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EXECUTION COPY
EXHIBIT 4.3
POOLING AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC
AND
GMAC LLC
DATED AS OF DECEMBER 14, 2006
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01
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Definitions
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SECTION 1.02
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Owner of a Receivable
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ARTICLE II PURCHASE AND SALE OF
RECEIVABLES
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SECTION 2.01
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Purchase and Sale of Receivables
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SECTION 2.02
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Receivables Purchase Price
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SECTION 2.03
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The Closing
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SECTION 2.04
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Custody of Receivable Files
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ARTICLE III ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF
RECEIVABLES
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SECTION 3.01
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Duties of the Servicer
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SECTION 3.02
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Collection of Receivable Payments
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SECTION 3.03
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Rebates on Full Prepayments on Scheduled Interest
Receivables
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SECTION 3.04
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Realization Upon Liquidating
Receivables
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SECTION 3.05
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Maintenance of Insurance Policies
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SECTION 3.06
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Maintenance of Security Interests in
Vehicles
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SECTION 3.07
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Covenants, Representations and Warranties of the
Servicer
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SECTION 3.08
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Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach of
Covenant
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SECTION 3.09
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Basic Servicing Fee; Payment of Certain Expenses
by Servicer
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SECTION 3.10
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Servicer’s Accounting
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SECTION 3.11
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Application of Collections
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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SECTION 4.01
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Representations and Warranties as to the
Receivables
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SECTION 4.02
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Additional Representations and Warranties of
GMAC
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SECTION 4.03
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Representations and Warranties of CARI
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ARTICLE V ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
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SECTION 5.01
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Conflicts With Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements
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SECTION 5.02
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Protection of Title
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SECTION 5.03
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Other Liens or Interests
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SECTION 5.04
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Repurchase Events
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SECTION 5.05
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Indemnification
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SECTION 5.06
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Further Assignments
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SECTION 5.07
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Pre-Closing Collections
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ARTICLE VI CONDITIONS
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SECTION 6.01
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Conditions to Obligation of CARI
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SECTION 6.02
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Conditions to Obligation of GMAC
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ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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SECTION 7.01
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Amendment
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SECTION 7.02
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Survival
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SECTION 7.03
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Notices
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SECTION 7.04
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Governing Law
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SECTION 7.05
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Waivers
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SECTION 7.06
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Costs and Expenses
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SECTION 7.07
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Confidential Information
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SECTION 7.08
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Headings
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SECTION 7.09
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Counterparts
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SECTION 7.10
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No Petition Covenant
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SECTION 7.11
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Limitations on Rights of Others
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EXHIBIT A
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Form of First Step Receivables
Assignment
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SCHEDULE A
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Schedule of Receivables
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APPENDIX A
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Definitions, Rules of Construction and
Notices
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APPENDIX B
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Additional Representations and
Warranties
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ii
THIS POOLING AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT, dated as of December 14, 2006, between CAPITAL AUTO
RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("
CARI "), and GMAC LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(herein referred to as " GMAC " in its capacity as seller of
the Receivables and as the " Servicer " in its capacity as
servicer of the Receivables).
WHEREAS, CARI desires to purchase
on the date hereof a portfolio of automobile and light truck retail
instalment sale contracts, direct purchase money loans and related
rights owned by GMAC;
WHEREAS, GMAC is willing to sell
on the date hereof such contracts and related rights to CARI;
WHEREAS, CARI may wish to sell or
otherwise transfer on the date hereof such contracts and related
rights, or interests therein, to a trust, corporation, partnership
or other entity (any such entity being the " Issuing Entity
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WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity may
issue debentures, notes, participations, certificates of beneficial
interest, partnership interests or other interests or securities
(collectively, any such issued interests or securities being "
Securities ") to fund its acquisition of such contracts and
related rights;
WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity may
wish to provide in the agreements pursuant to which it acquires its
interest in such contracts and related rights and issues the
Securities (the Second Step Receivables Assignment, the Trust
Agreement, the Notes, the Certificates, the Trust Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture being collectively the "
Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements ") that GMAC shall
service such contracts;
WHEREAS, the Servicer is willing
to service such contracts in accordance with the terms hereof for
the benefit of CARI and, by its execution of the Further Transfer
and Servicing Agreements, will be willing to service such contracts
in accordance with the terms of such Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements for the benefit of the Issuing Entity and each other
party identified or described herein or in the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements as having an interest as owner, trustee,
secured party, or holder of Securities (the Issuing Entity and all
such parties under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements
being " Interested Parties ") with respect to such
contracts, and the proceeds thereof, as the interests of such
parties may appear from time to time.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration
of the premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions.
Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in and
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I
of Appendix A to this Agreement. All references herein
to " the Agreement " or " this Agreement " are to
this Pooling and Servicing Agreement as it may be amended,
supplemented or modified from time to
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time, and all references herein to Articles and Sections are to
Articles or Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
The rules of construction set forth in Part II of such
Appendix A shall be applicable to this Agreement.
SECTION 1.02 Owner of a
Receivable. For purposes of this Agreement, the " Owner
" of a Receivable shall mean CARI until the sale, transfer,
assignment or other conveyance of such Receivable by CARI pursuant
to the terms of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and
thereafter shall mean the Issuing Entity; provided , that
GMAC or CARI, as applicable, shall be the " Owner " of any
Receivable from and after the time that such Person shall acquire
such Receivable, whether pursuant to Section 3.08 or
5.04 of this Agreement, any provision of the Further
Transfer and Servicing Agreements or otherwise.
ARTICLE II
PURCHASE AND SALE OF RECEIVABLES
SECTION 2.01 Purchase and Sale
of Receivables .
(a)
Purchase . On the Closing Date, subject to satisfaction of
the conditions specified in Article VI and the First Step
Receivables Assignment (and, in any event, immediately prior to
consummation of the related transactions contemplated by the
Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, if any), GMAC shall
sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to CARI, without
recourse:
(i) all
right, title and interest of GMAC in, to and under the Receivables
listed on the Schedule of Receivables and (A) in the case of
Receivables that are Scheduled Interest Receivables, all monies due
thereunder on and after the Cutoff Date and (B) in the case of
Receivables that are Simple Interest Receivables, all monies
received thereon on and after the Cutoff Date, in each case,
exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical
damage insurance force-placed by GMAC covering any related Financed
Vehicle;
(ii) the
interest of GMAC in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles
granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and, to the extent
permitted by law, any accessions thereto;
(iii) the
interest of GMAC in any proceeds from claims on any physical
damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies
covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors;
(iv) the
interest of GMAC in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on
the Receivables;
(v) all
right, title and interest of GMAC in, to and under the First Step
Receivables Assignment; and
(vi)
the present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action
in respect of any or all the foregoing described in clauses
(i) through (v) above and all payments on or under and
all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any
or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of
any or all of the foregoing,
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voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property,
all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance
proceeds, investment property, payment intangible, general
intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and
every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables,
instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or
part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing.
The property described in
clauses (i) through (vi) above is referred to herein
collectively as the " Purchased Property ."
(b) It
is the intention of GMAC and CARI that the transfer and assignment
of Receivables contemplated by this Agreement and the First Step
Receivables Assignment shall constitute a sale of the Receivables
from GMAC to CARI and the beneficial interest in and title to the
Receivables shall not be part of GMAC’s estate in the event
of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against GMAC under any
bankruptcy law.
(c) The
transfer and assignment of Receivables contemplated by this
Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignment does not
constitute and is not intended to result in any assumption by CARI
of any obligation of GMAC to the Obligors, Dealers, insurers or any
other Person in connection with the Receivables, any Dealer
Agreements, any insurance policies or any agreement or instrument
relating to any of them.
SECTION 2.02 Receivables
Purchase Price . In consideration for the Purchased Property,
CARI shall, on the Closing Date, pay to GMAC an amount equal to the
Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance in respect of the
Receivables and GMAC shall execute and deliver to CARI an
assignment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "
First Step Receivables Assignment "). A portion of the
Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance, which is equal to
$3,006,610,430.43, shall be paid to GMAC in immediately available
funds, and the balance shall be recorded as an advance from GMAC to
CARI pursuant to the Intercompany Advance Agreement.
SECTION 2.03 The Closing .
The sale and purchase of the Receivables shall take place at the
offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 200 East Randolph Drive,
Chicago, Illinois 60601, on the Closing Date at a time mutually
agreeable to GMAC and CARI, and will occur simultaneously with the
closing of transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements.
SECTION 2.04 Custody of
Receivable Files . In connection with the sale, transfer and
assignment of the Receivables to CARI pursuant to this Agreement
and the First Step Receivables Assignment, CARI, simultaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, shall enter into
the Custodian Agreement with the Custodian, pursuant to which CARI
shall revocably appoint the Custodian, and the Custodian shall
accept such appointment, to act as the agent of CARI as Custodian
of the following documents or instruments which shall be
constructively delivered to CARI with respect to each
Receivable:
(a) the
fully executed original of the instalment sale contract or direct
purchase money loan, as applicable, for such Receivable;
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(b) documents
evidencing or related to any Insurance Policy;
(c) the
original credit application of each Obligor, fully executed by each
such Obligor on GMAC’s customary form, or on a form approved
by GMAC, for such application;
(d) where
permitted by law, the original certificate of title (when received)
and otherwise such documents, if any, that GMAC keeps on file in
accordance with its customary procedures indicating that the
Financed Vehicle is owned by the Obligor and subject to the
interest of GMAC as first lienholder or secured party; and
(e) any
and all other documents that GMAC keeps on file in accordance with
its customary procedures relating to the individual Receivable,
Obligor or Financed Vehicle.
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES
SECTION 3.01 Duties of the
Servicer . (a) The Servicer is hereby appointed and
authorized to act as agent for the Owner of the Receivables and in
such capacity shall manage, service, administer and make
collections on the Receivables with reasonable care, using that
degree of skill and attention that the Servicer exercises with
respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it
services for itself or others. The Servicer hereby accepts such
appointment and authorization and agrees to perform the duties of
Servicer with respect to the Receivables set forth herein and in
the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.
(b) The
Servicer’s duties shall include collection and posting of all
payments, responding to inquiries of Obligors, investigating
delinquencies, sending payment coupons to Obligors, reporting tax
information to Obligors, policing the collateral, accounting for
collections and furnishing monthly and annual statements to the
Owner of any Receivables with respect to distributions, generating
federal income tax information and performing the other duties
specified herein. Subject to the provisions of
Section 3.02 , the Servicer shall follow its customary
standards, policies and procedures and shall have full power and
authority, acting alone, to do any and all things in connection
with such managing, servicing, administration and collection that
it may deem necessary or desirable.
(c) Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Servicer is hereby
authorized and empowered by the Owner of the Receivables, pursuant
to this Section 3.01 , to execute and deliver, on
behalf of all Interested Parties, or any of them, any and all
instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full
release or discharge, and all other comparable instruments, with
respect to the Receivables and the Financed Vehicles. The Servicer
is hereby authorized to commence, in its own name or in the name of
the Owner of such Receivable a legal proceeding, whether through
judicial process or (with respect to repossession of a Financed
Vehicle) non-judicial process, to enforce a Liquidating Receivable
as contemplated by Section 3.04 , to enforce all obligations
of GMAC and CARI under this Agreement and under the Further
Transfer and Servicing Agreements or to commence or participate in
a legal proceeding (including a bankruptcy case) relating to or
involving a Receivable or a Liquidating Receivable. If the Servicer
commences or participates in such a legal proceeding in its own
name, the Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered by the Owner
of the Receivables pursuant to this
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Section 3.01 to obtain possession of the related Financed
Vehicle and immediately and without further action on the part of
the Owner or the Servicer, the Owner of such Receivable shall
thereupon automatically assign in trust such Receivable and the
security interest in the related Financed Vehicle to the Servicer
for the benefit of the Interested Parties for purposes of
commencing or participating in any such proceeding as a party or
claimant. Upon such automatic assignment, the Servicer will be, and
will have all the rights and duties of, a secured party under the
UCC and other applicable law with respect to such Receivable and
the related Financed Vehicle. At the Servicer’s request from
time to time, the Owner of a Receivable assigned under this
Section 3.01 shall provide the Servicer with evidence of the
assignment in trust for the benefit of the Interested Parties as
may be reasonably necessary for the Servicer to take any of the
actions set forth in the following sentence.
(d) The
Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered by the Owner of a
Receivable to execute and deliver in the Servicer’s name any
notices, demands, claims, complaints, responses, affidavits or
other documents or instruments in connection with any such
proceeding. Any Owner of Receivables shall furnish the Servicer
with any powers of attorney and other documents and take any other
steps which the Servicer may deem necessary or appropriate to
enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative
duties under this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements. Except to the extent required by the preceding two
sentences, the authority and rights granted to the Servicer in this
Section 3.01 shall be nonexclusive and shall not be
construed to be in derogation of the retention by the Owner of a
Receivable of equivalent authority and rights.
SECTION 3.02 Collection of
Receivable Payments . The Servicer shall make reasonable
efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and
provisions of the Receivables as and when the same shall become
due, and shall follow such collection practices, policies and
procedures as it follows with respect to comparable motor vehicle
related receivables that it services for itself or others in
connection therewith. Except as provided in
Section 3.07(a)(iii) , the Servicer is hereby
authorized to grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a
Receivable without the prior consent of the Owner of such
Receivable. The Servicer is authorized in its discretion to waive
any prepayment charge, late payment charge or any other fees that
may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing such
Receivable.
SECTION 3.03 Rebates on Full
Prepayments on Scheduled Interest Receivables . If the amount
of a full Prepayment by an Obligor under a Scheduled Interest
Receivable, after adjustment for the Rebate, is less than the
amount that would be payable under the actuarial method if a full
Prepayment were made at the end of the billing month under such
Scheduled Interest Receivable, either because the Rebate calculated
under the terms of such Receivable is greater than the amount
calculable under the actuarial method or because the
Servicer’s customary servicing procedure is to credit a
greater Rebate, the Servicer, as part of its servicing duties,
shall remit such difference to the Owner of such Receivable.
SECTION 3.04 Realization Upon
Liquidating Receivables . The Servicer shall use reasonable
efforts, consistent with its customary practices, policies and
procedures, to repossess or otherwise comparably convert the
ownership of any Financed Vehicle that it has reasonably determined
should be repossessed or otherwise converted following a default
under the Receivable secured by the Financed Vehicle. The Servicer
is authorized to follow such
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customary practices, policies and procedures as it follows with
respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it
services for itself or others, which customary practices, policies
and procedures may include reasonable efforts to realize upon any
recourse to Dealers, selling the related Financed Vehicle at public
or private sale and other actions by the Servicer in order to
realize upon such a Receivable. The foregoing is subject to the
provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall
have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in
connection with any repair or towards the repossession of such
Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its discretion that
such repair and/or repossession shall increase the proceeds of
liquidation of the related Receivable by an amount greater than the
amount of such expenses. The Servicer shall be entitled to receive
Liquidation Expenses with respect to each Liquidating Receivable at
such time as the Receivable becomes a Liquidating Receivable (or as
may otherwise be provided in the Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements).
SECTION 3.05 Maintenance of
Insurance Policies . The Servicer shall, in accordance with its
customary practices, policies and procedures, require that each
Obligor shall have obtained physical damage insurance covering the
Financed Vehicle as of the execution of the related Receivable. The
Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary practices,
policies and procedures, monitor such physical damage insurance
with respect to each Receivable.
SECTION 3.06 Maintenance of
Security Interests in Vehicles . The Servicer shall, in
accordance with its customary practices, policies and procedures
and at its own expense, take such steps as are necessary to
maintain perfection of the security interest created by each
Receivable in the related Financed Vehicle. The Owner of each
Receivable hereby authorizes the Servicer to re-perfect such
security interest on behalf of such Owner, as necessary because of
the relocation of a Financed Vehicle, or for any other reason.
SECTION 3.07 Covenants,
Representations and Warranties of the Servicer . As of the
Closing Date, the Servicer hereby makes the following
representations, warranties and covenants on which CARI relies in
accepting the Receivables hereunder and pursuant to the related
First Step Receivables Assignment, and on which the Issuing Entity
shall rely in accepting such Receivables and executing and
delivering the Securities under the Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements.
(a) The
Servicer covenants that from and after the closing hereunder:
(i)
Liens in Force . Except as contemplated in this Agreement or
the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Servicer shall
not release in whole or in part any Financed Vehicle from the
security interest securing the related Receivable;
(ii)
No Impairment . The Servicer shall do nothing to impair the
rights or security interest of CARI or any Interested Party in and
to the Purchased Property; and
(iii)
No Modifications . The Servicer shall not amend or otherwise
modify any Receivable such that the Amount Financed, the Annual
Percentage Rate, the total number of Scheduled Payments (in the
case of a Scheduled Interest Receivable) or the number of
originally scheduled due dates (in the case of a Simple Interest
Receivable) is altered or such that the last Scheduled Payment (in
the case of a Scheduled Interest Receivable) or the last
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due date (in the case of a Simple Interest Receivable) occurs
after the Final Scheduled Distribution Date.
(b) Upon
the execution of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements, the Servicer represents and warrants to the
Issuing Entity and CARI that as of the Closing Date, in addition to
the representations and warranties in Sections 4.01 and
4.02 being true:
(i)
Organization and Good Standing . The Servicer has been duly
formed and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of its state of formation, with power and authority to own its
properties and to conduct its business as such properties are
presently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had
at all relevant times, and now has, power, authority and legal
right to service the Receivables as provided herein and in the
Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements;
(ii)
Due Qualification . The Servicer is duly qualified to do
business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all
necessary licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business
(including the servicing of the Receivables) requires or shall
require such qualification;
(iii)
Power and Authority . The Servicer has the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Further
Transfer and Servicing Agreements and to carry out the terms of
such agreements; and the Servicer’s execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements have been duly authorized by the Servicer by
all necessary limited liability company action;
(iv)
Binding Obligation . The Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements and this Agreement, when duly executed and delivered,
shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Servicer enforceable in accordance with their respective terms,
except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of
equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law;
(v)
No Violation . The consummation by the Servicer of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Further
Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and the fulfillment by the
Servicer of the terms hereof and thereof, shall not conflict with,
result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default
under, the certificate of formation or limited liability company
agreement of the Servicer, or any indenture, agreement, mortgage,
deed of trust or other instrument to which the Servicer is a party
or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of
any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any
such indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other
instrument, other than this Agreement and the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements, or violate any law or, to the best of the
Servicer’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation
applicable to the Servicer of any court or of any federal or state
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or any of its
properties; and
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(vi)
No Proceedings . To the Servicer’s knowledge, there
are no proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened, before
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal
or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the
Servicer or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of
this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements or
any Securities issued thereunder, (B) seeking to prevent the
issuance of such Securities or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements, or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that
might materially and adversely affect this Agreement, the
performance by the Servicer of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, the Further Transfer and Servicing
Agreements.
SECTION 3.08 Purchase of
Receivables Upon Breach of Covenant . Upon discovery by any of
the Servicer, CARI or any party under the Further Transfer and
Servicing Agreements of a breach of any of the covenants set forth
in Sections 3.06 and 3.07(a) , the party discovering
such breach shall give prompt written notice thereof to the others.
As of the last day of the second Monthly Period following its
discovering or receiving notice of such breach (or, at the
Servicer’s election, the last day of the first Monthly Period
so following), the Servicer shall, unless it shall have cured such
breach in all material respects, purchase from the Owner thereof
any Receivable materially and adversely affected by such breach as
determined by such Owner and, on the related Distribution Date, the
Servicer shall pay the Administrative Purchase Payment, and shall
be entitled to receive the Released Administrative Amount, if any.
It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Servicer to
purchase any Receivable with respect to which such a breach has
occurred and is continuing shall, if such obligation is fulfilled,
constitute the sole remedy against the Servicer for such breach
available to CARI or any Interested Party.
SECTION 3.09 Basic Servicing
Fee; Payment of Certain Expenses by Servicer . The Servicer is
entitled to receive the Basic Servicing Fee out of collections in
respect of the Receivables and other available funds, as and to the
extent set forth in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.
The Servicer shall also be entitled to Investment Earnings as, and
to the extent, set forth in the Further Transfer and Servicing
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