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Exhibit 4.1
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP
INCORPORATED
$250,000,000 Floating Rate
Notes due February 7, 2011
Officers’
Certificate and Company Order
Pursuant to the Indenture,
dated as of February 4, 2008 (the “Indenture”),
between UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a Minnesota corporation
(the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as
trustee (the “Trustee”) and resolutions adopted by the
Company’s Board of Directors on October 30, 2007, this
Officers’ Certificate and Company Order is being delivered to
the Trustee to establish the terms of a series of Securities in
accordance with Section 301 of the Indenture, to establish the
form of the Securities of such series in accordance with
Section 201 of the Indenture, to request the authentication
and delivery of the Securities of such series pursuant to
Section 303 of the Indenture and to comply with the provisions
of Section 102 of the Indenture. This Officers’
Certificate and Company Order shall be treated for all purposes
under the Indenture as a supplemental indenture thereto.
All conditions precedent
provided for in the Indenture relating to (i) the
establishment of a series of Securities, (ii) the
establishment of the form of Securities of such series and
(iii) the procedures for authentication and delivery of such
series of securities have been complied with.
Capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Indenture.
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Establishment of a Series of Securities pursuant to
Section 301 of the Indenture . |
There is hereby established
pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture a series of
Securities which shall have the following terms:
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(1) |
The Securities shall bear the title “Floating Rate Notes
due February 7, 2011” (referred to herein as the
“Notes”). |
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(2) |
The aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be issued
pursuant to this Officers’ Certificate and Company Order
shall be limited to $250,000,000 except for (a) Notes
authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or
in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to
Section 304, 305, 306, or 1007 of the Indenture,
(b) Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the
Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered thereunder and (c) any Securities of this series
which are issued in the manner contemplated by paragraph 18(a)
hereof. |
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(3) |
Interest will
be payable to the Person in whose name a Note (or any Predecessor
Security) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date (as defined below) immediately preceding each Interest
Payment Date (as defined below). In the event that a payment of
principal or interest is due on a date that is not a Business Day
(as defined below), the related payment of principal or interest
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect
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as if made on the date
such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so
payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or
date of Maturity, as the case may be. “Business Day”
shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on
which banking institutions in New York, New York or Minneapolis,
Minnesota or at the place of payment (specified in paragraph
(6) hereof) are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or
executive order to remain closed. “London Business Day”
means any day on which dealings in United States dollars are
transacted in the London interbank market.
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(4) |
The Stated Maturity of the Notes shall be February 7,
2011. |
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(5) |
The Notes shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to
LIBOR (as defined below) plus 1.30%, as determined by the
Calculation Agent (as defined below) (based on a 360-day year for
the actual number of days elapsed) from February 7, 2008, or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, payable
quarterly on February 7, May 7, August 7
and November 7 in each year, commencing May 7, 2008,
until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment.
Each such February 7, May 7, August 7 and
November 7 shall be an “Interest Payment Date” for
the Notes, and each
January 23, April 22, July 23 and
October 23 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may
be, immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date for the Notes
shall be the “Regular Record Date” for the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date. |
The provision related to
interest on overdue principal in Section 501 of the Indenture
shall not be applicable to the Notes.
The rate of interest on the
Notes will be 4.46188% on February 7, 2008, and will be reset
on each Interest Payment Date thereafter (the date on which each
such reset occurs, an “Interest Reset
Date”).
On each Interest Reset Date,
the rate of interest on the Notes shall be determined with respect
to an Interest Determination Date. The second London Business Day
preceding an Interest Reset Date will be the interest determination
date (the “Interest Determination Date”) for that
Interest Reset Date.
Interest on each of the Notes
will accrue from and including, February 7, 2008, to and
excluding, the first Interest Payment Date and then from and
including, the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for to but excluding, the
next Interest Payment Date or date of Maturity, as the case may be,
each such period an “Interest Period.” Accrued interest
from February 7, 2008, or from the last date on which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, to the date for which interest
is being calculated shall be calculated by multiplying the face
amount of the applicable Note by the applicable accrued interest
factor (the “Accrued Interest Factor”). The Accrued
Interest Factor shall be computed by adding the interest factor
calculated for each day from February 7, 2008, or from the
last date to which interest has been paid or duly
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provided for, to the date for
which accrued interest is being calculated. The Accrued Interest
Factor for each day shall be computed by dividing the per annum
interest rate applicable to such day by 360. The interest rate in
effect on each day will be (i) if such day is an Interest
Reset Date, the interest rate determined as of the Interest
Determination Date pertaining to such Interest Reset Date or
(ii) if such day is not an Interest Reset Date and falls after
the first Interest Reset Date, the interest rate determined as of
the Interest Determination Date pertaining to the immediately
preceding Interest Reset Date or (iii) if such day is not an
Interest Reset Date and falls before the first Interest Reset Date,
4.46188%.
All percentages resulting
from the above calculation will be rounded, if necessary, to the
nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five
one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward (e.g.,
9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655))
and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations
will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being
rounded upward).
LIBOR will be determined by
the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following
provisions:
(i) With respect to an
Interest Period, LIBOR will be the rate (expressed as a percentage
per annum) for deposits in United States dollars having a
three-month maturity that appears on Reuters LIBOR01 at
approximately 11:00 A.M. London time on the Interest Determination
Date. If on an Interest Determination Date such rate does not
appear on Reuters LIBOR01 at such time, or if the Reuters LIBOR01
is not available on such date, then LIBOR, in respect of that
Interest Determination Date, will be determined in accordance with
the provisions described in (ii) below.
(ii) With respect to an
Interest Determination Date on which no rate appears as specified
in (i) above, the Calculation Agent will obtain such rate from
Bloomberg’s “BBAM.” If such rate does not appear
on Reuters LIBOR01or Bloomberg’s page “BBAM” on
an Interest Rate Determination Date at approximately 11:00 A.M.,
London time, then the Calculation Agent will request the principal
London office of each of four major banks in the London interbank
market, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide the
Calculation Agent with its offered quotation of the rate (expressed
as a percentage per annum) offered by it to prime banks in the
London interbank market for three-month deposits in United States
dollars in a principal amount of at least $1,000,000 at
approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on such Interest
Determination Date. If at least two such quotations are so
provided, then LIBOR on that Interest Determination Date will be
the arithmetic mean of those quotations. If fewer than two such
quotations are so provided, the Calculation Agent will request each
of three major banks in New York City, as selected by the
Calculation Agent, to provide a quotation of the rate (expressed as
a percentage per annum) offered by it for loans in
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United States dollars to
leading European banks, having a three-month maturity in a
principal amount of at least $1,000,000 at approximately 11:00
A.M., New York City time, on such Interest Determination Date. If
at least two such rates are so provided, the rate for the interest
period will be the arithmetic mean of such rates. If fewer than two
such rates are so provided, then the rate for the Interest Period
will be the rate in effect with respect to the immediately
preceding Interest Period.
“Reuters LIBOR01”
means the Capital Markets Report Screen LIBOR01 of Reuters, or any
successor service or page, for the purpose of displaying the London
interbank rates of major banks for United States
dollars.
U.S. Bank National
Association will be the “Calculation Agent.” The
Calculation Agent shall calculate the interest rate in accordance
with the foregoing. On or before each Calculation Date, the
Calculation Agent will determine the interest rate and notify the
paying agent. All calculations of the Calculation Agent, in the
absence of manifest error, shall be conclusive and binding and
neither the Trustee nor the paying agent shall have the duty to
verify determinations of interest rates made by the Calculation
Agent. The determinations of the Accrued Interest Factor made by
the paying agent shall be conclusive and binding. The
“Calculation Date” pertaining to any Interest
Determination Date on a Note will be the earlier of (i) the
tenth calendar day after such Interest Determination Date, or, if
any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, and (ii) the Business Day immediately preceding the
applicable Interest Payment Date or the date of Maturity, as the
case may be.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the interest rate shall in no event be higher than the
maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified
by United States law of general application.
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(6) |
Principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes
will be payable, and, except as provided in Section 305 of the
Indenture with respect to a Global Security (as defined below), the
transfer of the Notes will be registrable and Notes will be
exchangeable for notes bearing identical terms and provisions at
the corporate trust office of U.S. Bank National Association, in
St. Paul, Minnesota. The method of such payment shall be by wire
transfer for Notes held in book-entry form or at the option of the
Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto as shown on
the Security Register. |
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(7) |
The Notes will not be redeemable. |
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(8) |
The Company shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase any
Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions. |
If a Change of Control
Triggering Event (as defined herein) occurs, unless the Company has
exercised its option to redeem the Notes of this series, the
Company
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shall be required to make an
offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of
the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (equal to
$2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that
Holder’s Notes on the terms set forth herein. In a Change of
Control Offer, the Company shall be required to offer payment in
cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of
this series repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
on the Notes of this series repurchased to the date of repurchase
(a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days
following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the
Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after
public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may
constitute the Change of Control, a notice shall be mailed to
Holders of the Notes of this series describing the transaction that
constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering
Event and offering to repurchase such Notes on the date specified
in the notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no
later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (a
“Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if
mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control,
state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of
Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of
Control Payment Date.
In order to accept the Change
of Control Offer, the Holder must deliver to the Paying Agent, at
least five Business Days prior to the Change of Control Payment
Date, the Note together with the form entitled “Election
Form” (which form is annexed to the Note) duly completed, or
a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member
of a national securities exchange, or the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority or a commercial bank or trust company in the
United States setting forth:
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(i) |
the name of the Holder of the Note; |
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(ii) |
the principal amount of the Note; |
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(iii) |
the principal amount of the Note to be repurchased; |
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(iv) |
the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms
of the Note; |
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(v) |
a statement that the Holder is accepting the Change of Control
Offer; and |
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a guarantee that the Note, together with the form entitled
“Election Form” duly completed, will be received by the
Paying Agent at least five Business Days prior to the Change of
Control Payment Date. |
Any exercise by a Holder of
its election to accept the Change of Control Offer shall be
irrevocable. The Change of Control Offer may be accepted for less
than the entire principal amount of the Note, but in that event the
principal amount of the Note remaining outstanding after repurchase
must be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
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On the Change of Control
Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:
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(i) |
accept for payment all Notes of this series or portions of such
Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control
Offer; |
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(ii) |
deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of
Control Payment in respect of all Notes of this series or portions
of such Notes properly tendered; and |
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deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes of
this series properly accepted together with an Officers’
Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this
series or portions of such Notes being repurchased. |
The Company shall not be
required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a
Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an
offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with
the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third
party purchases all Notes of this series properly tendered and not
withdrawn under its offer. In addition, the Company shall not
repurchase any Notes of this series if there has occurred and is
continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an Event of
Default under the Indenture, other than a default in the payment of
the Change of Control Payment upon a Change of Control Triggering
Event.
The Company shall comply with
the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other
securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws
and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of
the Notes of this series as a result of a Change of Control
Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such
securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control
Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the Company shall
comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be
deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control
Offer provisions of the Notes of this series by virtue of any such
conflict.
For purposes of the Change of
Control Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the following
terms are applicable:
“Change of
Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:
(1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance
or other disposition (other than by way of merger or
consolidation), in one or more series of related transactions, of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person, other than the
Company or a Subsidiary; (2) the consummation of
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transaction (including,
without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of
which is that any person becomes the beneficial owner (as defined
in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, of more than 50% of the Company’s outstanding
Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s
Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed,
measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the
Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any person, or
any person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company,
in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the
Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or the Voting Stock of
such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash,
securities or other property, other than any such transaction where
the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted
into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the
surviving person or any direct or indirect parent company of the
surviving person immediately after giving effect to such
transaction; (4) the first day on which a majority of the
members of the Company’s Board of Directors are not
Continuing Directors; or (5) the adoption of a plan relating
to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to involve a
Change of Control under clause (2) above if (i) the
Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a
holding company and (ii)(A) the direct or indirect holders of the
Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that
transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the
Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction
or (B) immediately following that transaction no person (other
than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this
sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more
than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company. The term
“person,” as used in this definition, has the meaning
given thereto in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange
Act.
“Change of Control
Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of
Control and a Rating Event.
“Continuing
Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member
of such Board of Directors on the date the Notes of this series
were issued or (2) was nominated for election, elected or
appointed to such Board of Directors with the approval of a
majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board
of Directors at the time of such nomination, election or
appointment (either by a specific vote or by approval of the
Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a
nominee for election as a director, without objection to such
nomination).
“Fitch” means
Fitch Inc., and its successors.
“Investment Grade
Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than BBB- (or the
equivalent) by Fitch, Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and
BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, and the equivalent investment
grade credit rating from any replacement rating agency or rating
agencies selected by the Company.
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“Moody’s”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its
successors.
“Rating Agencies”
means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and
(2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate
the Notes of this series or fails to make a rating of such Notes
publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s
control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating
organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F)
under the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by a
resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a
replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, or all of
them, as the case may be.
“Rating Event”
means the rating on the Notes of this series is lowered by at least
two of the three Rating Agencies and the Notes of this series are
rated below an Investment Grade Rating by at least two of the three
Rating Agencies on any day during the period (which period shall be
extended so long as the rating of the Notes of this series is under
publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of
the Rating Agencies) commencing on the date of the first public
notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the
Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control and ending
60 days following consummation of such Change of
Control.
“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.
“Voting Stock”
means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that
term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of
any date, the capital stock of such person that is at the time
entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of
directors of such person.
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The Notes shall not be convertible into shares of Common Stock
of the Company or exchangeable for any other
securities. |
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The Trustee shall be the “Security Registrar” and
the “Paying Agent.” |
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(11) |
The amount of payments of principal of and any premium or
interest on the Notes will not be determined with reference to an
index. |
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The Notes shall be subject to the covenants and definitions set
forth in the Indenture. There shall be the following addition to
the covenants of the Company set forth in Article V of the
Indenture with respect to the Notes: |
The Company will not, and
will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur
or suffer to exist:
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any Lien upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted
Subsidiary, whether owned on the date hereof or thereafter
acquired, to secure any Indebtedness of the Company or any other
person (other than the Securities), or |
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(ii) |
any Lien upon any Principal Property, whether owned or leased
on the date hereof, or thereafter acquired, to secure any
Indebtedness of the Company or any other person (other than the
Securities), without in any such case making effective provision to
secure all the outstanding Securities equally and ratably with such
Indebtedness, except Permitted Liens. |
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Company may, and may permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien
upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary or upon
any Principal Property without equally and ratably securing the
Securities if the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness then
outstanding secured by such Lien and all similar Liens does not
exceed 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company as of the
most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet of the Company
prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that Indebtedness
secured by Permitted Liens shall not be included in the amount of
such secured Indebtedness.
“Consolidated Net
Worth” means, with respect to any Person as of any date, the
sum of (i) the consolidated equity of the common stockholders
of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date,
plus (ii) the respective amounts reported on such
Person’s balance sheet as of such date with respect to any
series of preferred stock (other than Disqualified Stock) that by
its terms is not entitled to the payment of dividends unless such
dividends may be declared and paid only out of net earnings in
respect of the year of such declaration and payment, but only to
the extent of any cash received by such Person upon issuance of
such preferred stock, less (x) all write-ups (other than
write-ups resulting from foreign currency translations and
write-ups of tangible assets of a going concern business made
within 12 months after the acquisition of such business) subsequent
to the date of the initial issuance of the Notes in the book value
of any asset owned by such Person or a consolidated Subsidiary of
such Person, and (y) all unamortized debt discount and expense
and unamortized deferred charges as of such date, all of the
foregoing determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Disqualified
Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it
is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is
mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or
otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the Holder thereof, in
whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the
date on which the Securities mature.
“Permitted Liens”
means
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any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness of an entity
existing at the time such entity becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary; |
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(ii) |
any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness existing at the
time of the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary (whether directly or by merger, consolidation or
otherwise) or granted to secure payment of any part of the purchase
price thereof or granted to secure any Indebtedness incurred to
finance the purchase thereof (provided that such Indebtedness is
incurred before, concurrently with or within 270 days after the
completion of such purchase); |
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any Lien upon property to secure any part of the cost of
development, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of
such property or granted to secure Indebtedness incurred to finance
such cost (provided that such Indebtedness is incurred before,
concurrently with or within 270 days after the completion of such
development, construction, alteration, repair or
improvement); |
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(iv) |
any Lien securing Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing
to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary; |
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(v) |
Any Lien existing on the date of initial issuance of the
Notes; |
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(vi) |
any Lien on property of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary
in favor of the United States of America or any State or political
subdivision thereof, or in favor of any country or any political
subdivision thereof, to secure payment pursuant to any contract or
statute, rule or regulation; and |
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any extension, renewal or replacement, in whole or in part, of
any Lien referred to in the foregoing six subparts; provided
, however , that the principal amount of Indebtedness
secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of
Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or
replacement; and provided, further, that such Lien shall be limited
to all or part of the property which was subject to the Lien so
extended, renewed or replaced. |
“Principal
Property” means the land, land improvements, buildings and
fixtures (to the extent they constitute real property interests)
(including any leasehold interest therein) constituting the
Company’s principal corporate office or any other discrete
facility of the Company and its Subsidiaries (whether owned at the
date of initial issuance of the Notes or thereafter acquired),
provided in each case that such facility
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is owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, |
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(ii) |
is located within any of the present 50 states of the United
States of America or the District of Columbia, |
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(iii) |
has not been determined in good faith by the Company’s
Board of Directors not to be of material importance to the business
conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
and |
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(iv) |
has a book value as on the date as of which the determination
is being made in excess of 5% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the
Company as of the most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet
of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP. |
“Restricted
Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Company existing as
of the date of date of init
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