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Exhibit 10.24
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STATE of NEBRASKA
DAKOTA COUNTY
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Filed for record this 3 day of
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October 2006 at 2:40
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P M., and recorded as
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Instrument No 06-010248
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Register of Deads ???
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DATE: September 28,
2006
SUBORDINATE DEED OF TRUST, ASSIGNMENT OF LEASES
AND RENTS, AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
FIXTURE FINANCING STATEMENT
(Hereinafter referred to as "Deed of Trust")
MADE BY
SIOUXLAND ETHANOL, LLC
1501 Knox Boulevard
P.O. Box 147
Jackson, NE 68743
(Hereinafter referred to as "Trustor")
TO
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Trustee
1248 O Street
Lincoln, NE 68508
(Hereinafter referred to as "Trustee")
(Hereinafter collectively referred to as
"Beneficiary" and "Secured Party")
THIS DEED OF TRUST CONSTITUTES A FIXTURE
FINANCING STATEMENT
UNDER THE NEBRASKA UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
To
the extent of Trustor’s estate, right, title and interest to
the Property as defined below, Trustor hereby irrevocably grants,
transfers, pledges and assigns to Trustee, its successors and
assigns, IN TRUST, WITH POWER OF SALE and right of entry and
possession, all of Trustor’s estate, right, title and
interest in any and all of the following described property which
is (except where the context otherwise requires) herein
collectively called the "Property," whether now owned or held or
hereafter acquired, and any proceeds thereof or accessions thereto,
including:
(A) That certain real
property, more particularly described in Exhibit A attached
hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, together with all
of the easements, rights, privileges, franchises and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and all structures
and buildings and leasehold improvements now or at any time
hereafter located therein (hereinafter such real property, when
referred to alone, shall be referred to as the "Premises"), and all
of the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever
of Trustor therein or thereto, either at law or in equity, in
possession or in expectancy, now or hereafter acquired;
(B) All equipment, apparatus,
machinery, fixtures, fittings, vehicles, tools, rolling stock and
appliances and any additions to, substitutions for, changes in or
replacement of the whole or any part thereof, now or at any time
hereafter affixed to, attached to, placed upon or used in any way
in connection with the use, enjoyment, occupancy or operation of
the Premises or any portion thereof or otherwise used by Trustor
(the "Equipment");
(C) All rights, title and
interest of Trustor in and to all streets, roads and public places,
opened or proposed, and all easements and rights of way, vaults,
party wall agreements, public or private, revocable licenses,
tenements, hereditaments, rights and appurtenances, now or
hereafter used in connection with, belonging or appertaining to the
Premises (hereinafter referred to, together with the Premises and
Equipment, as the Real Property);
(D) All of the rents,
royalties, issues, profits, revenue, income, proceeds and other
benefits of the Property (the "Rents and Profits"), including the
Trustor’s interest in the real estate described in
Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated by this reference,
or arising from the use or enjoyment of all or any portion thereof
or from any lease or agreement pertaining thereto, and all right,
title and interest of Trustor in and to all leases of the Property,
including all or any portion of the real estate described in
Exhibit A, now or hereafter entered into, and all right, title
and interest of Trustor thereunder, including, without limitation,
cash or securities deposited thereunder to secure performance by
the lessees of their obligations thereunder, whether said cash or
securities are to be held until the expiration of the terms of said
leases or applied to one or more of the installments of rent coming
due immediately prior to the expiration of the terms of said leases
or applied to one or more of the installments of rent coming due
immediately prior to the expiration of said terms; subject to,
however, the provisions contained in Section 1.06 hereof;
(E) All proceeds (including
claims and demands therefor) of the conversion, voluntary or
involuntary, of any of the foregoing Property into cash or
liquidated claims, including, without limitation, proceeds of
insurance and condemnation awards on the Premises (hereinafter
sometimes called "Insurance Proceeds" and "Condemnation Proceeds");
and
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(F) All rights, title and
interest of Trustor in any and all building permits, revocable
license permits (including insurance and bonds), any and other
permits, licenses or authorization required by the governmental
authorities having or exercising jurisdiction over the Premises or
Fixtures (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Permits,
Licenses, Approvals and Agreements").
FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SECURING, due, prompt and complete observance,
performance and discharge of each and every payment, obligation,
covenant and agreement contained in the Community Redevelopment
Authority of the Village of Jackson, Nebraska’s ("Authority")
Tax Increment Revenue Bonds (Siouxland Ethanol, LLC Project) (the
"Bonds"), in the original principal amount of $4,030,000, and all
obligations of Trustor pursuant to a Guaranty Agreement in favor of
Beneficiary dated as of the date of this Deed of Trust
("Guaranty"), subject to (i) liens for ad valorem taxes and
special assessments not then delinquent; (ii) this Bond
Resolution; (iii) the Redevelopment Contract; (iv) this
Subordinate Deed of Trust; (v) utility, access and other
easements and rights-of-way, mineral rights, reservations,
restrictions and exceptions that are of record on the date hereof;
(vi) such minor defects, irregularities, encumbrances,
easements, rights-of-way and clouds on title as normally exist with
respect to properties similar in character to the Premises and as
do not in the aggregate, in the opinion of Independent Counsel,
materially impair the property affected thereby for the purposes
for which it was acquired or is held by the Company; and
(vii) deeds of trust or mortgages securing debt financing
incurred by Company for acquisition, construction, equipping and
operating the Project.
The Bonds and Guaranty are hereinafter referred to together as
the "Obligations."
Pursuant to that certain Subordination Agreement, dated as of
September 28, 2006 (the "Subordination Agreement"), between
the Trustee and Farm Credit Services of America, FLCS and CoBank,
ACB as its administrative agent (the "Senior Lender"), the liens
and security interests granted to the Trustee herein are expressly
subordinate to the liens and security interests the Company has
granted or may grant to the Senior Lender. The Subordination
Agreement restricts the ability of the Trustee to enforce the Deed
of Trust, to take other actions, and to accept payments from the
Company without the consent of the Senior Lender.
The Agreement does not
restrict the ability of the Company to incur additional
indebtedness and grant liens and security interests to secure such
indebtedness. The Senior Credit Facility and any additional debt of
the Company from the Senior Lender will be secured on a senior
basis to the security granted by this Deed of Trust. In addition,
the Company may secure certain additional debt on a parity basis
with the security for the Bonds granted herein.
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ARTICLE I
COVENANTS OF TRUSTOR
To
protect the security of this Deed of Trust, Trustor covenants,
warrants and agrees to and with Beneficiary and Trustee as
follows:
1.01 Payment of Principal and
Interest. Trustor will pay the principal of and interest, if
any, on and all other sums becoming due or payable with respect to
the Obligations at the time and place and in the manner specified
in the Obligations and in the Resolution of the Authority dated
July 20, 2006, and this Deed of Trust according to the terms
of the Obligations, the Resolution and this Deed of Trust.
1.02 Warranty of Title.
Trustor warrants that it has good and marketable title in fee
simple to the Premises subject to no lien, charge or encumbrance
except such as are listed as exceptions to title in the title
policy or policies insuring the lien of this Deed of Trust issued
upon recordation hereof by a title company or companies acceptable
to Beneficiary. This Deed of Trust is and will remain a valid and
enforceable lien on the Property subject only to the exceptions
referred to above. Trustor has full power and lawful authority to
grant, assign, transfer and mortgage its interest in the Property
in the manner and form hereby done or intended. Trustor will
preserve its interest in and title to the Property and will forever
collectively warrant and defend the same to Trustee and will
forever warrant and defend the validity and priority of the lien
hereof against the claims of all persons and parties whomsoever.
Trustor shall promptly and completely observe, perform, and
discharge each and every obligation, covenant and agreement
affecting the Property whether the same is prior and superior or
subject and subordinate hereto.
1.03 Further
Assurances.
(a) Trustor
will do, execute, acknowledge and deliver all and every such
further acts, deeds, conveyances, mortgages, assignments, notices
of assignments, pledge agreements, transfers and assurances as
Trustee or Beneficiary shall from time to time reasonably require,
for the better assuring, conveying, assigning, transferring and
confirming unto Trustee and Beneficiary the property and rights
hereby conveyed or assigned or intended now or hereafter so to be,
or which Trustor may be or may hereafter become bound to convey or
assign to Trustee or Beneficiary, or for carrying out the intention
or facilitating the performance of the terms of this Deed of Trust,
or for filing, registering or recording this Deed of Trust and, on
demand, Trustor will execute and deliver, and hereby authorizes
Trustee or Beneficiary to execute in the name of Trustor to the
extent Trustor may lawfully do so, one or more financing
statements, chattel mortgages or comparable security instruments,
to evidence more effectively the lien hereof upon the Fixtures.
(b) Trustor
forthwith upon the execution and delivery of this Deed of Trust,
and thereafter from time to time, will cause this Deed of Trust,
and any security instrument creating a lien or evidencing the lien
hereof upon the Property and each instrument of further assurance,
to be filed, registered or recorded in such manner and in such
places as may be required by any present or future law in order to
publish notice of and fully to protect the lien hereof upon the
title of Trustee to, and the security interest of Beneficiary in
the Property.
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1.04 Conversion and
Security. All right, title and interest of Trustor in and to
all extensions, improvements, betterments, renewals, substitutes
and replacements of, and all additions and appurtenances to the
Property, hereafter acquired by, or released to Trustor, or
constructed, assembled or placed by Trustor on the Premises and all
conversions of the security constituted thereby, immediately upon
such acquisition, release, construction, assembling, placement or
conversion, as the case may be, and in each such case, without any
further deed of trust, conveyance, assignment or other act by
Trustor, shall become subject to the lien of this Deed of Trust as
fully and completely, and with the same effect, as though now owned
by Trustor and specifically described in the granting clause
hereof, but at any and all times Trustor will execute and deliver
to Trustee any and all such further assurances, deeds of trust,
conveyances or assignments thereof as Trustee or Beneficiary may
reasonably require for the purpose of expressly and specifically
subjecting the same to the lien of this Deed of Trust.
1.05 Security Agreement. To
the extent allowed by the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code, this
Deed of Trust shall be self-operative and constitute a Security
Agreement and Fixture Financing Statement with respect to the
Equipment, Rents and Profits, Insurance Proceeds and Condemnation
Proceeds, Permits, Licenses, Approvals and Agreements. Trustor
hereby agrees to execute and deliver on demand and hereby
irrevocably constitutes and appoints Beneficiary the
attorney-in-fact of Trustor, to execute, deliver and, if
appropriate, to file with the appropriate filing officer or office
such security agreements, financing statements or other instruments
as Beneficiary may request or require in order to impose or perfect
the lien or security interest hereof more specifically thereon. A
photographic or other reproduction of this Deed of Trust or of any
financing statement relating to this Deed of Trust shall be
sufficient as a financing statement.
1.06 Assignment of Rents and
Profits. Beneficiary and Trustee shall have the right, power
and authority during the continuance of this Deed of Trust to
collect the Rents and Profits of the Property and of personal
property located thereon with or without taking possession of the
Property affected hereby, and Trustor hereby absolutely and
unconditionally assigns all such Rents and Profits to Beneficiary
including the Rents and Profits of the Premises described in
Exhibit A attached hereto. Beneficiary, however, hereby
consents to the Trustor’s collection and retention of such
Rents and Profits as they accrue and become payable so long as
Trustor is not at such time, in default with respect to the
indebtedness secured hereby, or in the performance of any covenant
or agreement hereunder or hereby secured.
ARTICLE II
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
The
following shall constitute events of default ("Events of Default")
hereunder:
2.01 Obligations, Covenants,
and Agreements. A default by Trustor in the due, prompt and
complete observance and performance of any obligation, covenant and
agreement contained in this Deed of Trust.
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2.02 Other Obligations. A
default by Trustor in the due, prompt, and complete observance and
performance of any obligation, covenant and agreement contained in
the Guaranty, or the occurrence of any other Event of Default as
defined by and under the Resolution, including the payment, when
due of any installment of principal or interest, if any, on the
Bonds.
ARTICLE III
REMEDIES
Upon
the occurrence of any Event of Default, Trustee and Beneficiary
shall have the following rights and remedies subject to the rights
of holders of prior encumbrances identified in Section 1.02 of this
Deed of Trust:
3.01 Possession. Upon the
occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder including, without
limitation, defaults in the Agreement or the Resolution, and
acceleration of payment of principal of and interest on the
Series A Bonds then the Beneficiary in person or by agent may,
without any obligation so to do and without notice or demand upon
Trustor and without releasing Trustor from any obligation hereunder
or in any other agreement or instrument relating to the
Obligations, including the Guaranty: (i) make any payment or
do any act which Trustor has failed to make or do; (ii) enter
upon, take possession of, manage and operate the Property or any
part thereof; (iii) make or enforce, or, if the same be
subject to modification or cancellation, modify or cancel any
leases of the Property or any part thereof upon such terms or
conditions as Beneficiary deems proper; (iv) obtain and evict
tenants, and fix or modify rents, make repairs and alterations and
do any acts which Beneficiary deems proper to protect the security
hereof; and (v) with or without taking possession, in its own name
or in the name of Trustor, sue for or otherwise collect and receive
rents, royalties, issues, profits, revenue, income and other
benefits, including those past due and unpaid, and apply the same
less costs and expenses of operation and collection, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, upon the indebtedness secured
hereby. The entering upon and taking possession of the Property,
the collection of any rents, royalties, issues, profits, revenue,
income or other benefits and the application thereof as aforesaid
shall not cure or waive any default theretofore or thereafter
occurring or affect any notice of default hereunder or invalidate
any act done pursuant to any such notice; and, notwithstanding
continuance in possession of the Property, or any part thereof, by
Beneficiary, Trustee or a receiver, and the collection, receipt and
application of rents, royalties, issues, profits, revenue, income
or other benefits, Beneficiary shall be entitled to exercise every
right provided for in this Deed of Trust or by law upon or after
the occurrence of a default, including the power to direct the
Trustee to exercise the power of sale. Any of the actions referred
to in this Section 3.01 may be taken by Beneficiary, either in
person or by agent, with or without bringing any action or
proceeding, or by receiver appointed by a court and any such action
may also be taken irrespective of whether any notice of default or
election to sell has been given hereunder and without regard to the
adequacy of the security for the indebtedness hereby secured.
Further, Beneficiary, at the expense of Trustor, either by
purchase, repair or construction, may from time to time maintain
and restore the Property or any part thereof and complete
construction uncompleted as of the date thereof and in the course
of such completion may make such changes in the contemplated
fixtures as Beneficiary may deem desirable and may insure the same.
Beneficiary shall be entitled, without notice and to the full
extent
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provided by law, to the appointment by a court having
jurisdiction of a receiver to take possession of and protect the
Property or any part thereof, and operate the same and collect the
Rents and Profits.
3.02 Receiver.
(a) Beneficiary
shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver by a court
having jurisdiction, to the full extent provided by law, without
notice, to take possession of and protect the Property or any part
thereof, and operate the same and collect the Rents and Profits,
without regard to the adequacy of the security of the Property, and
without regard to the enforcement by Trustee or Beneficiary of any
other remedy provided herein.
(b) Notwithstanding
the appointment of any receiver, liquidator or trustee of Trustor,
or of any of its property, or of the Property or any part thereof,
Trustee and
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