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Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
TRUST INDENTURE
BETWEEN
CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
AND
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRUSTEE
Dated as of August 1, 2008
including
$62,425,000
CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY
ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES REVENUE BONDS
(MICROGY HOLDINGS PROJECT) SERIES 2008A
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.1.
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Definitions
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SECTION 1.2.
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Article and Section Headings
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SECTION 1.3.
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Interpretation
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ARTICLE II
THE BONDS
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SECTION 2.1.
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Authorization of Bonds, Limited
Obligations
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SECTION 2.2.
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Terms and Form of Bonds
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SECTION 2.3.
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Registered Bonds Required; Bond Registrar and
Bond Register
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SECTION 2.4.
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Transfer and Exchange
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SECTION 2.5.
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Execution
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SECTION 2.6.
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Authentication; Authenticating Agent
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SECTION 2.7.
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Payment of Principal and Interest; Interest
Rights Preserved
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SECTION 2.8.
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Persons Deemed Owners
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SECTION 2.9.
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Bonds
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SECTION 2.10.
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Temporary Bonds
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SECTION 2.11.
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Cancellation of Surrendered Bonds
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SECTION 2.12.
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Conditions for the Issuance of Additional
Bonds
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SECTION 2.13.
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Procedure for the Issuance of Additional
Bonds
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SECTION 2.14.
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Non-Liability of Issuer
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SECTION 2.15.
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Book Entry System
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SECTION 2.16.
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Payments to Securities Depository; Payments to
Beneficial Owners
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SECTION 2.17.
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CUSIP Numbers
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SECTION 2.18.
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Restrictions on Registration and Transfer of
Bonds
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ARTICLE III
APPLICATION OF BOND PROCEEDS
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SECTION 3.1.
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Application of Original Proceeds of Series 2008A
Bonds
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ARTICLE IV
DEBT SERVICE RESERVE FUND
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SECTION 4.1.
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Creation of Debt Service Reserve Fund
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SECTION 4.2.
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Replenishment of Debt Service Reserve
Fund
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TABLE OF
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(continued)
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ARTICLE V
CONSTRUCTION FUND
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SECTION 5.1.
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Creation of Construction Fund
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SECTION 5.2.
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Disbursements from Construction Fund
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SECTION 5.3.
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Balance in Construction Fund
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SECTION 5.4.
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Abandonment of Project
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SECTION 5.5.
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Acceleration of Bonds
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ARTICLE VI
PLEDGE AND ASSIGNMENT; BOND FUND
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SECTION 6.1.
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Pledge and Assignment
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SECTION 6.2.
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Bond Fund
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SECTION 6.3.
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Capitalized Interest Account
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SECTION 6.4.
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Revenues to Be Held for All Bondholders; Certain
Exceptions
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SECTION 6.5.
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Amounts Remaining in Bond Fund
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ARTICLE VII
COSTS OF ISSUANCE FUND
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SECTION 7.1.
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Establishment and Application of Costs of
Issuance Fund
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SECTION 7.2.
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Application of Company Costs of Issuance
Contribution
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ARTICLE VIII
INVESTMENT OR DEPOSIT OF MONEYS
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SECTION 8.1.
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Deposits
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SECTION 8.2.
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Investment of Bond Fund and Debt Service Reserve
Fund
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SECTION 8.3.
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Investment of Moneys in the Construction
Fund
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SECTION 8.4.
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No Liability for Investments
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SECTION 8.5.
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Covenants Regarding Rebate
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ARTICLE IX
REDEMPTION OF BONDS
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SECTION 9.1.
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Bonds Subject to Redemption
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SECTION 9.2.
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Company Direction of Optional
Redemption
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SECTION 9.3.
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Selection of Bonds to be Called for Redemption;
Partial Redemption
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SECTION 9.4.
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Notice of Redemption
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ARTICLE X
CERTAIN COVENANTS
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SECTION 10.1.
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Punctual Payment
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SECTION 10.2.
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Extension of Payment of Bonds
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TABLE OF
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(continued)
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SECTION 10.3.
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Against Encumbrances
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SECTION 10.4.
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Power to Issue Bonds and Make Pledge and
Assignment
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SECTION 10.5.
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Appointment of Paying Agent
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SECTION 10.6.
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Compliance with Laws
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SECTION 10.7.
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Enforcement of Agreement; Prohibition Against
Amendments of Agreement; Notice of Default
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SECTION 10.8.
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Further Assurances
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SECTION 10.9.
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Additional Payments
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SECTION 10.10.
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Moneys to be Held in Trust
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SECTION 10.11.
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Rights of Company Under Agreement
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SECTION 10.12.
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Tax Covenants
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ARTICLE XI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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SECTION 11.1.
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Events of Default Defined
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SECTION 11.2.
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Acceleration and Annulment Thereof
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SECTION 11.3.
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Other Remedies
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SECTION 11.4.
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Legal Proceedings by Trustee
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SECTION 11.5.
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Discontinuance of Proceedings by
Trustee
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SECTION 11.6.
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Majority Holders May Direct
Proceedings
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SECTION 11.7.
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Limitations on Actions by Bondholders
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SECTION 11.8.
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Trustee May Enforce Rights Without Possession of
Bonds
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SECTION 11.9.
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Remedies Not Exclusive
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SECTION 11.10.
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Delays and Omissions Not to Impair
Rights
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SECTION 11.11.
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Application of Moneys in Event of
Default
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ARTICLE XII
THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 12.1.
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Acceptance of Trust
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SECTION 12.2.
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No Responsibility for Recitals, etc
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SECTION 12.3.
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Trustee May Act Through Agents; Answerable Only
for Willful Misconduct or Negligence
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SECTION 12.4.
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Compensation
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SECTION 12.5.
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Notice of Default; Right to
Investigate
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SECTION 12.6.
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Obligation to Act
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SECTION 12.7.
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Reliance
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TABLE OF
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(continued)
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SECTION 12.8.
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Trustee May Deal in Bonds
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SECTION 12.9.
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Resignation of Trustee
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SECTION 12.10.
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Removal of Trustee
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SECTION 12.11.
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Appointment of Successor Trustee
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SECTION 12.12.
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Qualification of Successor
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SECTION 12.13.
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Instruments of Succession
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SECTION 12.14.
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Merger of Trustee
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SECTION 12.15.
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Trustee Not Required to Expend or Risk Own
Funds
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SECTION 12.16.
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Right of Trustee to Pay Taxes and Other
Charges
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SECTION 12.17.
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Trust Estate may be Vested in Separate or Co
Trustee
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SECTION 12.18.
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Reliance Upon Counsel
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SECTION 12.19.
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No Implied Duties
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SECTION 12.20.
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No Responsibility for Securities Laws
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SECTION 12.21.
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No Responsibility for Yield Covenants
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SECTION 12.22.
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No Responsibility for Filings
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SECTION 12.23.
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Trustee Notices
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ARTICLE XIII
THE PAYING AGENT
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SECTION 13.1.
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The Paying Agent
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SECTION 13.2.
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Notices
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ARTICLE XIV
ACTS OF BONDHOLDERS; EVIDENCE OF OWNERSHIP
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SECTION 14.1.
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Acts of Bondholders; Evidence of
Ownership
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ARTICLE XV
AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS
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SECTION 15.1.
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Amendments and Supplements Without
Bondholders’ Consent
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SECTION 15.2.
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Amendments With Bondholders’
Consent
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SECTION 15.3.
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Amendment of Agreement
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SECTION 15.4.
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Amendment of Guarantee
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SECTION 15.5.
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Trustee Authorized to Join in Amendments and
Supplements; Reliance on Counsel
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SECTION 15.6.
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Consent of Company
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TABLE OF
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(continued)
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ARTICLE XVI
DEFEASANCE
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SECTION 16.1.
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Defeasance
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ARTICLE XVII
MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 17.1.
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No Personal Recourse
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SECTION 17.2.
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Deposit of Funds for Payment of Bonds
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SECTION 17.3.
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No Rights Conferred on Others
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SECTION 17.4.
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Severability
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SECTION 17.5.
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Notices
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SECTION 17.6.
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Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 17.7.
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Headings for Convenience Only
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SECTION 17.8.
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Counterparts
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SECTION 17.9.
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Applicable Law
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SECTION 17.10.
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Notice of Change
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SECTION 17.11.
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Payments Due on non-Business Days
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EXHIBIT A
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FORM OF BOND
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TRUST INDENTURE
This TRUST INDENTURE dated as of August 1, 2008, is by and
between the CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
(the "Issuer") and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association (the "Trustee").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to law, and particularly the Act, the Issuer
is authorized to acquire, construct, and improve certain solid
waste disposal facilities and to issue its revenue bonds for such
purpose;
WHEREAS, Microgy Holdings, LLC, a limited liability company
organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State
of Delaware (the "Company"), has applied for the financial
assistance of the Issuer in the financing of the acquisition,
construction, improving and equipping of certain solid waste
disposal facilities (the "Project") described in Exhibit A to the
Agreement (the "Facilities");
WHEREAS, the Facilities are to be located within the territorial
limits of the County of Fresno and the County of Kings, each being
a program participant of the Issuer (the "Program Participants"),
and a substantial portion of the persons to be utilizing the
services to be provided at the Facilities are expected to be
residents of the Program Participants and a substantial portion of
the persons to be employed by the Company at the Project are
expected to be residents of the Program Participants;
WHEREAS, the financing of the Project will promote significant
and growing opportunities for the creation and retention of
employment to the California economy and the enhancement of the
quality of life to residents of the Program Participants, and will
promote opportunities for the creation or retention of employment
within the jurisdiction of the Program Participants and is within
the powers conferred upon the Issuer by its Joint Powers Agreement
(the "Joint Powers Agreement");
WHEREAS, the financing of the Project will promote residential,
commercial and industrial development within the jurisdictions of
the Program Participants, and thereby stimulate economic activity
and increase the tax base, and is within the powers conferred upon
the Issuer by the Joint Powers Agreement;
WHEREAS, the financing of the Project is a significant factor in
establishing the operations of the Company within the jurisdictions
of the Program Participants;
WHEREAS, the Issuer has authorized the issuance of its
Environmental Facilities Revenue Bonds (Microgy Holdings Project)
Series 2008 (the "Bonds") to finance the Project;
WHEREAS, the Bonds will be issued in one or more Series pursuant
to this Indenture;
WHEREAS, a loan agreement, dated as of
August 1, 2008 (the "Agreement") with the Company specifying
the terms and conditions of a loan by the Issuer to the Company of
the proceeds of the Bonds to provide for the financing of the
Project and of the payment by the Company to the Issuer of amounts
sufficient for the payment of the principal of and interest on the
Bonds and certain related expenses;
WHEREAS, the recitals and provisions of the Agreement are
incorporated herein as if set forth in their entirety, and the
capitalized terms of this Indenture not otherwise defined herein
shall have the same meanings, and shall be defined, as set forth in
the Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Bonds, and the interest thereon, are and shall be
payable from and secured by a first and superior lien on and pledge
of the payments designated as "Loan Payments" to be made by the
Company pursuant to the Agreement in amounts sufficient to pay and
redeem, and provide for the payment of the principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Bonds, when due, and the fees and
expenses of and other amounts due to the Trustee and any paying
agent for the Bonds;
WHEREAS, pursuant to a Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
October 1, 2006, as supplemented and amended by a Supplemental
Guarantee Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2008 (as so
supplemented and amended, the "Guarantee") the Company, Microgy
Hanford LLC, Microgy Riverdale LLC, MST Production Ltd., MST GP,
LLC, MST Estates, LLC, Rio Leche Estates, L.L.C., Mission Biogas,
L.L.C., and Hereford Biogas, L.L.C. (the "Subsidiary Guarantors")
have, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed to the
Trustee the payment, when due, of the principal of, redemption
premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds;
WHEREAS, the Trustee has agreed to accept the trusts herein
created upon the terms herein set forth;
WHEREAS, in order to provide for the authentication and delivery
of the Bonds, to establish and declare the terms and conditions
upon which the Bonds are to be issued and secured and to secure the
payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon, the Issuer
has authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Bonds, and the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication and assignment to appear thereon, shall be in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, and
incorporated into this Indenture by this reference, with necessary
or appropriate variations, omissions and insertions, as permitted
or required by this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all acts and proceedings required by law necessary to
make the Bonds, when executed by the Issuer, authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and duly issued, the valid, binding and
legal limited obligations of the Issuer, and to constitute this
Indenture a valid and binding agreement for the uses and purposes
herein set forth in accordance with its terms, have been done and
taken, and the execution and delivery of this Indenture have been
in all respects duly authorized;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in order to
secure the payment of the principal of, and the redemption premium,
if any, and interest on, all Bonds at any time issued and
outstanding under this Indenture, according to their tenor, and to
secure the
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performance and observance of all the covenants
and conditions therein and herein set forth, and to declare the
terms and conditions upon and subject to which the Bonds are to be
issued and received, and in consideration of the premises and of
the mutual covenants herein contained and of the purchase and
acceptance of the Bonds by the holders thereof, and for other
valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
the Issuer does hereby covenant and agree with the Trustee, for the
respective benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Bonds as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions . Unless otherwise defined
herein, all words and phrases defined in the preamble hereto shall
have the same meaning in this Indenture. In this Indenture and any
indenture supplemental hereto (except as otherwise expressly
provided for or unless the context otherwise requires) the singular
includes the plural, the masculine includes the feminine, and each
of the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Abandonment Certificate
"Abandonment Certificate" means a certificate of the Authorized
Company Representative to the effect stated in Section 3.05 of
the Agreement.
Accountant
"Accountant" means a firm of independent certified public
accountants selected by the Company.
Act
"Act" means the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, constituting Title
1, Chapter 5 of the Government Code of the State of California, as
now in effect and as it may from time to time hereafter be amended
or supplemented.
Act of Bankruptcy
"Act of Bankruptcy" means any of the following events:
(a) the Company shall (i) apply for or consent to the
appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver,
custodian, trustee, liquidator or the like of the Company or of all
or any substantial part of its property, (ii) commence a
voluntary case under the United States Bankruptcy Code (as now or
hereafter in effect), or (iii) file a petition seeking to take
advantage of any other law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
winding up or composition or adjustment of debts; or
(b) a proceeding or case shall be commenced without the
application or consent of the Company in any court of competent
jurisdiction, seeking (i) the liquidation, reorganization,
dissolution, winding up, or composition or adjustment of debts, of
the Company, (ii) the
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appointment of a trustee, receiver, custodian,
liquidator or the like of the Company or of all or any substantial
part of its property, or (iii) similar relief in respect of
the Company under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
winding up or composition or adjustment of debts, which proceeding
or case is not dismissed within 120 days.
Additional Bonds
"Additional Bonds" means all revenue bonds of the Issuer
authorized by and at any time Outstanding pursuant to, and
executed, issued and delivered in accordance with Section 2.12
and 2.13 of this Indenture.
Administration Expenses
"Administration Expenses" means amounts payable pursuant to
Sections 5.04 and 5.07 of the Agreement.
Affiliate
"Affiliate" of any Person means any other Person who, directly
or indirectly, controls or is controlled by or is under common
control with such other Person.
Agreement
"Agreement" means the Loan Agreement, dated as of August 1,
2008, between the Company and the Issuer which relates to the
Bonds, as amended from time to time.
Authenticating Agent
"Authenticating Agent" means the Trustee and any agent so
designated in and appointed pursuant to Section 2.6
hereof.
Authorized Company Representative
"Authorized Company Representative" means the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial
Officer, its Treasurer, or any Assistant Treasurer or persons at
any time designated to act on behalf of the Company, such
designation in each case, to be evidenced by a certificate
furnished to the Issuer and the Trustee containing the specimen
signature of such person or persons and signed on behalf of the
Company by its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief
Financial Officer, its Treasurer, or any Assistant Treasurer
authorized to act on behalf of the Company. Such certificate may
designate an alternate or alternates.
Authorized Issuer Representative
"Authorized Issuer Representative" means any Member of the
Commission of the Issuer and any other person as may be designated
and authorized to sign for the Issuer pursuant to a resolution
adopted thereby.
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Authorized Denominations
"Authorized Denominations" means denominations of $100,000 or
any integral multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof, unless changed
as provided hereof.
Bond
"Bond" means any bond or bonds authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture.
Bond Counsel
"Bond Counsel" means Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
or such other firm of attorneys of nationally recognized standing
in the field of law relating to municipal bond law and the
excludability of interest on state or local bonds from gross income
of the owners of the Bonds for purposes of federal income taxation,
selected by the Issuer and acceptable to the Trustee and the
Company.
Bond Fund
"Bond Fund" means the trust fund so designated which is
established pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof.
Bond Owner
"Bond Owner," "Bondowner," "Owner," "owner," "Bondholder,"
"bondholder," "holder," "Registered Owner," "registered owner," or
"owner of Bonds" means the person listed on the Bond Register as
the registered owner of any Bond.
Bond Register
"Bond Register" and "Bond Registrar" shall have the respective
meanings specified in Section 2.3 hereof.
Bonds
"Bonds" means the California Statewide Communities Development
Authority Environmental Facilities Revenue Bonds (Microgy Holdings
Project) Series 2008A, and any Additional Bonds executed and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture.
Budgeted Cost
"Budgeted Cost" of a Facility means that cost shown in Table 12
of the R.W. Beck Independent Engineers Report included as Appendix
B to the Limited Offering Memorandum, as such cost may be revised
from time to time by a certificate filed by the Company with the
Trustee. Any change in Budgeted Cost in excess of 5% of the
original Budgeted Cost must be accompanied by a certificate of the
Construction Consultant to the effect that such change is
reasonable.
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Business Day
"Business Day" or "business day" means any day other than
(i) a Saturday or Sunday or legal holiday or a day on which
banking institutions in the City of New York, New York or in the
cities in which the Principal Offices of the Trustee or the Paying
Agent are located are authorized or required by law or executive
order to close or (ii) a day on which the New York Stock
Exchange is closed.
Code
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
the rulings and regulations (including temporary and proposed
regulations) promulgated thereunder or, to the extent applicable,
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended.
Capitalized Interest Account
"Capitalized Interest Account" means the subaccount by that name
in the Bond Fund established pursuant to Section 6.3
hereof.
Collateral Trust Agreement
"Collateral Trust Agreement" means the Collateral Trust
Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2006, among the Collateral
Trustee, the Company, and the Subsidiary Guarantors, as previously
supplemented and amended and as supplemented and amended from time
to time.
Collateral Trustee
"Collateral Trustee" means Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as collateral trustee under the Collateral Trust
Agreement, and any successor trustee or co-trustee thereunder.
Company
"Company" means Microgy Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, and its successors and assigns as permitted
under the Agreement.
Construction Consultant
"Construction Consultant" means R.W. Beck, Inc., or any
successor to its duties and functions with respect to construction
of the Project.
Costs of Issuance
"Costs of Issuance" means all costs and expenses incurred by the
Issuer or the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of
the Bonds, including without limitation (i) fees and
reasonable expenses of accountants, attorneys, engineers, and
financial advisors, (ii) materials, supplies, and printing and
engraving costs, (iii) recording and filing fees,
(iv) Rating Service fees, (v) compensation to the
Underwriter, whether paid as a fee or as a discount from issue
price, (v) Trustees fees and expenses, and (vii) the
Issuer’s and the Governmental Unit’s administrative
expenses as provided in Section 5.04 of the Agreement.
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Costs of Issuance Fund
"Costs of Issuance Fund" means the fund by that name established
pursuant to Section 7.1 hereof.
Counsel
"Counsel" means an attorney at law or law firm (who may be
counsel for the Issuer or the Company).
Debt Service Reserve Fund
"Debt Service Reserve Fund" means the fund by that name created
and established in Section 4.1 of this Indenture.
Debt Service Reserve Requirement
"Debt Service Reserve Requirement" means, with respect to the
Series 2008A Bonds, $6,242,500, and with respect to any Additional
Bonds, such amount set forth in a Supplemental Indenture relating
thereto.
Default
"Default" means any event which with the giving of notice or the
lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default under
the Agreement or this Indenture.
DTC
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New
York.
DTC Letter of Representations
"DTC Letter of Representations" means the blanket letter of
representations from the Issuer to DTC.
DTC Participant
"DTC Participant" means (i) any person for which, from time
to time, DTC, or, in the event that a successor Securities
Depository to DTC is acting as such under Section 2.15 hereof,
such successor Securities Depository effectuates book-entry
transfers and pledges of securities pursuant to the book-entry
system referred to in Section 2.15 hereof or (ii) any
securities broker or dealer, bank, trust company or other person
that clears through or maintains a custodial relationship with the
person referred to in (i).
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Electronic Notice
"Electronic Notice" means notice transmitted through a time
sharing terminal (promptly confirmed in writing) or facsimile
machine, if operative as between any two parties, or if not
operative, in writing or by telephone (promptly confirmed in
writing).
Environmental Regulations
"Environmental Regulations" means any federal, state or local
law, statute, code, ordinance, regulation, requirement or rule
relating to dangerous, toxic or hazardous pollutants, Hazardous
Substances or chemical waste, materials or substances.
Event of Default
"Event of Default" means any of the events specified in
Section 11.1 hereof to be an Event of Default.
Extraordinary Services; Extraordinary Expenses
"Extraordinary Services" and "Extraordinary Expenses" mean,
respectively, all services rendered or all recoverable expenses
properly incurred and charged by the Trustee or any of its agents
under this Indenture, other than Ordinary Services and Ordinary
Expenses.
Facility
"Facility" or "Facilities" means one or more, as the case may
be, of the solid waste disposal facilities identified on Exhibit A
to the Agreement.
Facility Completion Certificate
"Facility Completion Certificate" means a certificate of the
Authorized Company Representative to the effect stated in
Section 3.04(b) or 3.04(c) of the Agreement.
Favorable Opinion
"Favorable Opinion" means an opinion of Bond Counsel addressed
to the Issuer, the Company and the Trustee and stating, unless
otherwise specified herein, that the action proposed to be taken is
authorized or permitted by the Act and this Indenture and will not,
in and of itself result in the inclusion of interest on the Bonds
in gross income for federal income tax purposes.
Feasibility Study
"Feasibility Study" means the feasibility study performed by SJH
and Company, Inc., dated as of March 17, 2008, as revised
through July 25, 2008, and included as Appendix A to the
Limited Offering Memorandum.
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Fitch
"Fitch" means Fitch, Inc., dba Fitch Ratings, or any successor
thereto maintaining a rating on the Bonds at the request of the
Company.
GAAP
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles as in
effect in the United States as of the time of application to the
provisions hereof (unless otherwise noted).
Governmental Obligations
"Governmental Obligations" means (i) direct obligations of
the United States of America, (ii) obligations the timely
payment of the principal of and interest on which is fully and
unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, and
(iii) certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments
which evidence a direct ownership interest in obligations described
in clause (i) and (ii) 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.
Governmental Unit
"Governmental Unit" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 150 of the Code.
Guarantee
"Guarantee" means the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
October 1, 2006, as supplemented and amended by a Supplemental
Guarantee Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2008, among the
Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, and the Trustee.
Hazardous Substances
"Hazardous Substances" means (a) any oil, flammable
substance, explosives, radioactive materials, hazardous wastes or
substances, toxic wastes or substances or any other wastes,
materials or pollutants which (i) pose a hazard to the Project
or to persons on or about the Project or (ii) cause the
Project to be in violation of any Environmental Regulation;
(b) asbestos in any form which is or could become friable,
urea formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment
which contain dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated
biphenyls, or radon gas; (c) any chemical, material or
substance defined as or included in the definition of "waste,"
"hazardous substances," "hazardous wastes," "hazardous materials,"
"extremely hazardous waste," "restricted hazardous waste," or
"toxic substances" or words of similar import under any
Environmental Regulation including, but not limited to, the
Comprehensive Environmental
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Response, Compensation and Liability Act
("CERCLA"), 42 USC §§ 9601 et seq.; the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 USC §§ 6901 et
seq.; the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 USC
§§ 1801 et seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
33 USC §§ 1251 et seq.; the California Hazardous Waste
Control Law ("HWCL"), Cal. Health & Safety Code
§§ 25100 et seq.; the Hazardous Substance Account Act
("HSAA"), Cal. Health & Safely Code §§ 25300 et
seq.; the Underground Storage of Hazardous Substances Act, Cal.
Health & Safety Code §§ 25280 et seq.; the
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (the "Porter-Cologne
Act"), Cal. Water Code §§ 13000 et seq., the Safe
Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65);
and Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, Division 4,
Chapter 30; (d) any other chemical, material or substance,
exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any
governmental authority or agency or may or could pose a hazard to
the health and safety of the occupants of the Project or the owners
and/or occupants of property adjacent to or surrounding the
Project, or any other person coming upon the Project or adjacent
property; or (e) any other chemical, materials or substance
which may or could pose a hazard to the environment.
Indenture
"Indenture" means this Trust Indenture as amended or
supplemented from time to time by Supplemental Indentures.
Interest Payment Date
"Interest Payment Date" means each June 1 and
December 1, commencing December 1, 2008.
Issue Date
"Issue Date" means the date on which the Bonds of a Series are
first authenticated.
Issuer
"Issuer" means the California Statewide Communities Development
Authority, a joint powers agency organized and existing under the
laws of the State of California.
Joint Powers Agreement
"Joint Powers Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Joint
Exercise and Powers Agreement, dated June 1, 1988, relating to
the formation of the Issuer, among certain cities, counties and
special districts in the State, including the Program
Participants.
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Limited Offering Memorandum
"Limited Offering Memorandum" means that limited offering
memorandum relating to the Series 2008A Bonds, dated
August 28, 2008, as supplemented or amended from time to
time.
Loan
"Loan" means the loan made by the Issuer to the Company from the
proceeds of the Bonds pursuant to the Agreement.
Loan Payment
"Loan Payment" means each payment required to pay amounts due
and owing on the Bonds issued pursuant to the Agreement, as defined
in Section 5.01 of the Agreement and as provided for in this
Indenture, including the principal of, redemption premium, if any,
and interest on such Bonds.
Majority Holders
"Majority Holders" means the owners of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Bonds Outstanding.
Maturity Date
"Maturity Date" means December 1, 2038.
Mechanically Complete
"Mechanically Complete" or "Mechanical Completion" shall mean
that a Facility has satisfied the following conditions:
(a) The Facility shall have been physically constructed (except
for the completion of any portion of the work not affecting the
commercial operation, safety, mechanical or electrical integrity of
the Facility) in accordance with the final plans and
specifications, applicable codes and regulations and other
authority requirements.
(b) The Facility components and systems shall be mechanically
and electrically sound, including the completion of integrity tests
such as hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure tests, high-pot tests,
insulation resistance and continuity tests, calibrations, and
component and pipe clean-outs and flushes, etc.
(c) The Facility systems and equipment, including supervisory
control data acquisition systems and instrumentation and control
systems, shall have gone through start-up checklists, and system
start-up testing in accordance with approved manufacturer
procedures.
(d) All temporary systems and/or equipment shall have been
removed from the Facility and no temporary system and/or equipment
shall be in operation at the Facility.
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(e) A comprehensive "punchlist" of all remaining
work to be performed on the Facility shall have been prepared and
agreed upon between the Company and its contractors, subcontractors
and vendors. Prior to the start of the Performance Testing, all
major items on the Facility "punchlist" shall have been completed.
The only "punchlist" items allowed to be completed after the
Performance Testing shall be very minor items that will not
interfere with commercial operation of the Facility.
(f) Performance Testing has been successfully completed
(repeated as necessary) and demonstrated that: 1) the Facility can
achieve the Renewable Natural Gas quantity specified for that
Facility in the Base Case Output Assumption in the Feasibility
Study included in the Limited Offering Memorandum; 2) the Facility
has produced such quantity of Renewable Natural Gas to the utility
pipeline to which the Facility is connected for a period of a
scheduled, consecutive 72 hours, and 3) the Facility can operate
within the emissions limits permitted by the State of
California.
Moody’s
"Moody’s" means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or
any successor thereto maintaining a rating on the Bonds at the
request of the Company.
Net Income
"Net Income" shall have the meaning given to that term in the
Guarantee.
Ordinary Services; Ordinary Expenses
"Ordinary Services" and "Ordinary Expenses" mean, respectively,
the services normally rendered, and those expenses normally
incurred, by a trustee under instruments similar to this Indenture,
but not those services (other than drawing on a credit facility, if
any) rendered, and those expenses incurred, in anticipation of or
following the occurrence and continuation of an Event of
Default.
Outstanding
"Outstanding" or "outstanding", in connection with Bonds means,
as of the time in question, all Bonds authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Bonds theretofore cancelled or required to be cancelled
under Section 2.11 hereof;
(ii) Bonds which are deemed to have been paid in accordance with
Article XVI hereof;
(iii) Bonds in substitution for which other Bonds have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to Article II hereof and Bonds
paid pursuant to Section 2.9(a) hereof;
(iv) Bonds registered in the name of the Issuer;
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(v) For purposes of any consent, request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, waiver or other action to be
taken by the holders of a specified percentage of outstanding Bonds
hereunder, all Bonds held by or for the account of the Issuer or
the Company, except that for purposes of any such consent, request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, waiver or action the
Trustee shall be obligated to consider as not being outstanding
only Bonds known by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee by actual
notice thereof to be so held.
In determining whether the owners of a requisite aggregate
principal amount of Bonds outstanding have concurred in any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver under the provisions hereof, Bonds owned by the Company
(unless all of the outstanding Bonds are then owned by the Company)
shall be disregarded for the purpose of any such determination.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Bonds so owned which have been
pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded as aforesaid if the
pledgee has established to the satisfaction of the Bond Registrar
the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Bonds and
that the pledgee is not the Company or an Affiliate thereof.
Paying Agent
"Paying Agent" or "paying agent" means any national banking
association, bank and trust company or trust company appointed
pursuant to Section 10.5 hereof. If at any time there is no
qualified paying agent serving as such, the Trustee shall act as
paying agent. Initially, the Trustee shall be the Paying Agent.
Person
"Person" means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an
association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated
organization, a governmental body or a political subdivision, a
municipal corporation, a public corporation or any other group or
organization of individuals.
Principal Officer of the Paying Agent
"Principal Office of the Paying Agent" means the office thereof
designated in Section 17.5 or such other office as may be
designated in writing to the Trustee.
Principal Office of the Trustee
"Principal Office of the Trustee" means the business address
designated in writing to the Issuer and the Company as its
principal office for its duties hereunder, and which initially
shall be as specified in Section 17.5 hereof.
Program Participants
"Program Participants" means the County of Fresno and the County
of Kings.
Project
"Project" means all of the Facilities to the extent financed
with proceeds of the Bonds.
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Project Costs
"Project Costs" means costs incurred by the Issuer or the
Company, whether before or after the issuance of the Bonds, and
reimbursed not later than three years after the payment thereof,
with respect to the acquisition, construction, improving and
equipping of the Project, including but not limited to, the
following items:
(i) The cost of acquisition, cleanup, construction,
reconstruction, improvement, and expansion, including the cost of
the acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property rights,
easements, and interests, the cost of all machinery and equipment,
financing charges, inventory, raw materials and other supplies,
research and development costs, interest prior to and during
construction and for one year after completion of construction
whether or not capitalized, necessary reserve funds, cost of
estimates and of engineering and legal services, plans,
specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenue, other
expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility and
practicability of acquiring, cleaning, constructing,
reconstructing, improving, and expanding any such project,
administrative expense and such other expenses as may be necessary
or incident to the acquisition, cleanup, construction,
reconstruction, improvement, and expansion thereof, the placing of
the same in operation, and the financing or refinancing of any such
project, including the refunding of any outstanding obligations,
mortgages or advances issued, made or given by any person for any
of the aforementioned costs; and
(ii) To the extent authorized by the Act, costs of all other
items related to the acquisition, construction, improving and
equipping of the Project.
Project Completion Certificate
"Project Completion Certificate" means a certificate of the
Authorized Company Representative to the effect stated in
Section 3.04(d) of the Agreement.
Qualified Institutional Buyer
"Qualified Institutional Buyer" means an institution which meets
at least one of the following criteria:
(a) Any of the following entities, acting for its own account or
the accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers, that in the
aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $100
million in securities of issuers that are not affiliated with the
entity:
(i) Any insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
NOTE: A purchase by an insurance company for one or more of its
separate accounts, as defined by Section 2(a)(37) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Investment Company Act"),
which are neither registered under Section 8 of the Investment
Company Act nor required to be so registered, shall be deemed to be
a purchase for the account of such insurance company.
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(ii) Any investment company registered under the
Investment Company Act or any business development company as
defined in Section 2(a)(48) of that Act;
(iii) Any Small Business Company licensed by the U.S. Small
Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of
the Small Business Investment Act of 1958;
(iv) Any plan established and maintained by a state, its
political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state
or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its
employees;
(v) Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974;
(vi) Any trust fund whose trustee is a bank or trust company and
whose participants are exclusively plans of the types identified in
paragraph (1)(D) or (E) of this section, except trust
funds that include as participants individual retirement accounts
or H.R. 10 plans;
(vii) Any business development company as defined in
Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;
(viii) Any organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of
the Code, corporation (other than a bank as defined in
Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or
a savings and loan association or other institution referenced in
Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
or a foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent
institution), partnership, or Massachusetts or similar business
trust; and
(ix) Any investment adviser registered under the Investment
Advisers Act.
(b) Any dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, acting for its own account or the
accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers, that in the
aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $10
million of securities of issuers that are not affiliated with the
dealer, provided, that securities constituting the whole or a part
of an unsold allotment to or subscription by a dealer as a
participant in a public offering shall not be deemed to be owned by
such dealer.
(c) Any dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 acting in a riskless principal
transaction on behalf of a Qualified Institutional Buyer.
NOTE: A registered dealer may act as agent, on a
non-discretionary basis, in a transaction with a Qualified
Institutional Buyer without itself having to be a Qualified
Institutional Buyer.
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(d) Any investment company registered under the
Investment Company Act, acting for its own account or for the
accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers, that is part of a
family of investment companies which own in the aggregate at least
$100 million in securities of issuers, other than issuers that are
affiliated with the investment company or are part of such family
of investment companies. "Family of investment companies" means any
two or more investment companies registered under the Investment
Company Act, except for a unit investment trust whose assets
consist solely of shares of one or more registered investment
companies, that have the same investment adviser (or, in the case
of unit investment trusts, the same depositor), provided, that, for
purposes of this definition:
(i) Each series of a series company (as defined in Rule 18f-2
under the Investment Company Act [17 CFR 270.18f-2]) shall be
deemed to be a separate investment company; and
(ii) Investment companies shall be deemed to have the same
adviser (or depositor) if their advisers (or depositors) are
majority-owned subsidiaries of the same parent, or if one
investment company’s adviser (or depositor) is a
majority-owned subsidiary of the other investment company’s
adviser (or depositor).
(e) Any entity, all of the equity owners of which are Qualified
Institutional Buyers, acting for its own account or the accounts of
other Qualified Institutional Buyers.
(f) Any bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, any savings and loan
association or other institution as referenced in
Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
or any foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent
institution, acting for its own account or the accounts of other
Qualified Institutional Buyers, that in the aggregate owns and
invests on a discretionary basis at least $100 million in
securities of issuers that are not affiliated with it and that has
an audited net worth of at least $25 million as demonstrated in its
latest annual financial statements, as of a date not more than 16
months preceding the date of sale under the Rule in the case of a
U.S. bank of savings and loan association, and not more than 18
months preceding such date of sale for a foreign bank or savings
and loan association or equivalent institution.
In determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and
invested on a discretionary basis by an entity, the following
instruments and interests shall be excluded: bank deposit notes and
certificates of deposit; loan participations; repurchase
agreements; securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement;
and currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.
The aggregate value of securities owned and invested on a
discretionary basis by an entity shall be the cost of such
securities, except where the entity reports its securities holdings
in its financial statements on the basis of their market value, and
no current information with respect to the cost of those securities
has been published. In the latter event, the securities may be
valued at market for purposes of this definition.
In determining the aggregate amount of securities owned by an
entity and invested on a discretionary basis, securities owned by
subsidiaries of the entity that are consolidated with the entity in
its financial statements prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting
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principles may be included if the investments of
such subsidiaries are managed under the direction of the entity,
except that, unless the entity is a reporting company under
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
securities owned by such subsidiaries may not be included if the
entity itself is a majority-owned subsidiary that would be included
in the consolidated financial statements of another
enterprise.
For purposes of this definition, "riskless principal
transaction" means a transaction in which a dealer buys a security
from any person and makes a simultaneous offsetting sale of such
security to a Qualified Institutional Buyer, including another
dealer acting as riskless principal for a Qualified Institutional
Buyer.
Rating Service
"Rating Service" means S&P, Moody’s or Fitch,
according to which of such rating agencies then rates the Bonds at
the request of the Company; and provided that if neither of such
rating agencies then rates the Bonds, the term "Rating Service"
shall refer to any national rating service (if any) which provides
such rating.
Rebate Fund
"Rebate Fund" means the fund by that name created and
established in Section 8.5 of this Indenture.
Record Date
"Record Date" means, as the case may be, the applicable Regular
or Special Record Date.
Regular Record Date
"Regular Record Date" means the close of business on the
fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) of the calendar month
immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date.
Remittance Address
"Remittance Address" means, (i) for payment of the
Issuer’s annual fee by check, California Statewide
Communities Development Authority, Dept. #33997, P.O. Box 39000,
San Francisco, California 94139, or such other address designated
by the Issuer as such from time to time, or (ii) for payment
of the Issuer’s annual fee by wire transfer or ACH
Transaction, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, ABA#
121000248, DDA A/C# 4121458848, Reference: [ Invoice # /
Microgy Holdings, LLC] or such other instructions designated by the
Issuer from time to time.
Responsible Officer
"Responsible Officer" means an officer of the Trustee who
customarily handles corporate trusts and is assigned to administer
this Indenture, and any other officer of the Trustee to whom a
matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject of the referred matter.
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Revenues
"Revenues" means (i) all amounts payable to the Trustee
with respect to the principal of, redemption price, if any, and
interest on the Bonds (A) on deposit in the Bond Fund, the
Construction Fund, and the Debt Service Reserve Fund from the
proceeds of the Bonds or obligations of the Issuer issued to refund
the Bonds or from any other source and (B) paid by the Company
as Loan Payments under the Agreement or to replenish any deficiency
in the Debt Service Reserve Fund, (ii) all receipts of the
Trustee credited under the provisions of this Indenture against
amounts described in clause (i); (iii) investment income with
respect to any moneys held by the Trustee in the Bond Fund, the
Construction Fund, and the Debt Service Reserve Fund;
(iv) amounts paid to the Trustee by the Company or the
Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the Guarantee; and
(v) amounts paid to the Trustee by the Collateral Trustee
pursuant to the Collateral Trust Agreement.
S&P
"S&P" means Standard & Poor’s Credit Market
Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or any
successor thereto maintaining a rating on the Bonds at the request
of the Company.
Securities Depository
"Securities Depository" means any "clearing agency" registered
under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
Series
"Series" means bonds issued at the same time or sharing some
other common term or characteristic and designated in the
Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which such bonds were issued as
a separate series of bonds or as Additional Bonds of an existing
Series of Bonds.
Series 2008A Bonds
"Series 2008A Bonds" means the California Statewide Communities
Development Authority Environmental Facilities Bonds (Microgy
Holdings Project) Series 2008A.
Special Record Date
"Special Record Date" means such date as may be fixed for the
payment of defaulted interest in accordance with Section 2.7
hereof.
State
"State" means the State of California.
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Subsidiary
"Subsidiary" means any corporation, partnership, association or
other business entity of which 50% or more of the Voting Stock or
other equity interests, as appropriate, is at the time directly or
indirectly owned by the Company, by the Company and one or more
other Subsidiaries, or by one or more other Subsidiaries.
Subsidiary Guarantors
"Subsidiary Guarantors" mean each of Microgy Hanford LLC,
Microgy Riverdale LLC, MST Production Ltd., MST GP, LLC, MST
Estates, LLC, Rio Leche Estates, L.L.C., Mission Biogas, L.L.C.,
and Hereford Biogas, L.L.C.
Supplemental Indenture
"Supplemental Indenture" means any supplemental indenture
supplementing or amending the Indenture as theretofore in effect,
entered into by the Issuer and the Trustee in accordance with
Article XV hereof.
Tax Agreement
"Tax Agreement" means that certain tax certificate and
agreement, dated as of the date of issuance of the Series 2008A
Bonds, between the Issuer and the Company, as the same may be
amended or supplemented in accordance with its terms.
Trustee
"Trustee" means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and any
successor trustee or co-trustee serving as such hereunder.
Unassigned Rights
"Unassigned Rights" means the rights of the Issuer under
Sections 5.04, 6.03 and 7.03(a) of the Agreement and the right to
receive notices thereunder.
Underwriter
"Underwriter" means the initial underwriter of the Bonds,
Ziegler Capital Markets, a division of B.C. Ziegler and
Company.
Voting Stock
"Voting Stock" means, with respect to any corporation, any class
of shares of stock of such corporation having general voting power
under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the board of
directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at
the time stock of any other class or classes of such corporation
shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of
any contingency).
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The words "hereof", "herein", "hereto", "hereby"
and "hereunder" (except in the form of Bond) refer to the entire
Indenture. Unless otherwise noted, all Section and Article
references are to sections and articles in this
Indenture.
SECTION 1.2. Article and Section Headings . The headings
or titles of the several Articles and Sections of this Indenture,
and the Table of Contents appended hereto, are solely for
convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning or
construction of the provisions hereof.
SECTION 1.3. Interpretation . The singular form of any
word used herein shall include the plural and vice versa, if
applicable. The use of a word of any gender shall include all
genders, if applicable. This Indenture and all of the terms and
provisions hereof shall be construed so as to effectuate the
purposes contemplated hereby and sustain the validity hereof. All
references to any person or entity defined in Section 1.1
shall be deemed to include any person or entity succeeding to the
rights, duties and obligations of such person or entity.
ARTICLE II
THE BONDS
SECTION 2.1. Authorization of Bonds, Limited Obligations
.
(a) One or more Series of Bonds are hereby authorized to be
issued in order to obtain moneys for the benefit of the Issuer and
the Company. The Bonds are generally designated as California
Statewide Communities Development Authority Environmental
Facilities Revenue Bonds (Microgy Holdings Project), Series
2008.
(b) An initial Series of Bonds designated as Series 2008A is
hereby created having terms as set forth in Section 2.2. An
issue of Additional Bonds for the benefit of the Issuer and the
Company may be issued pursuant to a Supplemental Indenture,
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2.12 and 2.13.
(c) The Bonds are limited obligations of the Issuer and the
principal thereof, and redemption premium, if any, and interest
thereon, are payable solely from, and secured in accordance with
their terms and the provisions of this Indenture solely by, the
Revenues and the other amounts pledged therefor herein. Neither the
faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or any political
subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of
or redemption premium, if any, or interest on, the Bonds. Neither
the payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, or
interest on, the Bonds constitutes a debt, liability or obligation
of the State or any political subdivision thereof, other than the
Issuer to the limited extent provided in the Bonds and herein. The
Issuer has no taxing power.
SECTION 2.2. Terms and Form of Bonds .
(a) The Bonds shall be issued as fully registered Bonds in
Authorized Denominations. The Bonds shall be registered in the name
of Cede & Co, as nominee of the Depository, or any
successor thereto. Registered ownership of the Bonds, or any
portion thereof, may not thereafter be transferred except to a
Qualified Institutional Buyer. Registered ownership of the Bonds,
or any portion thereof, may not thereafter be transferred except to
a Qualified Institutional Buyer as set forth in
Section 2.18.
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(b) The Bonds shall mature on the Maturity Date
(subject to the right of prior redemption set forth in Article
IX)
(c) The Series 2008A Bonds shall bear interest at nine percent
(9%) per annum.
(d) The Series 2008A Bonds shall, except as provided in
Section 2.9 hereof, be in the aggregate principal amount of
$62,425,000.
(e) The Bonds shall contain substantially the terms recited in
the form of bond attached hereto as Exhibit A. The Bonds shall be
issued for the purpose of providing a portion of the funds
necessary to pay the costs of acquiring, constructing, and
improving the Project, as provided herein and in the Agreement;
provided that no proceeds from the Series 2008A Bonds may be used
to finance the Bar 20 Facility (as defined in Exhibit A to the Loan
Agreement) unless one or more Series of Additional Bonds have been
issued hereunder. The Bonds may have such additional legends
thereon as shall be customary in the industry. No Bonds may be
issued under this Indenture except in accordance with this
Article.
(f) Pursuant to recommendations promulgated by the Committee on
Uniform Security Identification Procedures, "CUSIP" numbers may be
printed on the Bonds. The Bonds may bear such endorsement or legend
satisfactory to the Trustee as may be required to conform to usage
or law with respect thereto.
(g) The Issuer may issue the Series 2008A Bonds upon the
execution of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall, at the
Issuer’s written direction, authenticate the Series 2008A
Bonds and deliver them as specified in the direction.
(h) The Bonds shall be dated as of and shall initially bear
interest from their respective Issue Dates.
(i) Unless otherwise directed by the Issuer, the Bonds shall be
numbered in consecutive numerical order from R-1 upward, unless
otherwise determined by the Trustee. Temporary Bonds issued
pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof shall be numbered from TR-1
upward, unless otherwise determined by the Trustee.
SECTION 2.3. Registered Bonds Required; Bond Registrar and
Bond Register . All Bonds shall be issued in fully registered
form. The Bonds shall be registered upon original issuance and upon
subsequent transfer or exchange as provided in this Indenture.
The Issuer shall designate, at the direction of the Company, one
or more persons to act as "Bond Registrar" for the Bonds provided
that the Bond Registrar appointed for the Bonds shall be either the
Trustee, the Paying Agent or a person which would meet the
requirements for qualification as a successor trustee imposed by
Section 12.12. The Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as the
initial Bond Registrar. Any Person other than the Trustee
undertaking to act as Bond Registrar shall first execute a written
agreement, in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the
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Company, to perform the duties of a Bond
Registrar under this Indenture, which agreement shall be filed with
the Trustee and the Company. The Paying Agent and Bond Registrar,
in performing their respective duties hereunder, shall be entitled
to the same protective provisions in the performance of their
respective duties as are specified in Article XII of this Indenture
with respect to the Trustee hereunder to the same extent and as
fully for all intents and purposes as though the Paying Agent and
Bond Registrar had been expressly named therein in place of such
Trustee and as though the applicable provisions of Article XII of
this Indenture had been set forth herein at length.
The Bond Registrar shall act as registrar and transfer agent for
the Bonds. The Issuer shall cause to be kept at an office of the
Bond Registrar a register (herein sometimes referred to as the
"Bond Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations
as it, the Trustee or the Bond Registrar may prescribe, the Issuer
shall provide for the registration of the Bonds and for the
registration of transfers of the Bonds. The Issuer shall cause the
Bond Registrar to designate, by a written notification to the
Trustee, a specific office location (which may be changed from time
to time, upon similar notification) at which the Bond Register is
kept.
The Bond Registrar shall at any time as reasonably requested by
the Trustee, the Paying Agent, or the Company certify and furnish
to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Company and any Paying Agent
as the Trustee shall specify, the names, addresses, and holdings of
Bondholders and any other relevant information reflected in the
Bond Register, and the Trustee, the Remarketing Agent and any such
Paying Agent shall for all purposes be fully entitled to rely upon
the information so furnished to them and shall have no liability or
responsibility in connection with the preparation thereof.
SECTION 2.4. Transfer and Exchange . Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Bond at the designated office of
the Bond Registrar, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee or its
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver in the name of
the transferee or transferees, one or more new fully registered
Bonds of authorized denomination for the aggregate principal amount
which the Registered Owner is entitled to receive.
At the option of the owner, Bonds may be exchanged for other
Bonds of any other authorized denomination, of a like aggregate
principal amount and accruing interest at the same Interest Rate,
upon surrender of the Bonds to be exchanged at the designated
office of the Bond Registrar. Whenever any Bonds are so surrendered
for exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver, the Bonds
which the Bondholder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All Bonds presented for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of
transfer or authorization for exchange, in form and with guaranty
of signature satisfactory to the Bond Registrar, duly executed by
the owner or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, and such
documentation as the Bond Registrar shall reasonably require.
No service charge shall be made to a Bondholder for any exchange
or registration of transfer of Bonds, but the Issuer or the Bond
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto.
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New Bonds delivered upon any registration of
transfer or exchange shall be valid obligations of the Issuer,
evidencing the same debt as the Bonds surrendered, shall be secured
by this Indenture and shall be entitled to all of the security and
benefits hereof to the same extent as the Bonds
surrendered.
Except as provided above, the Trustee shall not be required to
effect any transfer or exchange during the 15 days immediately
preceding the date of mailing of any notice of redemption or at any
time following the mailing of any such notice in the case of Bonds
selected for such redemption.
SECTION 2.5. Execution . All the Bonds shall, from time
to time, be executed on behalf of the Issuer by the manual or
facsimile signature of the President of the Issuer, its seal (which
may be in facsimile) shall be thereunto affixed (or printed or
engraved or otherwise reproduced thereon if in facsimile), and
attested by the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary of
the Issuer.
If any of the officers whose manual or facsimile signatures
shall be upon the Bonds shall cease to be such officers of the
Issuer before such Bonds shall have been actually authenticated by
the Trustee or delivered by the Issuer, such Bonds nevertheless may
be authenticated, issued and delivered with the same force and
effect as though the person or persons whose signature shall be
upon such Bonds had not ceased to be such officer or officers of
the Issuer; and also any such Bonds may be signed and sealed on
behalf of the Issuer by those persons who, at the actual date of
the execution of such Bond, shall be the proper officers of the
Issuer, although at the nominal date of such Bonds any such person
shall not have been such officer of the Issuer.
SECTION 2.6. Authentication; Authenticating Agent . No
Bond shall be valid for any purpose until either (i) the
Certificate of Authentication substantially in the form set forth
in Exhibit A attached hereto has been duly executed in accordance
herewith by the Trustee or (ii) in the case of Bonds initially
delivered to the Underwriter, a Comptroller’s Registration
Certificate attached to or endorsed on such Bond has been duly
executed. Such executed Certificate of Authentication or
Comptroller’s Registration Certificate, as the case may be,
shall be conclusive proof that such Bond has been duly
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and that the owner
thereof is entitled to the benefit of the trust hereby created.
If the Bond Registrar is other than the Trustee, the Trustee may
appoint the Bond Registrar as an Authenticating Agent with the
power to act on the Trustee’s behalf and subject to its
direction in the authentication and delivery of Bonds in connection
with the registration of transfers and exchanges under
Section 2.4 hereof, and the authentication and delivery of
Bonds by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section shall,
for all purposes of this Indenture, be deemed to be the
authentication and delivery "by the Trustee".
Any corporation or association into which any Authenticating
Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation or association resulting from any
merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating
Agent shall be a party, or any corporation or association
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of the
Authenticating Agent hereunder, if such successor corporation is
otherwise eligible as a Bond Registrar under Section 2.3,
without the execution or filing or any further act on the part of
the parties hereto or the Authenticating Agent or such successor
corporation.
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Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign
by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee, the Issuer
and the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency
of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination
to such Authenticating Agent, the Issuer and the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination,
or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible under this Section, the Trustee may, with the written
consent of the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld)
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent, shall give written notice
of such appointment to the Issuer, and shall mail notice of such
appointment to all owners of Bonds as the names and addresses of
such owners appear on the Bond Register.
Prior to delivery by the Trustee of the Bonds, there shall be
filed with the Trustee:
(a) A copy, duly certified by the Issuer, of the resolution
adopted by the Issuer authorizing the issuance of the Bonds and the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Agreement, the
Guarantee and the Tax Agreement.
(b) Original, executed counterparts of this Indenture, the
Agreement, the Guarantee and the Tax Agreement.
(c) An executed request and authorization of the Issuer to the
Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Bonds to or on the order of
the Underwriter. The proceeds of the payment made pursuant to such
request and authorization shall be paid over to the Trustee and
deposited in accordance with Article III hereof.
SECTION 2.7. Payment of Principal and Interest; Interest
Rights Preserved .
(a) Subject to the provisions relating to book-entry only set
forth in Section 2.15 hereof, the principal or redemption
price of any Bond shall be payable upon presentation and surrender
of such Bond to the Principal Office of the Paying Agent. The
principal or redemption price of the Bonds shall be payable in
immediately available funds. Such payments shall be made to the
Registered Owner of the Bond so delivered, as shown in the Bond
Register maintained by the Bond Registrar.
(b) Each Bond shall accrue interest and be payable as to
interest as follows:
(i) The Bonds shall accrue interest until their Maturity Date or
prior redemption at the rate set forth in Section 2.2 hereof,
with respect to the Series 2008A Bonds, or in a Supplemental
Indenture, with respect to any Additional Bonds, initially from
their respective Issue Dates, and thereafter (A) from the date
of authentication, if authenticated on an Interest Payment Date to
which interest has been paid or duly provided for, or (B) from
the last preceding Interest Payment Date to which interest has been
paid in full or duly provided for (or the Issue Date if no interest
thereon has been paid or duly provided for) in all other cases.
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(ii) Subject to the provisions of paragraph
(c) below, the interest due on any Bond on any Interest
Payment Date shall be paid on each Interest Payment Date to the
Registered Owner of such Bond as shown on the Bond Register as of
the Regular Record Date. The amount of interest so payable on any
Interest Payment Date shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months.
(iii) All payments of interest on the Bonds shall be paid by
check to the Registered Owners entitled thereto. Any Registered
Owner holding at least $1,000,000 par amount of the Bonds may
receive payments of interest in immediately available funds by wire
transfer to a bank within the continental United States or
deposited to a designated account if such account is maintained
with the Paying Agent as directed by the Registered Owner in
writing or as otherwise directed in writing by the Registered Owner
at least five Business Days prior to each Interest Payment Date.
Payments described in this Section shall be dependent upon there
being immediately available funds on deposit in the Bond Fund on
the Interest Payment Date.
(iv) Interest due at the maturity or redemption of a Bond shall
be paid in the usual manner.
(v) Interest on any Bond which is payable, and is punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be
paid to the person in whose name that Bond is registered on the
Regular Record Date for such interest.
(c) Any interest on any Bond which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or provided for, on any Interest Payment Date and
within any applicable grace period (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the owner of such
Bond on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been
such owner, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the person
in whose name the Bond is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date to be fixed by the Trustee, such date to be no
more than 15 nor fewer than 10 days prior to the date of proposed
payment. The Trustee shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be
mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Bondholder at his
address as it appears in the Bond Register, not fewer than 10 days
prior to such Special Record Date.
(d) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Bond delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer
of or exchange for or in lieu of any other Bond shall carry the
rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were
carried by such other Bond.
SECTION 2.8. Persons Deemed Owners . The Issuer, the
Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Bond Registrar and any
Authenticating Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name
any Bond is registered in the Bond Register as the absolute owner
thereof (whether or not such Bond shall be overdue and
notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon
made by anyone other than the Issuer, the Trustee, any Paying
Agent, the Bond Registrar or the Authenticating Agent) for the
purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of,
redemption premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.7)
interest on, such Bond, and for all other purposes, and neither the
Issuer, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Bond Registrar, nor
the
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Authenticating Agent shall be affected by any
notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such
Registered Owner, or upon his order, shall be valid and, to the
extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and
discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such
Bond.
SECTION 2.9. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Bonds
.
(a) If any Bond shall become mutilated, lost, stolen or
destroyed, the affected Bondholder shall be entitled to the
issuance of a substitute Bond only as follows:
(i) in the case of a lost, stolen or destroyed Bond, the
Bondholder shall (A) provide written notice of the loss, theft
or destruction to the Trustee within a reasonable time after the
Bondholder becomes aware of the loss, theft or destruction,
(B) request the issuance of a substitute Bond and
(C) provide evidence, satisfactory to the Trustee, of the
ownership and the loss, theft or destruction of the affected
Bond;
(ii) in the case of a mutilated Bond, the Bondholder shall
surrender the Bond to the Trustee for cancellation;
(iii) in all cases, the Bondholder shall, at its own expense,
provide indemnity against any and all claims arising out of or
otherwise related to the issuance of substitute Bonds pursuant to
this Section 2.9 satisfactory to the Issuer, the Trustee and
the Company; and
(iv) in all cases, upon payment by the affected Bondholder of
the fees and expenses of the Trustee and the Issuer in connection
with the issuance of any such substitute Bond.
Upon compliance with the foregoing, a substitute Bond of like
tenor and denomination, executed by the Issuer, shall be
authenticated by the Trustee or Authenticating Agent and delivered
to the Bondholder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee or Authenticating
Agent shall not be required to authenticate and deliver any
substitute Bond for a Bond which has been called for redemption or
which has matured or is about to mature and, in any such case, the
principal, redemption price or Purchase Price and interest then due
or becoming due shall be paid by the Trustee or a Paying Agent in
accordance with the terms of the mutilated, lost, stolen or
destroyed Bond without substitution therefor.
(b) Every substituted Bond issued pursuant to this Section shall
constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Issuer and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Bonds duly issued
hereunder.
(c) All Bonds shall be held and owned upon the express condition
that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Bonds, and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies,
notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to
the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of
negotiable instruments or investment or other securities without
their surrender.
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SECTION 2.10. Temporary Bonds . Pending
preparation of definitive Bonds, or by agreement with the
purchasers of all Bonds, the Issuer may issue, and, upon its
request, the Trustee or Authenticating Agent shall authenticate, in
lieu of definitive Bonds one or more temporary printed or
typewritten Bonds of substantially the tenor recited above in any
Authorized Denomination. Upon written request of the Issuer, the
Trustee shall authenticate definitive Bonds in exchange for and
upon surrender of an equal principal amount of temporary Bonds.
Until so exchanged, temporary Bonds shall have the same rights,
remedies and security hereunder as definitive Bonds.
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation of Surrendered Bonds . Bonds
surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange and Bonds
surrendered to the Trustee by the Issuer or by the Company for
cancellation shall be cancelled by the Trustee and such cancelled
Bonds shall be delivered to the Company.
SECTION 2.12. Conditions for the Issuance of Additional
Bonds . The Issuer may at any time issue Additional Bonds
payable from the Revenues as provided herein and secured by a
pledge of and charge and lien upon the Revenues as provided herein
equal to the pledge, charge and lien securing the Outstanding Bonds
theretofore issued hereunder, but only subject to the following
specific conditions, which are hereby made conditions precedent to
the issuance of any such Additional Bonds:
(a) The Issuer shall be in compliance with all agreements and
covenants contained herein.
(b) The issuance of such Additional Bonds shall have been
authorized pursuant to the Act and shall have been provided for by
Supplemental Indenture which shall specify the following:
(i) The purpose for which such Additional Bonds are to be
issued; provided that such Additional Bonds shall be issued solely
for the purpose of (i) the costs of completing the Project;
(ii) the costs of making at any time or from time to time such
substitutions, additions, modifications and improvements or
additional costs for the Project or any portion thereof, all as
authorized by the Act, as the Company may deem necessary or
desirable; (iii) the costs of refunding, to the extent
permitted, any Bonds then Outstanding; and (iv) the costs of
issuance and sale of the Additional Bonds, interest expenses during
the construction period and other costs reasonably related to the
financing as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the
Issuer;
(ii) The authorized principal amount and designation of such
Additional Bonds, provided that the total amount of all Outstanding
Bonds shall not exceed eighty-eight million five hundred fifty-five
thousand dollars ($88,555,000);
(iii) The date and the maturity dates of and the mandatory
redemption payment dates, if any, for such Additional Bonds;
provided that (i) all Bonds shall mature on the Maturity Date,
(ii) all such Additional Bonds of like maturity shall be
identical in
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all respects, except as to number and
denomination, and (iii) serial maturities for serial bonds or
mandatory redemption payments for term bonds, or any combination
thereof, shall be established to provide for the retirement of such
Additional Bonds on or before their respective maturity
dates;
(iv) The rate to be borne by such Additional Bonds;
(v) The amount, if any, to be deposited from the proceeds of
sale of such Additional Bonds in the Capitalized Interest Account
hereinafter referred to;
(vi) The amount, if any, to be deposited from the proceeds of
sale of such Additional Bonds in the Debt Service Reserve Fund
hereinafter referred to;
(vii) The amount, if any, to be deposited from the proceeds of
sale of such Additional Bonds in the Construction Fund;
(viii) The amount, if any, to be deposited from the proceeds of
sale of such Additional Bonds in the subaccount within the Costs of
Issuance Fund relating to such Additional Bonds.
(ix) The forms of such Additional Bonds; and
(x) Such other provisions as are necessary or appropriate and
not inconsistent herewith.
(c) The Interest Payment Dates, denominations and redemption
provisions (except for mandatory redemption payments) for any
Additional Bonds shall be the same as for the Series 2008A Bonds as
provided herein.
SECTION 2.13. Procedure for the Issuance of Additional
Bonds . At any time after the sale of any Additional Bonds in
accordance with the Act, the Issuer shall execute such Additional
Bonds for issuance hereunder and shall deliver them to the Trustee,
and thereupon such Additional Bonds shall be authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee to the purchaser thereof upon the written
request of the Issuer, but only upon receipt by the Trustee of the
following documents or money or securities, all of such documents
dated or certified, as the case may be, as of the Date of Delivery
of such Additional Bonds by the Trustee (unless the Issuer shall
direct the Trustee to accept any of such documents bearing a prior
date):
(a) A certified copy of the Supplemental Indenture authorizing
the issuance of such Additional Bonds;
(b) A written request of the Issuer as to the delivery of such
Additional Bonds;
(c) An Opinion of Bond Counsel to the effect that (1) the
Issuer has the right and power under the Act to execute and deliver
the Supplemental Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture has been
duly and lawfully executed and delivered by the Issuer, is in full
force and effect and is valid and binding upon the Issuer (except
as enforcement may be
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limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
and other similar laws relating to the enforcement of
creditors’ rights and by equitable principles), (2) the
Supplemental Indenture creates the valid pledge of and charge and
lien upon the Revenues which it purports to create as provided
therein, subject to the application thereof to the purposes and on
the conditions permitted hereby, (3) such Additional Bonds are
valid and binding special obligations of the Issuer (except as
enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization and other similar laws relating to the enforcement
of creditors’ rights and by equitable principles) and
entitled to the benefits of the Act and hereof, and such Additional
Bonds have been duly and validly authorized, executed, issued and
delivered in accordance with the Act and herewith, (4) the
amendments to the Loan Agreement, required by Section 2.12(c)
hereof have been duly authorized, executed and delivered, and
(5) the delivery of such Additional Bonds will not have an
adverse effect on the exclusion from gross income for federal
income tax purposes of the interest on the Bonds;
(d) A Certificate of the Issuer containing such statements as
may be reasonably necessary, as determined by Bond Counsel, to show
compliance with the conditions for the issuance of such Additional
Bonds contained herein;
(e) Such further documents, money or securities as are required
by the provisions of the Supplemental Indenture providing for the
issuance of such Additional Bonds
SECTION 2.14. Non-Liability of Issuer . The Issuer shall
not be obligated to pay the principal of or interest on the Bonds,
except from Revenues and other moneys and assets received by the
Trustee pursuant to the Agreement. Neither the faith and credit nor
the taxing power of the State or any political subdivision thereof
(including the Program Participants), nor the faith and credit of
the Issuer is pledged to the payment of the principal (or
Redemption Price) or interest on the Bonds. Neither the Issuer nor
the Program Participants shall be liable for any costs, expenses,
losses, damages, claims or actions, of any conceivable kind on any
conceivable theory, under or by reason of or in connection with the
Agreement, the Bonds or this Indenture, except only to the extent
amounts are received for the payment thereof from the Company under
the Agreement.
The Trustee hereby acknowledges that the Issuer’s sole
source of moneys to repay the Bonds will be provided by the
payments made by the Company to the Trustee pursuant to the
Agreement, together with investment income on certain funds and
accounts held by the Trustee under this Indenture, and hereby
agrees that if the payments to be made under the Agreement shall
ever prove insufficient to pay all principal and interest on the
Bonds as the same shall become due (whether by maturity,
redemption, acceleration or otherwise), then the Trustee shall give
notice to the Company in accordance with Section 11.2 of this
Indenture to pay such amounts as are required from time to time to
prevent any deficiency or default in the payment of such principal
or interest, including, but not limited to, any deficiency caused
by acts, omissions, nonfeasance or malfeasance on the part of the
Trustee, the Company, the Issuer or any third party, subject to any
right of reimbursement from the Trustee, the Issuer or any such
third party, as the case may be, therefor.
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SECTION 2.15. Book Entry System
.
(a) DTC will act as the initial Securities Depository for the
Bonds. The Bonds shall be initially issued in the form of a single
fully registered Bond registered in the name of Cede & Co.
(DTC’s nominee). So long as Cede & Co. is the
Registered Owner of the Bonds, as nominee of DTC, references herein
to Registered Owners, Bondholders or holders of the Bonds shall
mean Cede & Co. and shall not mean the beneficial owners
of the Bonds.
(b) While DTC is the Securities Depository, the ownership
interest of each of the beneficial owners of the Bonds will be
recorded through the records of a DTC Participant. Transfers of
beneficial ownership interests in the Bonds which are registered in
the name of Cede & Co. will be accompanied by book entries
made by DTC and, in turn, by the DTC Participants who act on behalf
of the beneficial owners of the Bonds.
(c) With respect to Bonds registered in the name of the
Securities Depository, the Issuer, the Company, the Bond Registrar,
the Paying Agent, and the Trustee shall have no responsibility or
obligation to any person on behalf of whom such Securities
Depository holds an interest in the Bonds, except as provided in
this Indenture. Without limiting the immediately preceding
sentence, the Issuer, the Bond Registrar, the Paying Agent, and the
Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to
(i) the accuracy of the records of the Securities Depository
with respect to any ownership interest in the Bonds, (ii) the
delivery to any person, other than a Bondholder, as shown on the
Bond Register, of any notice with respect to the Bonds, including
any notice of redemption, or (iii) the payment to any person,
other than a Registered Owner, as shown in the Bond Register of any
amount with respect to principal of, redemption premium, if any, or
interest on, the Bonds.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture to
the contrary, the Issuer, the Bond Registrar, the Paying Agent, and
the Trustee shall be entitled to treat and consider the person in
whose name each Bond is registered in the Bond Register as the
absolute owner of such Bond for the purpose of payment of
principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest with respect to
such Bond, for the purpose of giving notices of redemption and
other matters with respect to such Bond, for the purpose of
registering transfers with respect to such Bond, and for all other
purposes whatsoever. The Paying Agent shall pay all principal of,
redemption premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds only to or
upon the order of the respective owners, as shown in the Bond
Register as provided in this Indenture, or their respective
attorneys duly authorized in writing, and all such payments shall
be valid and effective to fully satisfy and discharge the
Issuer’s obligations with respect to payment of principal of,
redemption premium, if any, and interest on, the Bonds to the
extent of the sum or sums so paid.
(e) No person other than a Registered Owner, as shown in the
registration books, shall receive a Bond certificate evidencing the
obligation of the Issuer to make payments of principal, redemption
premium, if any, and interest, pursuant to this Indenture.
(f) Any provision of this Indenture permitting or requiring the
delivery of Bonds shall, while the book-entry syste
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