Exhibit 4.3




 





 


[Form of
Subordinated Indenture]


 


BPZ Resources, Inc.,


as Issuer


 


and


 


any Subsidiary Guarantors named herein,


as Subsidiary Guarantors


 


to


 


                        ,


as Trustee


 


SUBORDINATED INDENTURE


 


Dated as of
                ,
20    




 





 

















 


TABLE OF CONTENTS


 


	
   

  	
  PAGE

  
	
  PARTIES

  	
  1

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  RECITALS
  OF THE COMPANY AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

  	
  1

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
  OF GENERAL APPLICATION

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 101. 

  	
  DEFINITIONS.

  	
  1

  
	
  Act

  	
  2

  
	
  Affiliate

  	
  2

  
	
  Authenticating
  Agent

  	
  2

  
	
  Board
  of Directors

  	
  2

  
	
  Board
  Resolution

  	
  2

  
	
  Business
  Day

  	
  2

  
	
  Capital
  Stock

  	
  2

  
	
  Commission

  	
  2

  
	
  Common
  Stock

  	
  2

  
	
  Company

  	
  3

  
	
  Company
  Request

  	
  3

  
	
  Company
  Order

  	
  3

  
	
  Conversion
  Agent

  	
  3

  
	
  Corporate
  Trust Office

  	
  3

  
	
  Corporation

  	
  3

  
	
  Covenant
  Defeasance

  	
  3

  
	
  Defaulted
  Interest

  	
  3

  
	
  Defeasance

  	
  3

  
	
  Depositary

  	
  3

  
	
  Event
  of Default

  	
  3

  
	
  Exchange
  Act

  	
  3

  
	
  Expiration
  Date

  	
  3

  
	
  Global
  Security

  	
  3

  
	
  Holder

  	
  3

  
	
  Indenture

  	
  3

  
	
  interest

  	
  3

  
	
  Interest
  Payment Date

  	
  4

  
	
  Investment
  Company Act

  	
  4

  
	
  Maturity

  	
  4

  
	
  Notice
  of Default

  	
  4

  
	
  Officers’
  Certificate

  	
  4

  
	
  Opinion
  of Counsel

  	
  4

  
	
  Original
  Issue Discount Security

  	
  4

  
	
  Outstanding

  	
  4

  
	
  Paying
  Agent

  	
  5

  
	
  Person

  	
  5

  
	
  Place
  of Payment

  	
  5

  
			



 


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  Predecessor
  Security

  	
  5

  
	
  Redemption
  Date

  	
  5

  
	
  Redemption
  Price

  	
  5

  
	
  Regular
  Record Date

  	
  5

  
	
  Securities

  	
  6

  
	
  Securities
  Act

  	
  6

  
	
  Security
  Register

  	
  6

  
	
  Security
  Registrar

  	
  6

  
	
  Senior
  Debt

  	
  6

  
	
  Significant
  Subsidiary

  	
  6

  
	
  Special
  Record Date

  	
  6

  
	
  Stated
  Maturity

  	
  6

  
	
  Subsidiary

  	
  6

  
	
  Subsidiary
  Guarantees

  	
  6

  
	
  Subsidiary
  Guarantors

  	
  6

  
	
  Trust
  Indenture Act

  	
  6

  
	
  Trustee

  	
  6

  
	
  U.S.
  Government Obligation

  	
  7

  
	
  Vice
  President

  	
  7

  
	
  Voting
  Stock

  	
  7

  
	
  Wholly
  Owned Subsidiary

  	
  7

  
	
  SECTION 102.

  	
  Compliance Certificates
  and Opinions.

  	
  7

  
	
  SECTION 103.

  	
  Form of Documents
  Delivered to Trustee.

  	
  7

  
	
  SECTION 104.

  	
  Acts of Holders; Record
  Dates.

  	
  8

  
	
  SECTION 105.

  	
  Notices, Etc., to
  Trustee and Company.

  	
  10

  
	
  SECTION 106.

  	
  Notice to Holders; Waiver.

  	
  10

  
	
  SECTION 107.

  	
  Conflict with Trust
  Indenture Act.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 108.

  	
  Effect of Headings and
  Table of Contents.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 109.

  	
  Successors and Assigns.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 110.

  	
  Separability Clause.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 111.

  	
  Benefits of Indenture.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 112.

  	
  Governing Law.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 113.

  	
  Legal Holidays.

  	
  11

  
	
  SECTION 114

  	
  No Recourse Against Others

  	
  12

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE TWO
  SECURITY FORMS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 201.

  	
  Forms Generally.

  	
  12

  
	
  SECTION 202.

  	
  Form of Face of
  Security.

  	
  12

  
	
  SECTION 203.

  	
  Form of Reverse of
  Security.

  	
  14

  
	
  SECTION 204.

  	
  Form of Notation of
  Subsidiary Guarantee.

  	
  18

  
	
  SECTION 205.

  	
  Form of Legend for
  Global Securities.

  	
  18

  
	
  SECTION 206.

  	
  Form of Trustee’s
  Certificate of Authentication.

  	
  18

  
	
  SECTION 207.

  	
  Form of Conversion Notice

  	
  19

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE THREE
  THE SECURITIES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 301.

  	
  Amount Unlimited; Issuable
  in Series.

  	
  20

  
	
  SECTION 302.

  	
  Denominations.

  	
  22

  



 


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  SECTION 303.

  	
  Execution, Authentication,
  Delivery and Dating.

  	
  22

  
	
  SECTION 304.

  	
  Temporary Securities.

  	
  24

  
	
  SECTION 305.

  	
  Registration, Registration
  of Transfer and Exchange.

  	
  24

  
	
  SECTION 306.

  	
  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost
  and Stolen Securities.

  	
  26

  
	
  SECTION 307.

  	
  Payment of Interest;
  Interest Rights Preserved.

  	
  26

  
	
  SECTION 308.

  	
  Persons Deemed Owners.

  	
  28

  
	
  SECTION 309.

  	
  Cancellation.

  	
  28

  
	
  SECTION 310.

  	
  Computation of Interest.

  	
  28

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE FOUR
  SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 401.

  	
  Satisfaction and Discharge
  of Indenture.

  	
  28

  
	
  SECTION 402.

  	
  Application of Trust Money.

  	
  29

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE FIVE
  REMEDIES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 501.

  	
  Events of Default.

  	
  29

  
	
  SECTION 502.

  	
  Acceleration of Maturity;
  Rescission and Annulment.

  	
  31

  
	
  SECTION 503.

  	
  Collection of Indebtedness
  and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

  	
  32

  
	
  SECTION 504.

  	
  Trustee May File
  Proofs of Claim.

  	
  32

  
	
  SECTION 505.

  	
  Trustee May Enforce
  Claims Without Possession of Securities.

  	
  33

  
	
  SECTION 506.

  	
  Application of Money
  Collected.

  	
  33

  
	
  SECTION 507.

  	
  Limitation on Suits.

  	
  33

  
	
  SECTION 508.

  	
  Unconditional Right of
  Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.

  	
  34

  
	
  SECTION 509.

  	
  Restoration of Rights and
  Remedies.

  	
  34

  
	
  SECTION 510.

  	
  Rights and Remedies
  Cumulative.

  	
  34

  
	
  SECTION 511.

  	
  Delay or Omission Not
  Waiver.

  	
  34

  
	
  SECTION 512.

  	
  Control by Holders.

  	
  35

  
	
  SECTION 513.

  	
  Waiver of Past Defaults.

  	
  35

  
	
  SECTION 514.

  	
  Undertaking for Costs.

  	
  35

  
	
  SECTION 515.

  	
  Waiver of Usury, Stay or
  Extension Laws.

  	
  35

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE SIX
  THE TRUSTEE

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 601.

  	
  Certain Duties and
  Responsibilities.

  	
  36

  
	
  SECTION 602.

  	
  Notice of Defaults.

  	
  36

  
	
  SECTION 603.

  	
  Certain Rights of Trustee.

  	
  36

  
	
  SECTION 604.

  	
  Not Responsible for
  Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

  	
  37

  
	
  SECTION 605.

  	
  May Hold Securities.

  	
  37

  
	
  SECTION 606.

  	
  Money Held in Trust.

  	
  37

  
	
  SECTION 607.

  	
  Compensation and
  Reimbursement.

  	
  37

  
	
  SECTION 608.

  	
  Conflicting Interests.

  	
  38

  
	
  SECTION 609.

  	
  Corporate Trustee
  Required; Eligibility.

  	
  38

  
	
  SECTION 610.

  	
  Resignation and Removal;
  Appointment of Successor.

  	
  38

  
	
  SECTION 611.

  	
  Acceptance of Appointment
  by Successor.

  	
  40

  
	
  SECTION 612.

  	
  Merger, Conversion,
  Consolidation or Succession to Business.

  	
  41

  



 


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  SECTION 613.

  	
  Preferential Collection of
  Claims Against Company and Subsidiary Guarantors.

  	
  41

  
	
  SECTION 614.

  	
  Appointment of
  Authenticating Agent.

  	
  41

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE SEVEN
  HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 701.

  	
  Company to Furnish Trustee
  Names and Addresses of Holders.

  	
  42

  
	
  SECTION 702.

  	
  Preservation of
  Information; Communications to Holders.

  	
  43

  
	
  SECTION 703.

  	
  Reports by Trustee.

  	
  43

  
	
  SECTION 704.

  	
  Reports by Company and
  Subsidiary Guarantors.

  	
  43

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE EIGHT
  CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 801.

  	
  Company
  May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

  	
  43

  
	
  SECTION 802.

  	
  Subsidiary Guarantors
  May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

  	
  44

  
	
  SECTION 803.

  	
  Successor Substituted.

  	
  45

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE NINE
  SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 901.

  	
  Supplemental Indentures
  Without Consent of Holders.

  	
  45

  
	
  SECTION 902.

  	
  Supplemental Indentures
  With Consent of Holders.

  	
  46

  
	
  SECTION 903.

  	
  Execution of Supplemental
  Indentures.

  	
  47

  
	
  SECTION 904.

  	
  Effect of Supplemental
  Indentures.

  	
  48

  
	
  SECTION 905.

  	
  Conformity with Trust
  Indenture Act.

  	
  48

  
	
  SECTION 906.

  	
  Reference in Securities to
  Supplemental Indentures.

  	
  48

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE TEN
  COVENANTS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1001.

  	
  Payment of Principal, Premium
  and Interest.

  	
  48

  
	
  SECTION 1002.

  	
  Maintenance of Office or
  Agency.

  	
  48

  
	
  SECTION 1003.

  	
  Money for Securities
  Payments to Be Held in Trust.

  	
  49

  
	
  SECTION 1004.

  	
  Statement by Officers as
  to Default.

  	
  50

  
	
  SECTION 1005.

  	
  Existence.

  	
  50

  
	
  SECTION 1006.

  	
  Maintenance of Properties.

  	
  50

  
	
  SECTION 1007.

  	
  Payment of Taxes and Other
  Claims.

  	
  50

  
	
  SECTION 1008.

  	
  Maintenance of Insurance.

  	
  51

  
	
  SECTION 1009.

  	
  Waiver of Certain
  Covenants.

  	
  51

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE ELEVEN
  REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1101.

  	
  Applicability of Article.

  	
  51

  
	
  SECTION 1102.

  	
  Election to Redeem; Notice
  to Trustee.

  	
  51

  
	
  SECTION 1103.

  	
  Selection by Trustee of
  Securities to Be Redeemed.

  	
  52

  
	
  SECTION 1104.

  	
  Notice of Redemption.

  	
  52

  
	
  SECTION 1105.

  	
  Deposit of Redemption
  Price.

  	
  53

  
	
  SECTION 1106.

  	
  Securities Payable on
  Redemption Date.

  	
  53

  
	
  SECTION 1107.

  	
  Securities Redeemed in
  Part.

  	
  53

  



 


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  ARTICLE TWELVE
  SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1201.

  	
  Applicability of Article.

  	
  54

  
	
  SECTION 1202.

  	
  Securities Subordinate to
  Senior Debt.

  	
  54

  
	
  SECTION 1203.

  	
  Payment Over of Proceeds
  Upon Dissolution, Etc.

  	
  54

  
	
  SECTION 1204.

  	
  No Payment When Senior
  Debt of the Company in Default.

  	
  55

  
	
  SECTION 1205.

  	
  Payment Permitted If No
  Default.

  	
  56

  
	
  SECTION 1206.

  	
  Subrogation to Rights of
  Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.

  	
  57

  
	
  SECTION 1207.

  	
  Provisions Solely to
  Define Relative Rights.

  	
  57

  
	
  SECTION 1208.

  	
  Trustee to Effectuate
  Subordination.

  	
  57

  
	
  SECTION 1209.

  	
  No Waiver of Subordination
  Provisions.

  	
  57

  
	
  SECTION 1210.

  	
  Notice to Trustee.

  	
  58

  
	
  SECTION 1211.

  	
  Reliance on Judicial Order
  or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.

  	
  59

  
	
  SECTION 1212.

  	
  Trustee Not Fiduciary for
  Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.

  	
  59

  
	
  SECTION 1213.

  	
  Rights of Trustee as
  Holder of Senior Debt of the Company; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights.

  	
  59

  
	
  SECTION 1214.

  	
  Article Applicable to
  Paying Agents.

  	
  59

  
	
  SECTION 1215.

  	
  Defeasance of this
  Article Twelve.

  	
  59

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE THIRTEEN
  SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1301.

  	
  Applicability of Article.

  	
  60

  
	
  SECTION 1302.

  	
  Subsidiary Guarantees.

  	
  60

  
	
  SECTION 1303.

  	
  Execution and Delivery of
  Notations of Subsidiary Guarantees.

  	
  61

  
	
  SECTION 1304.

  	
  Release of Subsidiary
  Guarantors.

  	
  62

  
	
  SECTION 1305.

  	
  Additional Subsidiary
  Guarantors.

  	
  62

  
	
  SECTION 1306.

  	
  Limitation on Liability.

  	
  63

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE FOURTEEN
  SUBORDINATION OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1401.

  	
  Applicability of Article.

  	
  63

  
	
  SECTION 1402.

  	
  Subsidiary Guarantees
  Subordinate to Senior Debt of Subordinate Guarantors.

  	
  63

  
	
  SECTION 1403.

  	
  Payment Over of Proceeds
  Upon Dissolution, Etc.

  	
  63

  
	
  SECTION 1404.

  	
  No Payment When Senior
  Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor in Default.

  	
  64

  
	
  SECTION 1405.

  	
  Payment Permitted If No
  Default.

  	
  65

  
	
  SECTION 1406.

  	
  Subrogation to Rights of
  Holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.

  	
  65

  
	
  SECTION 1407.

  	
  Provisions Solely to
  Define Relative Rights.

  	
  66

  
	
  SECTION 1408.

  	
  Trustee to Effectuate
  Subordination.

  	
  66

  
	
  SECTION 1409.

  	
  No Waiver of Subordination
  Provisions.

  	
  66

  
	
  SECTION 1410.

  	
  Notice to Trustee.

  	
  67

  
	
  SECTION 1411.

  	
  Reliance on Judicial Order
  or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.

  	
  68

  
	
  SECTION 1412.

  	
  Trustee Not Fiduciary for
  Holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.

  	
  68

  



 


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  SECTION 1413.

  	
  Rights of Trustee as
  Holder of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; Preservation of Trustee’s
  Rights.

  	
  68

  
	
  SECTION 1414.

  	
  Article Applicable to
  Paying Agents.

  	
  68

  
	
  SECTION 1415.

  	
  Defeasance of this
  Article Fourteen.

  	
  68

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE FIFTEEN
  DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1501.

  	
  Company’s Option to Effect
  Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

  	
  69

  
	
  SECTION 1502.

  	
  Defeasance and Discharge.

  	
  69

  
	
  SECTION 1503.

  	
  Covenant Defeasance.

  	
  69

  
	
  SECTION 1504.

  	
  Conditions to Defeasance
  or Covenant Defeasance.

  	
  70

  
	
  SECTION 1505.

  	
  Deposited Money and U.S.
  Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.

  	
  72

  
	
  SECTION 1506.

  	
  Reinstatement.

  	
  72

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE SIXTEEN
  SINKING FUNDS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 1601.

  	
  Applicability of Article.

  	
  73

  
	
  SECTION 1602.

  	
  Satisfaction of Sinking
  Fund Payments with Securities.

  	
  73

  
	
  SECTION 1603.

  	
  Redemption of Securities
  for Sinking Fund.

  	
  73

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SIGNATURES

  	
   

  	
  74

  
	
  SCHEDULE I

  	
   

  	
  I-1

  



 


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BPZ RESOURCES, INC.


 


CERTAIN
SECTIONS OF THIS INDENTURE RELATING TO SECTIONS 310 

THROUGH 318, INCLUSIVE, OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939:


 


	
  TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION

  	
   

  	
  INDENTURE SECTION

  
	
  Section 310(a)(1)

  	
   

  	
  609

  
	
  (a)(2)

  	
   

  	
  609

  
	
  (a)(3)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (a)(4)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  608

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  610

  
	
  Section 311(a)

  	
   

  	
  613

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  613

  
	
  Section 312(a)

  	
   

  	
  701

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  702

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  702

  
	
  (c)

  	
   

  	
  702

  
	
  Section 313(a)

  	
   

  	
  703

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  703

  
	
  (c)

  	
   

  	
  703

  
	
  (d)

  	
   

  	
  703

  
	
  Section 314(a)

  	
   

  	
  704

  
	
  (a)(4)

  	
   

  	
  101

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  1004

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (c)(1)

  	
   

  	
  102

  
	
  (c)(2)

  	
   

  	
  102

  
	
  (c)(3)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (d)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (e)

  	
   

  	
  102

  
	
  Section 315(a)

  	
   

  	
  601

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  602

  
	
  (c)

  	
   

  	
  601

  
	
  (d)

  	
   

  	
  601

  
	
  (e)

  	
   

  	
  514

  
	
  Section 316(a)

  	
   

  	
  101

  
	
  (a)(1)(A)

  	
   

  	
  502

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  512

  
	
  (a)(1)(B)

  	
   

  	
  513

  
	
  (a)(2)

  	
   

  	
  Not Applicable

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  508

  
	
  (c)

  	
   

  	
  104

  
	
  Section 317(a)(1)

  	
   

  	
  503

  
	
  (a)(2)

  	
   

  	
  504

  
	
  (b)

  	
   

  	
  1003

  
	
  Section 318(a)

  	
   

  	
  107

  



 


NOTE:
This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.


 


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INDENTURE, dated as of
                ,
200  , among BPZ Resources, Inc., a corporation duly organized
and existing under the laws of  the State
of Texas (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 580
Westlake Park Boulevard, Suite 525, Houston, Texas 77079, each of the
Subsidiary Guarantors (as hereinafter defined) and                           
, a banking corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State
of                          ,
as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).


 


RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS


 


The Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the
issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one
or more series as in this Indenture provided.


 


The Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors are members of the same consolidated group of companies.
The Subsidiary Guarantors will derive direct and indirect economic benefit from
the issuance of the Securities. Accordingly, each Subsidiary Guarantor has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for its
full, unconditional and joint and several guarantee of the Securities to the
extent provided in or pursuant this Indenture.


 


All things necessary to make
this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms,
have been done.


 


NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:


 


For and in consideration of
the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is
mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the
Securities or of series thereof, as follows:


 


ARTICLE ONE


 


DEFINITIONS
AND OTHER PROVISIONS


OF
GENERAL APPLICATION


 


SECTION 101. Definitions.


 


For all purposes of this
Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:


 


(1) the
terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and
include the plural as well as the singular;


 


(2) all
other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;


 


(3) all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and, except
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expressly provided, the term
“generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are
generally accepted at the date of this instrument;


 


(4) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section”
refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;
and


 


(5) the
words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer
to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision.


 


“Act”
when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.


 


“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used
with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management
and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling”
and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing; provided that
direct or indirect beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the Voting Stock of a
Person shall be deemed to control.


 


“Authenticating
Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of
one or more series.


 


“Board of
Directors” means, with respect to the Company, either the board of
directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act
for it in respect hereof, and with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, either
the board of directors of such Subsidiary Guarantor or any committee of that
board duly authorized to act for it in respect hereof.


 


“Board
Resolution” means, with respect to the Company or a Subsidiary
Guarantor, a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, to
have been duly adopted by its Board of Directors and to be in full force and
effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.


 


“Business Day”
when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions
in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order
to close.


 


“Capital
Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock or
other equity participations, including partnership interests, whether general
or limited, of such Person.


 


“Commission”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this
instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now
assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such
duties at such time.


 


“Common Stock”
means the common stock. no par value, of the Company as the same exists at the
date of execution and delivery of this Indenture or other Capital Stock of the
Company into which such common stock is converted, reclassified or changed from
time to time.


 


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“Company”
means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this
instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean
such successor Person.


 


“Company
Request” or “Company Order”
means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to
the Trustee.


 


“Conversion
Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to convert any
Securities on behalf of the Company.


 


“Corporate
Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, such
office being located on the date hereof at [TRUSTEE’S ADDRESS].


 


“corporation”
means a corporation, association, limited liability company, joint-stock
company or business trust.


 


“Covenant
Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1503.


 


“Defaulted
Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.


 


“Defeasance”
has the meaning specified in Section 1502.


 


“Depositary”
means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in
the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency registered under
the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as
contemplated by Section 301.


 


“Event of
Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.


 


“Exchange Act”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.


 


“Expiration
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.


 


“Global
Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 205 (or
such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such
Securities).


 


“Holder”
means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.


 


“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes
of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument
and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall
also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 301.


 


“interest”,
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terms bears interest only
after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.


 


“Interest
Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.


 


“Investment
Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.


 


“Maturity”,
when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal
of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as
therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.


 


“Notice of
Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 501(4).


 


“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President or a
Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case
may be, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’
Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal
executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.


 


“Opinion of
Counsel” means, as to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, a
written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company or such
Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, and who shall be acceptable to the
Trustee.


 


“Original
Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an
amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502.


 


“Outstanding”,
when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination,
all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
except:


 


(1) Securities
theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;


 


(2) Securities
for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the
Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities;
provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption
has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;


 


(3) Securities as to
which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1502; and


 


(4) Securities
which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu
of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to
this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall
have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such
Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are
valid obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining
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made or taken any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount
of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon
acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502,
(B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated
Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such
Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as
specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the
principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or
currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar
equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated
by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case
of a Security described in clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined
as provided in such clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company, any
Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only
Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, a Subsidiary Guarantor or of such
other obligor.


 


“Paying Agent”
means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.


 


“Person”
means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.


 


“Place of
Payment,” when used with respect to the Securities of any series,
means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest
on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by
Section 301.


 


“Predecessor
Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of
a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.


 


“Redemption
Date,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means
the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.


 


“Redemption
Price,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means
the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.


 


“Regular
Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.


 


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“Securities”
has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly
means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.


 


“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.


 


“Security
Register” and “Security Registrar”
have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.


 


“Senior Debt”
with respect to any series of Securities shall have the meaning specified as
contemplated by Section 301.


 


“Significant
Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Subsidiary that
represents 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated total assets at the end of
the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial information is available or
10% or more of the Company’s consolidated net revenues or consolidated
operating income for the most recent four quarters for which financial
information is available.


 


“Special
Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date
fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.


 


“Stated
Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or any installment
of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such
Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.


 


“Subsidiary”
of any Person means (1) a corporation more than 50% of the combined voting
power of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person
or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries thereof or (2) any other
Person (other than a corporation) in which such Person, or one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries
thereof, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority ownership and power to
direct the policies, management and affairs thereof.


 


“Subsidiary
Guarantees” means the guarantees of each Subsidiary Guarantor as
provided in Article Thirteen.


 


“Subsidiary
Guarantors” means (i) the subsidiaries listed in Schedule I
hereto; (ii) any successor of the foregoing; and (iii) each other
Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance
with Section 1305 hereof, in each case (i), (ii) and (iii) until
such Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be such in accordance with Section 1304
hereof.


 


“Trust
Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust
Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.


 


“Trustee”
means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this
instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
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hereunder, and if at any
time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the
Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of
that series.


 


“U.S.
Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in
Section 1504.


 


“Vice
President,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title “vice president”.


 


“Voting Stock”
of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person which ordinarily has voting
power for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions)
of such Person, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of
securities has such voting power by reason of any contingency.


 


“Wholly Owned
Subsidiary” of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person all of
the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than
directors’ qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by
one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one
or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.


 


SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.


 


Upon any application or
request by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company and/or such
Subsidiary Guarantor, as appropriate, shall furnish to the Trustee such
certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act.
Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’
Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company or a Subsidiary
Guarantor, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall
comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other
requirements set forth in this Indenture.


 


Every certificate or opinion
with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this
Indenture shall include,


 


(1) a
statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read
such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;


 


(2) a
brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion
are based;


 


(3) a
statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and


 


(4) a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition
or covenant has been complied with.


 


SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.


 


In any case where several
matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any
specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or
covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified
or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
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opinion as to such matters
in one or several documents.


 


Any certificate or opinion
of an officer of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor may be based, insofar as
it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or such Subsidiary
Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is
in the possession of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, unless such
counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are
erroneous.


 


Where any Person is required
to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents,
certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture,
they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.


 


SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.


 


Whenever in this Indenture
it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of any or all series may take action
(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any direction,
notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the fact that at
the time of taking any such action the Holders of such specified percentage
have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number
of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or
proxy appointed in writing, (b) by the record of the Holders voting in
favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with
procedures approved by the Trustee, (c) by a combination of such
instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders or
(d) in the case of Securities evidenced by a Global Security, by any
electronic transmission or other message, whether or not in written format,
that complies with the Depositary’s applicable procedures. Such evidence (and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the “Act” of the relevant Holders. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent or proxy shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section.


 


The fact and date of the
execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the
affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public
or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying
that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the
execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity
other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also
constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person
executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee
deems sufficient.


 


The ownership of Securities
shall be proved by the Security Register.


 


Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of
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every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.


 


The Company may set any day
as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or
permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities
of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and
the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or
making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next
paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other
Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such
Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action
shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and
with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the
relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record
date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall
cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each
Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 106.


 


The Trustee may set any day
as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of
(i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration
referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction
referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of
such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders
of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other
Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or
direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided
that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to
the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record
date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to
this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically
and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the
relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record
date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense,
shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each
Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 106.


 


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With respect to any record
date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record
dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may
change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such
change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is
given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of
the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to
the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with
respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which
set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day
after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to
its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th
day after the applicable record date.


 


Without limiting the
foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard
to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the
principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each
of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part
of such principal amount.


 


SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.


 


Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other
document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or
furnished to, or filed with:


 


(1) the
Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing in the English language to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Department; or


 


(2) the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing in the English language and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, in the
case of the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company and, in the case
of any Subsidiary Guarantor, to it at the address of the Company’s principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention: Chief
Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to
the Trustee by such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.


 


Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently
given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his
address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date
(if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so
mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice
with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the
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such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken
in reliance upon such waiver.


 


In case by reason of the
suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be
impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
notification for every purpose hereunder.


 


SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.


 


If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act
which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the
latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so
modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.


 


SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.


 


The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.


 


SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.


 


All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture by the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.


 


SECTION 110. Separability Clause.


 


In case any provision in
this Indenture, the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforce ability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.


 


SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.


 


Nothing in this Indenture,
the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees, express or implied, shall give to
any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, the
holders of Senior Debt and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.


 


SECTION 112. Governing Law.


 


This Indenture, the
Securities and the Subsidiary Guarantees shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the law of the State of New York.


 


SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.


 


In any case where any
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, purchase date or Stated Maturity of any
Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities
(other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such
provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal
(and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date,
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Payment with the same force
and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or purchase
date, or at the Stated Maturity.


 


SECTION 114.
No Recourse Against Others.


 


The
directors, officers, employees and stockholders of the Company and, if
applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantors, as such, shall have no liability for any
obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor under the Securities,
any Subsidiary Guarantees of this Indenture or for any claim based on, in
respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a
Security, each Holder shall be deemed to have waived and released all such
liability. The waiver and release shall be a part of the consideration for the
issue of the Securities.


 


ARTICLE TWO


 


SECURITY
FORMS


 


SECTION 201. Forms Generally.


 


The Securities of each
series and, if applicable, the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees to be
endorsed thereon shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article,
or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers
or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed
thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities
exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined
by the officers executing such Securities or notations of Subsidiary Guarantees,
as the case may be, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of
Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by
Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.


 


The definitive Securities
shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be
produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.


 


SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.


 


[Insert any legend required
by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]


 


BPZ Resources, Inc.


 


	
  No.

  	
   

  	
  $

  



 


BPZ Resources, Inc., a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Texas (herein called
the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                         
, or registered assigns, the principal sum of                         
Dollars on                         
[if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — , and to
pay interest thereon from


 


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or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
semi-annually on
                
and                 
in each year, commencing                 
, at the rate of     % per annum, until the principal
hereof is paid or made available for payment, provided that any principal and
premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear
interest at the rate of        % per
annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made
available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand. The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in
whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall
be the                 
or                 
(whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such
Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed
by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture].


 


[If the Security is not to
bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall
not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon
acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the
overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of        %
per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made
available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be
payable on demand. Any such interest on overdue principal or premium which is
not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of       %
per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on interest shall be
legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so demanded
is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall
be payable on demand.]


 


Payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this
Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose in                 
, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of
payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided,
however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by
check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Security Register.


 


Reference is hereby made to
the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which
further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth
at this place.


 


Unless the certificate of
authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the
reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any
benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.


 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company
has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.


 


	
  Dated:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  BPZ Resources, Inc.

  
	
   

  	
  By

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Attest:

  	
   

  



 


SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Security.


 


This Security is one of a
duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”),
issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of             
, 200    (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the
meaning assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, the Subsidiary
Guarantors named therein and                 
, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor
trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for
a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee,
the holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms
upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable,
insert — , limited in aggregate principal amount to $                ].


 


[If applicable, insert — The
Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’
notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on                 
in any year commencing with the year             
and ending with the year             
through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price
equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable,
insert — on or after             
, 20     ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the
Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the
principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before                 
,       %, and if redeemed] during the
12-month period beginning             
of the years indicated,


 


	
  Year

  	
   

  	
  Redemption

  Price

  	
   

  	
  Year

  	
   

  	
  Redemption

  Price

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  



 


and thereafter at a
Redemption Price equal to       % of the
principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable,
insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with
accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders
of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all
as provided in the Indenture.]


 


[If applicable, insert — The
Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’
notice by mail, (1) on
             in any
year commencing with the year             
and ending with the year             
through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices
for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages
of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time
[if


 


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applicable, insert — on or
after                 ],
as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices
for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed
as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If
redeemed during the 12-month period beginning                 
of the years indicated,


 


	
  Year

  	
   

  	
  Redemption Price For

   Redemption Through Operation

   of the Sinking Fund

  	
   

  	
  Redemption Price For

   Redemption Otherwise

   Than Through Operation

   of the Sinking Fund

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  



 


and thereafter at a
Redemption Price equal to       % of the
principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through
operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior
to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or
one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]


 


[If applicable, insert —
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to
                ,
redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert
— clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation
of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of
moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in
accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than       %
per annum.]


 


[If applicable, insert — The
sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on
                
in each year beginning with the year
             and
ending with the year             
of [if applicable, insert — not less than $                
(“mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $                
aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this
series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if
applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise
required to be made [if applicable, insert — , in the inverse order in which
they become due].]


 


[If the Security is subject
to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security
in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for
the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof
upon the cancellation hereof.]


 


[If the Security is subject
to conversion, insert — Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
has the right to convert the principal amount of this Security into fully paid
and nonassessable shares of Common Stock of the Company at the initial
conversion price per share of Common Stock of $                
(or $                
in principal amount of Securities for each such share of Common Stock), or at
the adjusted conversion price then in effect, if adjustment has been made as
provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of the Security to the Conversion
Agent, together with a fully executed notice in substantially the form attached
hereto and, if required by the Indenture, an amount equal to accrued interest
payable on this Security.]


 


The indebtedness evidenced
by this Security is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and
subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt of
the


 


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Company, and this Security
is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each
Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be
bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his
behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his
attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.


 


[If applicable, insert — As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the obligations of the Company under this Security are guaranteed on a senior
subordinated basis pursuant to the Indenture as indicated in the notation of
Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed hereon. The Indenture provides that a Subsidiary
Guarantor shall be released from its Subsidiary Guarantee upon compliance with
certain conditions.]


 


[If applicable, insert — The
Indenture contains provisions for Defeasance at any time of [the entire
indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events
of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with
certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]


 


[If the Security is not an
Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of
the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture.]


 


[If the Security is an
Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of
principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in
the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be
equal to — insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of
the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest
on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that
the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s
obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and
interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]


 


The Indenture permits, with
certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the
modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the
Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at
any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each
series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each
series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of
such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive
and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and
of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Security.


 


As provided in and subject
to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have
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appointment of a receiver or
trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have
previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25%
in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding
shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable
indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time
Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed
to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted
by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal
hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates
expressed herein [if applicable, insert — or the right to convert this Security
in accordance with its terms].


 


No reference herein to the
Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or
impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to
pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the
times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed [if
applicable, insert — and to convert this Security in accordance with its
terms].


 


As provided in the Indenture
and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this
Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this
Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in
any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security
are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of
authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.


 


The Securities of this
series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of
$                
and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series
and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.


 


No service charge shall be
made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge payable in connection therewith.


 


Prior to due presentment of
this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such
agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


 


All terms used in this
Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to
them in the Indenture.


 


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SECTION 204. Form of Notation of Subsidiary Guarantee.


 


NOTATION OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE


 


Each
of the Subsidiary Guarantors (which term includes any successor Person under
the Indenture) has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the
extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the
Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if
any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under
the Indenture and the Securities by the Company.


 


The
obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors to the Holders of Securities and to
the Trustee pursuant to the Subsidiary Guarantee and the Indenture are
expressly set forth in Article Thirteen of the Indenture and reference is
hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Subsidiary Guarantee.


 


	
   

  	
  [Insert
  Names of Subsidiary Guarantors]

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Title:

  



 


SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Global Securities.


 


Unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every
Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in
substantially the following form:


 


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL
SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT
BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO
TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN
THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT
IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.


 


SECTION 206. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication.


 


The Trustee’s certificates
of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:


 


This is one of the
Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.


 


	
   

  	
   

  	
  ,

  
	
   

  	
  As Trustee

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Authorized Officer

  	
   

  



 


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SECTION 207.
Form of Conversion Notice.


 


Each
convertible Security shall have attached thereto, or set forth on the reverse
of the Security, a notice of conversion in substantially the following form:


 


Conversion Notice


 


To:
   BPZ Resources, Inc.


 


The
undersigned owner of this Security hereby: (i) irrevocably exercises the
option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof below designated, for
shares of Common Stock of BPZ Resources, Inc. in accordance with the terms
of the Indenture referred to in this Security and (ii) directs that such
shares of Common Stock deliverable upon the conversion, together with any check
in payment for fractional shares and any Security(ies) representing any
unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered
holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If shares are
to be delivered registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned,
the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any
amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest
accompanies this Security.


 


	
  Dated:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Signature

  



 


Fill
in for registration of shares if to be delivered, and of Securities if to be
issued, otherwise than to and in the name of the registered holder.


 


	
   

  	
   

  	
  Social
  Security or other

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Taxpayer
  Identification Number

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  (Name)

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  (Please
  print name and address)

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Principal
  amount to be converted: (if less than all)

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  $

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Signature
  Guarantee*

  	
   

  	
   

  



 






	
  *

  	
  Participant in a
  recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature
  acceptable to the Trustee).

  



 


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ARTICLE THREE


 


THE
SECURITIES


 


SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.


 


The aggregate principal
amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture is unlimited.


 


The Securities may be issued
in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the
manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any
series,


 


(1)
the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);


 


(2)
if the Securities of the series will not have the benefit of the Subsidiary
Guarantees of the Subsidiary Guarantors;


 


(3)
any change to the subordination provisions which applies to the Securities of
the series from those contained in Article Twelve with respect to the
Securities and/or, if applicable, those contained in Article Fourteen with
respect to the Subsidiary Guarantees, and the definitions of Senior Debt and
Designated Senior Debt which shall apply to the Securities of the series, and,
if applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantees;


 


(4)
any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to
Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which,
pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder);


 


(5)
the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable,
if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest;


 


(6)
the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;


 


(7)
the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if
any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest
Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular
Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;


 


(8)
the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any
Securities of the series shall be payable;


 


(9) the period or periods
within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon
which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the
option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in
which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;


 


(10)
the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of
the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the
option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price
or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of
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in part, pursuant to such
obligation;


 


(11)
if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the
denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;


 


(12)
if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of
the series may be determined with reference to an index or pursuant to a
formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;


 


(13)
if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency,
currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of
determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of
America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding”
in Section 101;


 


(14)
if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series
is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one
or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such
Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units
in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to
which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the
terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so
payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);


 


(15)
if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal
amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration
of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;


 


(16)
if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the
series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated
Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such
Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder,
including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any
Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be
Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case,
the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be
determined);


 


(17) if applicable, that the
Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall be defeasible
pursuant to Section 1502 or Section 1503 or both such Sections and,
if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the
Company to defease such Securities shall be evidenced;


 


(18)
if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or
in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the
respective Depositories for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or
legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in
lieu of that set forth in Section 205 and any circumstances in addition to
or in lieu of those set forth in clause (2) of the last paragraph of
Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or
in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in
whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than
the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;


 


(19)
any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any
Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the
requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof
due and payable pursuant to Section 502;


 


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(20)
any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which
applies to Securities of the series;


 


(21)
whether the Securities of the series will be convertible into Capital Stock (or
cash in lieu thereof) and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which such
conversion will be effected; and


 


(22)
any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).


 


All Securities of any one
series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as
may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to
above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner
provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such
indenture supplemental hereto.


 


If any of the terms of the
series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy
of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the
series.


 


The Securities of each
series shall have the benefit of the Subsidiary Guarantees unless the Company
elects otherwise upon the establishment of a series pursuant to this
Section 301.


 


The Securities shall be
subordinated in right of payment to Senior Debt of the Company as provided in
Article Twelve. Each Subsidiary Guarantee shall be subordinated in right of
payment to Senior Debt of the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor as provided in
Article Fourteen.


 


SECTION 302. Denominations.


 


The Securities of each
series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in
such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301.
In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.


 


SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.


 


The Securities shall be
executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors,
its Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents. If its corporate seal is reproduced thereon, then it shall be
attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of
any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.


 


Securities bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper
officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Securities.


 


At any time and from time to
time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may
deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company and, if applicable,
having endorsed thereon the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees executed as
provided in Section 1303 by the Subsidiary Guarantors to the Trustee for
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Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the
form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or
pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301,
in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall
be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,


 


(1)
if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board
Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;


 


(2)
if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board
Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and


 


(3)
that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and
issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations
of the Company, and, if applicable, the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees
endorsed thereon will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the
Subsidiary Guarantors, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’
rights and to general equity principles.


 


If such form or terms have
been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such
Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will
affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and
this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee.


 


Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all
Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall
not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required
pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered
at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security
of such series to be issued.


 


Each Security shall be dated
the date of its authentication.


 


No Security or Subsidiary
Guarantee shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any
Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued
and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the
Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of
this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.


 


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SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.


 


Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which
are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in
any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive
Securities and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon the notations of
Subsidiary Guarantees in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities and, if applicable, notations of Subsidiary
Guarantees may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities
and notations of Subsidiary Guarantees.


 


If temporary Securities of
any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that
series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series
shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender
of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the
Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.
Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any
series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon notations of
Subsidiary Guarantees executed by the Subsidiary Guarantors. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of
such series and tenor.


 


SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.


 


The Company shall cause to
be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register
maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a
Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security
Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of
transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar”
for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.


 


Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of
the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute,
if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the notations of Subsidiary
Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount.


 


At the option of the Holder,
Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such
office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, if applicable the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute
the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange
is entitled to receive.


 


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All Securities and, if
applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid
obligations of the Company and, if applicable, the respective Subsidiary
Guarantors, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Securities and Subsidiaries Guarantees surrendered upon
such registration of transfer or exchange.


 


Every Security presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required
by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized
in writing.


 


No service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to
Section 304, 906, 1107 or otherwise not involving any transfer.


 


If the Securities of any
series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the
Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor,
as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such
Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the
transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.


 


The provisions of clauses
(1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:


 


(1)
Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in
the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee
thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian
therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for
all purposes of this Indenture.


 


(2)
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may
be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of
a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any
Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof
unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or
(ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act,
and in either case the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary within
90 days, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default with respect to such Global Security and the Depositary shall have
notified the Trustee of its decision to exchange such Global Security for
Securities in certificated form or (C) there shall exist such
circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been
specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.


 


(3)
Subject to clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other
Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in
exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in
such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.


 


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(4)
Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or
in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof,
whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or
otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a
Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person
other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.


 


SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.


 


If any mutilated Security is
surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series
and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, and, if applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the
notation of Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed thereon.


 


If there shall be delivered
to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of
either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the
Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu
of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same
series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, and, if applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the
notation of Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed thereon.


 


In case any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and
payable or is to be converted, the Company in its discretion may, instead of
issuing a new Security, pay or authorize the conversion of such Security
(without surrender thereof save in the case of a mutilated Security).


 


Upon the issuance of any new
Security under this Section, the Company 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
Trustee) connected therewith.


 


Every new Security of any
series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, and, if applicable, the Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon, shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and, if
applicable, the respective Subsidiary Guarantors, whether or not the destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall
be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.


 


The provisions of this
Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other
rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.


 


SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.


 


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Securities, interest on any
Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest.


 


Any interest on any Security
of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date
by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid
by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or
(2) below:


 


(1)
The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons
in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount
of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and
the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of
the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause
provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less
than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10
days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner
set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2).


 


(2)
The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any
series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.


 


Subject to the foregoing
provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon
registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which
were carried by such other Security.


 


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SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.


 


Prior to due presentment of
a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Subsidiary
Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Subsidiary
Guarantors, or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is
registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment
of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest
on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, the
Trustee nor any agent of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


 


SECTION 309. Cancellation.


 


All Securities surrendered
for payment, redemption, purchase, registration of transfer or exchange or for
credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person
other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly
cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver
to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the
Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section,
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held
by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.


 


SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.


 


Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series,
interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.


 


ARTICLE FOUR


 


SATISFACTION
AND DISCHARGE


 


SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.


 


This Indenture shall upon Company
Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of
conversion, registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly
provided for) with respect to the Securities of any series, and the Trustee, at
the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when


 


(1)
either


 


(A)
all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (i) Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and
(ii) Securities of such series for whose payment money has theretofore
been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
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Section 1003) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or


 


(B)
all such Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation


 


(i)
have become due and payable, or


 


(ii)
will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or


 


(iii)
are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory
to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Company,


 


and the Company or, if
applicable, a Subsidiary Guarantor, in the case of (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust for the purpose money in an amount sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to
the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;


 


(2)
the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors; and


 


(3)
the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with.


 


Notwithstanding the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to
the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any
Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall have been
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the
last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.


 


SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.


 


Subject to the provisions of
the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons
entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose
payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.


 


ARTICLE FIVE


 


REMEDIES


 


SECTION 501. Events of Default.


 


“Event of Default”, wherever
used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article Twelve or be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):


 


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(1) default
in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes
due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or


 


(2) default
in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that
series at its Maturity; or


 


(3) default
in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a
Security of that series; or


 


(4) default
in the performance, or breach, of any covenant of the Company or, if the
Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the
Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor in Article Eight of
this Indenture; or


 


(5) default
in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company or,
if the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to
the Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor in this Indenture
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose
breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has
expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of
Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach
for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified
mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it
to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
or


 


(6) the
entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or, if
the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the
Securities of such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor a bankrupt
or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company, any Significant
Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor under any applicable Federal or
State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company, any Significant
Subsidiary [or any such Subsidiary Guarantor] or of any substantial part of its
or their property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its or their
affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such
other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or


 


(7) the
commencement by the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or, if the Subsidiary
Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the Securities of
such series, any Subsidiary Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under
any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it or them to the entry of a decree or order for
relief in respect of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such
Subsidiary Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
it or them, or the filing by it or them of a petition or answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or
the consent by it or them to the filing of such petition or to the appointment
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similar official of the
Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor or of any
substantial part of its or their property, or the making by it or them of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it or them in
writing of its or their inability to pay its or their debts generally as they
become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company, any Significant
Subsidiary or any such Subsidiary Guarantor in furtherance of any such action;
or


 


(8) in
the event the Subsidiary Guarantors have issued Subsidiary Guarantees with
respect to the Securities of such series, the Subsidiary Guarantee of any
Subsidiary Guarantor is held by a final non-appealable order or judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for
any reason to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture) or any Subsidiary Guarantor or any Person acting on
behalf of any Subsidiary Guarantor denies or disaffirms such Subsidiary
Guarantor’s obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than by reason of
a release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture); or


 


(9) any
other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.


 


SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.


 


If an Event of Default
(other than an Event of Default with respect to the Company specified in
Section 501(6) or 501(7)) with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all
the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of
such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default with
respect to the Company specified in Section 501(6) or 501
(7) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding
occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms
thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on
the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.


 


At any time after such a
declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been
made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been
obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul
such declaration and its consequences if


 


(1) the
Company or, if applicable, any Subsidiary Guarantor has paid or deposited with
the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay


 


(A) all
overdue interest on all Securities of that series,


 


(B) the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest
thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,


 


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(C) to
the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue
interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and


 


(D) all
sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel;


 


and


 


(2) all
Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the
non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which has become due
solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 513.


 


No such rescission shall
affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.


 


SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee.


 


The Company covenants that
if


 


(1) default
is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest
becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or


 


(2) default
is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security at the Maturity thereof,


 


the Company will, upon
demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for
principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and
premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor
in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel.


 


If an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of
the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any
such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement
in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to
enforce any other proper remedy.


 


SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.


 


In case of any judicial
proceeding relative to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other
obligor upon the Securities, or the property or creditors of the Company, any
Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act
in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for
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disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee
under Section 607.


 


No provision of this
Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to
or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or any
Subsidiary Guarantee or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding;
provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a
creditors’ or other similar committee.


 


SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession
of Securities.


 


All rights of action and
claims under this Indenture or the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.


 


SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.


 


Any money collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order,
at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of
such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon
presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only
partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:


 


FIRST:
To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and


 


SECOND:
Subject to Article Twelve and Article Fourteen, to the payment of the
amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on
the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has
been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium
and interest, respectively.


 


SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.


 


No Holder of any Security of
any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or
otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver
or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless


 


(1) such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event
of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;


 


(2) the
Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute
proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee
hereunder;


 


(3) such
Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;


 


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(4) the
Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and


 


(5) no
direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee
during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series;


 


it being understood and
intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner
whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to
affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to
obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such
Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner
herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.


 


SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest.


 


Notwithstanding any other provision
in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is
absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any
premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption or offer by the Company to purchase the Securities pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture, on the Redemption Date or purchase date, as
applicable) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and
such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.


 


SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.


 


If the Trustee or any Holder
has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this
Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then
and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the
Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders shall be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.


 


SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.


 


Except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.


 


SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.


 


No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
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time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.


 


SECTION 512. Control by Holders.


 


The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that


 


(1) such
direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture, and


 


(2) the
Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not
inconsistent with such direction.


 


SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.


 


The Holders of not less than
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may
on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default


 


(1) in
the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of
such series (including any Security which is required to have been purchased by
the Company pursuant to an offer to purchase by the Company made pursuant to
the terms of this Indenture), or


 


(2) in
respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security of such series affected.


 


Upon any such waiver, such
default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall
be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right
consequent thereon.


 


SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.


 


In any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court
may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the
costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in
the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided,
however, that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be
deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an
assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


SECTION 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.


 


Each of the Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and the
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lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it
will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to
the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as
though no such law had been enacted.


 


ARTICLE SIX


 


THE
TRUSTEE


 


SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.


 


The duties and
responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture
Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall
require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity
against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not
therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to
the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the
Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.


 


SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.


 


If a default occurs hereunder
with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of
Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided
by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default
of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at
least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section,
the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
series.


 


SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.


 


Subject to the provisions of
Section 601:


 


(1) the
Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting
upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;


 


(2) any
request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently
evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the
Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;


 


(3) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable
that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting
any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers’
Certificate;


 


(4) the
Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any
Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
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(5) the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the
Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;


 


(6) the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such
further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books,
records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and


 


(7) the
Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.


 


SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities.


 


The recitals contained
herein and in the Securities and the notations Subsidiary Guarantees, except
the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements
of the Company or the Subsidiary Guarantors, as the case may be, and neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or the Subsidiary
Guarantees. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the
proceeds thereof.


 


SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.


 


The Trustee, any
Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, in its individual or any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to
Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company and any Subsidiary
Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.


 


SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.


 


Money held by the Trustee in
trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company or
any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be.


 


SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.


 


The Company and each
Subsidiary Guarantor jointly and severally agree


 


(1) to
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rendered by it hereunder
(which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);


 


(2) except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its
request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of
its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as
may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and


 


(3) to
indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability
or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of
or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its
powers or duties hereunder.


 


SECTION 608. Conflicting Interests.


 


If the Trustee has or shall
acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and
in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust
Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a
trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one
series.


 


SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.


 


There shall at all times be
one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each
series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other
series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act to act as such, and has a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the
extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus
of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.


 


SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.


 


No resignation or removal of
the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee
in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.


 


The Trustee may resign at
any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written
notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the
Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.


 


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The
Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series
by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.


 


If
at any time:


 


(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or


 


(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any
such Holder, or


 


(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or
of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution
may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to
Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for
at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or
Trustees.


 


If
the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a
vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the
Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities
of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee
may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such
series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation,
removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee
so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that
extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been
so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the
manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series.


 


The
Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders
of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
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SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.


 


In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.


 


In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the Subsidiary
Guarantors, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each
successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions
as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as
shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing
herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees
co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a
trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of
such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates.


 


Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Company and the Subsidiary
Guarantors shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may
be.


 


No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
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SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.


 


Any
Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may
be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding
to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall
be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be
otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto. As soon as practicable, the successor Trustee shall mail a notice of
its succession to the Holders of the Securities then outstanding. In case any
Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee
then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.


 


SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
and Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


If
and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company, any
Subsidiary Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, the Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the
collection of claims against the Company, such Subsidiary Guarantor or any such
other obligor.


 


SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.


 


The
Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or
more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue
and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or
pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Person organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.


 


Any
Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
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agency or corporate trust
business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating
Agent, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this Section,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.


 


An
Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to
the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the
agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment
in the manner provided in Section 106 to all Holders of Securities of the
series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.


 


The
Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee shall be
entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of
Section 607.


 


If
an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this
Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition
to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of
authentication in the following form:


 


This
is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.


 


 


	
   

  	
   

  	
   ,

  
	
   

  	
  As Trustee

  	
   

  
	
  By

  	
   

  	
   ,

  
	
   

  	
  As Authenticating Agent

  	
   

  
	
  By

  	
   

  	
   ,

  
	
   

  	
  Authorized Officer

  	
   

  



 


ARTICLE SEVEN


 


HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY


 


SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.


 


The
Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of each series:


 


(1) not more than 10 days after each record date with respect to the
payment of interest, if any, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series
as of such record date, and


 


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receipt
by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a
date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;


 


excluding from any such list
names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar.


 


SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Holders.


 


The
Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the
names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to
the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of
Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The
Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.


 


The
rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their
rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding
rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act.


 


Every
Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors nor
the Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason of
any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.


 


SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.


 


The
Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its
actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.


 


A
copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be
filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are
listed, with the Commission and with the Company and with the Subsidiary
Guarantors. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed
on any stock exchange.


 


SECTION 704. Reports by Company and Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


The
Company and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors shall file with the Trustee and
the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other
reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act;
provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to
be filed with the Commission.


 


ARTICLE EIGHT


 


CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE


 


SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms.


 


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with or merge into any other
Person or permit any other Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company
or transfer, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially
all of its assets, unless:


 


(1) in a transaction in which the Company does not survive or in which
the Company transfers, conveys, sells, leases or otherwise disposes of all or
substantially all of its assets, the successor entity (for purposes of this
Article Eight, a “Successor Company”) shall be a corporation, partnership,
trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of the
United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and
shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the
Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;


 


(2) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and
treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or any
Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the
Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing;


 


(3) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such
transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition, properties or assets of
the Company would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest
or other encumbrance which would not be permitted by this Indenture, the
Company or the Successor Company, as the case may be, shall take such steps as
shall be necessary effectively to secure the Securities equally and ratably
with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured thereby;


 


(4) any other conditions provided pursuant to Section 301 with
respect to the Securities of a series are satisfied; and


 


(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger,
transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.


 


SECTION 802. Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms.


 


Except
in a transaction resulting in the release of a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture or as otherwise specified in a supplemental
indenture establishing a series of Securities pursuant to Section 301,
each Subsidiary Guarantor shall not, and the Company shall not permit any
Subsidiary Guarantor to, in a single or a series of related transactions,
consolidate or merge with or into any Person (other than the Company or another
Subsidiary Guarantor) or permit any Person (other than another Subsidiary
Guarantor) to consolidate or merge with or into such Subsidiary Guarantor or,
directly or indirectly, transfer, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of
all or substantially all of its assets unless, in each case:


 


(1) in a transaction in which such Subsidiary Guarantor does not
survive or in which all or substantially all of the assets of such Subsidiary
Guarantor are transferred, conveyed, sold, leased or otherwise disposed of, the
successor entity (the “Successor Subsidiary Guarantor”) shall be a corporation,
partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the
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expressly
assume by an indenture supplemental hereto executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of
all obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee and
this Indenture and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the
part of such Subsidiary Guarantor to be performed or observed; and


 


(2) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger,
transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental
indenture, comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.


 


SECTION 803. Successor Substituted.


 


(a)
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any
other Person or any transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with
Section 801, the Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as
the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the
predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under
this Indenture and the Securities.


 


(b)
Upon any consolidation of a Subsidiary Guarantor with, or merger of such
Subsidiary Guarantor into, any other Person or any transfer, conveyance, sale,
lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such
Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with Section 802, the Successor
Subsidiary Guarantor shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as a Subsidiary
Guarantor herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the
predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under
this Indenture and its Subsidiary Guarantee.


 


ARTICLE NINE


 


SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES


 


SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders.


 


Without
the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
the Subsidiary Guarantors, when authorized by their respective Board
Resolutions, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into
one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:


 


(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor herein and in the Securities or
Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be; or


 


(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for
the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants
are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to
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(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of
Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included
solely for the benefit of such series); or


 


(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities
in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or
without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities
in uncertificated form; or


 


(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any
such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to
any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental
indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify
the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or
(B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security
Outstanding; or


 


(6) to secure the Securities; or


 


(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or


 


(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder
by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and
to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary
to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or


 


(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein;
or


 


(10) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to clause
(9) above shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series in any material respect; or


 


(11) to add new Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.


 


With
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Subsidiary
Guarantors and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
the Subsidiary Guarantors, when authorized by their respective Board
Resolutions and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying
in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this
Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall,
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby:


 


(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount
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Original
Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable
upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency
in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after
the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date or in the case of an offer to purchase Securities which has
been made pursuant to a covenant contained in this Indenture, on or after the
applicable purchase date), or modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to the subordination of the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees in a manner
adverse to the Holders; or


 


(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any
waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or


 


(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1009, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby;
provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent
of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and
concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1009, or the deletion of
this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8);
or


 


(4) following the making of an offer to purchase Securities which has
been made pursuant to a covenant contained in this Indenture, modify the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such offer to purchase in a manner
adverse to such Holder.


 


A supplemental indenture
which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture
which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more
particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision,
shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of
Securities of any other series.


 


It
shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be
sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.


 


SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.


 


In
executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
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SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.


 


Upon
the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture
shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture
shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of
Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.


 


SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.


 


Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to
the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.


 


SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures.


 


Securities
of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required
by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so
determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company, if applicable the notations of
Subsidiary Guarantees may be endorsed thereon and such new Securities may be
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding
Securities of such series.


 


ARTICLE TEN


 


COVENANTS


 


SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.


 


The
Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that
it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest
on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities
and this Indenture. Principle, premium, if any, and interest shall be
considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company
or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the due
date monthly deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and
designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and
interest then due.


 


SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.


 


The
Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an
office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or
surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of the Securities of that
series or any Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture may be served. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change
in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall
fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish
the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee,
and the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as
its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.


 


The
Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or
agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
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an office or agency in each
Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or
rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.


 


SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.


 


If
the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall at any time act as its own Paying
Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due
date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of
that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and
interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.


 


Whenever
the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities,
it will, prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on each due date of the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be
held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is
the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.


 


The
Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than
the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such
Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this
Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the
continuance of any default by the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, if
applicable, or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series in the
making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that
series.


 


The
Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order
direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the
Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same
trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying
Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.


 


Any
money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the
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New York, notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.


 


SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.


 


(a) The
Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors will deliver to the Trustee, within 90
days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date
hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge
of the signers thereof the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may
be, is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of
grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the
nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.


 


(b) The
Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as
possible and in any event within five days after the Company or such Subsidiary
Guarantor becomes aware or should reasonably become aware of the occurrence of
an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate setting
forth the details of such Event of Default or default, and the action which the
Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor proposes to take with respect thereto.


 


SECTION 1005. Existence.


 


Subject
to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence, rights
(charter and statutory) and franchises of the Company; provided, however, that
the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if it
shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the
conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.


 


SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.


 


The
Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business
or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition,
repair and working order (reasonable wear and tear excepted) and supplied with
all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs,
renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the
judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company
from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if
such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct
of its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in
any material respect to the Holders.


 


SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.


 


The
Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the
same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental
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Subsidiary, and (2) all
lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law
become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to
be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings.


 


SECTION 1008. Maintenance of Insurance.


 


The
Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, keep at all times all of
their properties which are of an insurable nature insured against loss or
damage with insurers believed by the Company to be responsible to the extent
that property of similar character is usually so insured by corporations similarly
situated and owning like properties in accordance with good business practice.


 


SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants.


 


Except
as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of
such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series,
omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition
set forth in any of Sections 1006 through 1008 or in any covenant provided
pursuant to Section 301(20), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of
the Holders of such series if before the time for such compliance the Holders
of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition,
but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and
effect.


 


ARTICLE ELEVEN


 


REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES


 


SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article.


 


Securities
of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be
redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this
Article.


 


SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.


 


The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board
Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301
for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company
of less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption
affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least five Business
Days prior to giving notice of such redemption (unless a shorter notice shall
be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of
the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if
applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
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restriction.


 


SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.


 


If
less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the
Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless
such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to
be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities
of such series not previously called for redemption, (i) in compliance
with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which
such Securities are listed, if such Securities are listed on any national
securities exchange, and (ii) if such Securities are not so listed, on a
pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion
of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the
unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series
and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects
only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified
tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding
sentence.


 


The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected
for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial
redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.


 


The
provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any
redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be
redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the
unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security.


 


For
all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case
of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of
the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed. If
any Security selected for partial redemption is surrendered for conversion
after such selection, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed
(so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Upon any
redemption of less than all the Securities of a series, for purposes of
selection for redemption the Company and the Trustee may treat as Outstanding
Securities surrendered for conversion during the period of 15 days next
preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption, and need not treat as
Outstanding any Security authenticated and delivered during such period in
exchange for the unconverted portion of any Security converted in part during
such period.


 


SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption.


 


Notice
of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not
less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder
of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security
Register; provided, however, notice of redemption may be given more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date if the notice is issued in connection with a
Defeasance pursuant to Section 1502 or a satisfaction and discharge
pursuant to Article Four.


 


All
notices of redemption shall state:


 


(1) the Redemption Date,


 


(2) the Redemption Price, if then determinable and otherwise the
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(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities,
the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less
than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single
Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to
be redeemed,


 


(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,


 


(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and


 


(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;
and


 


(7) if applicable, the conversion price then in effect and the
date on which the right to convert such Security will expire.


 


Notice
of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall
be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the
name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.


 


SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.


 


Prior
to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is
acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in
Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price
of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.


 


SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.


 


Notice
of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security
for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by
the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders
of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such
at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms
and the provisions of Section 307.


 


If
any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof
for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.


 


SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.


 


Any
Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place
of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
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execute, if applicable to
Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute the notations of Subsidiary Guarantee
endorsed thereon, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder
of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the
same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by
such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.


 


ARTICLE TWELVE


 


SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES


 


SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article.


 


Unless
otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any series in or pursuant
to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series of
Securities pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article shall
be applicable to each series of Securities.


 


SECTION 1202. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt.


 


The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Article (subject to the provisions of Article Four
and Article Fifteen), the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on each and all of the Securities of such series are hereby
expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment
in full of all Senior Debt of the Company.


 


No
provisions of this Article Twelve shall prevent the occurrence of any
Event of Default.


 


SECTION 1203. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.


 


In
the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding
in connection therewith, relative to the Company or to its creditors, as such,
or to its assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding up
of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving
insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for the benefit of
creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company,
then and in any such event specified in (a), (b) or (c) above (each
such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding”) the holders
of Senior Debt of the Company shall be entitled to receive payment in full of
all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt of the
Company, or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt
of the Company, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive
any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property
or securities (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or
deliverable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company
subordinated to the payment of the Securities, such payment or distribution
being hereinafter referred to as a “Junior Subordinated Payment”), on account
of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on
account of any purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or
any Subsidiary of the Company (all such payments, distributions, purchases and
acquisitions, other than the payment or distribution of stock or securities of
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Payment”), and to that end
the holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be entitled to receive, for
application to the payment thereof, any Securities Payment which may be payable
or deliverable in respect of the Securities in any such Proceeding.


 


In
the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, the
Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any Securities
Payment before all Senior Debt of the Company is paid in full or payment
thereof provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner
satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, and if such fact
shall, at or prior to the time of such Securities Payment, have been made known
to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such
Securities Payment shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other
Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application
to the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company remaining unpaid, to the
extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt of the Company in full, after giving
effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of
Senior Debt of the Company.


 


For
purposes of this Article only, the words “any payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities” shall not be
deemed to include a payment or distribution of stock or securities of the
Company provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment authorized by
an order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in a reorganization
proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy law or of any other corporation
provided for by such plan of reorganization or readjustment which stock or
securities are subordinated in right of payment to all then outstanding Senior
Debt of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are so
subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of the Company with,
or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer of all or
substantially all of its assets to another Person upon the terms and conditions
set forth in Article Eight shall not be deemed a Proceeding for the
purposes of this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or
transfer such assets, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set
forth in Article Eight.


 


SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Debt of the Company in
Default.


 


In
the event that any Senior Payment Default (as defined below) shall have occurred
and be continuing, then no Securities Payment shall be made unless and until
such Senior Payment Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have
ceased to exist or all amounts then due and payable in respect of Senior Debt
of the Company shall have been paid in full, or provision shall have been made
for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner
satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company; provided, however,
that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking
fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen by delivering and
crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have been acquired
(upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such Senior Payment Default.


 


“Senior Payment Default” means any default in the payment of principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt of the Company when due,
whether at the Stated Maturity of any such payment or by declaration of
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In
the event that any Senior Nonmonetary Default (as defined below) shall have
occurred and be continuing, then, upon the receipt by the Company, the
Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee of written notice of such Senior
Nonmonetary Default from the agent for the Designated Senior Debt which is the
subject of such Senior Nonmonetary Default, no Securities Payment shall be made
during the period (the “Payment Blockage Period”) commencing on the date of
such receipt of such written notice and ending on the earlier of (i) the
date on which such Senior Nonmonetary Default shall have been cured or waived
or shall have ceased to exist or all Designated Senior Debt the subject of such
Senior Nonmonetary Default shall have been discharged; (ii) the 179th day
after the date of such receipt of such written notice; or (iii) the date
on which the Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by written
notice to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Trustee from the agent
for the Designated Senior Debt initiating the Payment Blockage Period;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen
by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have
been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to the date of such receipt
of such written notice. No more than one Payment Blockage Period may be
commenced with respect to the Securities of a particular series during any
360-day period and there shall be a period of at least 181 consecutive days in
each 360-day period when no Payment Blockage Period is in effect. For all
purposes of this paragraph, no Senior Nonmonetary Default that existed or was
continuing on the date of commencement of any Payment Blockage Period shall be,
or be made, the basis for the commencement of a subsequent Payment Blockage
Period, whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such
Senior Nonmonetary Default shall have been cured for a period of not less than
90 consecutive days.


 


“Senior
Nonmonetary Default” means the occurrence or existence and continuance of any
event of default with respect to any Designated Senior Debt, other than a
Senior Payment Default, permitting the holders of such Designated Senior Debt
(or a trustee or agent on behalf of the holders thereof) to declare such
Designated Senior Debt due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise become due and payable.


 


In
the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any
Securities Payment to the Trustee or any Holder prohibited by the foregoing
provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of
such Securities Payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case
may be, such Holder, then and in such event such Securities Payment shall be
paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.


 


The
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any Securities Payment with
respect to which Section 1203 would be applicable.


 


SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted If No Default.


 


Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the
pendency of any Proceeding referred to in Section 1203 or under the
conditions described in Section 1204, from making Securities Payments, or
(b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it
hereunder to Securities Payments or the retention of such Securities Payment by
the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not
have knowledge that such Securities Payment would have been prohibited by the
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SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of
the Company.


 


Subject to the payment in
full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of Senior Debt of the
Company, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or
otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the
Company, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of such Senior Debt of the Company to receive payments and
distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt of
the Company until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments
or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company of any cash,
property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee
would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no payments
over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of Senior
Debt of the Company by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as
among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt of the
Company and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or
distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Debt of the Company.


 


SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.


 


The provisions of this Article are
and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the
Holders on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt of the Company on the
other hand. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as
among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt of the
Company and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this Article of
the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, is intended to rank equally with all
other general obligations of the Company), to pay to the Holders of the
Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders
of Senior Debt of the Company; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of
any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law
upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of
the holders of Senior Debt of the Company to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.


 


SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.


 


Each Holder of a Security by
his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take
such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
provided in this Article and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.


 


SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.


 


No right of any present or
future holder of any Senior Debt of the Company to enforce subordination as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company
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otherwise charged with.


 


Without in any way limiting
the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt of the
Company may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or
notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring
responsibility to the Holders of the Securities and without impairing or
releasing the subordination provided in this Article or the obligations
hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior Debt of the
Company, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place
or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior
Debt of the Company, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt
of the Company or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under
which Senior Debt of the Company is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release
or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing
Senior Debt of the Company; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner
for the collection of Senior Debt of the Company; and (iv) exercise or
refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.


 


SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee.


 


The Company shall give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which
would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other
provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall
have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior
Debt of the Company or from any trustee therefor; and, prior to the receipt of
any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such
facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the
notice provided for in this Section at least three Business Days prior to
the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any
purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security), then, anything herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which
such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary
which may be received by it within three Business Days prior to such date.


 


Subject to the provisions of
Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it
of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior
Debt of the Company (or a trustee therefor) to establish that such notice has
been given by a holder of Senior Debt of the Company (or a trustee therefor).
In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is
required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt of
the Company to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt of the
Company held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to
the rights of such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not
furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
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SECTION 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent.


 


Upon any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the Holders of the
Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by any
court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is pending, or a
certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee,
custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making
such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities,
for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company and
other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the
amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent
thereto or to this Article.


 


SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt
of the Company.


 


The Trustee shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company
and shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith
mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company, a
Subsidiary Guarantor or to any other Person cash, property or securities to
which any holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be entitled by virtue of
this Article or otherwise.


 


SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of the
Company; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights.


 


The Trustee in its
individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this
Article with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company which may at any
time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt of
the Company, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.


 


Nothing in this Article shall
apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to
Section 607.


 


SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.


 


In case at any time any
Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company
and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this Article shall
in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending
to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents
and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that
Section 1213 shall not apply to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or
any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Subsidiary Guarantor or Affiliate
acts as Paying Agent.


 


SECTION 1215. Defeasance of this Article Twelve.


 


The subordination of the
Securities of a series provided by this Article Twelve is expressly made
subject to the provisions for Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance in Article Fifteen
hereof and, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the
effectiveness of any such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, the Securities of
such series then outstanding shall thereupon cease to be subordinated pursuant
to this Article Twelve.


 


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ARTICLE THIRTEEN


 


SUBSIDIARY
GUARANTEES


 


SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article.


 


Unless the Company elects to
issue any series of Securities without the benefit of the Subsidiary
Guarantees, which election shall be evidenced in or pursuant to the Board
Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article shall be
applicable to each series of Securities except as otherwise specified in or
pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such
series pursuant to Section 301.


 


SECTION 1302. Subsidiary Guarantees.


 


Subject to
Section 1301, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby, jointly and severally,
fully and unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on such Security when and as the same shall
become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call
for redemption, offer to purchase or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of
such Security and of this Indenture, and each Subsidiary Guarantor similarly
guarantees to the Trustee the payment of all amounts owing to the Trustee in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture. In case of the failure of the
Company punctually to make any such payment, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby,
jointly and severally, agrees to cause such payment to be made punctually when
and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity or
by acceleration, call for redemption, offer to purchase or otherwise, and as if
such payment were made by the Company.


 


Each of the Subsidiary
Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that its obligations hereunder
shall be absolute, unconditional, irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by,
the validity, regularity or enforceability of such Security or this Indenture,
the absence of any action to enforce the same or any release, amendment, waiver
or indulgence granted to the Company or any guarantor or any consent to
departure from any requirement of any other guarantee of all or any of the
Securities of such series or any other circumstances which might otherwise
constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor;
provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no such release,
amendment, waiver or indulgence shall, without the consent of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, increase the principal amount of such Security, or increase the
interest rate thereon, or alter the Stated Maturity thereof. Each of the
Subsidiary Guarantors hereby waives the benefits of diligence, presentment,
demand for payment, any requirement that the Trustee or any of the Holders
protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest in or other lien on
any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against
the Company or any other Person or any collateral, filing of claims with a
court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to
require a proceeding first against the Company, protest or notice with respect
to such Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever,
and covenants that this Subsidiary Guarantee will not be discharged in respect
of such Security except by complete performance of the obligations contained in
such Security and in such Subsidiary Guarantee. Each Subsidiary Guarantor
agrees that if, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
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accelerate the maturity of
the Securities of a series, to collect interest on the Securities of a series,
or to enforce or exercise any other right or remedy with respect to the
Securities of a series, such Subsidiary Guarantor agrees to pay to the Trustee
for the account of the Holders, upon demand therefor, the amount that would
otherwise have been due and payable had such rights and remedies been permitted
to be exercised by the Trustee or any of the Holders.


 


The indebtedness of each
Subsidiary Guarantor evidenced by the Subsidiary Guarantees is, to the extent
provided in this Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Debt of each Subsidiary Guarantor, and the
Subsidiary Guarantees are issued subject to the provisions of this Indenture
with respect thereto. Each Holder of such Security, by accepting the same, will
be deemed to have (a) agreed to and be bound by such provisions,
(b) authorized and directed the Trustee on his behalf to take such action
as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided
and (c) appointed the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.


 


Each Subsidiary Guarantor
shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders of the Securities upon which
its Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed against the Company in respect of any
amounts paid by such Subsidiary Guarantor on account of such Security pursuant
to the provisions of its Subsidiary Guarantee or this Indenture; provided,
however, that no Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to enforce or to
receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation
until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all Securities of
the relevant series issued hereunder shall have been paid in full.


 


Each Subsidiary Guarantor
that makes or is required to make any payment in respect of its Subsidiary
Guarantee shall be entitled to seek contribution from the other Subsidiary
Guarantors to the extent permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that
no Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to enforce or receive any payments
arising out of, or based upon, such right of contribution until the principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest on all Securities of the relevant series
issued hereunder shall have been paid in full.


 


Each Subsidiary Guarantee
shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any
petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation or reorganization,
should the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any part of
the Company’s assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time
payment and performance of the Securities of a series, is, pursuant to
applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored
or returned by any Holder of the Securities, whether as a “voidable
preference,” “fraudulent transfer,” or otherwise, all as though such payment or
performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any part
thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Securities shall, to
the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by
such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.


 


SECTION 1303. Execution and Delivery of Notations of Subsidiary
Guarantees.


 


To further evidence the
Subsidiary Guarantee set forth in Section 1302, each of the Subsidiary
Guarantors hereby agrees that a notation relating to such Subsidiary Guarantee,
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the benefits of the
Subsidiary Guarantee authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and executed by
either manual or facsimile signature of an officer of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, or in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor that is a limited
partnership, an officer of the general partner of each Subsidiary Guarantor.
Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agrees that the Subsidiary Guarantee
set forth in Section 1302 shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security a notation relating to
the Subsidiary Guarantee. If any officer of the Subsidiary Guarantor, or in the
case of a Subsidiary Guarantor that is a limited partnership, any officer of
the general partner of the Subsidiary Guarantor, whose signature is on this
Indenture or a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates such Security or at any time thereafter, the Subsidiary Guarantee
of such Security shall be valid nevertheless. The delivery of any Security by
the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due
delivery of the Subsidiary Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of
the Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


SECTION 1304. Release of Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


Unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, each
Subsidiary Guarantee will remain in effect with respect to the respective
Subsidiary Guarantor until the entire principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Securities to which such Subsidiary Guarantee relates shall
have been paid in full or otherwise satisfied and discharged in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture and all amounts owing to
the Trustee hereunder have been paid; provided, however, that if (i) such
Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary in compliance with the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, (ii) either Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance occurs with respect to such Securities pursuant to Article Fifteen
or (iii) all or substantially all of the assets of such Subsidiary
Guarantor or all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary Guarantor is sold
(including by sale, merger, consolidation or otherwise) by the Company or any
Subsidiary in a transaction complying with the requirements of this Indenture, then,
in each case of (i), (ii) or (iii), upon delivery by the Company of an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the release of such Subsidiary
Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and this Article Thirteen
have been complied with, such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be released and
discharged of its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and under this
Article Thirteen without any action on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder, and the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in
order to acknowledge the release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its
obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed on the Securities of such
series and under this Article Thirteen.


 


SECTION 1305. Additional Subsidiary Guarantors.


 


Unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the
Company will cause any domestic Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a
Subsidiary after the date the Securities of a series are first issued hereunder
to become a Subsidiary Guarantor as soon as practicable after such Subsidiary
becomes a Subsidiary. The Company shall cause any such Subsidiary to become a
Subsidiary Guarantor with respect to the Securities by executing and delivering
to the Trustee (a) a supplemental indenture, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, which subjects such Person to the provisions
(including the representations and warranties) of this Indenture as a
Subsidiary Guarantor and (b) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
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and such supplemental
indenture and such Person’s obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and this
Indenture constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of
such Person (subject to such customary exceptions concerning creditors’ rights
and equitable principles as may be acceptable to the Trustee in its
discretion).


 


SECTION 1306. Limitation on Liability.


 


Any term or provision of
this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of
the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor shall not exceed the
maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed by such Subsidiary Guarantor
without rendering such Subsidiary Guarantee voidable under applicable law
relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws
affecting the rights of creditors generally.


 


ARTICLE FOURTEEN


 


SUBORDINATION
OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES


 


SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article.


 


Unless otherwise provided
with respect to the Securities of any series in or pursuant to the Board
Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301, the provisions of this Article shall be
applicable to each series of Securities.


 


SECTION 1402. Subsidiary Guarantees Subordinate to Senior Debt
of Subordinate Guarantors.


 


Each Subsidiary Guarantor covenants
and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance thereof, likewise
covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set
forth in this Article (subject to the provisions of Article Four and
Article Fifteen), the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor is
hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


No provisions of this
Article Fourteen shall prevent the occurrence of any Event of Default.


 


SECTION 1403. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon
Dissolution, Etc.


 


In the event of (a) any
insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation,
reorganization or other similar case or proceeding in connection therewith,
relative to any Subsidiary Guarantor or to its creditors, as such, or to its
assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of any
Subsidiary Guarantor, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not
involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for the benefit
of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any
Subsidiary Guarantor, then and in any such event specified in (a), (b) or
(c) above (each such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a
“Guarantor Proceeding”) the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor
shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become
due on or in respect of all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, or provision
shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor,
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securities (including any
payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the
payment of any other indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor subordinated to
the payment of the Securities, such payment or distribution being hereinafter
referred to as a “Guarantor Junior Subordinated Payment”), on account of the
Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor (all such payments, other
than the payment or distribution of stock or securities of a Subsidiary
Guarantor referred to in the second succeeding paragraph, herein referred to,
individually and collectively, as a “Guarantee Payment”), and to that end the
holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to
receive, for application to the payment thereof, any Guarantee Payment which
may be payable or deliverable in respect of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s
Subsidiary Guarantee in any such Guarantor Proceeding.


 


In the event that,
notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security shall have received any Guarantee Payment before all
Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor is paid in full or payment thereof
provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory
to the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, and if such fact
shall, at or prior to the time of such Guarantee Payment, have been made known
to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such
Guarantee Payment shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other
Person making payment or distribution of assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor
for application to the payment of all Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor
remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


For purposes of this Article only,
the words “any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in
cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed to include a payment or
distribution of stock or securities of a Subsidiary Guarantor provided for by a
plan of reorganization or readjustment authorized by an order or decree of a
court of competent jurisdiction in a reorganization proceeding under any
applicable bankruptcy law or of any other corporation provided for by such plan
of reorganization or readjustment which stock or securities are subordinated in
right of payment to all then outstanding Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor to substantially the same extent as the Subsidiary Guarantees are so
subordinated as provided in this Article. The consolidation of a Subsidiary
Guarantor with, or the merger of a Subsidiary Guarantor into, another Person or
the liquidation or dissolution of such Subsidiary Guarantor following the
conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets to another
Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article Eight shall not
be deemed a Guarantor Proceeding for the purposes of this Section if the
Person formed by such consolidation or into which such Subsidiary Guarantor is
merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer such assets, as
the case may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or
transfer, comply with the conditions set forth in Article Eight.


 


SECTION 1404. No Payment When Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor in Default.


 


In the event that any Senior
Payment Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then no Guarantee
Payment shall be made unless and until such Senior Payment Default shall have
been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist or all amounts then due and
payable in respect of the relevant Senior Debt of the Company shall have been
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the holders of such Senior
Debt; provided, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen
by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have
been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such Senior Payment
Default.


 


In the event that any Senior
Nonmonetary Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then, upon the
receipt by the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee of written
notice of such Senior Nonmonetary Default from any holder, or agent for the
holders, of any Designated Senior Debt of the Company, no Guarantee Payment
shall be made during the applicable Payment Blockage Period; provided, however,
that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking
fund payment in accordance with Article Sixteen by delivering and
crediting pursuant to Section 1602 Securities which have been acquired
(upon redemption or otherwise) prior to the date of such receipt of such
written notice. No more than one Payment Blockage Period may be commenced with
respect to the Subsidiary Guarantees during any 360-day period and there shall
be a period of at least 181 consecutive days in each 360-day period when no
Payment Blockage Period is in effect. For all purposes of this paragraph, no
Senior Nonmonetary Default that existed or was continuing on the date of commencement
of any Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis for the
commencement of a subsequent Payment Blockage Period, whether or not within a
period of 360 consecutive days, unless such Senior Nonmonetary Default shall
have been cured for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days.


 


In the event that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, a Subsidiary Guarantor shall make any Guarantee
Payment to the Trustee or any Holder prohibited by the foregoing provisions of
this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such Guarantee
Payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such
Holder, then and in such event such Guarantee Payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company.


 


The provisions of this
Section shall not apply to any Guarantee Payment with respect to which
Section 1403 would be applicable.


 


SECTION 1405. Payment Permitted If No Default.


 


Nothing contained in this
Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Subsidiary
Guarantees shall prevent (a) a Subsidiary Guarantor, at any time except
during the pendency of any Guarantor Proceeding referred to in
Section 1403 or under the conditions described in Section 1404, from
making Guarantee Payments, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any
money deposited with it hereunder to Guarantee Payments or the retention of
such Guarantee Payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by
the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such Guarantee Payment would have
been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.


 


SECTION 1406. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of
such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


Subject to the payment in
full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of Senior Debt of a
Subsidiary Guarantor, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash
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the Holders of the
Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt
of such Subsidiary Guarantor to receive payments and distributions of cash,
property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt of such Subsidiary
Guarantor until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments
or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor of
any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no
payments over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of
Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor by Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee, shall, as among a Subsidiary Guarantor, its creditors other than
holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor and the Holders of the
Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by such Subsidiary
Guarantor to or on account of the Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


SECTION 1407. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.


 


The provisions of this
Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the
relative rights of the Holders on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt
of a Subsidiary Guarantor on the other hand. Nothing contained in this Article or
elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Subsidiary Guarantees is intended to or
shall (a) impair, as among a Subsidiary Guarantor, its creditors other
than holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor and the Holders of the
Securities, the obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor, which is absolute and
unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this Article of the
holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, is intended to rank
equally with all other general obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor), to
guarantee payment to the Holders of the Securities of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the
relative rights against a Subsidiary Guarantor of the Holders of the Securities
and creditors of such Subsidiary Guarantor other than the holders of Senior
Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if
any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor
to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to
the Trustee or such Holder.


 


SECTION 1408. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.


 


Each Holder of a Security by
his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take
such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
provided in this Article and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.


 


SECTION 1409. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.


 


No right of any present or
future holder of any Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor to enforce
subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or
impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of such Subsidiary Guarantor or
by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by such Subsidiary Guarantor with the terms, provisions and
covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such
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Without in any way limiting
the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt of a
Subsidiary Guarantor may, at any time and from time to time, without the
consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring
responsibility to the Holders of the Securities and without impairing or
releasing the subordination provided in this Article or the obligations
hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior Debt of
such Subsidiary Guarantor, do any one or more of the following: (i) change
the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or
renew or alter, Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor, or otherwise amend or
supplement in any manner Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor or any
instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or
otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior
Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; (iii) release any Person liable in any
manner for the collection of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor; and
(iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against such
Subsidiary Guarantor and any other Person.


 


SECTION 1410. Notice to Trustee.


 


Each Subsidiary Guarantor
shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to such
Subsidiary Guarantor which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by
the Trustee in respect of its Subsidiary Guarantee. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which
would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Subsidiary Guarantees, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written
notice thereof from a Subsidiary Guarantor or a holder of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor or from any trustee therefor; and, prior to the receipt of
any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such
facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the
notice provided for in this Section at least three Business Days prior to
the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any
purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security), then, anything herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which
such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary
which may be received by it within three Business Days prior to such date.


 


Subject to the provisions of
Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it
of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior
Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor (or a trustee therefor) to establish that such
notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor
(or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith
that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a
holder of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor to participate in any payment
or distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person
to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the
amount of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor held by such Person, the
extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under
this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any
payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such
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SECTION 1411. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent.


 


Upon any payment or
distribution of assets of a Subsidiary Guarantor referred to in this Article,
the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the Holders of
the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by
any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Guarantor Proceeding is
pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating
trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other
Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the
Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt of
such Subsidiary Guarantor and other indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor,
the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.


 


SECTION 1412. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt
of such Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


The Trustee shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt of a Subsidiary
Guarantor and shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith
mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company, a
Subsidiary Guarantor, or to any other Person cash, property or securities to
which any holders of Senior Debt of such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled
by virtue of this Article or otherwise.


 


SECTION 1413. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights.


 


The Trustee in its
individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with
respect to any Senior Debt of a Subsidiary Guarantor which may at any time be
held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt of such
Subsidiary Guarantor, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee
of any of its rights as such holder.


 


Nothing in this Article shall
apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to
Section 607.


 


SECTION 1414. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.


 


In case at any time any
Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company and
be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this Article shall
in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending
to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents
and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that
Section 1413 shall not apply to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or
any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Subsidiary Guarantor or Affiliate
acts as Paying Agent.


 


SECTION 1415. Defeasance of this Article Fourteen.


 


The subordination of the
Subsidiary Guarantees provided by this Article Fourteen is expressly made
subject to the provisions for Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance of a series of
Securities in Article Fifteen hereof and, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of any such Defeasance or Covenant
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subordinated pursuant to
this Article Fourteen.


 


ARTICLE FIFTEEN


 


DEFEASANCE
AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE


 


SECTION 1501.  Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.


 


The Company may elect, at
its option at any time, to have Section 1502 or Section 1503 applied
to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, designated
pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such Section 1502
or 1503, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to
Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in
this Article. Any such election shall be evidenced in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301
for such Securities.


 


SECTION 1502. Defeasance and Discharge.


 


Upon the Company’s exercise
of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or
any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall be deemed to
have been discharged from its obligations, each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to its
Subsidiary Guarantees of such Securities, and the provisions of Articles Twelve
and Fourteen shall cease to be effective, with respect to such Securities and
Subsidiary Guarantees as provided in this Section on and after the date
the conditions set forth in Section 1504 are satisfied (herein called “Defeasance”).
For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities
and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated
or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1504 and as more
fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and
any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the
Company’s and each Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations with respect to such
Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and
(4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may
exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any
Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have
Section 1503 applied to such Securities.


 


SECTION 1503. Covenant Defeasance.


 


Upon the Company’s exercise
of its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities or
any series of Securities, as the case may be, (1) the Company shall be
released from its obligations under Section 801(3), Sections 1006 through
1008, inclusive, and any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(20),
901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities,
and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(5) (with
respect to any of Section 801(3), Sections 1006 through 1008, inclusive,
and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(20), 901(2) or
901(7)), 501(8) and 501(9) shall be deemed not to be or result in an
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shall cease to be effective,
in each case with respect to such Securities and Subsidiary Guarantees as
provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 1504 are satisfied (herein called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this
purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities,
the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, as applicable, may omit to comply
with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so
specified in the case of Section 501(5)) or Article Twelve, Thirteen
or Article Fourteen, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any
reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by
reason of any reference in any such Section or Article to any other
provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture
and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.


 


SECTION 1504. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.


 


The following shall be the
conditions to the application of Section 1502 or Section 1503 to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:


 


(1) The
Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by
Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable
to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following
payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the
benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or
(B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay
and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and
interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S.
Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct
obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full
faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an
obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United
States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary
receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation
which is specified in clause (x) above and held by such bank for the
account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any
specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation
which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such
custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to
the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian
in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of
principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.


 


(2) In
the event of an election to have Section 1502 apply to any Securities or
any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
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change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that,
and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such
Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a
result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to
such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount,
in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit,
Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.


 


(3) In
the event of an election to have Section 1503 apply to any Securities or
any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such
Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a
result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to
such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount,
in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit
and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.


 


(4) The Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that
neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then
listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such
deposit.


 


(5) No
event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event
of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have
occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any
such event specified in Section 501(6), at any time on or prior to the
121st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this
condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 121st day).


 


(6) Such
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a
conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming
all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).


 


(7) Such
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the
Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which it is bound.


 


(8) At
the time of such deposit, (A) no default in the payment of any principal
of or premium or interest on any Senior Debt of the Company or any Subsidiary
Guarantor shall have occurred and be continuing, (B) no event of default
with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor
shall have resulted in such Senior Debt becoming, and continuing to be, due and
payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and
payable (unless payment of such Senior Debt has been made or duly provided
for), and (C) no other event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of
the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall have occurred and be continuing
permitting (after notice or lapse of time or both) the holders of such Senior
Debt (or a trustee on behalf of such holders) to declare such Senior Debt due
and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and
payable.


 


(9) The
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such deposit shall not cause either the Trustee or the trust so created to
be subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940.


 


(10) The
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to
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or Covenant Defeasance have
been complied with.


 


SECTION 1505. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to
Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.


 


Subject to the provisions of
the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government
Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or
other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and
Section 1506, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to
collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1504 in respect of any
Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance
with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting
as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such
Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal
and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. Money and U.S.
Government Obligations so held in trust shall not be subject to the provisions
of Article Twelve or Article Fourteen.


 


The Company shall pay and
indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or
assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to
Section 1504 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof
other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of
the Holders of Outstanding Securities.


 


Anything in this Article to
the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company
from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations
held by it as provided in Section 1504 with respect to any Securities
which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be
deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be,
with respect to such Securities.


 


SECTION 1506. Reinstatement.


 


If the Trustee or the Paying
Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with
respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from
which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1502
or 1503 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time
as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust
pursuant to Section 1505 with respect to such Securities in accordance
with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
(if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the
money so held in trust.


 


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ARTICLE SIXTEEN


 


SINKING
FUNDS


 


SECTION 1601. Applicability of Article.


 


The provisions of this Article shall
be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any
series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for
such Securities.


 


The minimum amount of any
sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities is herein
referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of
such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein
referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms
of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject
to reduction as provided in Section 1602. Each sinking fund payment shall
be applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by the terms of such
Securities.


 


SECTION 1602. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities.


 


The Company (1) may
deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called
for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which
have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms
of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking
fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any
Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such
Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities;
provided, however, that the Securities to be so credited have not been
previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and
credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified
in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the
sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.


 


SECTION 1603. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.


 


Not less than 35 days prior
to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver
to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next
ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of
cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering
and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1602 and will also deliver to
the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 32 days prior to
each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to
be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103
and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at
the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such
notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made
upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.


 


This instrument may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be
deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the
day and year first above written.


 


	
  ISSUER:

  	
   

  
	
  BPZ Resources, Inc.

  	
   

  
	
  By:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Title:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS:

  	
   

  
	
  [Insert Subsidiary Guarantors]

  	
   

  
	
  By:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Title:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  TRUSTEE:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  ,

  
	
  as
  Trustee

  	
   

  
	
  By:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Title:

  	
   

  	
   

  



 


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SCHEDULE I


 


SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS


 


	
  SUBSIDIARY

  	
   

  	
  STATE OF ORGANIZATION

  
	
  [Insert Subsidiary
  Guarantors]

  	
   

  	
   

  



 


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