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Exhibit
10.2
Customer No.
Loan No.
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RBC Centura
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Commercial Promissory
Note
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F&V)
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$3,000,000.00
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Greenville, South Carolina |
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March 14, 2005 |
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Master Note
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned
(whether one or more, “Borrower”) promises to pay to
RBC CENTURA BANK (“Bank”), or order, the sum of Three
Million and No/100 Dollars ($3,000,000.00), or so much thereof as
shall have been disbursed from time to time and remains unpaid,
together with interest at the rate and payable in the manner
hereinafter stated. Principal and interest shall be payable at any
banking office of Bank in the city or town indicated above, or such
other place as the holder of this Note may designate.
Article I. Interest
Rate.
Section 1.1. Rate of Accrual .
Interest will accrue on the unpaid principal balance at the rate
set forth in Section 1.2.1. until maturity of this Note,
whether such maturity occurs by acceleration or on the Maturity
Date; and, at Bank’s option, interest at the foregoing rate
will accrue on any unpaid interest before such maturity. Interest
will accrue on any unpaid balance owing under this Note, whether
principal, interest, fees, premiums, charges or costs and expenses,
after maturity at the rate set forth in Section 1.2.2. All
accrual rates of interest under this Note will be contract rates of
interest, whether a pre-default rate or a default rate, and
references to contract rates in any loan documents executed and
delivered by Borrower or others to Bank in connection with this
Note shall be to such contract rates.
Section 1.2. Interest Rates
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1.2.1. Pre-Default Rate . Subject
to the provisions of Section 1.2.2. below, interest payable
on this Note per annum will accrue at 2.75% plus the
LIBOR Base Rate. The “LIBOR Base Rate” is the London
Interbank Offer Rate for United States Dollars for a term of one
month which appears on Telerate Page 3750, Bloomberg Professional
Screen BBAM (or any generally recognized successor method or means
of publication) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) London
business days prior to the day on which the rate will become
effective. The rate for the first month or part thereof will
initially become effective on the date of the Note as shown on the
face hereof. Thereafter, the rate will change and a new rate will
become effective on the first calendar day of each succeeding
month. If for any reason the London Interbank Offer Rate is not
available, then the “LIBOR Base Rate” shall mean the
rate per annum which banks charge each other in a market comparable
to England’s Eurodollar market on short-term money in U.S.
Dollars for an amount substantially equivalent to the principal
amount due under this Note as determined at 11:00 A.M., London
time, two (2) London business days prior to the day on which the
rate will become effective, as determined in the Bank’s sole
discretion. Bank’s determination of such interest rate shall
be conclusive, absent manifest error.
1.2.2. Default Rate . Upon the
nonpayment of any payment of interest described herein, Bank, at
its option and without accelerating this Note, may accrue interest
on such unpaid interest at a rate per annum (“Default
Rate”) equal to the lesser of the maximum contract rate of
interest that may be charged to and collected from Borrower on the
loan evidenced by this Note under applicable law or five percent
(5.0%) plus the pre-default interest rate otherwise applicable
hereunder, as set forth in Section 1.2.1 .. After maturity
of this Note, whether by acceleration or otherwise, interest will
accrue on the unpaid principal of this Note, any accrued but unpaid
interest and all fees, premiums, charges and costs and expenses
owing hereunder at the Default Rate until this Note is paid in
full, whether this Note is paid in full pre-judgement or
post-judgement.
1.2.3. Variable Rate; Calculation of
Interest .
1.2.3.1. Variable Rate . This is
a variable rate note. Any change in the rate of interest payable
under this Note will equal the change in the variable rate index to
which such rate is tied, but the rate at which interest accrues
under this Note shall never exceed the maximum contract rate which
may be charged to and collected from Borrower on the loan evidenced
by this Note under applicable law. Bank shall have no obligation to
notify Borrower of adjustments in the rate of interest payable
under this Note. Adjustments to the rate of interest will be
effective on the date of change in the variable rate
index.
1.2.3.2. Calculation of Interest
. All interest payable under this Note shall accrue daily on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of three
hundred sixty (360) days. In computing the number of days during
which interest accrues, the day on which funds are initially
advanced shall be included regardless of the time of day such
advance is made, and the day on which funds are repaid shall be
included unless repayment is credited prior to close of business.
Payments in federal funds, immediately available in the place
designated for payment, received by Bank prior to 2:00 p.m. local
time at said place of payment, shall be credited as if received
prior to close of business on the day the funds are immediately
available; while other payments, at the option of Bank, may not be
credited until such payments are immediately available to Bank, in
federal funds, in the place designated for payment, prior to 2:00
p.m. local time at said place of payment on a day on which Bank is
open for business.
Article II. Payment
Terms.
Section 2.1. Interest Payment
Terms . Payments under this Note include an interest component
and a principal component. The principal component is set forth in
Section 2.2 below. The interest component shall be paid
monthly, in arrears, beginning April 1, 2005, and continuing on the
same calendar day of each consecutive month thereafter until the
Maturity Date, when all accrued but unpaid interest is due and
payable in full.
Section 2.2. Principal Payment Terms;
Maturity Date . As stated in Section 2.1 above, payments
under this Note include an interest component and a principal
component. The interest component is set forth in Section
2.1 above. The principal component shall be paid in one single
payment on March 1, 2006 (herein referred to as the “Maturity
Date”).
Section 2.3. Prepayment . This
Note may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time without
penalty.
Section 2.4. Application of
Payments . All payments made on this Note shall be applied
first to payment of all late fees, charges, premiums and costs and
expenses due but unpaid under this Note, then to accrued but unpaid
interest and finally to principal, in the inverse order of the
payment dates therefor, unless Bank determines in its sole
discretion to apply payments in a different order or applicable law
requires a different application of payments. The partial
prepayment of this Note, if permitted, shall not result in a
payment holiday or any other deferral of any regularly scheduled
payments under this Note, all of which shall be made as and when
the same are scheduled to be paid.
Article III. Loan Agreement
and Security.
Section 3.1. Loan Agreement . The
loan evidenced by this Note was made pursuant to a commitment
letter (“Commitment Letter”) from Bank to Borrower
dated February 22, 2005. Borrower and Bank have entered into a loan
agreement of even date herewith (“Loan Agreement”).
Borrower shall perform and abide by, as and when so required, each
and all of the covenants, terms and conditions imposed upon or
applicable to Borrower in the Commitment Letter and all security
documents and other agreements referenced in the Commitment Letter,
as well as the Loan Agreement and all security documents and other
agreements referenced in the Loan Agreement.
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Section 3.2. Security Documents .
This Note is secured by (1) the security documents and other
supporting obligations identified in the Commitment Letter and by
those identified in the Loan Agreement, (2) the security documents
and other supporting obligations which reference that they secure
this Note, (3) any security documents and other supporting
obligations which reference that they secure all indebtedness or
other obligations owing from time to time by Borrower to Bank, and
(4) any security documents and other supporting obligations which
reference that they secure all indebtedness owing from time to time
from Borrower to Bank other than consumer credit as defined under
the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation Z (Truth-in-Lending)
(12 CFR 226 et seq.) (“security documents”).
Article IV. Default and
Acceleration.
Section 4.1. Late Charges and
Expenses . Borrower agrees to pay, upon demand by Bank or if
demand is not sooner made, on maturity of this Note, whether such
maturity occurs by acceleration or on the Maturity Date, for each
payment past due for fifteen (15) or more calendar days, a late
charge in an amount equal to the lesser of (1) four percent (4%) of
the amount of the payment past due or (2) the maximum percentage of
the payment past due permitted by applicable law, or the maximum
amount if not expressed as a percentage. If this Note is not paid
in full whenever it becomes due and payable, Borrower agrees to pay
all costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees. The Borrower hereby stipulates that
reasonable attorneys’ fees shall be fifteen percent (15%) of
the outstanding balance (principal, interest, fees, premiums,
charges and costs and expenses) owing under this Note after default
and, if applicable law prohibits payment of attorneys’ fees
when collection is through an attorney who is a salaried employee
of Bank, referral to an attorney not a salaried employee of the
Bank.
Section 4.2. Default . Any one or
more of the following shall constitute an event of default
(“Event of Default”) under this Note: (1) the failure
of Borrower to make when due any payment described herein, whether
of principal, interest o
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