith, whenever the Board of Directors of the Pollution Control
Corporation finds such loans to be in furtherance of the purposes
of the Pollution Control Corporation;
WHEREAS, the Pollution Control Corporation has
heretofore issued and sold $14,700,000 aggregate principal amount
of Coconino County, Arizona Pollution Control Corporation Pollution
Control Revenue Bonds, 1997 Series B (Tucson Electric Power
Company Navajo Project), all of which remain outstanding (the
“1997 Bonds”), the proceeds of which were loaned to
Tucson Electric Power Company, an Arizona corporation (the
“Company”), for the purpose of refunding $14,700,000
aggregate principal amount of Coconino County, Arizona Pollution
Control Corporation Pollution Control Revenue Bonds, 1996
Series B (Tucson Electric Power Company Project);
and
WHEREAS, the Pollution Control Corporation
proposes to issue and sell its revenue bonds as provided herein
(the “Bonds”) for the purpose of refinancing, by the
payment or redemption of the 1997 Bonds, or provision therefor, a
portion of the costs of the acquisition, construction, improvement
and equipping of certain of the pollution control facilities (the
“Facilities”) described in Exhibit A to the Loan
Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2009 (the “Loan
Agreement”), between the Pollution Control Corporation and
the Company, previously refinanced with the proceeds of the 1997
Bonds;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of
these premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, of the
acceptance by the Trustee of the trusts hereby created, of the
purchase and acceptance of the Bonds by the Owners (as hereinafter
defined) thereof and of the sum of one dollar lawful money of the
United States of America, to it duly paid by the Trustee at or
before the execution and delivery of these presents, and for other
good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, in order to secure the payment of
the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds at
any time Outstanding (as hereinafter defined) under this Indenture
according to their tenor and effect and the performance and
observance by the Pollution Control Corporation of all the
covenants and conditions expressed or implied herein and contained
in the Bonds, the Pollution Control Corporation does hereby grant,
bargain, sell, convey, mortgage, pledge and assign, and grant a
security interest in, the Trust Estate (as hereinafter defined) to
the Trustee, its successors in trust and their assigns
forever;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all the same with all
privileges and appurtenances hereby conveyed and assigned, or
agreed or intended so to be, to the Trustee, its successors in
trust and their assigns forever;
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms and trusts
herein set forth, first, for the equal and proportionate benefit
and security of all Owners of the Bonds issued under and secured by
this Indenture without preference, priority or distinction as to
the lien of any Bonds over any other Bonds;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if, after the right,
title and interest of the Trustee in and to the Trust Estate shall
have ceased, terminated and become void in accordance with
Article VIII hereof, the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on the Bonds shall have been paid to the Owners thereof,
or shall have been paid to the Company pursuant to
Section 4.06 hereof, then and in that case these presents and
the estate and rights hereby granted shall cease, terminate and be
void, and thereupon the Trustee shall cancel and discharge this
Indenture and execute and deliver to the Pollution Control
Corporation and the Company such instruments in writing as shall be
requisite to evidence the discharge hereof; otherwise this
Indenture is to be and remain in full force and effect.
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THIS INDENTURE OF TRUST FURTHER WITNESSETH, and
it is expressly declared, that all Bonds issued and secured
hereunder are to be issued, authenticated and delivered, and the
Trust Estate and the other estate and rights hereby granted are to
be dealt with and disposed of, under, upon and subject to the
terms, conditions, stipulations, covenants, agreements, trusts,
uses and purposes as hereinafter expressed, and the Pollution
Control Corporation has agreed and covenanted, and does hereby
agree and covenant, with the Trustee and with the respective
Owners, from time to time, of the Bonds, as follows:
Section 1.01. Definitions . The
terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of
this Indenture, have the meanings herein specified, unless the
context clearly requires otherwise:
“Act” shall mean Title 35,
Chapter 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, and all acts supplemental
thereto or amendatory thereof.
“Administration Expenses” shall mean
the reasonable expenses incurred by the Pollution Control
Corporation with respect to the Loan Agreement, this Indenture and
any transaction or event contemplated by the Loan Agreement or this
Indenture, including the compensation and reimbursement of expenses
and advances payable to the Trustee, to the Paying Agent, any
Co-Paying Agent and the Registrar.
Authorized
Company Representative:
“Authorized Company Representative”
shall mean each person at the time designated to act on behalf of
the Company by written certificate furnished to the Pollution
Control Corporation and the Trustee containing the specimen
signature of such person and signed on behalf of the Company by its
President, any Vice President or its Treasurer, together with its
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary.
“Bond Counsel” shall mean any firm
or firms of nationally recognized bond counsel experienced in
matters pertaining to the validity of, and exclusion from gross
income for federal tax purposes of interest on bonds issued by
states and political subdivisions, selected by the Company and
acceptable to the Pollution Control Corporation.
“Bond
Fund” shall mean the fund created by Section 4.01
hereof.
“Bond” or “Bonds” shall
mean the bonds authorized to be issued under this
Indenture.
“Code” shall mean the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor statute thereto.
Each reference to a section of the Code herein shall be deemed to
include the United States Treasury Regulations proposed or in
effect thereunder and applicable to the Bonds or the use of
proceeds thereof, unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
References to any particular Code section shall, in the event of a
successor Code, be deemed to be a reference to the successor to
such Code section.
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“Company” shall mean Tucson Electric
Power Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Arizona, its successors and their assigns,
including without limitation, any successor obligor under
Section 6.01 or Section 7.01 of the Loan Agreement to the
extent of the obligations assumed thereunder.
“Depositary” shall mean The
Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto as a securities
repository for the Bonds.
“Facilities” shall mean the real and
personal properties, machinery and equipment currently existing,
under construction and to be constructed which are described in
Exhibit A to the Loan Agreement, as revised from time to time
to reflect any changes therein, additions thereto, substitutions
therefor and deletions therefrom permitted by the terms of the Loan
Agreement, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 7.01
of the Loan Agreement.
“Government Obligations” shall
mean:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations
the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally
guaranteed by, the United States of America entitled to the benefit
of the full faith and credit thereof; and
(b) certificates, depositary receipts or
other instruments which evidence a direct ownership interest in
obligations described in clause (a) above or in any specific
interest or principal payments due in respect thereof; provided,
however, that the custodian of such obligations or specific
interest or principal payments shall be a bank or trust company
organized under the laws of the United States of America or of any
state or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia, with a
combined capital stock surplus and undivided profits of at least
$50,000,000; and provided, further, that except as may be otherwise
required by law, such custodian shall be obligated to pay to the
holders of such certificates, depositary receipts or other
instruments the full amount received by such custodian in respect
of such obligations or specific payments and shall not be permitted
to make any deduction therefrom.
“Indenture” shall mean this
Indenture of Trust, dated as of October 1, 2009, between the
Pollution Control Corporation and the Trustee, and any and all
modifications, alterations, amendments and supplements
thereto.
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“Investment Securities” shall mean
any of the following obligations or securities on which neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries is the obligor:
(a) Government Obligations; (b) interest bearing deposit
accounts (which may be represented by certificates of deposit) in
national, state or foreign banks having a combined capital and
surplus of not less than $10,000,000; (c) bankers’
acceptances drawn on and accepted by commercial banks having a
combined capital and surplus of not less than $10,000,000; (d)
(i) direct obligations of, (ii) obligations the principal
of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, and
(iii) any other obligations the interest on which is exempt
from federal income taxation issued by, any state of the United
States of America, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, or any political subdivision, agency, authority or
other instrumentality of any of the foregoing, which, in any case,
are rated by a nationally recognized rating agency in any of its
three highest rating categories; (e) obligations of any agency
or instrumentality of the United States of America; (f) commercial
or finance company paper which is rated by a nationally recognized
rating agency in any of its three highest rating categories;
(g) corporate debt securities issued by corporations having
debt securities rated by a nationally recognized rating agency in
any of its three highest rating categories; (h) repurchase
agreements with banking or financial institutions having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $10,000,000 with respect to
any of the foregoing obligations or securities; (i) shares or
interests in registered investment companies whose assets consist
of obligations or securities which are described in any other
clause of this sentence; and (j) any other obligations which
may lawfully be purchased by the Trustee. The commercial banks and
banking institutions referred to above may include the entities
acting as Trustee, Paying Agent, Co-Paying Agent and Registrar,
hereunder if such entities shall otherwise satisfy the requirements
set forth above.
“Loan Agreement” shall mean the Loan
Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2009, between the Pollution
Control Corporation and the Company relating to the Bonds, and any
and all modifications, alterations, amendments and supplements
thereto.
“Loan Payments” shall mean the
payments required to be made by the Company pursuant to Section
5.01 of the Loan Agreement.
“1954
Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as
amended.
“1997 Bonds” shall mean the
$14,700,000 aggregate principal amount of the Coconino County,
Arizona Pollution Control Corporation Pollution Control Revenue
Bonds, 1997 Series B (Tucson Electric Power Company Navajo
Project).
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“Notice by Mail” or
“notice” of any action or condition “by
Mail” shall mean a written notice meeting the requirements of
this Indenture mailed by first class mail to the Owners of
specified registered Bonds at the addresses shown in the
registration books maintained pursuant to Section 2.08 hereof;
provided, however, that if, because of the temporary or permanent
suspension of delivery of first class mail or for any other reason,
it is impossible or impracticable to give such notice by first
class mail, then such giving of notice in lieu thereof, which may
include publication, as shall be made with the approval of the
Trustee (or, if there be no trustee hereunder, the Pollution
Control Corporation) shall constitute a sufficient giving of such
notice.
“Notice by Publication” or
“notice” of any action or condition “by
Publication” shall mean publication of a notice meeting the
requirements of this Indenture in a newspaper or financial journal
of general circulation in the City of New York, New York, which
carries financial news, is printed in the English language and is
customarily published on each business day; provided, however, that
any successive weekly publication of notice required hereunder may
be made, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, on the same or
different days of the week and in the same or different newspapers
or financial journals; and provided, further, that if, because of
the temporary or permanent suspension of the publication or general
circulation of any newspaper or financial journal or for any other
reason, it is impossible or impracticable to publish such notice in
the manner herein described, then such publication in lieu thereof
as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee (or, if there be
no trustee hereunder, the Pollution Control Corporation) shall
constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.
“Outstanding”, when used in
reference to the Bonds, shall mean, as at any particular date, the
aggregate of all Bonds authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture except:
(a) those canceled by the Trustee at or
prior to such date or delivered to or acquired by the Trustee at or
prior to such date for cancellation;
(b) those paid pursuant to
Section 2.07 hereof;
(c) those deemed to be paid in accordance
with Article VIII hereof; and
(d) those in lieu of or in exchange or
substitution for which other Bonds shall have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless proof satisfactory
to the Trustee and the Company is presented that such Bonds are
held by a bona fide holder in due course.
“Owner” shall mean the person in
whose name any Bond is registered upon the registration books
maintained pursuant to Section 2.08 hereof. The Company may be
an Owner.
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Paying
Agent; Co-Paying Agent; Principal Office thereof:
“Paying Agent” and “Co-Paying
Agent” shall mean the paying agent and any co-paying agent
appointed in accordance with Section 10.21 hereof.
“Principal Office” of the Paying Agent or any Co-Paying
Agent shall mean the office thereof designated in writing to the
Trustee.
“Plant” shall mean the Navajo
Generating Station, an electric power generating plant near Page,
Arizona, in Coconino County, Arizona, and any additions or
improvements thereto or replacements thereof.
Pollution
Control Corporation:
“Pollution Control Corporation”
shall mean Coconino County, Arizona Pollution Control Corporation,
an Arizona nonprofit corporation and a political subdivision of the
State of Arizona incorporated for and with the approval of the
County of Coconino, Arizona, pursuant to the provisions of the
Constitution of the State of Arizona and the Act, its successors
and their assigns.
“Rebate
Fund” shall mean the fund created by Section 7.08
hereof.
Receipts and
Revenues of the Pollution Control Corporation from the Loan
Agreement:
“Receipts and Revenues of the Pollution
Control Corporation from the Loan Agreement” shall mean all
moneys paid or payable to the Trustee for the account of the
Pollution Control Corporation by the Company in respect of the Loan
Payments and payments pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Loan
Agreement, and all receipts of the Trustee which, under the
provisions of this Indenture, reduce the amount of such
payments.
“Record Date” shall mean the close
of business on the fifteenth (15th) day (whether or not a business
day) of the calendar month immediately preceding each regularly
scheduled interest payment date.
Registrar;
Principal Office thereof:
“Registrar” shall mean the registrar
appointed in accordance with Section 10.23 hereof.
“Principal Office” of the Registrar shall mean the
office thereof designated in writing to the Trustee.
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“Supplemental Indenture” shall mean
any indenture of the Pollution Control Corporation modifying,
altering, amending, supplementing or confirming this Indenture for
any purpose, in accordance with the terms hereof.
Supplemental
Loan Agreement:
“Supplemental Loan Agreement” shall
mean any agreement between the Pollution Control Corporation and
the Company modifying, altering, amending or supplementing the Loan
Agreement, in accordance with the terms thereof and
hereof.
“Tax Agreement” shall mean that tax
certificate and agreement, dated the date of the initial
authentication and delivery of the Bonds, between the Pollution
Control Corporation and the Company, relating to the requirements
of the 1954 Code, Title XIII of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and any
and all modifications, alterations, amendments and supplements
thereto.
“Trust Estate” shall mean at any
particular time all right, title and interest of the Pollution
Control Corporation in and to the Loan Agreement (except its rights
under Sections 5.03, 5.04, 6.03 and 8.05 thereof and any
rights of the Pollution Control Corporation to receive notices,
certificates, requests, requisitions and other communications
thereunder), including without limitation, the Receipts and
Revenues of the Pollution Control Corporation from the Loan
Agreement and the Bond Fund and all moneys and Investment
Securities from time to time on deposit therein (excluding,
however, any moneys or Investment Securities held in the Rebate
Fund), any and all other moneys and obligations (other than Bonds)
which at such time are deposited or are required to be deposited
with, or are held or are required to be held by or on behalf of,
the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any Co-Paying Agent in trust under
any of the provisions of this Indenture and all other rights,
titles and interests which at such time are subject to the lien of
this Indenture; provided, however, that in no event shall there be
included in the Trust Estate (a) moneys or obligations
deposited with or held by the Trustee in the Rebate Fund pursuant
to Section 7.08 hereof or (b) moneys or obligations
deposited with or paid to the Trustee for the redemption or payment
of Bonds which are deemed to have been paid in accordance with
Article VIII hereof or moneys held pursuant to
Section 4.06 hereof.
Trustee;
Principal Office thereof:
“Trustee” shall mean U.S. Bank Trust
National Association, as trustee under this Indenture, its
successors in trust and their assigns. “Principal
Office” of the Trustee shall mean the principal corporate
trust office of the Trustee, which office at the date of acceptance
by the Trustee of the duties and obligations imposed on the Trustee
by this Indenture is located at the address specified in
Section 13.08 hereof.
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Section 2.01. Creation of Bonds .
There is hereby authorized and created under this Indenture, for
the purpose of providing moneys to pay, or redeem or provide for
the redemption therefore, of the 1997 Bonds, an issue of Bonds,
entitled to the benefit, protection and security of this Indenture,
in the aggregate principal amount of Fourteen Million Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($14,700,000). Each of the Bonds shall be
designated by the title “Coconino County, Arizona Pollution
Control Corporation Pollution Control Revenue Bond, 2009
Series A (Tucson Electric Power Company Navajo
Project)”. The Bonds shall mature, subject to prior
redemption upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, on
October 1, 2032 and shall bear interest from the date thereof
until payment of the principal or redemption price thereof shall
have been made or provided for in accordance with the provisions
hereof, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, at the
rate of FIVE POINT ONE TWO FIVE PER CENTUM (5.125%) per annum, with
interest thereon payable semi-annually on each April 1 and
October 1, commencing April 1, 2010. Interest shall be
calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months.
Section 2.02. Form of Bonds . Bonds
shall be authenticated and delivered hereunder solely as fully
registered bonds without coupons in the denomination of $5,000 or
integral multiples thereof. Bonds shall be numbered as determined
by the Trustee. Bonds authenticated prior to the first interest
payment date shall be dated October 8, 2009. Bonds
authenticated on or subsequent to the first interest payment date
shall be dated the interest payment date next preceding the date of
authentication thereof, unless such date of authentication shall be
an interest payment date to which interest on the Bonds has been
paid in full or duly provided for, in which case they shall be
dated such date of authentication; provided, however, that if, as
shown by the records of the Trustee, interest on the Bonds shall be
in default, Bonds issued in exchange for Bonds surrendered for
transfer or exchange shall be dated the date to which interest has
been paid in full on the Bonds surrendered.
Principal of and premium, if any, on the Bonds
shall be payable to the Owners of such Bonds upon presentation and
surrender of such Bonds at the Principal Office of the Paying Agent
or any Co-Paying Agent. Interest on the Bonds shall be paid by
check drawn upon the Paying Agent and mailed to the Owners of such
Bonds as of the close of business on the Record Date with respect
to each interest payment date at the registered addresses of such
Owners as they shall appear as of the close of business on such
Record Date on the registration books maintained pursuant to
Section 2.08 hereof notwithstanding the cancellation of any such
Bond upon any exchange or registration of transfer subsequent to
such Record Date, except that if and to the extent that there
should be a default on the payment of interest on any Bond, such
defaulted interest shall be paid to the Owners in whose name such
Bond (or any Bond or Bonds issued upon any exchange or registration
of transfer thereof) is registered as of the close of business on a
date selected by the Trustee in its discretion, but not more than
fifteen (15) days or less than ten (10) days prior to the
date of payment of such defaulted interest; notwithstanding the
foregoing, upon request to the Paying Agent by an Owner of not less
than $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Bonds, interest on
such Bonds and, after presentation and surrender of such Bonds, the
principal thereof shall be paid to such Owner by wire transfer to
the account maintained within the continental United States
specified by such Owner or, if such Owner maintains an account with
the entity acting as Paying Agent, by deposit into such account.
Payment as aforesaid shall be made in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as, at the respective times of payment,
shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
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The Bonds and the form for registration of
transfer and the form of certificate of authentication to be
printed on the Bonds are to be in substantially the forms thereof
set forth in Exhibits A, B and C hereto, respectively, with
necessary or appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as
permitted or required by this Indenture.
Section 2.03. Execution of Bonds .
The Bonds shall be executed on behalf of the Pollution Control
Corporation by the President or a Vice President of the Pollution
Control Corporation which shall be attested by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Pollution Control Corporation. Each of
the foregoing officers may execute or cause to be executed with a
facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature the Bonds,
provided the signature of either the President or a Vice President
of the Pollution Control Corporation or the Secretary or Assistant
Secretary of the Pollution Control Corporation shall, if required
by applicable laws, be manually subscribed.
In case any officer of the Pollution Control
Corporation whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature shall
appear on the Bonds shall cease to be such officer before the
authentication by the Trustee and delivery of such Bonds, such
signature or such facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and
sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officer had
remained in office until delivery; and any Bond may be signed on
behalf of the Pollution Control Corporation by such persons as, at
the time of execution of such Bond, shall be the proper officers of
the Pollution Control Corporation, even though at the date of such
Bond or of the execution and delivery of this Indenture any such
person was not such officer.
Section 2.04. Authentication of
Bonds . Only such Bonds as shall have endorsed thereon a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth
in Exhibit C hereto duly executed by the Trustee shall be
entitled to any right or benefit under this Indenture. No Bond
shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless and until such
certificate of authentication shall have been duly executed by the
Trustee, and such executed certificate of authentication of the
Trustee upon any such Bonds shall be conclusive evidence that such
Bond has been authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication on any Bond shall be
deemed to have been executed by it if signed with an authorized
signature of the Trustee, but it shall not be necessary that the
same person sign the certificate of authentication on all of the
Bonds issued hereunder. This Section 2.04 is subject to the
provisions of Section 10.17 hereof.
Section 2.05. Bonds Not General
Obligations . Any obligation or liability of the Pollution
Control Corporation created by or arising out of this Indenture or
otherwise incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds
(including without limitation any liability created by or arising
out of the representations, warranties or covenants set forth
herein or otherwise) shall not impose a debt or pecuniary liability
upon the Pollution Control Corporation or the State of Arizona or
any political subdivision thereof, or a charge upon the general
credit or taxing powers of any of the foregoing, but shall be
payable solely out of the Receipts and Revenues of the Pollution
Control Corporation from the Loan Agreement or other amounts
payable by the Company to the Pollution Control Corporation
hereunder or otherwise (including without limitation any amounts
derived from indemnifications given by the Company).
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Neither the issuance of the Bonds nor the
delivery of this Indenture shall, directly or indirectly or
contingently, obligate the Pollution Control Corporation or the
State or any political subdivision thereof to levy any form of
taxation therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment.
Nothing in the Bonds or in this Indenture or the proceedings of the
Pollution Control Corporation or the Coconino County Board of
Supervisors authorizing the Bonds or in the Act or in any other
related document shall be construed to authorize the Pollution
Control Corporation to create a debt of the Pollution Control
Corporation or the State or any political subdivision thereof
within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision of
the State. The principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on,
the Bonds shall be payable solely from the funds pledged for their
payment in accordance with the Indenture and available therefor
under this Indenture. Neither the Pollution Control Corporation,
the County of Coconino, the State nor any political subdivision
thereof shall in any event be liable for the payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Bonds or for the
performance of any pledge, obligation or agreement of any kind
whatsoever which may be undertaken by the Pollution Control
Corporation. No breach of any such pledge, obligation or agreement
may impose any pecuniary liability upon the Pollution Control
Corporation or the State or any political subdivision thereof, or
any charge upon the general credit or against the taxing power of
Coconino County, Arizona or the State or any political subdivision
thereof. The Pollution Control Corporation has no taxing
power.
Section 2.06. Prerequisites to
Authentication of Bonds . The Pollution Control Corporation
shall execute and deliver to the Trustee and the Trustee shall
authenticate the Bonds and deliver said Bonds to the initial
purchasers thereof as may be directed hereinafter in this
Section 2.06.
Prior to the delivery on original issuance by
the Trustee of any authenticated Bonds, there shall be or have been
delivered to the Trustee:
(a) a duly certified copy of a resolution
of the Board of Directors of the Pollution Control Corporation
authorizing the execution and delivery of this Indenture and the
Loan Agreement and the issuance of the Bonds;
(b) an original duly executed counterpart
or a duly certified copy of the Loan Agreement;
(c) a request and authorization to the
Trustee on behalf of the Pollution Control Corporation, signed by
its President or a Vice President, to authenticate and deliver the
Bonds in the aggregate principal amount determined by this
Indenture to the purchaser or purchasers therein identified upon
payment to the Trustee, but for the account of the Pollution
Control Corporation, of a sum specified in such request and
authorization plus any accrued interest on such Bonds to the date
of delivery; and
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(d) a written statement on behalf of the
Company, executed by the President, any Vice President or the
Treasurer, (i) approving the issuance and delivery of the
Bonds and (ii) consenting to each and every provision of this
Indenture.
Section 2.07. Lost or Destroyed Bonds or
Bonds Canceled in Error . If any Bond, whether in temporary or
definitive form, is lost (whether by reason of theft or otherwise),
destroyed (whether by mutilation, damage, in whole or in part, or
otherwise) or canceled in error, the Pollution Control Corporation
may execute and the Trustee may authenticate a new Bond of like
date and denomination and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding; provided that (a) in the case of any mutilated
Bond, such mutilated Bond shall first be surrendered to the Trustee
and (b) in the case of any lost Bond or Bond destroyed in
whole, there shall be first furnished to the Pollution Control
Corporation, the Trustee and the Company evidence of such loss or
destruction. In every case, the applicant for a substitute Bond
shall furnish the Pollution Control Corporation, the Trustee and
the Company such security or indemnity as may be required by any of
them. In the event any lost or destroyed Bond or a Bond canceled in
error shall have matured or is about to mature, or has been called
for redemption, instead of issuing a substitute Bond the Trustee
may, in its discretion, pay the same without surrender thereof if
there shall be first furnished to the Pollution Control
Corporation, the Trustee and the Company evidence of such loss,
destruction or cancellation, together with indemnity, satisfactory
to them. Upon the issuance of any substitute Bond, the Pollution
Control Corporation and the Trustee may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in relation thereto. The Trustee may charge the
Owner of any such Bond with the Trustee’s reasonable fees and
expenses in connection with any transaction described in this
Section 2.07.
Every substitute Bond issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 2.07 by virtue of the fact that any
Bond is lost, destroyed or canceled in error shall constitute an
additional contractual obligation of the Pollution Control
Corporation, whether or not the Bond so lost, destroyed or canceled
shall be at any time enforceable, and shall be entitled to all the
benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and
all other Bonds duly issued hereunder. All Bonds shall be held and
owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by
law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the
replacement or payment of lost, destroyed or improperly canceled
Bonds, notwithstanding any law or statute now existing or hereafter
enacted.
Section 2.08. Transfer, Registration and
Exchange of Bonds . The Registrar shall maintain and keep, at
its Principal Office, books for the registration and registration
of transfer of Bonds, which, at all reasonable times, shall be open
for inspection by the Pollution Control Corporation, the Trustee
and the Company; and, upon presentation for such purpose of any
Bond entitled to registration or registration of transfer at the
Principal Office of the Registrar, the Registrar shall register or
register the transfer in such books, under such reasonable
regulations as the Registrar may prescribe. The Registrar shall
make all necessary provisions to permit the exchange or
registration of transfer of Bonds at its Principal
Office.
The transfer of any Bond shall be registered
upon the registration books of the Registrar at the written request
of the Owner thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
upon surrender thereof at the Principal Office of the Registrar,
together with a written instrument of transfer satisfactory to the
Registrar duly executed by the Owner or his duly authorized
attorney. Upon the registration of transfer of any such Bond or
Bonds, the Pollution Control Corporation shall issue in the name of
the transferee, in authorized denominations, a new Bond or Bonds in
the same aggregate principal amount as the surrendered Bond or
Bonds.
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The Pollution Control Corporation, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent, any Co-Paying Agent and the Registrar may deem
and treat the Owner of any Bond as the absolute Owner of such Bond,
whether such Bond shall be overdue or not, for the purpose of
receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal of and
premium, if any, and, except as provided in Section 2.02
hereof, interest on such Bond and for all other purposes, and
neither the Pollution Control Corporation, the Trustee, the Paying
Agent, any Co-Paying Agent nor the Registrar shall be affected by
any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such
Owner or upon his order shall be valid and effective to satisfy and
discharge the liability upon such Bond to the extent of the sum or
sums so paid.
Bonds, upon surrender thereof at the Principal
Office of the Registrar may, at the option of the Owner thereof, be
exchanged for an equal aggregate principal amount of Bonds of any
authorized denomination.
In all cases in which the privilege of
exchanging Bonds or registering the transfer of Bonds is exercised,
the Pollution Control Corporation shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver Bonds in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture. For every such exchange or
registration of transfer of Bonds, whether temporary or definitive,
the Pollution Control Corporation, the Registrar, or the Trustee
may make a charge sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or other
governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such
exchange or registration of transfer, which sum or sums shall be
paid by the person requesting such exchange or registration of
transfer as a condition precedent to the exercise of the privilege
of making such exchange or registration of transfer. The Registrar
shall not be obligated (a) to make any such exchange or
registration of transfer of Bonds during the fifteen (15) days
next preceding the date on which notice of any proposed redemption
of Bonds is given or (b) to make any exchange or registration
of transfer of any Bonds called for redemption.
The Bonds are to be initially registered in the
name of Cede & Co., as nominee for the Depositary. Such Bonds
shall not be transferable or exchangeable, nor shall any purported
transfer be registered, except as follows:
(a) such Bonds may be transferred in whole,
and appropriate registration of transfer effected, if such transfer
is by such nominee to the Depositary, or by the Depositary to
another nominee thereof, or by any nominee of the Depositary to any
other nominee thereof, or by the Depositary or any nominee thereof
to any successor securities depositary or any nominee thereof;
and
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(b) such Bond may be exchanged for
definitive Bonds registered in the respective names of the
beneficial holders thereof, and thereafter shall be transferable
without restriction, if:
(i) the Depositary shall have notified the
Company and the Trustee that it is unwilling or unable to continue
to act as securities depositary with respect to such Bonds and the
Trustee shall not have been notified by the Company within ninety
(90) days of the identity of a successor securities depositary
with respect to such Bonds;
(ii) the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee a written instrument to the effect that such Bonds
shall be so exchangeable on and after a date specified therein;
or
(iii) (1) an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, (2) the Trustee shall have given
notice of such Event of Default pursuant to Section 10.19
hereof and (3) there shall have been delivered to the Pollution
Control Corporation, the Company and the Trustee an opinion of
counsel to the effect that the interests of the beneficial Owners
of such Bonds in respect thereof will be materially impaired unless
such Owners become Owners of definitive Bonds.
The Bonds delivered to the Depositary may
contain a legend reflecting the foregoing restrictions on
registration of transfer and exchange.
Section 2.09. Other Obligations .
The Pollution Control Corporation expressly reserves the right to
issue, to the extent permitted by law, but shall not be obligated
to issue, obligations under another indenture or indentures to
provide additional funds to pay the cost of construction of the
Facilities or to refund all or any principal amount of the Bonds,
or any combination thereof.
Section 2.10. Temporary Bonds .
Pending the preparation of definitive Bonds, the Pollution Control
Corporation may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver temporary Bonds. Temporary Bonds shall be issuable as
registered Bonds without coupons, of any authorized denomination,
and substantially in the form of the definitive Bonds but with such
omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for
temporary Bonds, all as may be determined by the Pollution Control
Corporation. Temporary Bonds may contain such reference to any
provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary
Bond shall be executed by the Pollution Control Corporation and be
authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in
substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the
definitive Bonds. As promptly as practicable the Pollution Control
Corporation shall execute and shall furnish definitive Bonds and
thereupon temporary Bonds may be surrendered in exchange therefor
without charge at the Principal Office of the Trustee, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such
temporary Bonds a like aggregate principal amount of definitive
Bonds of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary
Bonds shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture
as definitive Bonds.
Section 2.11. Cancellation of Bonds
. All Bonds which shall have been surrendered to the Paying Agent
or any Co-Paying Agent for payment or redemption, and all Bonds
which shall have been surrendered to the Registrar for exchange or
registration of transfer, shall be delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation. All Bonds delivered to or acquired by the Trustee for
cancellation shall be canceled and destroyed by the Trustee. The
Trustee shall furnish to the Pollution Control Corporation, the
Paying Agent, the Registrar and the Company counterparts of
certificates evidencing such cancellation and destruction and
specifying such Bonds by number.
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Section 2.12. Payment of Principal and
Interest . For the payment of interest on the Bonds, the
Pollution Control Corporation shall cause to be deposited in the
Bond Fund, on each interest payment date, solely out of the
Receipts and Revenues of the Pollution Control Corporation from the
Loan Agreement and other moneys pledged therefor, an amount
sufficient to pay the interest to become due on such interest
payment date. The obligation of the Pollution Control Corporation
to cause any such deposit to be made hereunder shall be reduced by
the amount of moneys in the Bond Fund available on such interest
payment date for the payment of interest on the Bonds.
For the payment of the principal of the Bonds
upon maturity, the Pollution Control Corporation shall cause to be
deposited in the Bond Fund, on the stated or accelerated date of
maturity, solely out of the Receipts and Revenues of the Pollution
Control Corporation from the Loan Agreement and other moneys
pledged therefor, an amount sufficient to pay the principal of the
Bonds. The obligation of the Pollution Control Corporation to cause
any such deposit to be made hereunder shall be reduced by the
amount of moneys in the Bond Fund available on the maturity date
for the payment of the principal of the Bonds.
Section 2.13. Applicability of
Book-Entry Provisions . Anything in this Indenture to the
contrary notwithstanding, (a) the provisions of the Blanket
Issuer Letter of Representations, dated October 12, 1995,
between the Pollution Control Corporation and The Depository Trust
Company relating to the manner of and procedures for payment and
redemption of Bonds and related matters shall apply so long as such
Depositary shall be the Owner of all Outstanding Bonds and
(b) the Pollution Control Corporation, the Trustee or the
Paying Agent, as applicable, may enter into a similar agreement, on
terms satisfactory to the Company, with any subsequent Depositary
and the provisions thereof shall apply so long as such Depositary
shall be the Owner of all Outstanding Bonds.
Section 3.01. Redemption Provisions.
(a) The Bonds shall be subject to redemption by the Pollution
Control Corporation, at the direction of the Company, on any date
on or after October 1, 2019 in whole at any time or in part
from time to time, at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus
accrued interest, if any, to the redemption date.
(b) The Bonds shall be subject to
redemption by the Pollution Control Corporation, at the direction
of the Company, in whole at any time at the principal amount
thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date,
if:
(i) the Company shall have determined that
the continued operation of the Facilities or the Plant is
impracticable, uneconomical or undesirable for any
reason;
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(ii) all or substantially all of the
Facilities or the Plant shall have been condemned or taken by
eminent domain; or
(iii) the operation of the Facilities or
the Plant shall have been enjoined or shall have otherwise been
prohibited by, or shall conflict with, any order, decree, rule or
regulation of any court or of any federal, state or local
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
body.
(c) The Bonds shall be subject to mandatory
redemption by the Pollution Control Corporation, at the principal
amount thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date, on the
180th day (or such earlier date as may be designated by the
Company) after a final determination by a court of competent
jurisdiction or an administrative agency, to the effect that, as a
result of a failure by the Company to perform or observe any
covenant, agreement or representation contained in the Loan
Agreement, the interest payable on the Bonds is included for
federal income tax purposes in the gross income of the Owners
thereof, other than any Owner of a Bond who is a “substantial
user” of the Facilities or a “related person”
within the meaning of Section 103(b)(13) of the 1954 Code. No
determination by any court or administrative agency shall be
considered final for the purposes of this Section 3.01(c)
unless the Company shall have been given timely notice of the
proceeding which resulted in such determination and an opportunity
to participate in such proceeding, either directly or through an
Owner of a Bond, and until the conclusion of any appellate review
sought by any party to such proceeding or the expiration of the
time for seeking such review. The Bonds shall be redeemed either in
whole or in part in such principal amount that, in the opinion of
Bond Counsel, the interest payable on the Bonds remaining
outstanding after such redemption would not be included in the
gross income of any Owner thereof, other than an Owner of a Bond
who is a “substantial user” of the Facilities or a
“related person” within the meaning of
Section 103(b)(13) of the 1954 Code.
Section 3.02. Selection of Bonds to be
Redeemed . If less than all the Bonds shall be called for
redemption under any provision of this Indenture permitting such
partial redemption, the particular Bonds or portions of Bonds to be
redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, in such manner as the
Trustee in its discretion may deem proper, in the aggregate
principal amount designated to the Trustee by the Company or
otherwise as required by this Indenture; provided, however, that
if, as indicated in a certificate of an Authorized Company
Representative delivered to the Trustee, the Company shall have
offered to purchase all Bonds then Outstanding and less than all
such Bonds have been tendered to the Company for such purchase, the
Trustee, at the direction of an Authorized Company Representative,
shall select for redemption all such Bonds which shall not have
been so tendered; and provided, further, that the portion of any
Bond to be redeemed shall be in the principal amount of $5,000 or
some integral multiple thereof and that, in selecting Bonds for
redemption, the Trustee shall treat each Bond as representing that
number of Bonds which is obtained by dividing the principal amount
of such Bond by $5,000. If it is determined that one or more, but
not all, of the $5,000 units of principal amount represented by any
such Bond is to be called for redemption, then, upon notice of
intention to redeem such $5,000 unit or units, the Owner of such
Bond shall forthwith surrender such Bond to the Paying Agent or any
Co-Paying Agent for (a) payment to such Owner of the
redemption price (including the redemption premium, if any, and
accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption) of the $5,000
unit or units of principal amount called for redemption and
(b) delivery to such Owner of a new Bond or Bonds in the
aggregate principal amount of the unredeemed balance of the
principal amount of any such Bond. Bonds representing the
unredeemed balance of the principal amount of any such Bond shall
be delivered to the Owner thereof, without charge therefor. If the
Owner of any such Bond of a denomination greater than $5,000 shall
fail to present such Bond to the Paying Agent or any Co-Paying
Agent for payment and exchange as aforesaid, such Bond shall,
nevertheless, become due and payable on the date fixed for
redemption to the extent of the $5,000 unit or units of principal
amount called for redemption (and to that extent only).
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Section 3.03. Procedure for
Redemption . (a) In the event any of the Bonds are called
for redemption, the Trustee shall give notice, in the name of the
Pollution Control Corporation, of the redemption of such Bonds,
which notice shall (i) specify the Bonds to be redeemed, the
redemption date, the redemption price, and the place or places
where amounts due upon such redemption will be payable (which shall
be the Principal Office of the Paying Agent or any Co-Paying Agent)
and, if less than all of the Bonds are to be redeemed, the numbers
of the Bonds to be redeemed, and the portion of the principal
amount of any Bond to be redeemed in part, (ii) state any
condition to such redemption and (iii) state that on the
redemption date, and upon the satisfaction of any such condition,
the Bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed shall cease to bear
interest. Such notice may set forth any additional information
relating to such redemption. Such notice shall be given by Mail at
least thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for redemption
to the Owners of the Bonds to be redeemed; provided, however, that
failure duly to give such Notice by Mail, or any defect therein,
shall not affect the validity of any proceedings for the redemption
of Bonds as to which there shall have been no such failure or
defect. If a notice of redemption shall be unconditional, or if the
conditions of a conditional notice or redemption shall have been
satisfied, then upon presentation and surrender of Bonds so called
for redemption at the place or places of payment, such Bonds shall
be redeemed. The Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Company a
copy of each such notice of redemption.
(b) With respect to any notice of
redemption of Bonds in accordance with subsection (a) or
(b) of Section 3.01 hereof, unless, upon the giving of
such notice, such Bonds shall be deemed to have been paid within
the meaning of Article VIII hereof, such notice shall state
that such redemption shall be conditional upon the receipt, by the
Trustee at or prior to the opening of business on the date fixed
for such redemption, of moneys sufficient to pay the principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on such Bonds to be redeemed, and
that if such moneys shall not have been so received said notice
shall be of no force and effect and the Pollution Control
Corporation shall not be required to redeem such Bonds. In the
event that such notice of redemption contains such a condition and
such moneys are not so received, the redemption shall not be made
and the Trustee shall within a reasonable time thereafter give
notice, in the manner in which the notice of redemption was given,
that such moneys were not so received.
(c) Any Bonds and portions of Bonds which
have been duly selected for redemption shall cease to bear interest
on the specified redemption date provided that moneys sufficient to
pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Bonds
shall be on deposit with the Trustee on the date fixed for
redemption so that such Bonds will be deemed to be paid in
accordance with Article VIII hereof.
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Section 3.04. Payment of Redemption
Price . For the redemption of any of the Bonds, the Pollution
Control Corporation shall cause to be deposited in the Bond Fund,
on the redemption date, solely out of the Receipts and Revenues of
the Pollution Control Corporation from the Loan Agreement, an
amount sufficient to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest to become due on such redemption date. The obligation of
the Pollution Control Corporation to cause any such deposit to be
made hereunder shall be reduced by the amount of moneys in the Bond
Fund available on such redemption date for payment of the principal
of and premium, if any, and accrued interest on the Bonds to be
redeemed.
Section 3.05. No Partial Redemption
After Default . Anything in this Indenture to the contrary
notwithstanding, if there shall have occurred and be continuing an
Event of Default defined in clause (a) or (b) of the
first paragraph of Section 9.01 hereof, there shall be no
redemption of less than all of the Bonds at the time Outstanding
other than a partial redemption in connection with an offer by the
Company to purchase all Bonds Outstanding as contemplated in the
first proviso to the first sentence of Section 3.02
hereof.
Section 4.01. Creation of Bond Fund
. There is hereby created and established with the Trustee a trust
fund in the name of the Pollution Control Corporation to be
designated “Coconino County, Arizona Pollution Control
Corporation Pollution Control Revenue Bonds, 2009 Series A
(Tucson Electric Power Company Navajo Project) Bond Fund”
(herein called the “Bond Fund”). The Trustee shall
establish and maintain within the Bond Fund such segregated
subaccounts as may be requested by an Authorized Company
Representative. The Bond Fund, and all moneys and certificated
securities therein, shall be kept in the possession of the
Trustee.
Section 4.02. Liens . The Pollution
Control Corporation shall not create any lien upon the Bond Fund or
upon the Receipts and Revenues of the Pollution Control Corporation
from the Loan Agreement other than the lien hereby
created.
Section 4.03. Deposits into Bond
Fund . (a) There shall be deposited into the Bond
Fund:
(i) the accrued interest, if any, on the
Bonds accrued to the date of delivery thereof and paid by the
initial purchasers thereof;
(ii) all Loan Payments; and
(iii) all other moneys received by the
Trustee under and pursuant to any provision of the Loan Agreement,
other than Sections 5.03, 5.04 and 8.05 thereof, or from any
other source when accompanied by directions by the Company that
such moneys are to be paid into the Bond Fund.
(b) All income or other gain from the
investment of moneys in the Bond Fund shall be deposited into the
Bond Fund.
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Section 4.04. Use of Moneys in Bond
Fund . Moneys, if any, paid into the Bond Fund pursuant to
clause (i) of Section 4.03(a) hereof shall be applied to
the payment of interest on the Bonds. Except as otherwise provided
in Sections 4.06, 9.01 and 10.04 hereof, all other moneys in
the Bond Fund constituting part of the Trust Estate shall be used
solely for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on the Bonds as the same shall become due and payable at
maturity, upon redemption or otherwise.
Section 4.05. Custody of Bond Fund;
Withdrawal of Moneys . The Bond Fund shall be in the custody of
the Trustee but in the name of the Pollution Control Corporation
and the Pollution Control Corporation hereby authorizes and directs
the Trustee to withdraw from the Bond Fund and furnish to the
Paying Agent funds constituting part of the Trust Estate sufficient
to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the
Bonds as the same shall become due and payable, and to withdraw
from the Bond Fund funds sufficient to pay any other amounts
payable therefrom as the same shall become due and
payable.
Section 4.06. Bonds Not Presented for
Payment . In the event any Bonds shall not be presented for
payment when the principal thereof and premium, if any, thereon
become due, either at maturity or at the date fixed for redemption
thereof or otherwise, if moneys sufficient to pay such Bonds are
held by the Paying Agent or any Co-Paying Agent for the benefit of
the Owners thereof, the Paying Agent shall segregate and hold such
moneys in trust, without liability for interest thereon, for the
benefit of the Owners of such Bonds, who shall, except as provided
in the following paragraph, thereafter be restricted exclusively to
such fund or funds for the satisfaction of any claim of whatever
nature on their part under this Indenture or relating to said
Bonds.
Any moneys which the Paying Agent shall
segregate and hold in trust for the payment of the principal of and
premium, if any, or interest on any Bond and remaining unclaimed
for one (1) year after such principal, premium, if any, or
interest has become due and payable shall, upon the Company’s
written request to the Paying Agent, be paid to the Company, with
notice to the Trustee of such action; provided, however, that
before the Paying Agent shall be required to make any such
repayment, the Paying Agent may, and at the request of the Trustee
shall, at the expense of the Company cause notice to be given once
by Publication to the effect that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
thirty (30) days from the date of such notice by Publication,
any unclaimed balance of such moneys then remaining will be paid to
the Company. After the payment of such unclaimed moneys to the
Company, the Owner of such Bond shall thereafter look only to the
Company for the payment thereof, and all liability of the Pollution
Control Corporation, the Trustee and the Paying Agent with respect
to such moneys shall thereupon cease.
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Section 4.07. Moneys Held in Trust .
All moneys and Investment Securities held by the Trustee in the
Bond Fund, and all moneys required to be deposited with or paid to
the Trustee for deposit into the Bond Fund, and all moneys
withdrawn from the Bond Fund and held by the Trustee, the Paying
Agent or any Co-Paying Agent, shall be held by the Trustee, the
Paying Agent or any Co-Paying Agent, as the case may be, in trust,
and such moneys and Investment Securities (other than moneys held
pursuant to Section 4.06 hereof and moneys or Investment
Securities held in the Rebate Fund established in furtherance of
the obligations of the Company under clause (b) of
Section 6.04 of the Loan Agreement), while so held or so
required to be deposited or paid, shall constitute part of the
Trust Estate and be subject to the lien and security interest
created hereby in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Owners from time to time of the Bonds. The Company shall have no
right, title or interest in the Bond Fund, except such rights as
may arise after the right, title and interest of the Trustee in and
to the Trust Estate and all covenants, agreements and other
obligations of the Pollution Control Corporation under this
Indenture shall have ceased, terminated and become void and shall
have been satisfied and discharged in accordance with
Article VIII hereof.
Section 5.01. Disposition of
Proceeds . The proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Bonds
shall be applied as provided in Section 4.03 of the Loan
Agreement.
Section 6.01. Investments . The
moneys in the Bond Fund shall, at the direction of the Company, be
invested and reinvested in Investment Securities. Any Investment
Securitie
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