NOTE INDENTURE (CEC FUNDING, LLC)



 Exhibit 4.1.2. 
 EXECUTION COPY 
  

  
 CEC FUNDING, LLC, 
  
 as Note Issuer 
  
 and 
  
 THE BANK OF NEW YORK, 
  
 as Note Trustee

  

  
 NOTE INDENTURE 
  
 Dated as of March 1, 2005 
  

  
 $409,000,000 
 CEC FUNDING, LLC NOTES 
  








 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  


					
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	ARTICLE I
	
	Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
			
	 Section 1.01.
	  	 Definitions
	  	2
	 Section 1.02.
	  	 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
	  	13
	 Section 1.03.
	  	 Rules of Construction
	  	13
	
	ARTICLE II
	
	The Notes
			
	 Section 2.01.
	  	 Terms of the Notes
	  	14
	 Section 2.02.
	  	 Form
	  	16
	 Section 2.03.
	  	 Execution, Authentication and Delivery
	  	16
	 Section 2.04.
	  	 Temporary Notes
	  	17
	 Section 2.05.
	  	 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange
	  	17
	 Section 2.06.
	  	 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
	  	18
	 Section 2.07.
	  	 Persons Deemed Owner
	  	19
	 Section 2.08.
	  	 Payment of Principal and Interest; Interest on Overdue Principal; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved
	  	19
	 Section 2.09.
	  	 Cancellation
	  	20
	 Section 2.10.
	  	 Authentication and Delivery of Notes
	  	20
	 Section 2.11.
	  	 Release of Collateral
	  	25
	
	ARTICLE III
	
	Covenants
			
	 Section 3.01.
	  	 Payment of Principal and Interest
	  	26
	 Section 3.02.
	  	 Maintenance of Office or Agency
	  	26
	 Section 3.03.
	  	 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust
	  	26
	 Section 3.04.
	  	 Existence
	  	27
	 Section 3.05.
	  	 Protection of Collateral
	  	28
	 Section 3.06.
	  	 Opinions as to Collateral
	  	28
	 Section 3.07.
	  	 Performance of Obligations; Servicing; Commission Filings
	  	29
	 Section 3.08.
	  	 Negative Covenants
	  	31
	 Section 3.09.
	  	 Annual Statement as to Compliance
	  	31
	 Section 3.10.
	  	 Note Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
	  	32

  

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	 Section 3.11.
	  	 Successor or Transferee
	  	34
	 Section 3.12.
	  	 No Other Business
	  	34
	 Section 3.13.
	  	 No Borrowing
	  	34
	 Section 3.14.
	  	 Servicer’s Obligations
	  	34
	 Section 3.15.
	  	 No Additional Notes
	  	34
	 Section 3.16.
	  	 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
	  	34
	 Section 3.17.
	  	 Capital Expenditures
	  	34
	 Section 3.18.
	  	 Non-Routine Periodic Adjustment
	  	34
	 Section 3.19.
	  	 Restricted Payments
	  	35
	 Section 3.20.
	  	 Notice of Events of Default
	  	35
	 Section 3.21.
	  	 Further Instruments and Acts
	  	35
	 Section 3.22.
	  	 Change in Chief Executive Office or Jurisdiction of Organization
	  	35
	
	ARTICLE IV
	
	Satisfaction and Discharge; Defeasance
			
	 Section 4.01.
	  	 Satisfaction and Discharge of Note Indenture; Defeasance
	  	35
	 Section 4.02.
	  	 Conditions to Defeasance
	  	37
	 Section 4.03.
	  	 Application of Trust Money
	  	38
	 Section 4.04.
	  	 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent
	  	38
	
	ARTICLE V
	
	Remedies
			
	 Section 5.01.
	  	 Events of Default
	  	38
	 Section 5.02.
	  	 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
	  	40
	 Section 5.03.
	  	 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Note Trustee
	  	40
	 Section 5.04.
	  	 Remedies; Priorities
	  	43
	 Section 5.05.
	  	 Optional Possession of the Collateral
	  	44
	 Section 5.06.
	  	 Limitation of Suits
	  	44
	 Section 5.07.
	  	 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest
	  	45
	 Section 5.08.
	  	 Restoration of Rights and Remedies
	  	45
	 Section 5.09.
	  	 Rights and Remedies Cumulative
	  	45
	 Section 5.10.
	  	 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver
	  	45
	 Section 5.11.
	  	 Control by Noteholders
	  	45
	 Section 5.12.
	  	 Waiver of Past Defaults
	  	46
	 Section 5.13.
	  	 Undertaking for Costs
	  	46
	 Section 5.14.
	  	 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
	  	47
	 Section 5.15.
	  	 Action on Notes
	  	47
	 Section 5.16.
	  	 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations
	  	47

  

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	ARTICLE VI
	
	The Note Trustee
			
	 Section 6.01.
	  	 Duties of Note Trustee
	  	48
	 Section 6.02.
	  	 Rights of Note Trustee
	  	49
	 Section 6.03.
	  	 Individual Rights of Note Trustee
	  	51
	 Section 6.04.
	  	 Note Trustee’s Disclaimer
	  	51
	 Section 6.05.
	  	 Notice of Defaults
	  	51
	 Section 6.06.
	  	 Reports by Note Trustee to Holders
	  	51
	 Section 6.07.
	  	 Compensation and Indemnity
	  	52
	 Section 6.08.
	  	 Replacement of Note Trustee
	  	53
	 Section 6.09.
	  	 Successor Note Trustee by Merger
	  	54
	 Section 6.10.
	  	 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee
	  	55
	 Section 6.11.
	  	 Eligibility; Disqualification
	  	56
	 Section 6.12.
	  	 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Note Issuer
	  	56
	 Section 6.13.
	  	 Representations and Warranties of Note Trustee
	  	56
	 Section 6.14.
	  	 Covenants of the Note Trustee
	  	57
	
	ARTICLE VII
	
	Noteholders’ Lists and Reports
			
	 Section 7.01.
	  	 Note Issuer To Furnish Note Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders
	  	57
	 Section 7.02.
	  	 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders
	  	58
	 Section 7.03.
	  	 Reports by Note Issuer
	  	58
	 Section 7.04.
	  	 Reports by Note Trustee
	  	58
	
	ARTICLE VIII
	
	Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
			
	 Section 8.01.
	  	 Collection of Money
	  	59
	 Section 8.02.
	  	 Collection Account
	  	59
	 Section 8.03.
	  	 General Provisions Regarding the Collection Account
	  	62
	 Section 8.04.
	  	 Release of Collateral
	  	63
	 Section 8.05.
	  	 Opinion of Counsel
	  	64
	 Section 8.06.
	  	 Reports by Independent Accountants
	  	64

  

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	ARTICLE IX
	
	Supplemental Note Indentures
			
	 Section 9.01.
	  	 Supplemental Note Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders
	  	65
	 Section 9.02.
	  	 Supplemental Note Indentures With Consent of Noteholders
	  	66
	 Section 9.03.
	  	 Execution of Supplemental Note Indentures
	  	68
	 Section 9.04.
	  	 Effect of Supplemental Note Indenture
	  	68
	 Section 9.05.
	  	 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
	  	68
	
	ARTICLE X
	
	Redemption of Notes
			
	 Section 10.01.
	  	 Optional Redemption by Note Issuer
	  	68
	 Section 10.02.
	  	 Form of Optional Redemption Notice
	  	69
	 Section 10.03.
	  	 Notes Payable on Optional Redemption Date or Payment Date
	  	69
	 Section 10.04.
	  	 Mandatory Redemption by Note Issuer
	  	69
	 Section 10.05.
	  	 Form of Mandatory Redemption Notice
	  	70
	 Section 10.06.
	  	 Notes Payable on Mandatory Redemption Date or Payment Date
	  	70
	
	ARTICLE XI
	
	Miscellaneous
			
	 Section 11.01.
	  	 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
	  	70
	 Section 11.02.
	  	 Form of Documents Delivered to Note Trustee
	  	72
	 Section 11.03.
	  	 Acts of Noteholders
	  	73
	 Section 11.04.
	  	 Notices
	  	74
	 Section 11.05.
	  	 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver
	  	75
	 Section 11.06.
	  	 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
	  	76
	 Section 11.07.
	  	 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
	  	76
	 Section 11.08.
	  	 Successors and Assigns
	  	76
	 Section 11.09.
	  	 Severability
	  	76
	 Section 11.10.
	  	 Benefits of Note Indenture
	  	76
	 Section 11.11.
	  	 Legal Holidays
	  	77
	 Section 11.12.
	  	 GOVERNING LAW
	  	77
	 Section 11.13.
	  	 Counterparts
	  	77
	 Section 11.14.
	  	 Recording of Note Indenture
	  	77
	 Section 11.15.
	  	 Trust Obligation
	  	77
	 Section 11.16.
	  	 No Recourse to Note Issuer
	  	77
	 Section 11.17.
	  	 Inspection
	  	78

  

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	 SIGNATURE PAGE
	  	S-1
				
	 SCHEDULE A
	 	—	    	 Expected Amortization Schedule
	  	 
	 SCHEDULE B
	 	—	    	 Required Overcollateralization Level Schedule
	  	 
	 EXHIBIT A-1
	 	—	    	 Form of Sale Agreement
	  	 
	 EXHIBIT A-2
	 	—	    	 Form of Servicing Agreement
	  	 
	 EXHIBIT B
	 	—	    	 Form of Note
	  	 

  

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 NOTE INDENTURE dated as of March 1, 2005, between CEC FUNDING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (the “Note Issuer”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Note Trustee”). 
  
 RECITALS 
  
 The Note Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Note Indenture to provide for the issuance of its Notes with an aggregate principal
amount of $409,000,000 and the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee are executing and delivering this Note Indenture in order to provide for the issuance of the Notes. 
  
 GRANTING CLAUSE 
  
 The Note Issuer hereby Grants to the Note Trustee at the Issuance Date, as Note Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and the Note Trustee,
all of the Note Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to (a) the Transition Property transferred by the Seller to the Note Issuer pursuant to the Sale Agreement and all proceeds thereof, (b) the Statutory Lien, (c) the Sale Agreement, (d)
the Servicing Agreement, (e) the Administration Agreement, (f) the Collection Account (including all subaccounts thereof) and all amounts or investment property on deposit therein or credited thereto from time to time, (g) all other property of
whatever kind owned from time to time by the Note Issuer, including accounts, general intangibles, equipment and inventory, (h) the security interest with respect to the Transition Property granted by the Seller to the Note Issuer in the Sale
Agreement, (i) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing,
including all proceeds of the conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance
proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind, and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing and (j) all proceeds of the foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”); it being understood that the following do not constitute Collateral: (i) amounts required to be released pursuant to or contemplated in the terms hereof,
including net investment earnings on the Capital Subaccount that are required to be released to the Note Issuer pursuant to Article VIII and (ii) proceeds from the sale of the Notes required to pay the purchase price of the Transition Property paid
pursuant to the Sale Agreement and the costs of issuance with respect to the Notes or an allocable portion of the Certificates as set forth on the flow of funds memorandum delivered on the Issuance Date (together with any interest earnings thereon),
it being understood that such amounts described in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not be subject to Section 3.19. 
  
 The foregoing Grants are made to the Note Trustee in trust to secure the payment of principal of, interest on, and all other amounts (which shall include
all amounts payable to the Note Trustee under this Note Indenture, the Certificate Indenture, the Fee and Indemnity Agreement and the other Basic Documents) owing in respect of, the Notes, including all amounts payable to the Note Trustee, the
Certificate Trustee and the Delaware Trustee under this Note Indenture, the Certificate Indenture, the Fee and Indemnity Agreement and the other Basic 

  









 
Documents (collectively, the “Secured Obligations”), equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, except as expressly provided
in this Note Indenture, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Note Indenture with respect to the Notes, all as provided in this Note Indenture. This Note Indenture constitutes a security agreement within the meaning of the UCC or the
Statute to the extent that, under Massachusetts law, the provisions of the UCC or the Statute are applicable hereto. 
  
 The Note Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes and as agent for itself, acknowledges such Grants, accepts the trusts hereunder in
accordance with the provisions hereof and agrees to perform its duties herein required. 
  
 AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED, DECLARED AND AGREED between the parties hereto that all Notes are to be issued, countersigned and delivered and that all of the Collateral is to be held and applied, subject to the further
covenants, conditions, releases, uses and trusts hereinafter set forth, and the Note Issuer, for itself and any successor, does hereby covenant and agree to and with the Note Trustee and its successors in said trust, for the benefit of the Holders
and the Note Trustee, as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE I 

 
 Definitions and Incorporation by Reference 
  
 Section 1.01. Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or as
the context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Note Indenture. 
  
 “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a). 
  
 “Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement dated as of March 1, 2005, between
Commonwealth Electric Company, as Administrator, and the Note Issuer, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Administrator” means Commonwealth Electric Company, a Massachusetts corporation, or any successor Administrator under the Administration
Agreement. 
  
 “Administration Fee” means the fee
payable to the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement. 
  
 “Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person controlling or controlled by or under 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. 
  

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 “Agencies” means collectively the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, doing
business as MassDevelopment, and the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority. 
  
 “Authorized Officer” means, with respect to the Note Issuer, any officer of the Note Issuer who is authorized to act for the Note Issuer
in matters relating to the Note Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee on the Issuance Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented by the Note Issuer from time to time
thereafter). 
  
 “Basic Documents” means,
collectively, this Note Indenture, the Certificate Indenture, the Declaration of Trust, the Sale Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement, the Fee and Indemnity Agreement, the Cross-Indemnity
Agreement and the Underwriting Agreement. 
  
 “Boston
Edison” means Boston Edison Company, a Massachusetts corporation. 
  
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in New York, New York, Boston, Massachusetts or Wilmington, Delaware are
authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed. 
  
 “Capital Subaccount” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02(a). 
  
 “Certificate Issuer” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “Certificate Indenture” means the Certificate Indenture
dated as of March 1, 2005, between the Certificate Issuer, the Delaware Trustee and the Certificate Trustee, as the same may be further amended and supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Certificate Trustee” means the Person acting as certificate trustee under the Certificate Indenture.

  
 “Certificates” has the meaning set forth in
the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “Class” means any
one of the classes of Notes. 
  
 “Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  
 “Collateral” has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this Note Indenture. 
  
 “Collection Account” has the meaning specified in Section
8.02(a). 
  
 “Corporate Trust Office” means the
principal office of the Note Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution of this Note Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West, New York, New


  

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York 10286, Attention: Asset Backed Finance Unit, or at such other address as the Note Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders
and the Note Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Note Trustee (the address of which the successor Note Trustee will notify the Noteholders and the Note Issuer). 
  
 “Covenant Defeasance Option” has the meaning specified in
Section 4.01(b). 
  
 “Cross Indemnity Agreement”
means the Cross Indemnity Agreement dated as of March 1, 2005 between the Note Issuer and BEC Funding II, LLC, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Declaration of Trust” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or
the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default. 
  
 “Delaware Trustee” means the Person acting as Delaware trustee under the Declaration of Trust and the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “Delaware UCC” means the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code. 
  
 “DTC Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “DTE” means the Massachusetts Department of
Telecommunications and Energy and any successor thereto. 
  
 “Eligible Deposit Account” means either (a) a segregated trust account with an Eligible Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the corporate trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws
of the United States of America or any one of the states thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any of the
securities of such depository institution shall have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of its generic rating categories which signifies investment grade. 
  
 “Eligible Institution” means (a) the corporate trust department of the Note Trustee or (b) a depository
institution organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), (i) which has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of AAA by Standard & Poor’s
and Aaa by Moody’s or (B) a certificate of deposit rating of A-1+ by Standard & Poor’s and P-1 by Moody’s, or any other long-term, short-term or certificate of deposit rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies and (ii) whose
deposits are insured by the FDIC. If so qualified under clause (b) above, the Note Trustee may be considered an Eligible Institution for the purposes of clause (a) of the definition of Eligible Deposit Account. 
  

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 “Eligible Investments” mean instruments or investment property denominated in United
States currency which evidence: 
  
 (a) direct
obligations of, or obligations fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America; 
  
 (b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws
of the United States of America or any state thereof (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and examination by federal or state banking or depository institution authorities; provided, however, that at
the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, the commercial paper or other short-term unsecured debt obligations (other than such obligations the rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such
depository institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest short-term rating category granted thereby; 
  
 (c) commercial paper or other short-term obligations of any corporation organized under the laws of the
United States (other than commercial paper of the Seller, NSTAR or Boston Edison) having, at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each of the Rating Agencies from which a rating is available in the
highest short-term rating category granted thereby; 
  
 (d) investments in money market funds (including funds for which the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee or any of their Affiliates is investment manager or advisor) having a rating from each of the Rating Agencies from which a rating is
available in the highest investment category granted thereby (for Standard & Poor’s such rating being “AAAm” or “AAAm-G”); 
  
 (e) bankers’ acceptances by any depository institution or trust company referred to in (b) above; 
  
 (f) repurchase obligations with respect to any security that
is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, in either case entered into
with depository institutions or trust company (acting as principal described in clause (b) above); 
  
 (g) repurchase obligations with respect to any security or whole loan entered into with: 
  
 (i) a financial institution (acting as principal) as
described in clause (b) above, or 
  
 (ii) a
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debt obligations of which are rated “P-1” by Moody’s and “A-1+” by S&P at the time of entering into the repurchase obligation;
and 
  
 (h) any other investment permitted by
each of the Rating Agencies; 
  
 provided, however,
that (1) the obligor related to clauses (b), (c), (d), (f), and (g) above must have a long-term rating of at least “Aa3” or a short-term rating of at least “P-1” with respect to Moody’s only, and a short-term rating of at
least “A-1+” or a long-term rating of at least “AA-” with respect to Standard & Poor’s only, (2) with respect to clause (a) above, the instruments must have a predetermined fixed dollar amount of principal at maturity
that cannot vary, and if rated, the instruments must not have an “r” suffix attached to its Standard & Poor’s rating, (3) unless otherwise permitted by each Rating Agency, upon the failure of any Eligible Institution to maintain
any applicable rating set forth in this definition or the definition of Eligible Institution, the related investments at such institution shall be reinvested in Eligible Investments at a successor Eligible Institution within 10 days, and (4) that
all Eligible Investments must not: 
  

	 	(x)	be sold, liquidated or otherwise disposed of at a loss, prior to the maturity thereof, 

  

	 	(y)	mature later than (i) the date on which the proceeds of such Eligible Investment will be required to be on deposit in the Collection Account in order for the Note Trustee to make
all required and scheduled payments and deposits into subaccounts under the Note Indenture, if such Eligible Investment is held by an Affiliate of the Note Trustee, or (ii) the Business Day prior to the date on which the proceeds of such Eligible
Investment will be required to be on deposit in the Collection Account in order for the Note Trustee to make all required and scheduled payments and deposits into subaccounts under the Indenture, if such Eligible Investment is not held by an
Affiliate of the Note Trustee, or 

  

	 	(z)	have maturities in excess of one year. 

  
 “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01. 
  
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  
 “Expected Amortization Schedule” means, with respect to each
Class of Notes, the schedule attached as Schedule A hereto. 
  
 “FDIC” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor. 
  
 “Fee and Indemnity Agreement” means the fee and indemnity agreement dated as of March 1, 2005, among the Note Issuer, BEC Funding II,
LLC, the Delaware Trustee, the Certificate Trustee, the Certificate Issuer and the Agencies. 
  

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 “Final Maturity Date” means, with respect to any Class of Notes, the Final Maturity Date
therefor, as specified in Section 2.01(b). 
  
 “Financial
Asset” means a “financial asset” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the Mass. UCC. 
  
 “General Subaccount” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02(a). 
  
 “Grant” means mortgage, pledge, collaterally assign and grant a lien upon and a security interest pursuant
to this Note Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the Granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to
claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for payments in respect of the Collateral and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and
options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the Granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the Granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto. 
  
 “Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified
Person, that the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Note Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller, the Servicer and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any material
indirect financial interest in the Note Issuer, any such other obligor, the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Note Issuer, any such other obligor, the Seller, the Servicer or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions (other than service as an Independent director of BEC Funding II, LLC). 
  
 “Independent Certificate” means a certificate or opinion to
be delivered to the Note Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and consented to by the
Note Trustee, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of “Independent” in this Note Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof. 
  
 “Issuance Date” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.01(c)(i). 
  
 “Issuer Order” and
“Issuer Request” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Note Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Note Trustee. 
  
 “Legal Defeasance Option” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(b). 
  
 “Mandatory Redemption Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.04. 
  
 “Mandatory Redemption Price”
has the meaning specified in Section 10.04. 
  
 “Massachusetts UCC” means the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code. 
  

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 “Minimum Denomination” means $1,000.00 or any integral multiple of $1.00 in excess
thereof. 
  
 “Moody’s” means Moody’s
Investors Service Inc. or its successor. 
  
 “Noteholder” or “Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register. 
  
 “Note Indenture” or “this Note Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed and, as from time to time
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, as so supplemented or amended, or both, and shall include the forms and terms of the Notes established hereunder.

  
 “Note Interest Rate” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.01(b). 
  
 “Note Issuer”
means the party named as such in this Note Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by the Trust Indenture Act, each other obligor on the Notes.

  
 “Note Purchase Agreement” has the meaning set
forth in the Certificate Indenture. 
  
 “Note
Register” and “Note Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 2.05. 
  
 “Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a). 
  
 “Note Trustee” means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Note Trustee under this Note
Indenture, or any successor Note Trustee under this Note Indenture. 
  
 “NSTAR” means NSTAR, a Massachusetts voluntary association. 
  
 “Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the Note Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of
Section 11.01, and delivered to the Note Trustee. 
  
 “Operating Expenses” means all fees, costs and expenses of, and indemnities owed by, the Note Issuer, including all amounts owed by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee, the Certificate Issuer, the Certificate Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee, the Agencies, BEC Funding II, LLC and the Rating Agencies, the Servicing Fee, the Administration Fee, any fees, costs and expenses payable or reimbursable by the Note Issuer to the Administrator, Seller or Servicer and legal and
accounting fees, costs and expenses of the Note Issuer and the Certificate Issuer that are allocable to the Note Issuer. 
  
 “Opinion of Counsel” means one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Note
Indenture, be an employee of or counsel to the Note Issuer and who shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the Note Trustee, as trustee, shall comply with any applicable 

  

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requirements of Section 11.01, and shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee. 
  
 “Optional Redemption Date” means the Payment Date specified
by the Note Issuer for the redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01. 
  
 “Optional Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01. 
  
 “Outstanding” means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Note Indenture except:

  
 (ii) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note
Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation; 
  
 (iii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Note Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes (provided,
however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Note Indenture or provision made therefor, reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee); and 
  
 (iv) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Note Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Note Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser; 
  
 provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Outstanding Amount of the Notes or any Class
thereof have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Basic Document, Notes owned by the Note Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Note Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the
Note Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Note Trustee the pledgee’s right so to
act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Note Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons. 
  
 “Outstanding Amount” means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes or, if the context requires, all
Notes of a Class, Outstanding at the date of determination. 
  
 “Overcollateralization Subaccount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a). 
  
 “Paying Agent” means the Note Trustee or any other Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Note Trustee specified in Section
6.11 and is authorized by the Note Issuer to make payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the Note Issuer. 
  

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 “Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c)(ii). 
  
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited
liability company, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 
  
 “Predecessor Note” means, with respect to any particular
Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note. 
  
 “Proceeding” means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding. 
  
 “Projected Principal Balance” means, as of any Payment Date
on any Class of Notes, the projected outstanding principal amount of such Class of Notes for such Payment Date set forth in the Expected Amortization Schedule. 
  

“Rating Agency” means, collectively, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. If no such organization or successor is any longer
in existence, “Rating Agency” shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or other comparable Person designated by the Note Issuer, notice of which designation shall be given to the Note Trustee, the Certificate
Trustee and the Servicer. 
  
 “Rating Agency
Condition” means, with respect to any action, that each Rating Agency shall have been given ten days prior written notice thereof and that each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Servicer, the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee, the
Agencies and the Certificate Trustee in writing that such action will not result in a suspension, reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating by such Rating Agency of any Class of the Notes or any Class of the Certificates. 
  
 “Record Date” means, with respect to a Payment Date,
Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, the close of business on the last day of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which such Payment Date, Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date occurs. 
  
 “Registered Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date. 
  
 “Repurchase Date” has the meaning specified in the Sale Agreement. 
  
 “Required Capital Level” means, as of any Payment Date, .50 percent of the initial principal amount of the Notes. 
  

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 “Required Overcollateralization Level” means, as of any Payment Date, the amount
required to be on deposit in the Overcollateralization Subaccount as specified in Schedule B hereto. 
  
 “Reserve Subaccount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a). 
  
 “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Note Trustee, any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust
Division (or any successor thereto), including any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or any other officer of the Note Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers, in each case having direct responsibility for the administration of this Note Indenture. 
  
 “Sale Agreement” means the Transition Property Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of March 1, 2005, between the Note Issuer and the
Seller, in the form of Exhibit A-1, as amended and supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Scheduled Maturity Date” means, with respect to any Class of Notes, the Scheduled Maturity Date therefor, as specified in Section 2.01(b). 
  
 “Secured Obligations” has the meaning specified in the
Granting Clause of this Note Indenture. 
  
 “Securities
Account” means the Collection Account which shall be a “securities account,” as defined in Section 8-501 of the Delaware UCC. 
  
 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 
  
 “Securities Intermediary” means the Note Trustee, acting as a “securities intermediary,”
as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the Delaware UCC. 
  
 “Security Entitlement” means a “security entitlement” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the Delaware UCC. 
  
 “Semiannual Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c)(iv). 
  
 “Semiannual Principal” means, with respect to any Payment Date on any Class of Notes, the excess, if any,
of the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes over the outstanding principal balance of such Class of Notes specified for such Payment Date in the Expected Amortization Schedule. 
  
 “Servicing Agreement” means the Transition Property Servicing Agreement dated as of March 1, 2005, between
the Note Issuer and the Servicer, in the form of Exhibit A-2, as amended and supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Standard & Poor’s” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or its
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 “State” means any one of the 50 states of the United States of America or the District
of Columbia. 
  
 “Statute” means Chapter 164 of
the Massachusetts Acts of 1997. 
  
 “Statutory
Lien” means the lien on the Transition Property created by Section 1H(e) of Chapter 164 of the Massachusetts General Laws. 
  
 “Successor Servicer” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(e). 
  
 “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force on the date hereof, unless
otherwise specifically provided. 
  
 “UCC” means,
unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time. 
  
 “Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement dated as of February 15, 2005, among the Seller, the Note Issuer, Boston
Edison, BEC Funding II, LLC, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. 
  
 “U.S. Government Obligations” means direct obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of the United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality
thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged. 
  

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 (aa) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms
have the respective meanings set forth in the Servicing Agreement as in effect on the Issuance Date for all purposes of this Note Indenture, and the definitions of such terms are equally applicable both to the singular and plural forms of such
terms: 
  

			
	 Term

	  	Section of
Servicing Agreement


	 Advice Letter
	  	Section 1.01
	 Estimated RTC Charge Payments
	  	Section 1.01
	 Financing Order
	  	Section 1.01
	 Issuance Advice Letter
	  	Section 1.01
	 Non-Routine Periodic Adjustment
	  	Section 1.01
	 Periodic Adjustments
	  	Section 1.01
	 Principal Balance
	  	Section 1.01
	 RTC Charge
	  	Section 1.01
	 RTC Charge Collections
	  	Section 1.01
	 Seller
	  	Section 1.01
	 Semiannual Servicer Certificate
	  	Section 1.01
	 Servicer
	  	Section 1.01
	 Servicer Default
	  	Section 1.01
	 Servicing Fee
	  	Section 1.01
	 Transition Property
	  	Section 1.01

  
 Section 1.02.
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Note Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Note Indenture. The following Trust
Indenture Act terms used in this Note Indenture have the following meanings: 
  
 “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “indenture securities” means the Notes. 
  
 “indenture security holder” means a Noteholder. 
  
 “indenture to be qualified” means this Note Indenture. 
  

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Note Trustee. 
  
 “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Note Issuer and any
other obligor on the indenture securities. 
  
 All other Trust
Indenture Act terms used in this Note Indenture that are defined by the Trust Indenture Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

  
 Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context
otherwise requires: 
  
 (i) a term has the
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 (ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time; 
  
 (iii) “or” is not exclusive; 
  
 (iv) “including” means including without limitation; 
  
 (v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; 
  
 (vi) the words “herein,” “hereof,”
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Note Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and 
  
 (vii) all references in this Note Indenture to designated “Articles,” “Sections” and
other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this Note Indenture; 
  
 ARTICLE II 
  
 The Notes 
  
 Section 2.01. Terms of the
Notes. 
  
 (a) Authorization;
Designation. The issuance of the Notes in an aggregate initial principal amount of $409,000,000 is hereby authorized and the Notes shall be designated as the CEC Funding, LLC Notes (the “Notes”), and further denominated as Classes A-1
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 (b) Initial Principal Amount; Note Interest Rate; Scheduled Maturity Date; Final
Maturity Date. The Notes of each Class shall have the aggregate initial principal amount, bear interest at the rates per annum and shall have Scheduled Maturity Dates and Final Maturity Dates as set forth below: 
  

											
	 Class

	  	Initial Principal
Amount

	  	Note Interest
Rate

	 	 	Scheduled
Maturity Date

	  	Final Maturity
Date


	 A-1
	  	$	66,237,000	  	3.40	%	 	9/15/2006	  	9/15/2008
	 A-2
	  	$	93,040,000	  	3.78	%	 	9/15/2008	  	9/15/2010
	 A-3
	  	$	161,858,000	  	4.13	%	 	9/15/2011	  	9/15/2013
	 A-4
	  	$	87,865,000	  	4.40	%	 	3/15/2013	  	3/15/2015

  
 The Note Interest Rate
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
  
 The Notes shall be issuable in not less than Minimum Denominations. 
  
 (c) Authentication Date; Payment Dates; Expected Amortization Schedule for Principal; Semiannual Interest. 
  
 (i) Authentication Date. The Notes that are
authenticated and delivered by the Note Trustee to or upon the order of the Note Issuer on March 1, 2005 (the “Issuance Date”) shall have as their date of authentication March 1, 2005. 
  
 (ii) Payment Dates. The Payment Dates for the Notes
shall be September 15 and March 15 of each year or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing on September 15, 2005 and continuing until the earlier of repayment of the Notes in full or the Final Maturity
Date for Class A-4 of the Notes. 
  
 (iii)
Expected Amortization Schedule for Principal. Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the unpaid principal amount of all Notes and accrued interest thereon has been declared to be due and payable, on each Payment
Date, the Note Trustee shall pay to the Noteholders of record as of the related Record Date amounts payable pursuant to Section 8.02(d) as principal, in the following order and priority: (1) to the holders of the Class A-1 Notes, until the
Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes thereof has been reduced to zero; (2) to the holders of the Class A-2 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes thereof has been reduced to zero; (3) to the holders of the Class A-3 Notes,
until the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes thereof has been reduced to zero and (4) to the holders of the Class A-4 Notes until the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes thereof has been reduced to zero; provided, however,
that in no event shall a principal payment pursuant to this Section 2.01(c)(iii) on any Class on a Payment Date be greater than the amount that reduces the Outstanding Amount of such Class of Notes to the amount specified in the Expected
Amortization Schedule. Partial payments of any scheduled amortization payment shall be allocated within any Class of Notes pro rata. 
  

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 (iv) Semiannual Interest. Semiannual Interest will be payable on each Class of
Notes on each Payment Date in an amount equal to one-half of the product of (i) the applicable Note Interest Rate and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of the related Class of Notes as of the close of business on the preceding Payment Date after giving
effect to all payments of principal made to the Holders of the related Class of Notes on such preceding Payment Date; provided, however, that with respect to the initial Payment Date or, if no payment has yet been made, interest on the
outstanding principal balance will accrue from and including the Issuance Date to, but excluding, that Payment Date. 
  
 Section 2.02. Form. The Notes and the Note Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibit B,
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Note Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon
as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on
the face of the Note. 
  
 The Notes shall be typewritten, printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. 
  
 The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit B are part of the terms of this
Note Indenture. 
  
 Section 2.03. Execution, Authentication and
Delivery. The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Note Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. 
  
 Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at
any time Authorized Officers of the Note Issuer shall bind the Note Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Notes. 
  
 At any time and from time to time
after the execution and delivery of this Note Indenture, the Note Issuer may deliver Notes executed by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee pursuant to an Issuer Order for authentication; and the Note Trustee shall authenticate and deliver such Notes
as provided in this Note Indenture and not otherwise. 
  
 No Note
shall be entitled to any benefit under this Note Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Note Trustee by the
manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. 
  

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 Section 2.04. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of definitive Notes, the Note Issuer may
execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Note Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which
they are issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Note Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. 
  
 If temporary Notes are issued, the Note Issuer will cause definitive Notes to
be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Note Issuer to be maintained as
provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Note Issuer shall execute and the Note Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal
amount of definitive Notes of Minimum Denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Note Indenture as definitive Notes. 
  
 Section 2.05. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The
Note Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of
Notes. The Note Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Note Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it
elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar. 
  
 If a Person other than the Note Trustee is appointed by the Note Issuer as Note Registrar, the Note Issuer will give the Note Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the
location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the Note Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the Note Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a
certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by a Responsible Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal amounts and number of such Notes. 
  
 Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or
agency of the Note Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, the Note Issuer shall execute, and the Note Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Note Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes in any Minimum Denominations, of a like Class and aggregate principal amount. 
  
 At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in any Minimum Denominations, of a like Class and aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Note Issuer shall execute, and the Note Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Note Trustee, the
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 All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of
the Note Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Note Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. 
  
 Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by
(a) a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Note Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of
the following recognized Signature Guaranty Programs: (i) The Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) The New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or (iv) in such other
guarantee program acceptable to the Note Trustee, and (b) such other documents as the Note Trustee may require. 
  
 No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Note Issuer 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 Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.04 not involving any transfer. 
  
 The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Note Issuer
shall not be required to make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a period of 15 days preceding the date for any payment with respect to the Note. 
  
 Section 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Note Trustee, or the Note Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Note Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required
by it to hold the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Note Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Note Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Note Issuer shall execute and, upon
its request, the Note Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of like Class, tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a
replacement Note, the Note Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, as applicable, without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such
replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note,
the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was
delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Note Issuer or the Note
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 Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Note Issuer may require the payment by
the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Note Trustee) connected therewith.

  
 Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Note Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone,
and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Note Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes 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 Notes. 
  
 Section
2.07. Persons Deemed Owner. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and any agent of the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered
(as of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Note Issuer, the
Note Trustee nor any agent of the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 Section 2.08. Payment of Principal and Interest; Interest on Overdue Principal; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved. 
  
 (a) Any installment of interest or principal payable on any
Note which is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Note Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date for such Payment Date, by
check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the Certificate Trustee payments will be
made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by the Certificate Trustee and except for the final installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a Payment Date which shall be payable as provided below.
The funds represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof. 
  
 (b) The principal of each Note of each Class shall be paid, to the extent funds are available therefor in the Collection Account, in
installments on each Payment Date specified in Section 2.01. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, if the Note Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section
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made pro rata. The Note Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Payment
Date on which the Note Issuer expects that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such notice shall be mailed no later than five days prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final
installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be
mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.02 or Section 10.05, as applicable. 
  
 (c) If the Note Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes when due, the Note Issuer shall be required to pay such defaulted
interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest at the applicable Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful) to the Persons who are Noteholders on a subsequent special record date, which date shall be at least five Business Days prior to the
payment date. The Note Issuer shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment date, and, at least 20 days before any such special record date, the Note Issuer shall mail to each affected Noteholder a notice that states the
special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest) to be paid. 
  
 Section 2.09. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person
other than the Note Trustee, be delivered to the Note Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Note Trustee. The Note Issuer may at any time deliver to the Note Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Note Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Note Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in
this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Note Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Note Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time. 
  
 Section 2.10. Authentication and Delivery of Notes. On the Issuance
Date, the Notes shall be executed by the Note Issuer and delivered to the Note Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by the Note Trustee upon Issuer Request and upon delivery by the Note Issuer to the
Note Trustee, and receipt by the Note Trustee, or the causing to occur by the Note Issuer, of the following: 
  
 (1) Note Issuer Action. An Issuer Order authorizing and directing the authentication and delivery of the Notes by the Note Trustee
and specifying the principal amount of Notes to be authenticated. 
  
 (2) Authorizations. 
  
 (a) An Opinion of Counsel that no authorization, approval or consent of any Massachusetts, Delaware or federal governmental body or bodies at the time having jurisdiction in the premises is required to be obtained by
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the valid issuance, authentication and delivery of such Notes, except for such registrations as are required under the blue sky and securities laws of any
State or such authorizations, approvals or consents of governmental bodies that have been obtained. 
  
 (b) An Opinion of Counsel that no authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies at the time having jurisdiction in
the premises is required for the valid execution and delivery by the Note Issuer of each of the Basic Documents to which the Note Issuer is a party, except for such authorizations, approvals or consents of governmental bodies that have been
obtained. 
  
 (3) Authorizing Certificate.
A certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Note Issuer certifying that the Note Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Note Indenture and the execution, authentication and delivery of the Notes. 
  
 (4) The Collateral. The Note Issuer shall have caused
all Collateral to have been Granted to the Note Trustee or, if requested by the Note Trustee, its nominee and will have caused all filings pursuant to the Statute, the Massachusetts UCC, the Delaware UCC and any other applicable law as are necessary
to cause the Note Trustee to have a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral to have been duly made. 
  
 (5) Certificates of the Note Issuer and the Seller. 
  
 (a) An Officer’s Certificate from the Note Issuer, dated as of the Issuance Date: 
  
 (i) to the effect that the Note Issuer is not in Default
under this Note Indenture and that the issuance of the Notes applied for will not result in any Default or in any material breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of or constitute a default under any material indenture, mortgage, deed
of trust or other agreement or instrument to which the Note Issuer is a party or by which it or its property is bound or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which the Note Issuer is a party or by which it or
its property may be bound or to which it or its property may be subject; and that all conditions precedent provided in this Note Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the Notes applied for have been complied with; 
  
 (ii) to the effect that all instruments furnished to the
Note Trustee pursuant to this Note Indenture conform to the requirements set forth in this Note Indenture and constitute all of the documents required to be delivered hereunder for the Note Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Notes applied for,
and all conditions precedent provided for in this Note Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the Notes have been complied with; 
  

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 (iii) to the effect that the Note Issuer has not assigned any interest or participation
in the Collateral except for the lien of this Note Indenture and of the Statute; the Note Issuer has the power and right to Grant the Collateral to the Note Trustee as security hereunder; and the Note Issuer, subject to the terms of this Note
Indenture, has Granted to the Note Trustee all of its right, title and interest in and to such Collateral free and clear of any lien, mortgage, pledge, charge, security interest, adverse claim or other encumbrance, except the lien of this Note
Indenture and of the Statute; 
  
 (iv) to the
effect that the Note Issuer has appointed a firm of Independent certified public accountants as contemplated in Section 8.06 hereof; 
  
 (v) to the effect that attached thereto are duly executed, true and complete copies of the Sale Agreement and the Servicing Agreement;
and 
  
 (vi) stating that all filings with the
DTE pursuant to the Statute and all UCC financing statements with respect to the Collateral which are required to be filed to cause the Note Trustee to have a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral have been filed. 

 
 (b) An Officer’s Certificate (as defined in the Sale
Agreement) from the Seller, dated as of the Issuance Date, to the effect that (i) the representations and warranties set forth in Article III of the Sale Agreement are true and correct and (ii) the attached copies of the Financing Order and Issuance
Advice Letter creating the Transition Property are true and correct. 
  
 (6) Opinion of Counsel. An Opinion of Counsel, portions of which may be delivered by counsel for the Note Issuer, portions of which may be delivered by counsel for the Seller and the Servicer, and portions of
which may be delivered by counsel to the Certificate Issuer, dated the Issuance Date, in each case subject to the customary exceptions, qualifications and assumptions contained therein, to the collective effect that: 
  
 (a) the Note Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act; 
  
 (b) the Note Issuer has
the limited liability company power and authority to execute and deliver this Note Indenture and to issue the Notes, and this Note Indenture and the Notes have been duly authorized and the Note Issuer is duly formed and is validly existing in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization; 
  
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 (d) the Notes applied for have been duly authorized and executed and, when authenticated
in accordance with the provisions of the Note Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Note Issuer, entitled to the benefits of the Note Indenture subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law); 
  
 (e) this
Note Indenture, the Sale Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Fee and Indemnity Agreement and the Cross-Indemnity Agreement are valid and binding agreements of the Note Issuer, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except as such
enforceability against the Note Issuer may be subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles of equity (regardless
of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); 
  
 (f) (i) the provisions of the Note Indenture create a valid security interest securing the Secured Obligations in favor of the Note
Trustee in all right, title and interest of the Note Issuer in the Transition Property, the Sale Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement and all accounts, general intangibles, equipment and inventory of the Note Issuer, (ii)
the financing statements to be filed with the Delaware Secretary of State and the Massachusetts Secretary of State include all of the information required by Section 9-502(a) of Delaware Article 9 and Section 1H(d)(1) of the Statute, (iii) the
financing statements have been presented for filing and all filing fees required in connection therewith have been paid, (iv) the security interests granted by the Note Issuer under this Note Indenture which can be perfected by the filing of
financing statements under the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code and Delaware Article 9 are perfected, (v) the provisions of the Note Indenture are effective to create in favor of the Note Trustee a perfected security interest in the Collection
Account or each portion thereof that is a securities account under the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code, (vi) to the extent that the Collection Account, or some portion thereof, is a deposit account, the provisions of the Note Indenture are
effective to create in the Note Trustee a perfected security interest in the rights of the Note Issuer in the Collection Account or the portion thereof that is a deposit account, (vii) search reports set forth the proper filing offices and proper
debtor necessary to identify the persons who under the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code and Delaware Uniform Commercial Code have on file financing statements covering the Collateral, or a portion thereof, (viii) by operation of Section 1H(e)
thereof, the Statute creates, upon the effective date of the Financing Order, a first priority statutory lien on the Transition Property securing the Secured Obligations, (ix) the statutory lien is valid, perfected and enforceable against the Note
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statutory liens on Transition Property arising under Section 1H(e) of the Statute rank in order of time of perfection, the Financing Order does not provide
for any such conflicting statutory liens; 
  
 (g)
either (A) the Registration Statement covering the Notes and the Certificates is effective under the Securities Act and, to the best of such counsel’s knowledge and information, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such Registration
Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or threatened by the Commission or (B) the Notes and the Certificates are exempt from the registration requirements under the
Securities Act; 
  
 (h) the Note Issuer is not an
“investment company” or under the “control” of an “investment company” as such terms are defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; 
  
 (i) the Sale Agreement is a valid and binding agreement of the Seller enforceable against the Seller in
accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles of
equity (regardless of whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); 
  
 (j) the Servicing Agreement is a valid and binding agreement of the Servicer enforceable against the Servicer in accordance with its terms
except as such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles of equity (regardless of whether
such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); 
  
 (k) upon the delivery of the fully executed Sale Agreement to the Note Issuer and the payment of the purchase price of the Transition Property by the Note Issuer to the Seller pursuant to the Sale Agreement, then (I)
the transfer of the Transition Property by the Seller to the Note Issuer pursuant to the Sale Agreement conveys all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in the Transition Property to the Note Issuer and such transfer will be treated under
the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts as an absolute transfer of all of the Seller’s right, title, and interest in the Transition Property, other than for federal and state income and franchise tax purposes, and (II) such transfer of
the Transition Property is perfected; 
  
 (l) (i)
the Financing Order has been duly issued and authorized by the DTE and the Financing Order, giving effect to the Issuance Advice Letter, is effective; (ii) in reliance on the opinion of Palmer & Dodge LLP that the Certificates are “electric
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provided in Sections 1H(b)(3) and 1H(c)(4) of the Statute; (iii) the Financing Order is no longer subject to appeal by any person in state courts of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and (iv) the Servicer is authorized to file Periodic Adjustments to the RTC Charge to the extent necessary to ensure the timely recovery of revenues sufficient to provide for the payment of an amount equal to the sum
of the periodic RRB payment requirements for the upcoming year, which includes indemnity obligations under the Basic Documents; 
  
 (m) any state action (whether by legislative, DTE, citizen initiative or otherwise) to revoke or limit the Financing Order, the Issuance
Advice Letter, the Transition Property or the RTC Charge in a manner which would substantially impair the rights of Certificateholders would be subject to a successful constitutional contracts clause defense; and 
  
 (n) such other matters as the Note Trustee may reasonably
require. 
  
 (7) Accountant’s Letter.
A letter in a form reasonably acceptable to the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee applying agreed upon procedures with respect to the Collateral addressed to the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee complying with the requirements of Section 11.01(a)
hereof, from a firm of independent certified public accountants of recognized national reputation within the meaning of the standards of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 
  
 (8) Rating Agency Condition. The Note Trustee shall
receive evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the Rating Agency Condition will be satisfied. 
  
 (9) Other Requirements. Such other documents, certificates, agreements, instruments or opinions as the Note Trustee may reasonably
require. 
  
 Section 2.11. Release of Collateral. Subject
to Section 11.01, the Note Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Note Indenture only as specified in Section 8.02 or upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates in accordance with Trust Indenture Act Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(l) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the Trust Indenture Act does not require any such Independent Certificates.

  

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 ARTICLE III

  
 Covenants 
  
 Section 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest. The Note Issuer will
duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Note Indenture. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest or principal
shall be considered as having been paid by the Note Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Note Indenture. 
  
 Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Note Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Note Issuer hereby initially appoints the Note Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Note Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Note Trustee
of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Note Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Note Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders may
be made at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Note Issuer hereby appoints the Note Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders. 
  
 Section 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As provided in Section 8.02(a), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any
Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Collection Account pursuant to Section 8.02(d) shall be made on behalf of the Note Issuer by the Note Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Collection
Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Note Issuer except as provided in this Section and Section 8.02. 
  
 The Note Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Note Trustee to execute and deliver to the Note Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Note Trustee (and if the Note Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will: 
  
 (i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided; 
  
 (ii) give the Note Trustee and the Certificate Trustee notice of any Default by the Note Issuer (or any
other obligor upon the Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes; 
  
 (iii) at any time during the continuance of any such Default, upon the written request of the Note Trustee, forthwith pay to the Note
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 (iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Note Trustee all sums
held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and 
  
 (v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on
any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith. 
  
 The Note Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Note Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Note Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Note Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by
any Paying Agent to the Note Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money. 
  
 Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Note Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount
due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Note Issuer on Issuer Request; and, subject to Section 11.16, the Holder of such
Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Note Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Note Issuer), and all liability of the Note Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Note Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Note Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of 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 Note Issuer. The Note Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Note Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of
such repayment (including mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records
of the Note Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder). 
  
 Section 3.04. Existence. The Note Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a limited liability company under the
laws of the State of Delaware (unless, subject to the provisions of Section 3.10 hereof, it becomes, or any successor Note Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States of America, in which case
the Note Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be
necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Note Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Collateral. 
  

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 Section 3.05. Protection of Collateral. The Note Issuer will from time to time execute and deliver
all such supplements and amendments hereto and make all such filings with the DTE pursuant to the Statute, UCC financing statements, UCC continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and will take such other action
necessary or advisable to: 
  
 (i) maintain or
preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) of this Note Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof; 
  
 (ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Note Indenture; 
  
 (iii) enforce any of the Collateral; 
  
 (iv) preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the
rights of the Note Trustee and the Noteholders in such Collateral against the claims of all Persons and parties, including the challenge by any party to the validity or enforceability of the Financing Order, any Advice Letter or the Transition
Property or any proceeding relating thereto and institute any action or proceeding necessary to compel performance by the DTE or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of any of its obligations or duties under the Statute, the Financing Order or any
Advice Letter; or 
  
 (v) pay any and all taxes
levied or assessed upon all or any part of the Collateral. 
  
 The
Note Issuer hereby designates the Note Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to execute and/or file on behalf of the Note Issuer any filings with the DTE pursuant to the Statute, UCC financing statement, UCC continuation statement or other
instrument required by the Note Trustee pursuant to this Section, it being understood that the Note Trustee shall have no such obligation. 
  
 Section 3.06. Opinions as to Collateral. 
  
 (a) On the Issuance Date, the Note Issuer shall furnish to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of
such counsel, (A) such action has been taken (and reciting the details of such action) with respect to the recording and filing of this Note Indenture and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any filings
with the DTE pursuant to the Statute, UCC financing statements and UCC continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect the lien and security interest of this Note Indenture, or (B) no such action is necessary to make such lien and security
interest effective. 
  
 (b) Prior to the
effectiveness of any amendment to the Sale Agreement, the Note Issuer shall furnish to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all filings, including filings with the DTE pursuant to the
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necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee in the Transition Property and the proceeds thereof, and
reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest. 

 
 Section 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing; Commission
Filings. 
  
 (a) The Note Issuer (i) will
diligently pursue any and all actions to enforce its rights under each instrument or agreement included in the Collateral and (ii) will not take any action and will use its reasonable efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would
release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants or obligations under any such instrument or agreement or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or
effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except, in each case, as expressly permitted in this Note Indenture, the Sale Agreement, the Servicing Agreement or such other instrument or agreement. 
  
 (b) The Note Issuer may contract with other Persons to
assist it in performing its duties under this Note Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Note Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of the Note Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Note Issuer.
Initially, the Note Issuer has contracted with the Administrator and the Servicer to assist the Note Issuer in performing its duties under this Note Indenture. 
  

(c) The Note Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Note Indenture, the
Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Collateral, including filing or causing to be filed all filings with the DTE pursuant to the Statute, UCC financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed by
it by the terms of this Note Indenture, the Sale Agreement and the Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly permitted therein, the Note Issuer shall not waive,
amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without the written consent of the Note Trustee (which consent shall not be withheld if (i) the Note Trustee shall have received an Officer’s Certificate stating
that such waiver, amendment, modification, supplement or termination shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Noteholders or the holders of Certificates and (ii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied
with respect thereto) or the Holders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of Notes. 
  
 (d) If the Note Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default under the Servicing Agreement, the Note Issuer shall
promptly give written notice thereof to the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the Rating Agencies, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Note Issuer is taking with respect of such default. If a Servicer
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perform any of its duties or obligations under the Servicing Agreement with respect to the Transition Property, including the RTC Charge, the Note Issuer
shall take all reasonable steps available to it to remedy such failure. 
  
 (e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice to the Servicer, the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the Rating Agencies of termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant
to Section 7.01 of the Servicing Agreement, the Note Issuer, subject to the approval of the DTE pursuant to the Financing Order, shall appoint a successor Servicer (the “Successor Servicer”) with the Note Trustee’s prior written
consent thereto (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), and such Successor Servicer shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee. A Person shall qualify as a Successor
Servicer only if such Person satisfies the requirements of the Servicing Agreement. If within 30 days after the delivery of the notice referred to above, the Note Issuer shall not have obtained such a new Servicer, the Note Trustee may petition the
DTE or a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a Successor Servicer. In connection with any such appointment, the Note Issuer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor as it and such successor shall agree, subject to the
limitations set forth below and in the Servicing Agreement, and in accordance and in compliance with Section 7.02 of the Servicing Agreement, the Note Issuer shall enter into an agreement with such successor for the servicing of the Transition
Property (such agreement to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Note Trustee). 
  
 (f) Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, the Note Trustee shall promptly
notify the Note Issuer, the Noteholders, the Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the Rating Agencies. As soon as a Successor Servicer is appointed, the Note Issuer shall notify the Note Trustee, the Noteholders, the Certificate Trustee, the
Agencies and the Rating Agencies of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such Successor Servicer. 
  
 (g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted to the Note Trustee under this Note Indenture or the rights of
the Note Trustee hereunder, the Note Issuer agrees that it will not, without the prior written consent of the Note Trustee or the Holders of at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or
surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender of, the terms of any Collateral or the Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance of any material term by the Seller or the Servicer
under the Sale Agreement or the Servicing Agreement, respectively. If any such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Note Trustee or such Holders, the Note Issuer agrees to execute and deliver, in its own name
and at its own expense, such agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as shall be necessary or appropriate in the circumstances. The Note Issuer agrees that no such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall adversely affect
the rights of the Holders of the Notes or Certificates Outstanding at the time of any such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver, except as otherwise agreed to by the Holders in accordance with the Basic Documents. 
  

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 (h) The Note Issuer shall file with the Commission such periodic reports, if any, as are
required from time to time under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. 
  
 (i) The Note Issuer shall make all filings required under the Statute relating to the transfer of the ownership or security interest in the Transition Property other than those required to be made by the Seller
pursuant to the Basic Documents. 
  
 Section 3.08. Negative
Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Note Issuer shall not: 
  
 (i) except as expressly permitted by this Note Indenture, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets
of the Note Issuer, including those included in the Collateral, unless directed to do so by the Note Trustee in accordance with Article V; 
  
 (ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts
properly withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Collateral; 
  
 (iii) terminate its existence or dissolve or liquidate in
whole or in part; or 
  
 (iv) (A) permit the
validity or effectiveness of this Note Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Note Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations
with respect to the Notes under this Note Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Note Indenture and the
Statutory Lien) to be created by the Note Issuer on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof or (C) subject to the Statutory Lien, permit the lien of this Note
Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Collateral. 
  
 Section 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Note Issuer will deliver to the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee and the Rating Agencies not later than March 31 of each year (commencing with March 31,
2006), an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s Certificate, that 
  
 (i) a review of the activities of the Note Issuer during the preceding twelve months ended December 31 (or, in the case of the
Officer’s Certificate to be delivered on or before March 31, 2006, the period of time from the date of this Note Indenture until December 31, 2005), and of performance under this Note Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officer’s
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 (ii) to such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Note Issuer
has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Note Indenture throughout such twelve month period, or, if there has been a default in so complying with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized
Officer and the nature and status thereof. 
  
 Section 3.10.
Note Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. 
  
 (a) The Note Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless 
  
 (i) the Person (if other than the Note Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Note Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Note Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Note Indenture on the part of the Note Issuer to be performed or observed, all
as provided herein; 
  
 (ii) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; 
  
 (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction; 
  
 (iv) the Note Issuer shall have received an Opinion of
Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Note Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the Note Issuer, the Certificate Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;

  
 (v) any action as is necessary to maintain
the lien and security interest created by this Note Indenture shall have been taken; and 
  
 (vi) the Note Issuer shall have delivered to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that
such consolidation or merger and such supplemental note indenture comply with this Section 3.10 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange
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 (b) Except as specifically provided herein, the Note Issuer shall not convey or transfer
any of its properties or assets, including those included in the Collateral, to any Person, unless 
  
 (i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Note Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which is
hereby restricted shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State or the District of Columbia, (B) expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Note Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this
Note Indenture on the part of the Note Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agrees by means of such supplemental note indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and
subordinate to the rights of Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in the supplemental note indenture referred to in clause (B) above, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Note Trustee against and from any loss,
liability or expense arising under or related to this Note Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agrees by means of such supplemental note indenture that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings
with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes; 
  
 (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

  
 (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have
been satisfied with respect to such transaction; 
  
 (iv) the Note Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Note Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the Note Issuer, the
Certificate Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder; 
  
 (v) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Note Indenture shall have been taken; and 
  
 (vi) the Note Issuer shall have delivered to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel each stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental note indenture comply with this Section 3.10 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any
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 Section 3.11. Successor or Transferee. 
  
 (a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Note Issuer in
accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Note Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Note Issuer under this Note
Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Note Issuer herein. 
  
 (b) Except as set forth in Section 6.07, upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the Note Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.10(b), CEC Funding, LLC will be released from every covenant and agreement of this Note Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Note Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written notice by CEC
Funding, LLC to the Note Trustee stating that CEC Funding, LLC is to be so released. 
  
 Section 3.12. No Other Business. The Note Issuer shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning and managing the Transition Property in the manner contemplated by this Note Indenture
and the Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto. 
  
 Section 3.13. No Borrowing. The Note Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes. 
  
 Section 3.14. Servicer’s Obligations. The Note Issuer shall
enforce the Servicer’s compliance with all of the Servicer’s material obligations under the Servicing Agreement. 
  
 Section 3.15. No Additional Notes. The Note Issuer shall not issue any additional Notes hereunder, except pursuant to Section 2.05 or Section 2.06.

  
 Section 3.16. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities. Except as otherwise contemplated by the Sale Agreement, the Servicing Agreement or this Note Indenture, the Note Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having
the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends
of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person. 
  
 Section 3.17. Capital Expenditures. Other than expenditures in an
aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000 in any calendar year, the Note Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personality). 
  
 Section 3.18. Non-Routine Periodic Adjustment. The Note Issuer agrees
that it shall not consent to a Non-Routine Periodic Adjustment pursuant to Section 4.01(c) of the Servicing Agreement unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied, except that with respect to Moody’s, it shall be sufficient to
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 Section 3.19. Restricted Payments. The Note Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, while the
Notes are Outstanding (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to any owner of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer or otherwise with
respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Note Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts
for any such purpose; provided, however, that, if no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Note Issuer may make, or cause to be made, any such distributions to any owner of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer
or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Note Issuer using funds distributed to the Note Issuer pursuant to Section 8.02 to the extent that such distributions would not cause the amount of the Capital
Subaccount to decline below the Required Capital Level. The Note Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with this Note Indenture and the Basic Documents.

  
 Section 3.20. Notice of Events of Default. The Note
Issuer agrees to give the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder and each default on the part of the Seller or the Servicer of its obligations under the
Sale Agreement or the Servicing Agreement, respectively. 
  
 Section 3.21. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Note Trustee, the Note Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purpose of this Note Indenture. The Note Issuer will take all actions, and make all filings, necessary to obtain and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral in favor of the Note Trustee. 
  
 Section 3.22. Change in Chief Executive Office or Jurisdiction of
Organization. The Note Issuer shall not change its chief executive office or the jurisdiction of its formation without previously having delivered to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that all actions have been taken, and all
filings have been made, as are necessary to continue and maintain the first priority perfected security interest of the Note Trustee in the Collateral. 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
  
 Satisfaction and Discharge; Defeasance 
  
 Section 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Note Indenture; Defeasance. 
  
 (a) This Note Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes and the Note Trustee,
on reasonable demand of and at the expense of the Note Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Note Indenture with respect to the Notes, when 
  
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 (1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have
been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Note Issuer and
thereafter repaid to the Note Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Note Trustee for cancellation; or 
  

(2) the Scheduled Maturity Date or Redemption Date has occurred with respect to all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Note Trustee
for cancellation, and the Note Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Note Trustee cash, in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Note Trustee for cancellation on the Scheduled Maturity Date therefor; 
  
 (B) the Note Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Note Issuer; and 
  
 (C) the Note Issuer has delivered to the Note Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the Trust Indenture Act or the Note Trustee) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01(a)
and each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Note Indenture with respect to the Notes have been complied with. 
  
 (b) Subject to Sections 4.01(c) and 4.02, the Note Issuer at any time may terminate (i) all its obligations
under this Note Indenture with respect to the Notes (“Legal Defeasance Option”) or (ii) its obligations under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17 and 3.18 and the operation of Section
5.01(iv) (“Covenant Defeasance Option”) with respect to the Notes. The Note Issuer may exercise the Legal Defeasance Option notwithstanding its prior exercise of the Covenant Defeasance Option. 
  
 If the Note Issuer exercises the Legal Defeasance Option, the maturity of the
Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default. If the Note Issuer exercises the Covenant Defeasance Option, the maturity of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(iv). 
  
 Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein to the exercise of the
Legal Defeasance Option or the Covenant Defeasance Option, the Note Trustee, on reasonable demand of and at the expense of the Note Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of the obligations that are
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 (c) Notwithstanding Sections 4.01(a) and 4.01(b) above, (i) rights of registration of
transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal and interest, (iv) Sections 4.03 and 4.04, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Note
Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Note Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Note Trustee under Section 4.03) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property deposited with the
Note Trustee payable to all or any of them, shall survive until the Notes, as to which this Note Indenture or certain obligations hereunder have been satisfied and discharged pursuant to Section 4.01(a) or 4.01(b), have been paid in full.
Thereafter, the obligations in Sections 6.07 and 4.04 shall survive. 
  
 Section 4.02. Conditions to Defeasance. The Note Issuer may exercise the Legal Defeasance Option or the Covenant Defeasance Option of Notes only if: 
  
 (a) the Note Issuer irrevocably deposits or causes to be deposited in trust with the Note Trustee cash or
U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of and interest on each such Note to the Scheduled Maturity Date, Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date therefor, as applicable; 
  
 (b) the Note Issuer delivers to the Note Trustee a
certificate from a nationally recognized firm of Independent accountants expressing its opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and without reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any deposited cash
without investment will provide cash at such times and in such amounts (but, in the case of the Legal Defeasance Option only, not more than such amounts) as will be sufficient to pay in respect of the Notes (i) subject to clause (ii), principal in
accordance with the Expected Amortization Schedule therefor, (ii) if to be redeemed, the Optional Redemption Price or Mandatory Redemption Price, as applicable, therefor on the related Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, as
applicable and (iii) interest when due; 
  
 (c)
in the case of the Legal Defeasance Option, 91 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 91-day period no Default specified in Section 5.01(v) or (vi) occurs which is continuing at the end of the period; 
  
 (d) no Default has occurred and is continuing on the day of
such deposit and after giving effect thereto; 
  
 (e) in the case of an exercise of the Legal Defeasance Option, the Note Issuer shall have delivered to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Note Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal
Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Note Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders
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and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such legal defeasance
had not occurred; 
  
 (f) in the case of an
exercise of the Covenant Defeasance Option, the Note Issuer shall have delivered to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a
result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred; and 
  
 (g) the Note Issuer delivers to the Note Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the satisfaction and discharge of the Notes to the extent contemplated by this Article IV have been complied with. 
  
 Before or after a deposit pursuant to this Section 4.02, the Note Issuer may
make arrangements satisfactory to the Note Trustee for the redemption of such Notes at a future date in accordance with Article X. 
  
 Section 4.03. Application of Trust Money. All moneys or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Note Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 or
4.02 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Note Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Note Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the
particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Note Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest, but such moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required herein or in the Servicing Agreement or required by law. 
  
 Section 4.04. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Note Indenture or the Covenant Defeasance Option or Legal Defeasance Option with respect to the
Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Note Trustee under the provisions of this Note Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Note Issuer, be paid to the Note Trustee to be held and applied according to
Section 3.03 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys. 
  
 ARTICLE V 
  
 Remedies 
  
 Section 5.01. Events of Default. “Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall 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): 
  
 (i) default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such
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 (ii) default in the payment of the then unpaid principal of any Note on the Final
Maturity Date; or 
  
 (iii) default in the
payment of the Optional Redemption Price for the Notes on the Optional Redemption Date therefor, or a default in the payment of the Mandatory Redemption Price for the Notes on the Mandatory Redemption Date; 
  
 (iv) default in the observance or performance in any
material respect of any covenant or agreement of the Note Issuer made in this Note Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), or any
representation or warranty of the Note Issuer made in this Note Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same
shall have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 days
after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Note Issuer by the Note Trustee or to the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee by the Holders of at least 25 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, a written notice
specifying such default or incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or 
  
 (v) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of
the Note Issuer or any substantial part of the Collateral in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian,
trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Note Issuer or for any substantial part of the Collateral, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Note Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for
a period of 60 consecutive days; or 
  
 (vi) the
commencement by the Note Issuer of a voluntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Note Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary
case under any such law, or the consent by the Note Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidation, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestration or similar official of the Note Issuer or for any substantial part of the
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to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the Note Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing. 
  
 The Note Issuer shall deliver to a Responsible Officer of the Note Trustee,
the Certificate Trustee and the Rating Agencies, within five days after an Authorized Officer has knowledge of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and the
lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (iv), its status and what action the Note Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  

Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such
case the Note Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Note Issuer (and to the Note
Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable. 
  
 At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made
and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Note Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by written notice to
the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if: 
  
 (i) the Note Issuer has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to pay: 
  
 (A) all payments of principal of and interest on all Notes
and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and 
  
 (B) all sums paid or advanced by the Note Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Note Trustee and its agents and counsel and all amounts due under the Fee and Indemnity Agreement; and 
  
 (ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12. 
  
 No such
rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Note Trustee. 
  
 (a) The Note Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and
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of any Note on the Final Maturity Date for such Note or (iii) default is made in the payment of the Optional Redemption Price or Mandatory Redemption Price,
as applicable, for any Note on the Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, as applicable, therefor, the Note Issuer will, upon demand of the Note Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then
due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the respective rate borne
by the Notes of the applicable Class 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 Note Trustee
and its agents and counsel and an amount sufficient to cover all amounts required to be paid by the Note Issuer under the Fee and Indemnity Agreement. 
  
 (b) Subject to Section 11.16, in case the Note Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Note Trustee, in its
own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Note Issuer or other
obligor upon such Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Note Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable. 
  
 (c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Note Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Note Trustee shall deem most effective to protect
and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Note Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in
the Note Trustee by this Note Indenture or by law. 
  
 (d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Note Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of
the Note Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Note Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Note Issuer or such other
obligor, the Note Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Note Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise: 
  
 (i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to
file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of (A) the Note Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Note Trustee and each predecessor Note Trustee, and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Note Trustee and each predecessor Note Trustee, except as a result of gross negligence or willful misconduct), (B) the
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 (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the
Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings; and 
  
 (iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received
with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Note Trustee on their behalf; 
  
 and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Note Trustee, and, in the event that the Note Trustee shall consent
to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Note Trustee (or such other beneficiary of the Fee and Indemnity Agreement) such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation and other amounts owing hereunder
to the Note Trustee or such Person, each predecessor Note Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Note Trustee and each predecessor Note
Trustee except as a result of gross negligence or willful misconduct. 
  
 (e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Note Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Note Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy
or similar Person. 
  
 (f) All rights of action
and of asserting claims under this Note Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Note Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such
action or proceedings instituted by the Note Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Note Trustee, each
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 (g) In any Proceedings brought by the Note Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving
the interpretation of any provision of this Note Indenture to which the Note Trustee shall be a party), the Note Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any
such Proceedings. 
  
 Section 5.04. Remedies; Priorities.

  
 (a) If an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Note Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05): 
  
 (i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes
or under this Note Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Note Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due; 
  
 (ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the
complete or partial foreclosure of this Note Indenture with respect to the Collateral; 
  
 (iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC, the Statute or other applicable law and take any other appropriate action to
protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Note Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and 
  
 (iv) sell the Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted
in any manner permitted by law; 
  
 provided, however, that the Note
Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate any portion of the Collateral following an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(i), (ii) or (iii), unless (A) the Holders of 100 percent of the Outstanding Amount of
the Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest after taking into account payment
of all amounts due prior thereto pursuant to the priorities set forth in Section 8.02(d) or (C) the Note Trustee determines that the Collateral will not continue to provide sufficient funds for all payments on the Notes as they would have become due
if the Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Note Trustee obtains the consent of Holders of 66-2/3 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (B) and (C),
the Note Trustee may, but need not, obtain and conclusively rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Collateral
for such purpose. 
  
 (b) If the Note Trustee
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 Section 5.05. Optional Possession of the Collateral. If the Notes have been declared to be due and
payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Note Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the Collateral. It is the desire of the
parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes, and the Note Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to maintain possession
of the Collateral. In determining whether to maintain possession of the Collateral, the Note Trustee may, but need not, obtain and conclusively rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Collateral for such purpose. 
  
 Section 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to
this Note Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder and each Holder agrees, by its acceptance of any Note, to the fullest extent permitted by law, not to avail itself of any remedies in the Statute
or to utilize or enforce the Statutory Lien, unless: 
  
 (i) such Holder previously has given written notice to the Note Trustee of a continuing Event of Default; 
  
 (ii) the Holders of not less than 25 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes have made written request to the Note Trustee to
institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Note Trustee hereunder; 
  
 (iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Note Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to
be incurred in complying with such request; 
  
 (iv) the Note Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and 
  
 (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Note Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes; 
  
 it being understood and
intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Note Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or
to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Note Indenture, except in the manner herein provided. 
  
 In the event the Note Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each
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of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Note Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Note Indenture. 
  
 Section 5.07.
Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Note Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, (a) to receive payment of
(i) the interest, if any, on such Note on or after the due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Note Indenture, (ii) the unpaid principal, if any, of such Notes on or after the Final Maturity Date therefor or (iii) in the case of
redemption, receive payment of the unpaid principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, as applicable, therefor and (b) to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. 
  
 Section 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Note Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Note Indenture and such Proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Note Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such
Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Note Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted. 
  
 Section 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Note Trustee or to the Noteholders 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 5.10. Delay or
Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Note Trustee or any Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or
Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Note Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Note Trustee or by
the Noteholders, as the case may be. 
  
 Section 5.11. Control
by Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes (or, if less than all Classes are affected, the affected Class or Classes) shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding
for any remedy available to the Note Trustee with respect to the Notes of such Class or Classes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Note Trustee with respect to such Class or Classes; provided, however, that 

 
 (i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
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 (ii) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to the Note Trustee to
sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be by the Holders of Notes representing not less than 100 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes; 
  
 (iii) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied and the Note Trustee elects to retain the Collateral pursuant to
such Section, then any direction to the Note Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than 100 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be of no force and effect; and 
  
 (iv) the Note Trustee may take any other action deemed
proper by the Note Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; 
  
 provided, however, that, subject to Section 6.01, the Note Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to
such action. 
  
 Section 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults.
Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the Holders of Notes of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes may waive any past Default or Event of Default and its
consequences except a Default (a) in payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note or of all Classes
affected. In the case of any such waiver, the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Upon any such
waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Note Indenture;
but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Section 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Note Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Note Indenture, or in any suit against the Note Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
as Note Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant
in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Note Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any
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more than 10 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of (i) interest
on any Note on or after the due dates expressed in such Note and in this Note Indenture, (ii) the unpaid principal, if any, of any Note on or after the Final Maturity Date therefor or (iii) in the case of redemption, the unpaid principal of and
interest on any Note on or after the Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, as applicable, therefor. 
  
 Section 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Note Issuer 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 stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Note Indenture;
and the Note Issuer (to the extent that it may 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 Note Trustee,
but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. 
  
 Section 5.15. Action on Notes. The Note Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Note Indenture shall not be
affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Note Indenture. Neither the lien of this Note Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Note Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the
recovery of any judgment by the Note Trustee against the Note Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Collateral or upon any of the assets of the Note Issuer. 
  
 Section 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

  
 (a) Promptly following a request from the
Note Trustee to do so and at the Note Issuer’s expense, the Note Issuer agrees to take all such lawful action as the Note Trustee may reasonably request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Seller and the Servicer, as
applicable, of each of their obligations to the Note Issuer under or in connection with the Sale Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, respectively, in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and
privileges lawfully available to the Note Issuer under or in connection with the Sale Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, respectively, to the extent and in the manner directed by the Note Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default
on the part of the Seller or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale Agreement and the
Servicing Agreement, respectively. 
  
 (b) If an
Event of Default has occurred, the Note Trustee may, and, at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of 66-2/3 percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
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Sale Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, respectively, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by
the Seller or the Servicer of each of their obligations to the Note Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Sale Agreement or the Servicing Agreement, respectively, and any right
of the Note Issuer to take such action shall be suspended. 
  
 ARTICLE VI 
  
 The Note Trustee

  
 Section 6.01. Duties of Note Trustee.

  
 (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, the Note Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Note Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such person’s own affairs. 
  
 (b) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default: 
  
 (i) the Note Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Note Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Note Indenture against the Note Trustee; and

  
 (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part,
the Note Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Note Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Note Indenture;
however, the Note Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they appear on their face to conform to the requirements of this Note Indenture. 
  
 (c) The Note Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own
grossly negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
  
 (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section; 
  
 (ii) the Note Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment or exercise of its discretion made in good faith by a Responsible
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 (iii) the Note Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11. 
  
 (d) Every provision of this Note Indenture that in any way relates to the Note Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this
Section. 
  
 (e) The Note Trustee shall not be
liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Note Trustee may agree in writing with the Note Issuer. 
  
 (f) Money held in trust by the Note Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of
this Note Indenture, the Sale Agreement or the Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (g) No provision of this Note Indenture shall require the Note Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur 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 to believe that repayments of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 
  
 (h) Every provision of this Note Indenture relating to the
conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Note Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 (i) In the event that the Note Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent or Note Registrar hereunder, this
Article VI shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent or Note Registrar. 
  
 (j) Under no circumstances shall the Note Trustee be liable for any indebtedness of the Note Issuer, the Servicer or the Seller evidenced by or arising under the Notes or any Basic Document. 
  
 Section 6.02. Rights of Note Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Trust Indenture Act § 315: 
  
 (a) the Note
Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting in reliance upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or
other, paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties and the Note Trustee need not investigate any matter or fact stated in such document; 
  
 (b) any request or direction of the Note Issuer mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request; 
  
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or omitting any action hereunder, the Note Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
conclusively rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Note Issuer; 
  
 (d) the Note Trustee may consult with counsel and the 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 and in reliance thereon; 
  
 (e) the Note Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Note Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this Note Indenture, unless such Noteholders
shall have offered to the Note Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the cost, expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction; 
  
 (f) the Note 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 or other paper or documents; 
  
 (g) the Note Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys custodians or nominees and the Note Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any agent,
attorney custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder; 
  
 (h) the Note Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of Notes relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Note Trustee, under this Note Indenture; 
  
 (i) the Note Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds 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 indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk is not reasonably assured to it; 
  
 (j) the Note Trustee shall not be personally liable for any
action taken or suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Note Indenture; provided, however, that the Note
Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, gross negligence or bad faith; 
  
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the Note Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent, authenticating agent or Note Registrar; 
  
 (l) the Note Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
an Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge or such event or the Note Trustee receives written notice of such event from the Note Issuer, the Servicer or a majority of the Holders of Notes of the Class or Classes so
affected; and 
  
 (m) without limiting its rights
under bankruptcy law, when the Note Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with the insolvency or bankruptcy of any party hereto or with the Basic Documents to which it is a party such expenses (including the fees and expenses of
its counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy or insolvency law. 
  
 Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Note Trustee. The Note Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes
and may otherwise deal with the Note Issuer or its affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Note Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Note
Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12. 
  
 Section 6.04.
Note Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Note Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Note Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Note Issuer’s use of the
proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Note Issuer in the Note Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Note Trustee’s certificate of
authentication. 
  
 Section 6.05. Notice of Defaults. If a
Default occurs and is continuing and if it is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Note Trustee, the Note Trustee shall mail to the Agencies, each Holder of Notes and to the Rating Agencies notice of the Default within 30 days after it
occurs. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Note Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith after consultation with the Certificate
Trustee determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Noteholders and the Certificateholders. 
  
 Section 6.06. Reports by Note Trustee to Holders. 
  
 (a) So long as the Note Trustee is the Note Registrar and Paying Agent, it shall deliver to each Noteholder such information in its
possession as may be required to enable such Holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns. 
  
 (b) On or prior to each Payment Date therefor, the Note Trustee will deliver to each Holder of Notes on such Payment Date a statement as
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Notes with respect to such Payment Date or the period since the previous Payment Date, as applicable: 
  
 (i) the amount of the distribution to Noteholders allocable
to principal; 
  
 (ii) the amount of the
distribution to Noteholders allocable to interest; 
  
 (iii) the aggregate outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes, after giving effect to payments allocated to principal reported under (i) above; 
  
 (iv) the difference, if any, between the Principal Balance and the Projected Principal Balance as of such Payment Date, after giving
effect to distributions to be made on such Payment Date; 
  
 (v) the amount on deposit in the Overcollateralization Subaccount and the Required Overcollateralization Level as of the Payment Date; 
  
 (vi) the amount on deposit in the Capital Subaccount as of the Payment Date; 
  
 (vii) the amount, if any, on deposit in the Reserve
Subaccount as of the Payment Date; 
  
 (viii) the
amount paid to the Note Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, and the Certificate Trustee since the previous Payment Date; 
  
 (ix) the amount paid to the Servicer since the previous Payment Date; 
  
 (x) the amount paid to the Administrator since the previous Payment Date; and 
  
 (xi) any other transfers and payments to be made pursuant to
the Note Indenture since the previous Payment Date. 
  
 (c) The Note Issuer shall send a copy of each Certificate of Compliance delivered to it pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Servicing Agreement and Annual Accountant’s Report delivered to it pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Servicing
Agreement to the Note Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies. 
  
 (d) If the Note Trustee is also serving as the Certificate Trustee, it shall also prepare the statements required to be delivered to Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.02(d) of the Certificate Indenture.

  
 Section 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Note
Issuer shall pay to the Note Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The Note Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. 

  

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The Note Issuer shall reimburse the Note Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by it, including
costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Note
Issuer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Note Trustee and any of its affiliates, officials, officers, directors, employees, consultants, counsel and agents (the “Indemnified Persons”) from and against any and all losses,
claims, actions, suits, taxes, damages, expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees and expenses) and liabilities (including liabilities under state or federal securities laws) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively,
“Expenses”), to the extent that such Expenses arise out of or are imposed upon or asserted against such Indemnified Persons with respect to the creation, administration, operation or termination of this trust and the performance by the
Note Trustee of its duties hereunder, the failure of the Note Issuer or any other Person (other than the Person being indemnified) to perform its obligations hereunder or under any of the Basic Documents, or otherwise in connection with the Basic
Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby, provided, however, that the Note Issuer is not required to indemnify any Indemnified Person for any Expenses that result from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of such
Indemnified Person. The willful misconduct or gross negligence of any Note Trustee shall not affect the rights of any predecessor or successor Note Trustee hereunder. The Indemnified Person shall notify the Note Issuer as soon as is reasonably
practicable of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indemnified Person to so notify the Note Issuer shall not relieve the Note Issuer of its obligations hereunder. The Note Issuer shall defend the claim and the Indemnified
Person may have separate counsel and the Note Issuer shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Note Issuer will not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Person, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment
with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought under this Section 6.07, (whether or not the Indemnified Person is an actual or potential party to such claim or action)
unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of the Indemnified Person from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding. 
  
 The Note Issuer’s payment obligations to the Note Trustee pursuant to this Section shall survive the discharge of this
Note Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Note Trustee. When the Note Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.01(v) or (vi) with respect to the Note Issuer, the expenses are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law. 
  

The Note Issuer acknowledges and agrees that under the Certificate Indenture the Certificate Trustee shall pay the fees and expenses of, and shall
indemnify and hold harmless the Note Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, to the extent that payments required to be made by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee under this Section 6.07 or to the Delaware Trustee under the Fee and Indemnity Agreement,
as the case may be, are not made by the Note Issuer when due. 
  
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either (a) the Collateral has been completely liquidated and the proceeds of the liquidation distributed to the Noteholders or (b) a successor trustee having
the qualifications set forth in Section 6.11 has been designated and has accepted such trusteeship. The Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may remove the Note Trustee by so notifying the Note Trustee and may appoint a successor
Note Trustee. The Note Issuer shall remove the Note Trustee if: 
  
 (i) the Note Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11; 
  
 (ii) the Note Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent; 
  
 (iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Note Trustee or its property; or 
  
 (iv) the Note Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

  
 If the Note Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy
exists in the office of Note Trustee for any reason (the Note Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Note Trustee), the Note Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Note Trustee. 
  
 A successor Note Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Note Trustee and to the Note Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Note Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Note Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Note
Trustee under this Note Indenture. The successor Note Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders and to the Rating Agencies. The retiring Note Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Note Trustee to the successor
Note Trustee. 
  
 If a successor Note Trustee does not take office
within 60 days after the retiring Note Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Note Trustee, the Note Issuer or the Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Note Trustee. 
  
 If the Note Trustee fails to comply
with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Note Trustee and the appointment of a successor Note Trustee. 
  
 Notwithstanding the replacement of the Note Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Note Issuer’s obligations under
Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Note Trustee. 
  
 Section 6.09. Successor Note Trustee by Merger. If the Note Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another
corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Note Trustee. The successor Note Trustee shall mail a notice of its merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer
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 In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer to the
Note Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Note Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Note Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee,
and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Note Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Note Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall be valid for all purposes hereunder and under the Notes. 
  
 Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. 
  
 (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Note Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any
legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Collateral may at the time be located, the Note Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or
co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Collateral, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Collateral, or any part hereof, and,
subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Note Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.08 hereof. 
  
 (b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act
subject to the following provisions and conditions: 
  
 (i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Note Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Note Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood
that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Note Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Note
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised
and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Note Trustee; 
  
 (ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and 
  
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 (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Note Trustee shall be deemed to
have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Note Indenture and the conditions of this Article
VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Note Trustee or separately, as may be provided
therein, subject to all the provisions of this Note Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Note Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Note Trustee. Every such instrument
shall be filed with the Note Trustee. 
  
 (d) Any
separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Note Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Note Indenture on its
behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Note Trustee, to the extent
permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee. 
  
 Section 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Note Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Trust Indenture Act Section 310(a) and Section 26(a)(i) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The
Note Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition and it shall have a long term debt rating of A (or the equivalent thereof) or better by the Rating
Agencies. The Note Trustee shall comply with Trust Indenture Act Section 310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of Trust Indenture Act Section 310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be
excluded from the operation of Trust Indenture Act Section 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Note Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in Trust Indenture Act Section
310(b)(1) are met. 
  
 Section 6.12. Preferential Collection of
Claims Against Note Issuer. The Note Trustee shall comply with Trust Indenture Act Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in Trust Indenture Act Section 311(b). A Note Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject
to Trust Indenture Act Section 311(a) to the extent indicated. 
  
 Section 6.13. Representations and Warranties of Note Trustee. The Note Trustee hereby represents and warrants that: 
  
 (a) the Note Trustee is a banking corporation validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of New York; and 

 
 (b) the Note Trustee has full power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform this Note Indenture and the Basic Documents to which the Note Trustee is a party and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery, and performance by it of this Note Indenture and such
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 Section 6.14. Covenants of the Note Trustee. The Note Trustee hereby covenants and agrees as
follows: 
  
 (a) the Note Trustee will establish
the Collection Account as a Securities Account; 
  
 (b) the Note Trustee, acting as Securities Intermediary, will identify the Collection Account in its records as a Securities Account of the Note Trustee and will identify the Note Trustee in such records as the Person having the Security
Entitlement against the Securities Intermediary with respect to the Securities Account and all Security Entitlements carried in the Securities Account; 
  
 (c) the Note Trustee, acting as Securities Intermediary, will maintain accurate and complete records of the Financial Assets in the
Securities Account such that the Collateral is objectively determinable; 
  
 (d) the Note Trustee, acting as Securities Intermediary, will in the ordinary course of its business, maintain securities accounts for its customers, will act in that capacity in holding the Securities Account under
this Note Indenture and will at all times be located in and maintain its books and records relating to all of these securities in the State of New York; 
  
 (e) the Note Trustee, acting as Securities Intermediary, will treat all Eligible Investments as Financial Assets and will duly hold the
Eligible Investments in the Securities Account; and 
  
 (f) the Note Trustee, acting as Securities Intermediary, will not agree to comply with entitlement orders of any secured party other than the Note Trustee with respect to the Securities Account or any Security Entitlements carried in the
Securities Account. 
  
 ARTICLE VII 
  
 Noteholders’ Lists and Reports 
  
 Section 7.01. Note Issuer To Furnish Note Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders. The Note Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Note Trustee (a) not more than five days after the earlier of (i) each Record Date and (ii) six months after the last Record Date, a list, in such form as the Note Trustee
may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date, (b) at such other times as the Note Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Note Issuer of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Note Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

  

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 Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders. 
  
 (a) The Note Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Note Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Note Trustee in
its capacity as Note Registrar. The Note Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 
  

(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights
under this Note Indenture or under the Notes. 
  
 (c) The Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of Trust Indenture Act Section 312(c). 
  
 Section 7.03. Reports by Note Issuer. 
  
 (a) The Note Issuer shall: 
  
 (i) so long as the Note Issuer is required to file such documents with the Commission, file with the Note Trustee, within 15 days after
the Note Issuer is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules
and regulations prescribe) which the Note Issuer may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; 
  
 (ii) file with the Note Trustee and the Commission in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission
such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Note Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Note Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and 
  
 (iii) supply to the Note Trustee (and the Note Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Note Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.03(a) as may be
required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. 
  
 (b) Unless the Note Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Note Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year. 
  
 Section 7.04. Reports by Note Trustee. If required by Trust Indenture
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Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies with Trust Indenture Act Section 313(a). The Note Trustee also shall comply with Trust
Indenture Act Section 313(b). 
  
 A copy of each report at the
time of its mailing to Noteholders shall be filed by the Note Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Note Issuer shall notify the Note Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock
exchange. 
  
 ARTICLE VIII 
  
 Accounts, Disbursements and Releases 
  
 Section 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, the Note Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by
the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee or the Delaware Trustee pursuant to this Note Indenture, the Certificate Indenture and the Fee and Indemnity Agreement. The Note Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Note
Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Note Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Collateral, the Note Trustee may take such action as
may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, subject to Article VI, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default
under this Note Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V. 
  
 Section 8.02. Collection Account. 
  
 (a) Prior to the Issuance Date, the Note Issuer shall open, at the Note Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office, or at another Eligible Institution, one or more segregated trust accounts in the Note Trustee’s name
for the deposit of Estimated RTC Charge Payments and other amounts remitted under the Servicing Agreement (collectively, the “Collection Account”). The Note Trustee shall hold the Collection Account for the benefit of Noteholders, the Note
Trustee and the other Persons indemnified hereunder or under the Fee and Indemnity Agreement. The Collection Account will consist of four subaccounts: a general subaccount (the “General Subaccount”), a reserve subaccount (the “Reserve
Subaccount”), an overcollateralization subaccount (the “Overcollateralization Subaccount”) and a capital subaccount (the “Capital Subaccount”). All amounts in the Collection Account not allocated to any other subaccount
shall be allocated to the General Subaccount. Prior to the initial Payment Date, all amounts in the Collection Account (other than funds deposited into the Capital Subaccount, together with interest earnings thereon) shall be allocated to the
General Subaccount. All references to the Collection Account shall be deemed to include reference to all subaccounts contained therein. Withdrawals from and deposits to each of the foregoing subaccounts of the Collection Account shall be made as set
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all times be maintained in an Eligible Deposit Account and only the Note Trustee shall have access to the Collection Account for the purpose of making
deposits in and withdrawals from the Collection Account in accordance with this Note Indenture. Funds in the Collection Account shall not be commingled with any other moneys. Except as provided in Section 8.03, all moneys deposited from time to time
in the Collection Account, all deposits therein pursuant to this Note Indenture, and all investments made in Eligible Investments with such moneys, including all income or other gain from such investments, shall be held by the Note Trustee in the
Collection Account as part of the Collateral as herein provided. 
  
 (b) The Note Trustee shall have sole dominion and exclusive control over all moneys in the Collection Account and shall apply such amounts therein as provided in this Section 8.02. The Note Trustee shall also pay from
the Collection Account any amounts requested to be paid by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.03(b) of the Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (c) All Estimated RTC Charge Payments and other remittances under the Servicing Agreement shall be deposited in the General Subaccount as
provided in Section 4.03 of the Servicing Agreement. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Collection Account and all allocations to the subaccounts of the Collection Account shall be made by the Note Trustee in accordance with the written
instructions provided by the Servicer in the Semiannual Servicer Certificate or as otherwise provided herein. 
  
 (d) On any Business Day upon which the Note Trustee receives a written request from the Administrator stating that any Operating Expense
payable by the Note Issuer (but only as described in clauses (i) through (iv) below) will become due and payable prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, and setting forth the amount and nature of such Operating Expenses, as well as any supporting
documentation that the Note Trustee may reasonably request, the Note Trustee, upon receipt of such information, will make payment of such Operating Expenses on or before the date such payment is due from amounts on deposit in the General Subaccount,
the Reserve Subaccount, the Overcollateralization Subaccount and the Capital Subaccount, in that order and only to the extent required to make such payment. 
  
 On each Payment Date, the Note Trustee shall apply, at the direction of the Servicer, all amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, including all net
earnings thereon (other than on amounts in the Capital Subaccount), to pay the following amounts, in accordance with the Semiannual Servicer Certificate, in the following priority: 
  
 (i) first, all amounts owed by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee (including indemnity payments and legal
fees and expenses) shall be paid to the Note Trustee (subject to Section 6.07), second, all amounts owed by the Note Issuer to the Certificate Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Agencies and the Certificate Issuer under the Fee and Indemnity
Agreement (provided that any indemnification obligation under any of the Basic Documents shall be limited to $10,000,000 in the aggregate, less any indemnification payments made by BEC 

  

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Funding, LLC under any Basic Documents (as defined in the Note Indenture dated March 1, 2005 between BEC Funding, LLC and the Bank of New York, as trustee
(the “BEC Note Indenture”)) to which BEC Funding, LLC is a party, unless the payment of any additional amounts shall satisfy the Rating Agency Condition), as well as an amount sufficient to compensate the Certificate Trustee for all
amounts payable by the Certificate Trustee under Section 6.16 of the Certificate Indenture, as described in the last paragraph of Section 6.07, shall be paid sequentially to the Certificate Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Agencies and the
Certificate Issuer, as appropriate; 
  
 (ii) the
Servicing Fee for such Payment Date and all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Payment Dates shall be paid to the Servicer; 
  
 (iii) the Administration Fee and all unpaid Administration Fees from prior Payment Dates shall be paid to the Administrator; 

 
 (iv) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing or would result from such payment, all other Operating Expenses shall be paid to the Persons entitled thereto; provided, however, that the amount of such other Operating Expenses paid by the Note Trustee
from, but not including, the previous Payment Date to, and including, the current Payment Date shall in no event exceed $100,000 in the aggregate; 
  
 (v) (A) first, any overdue Semiannual Interest (together with, to the extent lawful, interest on such overdue Semiannual Interest at the
applicable Note Interest Rate) and (B) second, Semiannual Interest for such Payment Date shall be paid to the Noteholders; 
  
 (vi) (A) first, principal due and payable on the Notes as a result of an Event of Default or on the Final Maturity Date, Optional
Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date of a Class of the Notes, shall be paid to the Noteholders and (B) second, Semiannual Principal for such Payment Date shall be paid to the Noteholders; 
  
 (vii) unpaid Operating Expenses shall be paid to the Persons
entitled thereto; 
  
 (viii) the amount, if any,
by which the Required Capital Level exceeds the amount in the Capital Subaccount (disregarding any interest earnings held in the Capital Subaccount which have not been remitted to the Note Issuer) as of such Payment Date shall be allocated to the
Capital Subaccount; 
  
 (ix) the amount, if any,
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 (x) the balance, if any, shall be allocated to the Reserve Subaccount for distribution on
subsequent Payment Dates; and 
  
 (xi) after
principal of and interest on all Notes, and all of the other foregoing amounts have been paid in full, the balance, if any, shall be paid to the Note Issuer, free from the lien of this Note Indenture. 
  
 All payments of interest pursuant to clause (v), shall be allocated among
each Class of Notes pro rata based upon the respective amounts of interest owed on the Notes of each Class, and allocated and paid to holders within each Class pro rata based upon the respective principal amount of Notes held. All payments of
principal pursuant to clause (vi)(A) shall be made to such holders pro rata based on the respective principal amounts of Notes held by such Holders. All payments of principal pursuant to clause (vi)(B) above shall be made to the Holders of the Class
then entitled to payment, based upon the Expected Amortization Schedule in accordance with the priority set forth in Section 2.01(c)(iii). 
  
 (e) If on any Payment Date, or for any amounts payable under clauses (i) through (iv) above, on any Business Day, funds on deposit in the
General Subaccount are insufficient to make the payments contemplated by clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 8.02(d) above, the Note Trustee shall (i) first, draw from amounts on deposit in the Reserve Subaccount, (ii) second, draw
from amounts on deposit in the Overcollateralization Subaccount and (iii) third, draw from amounts on deposit in the Capital Subaccount, in each case, up to the amount of such shortfall in order to make the payments contemplated by clauses
(i) through (vi) of Section 8.02(d). In addition, if on any Payment Date funds on deposit in the General Subaccount are insufficient to make the allocations contemplated by clauses (viii) and (ix) above, the Note Trustee shall draw from amounts on
deposit in the Reserve Subaccount to make such allocations. If on any Payment Date funds on deposit in the Collection Account are insufficient to make the transfers contemplated by clause (v) above, the Note Trustee will allocate the funds drawn
pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph among the classes pro rata as provided in clause in (d) above. 
  
 (f) On any Optional Redemption Date or Mandatory Redemption Date, the Note Trustee shall pay to the Noteholders the Optional Redemption
Price or Mandatory Redemption Price, as the case may be. 
  
 (g) On the last day of each month, if the amount in the Capital Subaccount exceeds the Required Capital Level, the Note Trustee shall pay to the Note Issuer, upon receipt of an Issuer Request, free from the lien of
this Note Indenture, all amounts in the Capital Subaccount in excess of the Required Capital Level. 
  
 Section 8.03. General Provisions Regarding the Collection Account. 
  
 (a) So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all or a portion of the
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or other gain from investments of moneys deposited in the Collection Account shall be deposited by the Note Trustee in the Collection Account, and any loss
resulting from such investments shall be charged to the Collection Account; provided, however, that all income or other gain from investments of moneys deposited in the Capital Subaccount shall be retained in the Capital Subaccount,
and any loss resulting from such investments shall be charged to the Capital Subaccount. The Note Issuer will not direct the Note Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in the Collection Account unless the
security interest Granted and perfected in such account will continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Note Trustee
to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Note Trustee, the Note Issuer shall deliver to the Note Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, reasonably acceptable to the Note Trustee, to such effect. In no event shall the Note Trustee be liable
for the selection of Eligible Investments or for investment losses incurred thereon. The Note Trustee shall have no liability in respect of losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any Eligible Investment prior to its stated maturity or the
failure of the Note Issuer to provide timely written investment direction. The Note Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any amounts held hereunder in the absence of written investment direction pursuant to an Issuer Order. If the
rating of the Eligible Institution, which may be the Note Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office, falls below the rating requirements set forth in clause (b)(i) of the definition of Eligible Institution, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the
Certificate Issuer, shall, within one month after notice of such rating change, cause the Collection Account to be transferred to an institution meeting the requirements set forth in clause (b)(i) of the definition of “Eligible
Institution.” 
  
 (b) Subject to Section
6.01(c), the Note Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in the Collection Account resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for losses attributable to the Note Trustee’s
failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Note Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms. 
  
 (c) If (i) the Note Issuer shall have failed to give written investment directions for any funds on deposit
in the Collection Account to the Note Trustee by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Note Issuer and Note Trustee) on any Business Day; or (ii) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with
respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.02; then the Note Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Collection Account in one or more investments
described under paragraph (i) of the definition of Eligible Investments. 
  
 Section 8.04. Release of Collateral. 
  
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Indenture, or convey the Note Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Note Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Note Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Note Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the
application of any moneys. 
  
 (b) The Note
Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding, release any remaining portion of the Collateral that secured the Notes from the lien of this Note Indenture and release to the Note Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds
then on deposit in the Collection Account. The Note Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Note Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.04(b) only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion
of Counsel and (if required by the Trust Indenture Act) Independent Certificates in accordance with Trust Indenture Act Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01. 
  
 Section 8.05. Opinion of Counsel. The Note Trustee shall receive at
least seven days’ notice when requested by the Note Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.04(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Note Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such action, an Opinion of
Counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action
have been complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Note Indenture; provided, however, that such
Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of the Collateral. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other
instrument delivered to the Note Trustee in connection with any such action. 
  
 Section 8.06. Reports by Independent Accountants. As of the Issuance Date, the Note Issuer shall appoint a firm of Independent certified public accountants of recognized national reputation for purposes of
preparing and delivering the reports or certificates of such accountants required by this Note Indenture. In the event such firm requires the Note Trustee to agree to the procedures performed by such firm, the Note Issuer shall direct the Note
Trustee in writing to so agree; it being understood and agreed that the Note Trustee will deliver such letter of agreement in conclusive reliance upon the direction of the Note Issuer, and the Note Trustee makes no independent inquiry or
investigation to, and shall have no obligation or liability in respect of, the sufficiency, validity or correctness of such procedures. Upon any resignation by such firm the Note Issuer shall provide written notice thereof to the Note Trustee and
shall promptly appoint a successor thereto that shall also be a firm of Independent certified public accountants of recognized national reputation. If the Note Issuer shall fail to appoint a successor to a firm of Independent certified public
accountants that has resigned within 15 days after such resignation, the Note Trustee shall promptly notify the Note Issuer of such failure in writing. If the Note Issuer shall not have appointed a successor within 10 days thereafter the Note
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have no liability with respect to such appointment if the Note Trustee acted with due care with respect thereto. The fees of such Independent certified
public accountants and its successor shall be payable by the Note Issuer. 
  
 ARTICLE IX 
  
 Supplemental Note Indentures 
  
 Section
9.01. Supplemental Note Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. 
  
 (a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and the Certificate Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from
time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Trustee, for any
of the following purposes: 
  
 (i) to correct or
amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of this Note Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Note Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Note Indenture, or to
subject to the lien of this Note Indenture additional property; 
  
 (ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of another person to the Note Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Note Issuer herein and in
the Notes contained; 
  
 (iii) to add to the
covenants of the Note Issuer, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Note Issuer; 
  
 (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Note Trustee; 
  
 (v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any supplemental note indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental note indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Note
Indenture or in any supplemental note indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes or holders of the Certificates; 
  
 (vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the
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administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or 
  
 (vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Note Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Note Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Note Indenture such other provisions as
may be expressly required by the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 The Note
Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental note indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained. 
  
 (b) The Note Issuer and the Note Trustee, when authorized by
an Issuer Order, may, also without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes, 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 Note Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Note Indenture; provided, however, that (i) such action shall not, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate, adversely affect
in any material respect the interests of the Noteholders or the holders of Certificates and (ii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect thereto. 
  
 Section 9.02. Supplemental Note Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The Note Issuer and the Note Trustee, when
authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, the Agencies and with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes of each Class to be affected, by Act of such
Holders delivered to the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee, 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 Note Indenture
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Note Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental note indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note of each Class
affected thereby: 
  
 (i) change the date of
payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest rate thereon, change the provisions of this Note Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of
the sale of, the Collateral to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of the provisions of this Note Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of
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 (ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or of a Class thereof,
the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental note indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Note Indenture or certain defaults hereunder
and their consequences provided for in this Note Indenture; 
  
 (iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding”; 
  
 (iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to direct the Note Trustee to direct the Note Issuer to sell or
liquidate the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04; 
  
 (v) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this Note Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of
the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby; 
  
 (vi) modify any of the provisions of this Note Indenture in such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation) or to affect the rights of the Holders of Notes to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained herein; or 
  
 (vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Note Indenture
with respect to any part of the Collateral or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Note Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security provided by
the lien of this Note Indenture. 
  
 The Note Trustee, after
consultation with the Certificate Trustee, may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes or Certificates of a Class would be affected by any supplemental note indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of
all Notes and holders of all Certificates of such Class, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. Neither the Note Trustee nor the Certificate Trustee shall be liable for any such determination made in good faith.

  
 It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental note indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof. 
  
 Promptly after the execution by the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee of any supplemental note indenture pursuant to this
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supplemental note indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental note indenture. Any failure of the Note
Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental note indenture. 
  
 Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Note Indentures. In executing any supplemental note indenture permitted by this Article IX or the
modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Note Indenture, the Note Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of
such supplemental note indenture is authorized or permitted by this Note Indenture. The Note Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental note indenture that affects the Note Trustee’s own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Note Indenture or otherwise. 
  
 Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Note Indenture. Upon the execution of any supplemental note indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Note Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith with respect to each Class of Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Note Indenture of the Note Trustee, the Note Issuer and the Holders of the
Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental note indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Note Indenture for any and all purposes. If required by the Note Trustee, Notes may bear a notation in form approved by the Note Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental note indenture. If the Note
Issuer or the Note Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Note Trustee and the Note Issuer, to any such supplemental note indenture may be prepared and executed by the Note Issuer and authenticated and
delivered by the Note Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes. 
  
 Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Note Indenture and every supplemental note indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then
in effect so long as this Note Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 ARTICLE X 
  
 Redemption of Notes 
  
 Section 10.01.
Optional Redemption by Note Issuer. The Note Issuer may, at its option, redeem all, but not less than all, of the Notes on any Payment Date if, after giving effect to payments that would otherwise be made on such Payment Date, the Outstanding
Amount has been reduced to less than five percent of the initial principal balance thereof at a price equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Note Interest Rate to the
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this Section 10.01, it shall furnish written notice (which notice shall state all items listed in Section 10.02) of such election to the Note Trustee, the
Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the Rating Agencies not later than 25 days prior to the Optional Redemption Date and shall deposit with the Note Trustee not later than one Business Day prior to the Optional Redemption Date the Optional
Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Optional Redemption Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.02 hereof to each Holder of the Notes pursuant to this Section
10.01. 
  
 Section 10.02. Form of Optional Redemption
Notice. Notice of redemption under Section 10.01 hereof shall be given by the Note Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than five days nor more than 25 days prior to the Optional Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes
to be redeemed, as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Optional Redemption Date at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register. 
  
 All notices of redemption shall state: 
  
 (1) the Optional Redemption Date; 
  
 (2) the Optional Redemption Price; and 
  
 (3) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Optional Redemption Price (which
shall be the office or agency of the Note Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02 hereof). 
  
 Notice of redemption of the Notes to be redeemed shall be given by the Note Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Note Issuer. Failure to give
notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note selected for redemption shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note. 
  
 Section 10.03. Notes Payable on Optional Redemption Date or Payment Date. Notice of redemption having been given as
provided in Section 10.02 hereof, the Notes to be redeemed shall on the Optional Redemption Date become due and payable at the Optional Redemption Price and (unless the Note Issuer shall default in the payment of the Optional Redemption Price) no
interest shall accrue on the Optional Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Optional Redemption Price. 
  
 Section 10.04. Mandatory Redemption by Note Issuer. If the Seller is required to repurchase the Transition Property
pursuant to Section 5.01(b) of the Sale Agreement, the Note Issuer shall be required to redeem all outstanding Notes on or before the fifth Business Day following the Repurchase Date (such date of mandatory redemption, the “Mandatory Redemption
Date”) for a purchase price equal to the then outstanding principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Note Interest Rate to the Mandatory Redemption Date (such price being called the “Mandatory Redemption
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notice (which notice shall state all items listed in Section 10.05) of such redemption to the Note Trustee, the Certificate Trustee, the Agencies and the
Rating Agencies not later than one Business Day before such Repurchase Date and shall deposit with the Note Trustee, not later than one Business Day prior to the Mandatory Redemption Date, the Mandatory Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed
whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Mandatory Redemption Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.05 hereof to each Holder of the Notes pursuant to this Section 10.04. 
  
 Section 10.05. Form of Mandatory Redemption Notice. Notice of
redemption under Section 10.04 hereof shall be given by the Note Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than five days prior to the Mandatory Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed, as of the close of business
on the Record Date preceding the Mandatory Redemption Date at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register. 
  
 All notices of redemption shall state: 
  
 (1) the Mandatory Redemption Date; 
  
 (2) the Mandatory Redemption Price; and 
  
 (3) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Mandatory Redemption Price (which shall be the office or agency of
the Note Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02 hereof). 
  
 Notice of redemption of the Notes to be redeemed shall be given by the Note Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Note Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note selected for
redemption shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note. 
  
 Section 10.06. Notes Payable on Mandatory Redemption Date or Payment Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in Section 10.05 hereof, the Notes to be redeemed shall on the Mandatory Redemption
Date become due and payable at the Mandatory Redemption Price and (unless the Note Issuer shall default in the payment of the Mandatory Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Mandatory Redemption price for any period after the date to
which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Mandatory Redemption Price. 
  
 ARTICLE XI 
  
 Miscellaneous 
  
 Section 11.01.
Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. 
  
 (a) Upon any application or request by the Note Issuer to the Note Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Note Indenture, the Note Issuer shall furnish to the Note Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all
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provided for in this Note Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with and (iii) (if required by the Trust Indenture Act) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section,
except that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Note Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. 
  
 Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Note Indenture shall include: 
  
 (i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto; 
  
 (ii) 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; 
  
 (iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary
to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
  
 (iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
  
 (b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other
property or securities with the Note Trustee that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Note Indenture, the Note Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.01(a) or
elsewhere in this Note Indenture, furnish to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Note Issuer of the
Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited. 
  
 (ii) Whenever the Note Issuer is required to furnish to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Note
Issuer shall also deliver to the Note Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to the Note Issuer of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or
release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Note Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is ten percent or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such
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Issuer as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

  
 (iii) Whenever any property or securities are
to be released from the lien of this Note Indenture other than pursuant to Section 8.02, the Note Issuer shall also furnish to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate
as to the fair value (within 90 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the security under this Note Indenture in contravention
of the provisions hereof. 
  
 (iv) Whenever the
Note Issuer is required to furnish to the Note Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Note Issuer shall also furnish to the Note Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other property, or securities released from the lien of this Note Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 8.02 hereof) since the commencement
of the then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above and this clause (iv), equals 10 percent or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any
release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes. 
  
 (v) Notwithstanding Section 2.11 or any other provision of
this Section, the Note Issuer may (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of the Transition Property and the RTC Charge as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (B) cause the Note Trustee to make cash payments
out of the Collection Account as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents. 
  
 Section 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Note 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 other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. 
  
 Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Note Issuer 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 or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
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or the Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer, the Seller, the Note Issuer or
the Administrator, 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. 
  
 Whenever in this Note Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Note Trustee, it is provided that the Note Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Note Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to
the right of the Note Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Note Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any
statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI. 
  
 Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Note Indenture, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument. 
  
 Section 11.03. Acts
of Noteholders. 
  
 (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Note Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Note Trustee, and, where it is hereby
expressly required, to the Note Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Note Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Note Trustee and the Note Issuer, if made in the manner
provided in this Section. 
  
 (b) The fact and
date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Note Trustee deems sufficient. 
  
 (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register. 
  
 (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of
any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Note Trustee or the Note Issuer in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note. 
  

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 Section 11.04. Notices. 
  
 (a) Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all notices, directions, consents and waivers required
under the terms and provisions of this Note Indenture shall be in English and in writing, and any such notice, direction, consent or waiver may be given by United States mail, courier service, facsimile transmission or electronic mail (confirmed by
telephone, United States mail or courier service in the case of notice by facsimile transmission or electronic mail) or any other customary means of communication, and any such notice, direction, consent or waiver shall be effective when delivered,
or if mailed, three days after deposit in the United States mail with proper postage for ordinary mail prepaid, 
  
 if to the Agencies, to: 
  
 Massachusetts Development Finance Agency 
 160 Federal Street 
 Boston, Massachusetts 02110 
 Attention: General Counsel 
 Facsimile: (617) 330-2001 
 Telephone: (617) 330-2006 
  
 and 
  
 Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority

 99 Summer Street 
 10th Floor 
 Boston, Massachusetts 02110 
 Attention: General Counsel 
 Facsimile: (617) 737-8366 
 Telephone: (617) 737-8377 
  
 if
to the Certificate Issuer, to: 
  
 The Bank of
New York (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee for the Massachusetts 
 RRB Special Purpose Trust 2005-1 
 c/o The Bank of New York 
 101 Barclay
Street 
 Floor 8 West 
 New
York, New York 10286 
 Attention: Asset Backed Finance Unit 
 Facsimile: (212) 815-5544 
 Telephone: (212) 815-5286 
  
 (with copies to the Agencies at the addresses listed herein) 
  

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 if to the Note Issuer, to: 
  
 CEC Funding, LLC 
 One NSTAR Way 
 Westwood, Massachusetts 02090 
 Attention: President 
 Facsimile: (781) 441-8013 
 Telephone: (781) 441-8900 
  
 if to the Note Trustee or the Certificate Trustee, to: 
  
 The Bank of New York 
 101 Barclay Street 
 Floor 8 West 
 New York, New York 10286 
 Attention: Asset Backed Finance Unit 
 Facsimile: (212) 815-5544 
 Telephone: (212) 815-5286 
  
 if to the Rating Agencies, to: 
  
 Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services 
 55 Water Street, 41st Floor 
 New York, New York 10041 
 Attention: ABS Surveillance Group New Assets 
 Facsimile: (212) 438-2655 
 E mail: Servicer_reports@sandp.com 
 Telephone: (212) 438-2000 
  
 and 
  
 Moody’s Investors Service 
 99 Church Street 
 New York, New York 10007 
 Attention: ABS Monitoring Department 
 Facsimile: (212) 553-0573 
 Telephone: (212) 553-3686 
  
 Section 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Note
Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders 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 Noteholder affected by such event, at such
Noteholder’s address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the
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is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given. 
  
 Where this Note Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any 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 Noteholders shall be filed with the Note Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity
of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver. 
  
 In case,
by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event of Noteholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of
this Note Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Note Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. 
  
 Where this Note Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other
rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute a Default or Event of Default. 
  
 Section 11.06. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is
required to be included in this Note Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control. 
  
 The provisions of Trust Indenture Act Sections 310 through 317 that impose duties on any person (including the provisions automatically deemed included
herein unless expressly excluded by this Note Indenture) are a part of and govern this Note Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein. 
  
 Section 11.07. 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 11.08.
Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Note Indenture and the Notes by the Note Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. 
  
 All agreements of the Note Trustee in this Note Indenture shall bind its successors. 
  
 Section 11.09. Severability. In case any provision in this Note
Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
  
 Section 11.10. Benefits of Note Indenture. Nothing in this Note
Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders, and any other party secured hereunder, and any 

  

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other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Note
Indenture. 
  
 Section 11.11. Legal Holidays. In any case
where the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Note Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with
the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date. 
  
 Section 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS NOTE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. PURSUANT TO MASSACHUSETTS UCC SECTION 8-110(e)(1) AND, TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE,
MASSACHUSETTS UCC SECTION 9-304(b)(1), THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IS THE JURISDICTION OF THE NOTE TRUSTEE, AS BANK OR SECURITIES INTERMEDIARY WITH RESPECT TO THE SECURITIES ACCOUNT AND THE PERFECTION, EFFECT OR PERFECTION OR NONPERFECTION AND
THE PRIORITY OF SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE SECURITIES ACCOUNT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
  
 Section 11.13. Counterparts. This Note Indenture 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 but one and the same instrument. 
  
 Section 11.14. Recording of Note Indenture. If this Note Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Note Issuer and at its expense
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Note Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Note Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other
Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Note Trustee under this Note Indenture. 
  
 Section 11.15. Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Note Issuer or the Note
Trustee on the Notes or under this Note Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the Note Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer
or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Note Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Note
Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Note Trustee has no such obligations in its individual capacity). 
  
 Section 11.16. No Recourse to Note Issuer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Note Indenture or any Supplemental
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recourse against the Note Issuer, but shall look only to the Collateral, with respect to any amounts due to the Noteholders hereunder. 
  
 Section 11.17. Inspection. The Note Issuer agrees that, on reasonable
prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Note Trustee, during the Note Issuer’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports, and other papers of the Note Issuer, to make copies and extracts
therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Note Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Note Trustee’s officers, employees, and Independent certified public
accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Note Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and
all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Note Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the foregoing shall not be construed to prohibit (i) disclosure of any and all information that is or becomes publicly known, or information obtained by the Note Trustee from sources other than the Note Issuer, provided such parties are
rightfully in possession of such information and do not have an obligation of confidentiality, (ii) disclosure of any and all information (A) if required to do so by any applicable statute, law, rule or regulation, (B) pursuant to any subpoena,
civil investigative demand or similar demand or request of any court or regulatory authority exercising its proper jurisdiction, (C) in any preliminary or final offering circular, registration statement or contract or other document pertaining to
the transactions contemplated by this Note Indenture or the Basic Documents approved in advance by the Note Issuer or (D) to any affiliate, independent or internal auditor, agent, employee or attorney of the Note Trustee having a need to know the
same, provided that such parties agree to be bound by the confidentiality provisions contained in this Section 11.17, or (iii) any other disclosure authorized by the Note Issuer. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee have caused this Note Indenture to be duly
executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized and duly attested, all as of the day and year first above written. 
  

					
	CEC FUNDING, LLC
		
	By:	 	/s/    PHILIP J.
LEMBO        
	 	 	 Name:
	 	 Philip J. Lembo

	 	 	 Title:
	 	 Assistant Treasurer

	
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
	 not in its individual capacity but solely as Note Trustee,

		
	By:	 	/s/    ANTONIO
VAYAS        
	 	 	 Name:
	 	 Antonio Vayas

	 	 	 Title:
	 	 Assistant Vice President



  

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 SCHEDULE A 

 
 Expected Amortization Schedule 
  
 Outstanding Principal Balance 
  

													
	 Date

	  	Class A-1
Balance

	  	Class A-2
Balance

	  	Class A-3
Balance

	  	Class A-4
Balance


	 3/1/2005
	  	$	66,237,000	  	$	93,040,000	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2005
	  	$	46,237,288	  	$	93,040,000	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2006
	  	$	15,112,000	  	$	93,040,000	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2006
	  	$	0	  	$	82,819,405	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2007
	  	$	0	  	$	57,027,000	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2007
	  	$	0	  	$	32,819,588	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2008
	  	$	0	  	$	5,902,000	  	$	161,858,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2008
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	143,340,375	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2009
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	116,635,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2009
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	92,226,889	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2010
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	65,510,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2010
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	41,054,710	  	$	87,865,000
	 3/15/2011
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	14,385,000	  	$	87,865,000
	 9/15/2011
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	77,765,087
	 3/15/2012
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	51,125,000
	 9/15/2012
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	26,598,785
	 3/15/2013
	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	0	  	$	0

  









  
 SCHEDULE B 

 
 Required Overcollateralization Level 
  

				
	 Payment Date

	  	Required
OC Level


	 3/1/2005
	  	$	0
	 9/15/2005
	  	$	127,813
	 3/15/2006
	  	$	255,625
	 9/15/2006
	  	$	383,438
	 3/15/2007
	  	$	511,250
	 9/15/2007
	  	$	639,063
	 3/15/2008
	  	$	766,875
	 9/15/2008
	  	$	894,688
	 3/15/2009
	  	$	1,022,500
	 9/15/2009
	  	$	1,150,313
	 3/15/2010
	  	$	1,278,125
	 9/15/2010
	  	$	1,405,938
	 3/15/2011
	  	$	1,533,750
	 9/15/2011
	  	$	1,661,563
	 3/15/2012
	  	$	1,789,375
	 9/15/2012
	  	$	1,917,188
	 3/15/2013
	  	$	2,045,000

  









  
 EXHIBIT B 

 
 FORM OF NOTE 
  

			
	 REGISTERED
	 	 
	 NO. [            ]
	 	$ [            ]

  
 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS 
  
 THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS CLASS
A-[    ] NOTE WILL BE PAID IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS CLASS A-[ ] NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
  
 CEC FUNDING, LLC NOTES 
  
 CLASS A-[ ] 
  

					
	 Interest Rate

	  	Original Principal Amount

	 	Final Maturity Date


	 [        ]%
	  	$[                ]	 	 

  
 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: 
  
 CEC Funding, LLC, a limited
liability company formed and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Note Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Massachusetts RRB Special Purpose Trust 2005-1, or registered assigns,
the Original Principal Amount shown above in semiannual installments on the Payment Dates and in the amounts specified on the reverse hereof or, if less, the amounts determined pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Note Indenture, in each year, commencing
on the date determined as provided on the reverse hereof and ending on or before the Final Maturity Date and to pay interest, at the Interest Rate shown above, on each September 15 and March 15 or if any such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day, commencing on September 15, 2005 and continuing until the earlier of the payment of the principal hereof or the Final Maturity Date (each a “Payment Date”), on the principal amount of this Class
A-[    ] Note. Interest on this Class A-[    ] Note will accrue for each Payment Date from the most recent Payment Date on which interest has been paid to but excluding such Payment Date or, if no interest has
yet been paid, from                     , 2005. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of
and interest on this Class A-[    ] Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. 
  

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 The principal of and interest on this Class A-[    ] Note are payable 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. All payments made by the Note Issuer with respect to this Class A-[    ] Note-shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Class A-[    ] Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Class A-[    ] Note, all in the manner set forth in Section 8.02 of the Note Indenture.

  
 Reference is made to the further provisions of this Class
A-[    ] Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Class A-[    ] Note. 
  
 The Holder of this Class A-[    ] Note by the acceptance hereof agrees to be bound by the terms of the
Note Indenture. 
  
 Unless the certificate of authentication
hereon has been executed by the Note Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Class A-[    ] Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Note Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Note
Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer. 
  
 Date: [                    ], 2005 
  

					
	CEC FUNDING, LLC
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:
	 	 
	 	 	 Title:
	 	 


  

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 NOTE TRUSTEE’S
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 Dated:
[                    ], 2005 
  
 This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Note Indenture. 
  

					
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
	 not in its individual capacity but solely as Note Trustee,

		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:
	 	 
	 	 	 Title:
	 	 


  

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 [REVERSE OF NOTE] 

 
 This Class A-[    ] Note is one of a duly authorized
issue of Notes of the Note Issuer, designated as its CEC Funding, LLC Notes (herein called the “Notes”), issuable in one or more Classes, and further designated as a Class A-[    ] Note (collectively with all other
Class A-[    ] Notes of this issue, the “Class A-[    ] Notes”), all issued under a Note Indenture dated as of [    ], 2005 (the “Note Indenture”), between the Note
Issuer and The Bank of New York, as Note Trustee (the “Note Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Note Indenture), to which Note Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. All terms used in this Class A-[    ] Note that are defined in the Note Indenture, as supplemented
or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Note Indenture, as supplemented or amended. 
  
 The Class A-[    ] Notes and the other Classes of Notes issued by the Note Issuer are and will be equally and ratably secured by the
collateral pledged as security therefor, as provided in the Note Indenture. 
  
 The principal of this Class A-[    ] Note shall be payable on each Payment Date only to the extent that amounts in the Collection Account are available therefor, and only until the outstanding
principal balance thereof on such Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal, if any, made on such Payment Date) has been reduced to the principal balance specified in the Expected Amortization Schedule which is attached to the
Note Indenture as Schedule A, unless payable earlier either because (x) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Note Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in accordance with Section 5.02 of the Note Indenture, (y) the Note Issuer, at its option, shall have called for the redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Note
Indenture or (z) the Note Issuer shall have called for the redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.04 of the Note Indenture if the Seller is required to repurchase the Transition Property pursuant to Section 5.01(b) of the Sale Agreement.
However, actual principal payments may be made in lesser than expected amounts and at later than expected times as determined pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Note Indenture. The entire unpaid principal amount of this Class
A-[    ] Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Final Maturity Date hereof, the Optional Redemption Date, if any, and the Mandatory Redemption Date, if any, herefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not then previously paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Note Trustee or the Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the Note Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-[    ] Notes shall be
made pro rata to the Class A-[    ] Noteholders entitled thereto based on the respective principal amounts of the Class A-[    ] Notes held by them. 
  

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 Payments of interest on this Class A-[    ] Note due and payable on each Payment
Date, together with the installment of principal shall be made by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid, to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Class A-[    ] Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes)
on the Note Register as of the close of business on the Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the Certificate Trustee, payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by the Certificate Trustee and except for the final installment of principal payable with respect to this Class A-[    ] Note on a Payment Date which shall be payable as provided below. Such checks shall be
mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class A-[    ] Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any
reduction in the principal amount of this Class A-[    ] Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Class
A-[    ] Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Note Indenture, for
payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A-[    ] Note on a Payment Date, then the Note Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Note Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered
Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed no later than five days prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this
Class A-[    ] Note and shall specify the place where this Class A-[    ] Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. 
  
 The Note Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

  
 As provided in the Note Indenture, the Class
A-[    ] Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, at the option of the Note Issuer on any Payment Date at the Optional Redemption Price if, after giving effect to payments that would otherwise be made on such Payment
Date, the Outstanding Amount of the Notes has been reduced to less than five percent of the initial principal balance thereof. In addition, as provided in the Note Indenture, if the Seller is required to repurchase the Transition Property pursuant
to Section 5.01(b) of the Sale Agreement, the Note Issuer will be required to redeem all outstanding Notes, including the Class A-[    ] Notes, on or before the fifth Business Day following the Repurchase Date (as defined in the
Sale Agreement). 
  
 As provided in the Note Indenture and subject
to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Class A-[    ] Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A-[    ] Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency designated by the Note Issuer pursuant to the Note Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by (a) a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Note Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized Signature Guaranty Programs: (i) The Securities 

  

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Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) The New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or
(iv) in such other guarantee program acceptable to the Note Trustee, and (b) such other documents as the Note Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A-[    ] Notes of Minimum Denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Class A-[    ] Note, but the transferor may be required
to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Note Indenture not involving any
transfer. 
  
 Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note, covenants
and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee on the Notes or under the Note Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Note Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Note Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Note Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Note Trustee has
no such obligations in its individual capacity). 
  
 Prior to the
due presentment for registration of transfer of this Class A-[    ] Note, the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee and any agent of the Note Issuer or the Note Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Class
A-[    ] Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on this Class A-[    ] Note and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not this Class A-[    ] Note be overdue, and neither the Note Issuer, the Note Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 The Note Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Note Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Note Indenture at any time by the Note Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding of each Class to be affected. The Note Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Note Issuer with certain provisions of the Note Indenture and certain past defaults under the Note Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Holder of this Class A-[    ] Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Class A-[    ] Note and of any Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class A-[    ] Note. The Note Indenture also permits the Note Trustee to amend or
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certain terms and conditions set forth in the Note Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder. 
  
 The term “Note Issuer” as used in this Class
A-[    ] Note includes any successor to the Note Issuer under the Note Indenture. 
  
 The Note Issuer is permitted by the Note Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Note Trustee and
the Holders of Notes under the Note Indenture. 
  
 The Class
A-[    ] Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Note Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth. 
  
 This Class A-[    ] Note and the Note Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws. 
  
 No reference herein to the Note Indenture and no provision of this Class
A-[    ] Note or of the Note Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Note Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Class A-[    ] Note at the
times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed. 
  
 The Holder of this Class A-[    ] Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, notwithstanding any provision of the Note Indenture to the contrary, the Holder shall have no recourse against the Note Issuer, but shall look
only to the Collateral, with respect to any amounts due to the Holder under this Class A-[    ] Note. 
  

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 ASSIGNMENT 
  
 Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
                         
  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 (name and address of
assignee) 
  
 the within Class A-[    ] Note and all rights
thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
                                , attorney, to transfer said Class
A-[    ] Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

									
					
	Dated:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Signature Guaranteed:

					
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 



	*	NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Class A-[ ] Note in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. 

  

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