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Exhibit 3.1
FOURTH AMENDED AND
RESTATED
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP
OF
MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM
PARTNERS, L.P.
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Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. |
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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| ARTICLE I. |
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| DEFINITIONS |
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Section 1.1.
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Definitions. |
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Section 1.2.
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Construction. |
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ARTICLE II.
ORGANIZATION
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Section 2.1.
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Formation. |
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Section 2.2.
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Name. |
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Section 2.3.
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Registered Office; Registered Agent; Principal Office; Other
Offices. |
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Section 2.4.
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Purpose
and Business. |
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Section 2.5.
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Powers. |
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Section 2.6.
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Power of
Attorney. |
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Section 2.7.
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Term. |
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Section 2.8.
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Title to
Partnership Assets. |
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Section 2.9.
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Certain
Undertakings Relating to the Separateness of the
Partnership. |
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| ARTICLE III. |
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| RIGHTS OF LIMITED PARTNERS |
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Section 3.1.
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Limitation of Liability. |
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Section 3.2.
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Management of Business. |
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Section 3.3.
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Outside
Activities of the Limited Partners. |
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Section 3.4.
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Rights of
Limited Partners. |
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| ARTICLE IV. |
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| CERTIFICATES; RECORD HOLDERS; TRANSFER
OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS; |
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| REDEMPTION OF PARTNERSHIP
INTERESTS |
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Section 4.1.
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Certificates. |
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Section 4.2.
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates. |
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Section 4.3.
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Record
Holders. |
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Section 4.4.
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Transfer
Generally. |
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Section 4.5.
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Registration and Transfer of Limited Partner
Interests. |
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Section 4.6.
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Transfer
of the General Partner’s General Partner
Interest. |
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Section 4.7.
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Transfer
of Incentive Distribution Rights. |
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Section 4.8.
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Restrictions on Transfers. |
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Section 4.9.
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Citizenship Certificates; Non-citizen Assignees. |
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Section 4.10.
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Redemption of Partnership Interests of Non-citizen
Assignees. |
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| ARTICLE V. |
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| CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ISSUANCE OF
PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS |
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Section 5.1.
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Organizational Contributions. |
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Section 5.2.
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Contributions by the General Partner and its
Affiliates. |
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Section 5.3.
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Contributions by Initial Limited Partners and Reimbursement of
the General Partner. |
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Section 5.4.
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Interest
and Withdrawal. |
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Section 5.5.
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Capital
Accounts. |
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Section 5.6.
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Issuances
of Additional Partnership Securities. |
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Section 5.7.
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Limitations on Issuance of Additional Partnership
Securities. |
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Section 5.8.
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Conversion of Subordinated Units. |
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Section 5.9.
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Limited
Preemptive Right. |
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Section 5.10.
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Splits
and Combination. |
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Section 5.11.
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Fully
Paid and Non-Assessable Nature of Limited Partner
Interests. |
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Section 5.12.
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Establishment of Class B Common Units. |
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| ARTICLE VI. |
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| ALLOCATIONS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS |
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Section 6.1.
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Allocations for Capital Account Purposes. |
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Section 6.2.
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Allocations for Tax Purposes. |
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Section 6.3.
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Requirement and Characterization of Distributions;
Distributions to Record Holders. |
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Section 6.4.
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Distributions of Available Cash from Operating
Surplus. |
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Section 6.5.
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Distributions of Available Cash from Capital
Surplus. |
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Section 6.6.
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Adjustment of Minimum Quarterly Distribution and Target
Distribution Levels. |
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Section 6.7.
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Special
Provisions Relating to the Holders of Subordinated
Units. |
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Section 6.8.
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Special
Provisions Relating to the Holders of Incentive Distribution
Rights. |
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Section 6.9.
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Entity-Level Taxation. |
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| ARTICLE VII. |
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| MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF
BUSINESS |
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Section 7.1.
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Management. |
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Section 7.2.
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Certificate of Limited Partnership. |
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Section 7.3.
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Restrictions on General Partner’s Authority. |
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Section 7.4.
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Reimbursement of the General Partner. |
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Section 7.5.
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Outside
Activities. |
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Section 7.6.
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Loans
from the General Partner; Loans or Contributions from the
Partnership; Contracts with Affiliates; Certain Restrictions on the
General Partner. |
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Section 7.7.
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Indemnification. |
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Section 7.8.
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Liability
of Indemnitees. |
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Section 7.9.
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Resolution of Conflicts of Interest. |
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Section 7.10.
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Other
Matters Concerning the General Partner. |
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Section 7.11.
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Purchase
or Sale of Partnership Securities. |
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Section 7.12.
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Registration Rights of the General Partner and its
Affiliates. |
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Section 7.13.
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Reliance
by Third Parties. |
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| ARTICLE VIII. |
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| BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING AND
REPORTS |
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Section 8.1.
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Records
and Accounting. |
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Section 8.2.
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Fiscal
Year. |
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Section 8.3.
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Reports. |
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| ARTICLE IX. |
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| TAX MATTERS |
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Section 9.1.
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Tax
Returns and Information. |
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Section 9.2.
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Tax
Elections. |
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Section 9.3.
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Tax
Controversies. |
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Section 9.4.
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Withholding. |
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| ARTICLE X. |
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| ADMISSION OF PARTNERS |
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Section 10.1.
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Admission
of Initial Limited Partners. |
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Section 10.2.
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Admission
of Substituted Limited Partner. |
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Section 10.3.
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Admission
of Successor General Partner. |
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Section 10.4.
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Admission
of Additional Limited Partners. |
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Section 10.5.
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Amendment
of Agreement and Certificate of Limited Partnership. |
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| ARTICLE XI. |
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| WITHDRAWAL OR REMOVAL OF
PARTNERS |
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Section 11.1.
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Withdrawal of the General Partner. |
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Section 11.2.
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Removal
of the General Partner. |
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Section 11.3.
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Interest
of Departing Partner and Successor General Partner. |
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Section 11.4.
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Termination of Subordination Period, Conversion of Subordinated
Units and Extinguishment of Cumulative Common Unit
Arrearages. |
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Section 11.5.
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Withdrawal of Limited Partners. |
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| ARTICLE XII. |
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| DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION |
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Section 12.1.
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Dissolution. |
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Section 12.2.
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Continuation of the Business of the Partnership After
Dissolution. |
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Section 12.3.
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Liquidator. |
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Section 12.4.
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Liquidation. |
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Section 12.5.
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Cancellation of Certificate of Limited Partnership. |
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Section 12.6.
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Return of
Contributions. |
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Section 12.7.
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Waiver of
Partition. |
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Section 12.8.
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Capital
Account Restoration. |
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Section 12.9.
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Certain
Prohibited Acts |
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| ARTICLE XIII. |
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| AMENDMENT OF PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT;
MEETINGS; RECORD DATE |
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Section 13.1.
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Amendment
to be Adopted Solely by the General Partner. |
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Section 13.2.
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Amendment
Procedures. |
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Section 13.3.
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Amendment
Requirements. |
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Section 13.4.
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Meetings. |
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Section 13.5.
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Notice of
a Meeting. |
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Section 13.6.
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Record
Date. |
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Section 13.7.
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Adjournment. |
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Section 13.8.
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Waiver of
Notice; Approval of Meeting; Approval of Minutes. |
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Section 13.9.
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Quorum. |
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Section 13.10.
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Conduct
of a Meeting. |
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Section 13.11.
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Action
Without a Meeting. |
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Section 13.12.
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Voting
and Other Rights. |
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| ARTICLE XIV. |
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| MERGER |
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Section 14.1.
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Authority. |
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Section 14.2.
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Procedure
for Merger or Consolidation. |
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Section 14.3.
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Approval
by Limited Partners of Merger or Consolidation. |
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Section 14.4.
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Certificate of Merger. |
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Section 14.5.
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Effect of
Merger. |
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| ARTICLE XV. |
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| RIGHT TO ACQUIRE LIMITED PARTNER
INTERESTS |
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Section 15.1.
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Right to
Acquire Limited Partner Interests. |
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| ARTICLE XVI. |
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| GENERAL PROVISIONS |
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Section 16.1.
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Addresses
and Notices. |
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Section 16.2.
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Further
Action. |
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Section 16.3.
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Binding
Effect. |
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Section 16.4.
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Integration. |
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Section 16.5.
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Creditors. |
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Section 16.6.
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Waiver. |
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Section 16.7.
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Counterparts. |
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Section 16.8.
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Applicable Law. |
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Section 16.9.
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Invalidity of Provisions. |
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Section 16.10.
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Consent
of Partners. |
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Section 16.11.
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Amendments to Reflect GP Reorganization Agreement. |
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Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. |
FOURTH AMENDED AND
RESTATED
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP
OF
MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM
PARTNERS, L.P.
THIS FOURTH AMENDED AND
RESTATED AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM
PARTNERS, L.P. dated as of April 13, 2005, is entered into by and
among Magellan GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as
the General Partner and as the lawful agent and attorney-in-fact
for the Limited Partners, together with any other Persons who
become Partners in the Partnership or parties hereto as provided
herein.
WHEREAS, the Predecessor
General Partner and the other parties thereto entered into that
certain Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited
Partnership of the Partnership dated as of September 27, 2002 (the
“ 2002 Agreement ”);
WHEREAS, the General Partner
and the other parties thereto entered into the GP Transfer
Agreement, pursuant to which the Predecessor General Partner
transferred its General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution
Rights in the Partnership to the General Partner;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
effected Amendment No. 1 to the 2002 Agreement on November 15, 2002
to reduce the voting power of the Class B Common Units and
Subordinated Units;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
effected Amendment No. 2 to the 2002 Agreement on November 15, 2002
to provide for the right of the Limited Partners to vote their
Outstanding Limited Partner Interests as a single class to elect
annually the Board of Directors of the General Partner;
WHEREAS, on June 17, 2003
Holdings acquired 1,079,694 Common Units, 5,679,694 Subordinated
Units and 7,830,924 Class B Common Units and all of the membership
interests in the General Partner from Williams Energy Services,
LLC, Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc. and the Predecessor General
Partner;
WHEREAS, on June 17, 2003 the
parties thereto entered into the New Omnibus Agreement and New
Services Agreement;
WHEREAS, on December 1, 2003
the Class B Common Units were converted into Common Units and
cancelled;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
effected Amendment No. 3 to the 2002 Agreement on December 12, 2003
to amend certain provisions (i) relating to the allocations of the
General Partner in connection with the payment of Excess G&A
Expenses and the funding of certain Assumed Environmental
Indemnification Obligations of the Partnership, (ii) amending
Section 5.7(b) to provide for the issuance of Common Units and
Parity Units without the prior approval of the Unitholders if such
issuance relates to an Acquisition or Capital Improvement, (iii)
adding Section 5.7(f) providing for the issuance of an unlimited
number of Common Units
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during the Subordination Period if the
net proceeds of such issuance are used to redeem an equal number of
Outstanding Common Units, and (iv) reflecting the various name
changes of the General Partner, the Partnership, and certain other
members of the Partnership Group;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
amended and restated the 2002 Agreement in its entirety to reflect
each of the foregoing amendments, together with such other changes
the General Partner determined were necessary and appropriate, and
such amended and restated agreement is the Third Amended and
Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Magellan Midstream
Partners, L.P. dated as of April 22, 2004 (the “ 2004
Agreement ”);
WHEREAS, the General Partner
effected Amendment No. 1 to the 2004 Agreement on July 22, 2004 to
amend certain provisions relating to the number of Parity Units the
Partnership may issue;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
effected Amendment No. 2 to the 2004 Agreement on July 22, 2004 to
amend certain provisions relating to the distributions to the
holder of the Incentive Distribution Rights;
WHEREAS, the General Partner
desires to amend and restate the 2004 Agreement in its entirety to
reflect each of the foregoing amendments to the 2004 Agreement,
together with various numerical changes to the 2004 Agreement
resulting from the two-for-one split of the Partnership’s
Common Units and Subordinated Units (the “Unit
Split” ) declared by the General Partner on March 11,
2005, having a record date of April 5, 2005 and a payment date of
April 12, 2005; and
WHEREAS, Section 13.1(d) of
the 2004 Agreement permits the General Partner, without the
approval of any Partner or Assignee, to amend the 2004 Agreement to
reflect any change that, in the discretion of the General Partner,
does not adversely affect the Limited Partners (including any
particular class of Partnership Interests as compared to other
classes of Partnership Interests) in any material
respect.
NOW, THEREFORE, the General
Partner, pursuant to its authority under Section 13.1(d) and the
exercise of its discretion, does hereby amend and restate the 2004
Agreement to provide, in its entirety, as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1.
Definitions.
The following definitions
shall be for all purposes, unless otherwise clearly indicated to
the contrary, applied to the terms used in this
Agreement.
“2002
Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the
recitals.
“ 2004 Agreement
” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.
“Accretion
Test” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
5.7(g).
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“ Acquisition
” means any transaction in which any Group Member acquires
(through an asset acquisition, merger, stock acquisition or other
form of investment) control over all or a portion of the assets,
properties or business of another Person for the purpose of
increasing the operating capacity or revenues of the Partnership
Group from the operating capacity or revenues of the Partnership
Group existing immediately prior to such transaction.
“ Additional Book
Basis ” means the portion of any remaining Carrying Value
of an Adjusted Property that is attributable to positive
adjustments made to such Carrying Value as a result of Book-Up
Events. For purposes of determining the extent that Carrying Value
constitutes Additional Book Basis:
(i) Any negative adjustment
made to the Carrying Value of an Adjusted Property as a result of
either a Book-Down Event or a Book-Up Event shall first be deemed
to offset or decrease that portion of the Carrying Value of such
Adjusted Property that is attributable to any prior positive
adjustments made thereto pursuant to a Book-Up Event or Book-Down
Event.
(ii) If Carrying Value that
constitutes Additional Book Basis is reduced as a result of a
Book-Down Event and the Carrying Value of other property is
increased as a result of such Book-Down Event, an allocable portion
of any such increase in Carrying Value shall be treated as
Additional Book Basis; provided that the amount treated as
Additional Book Basis pursuant hereto as a result of such Book-Down
Event shall not exceed the amount by which the Aggregate Remaining
Net Positive Adjustments after such Book-Down Event exceeds the
remaining Additional Book Basis attributable to all of the
Partnership’s Adjusted Property after such Book-Down Event
(determined without regard to the application of this clause (ii)
to such Book-Down Event).
“ Additional Book
Basis Derivative Items ” means any Book Basis Derivative
Items that are computed with reference to Additional Book Basis. To
the extent that the Additional Book Basis attributable to all of
the Partnership’s Adjusted Property as of the beginning of
any taxable period exceeds the Aggregate Remaining Net Positive
Adjustments as of the beginning of such period (the “
Excess Additional Book Basis ”), the Additional Book
Basis Derivative Items for such period shall be reduced by the
amount that bears the same ratio to the amount of Additional Book
Basis Derivative Items determined without regard to this sentence
as the Excess Additional Book Basis bears to the Additional Book
Basis as of the beginning of such period.
“ Additional Limited
Partner ” means a Person admitted to the Partnership as a
Limited Partner pursuant to Section 10.4 and who is shown as such
on the books and records of the Partnership.
“ Adjusted Capital
Account ” means the Capital Account maintained for each
Partner as of the end of each fiscal year of the Partnership, (a)
increased by any amounts that such Partner is obligated to restore
under the standards set by Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(c) (or is deemed obligated to restore under
Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-2(g) and 1.704-2(i)(5)) and (b)
decreased by (i) the amount of all losses and deductions that, as
of the end of such fiscal year, are reasonably expected to be
allocated to such Partner in subsequent years under Sections
704(e)(2) and 706(d) of the Code and Treasury Regulation Section
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1(b)(2)(ii), and (ii) the amount of all
distributions that, as of the end of such fiscal year, are
reasonably expected to be made to such Partner in subsequent years
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or otherwise to the
extent they exceed offsetting increases to such Partner’s
Capital Account that are reasonably expected to occur during (or
prior to) the year in which such distributions are reasonably
expected to be made (other than increases as a result of a minimum
gain chargeback pursuant to Section 6.1(d)(i) or 6.1(d)(ii)). The
foregoing definition of Adjusted Capital Account is intended to
comply with the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) and shall be interpreted consistently
therewith. The “ Adjusted Capital Account ” of a
Partner in respect of a General Partner Interest, a Common Unit, a
Subordinated Unit or an Incentive Distribution Right or any other
specified interest in the Partnership shall be the amount which
such Adjusted Capital Account would be if such General Partner
Interest, Common Unit, Subordinated Unit, Incentive Distribution
Right or other interest in the Partnership were the only interest
in the Partnership held by a Partner from and after the date on
which such General Partner Interest, Common Unit, Subordinated
Unit, Incentive Distribution Right or other interest was first
issued.
“ Adjusted Operating
Surplus” means, with respect to any period, Operating
Surplus generated during such period (a) less (i) any net increase
in Working Capital Borrowings during such period and (ii) any net
reduction in cash reserves for Operating Expenditures during such
period not relating to an Operating Expenditure made during such
period, and (b) plus (i) any net decrease in Working Capital
Borrowings during such period and (ii) any net increase in cash
reserves for Operating Expenditures during such period required by
any debt instrument for the repayment of principal, interest or
premium. Adjusted Operating Surplus does not include that portion
of Operating Surplus included in clause (a)(i) of the definition of
Operating Surplus.
“ Adjusted
Property ” means any property the Carrying Value of which
has been adjusted pursuant to Section 5.5(d)(i) or
5.5(d)(ii).
“ Affiliate
” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that
directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls,
is controlled by or is under common control with, the Person in
question. As used herein, the term “control” means the
possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether
through ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
“ Aggregate
Remaining Net Positive Adjustments ” means, as of the end
of any taxable period, the sum of the Remaining Net Positive
Adjustments of all the Partners.
“ Agreed
Allocation ” means any allocation, other than a Required
Allocation, of an item of income, gain, loss or deduction pursuant
to the provisions of Section 6.1, including, without limitation, a
Curative Allocation (if appropriate to the context in which the
term “ Agreed Allocation ” is used).
“ Agreed Value
” of any Contributed Property means the fair market value of
such property or other consideration at the time of contribution as
determined by the General Partner using such reasonable method of
valuation as it may adopt. The General Partner shall, in its
discretion, use such method as it deems reasonable and appropriate
to allocate the aggregate Agreed Value of Contributed Properties
contributed to the Partnership in a single or integrated
transaction among each separate property on a basis proportional to
the fair market value of each Contributed Property.
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“ Agreement
” means this Fourth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited
Partnership of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., as it may be
amended, supplemented or restated from time to time.
“ Assignee
” means a Non-citizen Assignee or a Person to whom one or
more Limited Partner Interests have been transferred in a manner
permitted under this Agreement and who has executed and delivered a
Transfer Application as required by this Agreement, but who has not
been admitted as a Substituted Limited Partner.
“ Associate
” means, when used to indicate a relationship with any
Person, (a) any corporation or organization of which such Person is
a director, officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly, the
owner of 20% or more of any class of voting stock or other voting
interest; (b) any trust or other estate in which such Person has at
least a 20% beneficial interest or as to which such Person serves
as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity; and (c) any relative
or spouse of such Person, or any relative of such spouse, who has
the same principal residence as such Person.
“Assumed
Environmental Indemnification Obligations” means the
obligation of Holdings to indemnify the Partnership Group for
certain environmental remedial obligations pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement dated as of April 18, 2003, as amended, among WEG
Acquisitions, L.P., Williams Energy Services, LLC, Williams Natural
Gas Liquids, Inc. and Williams GP LLC pursuant to which Holdings
purchased all of the General Partner Interests, Class B Common
Units and Subordinated Units and 1,079,694 Common Units.
“ Available Cash
” means, with respect to any Quarter ending prior to the
Liquidation Date,
(a) the sum of (i) all cash
and cash equivalents of the Partnership Group on hand at the end of
such Quarter, and (ii) all additional cash and cash equivalents of
the Partnership Group on hand on the date of determination of
Available Cash with respect to such Quarter resulting from Working
Capital Borrowings made subsequent to the end of such Quarter,
less
(b) the amount of any cash
reserves that is necessary or appropriate in the reasonable
discretion of the General Partner to (i) provide for the proper
conduct of the business of the Partnership Group (including
reserves for future capital expenditures and for anticipated future
credit needs of the Partnership Group) subsequent to such Quarter,
(ii) comply with applicable law or any loan agreement, security
agreement, mortgage, debt instrument or other agreement or
obligation to which any Group Member is a party or by which it is
bound or its assets are subject or (iii) provide funds for
distributions under Section 6.4 or 6.5 in respect of any one or
more of the next four Quarters; provided, however, that the General
Partner may not establish cash reserves pursuant to (iii) above if
the effect of such reserves would be that the Partnership is unable
to distribute the Minimum Quarterly Distribution on all Common
Units, plus any
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Cumulative Common Unit
Arrearage on all Common Units, with respect to such Quarter; and,
provided further, that disbursements made by a Group Member or cash
reserves established, increased or reduced after the end of such
Quarter but on or before the date of determination of Available
Cash with respect to such Quarter shall be deemed to have been
made, established, increased or reduced, for purposes of
determining Available Cash, within such Quarter if the General
Partner so determines.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, “Available Cash” with respect to the Quarter
in which the Liquidation Date occurs and any subsequent Quarter
shall equal zero.
“ Bank Loan
” means the loan evidenced by the Credit Agreement, dated as
of April 11, 2002, among Williams Pipe Line Company, LLC, Williams
Energy Partners L.P., Bank of America, N.A., Lehman Commercial
Paper, Inc., Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities,
Inc., and Merrill Lynch and Co., as the same may be extended,
amended and restated.
“ Board of
Directors ” means the Board of Directors of the General
Partner (or comparable governing body of any successor to the
General Partner).
“ Book Basis
Derivative Items ” means any item of income, deduction,
gain or loss included in the determination of Net Income or Net
Loss that is computed with reference to the Carrying Value of an
Adjusted Property (e.g., depreciation, depletion, or gain or loss
with respect to an Adjusted Property).
“ Book-Down
Event ” means an event which triggers a negative
adjustment to the Capital Accounts of the Partners pursuant to
Section 5.5(d).
“ Book-Tax
Disparity ” means with respect to any item of Contributed
Property or Adjusted Property, as of the date of any determination,
the difference between the Carrying Value of such Contributed
Property or Adjusted Property and the adjusted basis thereof for
federal income tax purposes as of such date. A Partner’s
share of the Partnership’s Book-Tax Disparities in all of its
Contributed Property and Adjusted Property will be reflected by the
difference between such Partner’s Capital Account balance as
maintained pursuant to Section 5.5 and the hypothetical balance of
such Partner’s Capital Account computed as if it had been
maintained strictly in accordance with federal income tax
accounting principles.
“ Book-Up Event
” means an event which triggers a positive adjustment to the
Capital Accounts of the Partners pursuant to Section
5.5(d).
“ Business Day
” means Monday through Friday of each week, except that a
legal holiday recognized as such by the government of the United
States of America or the states of New York or Oklahoma shall not
be regarded as a Business Day.
“ Capital
Account ” means the capital account maintained for a
Partner pursuant to Section 5.5. The “ Capital Account
” of a Partner in respect of a General Partner Interest, a
Common Unit, a Subordinated Unit, an Incentive Distribution Right
or any other Partnership Interest shall be the amount which such
Capital Account would be if such General Partner Interest, Common
Unit, Subordinated Unit, Incentive Distribution Right or other
Partnership Interest were the only interest in the Partnership held
by a Partner from and after the date on which such General Partner
Interest, Common Unit, Subordinated Unit, Incentive Distribution
Right or other Partnership Interest was first issued.
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“ Capital
Contribution ” means any cash, cash equivalents or the
Net Agreed Value of Contributed Property that a Partner contributes
to the Partnership pursuant to this Agreement or the Contribution
and Conveyance Agreement.
“ Capital
Improvement ” means any (a) addition or improvement to
the capital assets owned by any Group Member or (b) acquisition of
existing, or the construction of new capital assets (including,
without limitation, pipeline systems, terminals, storage facilities
and related assets), in each case made to increase the operating
capacity or revenues of the Partnership Group from the operating
capacity or revenues of the Partnership Group existing immediately
prior to such addition, improvement, acquisition or
construction.
“ Capital
Surplus ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.3(a).
“ Carrying Value
” means (a) with respect to a Contributed Property, the
Agreed Value of such property reduced (but not below zero) by all
depreciation, amortization and cost recovery deductions charged to
the Partners’ and Assignees’ Capital Accounts in
respect of such Contributed Property, and (b) with respect to any
other Partnership property, the adjusted basis of such property for
federal income tax purposes, all as of the time of determination.
The Carrying Value of any property shall be adjusted from time to
time in accordance with Sections 5.5(d)(i) and 5.5(d)(ii) and to
reflect changes, additions or other adjustments to the Carrying
Value for dispositions and acquisitions of Partnership properties,
as deemed appropriate by the General Partner.
“ Cause ”
means a court of competent jurisdiction has entered a final,
non-appealable judgment finding the General Partner liable for
actual fraud, gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct in
its capacity as general partner of the Partnership.
“ Certificate
” means a certificate (i) substantially in the form of
Exhibit A to this Agreement, (ii) issued in global form in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the Depositary or
(iii) in such other form as may be adopted by the General Partner
in its discretion, issued by the Partnership evidencing ownership
of one or more Common Units or a certificate, in such form as may
be adopted by the General Partner in its discretion, issued by the
Partnership evidencing ownership of one or more other Partnership
Securities.
“ Certificate of
Limited Partnership ” means the Certificate of Limited
Partnership of the Partnership filed with the Secretary of State of
the State of Delaware as referenced in Section 2.1, as such
Certificate of Limited Partnership may be amended, supplemented or
restated from time to time.
“ Citizenship
Certification ” means a properly completed certificate in
such form as may be specified by the General Partner by which an
Assignee or a Limited Partner certifies that he (and if he is a
nominee holding for the account of another Person, that to the best
of his knowledge such other Person) is an Eligible
Citizen.
“ Claim ”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
7.12(c).
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“ Closing Date
” means the first date on which Common Units were sold by the
Partnership to the Underwriters pursuant to the provisions of the
Underwriting Agreement.
“ Closing Price
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
15.1(a).
“ Code ”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and in effect
from time to time. Any reference herein to a specific section or
sections of the Code shall be deemed to include a reference to any
corresponding provision of successor law.
“ Combined
Interest ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 11.3(a).
“ Commenced
Commercial Service ” and “ Commencement of
Commercial Service ” have the meanings assigned to such
terms in Section 5.7(g).
“ Commission
” means the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“ Common Unit
” means a Partnership Security representing a fractional part
of the Partnership Interests of all Limited Partners and Assignees
and of the General Partner (exclusive of its interest as a holder
of the General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights)
and having the rights and obligations specified with respect to
Common Units in this Agreement. The term “ Common Unit
” does not refer to a Subordinated Unit prior to its
conversion into a Common Unit pursuant to the terms
hereof.
“ Common Unit
Arrearage ” means, with respect to any Common Unit,
whenever issued, as to any Quarter within the Subordination Period,
the excess, if any, of (a) the Minimum Quarterly Distribution with
respect to a Common Unit in respect of such Quarter over (b) the
sum of all Available Cash distributed with respect to a Common Unit
in respect of such Quarter pursuant to Section
6.4(a)(i).
“ Conflicts
Committee ” means a committee of the Board of Directors
of the General Partner composed entirely of three or more directors
who meet the independence and experience requirements as set forth
most recently by the New York Stock Exchange.
“ Contributed
Property ” means each property or other asset, in such
form as may be permitted by the Delaware Act, but excluding cash,
contributed to the Partnership. Once the Carrying Value of a
Contributed Property is adjusted pursuant to Section 5.5(d), such
property shall no longer constitute a Contributed Property, but
shall be deemed an Adjusted Property.
“ Contribution and
Conveyance Agreement ” means that certain Contribution,
Conveyance and Assumption Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date,
among the Predecessor General Partner, the Partnership, Magellan
OLP and certain other parties, together with the additional
conveyance documents and instruments contemplated or referenced
thereunder.
“ Cumulative Common
Unit Arrearage ” means, with respect to any Common Unit,
whenever issued, and as of the end of any Quarter, the excess, if
any, of (a) the sum resulting from adding together the Common Unit
Arrearage as to an Initial Common Unit for each of the Quarters
within the Subordination Period ending on or before the last day of
such Quarter over (b) the sum of any distributions theretofore made
pursuant to Section 6.4(a)(ii) and the second sentence of Section
6.5 with respect to an Initial Common Unit (including any
distributions to be made in respect of the last of such
Quarters).
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“ Curative
Allocation ” means any allocation of an item of income,
gain, deduction, loss or credit pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6.1(d)(xi).
“ Current Market
Price ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
15.1(a).
“ Delaware Act
” means the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act,
6 Del C. § 17-101, et seq., as amended, supplemented or
restated from time to time, and any successor to such
statute.
“ Departing
Partner ” means a former General Partner from and after
the effective date of any withdrawal or removal of such former
General Partner pursuant to Section 11.1 or 11.2.
“ Depositary
” means, with respect to any Units issued in global form, The
Depository Trust Company and its successors and permitted
assigns.
“ Director
” means any member of the Board of Directors duly elected at
an annual meeting of the Limited Partners of the
Partnership.
“ Economic Risk of
Loss ” has the meaning set forth in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.752-2(a).
“ Eligible
Citizen ” means a Person qualified to own interests in
real property in jurisdictions in which any Group Member does
business or proposes to do business from time to time, and whose
status as a Limited Partner or Assignee does not or would not
subject such Group Member to a significant risk of cancellation or
forfeiture of any of its properties or any interest
therein.
“ Event of
Withdrawal ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 11.1(a).
“Excess G&A
Expenses” means the excess of (i) the amount of any
general and administrative expenses required to be reimbursed to
the General Partner pursuant to Section 7.4, over (ii) the amount
of such expenses permitted to be reimbursed by the Partnership
Group pursuant to Article VII of the New Omnibus
Agreement.
“ Final Subordinated
Units ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.1(d)(x).
“ First Liquidation
Target Amount ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.1(c)(i)(D).
“ First Target
Distribution ” means $0.28875 per Unit per Quarter (or,
with respect to the period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending on March 31, 2001, it means the product of $0.28875
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the number of
days in such period, and of which the denominator is 90), subject
to adjustment in accordance with Sections 6.6 and 6.9.
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“ General
Partner ” means Magellan GP, LLC (formerly known as WEG
GP LLC), a Delaware limited liability company, as the successor to
the Predecessor General Partner, and its successors and permitted
assigns as general partner of the Partnership.
“ General Partner
Interest ” means the ownership interest of the General
Partner in the Partnership (in its capacity as a general partner
without reference to any Limited Partner Interest held by it) which
may be evidenced by Partnership Securities or a combination thereof
or interest therein, and includes any and all benefits to which the
General Partner is entitled as provided in this Agreement, together
with all obligations of the General Partner to comply with the
terms and provisions of this Agreement.
“ GP Reorganization
Agreement ” means the Reorganization Agreement, dated as
of March 4, 2002, among the Partnership, Magellan OLP, the
Predecessor General Partner and the Operating General
Partner.
“ GP Transfer
Agreement ” means the Assignment, Assumption and
Amendment Agreement, dated as of November 15, 2002, among the
General Partner, the Predecessor General Partner, Williams Energy
Services, LLC, Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc. and the
Partnership.
“ Group ”
means a Person that with or through any of its Affiliates or
Associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the
purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except voting pursuant to a
revocable proxy or consent given to such Person in response to a
proxy or consent solicitation made to 10 or more Persons) or
disposing of any Partnership Securities with any other Person that
beneficially owns, or whose Affiliates or Associates beneficially
own, directly or indirectly, Partnership Securities.
“ Group Member
” means a member of the Partnership Group.
“ Holder ”
as used in Section 7.12, has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 7.12(a).
“Holdings”
means Magellan Midstream Holdings, L.P. (formerly known as WEG
Acquisitions, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership.
“ Incentive
Distribution Right ” means a non-voting Limited Partner
Interest originally issued to the Predecessor General Partner in
connection with the transfer of substantially all of its general
partner interest in Magellan Ammonia Pipeline, L.P. (formerly known
as Williams Ammonia Pipeline, L.P.) and Magellan Terminals
Holdings, L.P. (formerly known as Williams Terminals Holdings,
L.P.) to the Partnership pursuant to Section 5.2 and subsequently
transferred to the General Partner pursuant to the GP Transfer
Agreement, which Partnership Interest confers upon the holder
thereof only the rights and obligations specifically provided in
this Agreement with respect to Incentive Distribution Rights (and
no other rights otherwise available to or other obligations of a
holder of a Partnership interest). Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, the holder of an Incentive Distribution
Right shall not be entitled to vote such Incentive Distribution
Right on any Partnership matter except as may otherwise be required
by law.
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“ Incentive
Distributions ” means any amount of cash distributed to
the holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights pursuant to
Sections 6.4(a)(v), (vi) and (vii) and 6.4(b)(iii), (iv) and
(v).
“ Indemnified
Persons ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 7.12(c).
“ Indemnitee
” means (a) the General Partner, (b) any Departing Partner,
(c) any Person who is or was an Affiliate of the General Partner or
any Departing Partner, (d) any Person who is or was a member,
partner, officer, director, employee, agent or trustee of any Group
Member, the General Partner or any Departing Partner or any
Affiliate of any Group Member, the General Partner or any Departing
Partner, and (e) any Person who is or was serving at the request of
the General Partner or any Departing Partner or any Affiliate of
the General Partner or any Departing Partner as an officer,
director, employee, member, partner, agent, fiduciary or trustee of
another Person; provided, that a Person shall not be an Indemnitee
by reason of providing, on a fee-for-services basis, trustee,
fiduciary or custodial services.
“ Initial Common
Units ” means the Common Units sold in the Initial
Offering.
“ Initial Limited
Partners ” means the Predecessor General Partner (with
respect to the Incentive Distribution Rights received by it
pursuant to Section 5.2), Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc.,
Williams Energy Services, LLC and the Underwriters, in each case
upon being admitted to the Partnership in accordance with Section
10.1.
“ Initial
Offering ” means the initial offering and sale of Common
Units to the public, as described in the Registration
Statement.
“ Initial Unit
Price ” means (a) with respect to the Common Units and
the Subordinated Units, the initial public offering price per
Common Unit at which the Underwriters offered the Common Units to
the public for sale as set forth on the cover page of the
prospectus included as part of the Registration Statement and first
issued at or after the time the Registration Statement first became
effective or (b) with respect to any other class or series of
Units, the price per Unit at which such class or series of Units is
initially sold by the Partnership, as determined by the General
Partner, in each case adjusted as the General Partner determines to
be appropriate to give effect to any distribution, subdivision or
combination of Units.
“ Interim Capital
Transactions ” means the following transactions if they
occur prior to the Liquidation Date: (a) borrowings, refinancings
or refundings of indebtedness and sales of debt securities (other
than Working Capital Borrowings and other than for items purchased
on open account in the ordinary course of business) by any Group
Member; (b) sales of equity interests by any Group Member (other
than the Common Units sold to the Underwriters pursuant to the
exercise of their over-allotment option); and (c) sales or other
voluntary or involuntary dispositions of any assets of any Group
Member other than (i) sales or other dispositions of inventory,
accounts receivable and other assets in the ordinary course of
business, and (ii) sales or other dispositions of assets as part of
normal retirements or replacements.
“ Issue Price
” means the price at which a Unit is purchased from the
Partnership, after taking into account any sales commission or
underwriting discount charged to the Partnership.
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“ Limited
Partner ” means, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) the Organizational Limited Partner prior to its withdrawal from
the Partnership, each Initial Limited Partner, each Substituted
Limited Partner, each Additional Limited Partner and any Partner
upon the change of its status from General Partner to Limited
Partner pursuant to Section 11.3 or (b) solely for purposes of
Articles V, VI, VII and IX, each Assignee; provided, however, that
when the term “ Limited Partner ” is used herein
in the context of any vote or other approval, including without
limitation Articles XIII and XIV, such term shall not, solely for
such purpose, include any holder of an Incentive Distribution Right
except as may otherwise be required by law.
“ Limited Partner
Interest ” means the ownership interest of a Limited
Partner or Assignee in the Partnership, which may be evidenced by
Common Units, Subordinated Units, Incentive Distribution Rights or
other Partnership Securities or a combination thereof or interest
therein, and includes any and all benefits to which such Limited
Partner or Assignee is entitled as provided in this Agreement,
together with all obligations of such Limited Partner or Assignee
to comply with the terms and provisions of this Agreement;
provided, however, that when the term “ Limited Partner
Interest ” is used herein in the context of any vote or
other approval, including without limitation Articles XIII and XIV,
such term shall not, solely for such purpose, include any holder of
an Incentive Distribution Right except as may otherwise be required
by law.
“ Liquidation
Date ” means (a) in the case of an event giving rise to
the dissolution of the Partnership of the type described in clauses
(a) and (b) of the first sentence of Section 12.2, the date on
which the applicable time period during which the holders of
Outstanding Units have the right to elect to reconstitute the
Partnership and continue its business has expired without such an
election being made, and (b) in the case of any other event giving
rise to the dissolution of the Partnership, the date on which such
event occurs.
“ Liquidator
” means one or more Persons selected by the General Partner
to perform the functions described in Section 12.3 as liquidating
trustee of the Partnership within the meaning of the Delaware
Act.
“ Magellan OLP
” means Magellan OLP, L.P. (formerly known as Williams OLP,
L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership.
“ Magellan
Pipeline ” means Magellan Pipeline Company, LLC (formerly
known as Williams Pipe Line Company, LLC), a Delaware limited
liability company.
“ Merger
Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 14.1.
“ Minimum Quarterly
Distribution ” means $0.2625 per Unit per Quarter (or
with respect to the period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending on March 31, 2001, it means the product of $0.2625
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the number of
days in such period and of which the denominator is 90), subject to
adjustment in accordance with Sections 6.6 and 6.9.
“ National
Securities Exchange ” means an exchange registered with
the Commission under Section 6(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, supplemented or restated from time to time, and
any successor to such statute, or the Nasdaq National Market or any
successor thereto.
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“ Net Agreed
Value ” means, (a) in the case of any Contributed
Property, the Agreed Value of such property reduced by any
liabilities either assumed by the Partnership upon such
contribution or to which such property is subject when contributed,
and (b) in the case of any property distributed to a Partner or
Assignee by the Partnership, the Partnership’s Carrying Value
of such property (as adjusted pursuant to Section 5.5(d)(ii)) at
the time such property is distributed, reduced by any indebtedness
either assumed by such Partner or Assignee upon such distribution
or to which such property is subject at the time of distribution,
in either case, as determined under Section 752 of the
Code.
“ Net Income
” means, for any taxable year, the excess, if any, of the
Partnership’s items of income and gain (other than those
items taken into account in the computation of Net Termination Gain
or Net Termination Loss) for such taxable year over the
Partnership’s items of loss and deduction (other than those
items taken into account in the computation of Net Termination Gain
or Net Termination Loss) for such taxable year. The items included
in the calculation of Net Income shall be determined in accordance
with Section 5.5(b) and shall not include any items specially
allocated under Section 6.1(d); provided that the determination of
the items that have been specially allocated under Section 6.1(d)
shall be made as if Section 6.1(d)(xii) were not in this
Agreement.
“ Net Loss
” means, for any taxable year, the excess, if any, of the
Partnership’s items of loss and deduction (other than those
items taken into account in the computation of Net Termination Gain
or Net Termination Loss) for such taxable year over the
Partnership’s items of income and gain (other than those
items taken into account in the computation of Net Termination Gain
or Net Termination Loss) for such taxable year. The items included
in the calculation of Net Loss shall be determined in accordance
with Section 5.5(b) and shall not include any items specially
allocated under Section 6.1(d); provided that the determination of
the items that have been specially allocated under Section 6.1(d)
shall be made as if Section 6.1(d)(xii) were not in this
Agreement.
“ Net Positive
Adjustments ” means, with respect to any Partner, the
excess, if any, of the total positive adjustments over the total
negative adjustments made to the Capital Account of such Partner
pursuant to Book-Up Events and Book-Down Events.
“ Net Termination
Gain ” means, for any taxable year, the sum, if positive,
of all items of income, gain, loss or deduction recognized by the
Partnership after the Liquidation Date. The items included in the
determination of Net Termination Gain shall be determined in
accordance with Section 5.5(b) and shall not include any items of
income, gain or loss specially allocated under Section
6.1(d).
“ Net Termination
Loss ” means, for any taxable year, the sum, if negative,
of all items of income, gain, loss or deduction recognized by the
Partnership after the Liquidation Date. The items included in the
determination of Net Termination Loss shall be determined in
accordance with Section 5.5(b) and shall not include any items of
income, gain or loss specially allocated under Section
6.1(d).
“New Omnibus
Agreement ” means that New Omnibus Agreement, dated as of
June 17, 2003, among Holdings, Williams Energy Services, LLC,
Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc., and The Williams Companies,
Inc., as such agreement may be amended, supplemented or restated
from time to time.
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“New Services
Agreement ” means that New Services Agreement, dated as
of June 17, 2003, among the General Partner, the Partnership and
Holdings, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented or
restated from time to time.
“ Non-citizen
Assignee ” means a Person whom the General Partner has
determined in its discretion does not constitute an Eligible
Citizen and as to whose Partnership Interest the General Partner
has become the Substituted Limited Partner, pursuant to Section
4.9.
“ Nonrecourse
Built-in Gain ” means with respect to any Contributed
Properties or Adjusted Properties that are subject to a mortgage or
pledge securing a Nonrecourse Liability, the amount of any taxable
gain that would be allocated to the Partners pursuant to Sections
6.2(b)(i)(A), 6.2(b)(ii)(A) and 6.2(b)(iii) if such properties were
disposed of in a taxable transaction in full satisfaction of such
liabilities and for no other consideration.
“ Nonrecourse
Deductions ” means any and all items of loss, deduction
or expenditures (including, without limitation, any expenditures
described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code) that, in accordance
with the principles of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(b), are
attributable to a Nonrecourse Liability.
“ Nonrecourse
Liability ” has the meaning set forth in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.752-1(a)(2).
“ Notice of Election
to Purchase ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 15.1(b).
“ Operating
Expenditures ” means all Partnership Group expenditures,
including, but not limited to, taxes, reimbursements of the General
Partner, repayment of Working Capital Borrowings, debt service
payments, and capital expenditures, subject to the
following:
(a) Payments (including
prepayments) of principal of and premium on indebtedness other than
Working Capital Borrowings shall not constitute Operating
Expenditures.
(b) Operating Expenditures
shall not include (i) capital expenditures made for Acquisitions or
for Capital Improvements, (ii) payment of transaction expenses
relating to Interim Capital Transactions or (iii) distributions to
Partners. Where capital expenditures are made in part for
Acquisitions or for Capital Improvements and in part for other
purposes, the General Partner’s good faith allocation between
the amounts paid for each shall be conclusive.
“ Operating General
Partner ” means Magellan GP, Inc. (formerly known as
Williams GP Inc.), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned
subsidiary of the Partnership, and any successors and permitted
assigns as the general partner of Magellan OLP.
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“ Operating
Partnerships ” means Magellan OLP, Magellan Pipeline and
such other Persons that are treated as partnerships for federal
income tax purposes that are majority-owned by the Partnership and
controlled by the Partnership (whether by direct or indirect
ownership of the general partner of such Person or otherwise) and
established or acquired for the purpose of conducting the business
of the Partnership.
“ Operating
Partnership Agreements ” means the agreement of limited
partnership of any Operating Partnership that is a limited
partnership, and any limited liability company agreement of any
Operating Partnership that is a limited liability company that is
treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, as such
may be amended, supplemented or restated from time to
time.
“ Operating
Surplus ” means, with respect to any period ending prior
to the Liquidation Date, on a cumulative basis and without
duplication,
(a) the sum of (i) $15
million plus all cash and cash equivalents of the Partnership Group
on hand as of the close of business on the Closing Date, (ii) all
cash receipts of the Partnership Group for the period beginning on
the Closing Date and ending with the last day of such period, other
than cash receipts from Interim Capital Transactions (except to the
extent specified in Section 6.5) and (iii) all cash receipts of the
Partnership Group after the end of such period but on or before the
date of determination of Operating Surplus with respect to such
period resulting from Working Capital Borrowings, less
(b) the sum of (i) Operating
Expenditures for the period beginning on the Closing Date and
ending with the last day of such period and (ii) the amount of cash
reserves that is necessary or advisable in the reasonable
discretion of the General Partner to provide funds for future
Operating Expenditures; provided, however, that disbursements made
(including contributions to a Group Member or disbursements on
behalf of a Group Member) or cash reserves established, increased
or reduced after the end of such period but on or before the date
of determination of Available Cash with respect to such period
shall be deemed to have been made, established, increased or
reduced, for purposes of determining Operating Surplus, within such
period if the General Partner so determines.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, “ Operating Surplus ” with respect to
the Quarter in which the Liquidation Date occurs and any subsequent
Quarter shall equal zero.
“ Opinion of
Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel (who may be
regular counsel to the Partnership or the General Partner or any of
its Affiliates) acceptable to the General Partner in its reasonable
discretion.
“ Option Closing
Date ” means the date or dates on which any Common Units
are sold by the Partnership to the Underwriters upon exercise of
the Over-Allotment Option.
“ Organizational
Limited Partner ” means Williams Energy Services, LLC in
its capacity as the organizational limited partner of the
Partnership pursuant to this Agreement.
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“ Outstanding
” means, with respect to Partnership Securities, all
Partnership Securities that are issued by the Partnership and
reflected as outstanding on the Partnership’s books and
records as of the date of determination; provided, however, that if
at any time any Person or Group (other than the General Partner or
its Affiliates) beneficially owns 20% or more of any Outstanding
Partnership Securities of any class then Outstanding, all
Partnership Securities owned by such Person or Group shall not be
voted on any matter and shall not be considered to be Outstanding
when sending notices of a meeting, of Limited Partners to vote on
any matter (unless otherwise required by law), calculating required
votes, determining the presence of a quorum or for other similar
purposes under this Agreement, except that Common Units so owned
shall be considered to be Outstanding for purposes of Section
11.1(b)(iv) (such Common Units shall not, however, be treated as a
separate class of Partnership Securities for purposes of this
Agreement); provided, further, that the foregoing limitation shall
not apply (i) to any Person or Group who acquired 20% or more of
any Outstanding Partnership Securities of any class then
Outstanding directly from the General Partner or its Affiliates or
(ii) to any Person or Group who acquired 20% or more of any
Outstanding Partnership Securities of any class then Outstanding
directly or indirectly from a Person or Group described in clause
(i) provided that the General Partner shall have notified such
Person or Group in writing that such limitation shall not apply;
and provided, further, that none of the Class B Common Units shall
be deemed to be Outstanding for purposes of determining if any
Class B Common Units are entitled to distributions of Available
Cash unless such Class B Common Units shall have been reflected on
the books of the Partnership as outstanding during such Quarter and
on the Record Date for the determination of any distribution of
Available Cash.
“ Over-Allotment
Option ” means the over-allotment option granted to the
Underwriters by the Partnership pursuant to the Underwriting
Agreement.
“ Parity Units
” means Common Units and all other Units of any other class
or series that have the right to participate (i) in distributions
of Available Cash from Operating Surplus pursuant to each of
subclauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of Section 6.4 in the same order of
priority with respect to the participation of Common Units in such
distributions or (ii) to participate in allocations of Net
Termination Gain pursuant to Section 6.1(c)(i)(B) in the same order
of priority with the Common Units. Units whose participation in
such (i) distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus and
(ii) allocations of Net Termination Gain are subordinate in order
of priority to such distributions and allocations on Common Units
shall not constitute Parity Units even if such Units are
convertible under certain circumstances into Common Units or Parity
Units.
“ Partner
Nonrecourse Debt ” has the meaning set forth in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-2(b)(4).
“ Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain ” has the meaning set forth
in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(2).
“ Partner
Nonrecourse Deductions ” means any and all items of loss,
deduction or expenditure (including, without limitation, any
expenditure described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code) that, in
accordance with the principles of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(i), are attributable to a Partner Nonrecourse
Debt.
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“ Partners
” means the General Partner and the Limited
Partners.
“ Partnership
” means Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (formerly known as
Williams Energy Partners L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership, and
any successors thereto.
“ Partnership
Group ” means the Partnership, the Operating Partnerships
and any Subsidiary of any such entity, including the Operating
General Partner, treated as a single consolidated
entity.
“ Partnership
Interest ” means an interest in the Partnership, which
shall include the General Partner Interest and Limited Partner
Interests.
“ Partnership
Minimum Gain ” means that amount determined in accordance
with the principles of Treasury Regulation Section
1.704-2(d).
“ Partnership
Security ” means any class or series of equity interest
in the Partnership (but excluding any options, rights, warrants and
appreciation rights relating to an equity interest in the
Partnership), including without limitation, Common Units,
Subordinated Units and Incentive Distribution Rights.
“ Percentage
Interest ” means as of the date of such determination (a)
as to the General Partner, 2% and (b) as to any Limited Partner or
Assignee holding Units, the product of (i) 98% multiplied by (ii)
the quotient of (x) the number of Units held by such Limited
Partner or Assignee divided by (y) the total number of all Units
then Outstanding; provided, however, that following any issuance of
additional Units by the Partnership in accordance with Section 5.6
hereof, proper adjustment shall be made to the Percentage Interest
represented by each Unit to reflect such issuance. The Percentage
Interest with respect to an Incentive Distribution Right shall at
all times be zero.
“ Person ”
means an individual or a corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization,
association, government agency or political subdivision thereof or
other entity.
“ Per Unit Capital
Amount ” means, as of any date of determination, the
Capital Account, stated on a per Unit basis, underlying any Unit
held by a Person other than the General Partner or any Affiliate of
the General Partner who holds Units.
“ Predecessor
General Partner ” means Williams GP LLC, in its capacity
as the general partner of the Partnership prior to the transfer of
the General Partner Interest to the General Partner pursuant to the
GP Transfer Agreement.
“ Pro Rata
” means (a) when modifying Units or any class thereof,
apportioned equally among all designated Units in accordance with
their relative Percentage Interests, (b) when modifying Partners
and Assignees, apportioned among all Partners and Assignees in
accordance with their relative Percentage Interests and (c) when
modifying holders of Incentive Distribution Rights, apportioned
equally among all holders of Incentive Distribution Rights in
accordance with the relative number of Incentive Distribution
Rights held by each such holder.
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“ Purchase Date
” means the date determined by the General Partner as the
date for purchase of all Outstanding Units of a certain class
(other than Units owned by the General Partner and its Affiliates)
pursuant to Article XV.
“ Quarter
” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a fiscal
quarter, or with respect to the first fiscal quarter after the
Closing Date the portion of such fiscal quarter after the Closing
Date, of the Partnership.
“ Recapture
Income ” means any gain recognized by the Partnership
(computed without regard to any adjustment required by Section 734
or Section 743 of the Code) upon the disposition of any property or
asset of the Partnership, which gain is characterized as ordinary
income because it represents the recapture of deductions previously
taken with respect to such property or asset.
“ Record Date
” means the date established by the General Partner for
determining (a) the identity of the Record Holders entitled to
notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of Limited Partners or
entitled to vote by ballot or give approval of Partnership action
in writing without a meeting or entitled to exercise rights in
respect of any lawful action of Limited Partners or (b) the
identity of Record Holders entitled to receive any report or
distribution or to participate in any offer.
“ Record Holder
” means the Person in whose name a Common Unit is registered
on the books of the Transfer Agent as of the opening of business on
a particular Business Day, or with respect to other Partnership
Securities, the Person in whose name any such other Partnership
Security is registered on the books which the General Partner has
caused to be kept as of the opening of business on such Business
Day.
“ Redeemable
Interests ” means any Partnership Interests for which a
redemption notice has been given, and has not been withdrawn,
pursuant to Section 4.10.
“ Registration
Statement ” means the Registration Statement on Form S-1
(Registration No. 333-48866) as it has been or as it may be amended
or supplemented from time to time, filed by the Partnership with
the Commission under the Securities Act to register the offering
and sale of the Common Units in the Initial Offering.
“Remaining Basket
Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
5.7(g).
“ Remaining Net
Positive Adjustments ” means as of the end of any taxable
period, (i) with respect to the Unitholders holding Common Units or
Subordinated Units, the excess of (a) the Net Positive Adjustments
of the Unitholders holding Common Units or Subordinated Units as of
the end of such period over (b) the sum of those Partners’
Share of Additional Book Basis Derivative Items for each prior
taxable period, (ii) with respect to the General Partner (as holder
of the General Partner Interest), the excess of (a) the Net
Positive Adjustments of the General Partner as of the end of such
period over (b) the sum of the General Partner’s Share of
Additional Book Basis Derivative Items with respect to the General
Partner Interest for each prior taxable period, and (iii) with
respect to the holders of Incentive Distribution Rights, the excess
of (a) the Net Positive Adjustments of the holders of Incentive
Distribution Rights as of the end of such period over (b) the sum
of the Share of Additional Book Basis Derivative Items of the
holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights for each prior taxable
period.
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“ Required
Allocations ” means (a) any limitation imposed on any
allocation of Net Losses or Net Termination Losses under Section
6.1(b) or 6.1(c)(ii) and (b) any allocation of an item of income,
gain, loss or deduction pursuant to Section 6.1(d)(i), 6.1(d)(ii),
6.1(d)(iv), 6.1(d)(vii) or 6.1(d)(ix).
“ Residual Gain
” or “ Residual Loss ” means any item of
gain or loss; as the case may be, of the Partnership recognized for
federal income tax purposes resulting from a sale, exchange or
other disposition of a Contributed Property or Adjusted Property,
to the extent such item of gain or loss is not allocated pursuant
to Section 6.2(b)(i)(A) or 6.2(b)(ii)(A), respectively, to
eliminate Book-Tax Disparities.
“ Restricted
Assets ” has the meaning set forth in the New Omnibus
Agreement.
“ Second Liquidation
Target Amount ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.1(c)(i)(E).
“ Second Target
Distribution ” means $0.328125 per Unit per Quarter (or,
with respect to the period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending on March 31, 2001, it means the product of $0.328125
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is equal to the
number of days in such period and of which the denominator is 90),
subject to adjustment in accordance with Sections 6.6 and
6.9.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, supplemented
or restated from time to time and any successor to such
statute.
“ Share of
Additional Book Basis Derivative Items ” means in
connection with any allocation of Additional Book Basis Derivative
Items for any taxable period, (i) with respect to the Unitholders
holding Common Units or Subordinated Units, the amount that bears
the same ratio to such Additional Book Basis Derivative Items as
the Unitholders’ Remaining Net Positive Adjustments as of the
end of such period bears to the Aggregate Remaining Net Positive
Adjustments as of that time, (ii) with respect to the General
Partner (as holder of the General Partner Interest), the amount
that bears the same ratio to such additional Book Basis Derivative
Items as the General Partner’s Remaining Net Positive
Adjustments as of the end of such period bears to the Aggregate
Remaining Net Positive Adjustment as of that time, and (iii) with
respect to the Partners holding Incentive Distribution Rights, the
amount that bears the same ratio to such Additional Book Basis
Derivative Items as the Remaining Net Positive Adjustments of the
Partners holding the Incentive Distribution Rights as of the end of
such period bears to the Aggregate Remaining Net Positive
Adjustments as of that time.
“ Special
Approval ” means approval by a majority of the members of
the Conflicts Committee.
“ Subordinated
Unit ” means a Unit representing a fractional part of the
Partnership Interests of all Limited Partners and Assignees (other
than of holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights) and having
the rights and obligations specified with respect to Subordinated
Units in this Agreement. The term “ Subordinated Unit
” as used herein does not include a Common Unit or Parity
Unit. A Subordinated Unit that is convertible into a Common Unit or
a Parity Unit shall not constitute a Common Unit or Parity Unit
until such conversion occurs.
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“ Subordination
Period ” means the period commencing on the Closing Date
and ending on the first to occur of the following dates:
(a) the first day of any
Quarter beginning after December 31, 2005 in respect of which (i)
(A) distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus on each
of the Outstanding Common Units and Subordinated Units with respect
to each of the three consecutive, non-overlapping four-Quarter
periods immediately preceding such date equaled or exceeded, the
sum of the Minimum Quarterly Distribution (or portion thereof for
the first fiscal quarter after the Closing Date) on all Outstanding
Common Units and Subordinated Units during such periods and (B) the
Adjusted Operating Surplus generated during each of the three
consecutive, non-overlapping four-Quarter periods immediately
preceding such date equaled or exceeded the sum of the Minimum
Quarterly Distribution on all of the Common Units and Subordinated
Units that were Outstanding during such periods on a fully diluted
basis (i.e., taking into account for purposes of such determination
all Outstanding Common Units, all Outstanding Subordinated Units,
all Common Units and Subordinated Units issuable upon exercise of
employee options that have, as of the date of determination,
already vested or are scheduled to vest prior to the end of the
Quarter immediately following the Quarter with respect to which
such determination is made, and all Common Units and Subordinated
Units that have as of the date of determination, been earned by but
not yet issued to management of the Partnership in respect of
incentive compensation), plus the related distribution on the
General Partner Interest in the Partnership during such periods and
(ii) there are no Cumulative Common Unit Arrearages; and
(b) the date on which the
General Partner is removed as general partner of the Partnership
upon the requisite vote by holders of Outstanding Units under
circumstances where Cause does not exist and Units held by the
General Partner and its Affiliates are not voted in favor of such
removal.
Notwithstanding any of the
provisions of clause (a) of this definition, no Class B Common Unit
shall be deemed Outstanding in any Quarter if (1) such Class B
Common Unit was issued after the end of such Quarter or (2) such
Class B Common Unit has been redeemed by the Partnership prior to
the Record Date for the determination of any distributions of
Available Cash from Operating Surplus on the Class B Common Units
for such Quarter.
“ Subsidiary
” means, with respect to any Person, (a) a corporation of
which more than 50% of the voting power of shares entitled (without
regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the
election of directors or other governing body of such corporation
is owned, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination, by
such Person, by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or a
combination thereof, (b) a partnership (whether general or limited)
in which such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person is, at the date
of determination, a general or limited partner of such partnership,
but only if more than 50% of the partnership interests of such
partnership (considering all of the partnership interests of the
partnership as a single class) is owned, directly or indirectly, at
the date of determination, by such Person, by one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person, or a combination thereof, or (c) any
other Person (other than a corporation or a partnership) in which
such Person, one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or a
combination thereof, directly or indirectly, at the date of
determination, has (i) at least a majority ownership interest or
(ii) the power to elect or direct the election of a majority of the
directors or other governing body of such-Person.
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“ Substituted
Limited Partner ” means a Person who is admitted as a
Limited Partner to the Partnership pursuant to Section 10.2 in
place of and with all the rights of a Limited Partner and who is
shown as a Limited Partner on the books and records of the
Partnership.
“ Surviving Business
Entity ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
14.2(b).
“ Third Target
Distribution ” means $0.39375 per Unit per Quarter (or,
with respect to the period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending on March 31, 2001, it means the product of $0.39375
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is equal to the
number of days in such period and of which the denominator is 90),
subject to adjustment in accordance with Sections 6.6 and
6.9.
“Third Target
Liquidation Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 6.1(c)(i)(F).
“ Trading Day
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
15.1(a).
“ Transfer
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.4(a).
“ Transfer Agent
” means such bank, trust company or other Person (including
the General Partner or one of its Affiliates) as shall be appointed
from time to time by the Partnership to act as registrar and
transfer agent for the Common Units; provided that if no Transfer
Agent is specifically designated for any other Partnership
Securities, the General Partner shall act in such
capacity.
“ Transfer
Application ” means an application and agreement for
transfer of Units in the form set forth on the back of a
Certificate or in a form substantially to the same effect in a
separate instrument.
“ Underwriter
” means each Person named as an underwriter in Schedule I to
the Underwriting Agreement who purchases Common Units pursuant
thereto.
“ Underwriting
Agreement ” means the Underwriting Agreement dated
February 5, 2001 among the Underwriters, the Partnership and
certain other parties, providing for the purchase of Common Units
by such Underwriters.
“ Unit ”
means a Partnership Security that is designated as a “
Unit ” and shall include Common Units and Subordinated
Units but shall not include (i) a General Partner Interest or (ii)
Incentive Distribution Rights.
“ Unitholders
” means the holders of Common Units and Subordinated
Units.
“Unit
Majority” means during the Subordination Period, (a) at
least a majority of the Outstanding Common Units, excluding Common
Units held by the General Partner and any Affiliates of the General
Partner, voting as a class and (b) at least a majority of the
Outstanding
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Common Units and the Outstanding
Subordinated Units voting as a class; provided, however, that each
Common Unit shall count as one Unit and have one vote and each
Subordinated Unit shall count as .5 of a Unit and have .5 of a vote
for the purpose of this clause (b), and for the purpose of
determining a quorum under Section 13.9, each Outstanding
Subordinated Unit shall be counted as .5 of an Outstanding Limited
Partner Interest. After the Subordination Period has ended,
“Unit Majority” means a majority of the Outstanding
Common Units.
“Unit
Split” has the meaning set forth in the
recitals.
“ Unpaid MQD
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.1(c)(i)(B).
“ Unrealized
Gain ” attributable to any item of Partnership property
means, as of any date of determination, the excess, if any, of (a)
the fair market value of such property as of such date (as
determined under Section 5.5(d)) over (b) the Carrying Value of
such property as of such date (prior to any adjustment to be made
pursuant to Section 5.5(d) as of such date).
“ Unrealized
Loss ” attributable to any item of Partnership property
means, as of any date of determination, the excess, if any, of (a)
the Carrying Value of such property as of such date (prior to any
adjustment to be made pursuant to Section 5.5(d) as of such date)
over (b) the fair market value of such property as of such date (as
determined under Section 5.5(d)).
“ Unrecovered
Capital ” means at any time, with respect to a Unit, the
Initial Unit Price less the sum of all distributions constituting
Capital Surplus theretofore made in respect of an Initial Common
Unit and any distributions of cash (or the Net Agreed Value of any
distributions in kind) in connection with the dissolution and
liquidation of the Partnership theretofore made in respect of an
Initial Common Unit, adjusted as the General Partner determines to
be appropriate to give effect to any distribution, subdivision or
combination of such Units.
“ US GAAP
” means United States Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles consistently applied.
“ Withdrawal Opinion
of Counsel ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 11.1(b).
“ Working Capital
Borrowings ” means borrowings exclusively for working
capital purposes made pursuant to a credit facility or other
arrangement requiring all such borrowings thereunder to be reduced
to a relatively small amount each year (or for the year in which
the Initial Offering is consummated, the 12-month period beginning
on the Closing Date) for an economically meaningful period of
time.
Section 1.2.
Construction.
Unless the context requires
otherwise: (a) any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the
corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular
form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice
versa; (b) references to Articles and Sections refer to Articles
and Sections of this Agreement; and (c) the term “
include ” or “ includes ” means
includes, without limitation, and “ including ”
means including, without limitation.
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ARTICLE II.
ORGANIZATION
Section 2.1.
Formation.
The Predecessor General
Partner and the Organizational Limited Partner have previously
formed the Partnership as a limited partnership pursuant to the
provisions of the Delaware Act. Except as expressly provided to the
contrary in this Agreement, the rights, duties (including fiduciary
duties), liabilities and obligations of the Partners and the
administration, dissolution and termination of the Partnership
shall be governed by the Delaware Act. All Partnership Interests
shall constitute personal property of the owner thereof for all
purposes and a Partner has no interest in specific Partnership
property. The Unit Split was effectuated in accordance with Section
5.10 of this Agreement, and all related numerical amounts in this
Agreement are presented as if the Unit Split had occurred as of the
commencement of the term of the Partnership.
Section 2.2.
Name.
The name of the Partnership
shall be “Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.” The
Partnership’s business may be conducted under any other name
or names deemed necessary or appropriate by the General Partner in
its sole discretion, including the name of the General Partner. The
words “Limited Partnership,” “Ltd.” or
similar words or letters shall be included in the
Partnership’s name where necessary for the purpose of
complying with the laws of any jurisdiction that so requires. The
General Partner in its discretion may change the name of the
Partnership at any time and from time to time and shall notify the
Limited Partners of such change in the next regular communication
to the Limited Partners.
Section 2.3. Registered
Office; Registered Agent; Principal Office; Other
Offices.
Unless and until changed by
the General Partner, the registered office of the Partnership in
the State of Delaware shall be located at 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801, and the registered agent for service of
process on the Partnership in the State of Delaware at such
registered office shall be The Corporation Trust Company. The
principal office of the Partnership shall be located at One
Williams Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172 or such other place as the
General Partner may from time to time designate by notice to the
Limited Partners. The Partnership may maintain offices at such
other place or places within or outside the State of Delaware as
the General Partner deems necessary or appropriate. The address of
the General Partner shall be One Williams Center, Tulsa Oklahoma
74172 or such other place as the General Partner may from time to
time designate by notice to the Limited Partners.
Section 2.4. Purpose and
Business.
The purpose and nature of the
business to be conducted by the Partnership shall be to (a) serve
as a partner of Magellan OLP and, in connection therewith, to
exercise all the rights and powers conferred upon, the Partnership
as a partner of Magellan OLP pursuant to the Operating Partnership
Agreement of Magellan OLP or otherwise, (b) serve as the sole
stockholder of the Operating General Partner and, in connection
therewith, to exercise on behalf of the Partnership all the rights
and powers held by the Partnership as the sole stockholder of the
Operating General
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Partner, (c) serve as the sole member of
Magellan Pipeline and in connection therewith to exercise on behalf
of the Partnership all the rights and powers held by the
Partnership as the sole member of Magellan Pipeline, pursuant to
the Operating Partnership Agreement of Magellan Pipeline or
otherwise, (d) engage directly in, or enter into or form any
corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company
or other arrangement to engage indirectly in, any business activity
that the Operating Partnerships are permitted to engage in by the
Operating Partnership Agreements and, in connection therewith, to
exercise all of the rights and powers conferred upon the
Partnership pursuant to the agreements relating to such business
activity, (e) engage directly in, or enter into or form any
corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company
or other entity or arrangement to engage indirectly in, any
business activity that the General Partner approves and which
lawfully may be conducted by a limited partnership organized
pursuant to the Delaware Act and, in connection therewith, to
exercise all of the rights and powers conferred upon the
Partnership pursuant to the agreements relating to such business
activity and (f) do anything necessary or appropriate to the
foregoing, including the making of capital contributions or loans
to a Group Member; provided, however, that the General Partner
shall not cause the Partnership to engage, directly or indirectly,
in any business activity that the General Partner reasonably
determines would cause the Partnership to be treated as an
association taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxable as an
entity for federal income tax purposes. The General Partner has no
obligation or duty to the Partnership, the Limited Partners or the
Assignees to propose or approve, and in its discretion may decline
to propose or approve, the conduct by the Partnership of any
business.
Section 2.5.
Powers.
The Partnership shall be
empowered to do any and all acts and things necessary, appropriate,
proper, advisable, incidental to or convenient for the furtherance
and accomplishment of the purposes and business described in
Section 2.4 and for the protection and benefit of the
Partnership.
Section 2.6. Power of
Attorney.
(a) Each Limited Partner and
each Assignee hereby constitutes and appoints the General Partner
and, if a Liquidator shall have been selected pursuant to Section
12.3, the Liquidator, (and any successor to the Liquidator by
merger, transfer, assignment, election or otherwise) and each of
their authorized officers and attorneys-in-fact, as the case may
be, with full power of substitution, as his true and lawful agent
and attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority in his name,
place and stead, to:
(i) execute, swear to,
acknowledge, deliver, file and record in the appropriate public
offices (A) all certificates, documents and other instruments
(including this Agreement and the Certificate of Limited
Partnership and all amendments or restatements hereof or thereof)
that the General Partner or the Liquidator deems necessary or
appropriate to form, qualify or continue the existence or
qualification of the Partnership as a limited partnership (or a
partnership in which the limited partners have limited liability)
in the State of Delaware and in all other jurisdictions in which
the Partnership may conduct business or own property; (B) all
certificates, documents and other instruments that the General
Partner or the Liquidator deems necessary or appropriate
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reflect, in accordance with
its terms, any amendment, change, modification or restatement of
this Agreement; (C) all certificates, documents and other
instruments (including conveyances and a certificate of
cancellation) that the General Partner or the Liquidator deems
necessary or appropriate to reflect the dissolution and liquidation
of the Partnership pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; (D) all
certificates, documents and other instruments relating to the
admission, withdrawal, removal or substitution of any Partner
pursuant to, or other events described in, Article IV, X, XI or
XII; (E) all certificates, documents and other instruments relating
to the determination of the rights, preferences and privileges of
any class or series of Partnership Securities issued pursuant to
Section 5.6; and (F) all certificates, documents and other
instruments (including agreements and a certificate of merger)
relating to a merger or consolidation of the Partnership pursuant
to Article XIV; and
(ii) execute, swear to,
acknowledge, deliver, file and record all ballots, consents,
approvals, waivers, certificates, documents and other instruments
necessary or appropriate, in the discretion of the General Partner
or the Liquidator, to make, evidence, give, confirm or ratify any
vote, consent, approval, agreement or other action that is made or
given by the Partners hereunder or is consistent with the terms of
this Agreement or is necessary or appropriate, in the discretion of
the General Partner or the Liquidator, to effectuate the terms or
intent of this Agreement; provided, that when required by Section
13.3 or any other provision of this Agreement that establishes a
percentage of the Limited Partners or of the Limited Partners of
any class or series required to take any action, the General
Partner and the Liquidator may exercise the power of attorney made
in this Section 2.6(a)(ii) only after the necessary vote, consent
or approval of the Limited Partners or of the Limited Partners of
such class or series, as applicable.
Nothing contained in this
Section 2.6(a) shall be construed as authorizing the General
Partner to amend this Agreement except in accordance with Article
XIII or as may be otherwise expressly provided for in this
Agreement.
(b) The foregoing power of
attorney is hereby declared to be irrevocable and a power coupled
with an interest, and it shall survive and, to the maximum extent
permitted by law, not be affected by the subsequent death,
incompetency, disability, incapacity, dissolution, bankruptcy or
termination of any Limited Partner or Assignee and the transfer of
all or any portion of such Limited Partner’s or
Assignee’s Partnership Interest and shall extend to such
Limited Partner’s or Assignee’s heirs, successors,
assigns and personal representatives. Each such Limited Partner or
Assignee hereby agrees to be bound by any representation made by
the General Partner or the Liquidator acting in good faith pursuant
to such power of attorney; and each such Limited Partner or
Assignee, to the maximum extent permitted by law, hereby waives any
and all defenses that may be available to contest, negate or
disaffirm the action of the General Partner or the Liquidator taken
in good faith under such power of attorney. Each Limited Partner or
Assignee shall execute and deliver to the General Partner or the
Liquidator, within 15 days after receipt of the request therefor,
such further designation, powers of attorney and other instruments
as the General Partner or the Liquidator deems necessary to
effectuate this Agreement and the purposes of the
Partnership.
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Section 2.7.
Term.
The term of the Partnership
commenced upon the filing of the Certificate of Limited Partnership
in accordance with the Delaware Act and shall continue in existence
until the dissolution of the Partnership in accordance with the
provisions of Article XII. The existence of the Partnership as a
separate legal entity shall continue until the cancellation of the
Certificate of Limited Partnership as provided in the Delaware
Act.
Section 2.8. Title to
Partnership Assets.
Title to Partnership assets,
whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible,
shall be deemed to be owned by the Partnership as an entity, and no
Partner or Assignee, individually or collectively, shall have any
ownership interest in such Partnership assets or any portion
thereof. Title to any or all of the Partnership assets may be held
in the name of the Partnership, the General Partner, one or more of
its Affiliates or one or more nominees, as the General Partner may
determine. The General Partner hereby declares and warrants that
any Partnership assets for which record title is held in the name
of the General Partner or one or more of its Affiliates or one or
more nominees shall be held by the General Partner or such
Affiliate or nominee for the use and benefit of the Partnership in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided,
however, that the General Partner shall use reasonable efforts to
cause record title to such assets (other than those assets in
respect of which the General Partner determines that the expense
and difficulty of conveyancing makes transfer of record title to
the Partnership impracticable) to be vested in the Partnership as
soon as reasonably practicable; provided, further, that, prior to
the withdrawal or removal of the General Partner or as soon
thereafter as practicable, the General Partner shall use reasonable
efforts to effect the transfer of record title to the Partnership
and, prior to any such transfer, will provide for the use of such
assets in a manner satisfactory to the General Partner. All
Partnership assets shall be recorded as the property of the
Partnership in its books and records, irrespective of the name in
which record title to such Partnership assets is held.
Section 2.9. Certain
Undertakings Relating to the Separateness of the
Partnership.
(a) Separate Records .
The Partnership shall maintain (i) its books and records, (ii) its
accounts, and (iii) its financial statements, separate from those
of any other Person, except its consolidated
Subsidiaries.
(b) Separate Assets
. The Partnership shall not commingle or pool its funds or
other assets with those of any other Person, except its
consolidated Subsidiaries, and shall maintain its assets in a
manner that is not costly or difficult to segregate, ascertain or
otherwise identify as separate from those of any other
Person.
(c) Separate Name .
The Partnership shall (i) conduct its business in its own name,
(ii) use separate stationery, invoices, and checks, (iii) correct
any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity, and
(iv) generally hold itself out as a separate entity.
(d) Separate Credit .
The Partnership shall not (i) pay its own liabilities from a source
other than its own funds, (ii) guarantee or become obligated for
the debts of any
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other Person, except its
Subsidiaries, (iii) hold out its credit as being available to
satisfy the obligations of any other Person, except its
Subsidiaries, (iv) acquire obligations or debt securities of
Holdings its Affiliates (other than the Partnership or its
Subsidiaries), or (v) pledge its assets for the benefit of any
Person or make loans or advances to any Person, except its
Subsidiaries; provided that the Partnership may engage in any
transaction described in clauses (ii)-(v) of this Section 2.9(d) if
prior Special Approval has been obtained for such transaction and
either (A) the Conflicts Committee has determined, or has obtained
reasonable written assurance from a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants or a nationally recognized
investment banking or valuation firm, that the borrower or
recipient of the credit extension is not then insolvent and will
not be rendered insolvent as a result of such transaction or (B) in
the case of transactions described in clause (iv), such transaction
is completed through a public auction or a National Securities
Exchange.
(e) Separate
Formalities . The Partnership shall (i) observe all partnership
formalities and other formalities required by its organizational
documents, the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, or other
laws, rules, regulations and orders of governmental authorities
exercising jurisdiction over it, (ii) engage in transactions with
the General Partner and its Affiliates (other than another Group
Member) in conformity with the requirements of Section 7.9, and
(iii) subject to the terms of the New Omnibus Agreement and the New
Services Agreement, promptly pay, from its own funds, and on a
current basis, its allocable share of general and administrative
expenses, capital expenditures, and costs for shared services
performed by Affiliates of the General Partner (other than another
Group Member). Each material contract between the Partnership or
another Group Member, on the one hand, and the Affiliates of the
General Partner (other than a Group Member), on the other hand,
shall be in writing.
ARTICLE
III.
RIGHTS OF LIMITED
PARTNERS
Section 3.1. Limitation of
Liability.
The Limited Partners and the
Assignees shall have no liability under this Agreement except as
expressly provided in this Agreement or the Delaware
Act.
Section 3.2. Management of
Business.
No Limited Partner or
Assignee, in its capacity as such, shall participate in the
operation, management or control (within the meaning of the
Delaware Act) of the Partnership’s business, transact any
business in the Partnership’s name or have the power to sign
documents for or otherwise bind the Partnership. Any action taken
by any Affiliate of the General Partner or any officer, director,
employee, manager, member, general partner, agent or trustee of the
General Partner or any of its Affiliates, or any officer, director,
employee, manager, member, general partner, agent or trustee of a
Group Member, in its capacity as such, shall not be deemed to be
participation in the control of the business of the Partnership by
a limited partner of the Partnership (within the meaning of Section
17-303(a) of the Delaware Act) and shall not affect, impair or
eliminate the limitations on the liability of the Limited Partners
or Assignees under this Agreement.
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Section 3.3. Outside
Activities of the Limited Partners.
Subject to the provisions of
Section 7.5 and Article III of the New Omnibus Agreement, which
shall continue to be applicable to the Persons referred to therein,
regardless of whether such Persons shall also be Limited Partners
or Assignees, any Limited Partner or Assignee shall be entitled to
and may have business interests and engage in business activities
in addition to those relating to the Partnership, including
business interests and activities in direct competition with the
Partnership Group. Neither the Partnership nor any of the other
Partners or Assignees shall have any rights by virtue of this
Agreement in any business ventures of any Limited Partner or
Assignee.
Section 3.4. Rights of
Limited Partners.
(a) In addition to other
rights provided by this Agreement or by applicable law, and except
as limited by Section 3.4(b), each Limited Partner shall have the
right, for a purpose reasonably related to such Limited
Partner’s interest as a limited partner in the Partnership,
upon reasonable written demand and at such Limited Partner’s
own expense:
(i) to obtain true and full
information regarding the status of the business and financial
condition of the Partnership;
(ii) promptly after becoming
available, to obtain a copy of the Partnership’s federal,
state and local income tax returns for each year;
(iii) to have furnished to
him a current list of the name and last known business, residence
or mailing address of each Partner;
(iv) to have furnished to him
a copy of this Agreement and the Certificate of Limited Partnership
and all amendments thereto, together with a copy of the executed
copies of all powers of attorney pursuant to which this Agreement,
the Certificate of Limited Partnership and all amendments thereto
have been executed;
(v) to obtain true and full
information regarding the amount of cash and a description and
statement of the Net Agreed Value of any other Capital Contribution
by each Partner and which each Partner has agreed to contribute in
the future, and the date on which each became a Partner;
and
(vi) to obtain such other
information regarding the affairs of the Partnership as is just and
reasonable.
(b) The General Partner may
keep confidential from the Limited Partners and Assignees, for such
period of time as the General Partner deems reasonable, (i) any
information that the General Partner reasonably believes to be in
the nature of trade secrets or (ii) other information the
disclosure of which the General Partner in good faith believes (A)
is not in the best interests of the Partnership Group, (B) could
damage the Partnership Group or (C) that any
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Group Member is required by law or by
agreement with any third party to keep confidential (other than
agreements with Affiliates of the Partnership the primary purpose
of which is to circumvent the obligations set forth in this Section
3.4).
ARTICLE IV.
CERTIFICATES; RECORD
HOLDERS; TRANSFER OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS;
REDEMPTION OF PARTNERSHIP
INTERESTS
Section 4.1.
Certificates.
Upon the Partnership’s
issuance of Common Units or Subordinated Units to any Person, the
Partnership shall issue one or more Certificates in the name of
such Person evidencing the number of such Units being so issued. In
addition, (a) upon the General Partner’s request, the
Partnership shall issue to it one or more Certificates in the name
of the General Partner evidencing its interests in the Partnership
and (b) upon the request of any Person owning Incentive
Distribution Rights or any other Partnership Securities other than
Common Units or Subordinated Units, the Partnership shall issue to
such Person one or more Certificates evidencing such Incentive
Distribution Rights or other Partnership Securities other than
Common Units or Subordinated Units. Certificates shall be executed
on behalf of the Partnership by the Chairman of the Board,
President or any Vice President and the Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary of the General Partner. No Common Unit Certificate shall
be valid for any purpose until it has been countersigned by the
Transfer Agent; provided, however, that if the General Partner
elects to issue Common Units in global form, the Common Unit
Certificates shall be valid upon receipt of a certificate from the
Transfer Agent certifying that the Common Units have been duly
registered in accordance with the directions of the Partnership and
the Underwriters. Subject to the requirements of Section 6.7(b),
the Partners holding Certificates evidencing Subordinated Units may
exchange such Certificates for Certificates evidencing Common Units
on or after the date on which such Subordinated Units are converted
into Common Units pursuant to the terms of Section 5.8.
Section 4.2. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.
(a) If any mutilated
Certificate is surrendered to the Transfer Agent, the appropriate
officers of the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership shall
execute, and the Transfer Agent shall countersign and deliver in
exchange therefor, a new Certificate evidencing the same number and
type of Partnership Securities as the Certificate so
surrendered.
(b) The appropriate officers
of the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership shall execute
and deliver, and the Transfer Agent shall countersign a new
Certificate in place of any Certificate previously issued if the
Record Holder of the Certificate:
(i) makes proof by affidavit,
in form and substance satisfactory to the Partnership, that a
previously issued Certificate has been lost, destroyed or
stolen;
(ii) requests the issuance of
a new Certificate before the Partnership has notice that the
Certificate has been acquired by a purchaser for value in good
faith and without notice of an adverse claim;
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(iii) if requested by the
Partnership, delivers to the Partnership a bond, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Partnership, with surety or sureties
and with fixed or open penalty as the Partnership may reasonably
direct, in its sole discretion, to indemnify the Partnership, the
Partners, the General Partner and the Transfer Agent against any
claim that may be made on account of the alleged loss, destruction
or theft of the Certificate; and
(iv) satisfies any other
reasonable requirements imposed by the Partnership.
If a Limited Partner or
Assignee fails to notify the Partnership within a reasonable time
after he has notice of the loss, destruction or theft of a
Certificate, and a transfer of the Limited Partner Interests
represented by the Certificate is registered before the
Partnership, the General Partner or the Transfer Agent receives
such notification, the Limited Partner or Assignee shall be
precluded from making any claim against the Partnership, the
General Partner or the Transfer Agent for such transfer or for a
new Certificate.
(c) As a condition to the
issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 4.2, the
Partnership may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Transfer Agent) reasonably connected
therewith.
Section 4.3. Record
Holders.
The Partnership shall be
entitled to recognize the Record Holder as the Partner or Assignee
with respect to any Partnership Interest and, accordingly, shall
not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or
interest in such Partnership Interest on the part of any other
Person, regardless of whether the Partnership shall have actual or
other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by law or any
applicable rule, regulation, guideline or requirement of any
National Securities Exchange on which such Partnership Interests
are listed for trading. Without limiting the foregoing, when a
Person (such as a broker, dealer, bank, trust company or clearing
corporation or an agent of any of the foregoing) is acting as
nominee, agent or in some other representative capacity for another
Person in acquiring and/or holding Partnership Interests, as
between the Partnership on the one hand, and such other Persons on
the other, such representative Person (a) shall be the Partner or
Assignee (as the case may be) of record and beneficially, (b) must
execute and deliver a Transfer Application and (c) shall be bound
by this Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a
Partner or Assignee (as the case may be) hereunder and as, and to
the extent, provided for herein.
Section 4.4. Transfer
Generally.
(a) The term “
transfer ,” when used in this Agreement with respect
to a Partnership Interest, shall be deemed to refer to a
transaction by which the General Partner assigns its General
Partner Interest to another Person who becomes the General Partner,
by which the holder of a Limited Partner Interest assigns such
Limited Partner Interest to another Person who is or becomes a
Limited Partner or an Assignee, and includes a sale, assignment,
gift, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation, mortgage, exchange or any
other disposition by law or otherwise.
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(b) No Partnership Interest
shall be transferred, in whole or in part, except in accordance
with the terms and conditions set forth in this Article IV. Any
transfer or purported transfer of a Partnership Interest not made
in accordance with this Article IV shall be null and
void.
(c) Nothing contained in this
Agreement shall be construed to prevent a disposition by any member
of the General Partner of any or all of the issued and outstanding
membership interests of the General Partner.
Section 4.5. Registration
and Transfer of Limited Partner Interests.
(a) The Partnership shall
keep or cause to be kept on behalf of the Partnership a register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe
and subject to the provisions of Section 4.5(b), the Partnership
will provide for the registration and transfer of Limited Partner
Interests. The Transfer Agent is hereby appointed registrar and
transfer agent for the purpose of registering Common Units and
transfers of such Common Units as herein provided. The Partnership
shall not recognize transfers of Certificates evidencing Limited
Partner Interests unless such transfers are effected in the manner
described in this Section 4.5. Upon surrender of a Certificate for
registration of transfer of any Limited Partner Interests evidenced
by a Certificate, and subject to the provisions of Section 4.5(b),
the appropriate officers of the General Partner on behalf of the
Partnership shall execute and deliver, and in the case of Common
Units, the Transfer Agent shall countersign and deliver, in the
name of the holder or the designated transferee or transferees, as
required pursuant to the holder’s instructions, one or more
new Certificates evidencing the same aggregate number and type of
Limited Partner Interests as was evidenced by the Certificate so
surrendered.
(b) Except as otherwise
provided in Section 4.9, the Partnership shall not recognize any
transfer of Limited Partner Interests until the Certificates
evidencing such Limited Partner Interests are surrendered for
registration of transfer and such Certificates are accompanied by a
Transfer Application duly executed by the transferee (or the
transferee’s attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing). No
charge shall be imposed by the Partnership for such transfer;
provided, that as a condition to the issuance of any new
Certificate under this Section 4.5, the Partnership may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed with respect thereto.
(c) Limited Partner Interests
may be transferred only in the manner described in this Section
4.5. The transfer of any Limited Partner Interests and the
admission of any new Limited Partner shall not constitute an
amendment to this Agreement.
(d) Until admitted as a
Substituted Limited Partner pursuant to Section 10.2, the Record
Holder of a Limited Partner Interest shall be an Assignee in
respect of such Limited Partner Interest. Limited Partners may
include custodians, nominees or any other individual or entity in
its own or any representative capacity.
(e) A transferee of a Limited
Partner Interest who has completed and delivered a Transfer
Application shall be deemed to have (i) requested admission as a
Substituted Limited Partner, (ii) agreed to comply with and be
bound by and to have executed this Agreement,
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(iii) represented and warranted that
such transferee has the right, power and authority and, if an
individual, the capacity to enter into this Agreement, (iv) granted
the powers of attorney set forth in this Agreement and (v) given
the consents and approvals and made the waivers contained in this
Agreement.
(f) The General Partner and
its Affiliates shall have the right at any time to transfer their
Subordinated Units and Common Units (whether issued upon conversion
of the Subordinated Units or otherwise) to one or more
Persons.
Section 4.6. Transfer of
the General Partner’s General Partner
Interest.
(a) Subject to Section 4.6(c)
below, prior to March 31, 2011, the General Partner shall not
transfer all or any part of its General Partner Interest to a
Person unless such transfer (i) has been approved by the prior
written consent or vote of the holders of at least a majority of
the Outstanding Common Units (excluding Common Units held by the
General Partner and its Affiliates) or (ii) is of all, but not less
than all, of its General Partner Interest to (A) an Affiliate of
the General Partner or (B) another Person in connection with the
merger or consolidation of the General Partner with or into another
Person or the transfer by the General Partner of all or
substantially all of its assets to another Person.
(b) Subject to Section 4.6(c)
below, on or after March 31, 2011, the General Partner may transfer
all or any of its General Partner Interest without Unitholder
approval.
(c) Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, no transfer by the General Partner of all
or any part of its General Partner Interest to another Person shall
be permitted unless (i) the transferee agrees to assume the rights
and duties of the General Partner under this Agreement and to be
bound by the provisions of this Agreement, (ii) the Partnership
receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result
in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any
limited partner or any member of the Operating Partnerships or
cause the Partnership or the Operating Partnerships to be treated
as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise to be taxed
as an entity for federal income tax purposes (to the extent not
already so treated or taxed), (iii) such transferee also agrees to
purchase all (or the appropriate portion thereof, if applicable) of
the partnership or membership interest of the General Partner as
the general partner or managing member of each other Group Member;
and (iv) the organizational documents of the owner(s) of all the
General Partner Interest, together, provide for the establishment
of a “Conflicts Committee” to approve certain matters
with respect to the General Partner and the Partnership, the
selection of “Independent Directors” as members of such
Conflicts Committee, and the submission of certain matters to the
vote of such Conflicts Committee upon similar terms and conditions
as set forth in the limited liability company agreement of the
General Partner, as the same exists as of the date of this
Agreement so as to provide the Limited Partners and the General
Partner with the same rights and obligations as are herein
contained. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and in compliance
with this Section 4.6, the transferee or successor (as the case may
be) shall, subject to compliance with the terms of Section 10.3, be
admitted to the Partnership as a General Partner immediately prior
to the transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the business of
the Partnership shall continue without dissolution.
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Section 4.7. Transfer of
Incentive Distribution Rights.
Prior to March 31, 2011, a
holder of Incentive Distribution Rights may transfer any or all of
the Incentive Distribution Rights held by such holder without any
consent of the Unitholders (a) to an Affiliate or (b) to another
Person in connection with (i) the merger or consolidation of such
holder of Incentive Distribution Rights with or into such other
Person or (ii) the transfer by such holder of all or substantially
all of its assets to such other Person. Any other transfer of the
Incentive Distribution Rights prior to March 31, 2011, shall
require the prior approval of holders at least a majority of the
Outstanding Common Units (excluding Common Units held by the
General Partner and its Affiliates). On or after March 31, 2011,
the General Partner or any other holder of Incentive Distribution
Rights may transfer any or all of its Incentive Distribution Rights
without Unitholder approval. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, no transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights to another
Person shall be permitted unless the transferee agrees to be bound
by the provisions of this Agreement. The General Partner shall have
the authority (but shall not be required) to adopt such reasonable
restrictions on the transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights and
requirements for registering the transfer of Incentive Distribution
Rights as the General Partner, in its sole discretion, shall
determine are necessary or appropriate.
Section 4.8. Restrictions
on Transfers.
(a) Except as provided in
Section 4.8(d) below, but notwithstanding the other provisions of
this Article IV, no transfer of any Partnership Interests shall be
made if such transfer would (i) violate the then applicable federal
or state securities laws or rules and regulations of the
Commission, any state securities commission or any other
governmental authority with jurisdiction over such transfer, (ii)
terminate the existence or qualification of the Partnership under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, or (iii) cause the
Partnership or Operating Partnerships to be treated as an
association taxable as a corporation or otherwise to be taxed as an
entity for federal income tax purposes (to the extent not already
so treated or taxed).
(b) The General Partner may
impose restrictions on the transfer of Partnership Interests if a
subsequent Opinion of Counsel determines that such restrictions are
necessary to avoid a significant risk of the Partnership becoming
taxable as a corporation or otherwise to be taxed as an entity for
federal income tax purposes. The restrictions may be imposed by
making such amendments to this Agreement as the General Partner may
determine to be necessary or appropriate to impose such
restrictions; provided, however, that any amendment that the
General Partner believes, in the exercise of its reasonable
discretion, could result in the delisting or suspension of trading
of any class of Limited Partner Interests on the principal National
Securities Exchange on which such class of Limited Partner
Interests is then traded must be approved, prior to such amendment
being effected, by the holders of at least a majority of the
Outstanding Limited Partner Interests of such class.
(c) The transfer of a
Subordinated Unit that has converted into a Common Unit shall be
subject to the restrictions imposed by Section 6.7(b).
(d) Nothing contained in this
Article IV, or elsewhere in this Agreement, shall preclude the
settlement of any transactions involving Partnership Interests
entered into through the facilities of any National Securities
Exchange on which such Partnership Interests are listed for
trading.
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Section 4.9. Citizenship
Certificates; Non-citizen Assignees.
(a) If any Group Member is or
becomes subject to any federal, state or local law or regulation
that, in the reasonable determination of the General Partner,
creates a substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any
property in which the Group Member has an interest based on the
nationality, citizenship or other related status of a Limited
Partner or Assignee, the General Partner may request any Limited
Partner or Assignee to furnish to the General Partner, within 30
days after receipt of such request, an executed Citizenship
Certification or such other information concerning his nationality,
citizenship or other related status (or, if the Limited Partner or
Assignee is a nominee holding for the account of another Person,
the nationality, citizenship or other related status of such
Person) as the General Partner may request. If a Limited Partner or
Assignee fails to furnish to the General Partner within the
aforementioned 30-day period such Citizenship Certification or
other requested information or if upon receipt of such Citizenship
Certification or other requested information the General Partner
determines, with the advice of counsel, that a Limited Partner or
Assignee is not an Eligible Citizen, the Partnership Interests
owned by such Limited Partner or Assignee shall be subject to
redemption in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.10. In
addition, the General Partner may require that the status of any
such Partner or Assignee be changed to that of a Non-citizen
Assignee and, thereupon, the General Partner shall be substituted
for such Non-citizen Assignee as the Limited Partner in respect of
his Limited Partner Interests.
(b) The General Partner
shall, in exercising voting rights in respect of Limited Partner
Interests held by it on behalf of Non-citizen Assignees, distribute
the votes in the same ratios as the votes of Partners (including
without limitation the General Partner) in respect of Limited
Partner Interests other than those of Non-citizen Assignees are
cast, either for, against or abstaining as to the
matter.
(c) Upon dissolution of the
Partnership, a Non-citizen Assignee shall have no right to receive
a distribution in kind pursuant to Section 12.4 but shall be
entitled to the cash equivalent thereof, and the Partnership shall
provide cash in exchange for an assignment of the Non-citizen
Assignee’s share of the distribution in kind. Such payment
and assignment shall be treated for Partnership purposes as a
purchase by the Partnership from the Non-citizen Assignee of his
Limited Partner Interest (representing his right to receive his
share of such distribution in kind).
(d) At any time after he can
and does certify that he has become an Eligible Citizen, a
Non-citizen Assignee may, upon application to the General Partner,
request admission as a Substituted Limited Partner with respect to
any Limited Partner Interests of such Non-citizen Assignee not
redeemed pursuant to Section 4.10, and upon his admission pursuant
to Section 10.2, the General Partner shall cease to be deemed to be
the Limited Partner in respect of the Non-citizen Assignee’s
Limited Partner Interests.
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Section 4.10. Redemption
of Partnership Interests of Non-citizen Assignees.
(a) If at any time a Limited
Partner or Assignee fails to furnish a Citizenship Certification or
other information requested within the 30-day period specified in
Section 4.9(a), or if upon receipt of such Citizenship
Certification or other information the General Partner determines,
with the advice of counsel, that a Limited Partner or Assignee is
not an Eligible Citizen, the Partnership may, unless the Limited
Partner or Assignee establishes to the satisfaction of the General
Partner that such Limited Partner or Assignee is an Eligible
Citizen or has transferred his Partnership Interests to a Person
who is an Eligible Citizen and who furnishes a Citizenship
Certification to the General Partner prior to the date fixed for
redemption as provided below, redeem the Partnership Interest of
such Limited Partner or Assignee as follows:
(i) The General Partner
shall, not later than the 30th day before the date fixed for
redemption, give notice of redemption to the Limited Partner or
Assignee, at his last address designated on the records of the
Partnership or the Transfer Agent, by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid. The notice shall be deemed to have been given when
so mailed. The notice shall specify the Redeemable Interests, the
date fixed for redemption, the place of payment, that payment of
the redemption price will be made upon surrender of the Certificate
evidencing the Redeemable Interests and that on and after the date
fixed for redemption no further allocations or distributions to
which the Limited Partner or Assignee would otherwise be entitled
in respect of the Redeemable Interests will accrue or be
made.
(ii) The aggregate redemption
price for Redeemable Interests shall be an amount equal to the
Current Market Price (the date of determination of which shall be
the date fixed for redemption) of Limited Partner Interests of the
class to be so redeemed multiplied by the number of Limited Partner
Interests of each such class included among the Redeemable
Interests. The redemption price shall be paid, in the discretion of
the General Partner, in cash or by delivery of a promissory note of
the Partnership in the principal amount of the redemption price,
bearing interest at the rate of 10% annually and payable in three
equal annual installments of principal together with accrued
interest, commencing one year after the redemption date.
(iii) Upon surrender by or on
behalf of the Limited Partner or Assignee, at the place specified
in the notice of redemption, of the Certificate evidencing the
Redeemable Interests, duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by an
assignment duly executed in blank, the Limited Partner or Assignee
or his duly authorized representative shall be entitled to receive
the payment therefor.
(iv) After the redemption
date, Redeemable Interests shall no longer constitute issued and
Outstanding Limited Partner Interests.
(b) The provisions of this
Section 4.10 shall also be applicable to Limited Partner Interests
held by a Limited Partner or Assignee as nominee of a Person
determined to be other than an Eligible Citizen.
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(c) Nothing in this Section
4.10 shall prevent the recipient of a notice of redemption from
transferring his Limited Partner Interest before the redemption
date if such transfer is otherwise permitted under this Agreement.
Upon receipt of notice of such a transfer, the General Partner
shall withdraw the notice of redemption, provided the transferee of
such Limited Partner Interest certifies to the satisfaction of the
General Partner in a Citizenship Certification delivered in
connection with the Transfer Application that he is an Eligible
Citizen. If the transferee fails to make such certification, such
redemption shall be effected from the transferee on the original
redemption date.
ARTICLE V.
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND
ISSUANCE OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS
Section 5.1.
Organizational Contributions.
In connection with the
formation of the Partnership under the Delaware Act, the
Predecessor General Partner made an initial Capital Contribution to
the Partnership in the amount of $10.00 for an interest in the
Partnership and was admitted as the Predecessor General Partner of
the Partnership, and the Organizational Limited Partner made an
initial Capital Contribution to the Partnership in the amount of
$990.00 for an interest in the Partnership and was admitted as a
Limited Partner of the Partnership. As of the Closing Date, the
interest of the Organizational Limited Partner was redeemed as
provided in the Contribution and Conveyance Agreement; the initial
Capital Contributions of each Partner were refunded; and the
Organizational Limited Partner ceased to be a Limited Partner of
the Partnership. Ninety-nine percent of any interest or other
profit that may have resulted from the investment or other use of
such initial Capital Contributions was allocated and distributed to
the Organizational Limited Partner, and the balance thereof was
allocated and distributed to the Predecessor General
Partner.
Section 5.2. Contributions
by the General Partner and its Affiliates.
(a) On the Closing Date and
pursuant to the Contribution and Conveyance Agreement, (i) the
Predecessor General Partner contributed to the Partnership, as a
Capital Contribution, all of its interest in Magellan Ammonia
Pipeline, L.P. (formerly known as Williams Ammonia Pipeline, L.P.),
a Delaware limited partnership, and all of its interest in Magellan
Terminals Holdings, L.P. (formerly known as Williams Terminals
Holdings, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership, in exchange for
(A) the continuation of its General Partner Interest, subject to
all of the rights, privileges and duties of the General Partner
under this Agreement, and (B) the Incentive Distribution Rights,
(ii) Williams Natural Gas Liquids, Inc., contributed to the
Partnership, as a Capital Contribution, all of its limited partner
interest in Magellan OLP in exchange for 645,002 Common Units and
2,181,002 Subordinated Units and (iii) Williams Energy Services,
LLC contributed to the Partnership, as a Capital Contribution, all
of its limited partner interest in Magellan OLP in exchange for
2,714,386 Common Units and 9,178,386 Subordinated Units.
(b) Upon the issuance of any
additional Limited Partner Interests by the Partnership (other than
the issuance of the Common Units issued in the Initial Offering or
pursuant to the Over-Allotment Option), the General Partner shall
be required to make additional Capital Contributions equal to
2/98ths of any amount contributed to the Partnership by
the
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Limited Partners in exchange for such
additional Limited Partner Interests, but only to the extent
necessary such that the General Partner’s Capital Account is
equal to 2% of the total of all Capital Accounts following such
issuance. Except as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence
and Article XII, the General Partner shall not be obligated to make
any additional Capital Contributions to the Partnership.
(c) On each date provided for
reimbursement of expenses to the General Partner pursuant to
Section 7.4(b), the General Partner shall contribute an amount to
the Partnership, as a Capital Contribution, equal to the amount of
any Excess G&A Expenses outstanding on such date.
(d) Each payment by the
General Partner or an Affiliate (other than a Group Member) in
satisfaction of all or any portion of the Assumed Environmental
Indemnification Obligations shall be treated as a Capital
Contribution to the Partnership by the General Partner in the
amount of such payment.
Section 5.3. Contributions
by Initial Limited Partners and Reimbursement of the General
Partner.
(a) On the Closing Date and
pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, each Underwriter
contributed to the Partnership cash in an amount equal to the Issue
Price per Initial Common Unit multiplied by the number of Common
Units specified in the Underwriting Agreement to be purchased by
such Underwriter at the Closing Date. In exchange for such Capital
Contributions by the Underwriters, the Partnership issued Common
Units to each Underwriter on whose behalf such Capital Contribution
was made in an amount equal to the quotient obtained by dividing
(i) the cash contribution to the Partnership by or on behalf of
such Underwriter by (ii) the Issue Price per Initial Common
Unit.
(b) Upon the exercise of the
Over-Allotment Option, each Underwriter contributed to the
Partnership cash in an amount equal to the Issue Price per Initial
Common Unit, multiplied by the number of Common Units specified in
the Underwriting Agreement to be purchased by such Underwriter at
the Option Closing Date. In exchange for such Capital Contributions
by the Underwriters, the Partnership issued Common Units to each
Underwriter on whose behalf such Capital Contribution is made in an
amount equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the cash
contributions to the Partnership by or on behalf of such
Underwriter by (ii) the Issue Price per Initial Common Unit. Upon
receipt by the Partnership of the Capital Contributions from the
Underwriters as provided in this Section 5.3(b), the Partnership
used such cash to redeem from Williams Energy Services, LLC that
number of Common Units held by Williams Energy Services, LLC equal
to the number of Common Units issued to the Underwriters as
provided in this Section 5.3(b).
(c) No Limited Partner
Interests were issued as of or at the Closing Date other than (i)
the Common Units issued pursuant to subparagraph (a) hereof in
aggregate number equal to 8,000,000 Units, (ii) the “
Option Units ” as such term is used in the
Underwriting Agreement issued upon exercise of the Over-Allotment
Option pursuant to subparagraph (b) hereof in an aggregate number
of up to 1,200,000 Units, (iii) the 11,359,388 Subordinated Units
issued to the Predecessor General Partner or its Affiliates
pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof, and (iv) the Incentive Distribution
Rights.
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Section 5.4. Interest and
Withdrawal.
No interest on Capital
Contributions shall be paid by the Partnership. No Partner or
Assignee shall be entitled to the withdrawal or return of its
Capital Contribution, except to the extent, if any, that
distributions made pursuant to this Agreement or upon termination
of the Partnership may be considered as such by law and then only
to the extent provided for in this Agreement. Except to the extent
expressly provided in this Agreement, no Partner or Assignee shall
have priority over any other Partner or Assignee either as to the
return of Capital Contributions or as to profits, losses or
distributions. Any such return shall be a compromise to which all
Partners and Assignees agree within the meaning of 17-502(b) of the
Delaware Act.
Section 5.5. Capital
Accounts.
(a) The Partnership shall
maintain for each Partner (or a beneficial owner of Partnership
Interests held by a nominee in any case in which the nominee has
furnished the identity of such owner to the Partnership in
accordance with Section 6031(c) of the Code or any other method
acceptable to the General Partner in its sole discretion) owning a
Partnership Interest a separate Capital Account with respect to
such Partnership Interest in accordance with the rules of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv). Such Capital Account shall be
increased by (i) the amount of all Capital Contributions made to
the Partnership with respect to such Partnership Interest pursuant
to this Agreement and (ii) all items of Partnership income and gain
(including, without limitation, income and gain exempt from tax)
computed in accordance with Section 5.5(b) and allocated with
respect to such Partnership Interest pursuant to Section 6.1, and
decreased by (x) the amount of cash or Net Agreed Value of all
actual and deemed distributions of cash or property made with
respect to such Partnership Interest pursuant to this Agreement and
(y) all items of Partnership deduction and loss computed in
accordance with Section 5.5(b) and allocated with respect to such
Partnership Interest pursuant to Section 6.1.
(b) For purposes of computing
the amount of any item of income, gain, loss or deduction which is
to be allocated pursuant to Article VI and is to be reflected in
the Partners’ Capital Accounts, the determination,
recognition and classification of any such item shall be the same
as its determination, recognition and classification for federal
income tax purposes (including, without limitation, any method of
depreciation, cost recovery or amortization used for that purpose),
provided, that:
(i) Solely for purposes of
this Section 5.5, the Partnership shall be treated as owning
directly its proportionate share (as determined by the General
Partner based upon the provisions of the Operating Partnership
Agreements) of all property owned by the Operating Partnerships or
any other Subsidiary that is classified as a partnership for
federal income tax purposes.
(ii) All fees and other
expenses incurred by the Partnership to promote the sale of (or to
sell) a Partnership Interest that can neither be deducted nor
amortized under
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Section 709 of the Code, if
any, shall, for purposes of Capital Account maintenance, be treated
as an item of deduction at the time such fees and other expenses
are incurred and shall be allocated among the Partners pursuant to
Section 6.1.
(iii) Except as otherwise
provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m), the
computation of all items of income, gain, loss and deduction shall
be made without regard to any election under Section 754 of the
Code which may be made by the Partnership and, as to those items
described in Section 705(a)(1)(B) or 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code,
without regard to the fact that such items are not includable in
gross income or are neither currently deductible nor capitalized
for federal income tax purposes. To the extent an adjustment to the
adjusted tax basis of any Partnership asset pursuant to Section
734(b) or 743(b) of the Code is required, pursuant to Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m), to be taken into account
in determining Capital Accounts, the amount of such adjustment in
the Capital Accounts shall be treated as an item of gain or
loss.
(iv) Any income, gain or loss
attributable to the taxable disposition of any Partnership property
shall be determined as if the adjusted basis of such property as of
such date of disposition were equal in amount to the
Partnership’s Carrying Value with respect to such property as
of such date.
(v) In accordance with the
requirements of Section 704(b) of the Code, any deductions for
depreciation, cost recovery or amortization attributable to any
Contributed Property shall be determined as if the adjusted basis
of such property on the date it was acquired by the Partnership
were equal to the Agreed Value of such property. Upon an adjustment
pursuant to Section 5.5(d) to the Carrying Value of any Partnership
property subject to depreciation, cost recovery or amortization,
any further deductions for such depreciation, cost recovery or
amortization attributable to such property shall be determined (A)
as if the adjusted basis of such property were equal to the
Carrying Value of such property immediately following such
adjustment and (B) using a rate of depreciation, cost recovery or
amortization derived from the same method and useful life (or, if
applicable, the remaining useful life) as is applied for federal
income tax purposes; provided, however, that, if the asset has a
zero adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes, depreciation,
cost recovery or amortization deductions shall be determined using
any reasonable method that the General Partner may
adopt.
(vi) If the
Partnership’s adjusted basis in a depreciable or cost
recovery property is reduced for federal income tax purposes
pursuant to Section 48(q)(1) or 48(q)(3) of the Code, the amount of
such reduction shall, solely for purposes hereof, be deemed to be
an additional depreciation or cost recovery deduction in the year
such property is placed in service and shall be allocated among the
Partners pursuant to Section 6.1. Any restoration of such basis
pursuant to Section 48(q)(2) of the Code shall, to the extent
possible, be allocated in the same manner to the Partners to whom
such deemed deduction was allocated.
(c) (i) A transferee of a
Partnership Interest shall succeed to a pro rata portion of the
Capital Account of the transferor relating to the Partnership
Interest so transferred.
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(ii) Immediately prior to the
transfer of a Subordinated Unit or of a Subordinated Unit that has
converted into a Common Unit pursuant to Section 5.8 by a holder
thereof (other than a transfer to an Affiliate unless, the General
Partner elects to have this subparagraph 5.5(c)(ii) apply), the
Capital Account maintained for such Person with respect to its
Subordinated Units or converted Subordinated Units will (A) first,
be allocated to the Subordinated Units or converted Subordinated
Units to be transferred in an amount equal to the product of (x)
the number of such Subordinated Units or converted Subordinated
Units to be transferred and (y) the Per Unit Capital Amount for a
Common Unit, and (B) second, any remaining balance in such Capital
Account will be retained by the transferor, regardless of whether
it has retained any Subordinated Units or converted Subordinated
Units. Following any such allocation, the transferor’s
Capital Account, if any, maintained with respect to the retained
Subordinated Units or converted Subordinated Units, if any, will
have a balance equal to the amount allocated under clause (B)
above, and the transferee’s Capital Account established with
respect to the transferred Subordinated Units or converted
Subordinated Units will have a balance equal to the amount
allocated under clause (A) above.
(d) (i) In accordance with
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), on an issuance of
additional Partnership Interests for cash or Contributed Property
or the conversion of the General Partner’s Combined Interest
to Common Units pursuant to Section 11.3(b), the Capital Account of
all Partners and the Carrying Value of each Partnership property
immediately prior to such issuance shall be adjusted upward or
downward to reflect any Unrealized Gain or Unrealized Loss
attributable to such Partnership property, as if such Unrealized
Gain or Unrealized Loss had been recognized on an actual sale of
each such property immediately prior to such issuance and had been
allocated to the Partners at such time pursuant to Section 6.1(c)
in the same manner as any item of gain or loss actually recognized
during such period would have been allocated. In determining such
Unrealized Gain or Unrealized Loss, the aggregate cash amount and
fair market value of all Partnership assets (including, without
limitation, cash or cash equivalents) immediately prior to the
issuance of additional Partnership Interests shall be determined by
the General Partner using such reasonable method of valuation as it
may adopt; provided, however, that the General Partner, in arriving
at such valuation, must take fully into account the fair market
value of the Partnership Interests of all Partners at such time.
The General Partner shall allocate such aggregate value among the
assets of the Partnership (in such manner as it determines in its
discretion to be reasonable) to arrive at a fair market value for
individual properties.
(ii) In accordance with
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), immediately prior
to any actual or deemed distribution to a Partner of any
Partnership property (other than a distribution of cash that is not
in redemption or retirement of a Partnership Interest), the Capital
Accounts of all Partners and the Carrying Value of all Partnership
property shall be adjusted upward or downward to reflect any
Unrealized Gain or Unrealized Loss attributable to such Partnership
property, as if such Unrealized Gain or Unrealized Loss had been
recognized in a sale of such property immediately prior to such
distribution for an amount equal to its fair market value, and had
been allocated to the Partners, at such time, pursuant to Section
6.1(c) in the same manner as any item of gain or loss actually
recognized during such period would have been allocated. In
determining such Unrealized Gain or Unrealized Loss the aggregate
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amount and fair market value
of all Partnership assets (including, without limitation, cash or
cash equivalents) immediately prior to a distribution shall (A) in
the case of an actual distribution which is not made pursuant to
Section 12.4 or in the case of a deemed contribution and/or
distribution, be determined and allocated in the same manner as
that provided in Section 5.5(d)(i) or (B) in the case of a
liquidating distribution pursuant to Section 12.4, be determined
and allocated by the Liquidator using such reasonable method of
valuation as it may adopt.
Section 5.6. Issuances of
Additional Partnership Securities.
(a) Subject to Section 5.7,
the Partnership may issue additional Partnership Securities and
options, rights, warrants and appreciation rights relating to the
Partnership Securities for any Partnership purpose at any time and
from time to time to such Persons for such consideration and on
such terms and conditions as shall be established by the General
Partner in its sole discretion, all without the approval of any
Limited Partners.
(b) Each additional
Partnership Security authorized to be issued by the Partnership
pursuant to Section 5.6(a) may be issued in one or more classes, or
one or more series of any such classes, with such designations,
preferences, rights, powers and duties (which may be senior to
existing classes and series of Partnership Securities), as shall be
fixed by the General Partner in the exercise of its sole
discretion, including (i) the right to share Partnership profits
and losses or items thereof; (ii) the right to share in Partnership
distributions; (iii) the rights upon dissolution and liquidation of
the Partnership; (iv) whether, and the terms and conditions upon
which, the Partnership may redeem the Partnership Security; (v)
whether such Partnership Security is issued with the privilege of
conversion or exchange and, if so, the terms and conditions of such
conversion or exchange; (vi) the terms and conditions upon which
each Partnership Security will be issued, evidenced by certificates
and assigned or transferred; and (vii) the right, if any, of each
such Partnership Security to vote on Partnership matters, including
matters relating to the relative designations, preferences, rights,
powers and duties of such Partnership Security.
(c) The General Partner is
hereby authorized and directed to take all actions that it deems
necessary or appropriate in connection with (i) each issuance of
Partnership Securities and options, rights, warrants and
appreciation rights relating to Partnership Securities pursuant to
this Section 5.6, (ii) the conversion of the General Partner
Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights into Units pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement, (iii) the admission of Additional
Limited Partners and (iv) all additional issuances of Partnership
Securities. The General Partner is further authorized and directed
to specify the relative rights, powers and duties of the holders of
the Units or other Partnership Securities being so issued. The
General Partner shall do all things necessary to comply with the
Delaware Act and is authorized and directed to do all things it
deems to be necessary or advisable in connection with any future
issuance of Partnership Securities or in connection with the
conversion of the General Partner Interest and Incentive
Distribution Rights into Units pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, including compliance with any statute, rule, regulation
or guideline of any federal, state or other governmental agency or
any, National Securities Exchange on which the Units or other
Partnership Securities are listed for trading.
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Section 5.7. Limitations
on Issuance of Additional Partnership Securities.
The issuance of Partnership
Securities pursuant to Section 5.6 shall be subject to the
following restrictions and limitations:
(a) During the Subordination
Period, the Partnership shall not issue (and shall not issue any
options, rights, warrants or appreciation rights relating to) an
aggregate of more than 5,679,694 additional Parity Units without
the prior approval of the holders of a Unit Majority. In applying
this limitation, there shall be excluded Common Units and other
Parity Units issued (A) in connection with the exercise of the
Over-Allotment Option pursuant to Section 5.3(b), (B) in accordance
with Sections 5.7(b), (c) and (f), (C) upon conversion of
Subordinated Units pursuant to Section 5.8, (D) upon conversion of
the General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights
pursuant to Section 11.3(b), (E) pursuant to the employee benefit
plans of the General Partner, the Partnership or any other Group
Member and (F) in the event of a combination or subdivision of
Common Units.
(b) During the Subordination
Period, the Partnership may also issue an unlimited number of
Common Units and other Parity Units without the prior approval of
the Unitholders, if such issuance occurs (i) in connection with an
Acquisition or a Capital Improvement or (ii) within 365 days of,
and the net proceeds from such issuance are used to repay debt
incurred in connection with, or to replenish cash reserves to the
extent drawn down in connection with, an Acquisition or Capital
Improvement, in each case where such Acquisition or Capital
Improvement involves assets that, if acquired (or in the case of a
Capital Improvement, put into commercial service) by the
Partnership as of the date that is one year prior to the first day
of the Quarter in which such Acquisition was consummated or such
Capital Improvement was put into commercial service (“ One
Year Test Period ”), would have resulted in an increase
in:
(A) the amount of Adjusted
Operating Surplus generated by the Partnership on a per-Unit basis
(for all Outstanding Units) with respect to the One Year Test
Period, on an estimated pro forma basis (as described below), as
compared to
(B) the actual amount of
Adjusted Operating Surplus generated by the Partnership on a
per-Unit basis (for all Outstanding Units) with respect to the One
Year Test Period, as adjusted as provided below.
The General Partner’s good faith
determination that such an increase would have resulted shall be
conclusive. The amount in clause (A) above shall be estimated by
the General Partner in good faith using such assumptions as it
believes are reasonable. There shall be excluded from the amount in
clause (B) above any Operating Surplus attributable to such
Acquisition or Capital Improvement (regardless of whether such
Operating Surplus is positive or negative). The number of Units
deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of calculating the amount
in clause (B) above shall be the weighted average number of Units
Outstanding during the One Year Test Period and shall exclude the
Units issued or to be issued in connection with such Acquisition or
Capital Improvement or within 365 days of such Acquisition or
Capital Improvement where the net proceeds from such issuance are
used to repay debt incurred, or to replenish cash reserves to the
extent drawn down, in connection with such Acquisition or Capital
Improvement. For the
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purposes of this Section 5.7(b), the
term “debt” shall be deemed to include the indebtedness
used to extend, refinance, renew, replace or defease debt
originally incurred in connection with an Acquisition or Capital
Improvement; provided, that, the amount of such indebtedness does
not exceed the principal sum of, plus accrued interest on, the
indebtedness so extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced or
defeased.
(c) The Partnership may also
issue an unlimited number of Parity Units, prior to the end of the
Subordination Period and without the approval of the Unitholders,
if the proceeds from such issuance are used exclusively to repay up
to $40.0 million of indebtedness of a Group Member where the
aggregate amount of distributions that would have been paid with
respect to such newly issued Units or Partnership Securities, plus
the related distributions on the General Partner Interest in the
Partnership and the Operating Partnerships in respect of the
four-Quarter period ending prior to the first day of the Quarter in
which the issuance is to be consummated (assuming such additional
Units or Partnership Securities had been Outstanding throughout
such period and that distributions equal to the distributions that
were actually paid on the Outstanding Units during the period were
paid on such additional Units or Partnership Securities) did not
exceed the interest costs actually incurred during such period on
the indebtedness that is to be repaid (or, if such indebtedness was
not outstanding throughout the entire period, would have been
incurred had such indebtedness been outstanding for the entire
period). In the event that the Partnership is required to pay a
prepayment penalty in connection with the repayment of such
indebtedness, for purposes of the foregoing test the number of
Parity Units issued to repay such indebtedness shall be deemed
increased by the number of Parity Units that would need to be
issued to pay such penalty.
(d) During the Subordination
Period, the Partnership shall not issue (and shall not issue any
options, rights, warrants or appreciation rights relating to)
additional Partnership Securities having rights to distributions or
in liquidation ranking prior or senior to the Common Units, without
the prior approval of the holders of a Unit Majority.
(e) No fractional Units shall
be issued by the Partnership.
(f) During the Subordination
Period, the Partnership may also issue an unlimited number of
Common Units and other Parity Units without the prior approval of
the Unitholders, if the net proceeds of such issuance are used to
redeem an equal number of Outstanding Common Units at a price per
unit equal to the net proceeds per unit, before expenses, that the
Partnership receives from such issuance.
(g) During the Subordination
Period, the Partnership may issue, without the approval of the
Unitholders, and in connection with Acquisitions that have not been
completed or Capital Improvements that have not Commenced
Commercial Service, or both, an amount of Parity Units not to
exceed the number of Parity Units then available for issuance
without Unitholder approval pursuant to Section 5.7(a) (such number
of Parity Units then available for issuance, the “
Remaining Basket Amount ”).
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Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. |
The following shall apply
with respect to issuances of Parity Units pursuant to
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