EXHIBIT 10.4
TRUST INDENTURE
between
YORK COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY,
as Issuer
and
MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST
COMPANY,
as Trustee
Dated as of October 1,
2006
$10,500,000
YORK COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY
Exempt Facilities Revenue
Bonds
Series 2006
(The York Water Company
Project)
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
ARTICLE I -
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1.
Definitions.
Section 1.2.
Certain Rules of Interpretation.
ARTICLE II -
THE BONDS
Section 2.1.
Authorized Amount and Issuance of Bonds; Disposition of Bond
Proceeds.
Section 2.2.
Terms
of the Bonds.
Section 2.5.
Form
of Bonds; Execution; Bonds Equally and Ratably Secured;
Limited
Obligation of the Issuer .
Section 2.6.
Authentication
Section 2.7.
Registration, Transfer and Exchange .
Section 2.8.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Bonds .
Section 2.9.
Payments of Principal, Redemption Price and Interest; Persons
Entitled Thereto .
Section 2.10.
Temporary Bonds .
Section 2.11.
Cancellation of Surrendered Bonds .
Section 2.12.
Acts
of Registered Owners; Evidence of Ownership .
Section 2.13.
Book
Entry System.
Section 2.14.
Payments to Cede & Co.; Payments to Beneficial Owners
.
ARTICLE III
- Debt Service Fund and Construction Fund
Section 3.1.
Establishment of Funds and Accounts.
Section 3.2.
Debt
Service Fund .
Section 3.3.
Return of Moneys from Non-Presentment of Bonds .
Section 3.4.
Construction Fund .
Section 3.5.
Debt
Service Fund Moneys to be Held for All Registered Owners, With
Certain
Section 3.6.
Additional Accounts and Subaccounts.
ARTICLE IV
- Investments, Tax Covenants
Section 4.1.
Investment of Funds.
Section 4.2.
Arbitrage Bond Covenant.
Section 4.3.
Covenants Regarding Tax Exemption.
ARTICLE V -
REDEMPTION OF BONDS
Section 5.1.
Bonds
Subject to Redemption.
Section 5.2.
Selection of Bonds for Redemption.
Section 5.3.
Notice of Redemption.
Section 5.4.
Effect of Redemption.
Section 5.5.
Purchase in Lieu of Redemption.
ARTICLE VI -
REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
Section 6.1.
General Limitation; Issuer’s Representation.
Section 6.2.
Payment of Bonds and Performance of Covenants.
Section 6.3.
Enforcement of the Loan Agreement.
Section 6.4.
No
Personal Liability.
Section 6.5.
Exemption from Federal Income Taxation.
Section 6.6.
Corporate Existence; Compliance with Laws.
Section 6.8.
Further Assurances.
Section 6.9.
Inspection of Books.
ARTICLE VII -
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 7.1.
Events of Default Defined.
Section 7.2.
Acceleration and Annulment Thereof.
Section 7.3.
Legal
Proceedings by Trustee.
Section 7.4.
Discontinuance of Proceedings by Trustee.
Section 7.5.
Registered Owners May Direct Proceedings.
Section 7.6.
Limitations on Actions by Registered Owners.
Section 7.7.
Trustee May Enforce Rights Without Possession of Bonds.
Section 7.8.
Remedies Not Exclusive.
Section 7.9.
Delays and Omissions Not to Impair Rights.
Section 7.10.
Application of Moneys.
Section 7.11.
Trustee’s Right to Receiver.
Section 7.12.
Trustee and Registered Owners Entitled to All Remedies.
Section 7.13.
Waiver of Past Defaults.
ARTICLE VIII
- The Trustee
Section 8.1.
Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
Section 8.2.
Notice if Event of Default Occurs or Notice if Taxability
Occurs.
Section 8.3.
Certain Rights of Trustee.
Section 8.4.
Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Bonds.
Section 8.5.
May
Hold Bonds.
Section 8.6.
Money
Held in Trust.
Section 8.7.
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
Section 8.8.
Resignation and Removal of Trustee; Appointment of
Successor.
Section 8.9.
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.
Section 8.10.
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.
Section 8.11.
Fees,
Charges and Expenses of Trustee.
ARTICLE IX -
AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS
Section 9.1.
Amendments and Supplements Without Registered Owners’
Consent.
Section 9.2.
Amendments With Company and Registered Owners’
Consent.
Section 9.3.
Amendments to Loan Agreement.
Section 9.4.
Right
to Payment.
ARTICLE X -
DEFEASANCE
Section 10.1.
Defeasance.
Section 10.2.
Effect of Defeasance.
ARTICLE XI -
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.1.
Limitations on Recourse; Immunity of Certain Persons.
Section 11.2.
No
Rights Conferred on Others.
Section 11.3.
Illegal, Etc. Provisions Disregarded.
Section 11.4.
Substitute Publication of Notice.
Section 11.5.
Mailed Notice.
Section 11.6.
Governing Law.
Section 11.7.
Successors and Assigns.
Section 11.8.
Action by Company.
Section 11.9.
Headings and Subheadings for Convenience Only.
Section 11.10.
Counterparts.
Section 11.11.
Additional Notices to Rating Agencies.
Section 11.12.
Insurance Provisions.
This Trust Indenture, dated as of October 1,
2006 (the “Indenture”) between the YORK COUNTY
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, (the “Issuer”), a
public instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the
“Commonwealth”) and a public body corporate and politic
organized and existing under the Pennsylvania Economic Development
Financing Law, as amended (as defined herein, the
“Act”) and MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY, a
New York state chartered bank with trust powers duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of New York with a corporate
trust office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as Trustee (the
“Trustee”),
W I T N E S S E T H
:
WHEREAS, the Act declares that there is a
critical need for the production of water suitable for public use
and consumption, that in order to insure continuing supplies of
water resources at reasonable rates, it is necessary to provide
additional means of financing projects directed to such production,
and that to protect the health, safety and general welfare of the
people of the Commonwealth and to further encourage economic
development and efficiency within the Commonwealth by providing
basic services and facilities, it is necessary to provide
additional or alternative means of financing facilities for the
furnishing of water; and
WHEREAS, the Issuer is authorized to enter into
agreements providing for the loan financing of
“projects” within the meaning of the Act that promote
any of the public purposes set forth in the Act; and
WHEREAS, the Issuer has determined to issue
$10,500,000 aggregate principal amount of its Exempt Facilities
Revenue Bonds, Series 2006 (The York Water Company Project) (the
“Bonds”) to provide funds to loan to The York Water
Company (the “Company”) for the financing of (i) a
portion of the Company’s 2006 Capital Budget, including, but
not limited to the design, acquisition, construction, improvement,
renovation, equipping and installation of (a) various structures,
including distribution buildings, booster stations, pumping
stations, and various plant and ancillary buildings, (b) spillway
upgrades, standpipes, transmission and distribution mains, service
lines, meters, fire hydrants, and pumping, water treatment and
purification equipment, and (c) various other capital improvements,
replacements and equipment for the Company’s water system
located throughout York County, Pennsylvania, and (ii) the payment
of all or a portion of the costs of issuance of the Bonds (the
"Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Issuer has entered into a Loan
Agreement dated as of October 1, 2006 (including any
supplements and amendments thereto, the “Loan
Agreement”) with the Company providing for the loan by the
Issuer to the Company of the proceeds of the Bonds for such purpose
and the repayment of such loan by the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Bonds and the interest thereon are
and shall be payable from and secured by a lien on and pledge of
the Installment Loan Payments (as hereinafter defined) to be made
by the Company pursuant to the Loan Agreement in amounts sufficient
to pay at maturity or redemption the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest on the Bonds when due; and
WHEREAS, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, a
New York stock insurance company, or any successor thereto (the
“Bond Insurer”), has agreed to issue its municipal bond
new issue insurance policy (the “Bond Insurance
Policy”) unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteeing the
payment when due of the principal of and interest on the Bonds in
accordance with the Bond Insurance Policy; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Bonds,
when issued, executed and delivered by the Issuer and authenticated
by the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, the valid, legal and
binding special obligations of the Issuer, and to constitute this
Indenture a valid pledge of certain income and hereinafter defined
Revenues of the Issuer for the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, have been performed and the
creation, execution and delivery of this Indenture, and the
creation, execution and issuance of the Bonds, subject to the terms
hereof, have in all respects been duly authorized;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH:
That the Issuer in consideration of the
premises, of the acceptance by the Trustee of the trusts hereby
created, of the mutual covenants herein contained and of the
purchase and acceptance of the Bonds by the Owners thereof, and for
other valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, and in order to secure the payment of the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds according to their
tenor and effect, and the performance and observance by the Issuer
of all the covenants and conditions herein and therein contained
(a) has executed and delivered this Indenture and (b) has
agreed to sell, assign, transfer, set over and pledge, and by these
presents does hereby sell, assign, transfer, set over and pledge
unto Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, as Trustee, and to its successors in trust and its
assigns forever, to the extent provided in this Indenture, all of
the right, title and interest of the Issuer in and to the Loan
Agreement (except for the Unassigned Issuer’s Rights as
defined in the Loan Agreement), and all the Revenues of the Issuer,
and amounts on deposit in the Construction Fund and Debt Service
Fund as hereinafter in this Indenture provided (collectively, the
“Trust Estate”); provided, however, that nothing in the
Bonds or in this Indenture shall be construed as pledging the faith
or credit or taxing power of the Commonwealth, the County of York
or any other political subdivision of the Commonwealth, nor shall
this Indenture or the Bonds constitute a general obligation of the
Issuer, or a debt of the Commonwealth, the County of York or any
political subdivision thereof;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto the Trustee
and its successors in trust forever;
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms and trusts
herein set forth for the benefit and security of those who shall
hold or own the Bonds issued hereunder, or any of them, without
preference of any of said Bonds over any others thereof by reason
of priority in the time of the issue or negotiation thereof or by
reason of the date or maturity thereof, or for any other reason
whatsoever, except as otherwise provided herein;
IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED, declared and agreed by
and between the parties hereto, that all such Bonds are to be
issued, authenticated as required by this Indenture, and delivered
and that all property subject or to become subject hereto,
including the Revenues, is to be held and applied upon and subject
to the further covenants, conditions, uses and trusts hereinafter
set forth; and the Issuer, for itself and its successors, does
hereby covenant and agree to and with the Trustee and its
successors in trust, for the benefit of those who shall hold all of
the Bonds, or any of them, as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.1.
Definitions .
Terms used in this Indenture with the initial
letter capitalized shall have the meanings specified in this
Section 1.1 or if not defined in this Section 1.1, shall
have the meanings specified in the recitals or other provisions of
the Indenture as applicable. All words and terms used in this
Indenture and not defined herein shall, if defined in the Loan
Agreement, have the meaning set forth therein. The words
“hereof,” “herein,” “hereto,”
“hereby,” and “hereunder” (except in the
Form of Bond) refer to the entire Indenture. All words and terms
importing the singular number shall, where the context requires,
import the plural number and vice versa.
“Act” means the Pennsylvania
Economic Development Financing Law (Act of August 23, 1967 P.
L. 251, No. 102), as amended. The Act is codified at 73 P.S. §
371 et seq .
“Act of Bankruptcy” means any of the
following events:
(i) The Company
(or any Person obligated, as guarantor or otherwise, to make
payments under the Loan Agreement) shall (a) 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 any such other Person obligated, as a guarantor or otherwise,
to make payments under the Loan Agreement) or of all or any
substantial part of its property, (b) commence a voluntary
case under the United States Bankruptcy Code, as now or hereafter
in effect and including any amendments thereto, or (c) file a
petition seeking to take advantage of any other law relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up or composition
or adjustment of debts; or
(ii) A proceeding
or case shall be commenced in any court of competent jurisdiction,
seeking (a) the liquidation, reorganization, dissolution,
winding-up, or composition or adjustment of debts, of the Company
(or any Person obligated, as guarantor or otherwise, to make
payments under the Loan Agreement), (b) the appointment of a
trustee, receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of the Company
(or any Person obligated, as a guarantor or otherwise, to make
payments under the Loan Agreement) or of all or any substantial
part of its property, or (c) similar relief in respect of the
Company (or any such other Person obligated, as a guarantor or
otherwise, to make payments under the Loan Agreement) under any law
relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up or
composition or adjustment of debts.
“Administrative Expenses” means fees
and expenses of the Trustee and the Issuer including, without
limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel and
other professional advisors.
“Authorized Representative” means
(i) in the case of the Issuer, each person at the time designated
to act on behalf of the Issuer by the most recent written
certificate furnished to the Company and the Trustee containing the
specimen signature of such person and signed on behalf of the
Issuer by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary; and (ii) with
respect to each person at the time designated to act on behalf of
any other Person (e.g., the Company or the Trustee), by written
certificate furnished to the Trustee containing the specimen
signature of such other person and signed on behalf of such person,
in case of a partnership by each of its general partners (or any
other person authorized to sign on behalf of such Partnership) and
in the case of a corporation by a person authorized by such
corporation to deliver such certificates.
“Authorized Denominations” means,
$5,000 and any whole multiple thereof.
“Beneficial Owners” means the owners
of beneficial interests in the Bonds while Bonds are held by a
Securities Depository.
“Bond Counsel” means any firm of
nationally recognized bond counsel selected by the Issuer and not
unsatisfactory to the Trustee or the Company.
“Bond Documents” means the Financing
Documents and all other agreements, certificates, documents and
instruments delivered in connection with any of the Financing
Documents.
“Bond Insurance Policy” means the
municipal bond new issue insurance policy issued by the Bond
Insurer that guarantees payment of principal of and interest on the
Bonds.
“Bond Insurer” means Financial
Guaranty Insurance Company, a New York stock insurance company, or
any successor thereto.
“Bond Obligations” means the Debt
Service due and payable and to become due and payable, and any
other amounts which may be owed by the Company to, or on behalf of,
the Issuer or the Trustee under the Bond Documents.
“Bond Resolution” means the
resolution of the governing body of the Issuer adopted on October
3, 2006, authorizing the issuance of the Bonds.
“Bonds” means the York County
Industrial Development Authority’s Exempt Facilities Revenue
Bonds, Series 2006 (The York Water Company Project) authorized
hereunder.
“Business Day” means any day which
is not (a) a Saturday, a Sunday or in the City of New York, New
York, or the city in which the corporate trust operations office of
the Trustee or any duly appointed Paying Agent or the office of the
Trustee at which this Indenture is being administered is located, a
day on which banks are authorized or required by law or executive
order to be closed, or (b) a day on which the New York Stock
Exchange is closed.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended.
“Construction Fund” means the fund
of that name created pursuant to Section 3.1
hereof.
“Dated Date” means October 27, 2006
with respect to the Bonds.
“Debt Service” means the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds.
“Debt Service Fund” means the
special fund of that name created pursuant to Section 3.1
hereof.
“Department” means the Department of
Community and Economic Development of the Commonwealth.
“Determination of Taxability” means
a Final Determination by the Internal Revenue Service or by a court
of competent jurisdiction in the United States that, as a result of
failure by the Company to observe or perform any covenant,
condition or agreement on its part to be observed or performed
under the Loan Agreement or as a result of the inaccuracy of any
representation or agreement made by the Company under the Loan
Agreement, the interest payable on any Bond is includable in the
gross income of the Registered Owner or Beneficial Owner of such
Bond (other than a Registered Owner or Beneficial Owner who is a
“substantial user” of the Project or a “related
person” within the meaning of Section 147(a) of the
Code).
“DTC” means The Depository Trust
Company, acting as Securities Depository, as set forth in
Section 2.13 hereof.
“DTC Participant” shall have the
meaning assigned from time to time by DTC when used by DTC in
reference to a “DTC Participant.”
“Event of Default” means any of the
events described in Section 7.1 hereof.
“Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel”
means an opinion of Bond Counsel addressed to the Issuer and the
Trustee to the effect that the action proposed to be taken is
authorized or permitted by the laws of the Commonwealth and this
Indenture and will not, in and of itself, adversely affect any
exclusion of interest on the Bonds from gross income of the owners
thereof for federal income tax purposes.
“Final Determination” means, with
respect to a private letter ruling or a technical advice memorandum
of the Internal Revenue Service, written notice thereof in a
proceeding in which the Company had an opportunity to participate
and, otherwise, means written notice of a determination from which
no further right of appeal exists or from which no appeal is timely
filed with the next level of administrative or judicial review in a
proceeding to which the Company was a party or in which the Company
had the opportunity to participate.
“Financing Documents” means this
Indenture, the Loan Agreement, the Tax Documents and the
Bonds.
“Government Obligations” means any
one or more of the following:
(i) Securities
that are direct obligations of the United States of America or
securities the timely payment of whose principal and interest is
unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the
United States of America, trust receipts or other evidence of a
direct claim upon the instruments described above, including but
not limited to CATS (Certificates of Accrual on Treasury
Securities), TIGRS (Treasury Investment Growth Receipts) and
Government Trust Certificates; or
(ii) To the
extent permitted by law for the particular investment contemplated,
pre-refunded municipal obligations meeting the conditions set forth
in (a) through (e) below:
(a) the
municipal obligations are (i) not subject to redemption prior to
maturity or (ii) the trustee for such municipal obligations has
been given irrevocable instructions concerning their calling and
redemption and the issuer of such municipal obligations has
covenanted not to redeem such bonds other than as set forth in such
instructions; and
(b) the
municipal obligations are secured by cash or non-callable United
States Government Obligations that may be applied only to interest,
principal and premium payments of such municipal obligations;
and
(c) the
principal of and interest on such United States Government
Obligations (plus any cash in an escrow fund) are sufficient to
meet all of the liabilities of the municipal obligations;
and
(d) the cash
and/or United States Government Obligations serving as security for
the municipal obligations are held by an escrow agent or trustee;
and
(e) the United
States Government Obligations are not available to satisfy any
other claims, including those against the trustee or escrow
agent.
“Indenture” means this Trust
Indenture dated as of October 1, 2006, as hereafter amended and
supplemented by any Supplemental Indenture.
“Interest Payment Date” means, with
respect to the Bonds, April 1 and October 1 of each year,
commencing April 1, 2007.
“Investment Securities” means and
includes any of the following securities on which neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries is the obligor:
(a) Government Obligations or obligations of any United States
Government Related Entity or obligations guaranteed or insured
as to principal and interest by the United States of America or any
United States Government Related Entity; “United States
Government-Related Entity” shall mean the Export-Import Bank
of the United States, Farmers Home Administration, Federal Housing
Administration, General Services Administration, Government
National Mortgage Association, Federal National Mortgage
Association, each Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, each Federal Land Bank, each Federal
Intermediate Credit Bank, Banks for Cooperatives and the Farm
Credit System and The Student Loan Marketing Association;
(b) obligations of a state, a territory, or a possession of
the United States, or any political subdivision of any of the
foregoing or of the District of Columbia as described in
Section 103 of the Code, and rated not less than
“A2” by Moody’s or “A” by another
Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization
(“NRSRO”); split rated investments where one of the
ratings falls below the minimum rating set forth above are not
permitted; (c) domestic and eurodollar time deposits,
overnight deposits, certificates of deposit and banker’s
acceptances (i) maintained at or issued by any office or branch of
any bank or trust company organized or licensed under the laws of
the United States of America or any state thereof which bank or
trust company has capital, surplus and undivided profits of at
least $500,000,000, or (ii) maintained at or issued by any
bank organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside of the
United States of America provided that the long term securities of
such bank or trust company are rated A or higher (A2 in the case of
Moody’s) by at least one NRSRO, in each case maturing not
more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; split
rated investments where one of the ratings falls below the minimum
rating set forth above are not permitted; (d) commercial paper and
other instruments that are rated, or that are issued or guaranteed
by an issuer that is rated, in the highest, short term category by
at least two NRSROs (A-1 shall be deemed to be the highest short
term rating for Standard and Poor’s) and maturing not more
than 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(e) corporate notes and bonds rated “A” or higher
(A2 in the case of Moody’s) by two or more NRSROs maturing
not more than 364 days from the date of acquisition thereof; split
ratings where one of the ratings falls below the minimum rating set
forth above are not permitted; (f) repurchase and reverse
repurchase agreements with any bank (or a broker-dealer subsidiary
of affiliate of such bank), provided such bank has combined
capital, surplus and undivided profits of at least $500,000,000, or
any primary dealer of United States government securities provided
that the collateral is limited to the investments described in (a)
above; (g) shares of any money market mutual fund registered with
the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment company
under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940, as amended, including
any such fund which is managed by the Trustee or one of its
affiliates or subsidiaries, including, without limitation, any
mutual fund for which the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee
serves as investment manager, administrator, shareholder servicing
agent, and/or custodian or subcustodian, notwithstanding that (i)
the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee receives fees from such
funds for services rendered, (ii) the Trustee charges and collects
fees for services rendered pursuant to this Indenture, which fees
are separate from the fees received from such funds, and (iii)
services performed for such funds and pursuant to this Indenture
may at times duplicate those provided to such funds by the Trustee
or its affiliates; and (h) as otherwise permitted by
Commonwealth law for such funds.
“Issue Date” means the date on which
the Bonds are first authenticated and delivered to the initial
purchasers against payment therefor.
“Loan Agreement” means the Loan
Agreement dated as of October 1, 2006 between the Issuer and the
Company, as hereafter amended and supplemented by any Supplemental
Loan Agreement.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s
Investors Service, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware, its successors and their
assigns, and, if such corporation shall be dissolved or liquidated
or shall no longer perform the functions of a securities rating
agency, “Moody’s” shall be deemed to refer to any
other nationally recognized securities rating agency designated by
the Company by written notice to the Trustee and the
Issuer.
“Outstanding” when used with
reference to Bonds means all Bonds authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture as of the time in question, except:
(a) All Bonds
theretofore canceled or required to be canceled under
Section 2.11 hereof;
(b) Bonds for
the payment or redemption of which provision has been made in
accordance with Article X hereof; provided that, if such Bonds
are being redeemed, the required notice of redemption shall have
been given or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been
made therefor; and
(c) Bonds in
substitution for which other Bonds have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to Article II hereof.
In determining whether the Registered 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 which are
owned of record by the Company or any affiliate thereof shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding hereunder for the
purpose of any such determination (except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Bonds which the Trustee knows to be so owned or held
shall be disregarded) unless all Bonds are owned by the Company or
any affiliate thereof, in which case such Bonds shall be considered
outstanding for the purpose of such determination. For the purpose
of this definition, an “affiliate” of any specified
Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such
specified Person and “control,” when used with respect
to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management
and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
“Paying Agent” means, initially, the
Trustee and any successor.
“Person” means an individual, a
corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company,
a trust, any unincorporated organization, a governmental body or a
political subdivision, a municipal corporation, public corporation
or any other group or organization of individuals.
“Rating Agency” means Moody’s
or S&P.
“Rebate Fund” means the separate
fund, if any, created pursuant to the Tax Documents at the request
of the Company and held by the Trustee but not as part of the Trust
Estate under this Indenture.
“Register” means the registration
books of the Issuer described in Section 2.7(a)
hereof.
“Registered Owner” or
“Bondholder” or “Owner” means the Person in
whose name any Bond is registered pursuant to Section 2.7(a)
hereof.
“Regular Record Date” means, with
respect to the Bonds, the close of business on the fifteenth day of
the month immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date.
“Regulations” means the applicable
proposed, temporary or final Income Tax Regulations promulgated
under the Code, as such regulations may be amended or supplemented
from time to time.
“Revenues of the Issuer” or
“Revenues” means and includes all payments by or on
behalf of the Company, including specifically the Installment Loan
Payments, under the Loan Agreement to be paid into the Debt Service
Fund and all receipts of the Trustee credited against such
payments, but not including payments with respect to the
indemnification or reimbursement of certain expenses of the Trustee
under Section 6.5 of the Loan Agreement and of the Issuer
under Sections 6.6, 7.1 and 8.3 of the Loan Agreement or under any
other guaranty or indemnification agreement.
“S&P” means Standard &
Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of New York, its successors and their assigns,
and, if such corporation shall be dissolved or liquidated or shall
no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency,
“S&P” shall be deemed to refer to any other
nationally recognized securities rating agency designated by the
Company, by notice to the Issuer and the Trustee.
“Securities Depository” means any
“clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Special Mandatory Redemption” means
any redemption of Bonds made pursuant to Section 5.1(b)
hereof.
“Special Record Date” means the
Special Record Date established by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 2.9(b)(iii) hereof with respect to payment of overdue
interest.
“Supplemental Indenture” means any
supplement to this Indenture delivered pursuant to Article IX
hereof.
“Supplemental Loan Agreement” means
any supplement to the Loan Agreement entered into pursuant to
Section 9.3 hereof.
“Tax Documents” means the Tax
Certificate as to Arbitrage and Instructions as to Compliance with
Provisions of Section 103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended, of the Company and the Issuer, dated as of the issuance
date of the Bonds, and such other documents as Bond Counsel may
require to be executed and delivered in connection with the
issuance of the Bonds relating to their tax status under the
Code.
“Trust Estate” means the trust
estate as defined in the granting clauses in this
Indenture.
“Underwriting Agreement” means, with
respect to the Bonds, the Purchase Contract dated October 18, 2006
among the Issuer, the Company and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, as
underwriter, providing for the purchase and sale of the
Bonds.
“United States Government
Obligations” means direct obligations of, or obligations the
full and timely payment of which are unconditionally guaranteed by,
the United States of America.
Section 1.2. Certain
Rules of Interpretation .
(a) The
definitions set forth in Article I and in the Loan Agreement
shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms
of the terms therein defined and shall cover all
genders.
(b)
“Herein,” “hereby,”
“hereunder,” “hereof,”
“hereinbefore,” “hereinafter” and other
equivalent words refer to this Indenture and not solely to the
particular Article, Section or Subdivision hereof in which such
word is used.
(c) Reference
herein to an article number ( e.g. , Article IV) or a
section number ( e.g. , Section 6.2) shall be construed
to be a reference to the designated article number or section
number hereof unless the context or use clearly indicates another
or different meaning or intent.
(d) Words of the
masculine gender shall mean and include correlative words of the
feminine and neuter genders and words importing the singular number
shall mean and include the plural number and vice versa.
(e) Words
importing persons shall include firms, associations, partnerships
(including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other
legal entities, including public bodies, as well as natural
persons.
(f) Any headings
preceding the text of the several Articles and Sections of this
Indenture, and any table of contents appended to copies hereof,
shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not
constitute a part of this Indenture, nor shall they affect its
meaning, construction or effect.
(g) References
to statutes or regulations are to be construed as including all
statutory or regulatory provisions consolidating, amending or
replacing the statute or regulation referred to; and references to
agreements and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to
include any exhibits and appendices attached thereto and all
amendments, supplements and other modifications to such
instruments, but only to the extent such amendments, supplements
and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this
Indenture.
(h) Whenever in
this Indenture, the Issuer, the Company or the Trustee is named or
referred to, it shall include, and shall be deemed to include, its
respective successors and assigns whether so expressed or not. All
of the covenants, stipulations, obligations and agreements by or on
behalf of, and other provisions for the benefit of, the Issuer, the
Company and the Trustee contained in this Indenture shall inure to
the benefit of such respective successors and assigns, bind and
shall, inure to the benefit of any officer, board, commission,
authority, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which there
shall be transferred by or in accordance with law any right, power
or duty of the Issuer or of its successors or assigns, the
possession of which is necessary or appropriate in order to comply
with any such covenants, stipulations, obligations, agreements or
other provisions of this Indenture.
(i) Every
“request,” “order,” “demand,”
“application,” “appointment,”
“notice,” “statement,”
“certificate,” “consent,”
“direction” or similar action hereunder by persons
referred to herein shall, unless the form thereof is specifically
provided, be in writing and signed by an Authorized Representative
of the person giving it.
ARTICLE II
The Bonds
Section 2.1.
Authorized Amount and Issuance of Bonds; Disposition of Bond
Proceeds .
Upon the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall execute the Bonds and deliver them to
the Trustee for authentication. At the written direction of the
Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate the Bonds, and deliver them
to the purchasers thereof upon receipt by the Trustee of the amount
due the Issuer for the initial delivery of the Bonds pursuant to
the terms of the Underwriting Agreement by wire transfer of
immediately available funds. The proceeds of the Bonds shall be
deposited by the Trustee in a settlement account and disbursed or
transferred as follows: (a) transfer to the Debt Service Fund,
established pursuant to Section 3.1 hereof, a sum equal to the
accrued interest, if any, paid by the initial purchasers of the
Bonds; (b) disburse amounts set forth in a Closing Statement
executed by the Issuer and the Company to pay Costs of Issuance of
the Bonds; and (c) transfer to the Construction Fund,
established pursuant to Section 3.1 hereof, the balance of the
proceeds received from the initial purchasers of the Bonds. The
total principal amount of the Bonds that may be issued hereunder is
hereby expressly limited to $10,500,000, except as provided in
Section 2.8 hereof.
Section 2.2. Terms of
the Bonds .
The Bonds shall
be designated “York County Industrial Development Authority
Exempt Facilities Revenue Bonds, Series 2006 (The York Water
Company Project)” and shall be issuable only as fully
registered Bonds without coupons in Authorized Denominations.
Unless the Issuer shall otherwise direct, the Bonds shall be
numbered separately from 1 upward. The Bonds shall be dated as of
October 27, 2006 and shall mature, subject to prior redemption upon
the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, on October 1, 2036.
The Bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four and three-fourths
percent (4.75%) per annum, from and including the date thereof
until payment of the principal or redemption price thereof shall
have been made or provided for in accordance with the provisions
hereof, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise. Each
Bond shall bear interest on overdue principal and premium, if any,
and, to the extent permitted by law, on overdue interest at the
rate of interest borne by the Bonds.
Optional
Redemption . The Bonds
shall be subject to redemption by the Issuer, at the direction of
the Company, on or after October 1, 2016, in whole or in part at
any time, in Authorized Denominations, at a redemption price of
100% of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest, if
any, to the redemption date.
Special
Mandatory Redemption .
The Bonds are also subject to Special Mandatory Redemption as set
forth in Section 5.1(b) hereof.
Section 2.5.
Form of Bonds; Execution; Bonds
Equally and Ratably Secured; Limited Obligation of the
Issuer .
(a) The Bonds
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached to this
Indenture and made a part hereof, with appropriate insertions,
deletions and modifications to reflect the terms of the Bonds. The
Bonds shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer with the manual or
facsimile signature of its Chairman or Vice Chairman and attested
by the manual or facsimile signature of its Secretary or Assistant
Secretary, and shall have impressed or imprinted thereon the
official seal of the Issuer or a facsimile thereof. All authorized
facsimile signatures shall have the same force and effect as if
manually signed. In case any official whose signature or a
facsimile of whose signature shall appear on the Bonds shall cease
to be such official before the delivery of such Bonds, such
signature or such facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and
sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such official had
remained in office until delivery.
(b) The Bonds
shall be equally and ratably secured under the Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein. The Bonds, together with
premium, if any, and interest thereon, shall be special, limited
obligations of the Issuer secured by the Trust Estate and payable
solely from the Revenues (except to the extent paid out of moneys
attributable to the Bond proceeds or the income from the temporary
investment thereof) and shall be a valid claim of the respective
owners thereof only against the Debt Service Fund and the
Construction Fund and the Revenues, which Revenues shall be used
for no other purpose than to pay the principal of, and premium, if
any, and interest on, the Bonds, except as may be otherwise
expressly authorized in this Indenture. The Bonds are limited
obligations of the Issuer and are payable solely from amounts
payable by the Company under the Loan Agreement and any funds held
under the Indenture and available for such payment. Neither the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the County of York nor any political
subdivision thereof is or shall be obligated to pay the principal
of or premium, if any, or interest on the Bonds, and the Bonds
shall not be deemed an obligation of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, the County of York or any political subdivision
thereof. Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the County of York or any political
subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of
or premium, if any, or the interest on the Bonds. The Issuer has no
taxing power.
(c) All
covenants, promises, agreements, duties and obligations of the
Issuer set forth in the Financing Documents shall be solely the
covenants, promises, agreements, duties and obligations of the
Issuer and shall not be deemed to be, or be, the covenants,
promises, agreements, duties or obligations of any member, officer,
employee or agent of the Issuer or the Commonwealth in his or her
individual capacity, and no recourse shall be had for the payment
of the principal of, or interest on the Bonds or any other amount
payable hereunder or in connection herewith, or for any claim based
hereon or on the Bonds or the Loan Agreement, against any such
member, officer, employee or agent in his or her individual
capacity.
Section 2.6.
Authentication
No Bonds shall be valid for any purpose
hereunder until the certificate of authentication printed thereon
is duly executed by the manual signature of an authorized signatory
of the Trustee, acting as authenticating agent. Such authentication
or registration shall be proof that the Registered Owner is
entitled to the benefit of the trusts hereby created. The
certificate of the Trustee may be executed by any person authorized
by the Trustee, and it shall not be necessary that the same
authorized person sign the certificates of authentication of all
Bonds.
Section 2.7.
Registration, Transfer and
Exchange .
(a) The
ownership of each Bond shall be recorded in the registration books
of the Issuer, which books shall be kept by the Trustee, acting as
bond registrar, at its designated corporate trust operations office
and shall contain such information as is necessary for the proper
discharge of the duties of the Trustee hereunder.
(b) Bonds may be
transferred or exchanged as follows: Any Bond may be transferred if
endorsed for such transfer by the Registered Owner thereof and
surrendered by such Registered Owner or his duly appointed attorney
to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust operations office,
whereupon the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
transferee a new Bond or Bonds in the same denominations as the
Bond surrendered for transfer or in different Authorized
Denominations equal in the aggregate to the principal amount of the
surrendered Bond.
(i) Any Bond or
Bonds may be exchanged for one or more Bonds and in the same
principal amount, but in a different Authorized Denomination or
Authorized Denominations. Each Bond so to be exchanged shall be
surrendered by the Registered Owner thereof or his duly appointed
attorney to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust
operations office, whereupon a new Bond or Bonds shall be
authenticated and delivered to the Registered Owner.
(ii) In the case
of any Bond properly surrendered for partial redemption, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a new Bond in exchange
therefor, such new Bond to be in an Authorized Denomination equal
to the unredeemed principal amount of the surrendered Bond without
cost to the Owner; provided that, at its option, the Trustee may
certify the amount and date of partial redemption upon the partial
redemption certificate, if any, printed on the surrendered Bond and
return such surrendered Bond to the Registered Owner in lieu of an
exchange.
(iii) No
additional resolutions need be adopted by the governing body of the
Issuer or any other body or person so as to accomplish the
foregoing conversion and exchange or replacement of any Bond or
portion thereof, and the Trustee shall provide for the completion,
authentication, and delivery of the substitute Bonds in the manner
prescribed herein.
Except as provided in subparagraph (iii)
above, the Trustee shall not be required to effect any transfer or
exchange during the fifteen (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. No charge shall be imposed upon
Registered Owners in connection with any transfer or exchange,
except for taxes or governmental charges related thereto. No
transfers or exchanges shall be valid for any purposes hereunder
except as provided above.
Section 2.8.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Bonds .
(a) If any Bond
is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Registered Owner
thereof shall be entitled to the issuance of a substitute Bond
provided that:
(i) in all
cases, the Registered Owner must provide indemnity to the Issuer,
the Company and the Trustee satisfactory to each such party to be
indemnified against any and all claims arising out of or otherwise
related to the issuance of substitute Bonds pursuant to this
Section;
(ii) in the case
of a mutilated Bond the Registered Owner shall surrender the Bond
to the Trustee for cancellation; and
(iii) in the case
of a lost, stolen or destroyed Bond, the Registered Owner shall
provide evidence, satisfactory to the Trustee, of the ownership and
the loss, theft or destruction of the affected Bond.
Upon compliance with the foregoing, a new Bond
of like tenor and denomination, executed by the Issuer, shall be
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered to the Registered Owner,
all at the expense of the Registered Owner to whom the substitute
Bond is delivered. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall
not be required to authenticate and deliver any substitute 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 or
redemption price then due or becoming due shall be paid by the
Trustee in accordance with the terms of the mutilated, lost, stolen
or destroyed Bond without substitution therefor.
(b) Every Bond
issued pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall constitute an
additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the
Bond alleged to have been destroyed, lost or stolen shall be at any
time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the
benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and
all other 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, unless expressly
inconsistent with any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted
with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable
instruments, investments or other securities without their
surrender.
Section 2.9.
Payments of Principal, Redemption
Price and Interest; Persons Entitled Thereto
.
(a) The
principal or redemption price of each Bond shall be payable in
lawful money of the United States of America upon surrender of such
Bond to the designated corporate trust operations office of the
Trustee, initially in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Such payments shall
be made to the Registered Owner of the Bond so surrendered, as
shown on the registration books maintained by the Trustee on the
date of payment.
(b) Each Bond
shall bear interest and be payable in lawful money of the United
States of America as to interest as follows:
(i) Each Bond
shall bear interest (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 or duly
provided for (or the Dated Date if no interest thereon has been
paid) in all other cases.
(ii) Subject to
the provisions of subparagraph (iii) below, the interest due
on any Bond on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the
Registered Owner of such Bond as shown on the registration books
kept by the Trustee as of the Regular Record Date. The amount of
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date shall be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve (12) 30-day
months.
(iii) If the funds
available under this Indenture are insufficient on any Interest
Payment Date to pay the interest then due, the Regular Record Date
shall no longer be applicable with respect to the Bonds. If
sufficient funds for the payment of such overdue interest
thereafter become available, the Trustee shall immediately
establish a special interest payment date for the payment of the
overdue interest and a Special Record Date (which shall be a
Business Day) for determining the Registered Owners entitled to
payments. Notice of such date so established shall be mailed by the
Trustee to each Owner at least ten (10) days prior to the Special
Record Date, but not more than thirty (30) days prior to the
special interest payment date. The overdue interest shall be paid
on the special interest payment date to the Registered Owners, as
shown on the registration books kept by the Trustee as of the close
of business on the Special Record Date.
(c) Interest due
at the maturity or redemption of the Bonds shall be paid only upon
presentation and surrender of Bonds at the corporate trust
operations office of the Trustee in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania or
such other office as may be designated by the Trustee in writing to
the Issuer, the Company and the Owners of the Bonds.
(d) All Bonds
issued hereunder are and are to be, to the extent provided in this
Indenture, equally and ratably secured by this Indenture without
preference, priority or distinction on account of the actual time
or times of the authentication, delivery or maturity of the Bonds
so that, subject as aforesaid, all Bonds at any time Outstanding
hereunder shall have the same right, lien and preference under and
by virtue of this Indenture and shall all be equally and ratably
secured hereby with like effect as if they had all been executed,
authenticated and delivered simultaneously on the date hereof,
whether the same, or any of them, shall actually be disposed of at
such date, or whether they, or any of them, shall be disposed of at
some future date.
Section 2.10.
Temporary Bonds
.
Pending preparation of definitive Bonds, the
Issuer may issue, in lieu of definitive Bonds, one or more
temporary printed or typewritten Bonds in Authorized Denominations,
of substantially the tenor recited above. At the 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.
Temporary Bonds shall be numbered consecutively upward from
TR-1.
Section 2.11.
Cancellation of Surrendered
Bonds .
The Trustee shall cancel (a) all Bonds
surrendered for transfer or exchange, for payment at maturity or
for redemption (unless the surrendered Bond is to be partially
redeemed and the Trustee elects to return the Bond, certified as to
the partial redemption, to the Registered Owner thereof pursuant to
Section 2.7(b)(ii)), and (b) all Bonds purchased at the
direction of the Company and surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer a certificate
of cancellation in respect of all Bonds canceled in accordance with
this Section.
Section 2.12.
Acts of Registered Owners;
Evidence of Ownership .
Any action to be taken by Registered Owners may
be evidenced by one or more concurrent written instruments of
similar tenor signed or executed by such Registered Owners in
person or by an agent appointed in writing. The fact and date of
the execution by any Person of any such instrument may be proved by
acknowledgment before a notary public or other officer empowered to
take acknowledgments or by an affidavit of a witness to such
execution. Any action by the Registered Owner of any Bond shall
bind all future Registered Owners of the same Bond in respect of
anything done or suffered by the Issuer or the Trustee in pursuance
thereof.
Section 2.13. Book
Entry System.
(a) DTC will act
as 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 partnership
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 or Owners of the Bonds shall mean Cede &
Co. and shall not mean the beneficial owners of the
Bonds.
(b) 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 Cede & Co., DTC’s
partnership nominee, the Issuer and the Trustee shall have no
responsibility or obligation to any DTC Participant or to any
person on behalf of whom such a DTC Participant holds an interest
in the Bonds, except as provided in this Indenture. Without
limiting the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer and the
Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to
(i) the accuracy of the records of DTC, Cede & Co. or any
DTC Participant with respect to any ownership interest in the
Bonds, (ii) the delivery to any DTC Participant or any other
person, other than a Bondholder, as shown on the registration
books, of any notice with respect to the Bonds, including any
notice of redemption, or (iii) the payment to any DTC
Participant or any other person, other than a Registered Owner, as
shown in the registration books of any amount with respect to
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the
Bonds.
(d)
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture to the
contrary, the Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to treat and
consider the person in whose name each Bond is registered in the
registration books as the absolute owner of such Bond for the
purpose of payment of principal, 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 Trustee shall pay all principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds only to or upon the
order of the respective owners, as shown in the registration books
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, 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, 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 system is in effect, be satisfied
by the notation on the books of DTC or a DTC Participant, if
applicable, of the transfer of the Beneficial Owner’s
interest in such Bond.
(g) So long as
the book-entry system is in effect, the Trustee and the Issuer
shall comply with the terms of the Letter of Representations, a
copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B and made a part
hereof, or an alternate Letter of Representations as required by
DTC.
(h) DTC may
determine to discontinue providing its service with respect to the
Bonds at any time by giving reasonable written notice and all
relevant information on the Beneficial Owners of the Bonds to the
Issuer or the Trustee. If there is no successor Securities
Depository appointed by the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver Bonds to the Beneficial Owners thereof in accordance
with the information respecting the Beneficial Owners provided to
the Trustee by DTC, but without any liability on the part of the
Issuer or the Trustee for the accuracy of such information. The
Issuer, at the direction of the Company, may determine not to
continue participation in the system of book entry transfers
through DTC (or a successor Securities Depository) at any time by
giving reasonable written notice to DTC (or a successor Securities
Depository) and the Trustee. In such event, the Issuer shall
execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver the Bonds to the Beneficial Owners thereof
in accordance with the information respecting the Beneficial Owners
provided to the Trustee by DTC, but without any liability on the
part of the Issuer or the Trustee for the accuracy of such
information.
The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Issuer is
hereby authorized to execute any additional Letter of
Representations or similar document necessary from time to time to
continue or provide for the DTC book-entry system.
Section 2.14.
Payments to Cede & Co.;
Payments to Beneficial Owners .
(a)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the
contrary, so long as any Bond is registered in the name of Cede
& Co., as nominee of DTC, all payments with respect to
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, such Bond and all
notices with respect to such Bond shall be made and given,
respectively, pursuant to DTC’s rules and
procedures.
(b) Payments by
the DTC Participants to Beneficial Owners will be governed by
standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case
with municipal securities held for the accounts of customers in
bearer form or registered in “street name,” and will be
the responsibility of such DTC Participant and not of DTC, the
Trustee or the Issuer, subject to any statutory and regulatory
requirements as may be in effect from time to time.
ARTICLE III
Debt Service Fund and Construction
Fund
Section 3.1.
Establishment of Funds and Accounts .
The Issuer hereby establishes with the Trustee
trust funds designated the Debt Service Fund and the Construction
Fund.
Section 3.2.
Debt Service Fund
.
Moneys in the Debt Service Fund shall be held in
trust for the Bondholders and, except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, shall be used solely for the payment of the
interest on the Bonds and for the payment of principal of or
premium, if any, on the Bonds upon maturity, whether stated or
accelerated, or upon redemption thereof pursuant to Article V
hereof. The Issuer hereby authorizes and directs the Trustee, and
the Trustee hereby agrees, to withdraw and make available at its
designated office sufficient funds (to the extent available) from
the Debt Service Fund to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Bonds as the same become due and payable, which
authorization and direction the Trustee hereby accepts.
Section 3.3.
Return of Moneys from
Non-Presentment of Bonds .
In the event any Bond shall not be presented for
payment when the principal thereof becomes due, either at maturity,
at the date fixed for redemption thereof, or otherwise, and is not
thereafter presented for payment, any funds which shall be held for
the payment of such principal or redemption price and which remain
unclaimed by the Owner of the Bond not presented for payment for a
period of two (2) years after such due date thereof, shall, upon
request in writing by the Company to the Trustee, and subject to
applicable unclaimed property or similar law of the Commonwealth,
be paid by the Trustee to the Company. The owners of the Bonds for
which the related deposit was made shall thereafter be limited to a
claim against the Company for such moneys without interest thereon
and only to the extent the related deposit was repaid to the
Company.
Section 3.4.
Construction Fund
.
The net proceeds of the sale of the Bonds, after
deposit of any accrued interest thereon in the Debt Service Fund
and payment of Costs of Issuance pursuant to Section 2.1
hereof, shall be deposited by the Trustee in the Construction Fund
and shall be used to pay Project Costs as provided in
Section 3.2 of the Loan Agreement. The Trustee shall disburse
moneys from the Construction Fund upon receipt of requisitions
signed by the Company substantially in the form attached to this
Indenture as Exhibit C. Any amounts remaining after delivery of the
certificate of completion pursuant to Section 3.3 of the Loan
Agreement shall be used by the Trustee as provided in
Section 3.3 of the Loan Agreement.
Section 3.5.
Debt Service Fund Moneys to be
Held for All Registered Owners, With Certain Exceptions
.
Until applied as herein provided, moneys and
investments held in the Debt Service Fund shall be held in trust
for the benefit of the Registered Owners of all Outstanding Bonds,
except that on and after the date on which the interest on or
principal or redemption price of any particular Bond or Bonds is
due and payable from the Debt Service Fund, the unexpended balance
of the amount deposited or reserved in such fund for the making of
such payments shall, to the extent necessary therefor, be held for
the benefit of the Registered Owner or Registered Owners entitled
thereto.
Section 3.6.
Additional Accounts and Subaccounts .
At the written request of the Company, the
Trustee shall establish and maintain additional accounts or
subaccounts within the Debt Service Fund or Construction Fund as
the Company may reasonably request; provided that (a) in each case,
the written request of the Company shall set forth in reasonable
detail the sources of deposits into and disbursements from the
account or subaccount to be established, and (b) in each case,
the sources of deposits into and disbursements from the account or
subaccount to be established shall be limited to the sources of
deposits permitted or required to be made into and the
disbursements permitted or required to be made from the fund or
account within which it is to be established.
ARTICLE IV
Investments, Tax
Covenants
Section 4.1.
Investment of Funds .
Pending disbursement of the amounts on deposit
in the Debt Service Fund (other than any moneys held by the Trustee
to pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest which has
previously become payable with respect to the Bonds which shall
only be invested as provided below in the next succeeding
paragraph) and the Construction Fund as provided herein, the
Trustee is hereby directed to invest and reinvest such amounts in
Investment Securities promptly upon receipt of, and, subject to the
limitations set forth in this Article, in accordance with the
written instructions of the Company. In the event no such
instructions are received by the Trustee, such amounts shall be
invested in Investment Securities described in clause (g) of the
definition thereof, pending receipt of such investment
instructions. All such investments, as well as the investments
described in the next succeeding paragraph, shall be credited to
the fund (and account and subaccount therein) from which the money
used to acquire such investments shall have come, and all income
and profits on such investments shall be credited to, and all
losses thereon shall be charged against, such fund (and account and
subaccount therein). As amounts invested are needed for
disbursement from the Debt Service Fund or the Construction Fund,
the Trustee shall cause a sufficient amount of the investments
credited to that fund to be redeemed or sold and converted into
cash to the credit of that fund (and account and subaccount
therein). The Trustee shall not be liable or responsible for any
loss resulting from any such investment or reinvestment or
redemption or sale as herein authorized; except that the Trustee
shall be liable for any loss resulting from its willful or grossly
negligent failure, within a reasonable time after receiving the
direction from the Company to make any investment or reinvestment
in the manner provided for herein at the Company’s direction.
If the Trustee is unable, after reasonable effort and within a
reasonable time, to make any such investment or reinvestment, it
shall so notify the Company in writing and thereafter the Trustee
shall be relieved of all responsibility with respect thereto. The
Trustee may make any and all such investments through its own
investment department or that of its affiliates or
subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, any moneys held by the Trustee to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest which has previously
become payable with respect to the Bonds shall only be invested by
the Trustee overnight in United States Government Obligations or
other Investment Securities rated AAA or Aaa by each Rating Agency
then rating the Bonds as directed in writing by the
Company.
The Company by its execution of the Loan
Agreement covenants to restrict the investment of money in the
funds created under this Indenture in such manner and to such
extent, if any, as may be necessary, after taking into account
reasonable expectations at the time the Bonds are delivered to
their original purchaser, so that the Bonds will not constitute
arbitrage bonds under Section 148 of the Code and the
Regulations, and the Trustee hereby agrees to comply with the
Company’s written instructions with respect to the investment
of money in the funds created under this Indenture so long as such
instructions conform to the requirements of the
Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will
not direct the Trustee to make investments under this Indenture
that conflict with or exceed the limitations set forth in the Tax
Documents. The Trustee shall have no responsibility with respect to
the compliance by the Company or the Issuer with respect to any
covenant herein regarding investments made in accordance with this
Article, other than to use its best reasonable efforts to comply
with instructions from the Company regarding such investments.
Since the investments permitted by this Section have been included
at the request of the Company and the making of such investments
will be subject to the Company’s written direction, the
Issuer and the Trustee specifically disclaim and shall not have any
obligation to the Company for any loss arising from, or tax
consequences of, investments pursuant to the provisions of this
Section. Confirmations are not required from the Trustee for
permitted investments included in a monthly statement rendered by
the Trustee, and no statement need be rendered by the Trustee for
any fund or account if no investment or income accrual activity
occurred in such fund or account during such month.
Section 4.2.
Arbitrage Bond Covenant .
With respect to the authority to invest funds
granted in this Indenture, the Issuer hereby covenants with the
Bondholders that, subject to the Company’s direction of the
investment of funds, it will make no use of the proceeds of the
Bonds, or any other funds which may be deemed to be proceeds of the
Bonds pursuant to Section 148 of the Code, which would cause
the Bonds to be “arbitrage bonds” within the meaning of
such Section.
The Trustee shall provide such information as
the Company may reasonably request in writing to enable the Company
to calculate the amount of earnings on the moneys held under this
Indenture.
Section 4.3. Covenants
Regarding Tax Exemption .
The Issuer covenants to refrain from any action
which would adversely affect, or to take such action as is
reasonable and available and within its control to assure, the
treatment of the Bonds as obligations described in
Section 103(a) of the Code, the interest on which is not
included in the “gross income” of the holder (other
than the income of a “substantial user” of the Project
or a “related person” within the meaning of
Section 147(a) of the Code) for purposes of federal income
taxation.
ARTICLE V
Redemption of Bonds
Section 5.1.
Bonds Subject to Redemption .
(a) Optional
Redemption. The Bonds are subject to optional redemption as set
forth in Section 2.2 hereof.
(b) Special
Mandatory Redemption of the Bonds . The Bonds are subject to
Special Mandatory Redemption prior to maturity not later than 180
days after the Company has notice or actual knowledge of the
occurrence of a Determination of Taxability at a redemption price
equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued
interest, if any, to the redemption date. Any such Special
Mandatory Redemption shall be in whole unless the Company delivers
to the Trustee an opinion of Bond Counsel that redemption of a
portion of the Bonds Outstanding would have the result that
interest payable on the Bonds remaining Outstanding after such
redemption would not be includable for federal income tax purposes
in the gross income of any Owner or Beneficial Owner of a Bond
(other than an Owner or Beneficial Owner who is a
“substantial user” of the Project or a “related
person” within the meaning of Section 147(a) of the Code
and the applicable regulations thereunder), and in such event the
Bonds or portions thereof (in Authorized Denominations) shall be
redeemed at such times and in such amounts as Bond Counsel shall so
direct in such opinion.
If the Trustee receives written notice from any
Owner stating that (i) the Owner has been notified in writing
by the Internal Revenue Service that it proposes to include the
interest on any Bond in the gross income of such Owner for the
reasons stated in the definition of “Determination of
Taxability” set forth herein or any other proceeding has been
instituted against such Owner which may lead to a Final
Determination, and (ii) such Owner will afford the Company the
opportunity to contest the same, either directly or in the name of
the Owner, and until a conclusion of any appellate review, if
sought, then the Trustee shall promptly give notice thereof to the
Company and the Issuer and to the Owners of Bonds then Outstanding.
If the Trustee thereafter receives written notice of a Final
Determination, the Trustee shall make demand for prepayment of the
unpaid Installment Loan Payments under the Loan Agreement or
necessary portions thereof from the Company and give notice of the
Special Mandatory Redemption of the appropriate amount of Bonds on
the earliest practicable date within the required period of 180
days. In taking any action or making any determination under this
Section 5.1(b), the Trustee may rely on an opinion of
counsel.
Section 5.2. Selection
of Bonds for Redemption .
In the event that fewer than all Bonds subject
to redemption are to be redeemed, Bonds shall be selected by the
Trustee for redemption by lot. In the case of Bonds of varying
Authorized Denominations, each Bond shall be treated as
representing that number of Bonds which is obtained by dividing the
face amount thereof by the minimum Authorized Denomination
applicable to such Bond. In no event shall there remain outstanding
in the name of any Owner, a Bond in an amount less than the minimum
Authorized Denomination.
Section 5.3. Notice of
Redemption .
The Company must deliver written notice by
facsimile or first class mail to the Issuer and the Trustee of its
intention to prepay the amounts due under the Loan Agreement and
its request that the Bonds be called for redemption at least
forty-five (45) days prior to the proposed redemption date (or such
lesser period as is acceptable to the Trustee). Unless previously
delivered to the Trustee and the Issuer, any such notice from the
Company relating to Special Mandatory Redemption shall be
accompanied by a certificate as to the occurrence of the event or
events on which any Special Mandatory Redemption is based. The
Trustee shall cause notice of any redemption of Bonds hereunder to
be given to the Registered Owners of all Bonds to be redeemed at
the registered addresses appearing in the registration books kept
for such purpose pursuant to Article II hereof. Each such
notice shall (i) be given by facsimile or by first class mail
at least thirty (30) days prior to the redemption date,
(ii) identify the Bonds to be redeemed (specifying the CUSIP
numbers, if any, assigned to the Bonds), (iii) specify the
redemption date and the redemption price, and (iv) state that
on the redemption date the Bonds called for redemption will be
payable at the designated corporate trust operations office of the
Trustee, that from that date interest will cease to accrue, and
that no representation is made as to the accuracy or correctness of
the CUSIP numbers printed therein or on the Bonds. No defect
affecting any Bond, whether in the notice of redemption or mailing
thereof (including any failure to mail such notice), shall affect
the validity of the redemption proceedings for any other Bonds. The
Trustee shall also send a notice of prepayment or redemption by
first class mail to the Registered Owner of any Bond who has not
sent such Bond in for redemption sixty (60) days after the
redemption date.
In addition, the Trustee shall give notice of
redemption of Bonds by facsimile or by mail, first class postage
prepaid, at least thirty (30) days prior to a redemption date to
each registered Securities Depository and to any national
information service that disseminates redemption notices. Any
notice sent to registered securities depositories or such national
information services shall be sent so that they are received at
least two (2) days prior to the general mailing or publication date
of such notice. The Trustee may give such other notice or notices
as may be recommended in releases, letters, pronouncements or other
writings of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. No defect in or delay or
failure in giving any recommended notice described in this
paragraph shall in any manner affect the notice of redemption
described in the preceding paragraph of this Section 5.3 and
any notice mailed as provided in the preceding paragraph of this
Section 5.3 shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly
given, whether or not the Registered Owner receives the
notice.
With respect to any notice of optional
redemption of Bonds, unless upon the giving of such notice such
Bonds shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning of
Article X hereof, such notice shall state that such redemption
shall be conditional upon the receipt by the Trustee on or prior to
the date fixed for such redemption of moneys sufficient to pay the
principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, such Bonds to
be redeemed, and that if such moneys shall not have been so
received said notice shall be of no force and effect and the Issuer
shall not be required to redeem such Bonds. In the event that such
notice of redemption contains such a condition and such moneys are
not so received, the redemption shall not be made and the Trustee
shall within a reasonable time thereafter give notice to all Owners
of Outstanding Bonds, in the manner in which the notice of
redemption was given, that such moneys were not so
received.
Section 5.4. Effect of
Redemption .
If the redemption price of the Bonds has been
paid to the Trustee in immediately available funds on or before the
redemption date, then interest thereon will cease to accrue, and
the Registered Owners will have no rights with respect to such
Bonds nor will they be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture
except to receive payment of the redemption price thereof and
unpaid interest accrued to the date fixed for
redemption.
Section 5.5. Purchase
in Lieu of Redemption .
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, the Company may elect to purchase from the Owners
any Bonds that have been called for redemption under
Section 5.1 hereof on the redemption date by giving the
Trustee and the Issuer written notice at least two (2) Business
Days prior to the date the Bonds are to be redeemed, provided that
Bonds so purchased shall be retired and not remarketed. The
principal amount of Bonds to be redeemed on the applicable
redemption date shall be reduced by the amount of Bonds so
purchased.
ARTICLE VI
Representations and Covenants of the
Issuer
Section 6.1. General
Limitation; Issuer’s Representation .
The representations and covenants of the Issuer
herein and in any proceeding, document or certification incidental
to issuance of the Bonds shall not create a pecuniary liability of
the Issuer, except to the extent of the Trust Estate. The Issuer
represents and covenants that it has made no pledge, assignment or
other conveyance of its rights, title and interest in the Trust
Estate except to the Trustee as provided herein.
Section 6.2. Payment
of Bonds and Performance of Covenants .
The Issuer shall, but only out of the Revenues,
promptly pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
Bonds at the place, on the dates and in the manner provided in the
Bonds. The Issuer shall promptly perform and observe all of its
other covenants, undertakings and obligations set forth in the
Financing Documents.
Section 6.3.
Enforcement of the Loan Agreement .
The Loan Agreement, a duly executed counterpart
of which has been filed with the Trustee, sets forth the covenants
and obligations of the Company, including provisions that the Loan
Agreement may only be amended with the written consent of the
Trustee, and reference is hereby made to the Loan Agreement for a
statement of such covenants and obligations of the Company. Subject
to Section 6.4 hereof and the enforcement of Unassigned
Issuer’s Rights by the Issuer, the Trustee may enforce
against the Company or any Person any rights of the Issuer or
obligations of the Company under or arising from the Bonds or the
Loan Agreement, whether or not the Issuer is in default hereunder
or under the Bonds, but the Trustee shall not be deemed to have
thereby assumed the obligations of the Issuer under the Loan
Agreement. The Issuer shall fully cooperate with the Trustee in the
enforcement by the Trustee of any such rights.
Section 6.4. No
Personal Liability .
No member, officer or employee of the Issuer,
including any person executing this Indenture or the Bonds and no
individual employee or agent of the Company shall be liable
personally on the Bonds or be subject to any personal liability for
any reason relating to the issuance of the Bonds.
Section 6.5. Exemption
from Federal Income Taxation .
The Issuer will not knowingly take any action,
or omit to take any action, which action or omission will adversely
affect the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax
purposes of interest on the Bonds, and in the event of such action
or omission will promptly, upon receiving knowledge thereof, take
all lawful actions, based on advice of counsel and at the expense
of the Company, as may rescind or otherwise negate such action or
omission.
Section 6.6. Corporate
Existence; Compliance with Laws .
The Issuer shall maintain its corporate
existence; shall use its best efforts to maintain and renew all its
rights, powers, privileges and franchises; and shall comply with
all valid and applicable laws, rules, regulations, orders,
requirements and directions of any legislative, executive,
administrative or judicial body relating to the Issuer’s
participation in the financing of the Project, the issuance of the
Bonds or its execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture
and the Loan Agreement.
The Issuer shall cause this Indenture or
financing statements relating hereto to be filed, in such manner
and at such places as may be required by law fully to protect the
security of the Registered Owners and the right, title and interest
of the Trustee in and to the Trust Estate or any part thereof. From
time to time, the Trustee may, but shall not be required to, obtain
an opinion of counsel setting forth what, if any, actions by the
Issuer or Trustee should be taken to preserve such security. The
Issuer shall execute or cause to be executed any and all further
instruments as shall reasonably be requested by the Trustee for
such protection of the interests of the Registered Owners and shall
furnish satisfactory evidence to the Trustee of filing and refiling
of such instruments and of every additional instrument which shall
be necessary to preserve the lien of the Indenture upon the Trust
Estate or any part thereof until the principal or redemption price
of, and interest on the Bonds issued hereunder shall have been paid
in full. The Issuer shall cause to be prepared, and the Trustee
shall execute or join in the execution of, any such further or
additional instrument and file or join in the filing thereof at
such time or times and in such place or places as it may be advised
by an opinion of counsel to preserve the lien of this Indenture
upon the Trust Estate or any part thereof until the aforesaid
principal or redemption price and interest shall have been
paid.
Section 6.8. Further
Assurances .
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this
Indenture, the Issuer shall not enter into any contract or take any
action by which the rights of the Trustee or the Registered Owners
may be impaired and shall, from time to time, execute and deliver
such further instruments and take such further action as may be
required to carry out the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 6.9.
Inspection of Books .
All books and records, if any, in the
Issuer’s possession relating to the Project and the amounts
derived from the Project shall, upon written request and at all
reasonable times, be open to inspection by such accountants or
other agents as the Trustee may from time to time
designate.
ARTICLE VII
Events of Default and
Remedies
Section 7.1. Events of
Default Defined .
(a) Each of the
following shall be an Event of Default hereunder:
(i) Payment of
any installment of interest, principal, or premium, if any, on the
Bonds is not made when due and payable; or
(ii) An Act of
Bankruptcy shall occur; or
(iii) Failure by
the Issuer to observe or perform any covenant, condition or
agreement on its part to be observed or performed under this
Indenture, other than as referred to in (i) above, for a
period of 30 days after written notice is given to the Issuer,
specifying such failure and requesting that it be remedied, by the
Trustee; provided, however, that if the failure stated in the
notice is such that it can be remedied but not within such 30-day
period, it shall not constitute an Event of Default if the default,
in the judgment of the Trustee in reliance upon advice of counsel,
is correctable without material adverse effect on the Bondholders
and if corrective action is instituted by the Issuer within such
period and is diligently pursued until the default is remedied;
or
(iv) The
occurrence of an Event of Default under the Loan Agreement;
or
(v) Failure by
the Issuer to comply with the Act;
(b) The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Issuer and the Company in writing of the
occurrence of any Event of Default after it receives written notice
or has actu