EXHIBIT 4.1


 


 


 


BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC,


Depositor


EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION,


Seller and Company


WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,


Master Servicer and Securities Administrator


and


U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,


Trustee


____________________


POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT


Dated as of October 1, 2005


________________________________________


BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I TRUST 2005-AC8


ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AC8


 



 









 


TABLE OF CONTENTS [TO BE UPDATED]


ARTICLE I


 


DEFINITIONS



	
            Section 1.01
 	
            Defined Terms
 	
             

	
            Section 1.02
 	
            Allocation of Certain Interest Shortfalls
 



ARTICLE II


 


CONVEYANCE OF TRUST FUND REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES



	
            Section 2.01
 	
            Conveyance of Trust Fund
 	
             

	
            Section 2.02
 	
            Acceptance of the Mortgage Loans
 	
             

	
            Section 2.03
 	
            Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company, the Master
 
				



Servicer and the Seller



	
            Section 2.04
 	
            Representations and Warranties of the Depositor
 	
             

	
            Section 2.05
 	
            Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with Substitutions and
 



Repurchases



	
            Section 2.06
 	
            Countersignature and Delivery of Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 2.07
 	
            Conveyance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans
 



ARTICLE III


 


ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF EMC MORTGAGE LOANS BY COMPANY



	
            Section 3.01
 	
            The Company
 	
             

	
            Section 3.02
 	
            Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements
 	
             

	
            Section 3.03
 	
            Subservicers
 	
             

	
            Section 3.04
 	
            Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Company To Be Held for
 
					



Trustee



	
            Section 3.05
 	
            Maintenance of Hazard Insurance
 	
             

	
            Section 3.06
 	
            Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds
 	
             

	
            Section 3.07
 	
            Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies
 	
             

	
            Section 3.08
 	
            Fidelity Bond, Errors and Omissions Insurance
 	
             

	
            Section 3.09
 	
            Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Determination of Excess
 
						



Liquidation Proceeds and Realized Losses; Repurchases of Certain Mortgage 


Loans



	
            Section 3.10
 	
            Servicing Compensation
 	
             

	
            Section 3.11
 	
            REO Property
 	
             

	
            Section 3.12
 	
            Liquidation Reports
 	
             

	
            Section 3.13
 	
            Annual Statement as to Compliance; Annual Certification
 	
             

	
            Section 3.14
 	
            Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants’ Servicing Report
 
	
            Section 3.15
 	
            Books and Records
 	
             

							



 


 









 


ARTICLE IV


 


ADMINISTRATION AND MASTER SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY MASTER SERVICER



	
            Section 4.01
 	
            Master Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 4.02
 	
            REMIC-Related Covenants
 	
             

	
            Section 4.03
 	
            Monitoring of Company and Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 4.04
 	
            Fidelity Bond
 	
             

	
            Section 4.05
 	
            Power to Act; Procedures
 	
             

	
            Section 4.06
 	
            Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements
 
	
            Section 4.07
 	
            Release of Mortgage Files
 	
             

								



	
            Section 4.08
 	
            Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Master Servicer, Company and Servicer To Be Held for Trustee
 



	
            Section 4.09
 	
            Standard Hazard Insurance and Flood Insurance Policies
 	
             

	
            Section 4.10
 	
            Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds
 	
             

	
            Section 4.11
 	
            Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies
 	
             

	
            Section 4.12
 	
            Trustee to Retain Possession of Certain Insurance Policies and Documents
 
	
            Section 4.13
 	
            Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans
 	
             

	
            Section 4.14
 	
            Compensation for the Master Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 4.15
 	
            REO Property
 	
             

	
            Section 4.16
 	
            Annual Officer’s Certificate as to Compliance
 	
             

	
            Section 4.17
 	
            Annual Independent Accountant’s Servicing Report
 	
             

	
            Section 4.18
 	
            Reports Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission
 	
             

	
            Section 4.19
 	
            UCC
 	
             

	
            Section 4.20
 	
            Optional Purchase of Certain Mortgage Loans
 	
             

												



ARTICLE V


 


ACCOUNTS



	
            Section 5.01
 	
            Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Protected Account; Corridor Contract Reserve Fund
 
	
            Section 5.02
 	
            Permitted Withdrawals From the Protected Account and the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund
 



	
            Section 5.03
 	
            Reports to Master Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 5.04
 	
            Collection of Taxes; Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow Accounts
 
	
            Section 5.05
 	
            Servicer Protected Accounts
 	
             

	
            Section 5.06
 	
            Master Servicer Collection Account
 	
             

					



	
            Section 5.07
 	
            Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Master Servicer Collection Account
 



	
            Section 5.08
 	
            Distribution Account
 	
             

	
            Section 5.09
 	
            Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Distribution Account
 
	
            Section 5.10
 	
            Pre-Funding Account
 	
             

	
            Section 5.11
 	
            Interest Coverage Account
 	
             

	
            Section 5.12
 	
            The Corridor Contract
 	
             

	
            Section 5.13
 	
            Distributions for the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund
 	
             

							



 


 









 


ARTICLE VI


 


DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCE



	
            Section 6.01
 	
            Advances
 	
             

	
            Section 6.02
 	
            Compensating Interest Payments
 	
             

	
            Section 6.03
 	
            REMIC Distributions
 	
             

	
            Section 6.04
 	
            Distributions
 	
             

	
            Section 6.05
 	
            Allocation of Realized Losses
 	
             

	
            Section 6.06
 	
            Monthly Statements to Certificateholders
 	
             

	
            Section 6.07
 	
            REMIC Designations and REMIC Distributions
 
	
            Section 6.08
 	
            [Reserved]
 	
             

	
            Section 6.09
 	
            Class P Certificate Account
 	
             

										



ARTICLE VII


 


THE CERTIFICATES



	
            Section 7.01
 	
            The Certificate
 	
             

	
            Section 7.02
 	
            Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates
 
	
            Section 7.03
 	
            Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 7.04
 	
            Persons Deemed Owners
 	
             

	
            Section 7.05
 	
            Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses
 	
             

	
            Section 7.06
 	
            Book-Entry Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 7.07
 	
            Notices to Depository
 	
             

	
            Section 7.08
 	
            Definitive Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 7.09
 	
            Maintenance of Office or Agency
 	
             

										



ARTICLE VIII


 


THE COMPANY AND THE MASTER SERVICER



	
            Section 8.01
 	
            Liabilities of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 8.02
 	
            Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor, the Company or the Master
 



Servicer



	
            Section 8.03
 	
            Indemnification of the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities
 



Administrator



	
            Section 8.04
 	
            Limitations on Liability of the Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer
 



and Others



	
            Section 8.05
 	
            Master Servicer and Company Not to Resign
 
	
            Section 8.06
 	
            Successor Master Servicer
 	
             

	
            Section 8.07
 	
            Sale and Assignment of Master Servicing
 	
             

				



ARTICLE IX


 


DEFAULT; TERMINATION OF MASTER SERVICER; TERMINATION OF COMPANY



	
            Section 9.01
 	
            Events of Default
 	
             
 



 


 









 



	
            Section 9.02
 	
            Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor
 	
             
 
	
            Section 9.03
 	
            Notification to Certificateholders and Rating Agencies.
 	
             
 
	
            Section 9.04
 	
            Waiver of Defaults
 	
             
 
	
            Section 9.05
 	
            Company Default
 	
             
 
	
            Section 9.06
 	
            Waiver of Company Defaults
 	
             
 



ARTICLE X


 


CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR



	
            Section 10.01
 	
            Duties of Trustee and Securities Administrator
 	
             

	
            Section 10.02
 	
            Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and the Securities Administrator
 	
             

	
            Section 10.03
 	
            Trustee and Securities Administrator Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage
 
				



Loans



	
            Section 10.04
 	
            Trustee and Securities Administrator May Own Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 10.05
 	
            Trustee’s and Securities Administrator’s Fees and Expenses
 	
             

	
            Section 10.06
 	
            Eligibility Requirements for Trustee and Securities Administrator
 	
             

	
            Section 10.07
 	
            Insurance
 	
             

	
            Section 10.08
 	
            Resignation and Removal of Trustee and Securities Administrator
 
	
            Section 10.09
 	
            Successor Trustee or Securities Administrator
 	
             

	
            Section 10.10
 	
            Merger or Consolidation of Trustee or Securities Administrator
 	
             

	
            Section 10.11
 	
            Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee
 	
             

	
            Section 10.12
 	
            Tax Matters
 	
             

										



ARTICLE XI


 


TERMINATION



	
            Section 11.01
 	
            Termination upon Liquidation or Repurchase of all Mortgage Loans
 
	
            Section 11.02
 	
            Final Distribution on the Certificates
 	
             

	
            Section 11.03
 	
            Additional Termination Requirements
 	
             

				



ARTICLE XII


 


MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS



	
            Section 12.01
 	
            Amendment
 	
             

	
            Section 12.02
 	
            Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts
 	
             

	
            Section 12.03
 	
            Governing Law
 	
             

	
            Section 12.04
 	
            Intention of Parties
 	
             

	
            Section 12.05
 	
            Notices
 	
             

	
            Section 12.06
 	
            Severability of Provisions
 	
             

	
            Section 12.07
 	
            Assignment
 	
             

	
            Section 12.08
 	
            Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders
 
	
            Section 12.09
 	
            Inspection and Audit Rights
 	
             

	
            Section 12.10
 	
            Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid
 
										



 






 









 


Exhibits



	
            Exhibit A-1
 	
            Form of Class A-[_], Class X-1 and Class PO Certificates
 
	
            Exhibit A-2
 	
            Form of Class B-[_] Certificates
 	
             

	
            Exhibit A-3
 	
            Form of Class P Certificates
 	
             

	
            Exhibit A-4
 	
            Form of Class R-[_] Certificates
 	
             

	
            Exhibit B
 	
            Mortgage Loan Schedule
 	
             

	
            Exhibit C
 	
            Form of Transfer Affidavit
 	
             

	
            Exhibit D
 	
            Form of Transferor Certificate
 	
             

	
            Exhibit E
 	
            Form of Investment Letter (Non-Rule 144A)
 	
             

	
            Exhibit F
 	
            Form of Rule 144A Investment Letter
 	
             

	
            Exhibit G
 	
            Form of Request for Release
 	
             

	
            Exhibit H
 	
            DTC Letter of Representations
 	
             

	
            Exhibit I
 	
            Schedule of Mortgage Loans with Lost Notes
 	
             

	
            Exhibit J
 	
            Form of Custodial Agreement
 	
             

	
            Exhibit K
 	
            Form of Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement
 	
             

	
            Exhibit L
 	
            Form of Company Certification
 	
             

	
            Exhibit M
 	
            Form of Corridor Contract
 	
             

	
            Exhibit N
 	
            Form of Subsequent Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement
 
	
            Exhibit O
 	
            Form of Subsequent Transfer Instrument
 	
             

																



 


 



 









 


POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of October 1, 2005, among BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, as seller (in such capacity, the “Seller”) and as company (in such capacity, the “Company”), WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as master servicer (in such capacity, the “Master Servicer”) and as securities administrator (in such capacity, the “Securities Administrator”) and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).


PRELIMINARY STATEMENT


The Depositor is the owner of the Trust Fund that is hereby conveyed to the Trustee in return for the Certificates.  On or prior to the Closing Date, the Depositor acquired the Initial Mortgage Loans from the Seller. On the Closing Date, the Depositor will sell the Initial Mortgage Loans and certain other property to the Trust Fund and receive in consideration therefor Certificates evidencing the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund.  On or prior to any Subsequent Transfer Date, the Depositor acquired the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, which will be sold to the Trust on the related Subsequent Transfer Date.


REMIC I


As provided herein, the Trustee will make an election to treat the segregated pool of assets consisting of the Mortgage Loans and certain other related assets subject to this Agreement (other than the Pre-Funding Account, the Interest Coverage Account, the Corridor Contract and the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund) as a REMIC (as defined herein) for federal income tax purposes, and such segregated pool of assets will be designated as “REMIC I.” The Class R-1 Certificates will represent the sole class of Residual Interests in REMIC I for purposes of the REMIC Provisions (as defined herein) under federal income tax law. The following table irrevocably sets forth the designation, the Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate, the initial Uncertificated Principal Balance and, for purposes of satisfying Treasury Regulation Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii), the “latest possible maturity
date” for each of the REMIC I Regular Interests (as defined herein). None of the REMIC I Regular Interests will be certificated.


 



	
            Designation
 	
            Initial Uncertificated 
 Principal Balance
 	
            Uncertificated REMIC I 
 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            Latest Possible Maturity Date(1)
 
	
            PO
 	
            $            54,217.74 
 	
            0.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            1-Sub
 	
            $            21,264.73 
 	
            5.500%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            1-ZZZ
 	
      $   223,780,462.64 
 	
            5.500%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            2-Sub
 	
            $            14,822.32 
 	
            8.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            2-ZZZ
 	
      $   155,983,496.40 
 	
            8.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            R-2
 	
                 $                   50.00
 	
            0.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            R-3
 	
            $                    50.00
 	
            0.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            P
 	
            $                  100.00
 	
            0.000%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            X
 	
            (3)
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
					



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(1)            For purposes of Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii) of the Treasury regulations, the Distribution Date in the month following the maturity date for the Mortgage Loan with the latest maturity date has been designated as the “latest possible maturity date” for each of the REMIC I Regular Interests.



	
            (2)
 	
            Calculated in accordance with the definition of “Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate” herein.
 



 


 









 


(3)            REMIC I Regular Interest X will not have an Uncertificated Principal Balance but will accrue interest on its uncertificated notional amount calculated in accordance with the definition of “Uncertificated Notional Amount” herein.


 






 









 


REMIC II


As provided herein, the Trustee will make an election to treat the segregated pool of assets consisting of the REMIC II Regular Interests as a REMIC for federal income tax purposes, and such segregated pool of assets will be designated as “REMIC II.” The Class R-2 Certificates will represent the sole class of Residual Interests in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions under federal income tax law. The following table irrevocably sets forth the designation, the Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate, the initial Uncertificated Principal Balance and, for purposes of satisfying Treasury Regulation Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii), the “latest possible maturity date” for each of the REMIC II Regular Interests (as defined herein). None of the REMIC II Regular Interests will be certificated.


 



	
            
 

Designation

            
 	
            
Initial Uncertificated 
 Principal Balance
 
 	
            
Uncertificated REMIC II 
 Pass-Through Rate
 
 	
            
Latest Possible Maturity Date(1)
 
 
	
            A-1
 	
            $  141,176,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-4
 	
            $     61,000,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-5
 	
            $     82,030,000.00 
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-6
 	
            $       1,209,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-7
 	
            $     13,298,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-8
 	
            $     20,000,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            A-9
 	
            $     25,000,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-1
 	
            $     15,194,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-2
 	
            $       6,647,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-3
 	
            $       3,989,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-4
 	
            $       4,558,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-5
 	
            $       3,229,000.00
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            B-6
 	
            $       2,470,046.09
 	
            (2)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            X-1
 	
            (4)
 	
            (3)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            PO
 	
            $            54,217.74
 	
            0.00%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            R-3
 	
            $                    50.00
 	
            0.00%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

	
            P
 	
            $                  100.00
 	
            0.00%
 	
            November 25, 2035
 	
             

							



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(1)            For purposes of Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii) of the Treasury regulations, the Distribution Date in the month following the maturity date for the Mortgage Loan with the latest maturity date has been designated as the “latest possible maturity date” for each of the REMIC II Regular Interests.



	
            (2)
 	
            Calculated in accordance with the definition of “Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate” herein.
 



(3)            For federal income tax purposes, REMIC II Regular Interest X-1 will not have an Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate, but will be entitled to 100% of the amounts distributed on REMIC I Regular Interest X. 


(4)            For federal income tax purposes, REMIC II Regular Interest X-1 will not have an Uncertificated Principal Balance, but will have an uncertificated notional amount equal to the Uncertificated Notional Amount of REMIC I Regular Interest X.






 









 


REMIC III


As provided herein, the Trustee will make an election to treat the segregated pool of assets consisting of the REMIC II Regular Interests as a REMIC for federal income tax purposes, and such segregated pool of assets will be designated as “REMIC III.” The Class R-3 Certificates will represent the sole class of Residual Interests in REMIC III for purposes of the REMIC Provisions under federal income tax law. The following table irrevocably sets forth the Class designation, the Pass-Through Rate, the Initial Certificate Principal Balance and, for purposes of satisfying Treasury Regulation Section 1.860G-1(a)(4)(iii), the “latest possible maturity date” for each Class of Certificates that represents one or more Regular Interests in REMIC III created hereunder and the Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates.


 



	
             

            Designation
	
            Initial Uncertificated 
 Principal Balance
 	
            Uncertificated REMIC III 
 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            Latest Possible Maturity Date(1)
 
	
            A-1
 	
            $
 	
            141,176,000.00
 	
            Class A-1 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-2
 	
            $
 	
            (2)
 	
            Class A-2 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-3
 	
            $
 	
            (2)
 	
            Class A-3 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-4
 	
            $
 	
            61,000,000.00
 	
            Class A-4 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-5
 	
            $
 	
            82,030,000.00
 	
            Class A-5 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-6
 	
            $
 	
            1,209,000
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-7
 	
            $
 	
            13,298,000.00
 	
            Class A-7 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-8
 	
            $
 	
            20,000,000.00
 	
            Class A-8 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-9
 	
            $
 	
            25,000,000.00
 	
            Class A-9 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            A-10
 	
            $
 	
            (3)
 	
            Class A-10 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            X-1
 	
            $
 	
            (4)
 	
            Class X-1 Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            PO
 	
            $
 	
            54,217.74
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            R-1
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            R-2
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            R-3
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-1
 	
            $
 	
            15,194,000.00
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-2
 	
            $
 	
            6,647,000.00
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-3
 	
            $
 	
            3,989,000.00
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-4
 	
            $
 	
            4,558,000.00
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-5
 	
            $
 	
            3,229,000.00
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            B-6
 	
            $
 	
            2,470,046.09
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
            November 25, 2035
 
	
            P
 	
            $
 	
            100.00
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
            November 25, 2035
 



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            (1)
 	
            The Class A-6, Class PO, Class R-1, Class R-2, Class R-3 and Class P Certificates are not entitled to distributions in respect of interest.
 
	
            (2)
 	
            The Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates do not have an initial Certificate Principal Balance. The Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates each have an initial Notional Amount of $141,176,000.00, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates will each have a Notional Amount equal to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-1 Certificates as of such Distribution Date.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of each of the Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates will be the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-1.
 
	
            (3)
 	
            The Class A-10 Certificates do not have a Certificate Principal Balance. The Class A-10 Certificates have an initial Notional Amount of $25,000,000.00, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class A-10 Certificates will have a Notional Amount equal to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates as of such Distribution Date.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of the Class A-10 Certificates will be the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-9.
 



 


 









 



	
            (4)
 	
            The Class X-1 Certificates do not have a Certificate Principal Balance. The Class X-1 Certificates have an initial Notional Amount of $4,801,590.54, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class X-1 Certificates will have a Notional Amount equal to the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 2 that have Net Mortgage Rates greater than 8.00% per annum.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of the Class X-1 Certificates will be an amount equal to the Uncertificated Notional Amount of REMIC II Regular Interest X-1.
 



 






 









 


The Trust Fund shall be named, and may be referred to as, the “Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8.” The Certificates issued hereunder may be referred to as “Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-AC8” (including for purposes of any endorsement or assignment of a Mortgage Note or Mortgage).


In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Seller, the Company and the Trustee agree as follows:


 









 


ARTICLE I


 


DEFINITIONS



	
            Section 1.01
 	
            Defined Terms.
 



Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:


Accepted Master Servicing Practices: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, those customary mortgage servicing practices of prudent mortgage servicing institutions that master service mortgage loans of the same type and quality as such Mortgage Loan in the jurisdiction where the related Mortgaged Property is located, to the extent applicable to the Trustee or the Master Servicer (except in its capacity as successor to the Company or the related Servicer).


Accepted Servicing Practices: With respect to each EMC Mortgage Loan, those mortgage servicing practices (including collection procedures) that are in accordance with all applicable statutes, regulations and prudent mortgage banking practices for similar mortgage loans.


Account: The Distribution Account, the Master Servicer Collection Account, the Pre-Funding Account, the Interest Coverage Account, the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund and the Protected Account.


Accretion Directed Certificates:  The Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-9 Certificates.


Accretion Termination Date:  Shall mean the Distribution Date on which the Certificate Principal Balances of the Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-9 Certificates are reduced to zero.


Accrual Certificates: The Class A-8 Certificates.


Accrual Distribution Amount:  With respect to each Distribution Date preceding the Accretion Termination Date, an amount equal to the aggregate amount of Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-8 Certificates for such Distribution Date, which amount shall be added to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-8 Certificates to the extent such amounts are required to be distributed to the holders of the Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-9 Certificates, in the manner and order of priority set forth in Section 6.04(e), as principal in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances of the Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-9 Certificates.  


Accrued Certificate Interest:  With respect to any Certificate (other than the Class A-6, Class PO, Class P and Class R Certificates) for any Distribution Date, means an amount equal to the interest accrued during the related Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Pass-Through Rate on the Certificate Principal Balance or Notional Amount of such Certificate immediately prior to such Distribution Date less (i) in the case of any such Senior Certificate, such Certificate’s share of any Net Interest Shortfalls from the related Mortgage Loans and, after the Cross-Over Date, the interest portion of any Realized Losses on the related Mortgage Loans and 


 









(ii) in the case of a Subordinate Certificate, such Certificate’s share of any Net Interest Shortfalls and the interest portion of any Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans. Such Net Interest Shortfalls will be allocated among the Certificates (other than the Class A-6, Class PO, Class P and Class R Certificates) in proportion to the amount of Accrued Certificate Interest that would have been allocated thereto in the absence of such shortfalls. Accrued Certificate Interest with respect to the Class A (other than Class A-6 Certificates), Class X-1 and Class B Certificates will be based on a 360-day year that consists of twelve 30-day months. No Accrued Certificate Interest will be payable with respect to any Class of Certificates after the Distribution Date on which the outstanding Certificate Principal Balance or Notional Amount of such Certificate has been reduced to zero.


Additional Master Servicing Compensation: The meaning specified in Section 4.14.


Advance: An advance of delinquent payments of principal or interest in respect of a Mortgage Loan required to be made by the Company as provided in Section 6.01(a) hereof, by the related Servicer in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement or by the Master Servicer as provided in Section 6.01(b) hereof.


Agreement: This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and any and all amendments or supplements hereto made in accordance with the terms herein.


Allocable Share: With respect to any Class of Subordinate Certificates on any Distribution Date will generally equal such Class’s pro rata share (based on the Certificate Principal Balance of each Class entitled thereto) of the sum of each of the components of the definition of Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount for each Subgroup; provided, that, except as described in the second succeeding sentence, no Class of Subordinate Certificates (other than the Class of Subordinate Certificates outstanding with the lowest numerical designation) shall be entitled on any Distribution Date to receive distributions pursuant to clauses (2), (3) and (5) of the definition of Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount unless the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger for the related Class is satisfied for such Distribution Date. The “Class Prepayment Distribution
Trigger” for a Class of Subordinate Certificates for any Distribution Date is satisfied if the fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of such Class and each Class subordinated thereto, if any, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all of the Mortgage Loans as of the related Due Date, equals or exceeds such percentage calculated as of the Closing Date. If on any Distribution Date the Certificate Principal Balance of any Class of Subordinate Certificates for which the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger was satisfied on such Distribution Date is reduced to zero, any amounts distributable to such Class pursuant to clauses (2), (3) and (5) of the definition of Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount, to the extent of such Class’s remaining Allocable Share, shall be distributed to the remaining Classes of Subordinate Certificates in reduction of their respective
Certificate Principal Balances, sequentially, in the order of their numerical Class designations. If the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger is not satisfied for any Class of Subordinate Certificates on any Distribution Date, this may have the effect of accelerating the amortization of more senior Classes of Subordinate Certificates.


Amount Held for Future Distribution: As to any Distribution Date, the aggregate amount held in the Company’s or the related Servicer’s Protected Accounts at the close of business on the immediately preceding Determination Date on account of (i) all Scheduled Payments or 


 









portions thereof received in respect of the Mortgage Loans due after the related Due Period and (ii) Principal Prepayments, Liquidation Proceeds and Insurance Proceeds received in respect of such Mortgage Loans after the last day of the related Prepayment Period.


Applied Realized Loss Amount: With respect to any Class of Subordinate Certificates and as to any Distribution Date, the Realized Losses with respect to the Mortgage Loans which have been applied in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of that Class of Certificates pursuant to Section 6.05 of this Agreement, which have not previously been reimbursed reduced by any Subsequent Recoveries applied to such Applied Realized Loss Amount.


Appraised Value: With respect to any Mortgage Loan originated in connection with a refinancing, the appraised value of the Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal made at the time of such refinancing or, with respect to any other Mortgage Loan, the lesser of (x) the appraised value of the Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal made by a fee appraiser at the time of the origination of the related Mortgage Loan, and (y) the sales price of the Mortgaged Property at the time of such origination.


Assignment Agreement: Shall mean any of the HSBC Assignment Agreement, Harbourside Assignment Agreement, PHH Assignment Agreement, SunTrust Assignment Agreement and GreenPoint Assignment Agreement.


Available Funds: Shall mean the sum of Interest Funds and Principal Funds relating to the Mortgage Loans, plus an amount equal to $150 which will be used to make principal distributions to the Class R Certificates.


Bankruptcy Code: Title 11 of the United States Code.


Bishop’s Gate:  Bishop’s Gate Residential Mortgage Trust.


Book-Entry Certificates: Any of the Certificates that shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, the ownership of which is reflected on the books of the Depository or on the books of a person maintaining an account with the Depository (directly, as a “Depository Participant”, or indirectly, as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules of the Depository and as described in Section 7.06). As of the Closing Date, each Class of Offered Certificates constitutes a Class of Book-Entry Certificates.


Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Columbia, Maryland or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or the principal office of the Company or the Master Servicer is located are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be closed.


Certificate: Any one of the certificates of any Class executed and authenticated by the Securities Administrator in substantially the forms attached hereto as Exhibits A-1 through A-8.


Certificateholder or Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register (initially, Cede & Co., as nominee for the Depository, in the case of any Book-Entry Certificates).


 









 


Certificate Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the Person that is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Certificate.


Certificate Principal Balance: With respect to any Class of Certificates (other than the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1 and Class R Certificates) and any Distribution Date, is the original Certificate Principal Balance of such Class, less the sum of (i) all amounts in respect of principal distributed to such Class on previous Distribution Dates and (ii) any Applied Realized Loss Amounts allocated to such Class on previous Distribution Dates; provided that, the Certificate Principal Balance of any Class of Subordinate Certificates with the highest payment priority to which Realized Losses have been allocated shall be increased by the amount of any Subsequent Recoveries on the related Mortgage Loans received by the Master Servicer, but not by more than the amount of Realized Losses previously allocated to reduce the Certificate Principal Balance of
that Certificate and not previously reimbursed to such Certificate as an Applied Realized Loss Amount.


Certificate Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section 7.02 hereof.


Class: All Certificates bearing the same Class designation as set forth in Section 7.01 hereof.


Class A Certificate: Any of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9 and Class A-10.


Class A-1 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-1 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-1 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-1 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-1 Certificates and any Distribution Date, One-Month LIBOR plus 0.33% per annum, with a maximum rate of 8.00% per annum and a minimum rate of 0.33% per annum.


Class A-2 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-2 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-2 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-2 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-2 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 7.67% per annum minus One-Month LIBOR, with a maximum rate of 0.02% per annum and a minimum rate of 0.00% per annum.


Class A-3 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-3 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-3 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


 









 


Class A-3 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-3 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 7.65% per annum minus One-Month LIBOR, with a maximum rate of 7.65% per annum and a minimum rate of 0.00% per annum.


Class A-4 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-4 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-4 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-4 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-4 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 5.50% per annum.


Class A-5 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-5 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-5 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-5 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-5 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 5.50% per annum.


Class A-6 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-6 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-6 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-7 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-7 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-7 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-7 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-7 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 6.00% per annum


Class A-8 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-8 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-8 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-8 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-8 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 5.50% per annum.


Class A-9 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-9 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-9 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing (i) a Regular Interest in REMIC III and (ii) the right to receive payments in respect of the Corridor Contract Amount.


 









 


Class A-9 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-9 Certificates and any Distribution Date, One-Month LIBOR plus 0.60% per annum, with a maximum rate of 5.50% per annum and a minimum rate of 0.60% per annum.


Class A-10 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class A-10 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class A-10 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class A-10 Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class A-10 Certificates and any Distribution Date, 4.90% per annum minus One-Month LIBOR, with a maximum rate of 4.90% per annum and a minimum rate of 0.00% per annum.


Class B Certificates: Any of the Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.


Class B-1 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-1 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-1 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class B-2 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-2 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-2 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class B-3 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-3 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-3 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class B-4 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-4 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-4 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class B-5 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-5 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-5 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class B-6 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class B-6 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class B-6 Certificates as set forth herein as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III. 


Class B Pass-Through Rate: With regard to the Class B Certificates and any Distribution Date, the weighted average of 5.50% and 8.00% per annum, weighted in proportion to the results 


 









of subtracting from the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 1 and Subgroup 2, respectively (other than the PO Percentage of the principal balance of any of such Mortgage Loans), the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the related Class or Classes of Senior Certificates, other than the Class PO Certificates and Class R Certificates; provided that, for federal income tax purposes, the equivalent of the foregoing expressed as the weighted average of the Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rates of REMIC II Regular Interest B-1, REMIC II Regular Interest B-2, REMIC II Regular Interest B-3, REMIC II Regular Interest B-4, REMIC II Regular Interest B-5, REMIC II Regular Interest B-6, weighted on the basis of their respective Uncertificated Principal Balances.


Class P Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class P Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-5 hereto, representing the right to its Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class P Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class P Certificate Account: The account established and maintained by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 6.09 hereof.


Class PO Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class PO Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class PO Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III.


Class PO Certificate Deferred Payment Writedown Amount:  With respect to any Distribution Date and the Class PO Certificates, the amount distributed to the Class PO Certificates on such Distribution Date pursuant to priority fifth under Section 6.04 herein. The Class PO Certificate Deferred Payment Writedown Amount will be allocated to the Classes of Subordinate Certificates in inverse order of their numerical class designations, until the Certificate Principal Balance of each such Class has been reduced to zero.


Class PO Certificate Principal Distribution Amount:  With respect to each Distribution Date and the Class PO Certificates, means an amount equal to the sum of the following (but in no event greater than the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Class PO Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date):


(i)         the PO Percentage of the principal portion of all monthly payments due on the Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 on the related Due Date, as specified in the amortization schedule at the time applicable thereto (after adjustment for previous principal prepayments but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period);


(ii)         the PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 which was the subject of a prepayment in full received by the related servicer during the applicable Prepayment Period (as defined below);


(iii)        the PO Percentage of all partial prepayments allocated to principal received during the applicable Prepayment Period with respect to any Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1;


 









 


(iv)        the lesser of (a) the PO Percentage of the sum of (A) all Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received in respect of each Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 which became a Liquidated Loan during the related Prepayment Period (other than a Discount Mortgage Loan described in the immediately following clause (B)) and all Subsequent Recoveries received in respect of each defaulted Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 during the related Due Period and (B) the Stated Principal Balance of each such Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 purchased by an insurer from the trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the related primary mortgage insurance policy, if any, or otherwise; and (b) the PO Percentage of the sum of (A) the Stated Principal Balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 which became a
Liquidated Loan during the related Prepayment Period (other than a Discount Mortgage Loan described in the immediately following clause (B)) and (B) the Stated Principal Balance of each such Discount Mortgage Loan that was purchased by an insurer from the trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the related primary mortgage insurance policy, if any or otherwise; and


(v)        the PO Percentage of the sum of (a) the Stated Principal Balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 which was repurchased by the seller in connection with such Distribution Date and (b) the excess, if any, of the Stated Principal Balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 1 that has been replaced by the seller with a substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement in connection with such Distribution Date over the Stated Principal Balance of each such substitute Discount Mortgage Loan.


Class R Certificates: Any of the Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates.


Class R Deposit:  An amount equal to $150, which shall be included as part of the Available Funds attributable to Subgroup 1 and distributed as principal to the Class R Certificates on the first Distribution Date.


Class R-1 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class R-1 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-6 hereto, evidencing the Residual Interest in REMIC I and representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class R-1 Certificates as set forth herein.


Class R-2 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class R-2 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-6 hereto, evidencing the Residual Interest in REMIC II and representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class R-2 Certificates as set forth herein.


Class R-3 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class R-1 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-6 hereto, evidencing the Residual Interest in REMIC III and representing the right to the Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class R-3 Certificates as set forth herein.


Class X-1 Certificate: Any Certificate designated as a “Class X-1 Certificate” on the face thereof, in the form of Exhibit A-2 hereto, representing the right to its Percentage Interest of distributions provided for the Class X-1 Certificates as set forth herein and evidencing a Regular Interest in REMIC III..


 









 


Class X-1 Pass-Through Rate: With respect to the Class X-1 Certificates and to any Distribution Date, the weighted average of the excess, if any, of (a) the Net Mortgage Rate on each Mortgage Loan in Subgroup 2 with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 8.00% per annum over (b) 8.00% per annum. For federal income tax purposes, the Class X-1 Certificates will not have a Pass-Through Rate, but will be entitled to receive 100% of the interest payable with respect to REMIC II Regular Interest X-1.


Closing Date: October 31, 2005.


Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or amendatory provisions.


Company: EMC.


Compensating Interest: An amount, not to exceed the Servicing Fee, to be deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account by the Company or the related Servicer to the payment of a Prepayment Interest Shortfall on a Mortgage Loan subject to this Agreement; provided that in the event the Company or the related Servicer fails to make such payment, the Master Servicer shall be obligated to do so to the extent provided in Section 6.02(c) hereof.


Confirmation:  With respect to the Class A-9 Certificates, the Confirmation (reference #FXNEC7561) dated October 31, 2005, evidencing a transaction between the Corridor Contract Counterparty and the Trustee.


Corporate Trust Office: The designated office of the Trustee where at any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to this Agreement shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution of this Agreement is located at US Bank Corporate Trust Services, One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attention: Corporate Trust Services/BSABS I 2005-AC8, or at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time.


Corresponding Certificate: With respect to each REMIC II Regular Interest, the Certificate with the corresponding designation.


Corridor Contract:  With respect to the Class A-9 Certificates, the transaction evidenced by the Confirmation, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit M.


Corridor Contract Amount:  As to the Class A-9 Certificates and any Distribution Date on or prior to the Distribution Date in July 2010 for which LIBOR (as determined by the Corridor Contract Counterparty) exceeds 4.90%, an amount equal to interest for the related Interest Accrual Period on the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date at a rate equal to the excess of (i) the lesser of LIBOR (as determined by the applicable Corridor Contract Counterparty) and 8.90% over (ii) 4.90%.


Corridor Contract Counterparty:  Bear Stearns Financial Products, Inc.


Corridor Contract Reserve Fund:  The separate fund created and initially maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.01(e) in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Class A-9 Certificates and designated “U.S. Bank National Association in trust for registered holders of Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8, Class A-9.”  Funds in the 


 









Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be held in trust for the Holders of the Class A-9 Certificates for the uses and purposes set forth in this Agreement.


Corridor Contract Scheduled Termination Date:  With respect to the Class A-9 Certificates, the Distribution Date in June 2010.


Cross-Over Date: The first Distribution Date on which the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subordinate Certificates has been reduced to zero (giving effect to all related distributions on such Distribution Date).


Custodial Agreement: An agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, among the Depositor, the Seller, the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Custodian in substantially the form of Exhibit J hereto.


Custodian: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, or any successor custodian appointed pursuant to the provisions hereof and the Custodial Agreement.


Cut-off Date: The close of business on October 1, 2005.


Cut-off Date Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, the unpaid principal balance thereof as of the close of business on the Cut-off Date after application of all Principal Prepayments received prior to the Cut-off Date and scheduled payments of principal due on or before the Cut-off Date, whether or not received, but without giving effect to any installments of principal received in respect of Due Dates after the Cut-off Date. 


Debt Service Reduction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a reduction by a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code in the Scheduled Payment for such Mortgage Loan that became final and non-appealable, except such a reduction resulting from a Deficient Valuation or any other reduction that results in a permanent forgiveness of principal.


Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation by a court of competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an amount less than the then outstanding indebtedness under such Mortgage Loan, or any reduction in the amount of principal to be paid in connection with any Scheduled Payment that results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation or reduction results from an order of such court that is final and non-appealable in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code.


Definitive Certificates: As defined in Section 7.06.


Deleted Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced by a Replacement Mortgage Loan.


Delinquent: A Mortgage Loan is “delinquent” if any payment due thereon is not made pursuant to the terms of such Mortgage Loan by the close of business on the day such payment is scheduled to be due. A Mortgage Loan is “30 days delinquent” if such payment has not been received by the close of business on the corresponding day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such payment was due, or, if there is no such corresponding day (e.g., as when a 30-day month follows a 31-day month in which a payment was due on the 31st day of 


 









such month), then on the last day of such immediately succeeding month. Similarly for “60 days delinquent,” “90 days delinquent” and so on.


Denomination: With respect to each Certificate, the amount set forth on the face thereof as the “Initial Principal Balance or initial notional amount of this Certificate”.


Depositor: Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, or its successor in interest.


Depository: The initial Depository shall be The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), the nominee of which is Cede & Co., or any other organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Depository shall initially be the registered Holder of the Book-Entry Certificates. The Depository shall at all times be a “clearing corporation” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York.


Depository Agreement: With respect to the Class of Book-Entry Certificates, the agreement among the Depositor, the Trustee and the initial Depository, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit H.


Depository Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.


Determination Date: With respect to any Distribution Date, the 15th day of the month of such Distribution Date or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day.


Discount Mortgage Loan:  With respect to Subgroup 1, any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate less than 5.50% per annum.


Distribution Account: The separate Eligible Account created and maintained by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 5.08 in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders and designated “U.S. Bank National Association, in trust for registered Holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8” shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this Agreement.


Distribution Account Deposit Date: As to any Distribution Date, on or before 3:00 p.m. Eastern time on the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.


Distribution Date: The 25th day of each calendar month after the initial issuance of the Certificates, or if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing in November 2005.


Due Date: As to any Mortgage Loan, the date in each month on which the related Scheduled Payment is due, as set forth in the related Mortgage Note.


 









 


Due Period: With respect to any Distribution Date, the period from the second day of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs through close of business on the first day of the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs.


Eligible Account: Any of (i) an account or accounts maintained with a federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company, the long-term unsecured debt obligations and short-term unsecured debt obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository institution or trust company that is the principal subsidiary of a holding company, the debt obligations of such holding company, so long as Moody’s is not a Rating Agency) are rated by each Rating Agency in one of its two highest long-term and its highest short-term rating categories respectively, at the time any amounts are held on deposit therein, or (ii) an account or accounts in a depository institution or trust company in which such accounts are insured by the FDIC (to the limits established by the FDIC) and the uninsured deposits in which accounts are otherwise secured such that, as
evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee and to each Rating Agency, the Certificateholders have a claim with respect to the funds in such account or a perfected first priority security interest against any collateral (which shall be limited to Permitted Investments) securing such funds that is superior to claims of any other depositors or creditors of the depository institution or trust company in which such account is maintained, or (iii) a trust account or accounts maintained with the corporate trust department of a federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company having capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000, acting in its fiduciary capacity or (iv) any other account acceptable to the Rating Agencies. Eligible Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise qualified under this definition, accounts maintained with the Trustee.


EMC: EMC Mortgage Corporation, a Delaware corporation.


EMC Mortgage Loans: Those Mortgage Loans serviced by the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.


ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.


ERISA Restricted Certificates: Any of the Class R, Class P or Class I-X Certificates.


Event of Default: As defined in Section 9.01 hereof.


Excess Liquidation Proceeds: To the extent not required by law to be paid to the related Mortgagor, the excess, if any, of any Liquidation Proceeds with respect to a Mortgage Loan over the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan and accrued and unpaid interest at the related Mortgage Rate through the last day of the month in which the Mortgage Loan has been liquidated.


Exemption: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 90-30, as amended from time to time.


Fannie Mae: Fannie Mae (formerly, Federal National Mortgage Association), or any successor thereto.


FDIC: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any successor thereto.


 









 


Final Recovery Determination: With respect to any defaulted Mortgage Loan or any REO Property (other than a Mortgage Loan or REO Property purchased by the Seller pursuant to or as contemplated by Section 2.03(c) or Section 11.01), a determination made by the Company pursuant to this Agreement or the applicable Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement that all Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds and other payments or recoveries which the Company or such Servicer, in its reasonable good faith judgment, expects to be finally recoverable in respect thereof have been so recovered. The Master Servicer shall maintain records, based solely on information provided by each Servicer, of each Final Recovery Determination made thereby.


Fiscal Quarter: December 1 to February 29 (or the last day in such month), March 1 to May 31, June 1 to August 31, or September to November 30, as applicable.


Freddie Mac: Freddie Mac (formerly The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), or any successor thereto.


Global Certificate: Any Private Certificate registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, beneficial interests in which are reflected on the books of the Depository or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules of such depository).


GreenPoint: GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. and any successor thereto.


GreenPoint Assignment Agreement: The Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among the Seller, GreenPoint and the Trustee evidencing the assignment of the GreenPoint Servicing Agreement to the Trust.


GreenPoint Servicing Agreement: The Purchase, Warranties and Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2003, between the Seller and GreenPoint.


Harbourside: Savannah Bank, NA dba Harbourside Mortgage Corporation, and any successor thereto.


Harbourside Assignment Agreement: The Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among the Seller, Harbourside and the Trustee evidencing the assignment of the Harbourside Servicing Agreement to the Trust.


Harbourside Servicing Agreement: The Purchase, Warranties and Servicing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2005, by and among the Seller and Harbourside.


HSBC: HSBC Mortgage Corporation, and any successor thereto.


HSBC Assignment Agreement: The Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among the Seller, HSBC and the Trustee evidencing the assignment of the HSBC Servicing Agreement to the Trust.


HSBC Servicing Agreement: Shall mean the Purchase, Warranties and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2002, by and among the Seller and HSBC, as modified by the HSBC Assignment Agreement.


 









 


Indemnified Persons: The Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Company, the Trust Fund and the Securities Administrator and their officers, directors, agents and employees and, with respect to the Trustee, any separate co-trustee and its officers, directors, agents and employees.


Individual Certificate:  Any Private Certificate registered in the name of the Holder other than the Depository or its nominee.


Initial Certificate Principal Balance: With respect to any Certificate, the Certificate Principal Balance of such Certificate or any predecessor Certificate on the Closing Date.


Initial Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan transferred and assigned to the Trustee on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01 and held as a part of the Trust, as identified in the applicable Mortgage Loan Schedule.


Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan included in the Trust Fund, any insurance policy or LPMI Policy, including all riders and endorsements thereto in effect with respect to such Mortgage Loan, including any replacement policy or policies for any Insurance Policies.


Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid in respect of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to any Insurance Policy or any other insurance policy covering a Mortgage Loan, to the extent such proceeds are payable to the mortgagee under the Mortgage, the Company, the related Servicer or the trustee under the deed of trust and are not applied to the restoration of the related Mortgaged Property or released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the procedures that the Company or the related Servicer would follow in servicing mortgage loans held for its own account, in each case other than any amount included in such Insurance Proceeds in respect of Insured Expenses.


Insured Expenses: Expenses covered by an Insurance Policy or any other insurance policy with respect to the Mortgage Loans.


Interest Accrual Period: With respect to any Distribution Date and the Certificates, other than the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-9 and Class A-10 Certificates, the calendar month immediately preceding the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs.  With respect to any Distribution Date and the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-9 and Class A-10 Certificates, the period from and including the 25th day of the calendar month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs to and including the 24th day of the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs. The Class A-6, Class PO, Class R and Class P Certificates are not entitled to distributions of interest and do not have an Interest Accrual Period.


Interest Coverage Account:  Shall mean the account or sub-account established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.11 and which shall be an Eligible Account or sub-account of an Eligible Account. 


Interest Coverage Distribution Amount: With respect to each Distribution Date, an amount equal to (x) the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates on the then outstanding Mortgage Loans, weighted based on the Stated Principal Balances of such Mortgage Loans as of the related Due Date prior to giving effect to any reduction in the Stated Principal Balances of such Mortgage Loans on such Due Date, multiplied by (y) the sum of (A) the Remaining Pre-


 









Funded Amount outstanding at the end of the related Due Period and (B) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans that do not have a Subsequent Cut-off Date prior to the end of the related Due Period, transferred to the Trust during the related Due Period.


Interest Determination Date: Shall mean the second LIBOR Business Day preceding the commencement of each Interest Accrual Period.


Interest Funds: For any Distribution Date, (i) the sum, without duplication, of (a) all scheduled interest during the related Due Period with respect to the Mortgage Loans less the Servicing Fee, Master Servicing Compensation and the LPMI Fee, if any, (b) all Advances relating to interest with respect to the Mortgage Loans made on or prior to the related Distribution Account Deposit Date, (c) all Compensating Interest with respect to the Mortgage Loans required to be remitted by the Company or the Master Servicer pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement with respect to such Distribution Date, (d) Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries with respect to the Mortgage Loans collected during the related Prepayment Period (to the extent such Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries relate to
interest), (e) all amounts relating to interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan repurchased by the Seller pursuant to Sections 2.02 and 2.03 and by EMC pursuant to Section 4.20, (f) all amounts in respect of interest paid by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 11.01, to the extent remitted by the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, to the Distribution Account pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement and (g) any proceeds form the Interest Coverage Account, minus (ii) all amounts relating to interest required to be reimbursed pursuant to Sections 5.02, 5.05, 5.07 and 5.09 or as otherwise set forth in this Agreement.


Interest Only Certificates: The Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10 and Class X-1 Certificates.


Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, means the aggregate shortfall, if any, in collections of interest (adjusted to the related Net Mortgage Rates) on the Mortgage Loans resulting from (a) prepayments in full received during the related Prepayment Period, (b) partial prepayments received during the related Prepayment Period to the extent applied prior to the Due Date in the month of the Distribution Date and (c) interest payments on certain of the Mortgage Loans being limited pursuant to the provisions of the Relief Act or similar state or local laws.


Last Scheduled Distribution Date: November 25, 2035.


Latest Possible Maturity Date: The Distribution Date following the final scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan in the Trust Fund having the latest scheduled maturity date as of the Cut-off Date. For purposes of the Treasury regulations under Sections 860A through 860G of the Code, the latest possible maturity date of each Regular Interest issued by REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III shall be the Latest Possible Maturity Date.


Lender-Paid PMI Rate: With respect to any Mortgage Loan covered by an LPMI Policy, the premium to be paid by the applicable Servicer out of interest collections on the related Mortgage Loan.


 









 


LIBOR Business Day: Shall mean a day on which banks are open for dealing in foreign currency and exchange in London and New York City.


LIBOR Certificates: Any of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-9 and Class A-10 Certificates.


Liquidated Loan: With respect to any Distribution Date, a defaulted Mortgage Loan that has been liquidated through deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, foreclosure sale, trustee’s sale or other realization as provided by applicable law governing the real property subject to the related Mortgage and any security agreements and as to which the Company or the related Servicer has made a Final Recovery Determination with respect thereto.


Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts, other than Insurance Proceeds, received in connection with the partial or complete liquidation of a Mortgage Loan, whether through trustee’s sale, foreclosure sale or otherwise, or in connection with any condemnation or partial release of a Mortgaged Property and any other proceeds received with respect to an REO Property, less the sum of related unreimbursed Advances, Servicing Fees and Servicing Advances and all expenses of liquidation, including property protection expenses and foreclosure and sale costs, including court and reasonable attorneys fees.


Loan-to-Value Ratio: The fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the original principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan and the denominator of which is the Appraised Value of the related Mortgaged Property.


Loss Allocation Limitation: The meaning specified in Section 6.05(c) hereof.


LPMI Fee: Shall mean the fee payable to the insurer for each Mortgage Loan subject to an LPMI Policy as set forth in such LPMI Policy.


LPMI Policy: A policy of mortgage guaranty insurance issued by an insurer meeting the requirements of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in which the Company or the related Servicer of the related Mortgage Loan is responsible for the payment of the LPMI Fee thereunder from collections on the related Mortgage Loan.


Master Servicer: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacity as master servicer, and its successors and assigns.


Master Servicer Certification:  A written certification covering servicing of the Mortgage Loans by the Company and all Servicers and signed by an officer of the Master Servicer that complies with (i) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended from time to time, and (ii) the February 21, 2003 Statement by the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission Regarding Compliance by Asset-Backed Issuers with Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14, as in effect from time to time; provided that if, after the Closing Date (a) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is amended, (b) the Statement referred to in clause (ii) is modified or superseded by any subsequent statement, rule or regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any statement of a division thereof, or (c) any future releases, rules and regulations are published by
the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which in any such case affects the form 


 









or substance of the required certification and results in the required certification being, in the reasonable judgment of the Master Servicer, materially more onerous than the form of the required certification as of the Closing Date, the Master Servicer Certification shall be as agreed to by the Master Servicer, the Depositor and the Seller following a negotiation in good faith to determine how to comply with any such new requirements.


Master Servicer Collection Account: The trust accounts or accounts created and maintained pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof, which shall be entitled “U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee f/b/o Holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 - Master Servicer Collection Account”.


Master Servicing Compensation: The meaning specified in Section 4.14.


Master Servicing Fee: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution Date, an amount equal to 1/12 of the Master Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loans as of the beginning of the related Due Period.


Master Servicing Fee Rate: 0.102% per annum.


MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor thereto.


MERS® System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages electronically maintained by MERS.


MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for Mortgage Loans registered with MERS on the MERS® System.


MOM Loan: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof.


Monthly Statement: The statement delivered pursuant to Section 6.06.


Moody’s: Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.


Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument creating a first lien on or first priority ownership interest in an estate in fee simple in real property securing a Mortgage Note.


Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.01 hereof pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents delivered to the Trustee or Custodian on its behalf to be added to the Mortgage File pursuant to this Agreement.


Mortgage Loans: Such of the Mortgage Loans transferred and assigned to the Trustee pursuant to the provisions hereof, as from time to time are held as a part of the Trust Fund (including any REO Property), the Mortgage Loans so held being identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, notwithstanding foreclosure or other acquisition of title of the related Mortgaged Property. Any Mortgage Loan that was intended by the parties hereto to be transferred to the Trust Fund as indicated by such Mortgage Loan Schedule which is in fact not so transferred for 


 









any reason including, without limitation, a breach of the representation contained in Section 2.03(b)(v) hereof, shall continue to be a Mortgage Loan hereunder until the Purchase Price with respect thereto has been paid to the Trust Fund.


Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement: Shall mean the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, between the Seller, as seller and the Depositor, as purchaser.


Mortgage Loan Purchase Price: The price, calculated as set forth in Section 11.01, to be paid in connection with the repurchase of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 11.01.


Mortgage Loan Schedule: The list of Mortgage Loans (as from time to time amended by the Company or the Master Servicer to reflect the deletion of Deleted Mortgage Loans and the addition of Replacement Mortgage Loans pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement) transferred to the Trustee as part of the Trust Fund and from time to time subject to this Agreement, the initial Mortgage Loan Schedule being attached hereto as Exhibit B, with respect to the Initial Mortgage Loans and the schedule attached as Exhibit 1 to the related Subsequent Transfer Instrument with respect to the related Subsequent Mortgage Loans, and as amended from time to time to reflect the repurchase or substitution of the Initial Mortgage Loans or the addition of Subsequent Mortgage Loans to this Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Purchase
Agreement, as the case may be, setting forth the following information with respect to each Mortgage Loan:



	
            (i)
 	
            the loan number;
 	
             

	
            (ii)
 	
            the Subgroup;
 	
             

	
            (iii)
 	
            the Mortgage Rate in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
 
				



	
            (iv)
 	
            the Servicer (or the Company, if it services the Mortgage Loan), the Servicing Fee Rate;
 



	
            (v)
 	
            the LPMI Fee, if applicable;
 	
             

	
            (vi)
 	
            the Net Mortgage Rate in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
 
	
            (vii)
 	
            the maturity date;
 	
             

	
            (viii)
 	
            the original principal balance;
 	
             

	
            (ix)
 	
            the Cut-off Date Principal Balance;
 	
             

	
            (x)
 	
            the original term;
 	
             

	
            (xi)
 	
            the remaining term;
 	
             

	
            (xii)
 	
            the property type; and
 	
             

	
            (xiii)
 	
            the MIN with respect to each Mortgage Loan.
 	
             

										



 


 









 


Such schedule shall also set forth the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance for all of the Mortgage Loans.


Mortgage Note: The original executed note or other evidence of indebtedness of a Mortgagor under a Mortgage Loan.


Mortgage Rate: The annual rate of interest borne by a Mortgage Note.  With respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the annual rate at which interest accrues on such Subsequent Mortgage Loan from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the related Mortgage Note.  With respect to each Mortgage Loan and Subsequent Mortgage Loan that becomes an REO Property, as of any date of determination, the annual rate determined in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence as of the date such Mortgage Loan became an REO Property.


Mortgaged Property: The underlying property securing a Mortgage Loan.


Mortgagor: The obligors on a Mortgage Note.


Net Interest Shortfalls: The Interest Shortfalls net of payments by the related Servicer or the Master Servicer in respect of Compensating Interest, together with Interest Shortfalls due to the application of the Relief Act or similar state or local laws.


Net Mortgage Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, and at any time, the per annum rate equal to the related Mortgage Rate less the sum of (i) the Servicing Fee Rate and (ii) the rate at which the LPMI Fee is calculated, if any.


Non-Book-Entry Certificate: Any Certificate other than a Book-Entry Certificate.


Non-Discount Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than or equal to 5.50% per annum.


Non-PO Percentage:  With respect to any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate less than 5.50% per annum, a fraction, expressed as a percentage, (x) the numerator of which is equal to the related Net Mortgage Rate, and (y) the denominator of which is equal to 5.50% per annum.  With respect to any Non-Discount Mortgage Loan, 100%.


Nonrecoverable Advance: Any portion of an Advance previously made or proposed to be made by the Company or the Master Servicer pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the Master Servicer or the related Servicer, will not or, in the case of a proposed advance, would not, be ultimately recoverable by it from the related Mortgagor, related Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or otherwise.


Notional Amount: (i) With respect to each of the Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates, the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-1 Certificates, (ii) with respect to the Class A-10 Certificates, the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates, and (iii) with respect to the Class X-1 Certificates, the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 2 with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 8.00% per annum. For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of each of the Class A-2 Certificates 


 









and Class A-3 Certificates is the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-1, the Notional Amount of the Class A-10 Certificates is the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-9, and the Notional Amount of the Class X-1 Certificates is an amount equal to the Uncertificated Notional Amount of REMIC II Regular Interest X-1.


Offered Certificates: Any of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10, Class R-1, Class R-2, Class R-3, Class PO, Class X-1, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates.


Officer’s Certificate: A certificate (i) signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice President (however denominated), an Assistant Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the assistant treasurers or assistant secretaries of the Depositor or the Master Servicer (or any other officer customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject) or (ii), if provided for in this Agreement, signed by a Servicing Officer, as the case may be, and delivered to the Depositor, the Seller, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer and/or the Trustee, as the case may be, as required by this Agreement.


One-Month LIBOR: With respect to any Interest Accrual Period and the LIBOR Certificates, the rate determined by the Securities Administrator on the related Interest Determination Date on the basis of the rate for U.S. dollar deposits for one month that appears on Telerate Screen Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Interest Determination Date. If such rate does not appear on such page (or such other page as may replace that page on that service, or if such service is no longer offered, such other service for displaying One-Month LIBOR or comparable rates as may be reasonably selected by the Securities Administrator), One-Month LIBOR for the applicable Interest Accrual Period will be the Reference Bank Rate. If no such quotations can be obtained by the Securities Administrator and no Reference Bank Rate is available, One-Month LIBOR shall be
One-Month LIBOR applicable to the preceding Interest Accrual Period. The establishment of One-Month LIBOR on each Interest Determination Date by the Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator’s calculation of the rate of interest applicable to the LIBOR Certificates for the related Interest Accrual Period shall, in the absence of manifest error, be final and binding.


Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Seller, the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer, reasonably acceptable to each addressee of such opinion; provided that with respect to Section 2.05, 8.05, 8.07 or 12.01, or the interpretation or application of the REMIC Provisions, such counsel must (i) in fact be independent of the Seller, Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer, (ii) not have any direct financial interest in the Seller, Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer or in any affiliate of either, and (iii) not be connected with the Seller, Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.


Optional Termination Date:  The Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans, together with the Remaining Pre-Funded Account, is 


 









equal to or less than 10% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date, plus the amount in the Pre-Funding Account as of the Closing Date.


Original Value: The value of the property underlying a Mortgage Loan based, in the case of the purchase of the underlying Mortgaged Property, on the lower of an appraisal or the sales price of such property or, in the case of a refinancing, on an appraisal.


Originator: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, shall mean the originator set forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule for such Mortgage Loan.


OTS: The Office of Thrift Supervision.


Outstanding: With respect to the Certificates as of any date of determination, all Certificates theretofore executed and authenticated under this Agreement except:


(a)        Certificates theretofore canceled by the Securities Administrator or delivered to the Securities Administrator for cancellation; and


(b)        Certificates in exchange for which or in lieu of which other Certificates have been executed and delivered by the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Agreement.


Outstanding Mortgage Loan: As of any date of determination, a Mortgage Loan with a Stated Principal Balance greater than zero that was not the subject of a Principal Prepayment in full, and that did not become a Liquidated Loan, prior to the end of the related Prepayment Period.


Ownership Interest: As to any Certificate, any ownership interest in such Certificate including any interest in such Certificate as the Holder thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal or beneficial.


Pass-Through Rate: With respect to each applicable Class of Certificates (other than the Class A-6, Class PO, Class P and Class R Certificates), the Class A-1 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-2 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-3 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-4 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-5 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-7 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-8 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-9 Pass-Through Rate, Class A-10 Pass-Through Rate, Class X-1 Pass-Through Rate and Class B Pass-Through Rate, as applicable.


Paying Agent: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacity as paying agent, and its successors and assigns.


Percentage Interest: With respect to any Certificate of a specified Class, the Percentage Interest set forth on the face thereof or the percentage obtained by dividing the Denomination of such Certificate by the aggregate of the Denominations of all Certificates of the such Class.


Permitted Investments: At any time, any one or more of the following obligations and securities:


(i)         obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, provided such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States;


 









 


(ii)         general obligations of or obligations guaranteed by any state of the United States or the District of Columbia receiving the highest long-term debt rating of each Rating Agency, or such lower rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency;


(iii)        commercial or finance company paper which is then receiving the highest commercial or finance company paper rating of each Rating Agency, or such lower rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency;


(iv)        certificates of deposit, demand or time deposits, or bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities (including the Trustee in its commercial banking capacity), provided that the commercial paper and/or long term unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company are then rated one of the two highest long-term and the highest short-term ratings of each such Rating Agency for such securities, or such lower ratings as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to the Certificates by any Rating Agency;


(v)        demand or time deposits or certificates of deposit issued by any bank or trust company or savings institution to the extent that such deposits are fully insured by the FDIC;


(vi)        guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank, insurance company or other corporation containing, at the time of the issuance of such agreements, such terms and conditions as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to the Certificates by any such Rating Agency;


(vii)       repurchase obligations with respect to any security described in clauses (i) and (ii) above, in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in clause (iv) above;


(viii)      securities (other than stripped bonds, stripped coupons or instruments sold at a purchase price in excess of 115% of the face amount thereof) bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or any state thereof which, at the time of such investment, have one of the two highest long term ratings of each Rating Agency (except if the Rating Agency is Moody’s, such rating shall be the highest commercial paper rating of Moody’s for any such securities), or such lower rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to the Certificates by any Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;


(ix)        interests in any money market fund (including any such fund managed or advised by the Trustee or Master Servicer or any affiliate thereof) which at the date of acquisition of the interests in such fund and throughout the time such interests are held in such fund has the highest applicable long term rating by each Rating Agency or such 


 









lower rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency;


(x)        short term investment funds sponsored by any trust company or banking association incorporated under the laws of the United States or any state thereof (including any such fund managed or advised by the Trustee or any affiliate thereof) which on the date of acquisition has been rated by each Rating Agency in their respective highest applicable rating category or such lower rating as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency; and


(xi)        such other investments having a specified stated maturity and bearing interest or sold at a discount acceptable to each Rating Agency as will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to the Certificates by any Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;


provided, that no such instrument shall be a Permitted Investment if such instrument (i) evidences the right to receive interest only payments with respect to the obligations underlying such instrument, (ii) is purchased at a premium or (iii) is purchased at a deep discount; provided further that no such instrument shall be a Permitted Investment (A) if such instrument evidences principal and interest payments derived from obligations underlying such instrument and the interest payments with respect to such instrument provide a yield to maturity of greater than 120% of the yield to maturity at par of such underlying obligations, or (B) if it may be redeemed at a price below the purchase price (the foregoing clause (B) not to apply to investments in units of money market funds pursuant to clause (vi) above); provided further that no amount beneficially owned by any REMIC may be invested in investments
(other than money market funds) treated as equity interests for federal income tax purposes, unless the Master Servicer shall receive an Opinion of Counsel, at the expense of the Master Servicer, to the effect that such investment will not adversely affect the status of any such REMIC as a REMIC under the Code or result in imposition of a tax on any such REMIC. Permitted Investments that are subject to prepayment or call may not be purchased at a price in excess of par.


Permitted Transferee: Any Person (x) other than (i) the United States, any State or political subdivision thereof, any possession of the United States or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, (ii) a foreign government, International Organization or any agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) an organization (except certain farmers’ cooperatives described in section 521 of the Code) that is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the tax imposed by section 511 of the Code on unrelated business taxable income) on any excess inclusions (as defined in section 860E(c)(1) of the Code) with respect to any Residual Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives described in section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code or (v) an electing large partnership within the meaning of Section 775(a) of the Code,
(y) that is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership (other than a partnership that has any direct or indirect foreign partners) or other entity (treated as a corporation or a partnership for federal income tax purposes), created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, an estate whose income from sources without the United States is includible in gross income for United States federal income tax purposes regardless of its connection with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States, or a trust if a court within the United States is able to 


 









exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or if it has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a United States person and (z) other than any other Person so designated by the Trustee or Securities Administrator based upon an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee or Securities Administrator (which shall not be an expense of the Trustee or Securities Administrator) that states that the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to such Person may cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are Outstanding. The terms “United States,” “State” and “International Organization” shall have the meanings set forth in section 7701 of the
Code or successor provisions. A corporation will not be treated as an instrumentality of the United States or of any State or political subdivision thereof for these purposes if all of its activities are subject to tax and, with the exception of Freddie Mac, a majority of its board of directors is not selected by such government unit.


Person: Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint- stock company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.


PHH: PHH Mortgage Corporation, and any successor thereto.


PHH Assignment Agreement: The Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among the Seller, PHH, Bishop’s Gate and the Trustee evidencing the assignment of the PHH Servicing Agreement to the Trust.


PHH Servicing Agreement: The Purchase, Warranties and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 23, 2001, by and among the Seller, PHH, as successor to Cendant Mortgage Corporation, and Bishop’s Gate, as modified by the PHH Assignment Agreement.


PO Percentage: With respect any related Discount Mortgage Loan a fraction, expressed as a percentage, equal to 5.50% per annum minus the Net Mortgage Rate thereof divided by 5.50% per annum.


Pre-Funded Amount:  The amount deposited by the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trustee, upon the Securities Administrator’s receipt of such amount from the Depositor, in the Pre-Funding Account on the Closing Date for the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, which amount is $2,045,673.


Pre-Funding Account: As defined in Section 5.10(a).


Pre-Funding Period:  The period from the Closing Date until the earlier of (i) the date on which the amount on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account (exclusive of investment income) is reduced to zero and (ii) January 17, 2006.


Prepayment Assumption: The applicable rate of prepayment, as described in the Prospectus Supplement relating to each Class of Offered Certificates.


 









 


Prepayment Charge: Any prepayment premium, penalty or charge payable by a Mortgagor in connection with any Principal Prepayment on a Mortgage Loan pursuant to the terms of the related Mortgage Note.


Prepayment Interest Excess: With respect to any Distribution Date, for each EMC Mortgage Loan that was the subject of a Principal Prepayment in full or in part during the portion of the related Prepayment Period occurring between the first day of the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs and the Determination Date of the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs, an amount equal to interest (to the extent received) at the applicable Net Mortgage Rate on the amount of such Principal Prepayment for the number of days commencing on the first day of the calendar month in which such Distribution Date occurs and ending on the last date through which interest is collected from the related Mortgagor.


Prepayment Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, for each Mortgage Loan that was the subject of a partial Principal Prepayment, a Principal Prepayment in full, or that became a Liquidated Loan during the related Prepayment Period, (other than a Principal Prepayment in full resulting from the purchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, 4.20 or 11.01 hereof), the amount, if any, by which (i) one month’s interest at the applicable Net Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan immediately prior to such prepayment (or liquidation) or in the case of a partial Principal Prepayment on the amount of such prepayment (or liquidation proceeds) exceeds (ii) the amount of interest paid or collected in connection with such Principal Prepayment or such liquidation proceeds less the sum of (a) the related
Servicing Fee and (b) the LPMI Fee, if any.


Prepayment Period: As to any Distribution Date and (i) each EMC Mortgage Loan, the period commencing on the 16th day of the month prior to the month in which the related Distribution Date occurs and ending on the 15th day of the month in which such Distribution Date occurs and (ii) any other Mortgage Loan, the period set forth in the related Servicing Agreement.


Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy: Any primary mortgage guaranty insurance policy issued in connection with a Mortgage Loan which provides compensation to a Mortgage Note holder in the event of default by the obligor under such Mortgage Note or the related security instrument, if any or any replacement policy therefor through the related Interest Accrual Period for such Class relating to a Distribution Date.


Principal Funds: With respect to any Distribution Date and each Subgroup, (i) the sum, without duplication, of (a) all scheduled principal collected on the related Mortgage Loans during the related Due Period, (b) all Advances relating to principal made with respect to the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup on or prior to the Distribution Account Deposit Date, (c) Principal Prepayments with respect to the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup exclusive of Prepayment Charges or penalties collected during the related Prepayment Period, (d) the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup that was repurchased by the Seller pursuant to Sections 2.02 or 2.03 or by EMC pursuant to Section 4.20, (e) the aggregate of all Substitution Adjustment Amounts with respect to the related Mortgage Loans for the related Determination Date in
connection with the substitution of related Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 2.03(d), (f) all Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries with respect to the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup collected during the related Prepayment Period 


 









(to the extent such Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries relate to principal) and remitted by the Company or the related Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, (g) amounts in respect of principal paid by EMC or its designee pursuant to Section 11.01 and (h) any amounts removed from the Pre-Funding Account with respect to the related Subgroup during the Pre-Funding Period, minus (ii) all related amounts required to be reimbursed pursuant to Sections 5.02, 5.05, 5.07 and 5.09 or as otherwise set forth in this Agreement.


Principal Prepayment: Any Mortgagor payment or other recovery of (or proceeds with respect to) principal on a Mortgage Loan (including loans purchased or repurchased under Sections 2.02, 2.03, 4.20 and 11.01 hereof) that is received in advance of its scheduled Due Date and is not accompanied by an amount as to interest representing scheduled interest due on any date or dates in any month or months subsequent to the month of prepayment. Partial Principal Prepayments shall be applied by the Company or the related Servicer, as appropriate, in accordance with the terms of the related Mortgage Note.


Private Certificates: Any of the Class B-4, Class B-5, Class B-6 and Class P Certificates.


Prospectus Supplement: The Prospectus Supplement dated October 28, 2005 relating to the public offering of the Offered Certificates.


Protected Account: Each account established and maintained by the Company with respect to receipts on the Mortgage Loans and REO Property in accordance with Section 5.01 hereof or by the related Servicer in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement.


PUD: A Planned Unit Development.


Purchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan required to be repurchased by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03 hereof, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loan as of the date of such purchase plus (ii) accrued interest thereon at the applicable Mortgage Rate through the first day of the month in which the Purchase Price is to be distributed to Certificateholders, reduced by any portion of the Servicing Fee, Servicing Advances and Advances payable to the purchaser of the Mortgage Loan plus and (iii) any costs and damages (if any) incurred by the Trust in connection with any violation of such Mortgage Loan of any predatory lending laws.


Rating Agency: Each of Moody’s and S&P. If any such organization or its successor is no longer in existence, “Rating Agency” shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person, designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee. References herein to a given rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean such rating category without giving effect to any modifiers.


Realized Loss: With respect to each Mortgage Loan as to which a Final Recovery Determination has been made, an amount (not less than zero) equal to (i) the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the commencement of the calendar month in which the Final Recovery Determination was made, plus (ii) accrued interest from the Due Date as to which interest was last paid by the Mortgagor through the end of the calendar month in which such Final Recovery Determination was made, calculated in the case of each calendar month 


 









during such period (A) at an annual rate equal to the annual rate at which interest was then accruing on such Mortgage Loan and (B) on a principal amount equal to the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the close of business on the Distribution Date during such calendar month, minus (v) the proceeds, if any, received in respect of such Mortgage Loan during the calendar month in which such Final Recovery Determination was made, net of amounts that are payable therefrom to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or the applicable Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In addition, to the extent the Master Servicer receives Subsequent Recoveries with respect to any Mortgage Loan, the amount of the Realized Loss with respect to that Mortgage Loan will be reduced to the extent such recoveries are distributed to any Class of Certificates on any Distribution Date.


With respect to any REO Property as to which a Final Recovery Determination has been made, an amount (not less than zero) equal to (i) the unpaid principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan as of the date of acquisition of such REO Property on behalf of REMIC I plus (ii) accrued interest from the Due Date as to which interest was last paid by the Mortgagor in respect of the related Mortgage Loan through the end of the calendar month immediately preceding the calendar month in which such REO Property was acquired, calculated in the case of each calendar month during such period (A) at an annual rate equal to the annual rate at which interest was then accruing on the related Mortgage Loan and (B) on a principal amount equal to the Stated Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loan as of the close of business on the Distribution Date during such calendar month, plus (iii) REO Imputed
Interest for such REO Property for each calendar month commencing with the calendar month in which such REO Property was acquired and ending with the calendar month in which such Final Recovery Determination was made, minus (iv) the aggregate of all unreimbursed Advances and Servicing Advances.


With respect to each Mortgage Loan which has become the subject of a Deficient Valuation, the difference between the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan outstanding immediately prior to such Deficient Valuation and the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan as reduced by the Deficient Valuation.


With respect to each Mortgage Loan which has become the subject of a Debt Service Reduction, the portion, if any, of the reduction in each affected Monthly Payment attributable to a reduction in the Mortgage Rate imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction. Each such Realized Loss shall be deemed to have been incurred on the Due Date for each affected Monthly Payment.


Record Date: With respect to the Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class B, Class PO, Class X-1 and Class R Certificates and for any Distribution Date, the last business day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs. With respect to any Distribution Date and or the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-9 and Class A-10 Certificates, the business day preceding the applicable Distribution Date so long as such Certificates are Book Entry Certificates, the Business Day preceeding such Distribution Date, remain in book-entry form; and otherwise, the close of business on the last Business Day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.


Reference Banks: Shall mean leading banks selected by the Securities Administrator and engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurocurrency market (i) with 


 









an established place of business in London, (ii) which have been designated as such by the Securities Administrator and (iii) which are not controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, the Depositor, the Seller or the Master Servicer.


Reference Bank Rate: With respect to any Interest Accrual Period shall mean the arithmetic mean, rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 0.03125%, of the offered rates for United States dollar deposits for one month that are quoted by the Reference Banks as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the related Interest Determination Date to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period of one month in an amount approximately equal to the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the LIBOR Certificates for such Interest Accrual Period, provided that at least two such Reference Banks provide such rate. If fewer than two offered rates appear, the Reference Bank Rate will be the arithmetic mean, rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 0.03125%, of the rates quoted by one or more major banks in New York City,
selected by the Securities Administrator, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date for loans in United States dollars to leading European banks for a period of one month in amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the LIBOR Certificates for such Interest Accrual Period.


Regular Certificate: Any Certificate other than a Residual Certificate.


Regular Interest: A “regular interest” in a REMIC within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(1) of the Code.


Relief Act: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as amended or any similar state or local law.


Remaining Pre-Funded Amount:  An amount equal to the Pre-Funded Amount minus the amount equal to 100% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans transferred to the Trust Fund during the Pre-Funding Period.


REMIC: A “real estate mortgage investment conduit” within the meaning of section 860D of the Code.


REMIC I: The segregated pool of assets described in Section 6.07(a).


REMIC I Interests: The REMIC I Regular Interests and the Class R-1 Certificates.


REMIC I Regular Interests: REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest X, REMIC I Regular Interest PO, REMIC I Regular Interest P, REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest R-2 and REMIC I Regular Interest R-3.


REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


 









 


REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest P: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest P will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest PO: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest PO will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest R-2: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest R-2 will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest R-3: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC I Regular Interest R-3 will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC I Regular Interest X: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC I issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC I. REMIC 


 









I Regular Interest X shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time and shall not be entitled to distributions of principal.


REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio:  The ratio among the Uncertificated Principal Balances of each of the REMIC I Regular Interests ending with the designation “Sub,” equal to the ratio among, with respect to each such REMIC I Regular Interest, the excess of (x) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup (other than any principal balance attributable to the Class PO Certificates) over (y) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates (other than the Class PO Certificates and Class R Certificates) in the related Subgroup.


REMIC II: The segregated pool of assets described in the Preliminary Statement consisting of the REMIC I Regular Interests.


REMIC II Interests: The REMIC II Regular Interests and the Class R-2 Certificates.


REMIC II Regular Interests: REMIC II Regular Interest A-1, REMIC II Regular Interest A-4, REMIC II Regular Interest A-5, REMIC II Regular Interest A-6, REMIC II Regular Interest A-7, REMIC II Regular Interest A-8, REMIC II Regular Interest A-9, REMIC II Regular Interest PO, REMIC II Regular Interest P, REMIC II Regular Interest R-3, REMIC II Regular Interest X-1, REMIC II Regular Interest B-1, REMIC II Regular Interest B-2, REMIC II Regular Interest B-3, REMIC II Regular Interest B-4, REMIC II Regular Interest B-5 and REMIC II Regular Interest B-6.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-1: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-1 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-4: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-4 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-5: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-5 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-6: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-6 will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to 


 









distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-7: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-7 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-8: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-8 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest A-9: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest A-9 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-1: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest B-1 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-2: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest B-2 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-3: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest B-3 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-4: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. 


 









REMIC II Regular Interest B-4 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-5: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest B-5 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest B-6: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest B-6 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time, and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest P: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest P will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest PO: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest PO will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest R-3: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest R-3 will not accrue interest and shall be entitled to distributions of principal, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, in an aggregate amount equal to its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance as set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.


REMIC II Regular Interest X-1: One of the separate non-certificated beneficial ownership interests in REMIC II issued hereunder and designated as a Regular Interest in REMIC II. REMIC II Regular Interest X-1 shall accrue interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate in effect from time to time and shall not be entitled to distributions of principal.


REMIC III: The segregated pool of assets described in the Preliminary Statement consisting of the REMIC II Regular Interests.


REMIC III Certificates: The Regular Certificates and the Class R-3 Certificates.


 









 


REMIC Opinion: Shall mean an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed action will not have an adverse affect on any REMIC created hereunder.]


REMIC Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at Sections 860A through 860G of the Code, and related provisions, and proposed, temporary and final regulations and published rulings, notices and announcements promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect from time to time, as well as provisions of applicable state laws.


REMIC Regular Interest: A REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest.


Remittance Date: Shall mean (i) with respect to the Company, the Business Day immediately preceding the Distribution Account Deposit Date and (ii) with respect to the related Servicer, the date specified in the related Servicing Agreement.


Remittance Report: As defined in Section 6.04(g).


REO Imputed Interest: As to any REO Property, for any calendar month during which such REO Property was at any time part of REMIC I or REMIC II, one month’s interest at the applicable Net Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such REO Property (or, in the case of the first such calendar month, of the related Mortgage Loan, if appropriate) as of the close of business on the Distribution Date in such calendar month.


REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired by the Company or the related Servicer through foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection with a defaulted Mortgage Loan.


Replacement Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans in the aggregate substituted by the Seller for a Deleted Mortgage Loan, which must, on the date of such substitution, as confirmed in a Request for Release, (i) have a Stated Principal Balance, after deduction of the principal portion of the Scheduled Payment due in the month of substitution, not in excess of, and not less than 90% of, the Stated Principal Balance of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (ii) have a fixed Mortgage Rate not less than or more than 1% per annum higher than the Mortgage Rate of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iii) have the same or higher credit quality characteristics than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iv) have a Loan-to-Value Ratio no higher than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (v) have a remaining term to maturity no greater than (and not more than one year less than) that of
the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (vi) not permit conversion of the Mortgage Rate from a fixed rate to a variable rate; (vii) have the same lien priority as the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (viii) constitute the same occupancy type as the Deleted Mortgage Loan or be owner occupied; and (ix) comply with each representation and warranty set forth in Section 2.03 hereof.


Repurchase Price: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, a price equal to (i) the outstanding principal balance of such Mortgage Loan, plus (ii) interest on such outstanding principal balance at the Mortgage Rate (net of the Servicing Fee Rate) from the last date through which interest has been paid to the end of the month of repurchase, less (iii) amounts advanced by the Company or the related Servicer in respect of such repurchased Mortgage Loan which are being held in the Master Servicer Collection Account for remittance to the Securities 


 









Administrator plus (iv) any costs and damages (if any) incurred by the Trust in connection with any violation of such Mortgage Loan of any anti-predatory lending laws.


Request for Release: The Request for Release to be submitted by the Seller, the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer to the Custodian substantially in the form of Exhibit G. Each Request for Release furnished to the Custodian by the Seller, the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer shall be in duplicate and shall be executed by an officer of such Person or a Servicing Officer (or, if furnished electronically to the Custodian, shall be deemed to have been sent and executed by an officer of such Person or a Servicing Officer) of the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable.


Required Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any insurance policy that is required to be maintained from time to time under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.


Residual Certificates: Any of the Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates, each evidencing the sole class of Residual Interests in the related REMIC.


Residual Interest: The sole class of “residual interests” in a REMIC within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(2) of the Code.


Responsible Officer: With respect to the Trustee, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, or any Trust Officer with specific responsibility for the transactions contemplated hereby, any other officer customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers or other officers of the Trustee specified by the Trustee, as to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.


S&P: Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


Scheduled Payment: The scheduled monthly payment on a Mortgage Loan due on any Due Date allocable to principal and/or interest on such Mortgage Loan.


Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


Securities Administrator: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacity as securities administrator, transfer agent and paying agent hereunder, and its successors and assigns.


Seller: EMC Mortgage Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns, in its capacity as seller of the Mortgage Loans to the Depositor.


Senior Certificates: Any of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10, Class PO, Class X-1, Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates.


Servicer: Any of EMC, HSBC, Harbourside, PHH, SunTrust and GreenPoint.


 









 


Servicing Advances: All customary, reasonable and necessary “out of pocket” costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) incurred in the performance by the Company or the related Servicer of its servicing obligations hereunder or under the related Servicing Agreement, including, but not limited to, the cost of (i) the preservation, restoration and protection of a Mortgaged Property, (ii) any enforcement or judicial proceedings, including foreclosures, and including any expenses incurred in relation to any such proceedings that result from the Mortgage Loan being registered in the MERS® System, (iii) the management and liquidation of any REO Property (including, without limitation, realtor’s commissions) and (iv) compliance with any obligations under Section 3.07 hereof to cause insurance to be maintained.


Servicing Agreement: Any of the EMC Servicing Agreement, HSBC Servicing Agreement, Harbourside Servicing Agreement, PHH Servicing Agreement, SunTrust Servicing Agreement and GreenPoint Servicing Agreement.


Servicing Fee: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution Date, an amount equal to 1/12th of the Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the beginning of the related Due Period.


Servicing Fee Rate: 0.250% per annum.


Servicing Modification: With respect to any Mortgage Loan that is in default or, in the reasonable judgment of the Company or the related Servicer, as to which default is reasonably foreseeable, any modification which is effected by the Company or the related Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement which results in any change in the outstanding Stated Principal Balance, any change in the Mortgage Rate or any extension of the term of such Mortgage Loan.


Servicing Officer: Any officer of the Company or the related Servicer involved in, or responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage Loans (i) in the case of the Company, whose name and facsimile signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished to the Trustee by the Company on the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement, as such list may from time to time be amended and (ii) in the case of the related Servicer, as to which evidence reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, as applicable, of due authorization, by such party has been furnished from time to time to the Trustee.


Startup Day: The Startup Day for each REMIC formed hereunder shall be the Closing Date.


Stated Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan or related REO Property and any Distribution Date, the Cut-off Date Principal Balance thereof minus the sum of (i) the principal portion of the Scheduled Payments due with respect to such Mortgage Loan during each Due Period ending prior to such Distribution Date (and irrespective of any delinquency in their payment), (ii) all Principal Prepayments with respect to such Mortgage Loan received prior to or during the related Prepayment Period, and all Liquidation Proceeds to the extent applied by the Company or the related Servicer as recoveries of principal in accordance with Section 3.09 or the related Servicing Agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan, that were received by the Company or the related Servicer as of the close of business on the last day of the Prepayment Period related to such
Distribution Date and (iii) any Realized Losses on such Mortgage Loan 


 









incurred during the related Prepayment Period. The Stated Principal Balance of a Liquidated Loan equals zero.


Subgroup: Any of Subgroup 1 and Subgroup 2.


Subgroup 1:  All of the Mortgage Loans with a Net Mortgage Rate of less than or equal to 5.50% per annum, plus the Subgroup 1 Fraction of the principal balance of any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 5.50% per annum and less than 8.00% per annum.


Subgroup 1 Certificates:  The Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10, Class PO, Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates.


Subgroup 1 Fraction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 5.50% per annum and less than 8.00% per annum, a fraction, (x) the numerator of which is equal to 8.00% minus the Net Mortgage Rate of such Mortgage Loan, and (y) the denominator of which is equal to 2.50%.


Subgroup 2: The Subgroup 2 Fraction of the Stated Principal Balance of any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 5.50% per annum and less than 8.00% per annum, plus all Mortgage Loans with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than or equal to 8.00% per annum.


Subgroup 2 Certificates: The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3 and Class X-1 Certificates.


Subgroup 2 Fraction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate of greater than 5.50% per annum and less than 8.00% per annum, a fraction, (x) the numerator of which is equal to the Net Mortgage Rate of such Mortgage Loan minus 5.50%, and (y) the denominator of which is equal to 2.50%.


Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to each of the Subgroup 1 Certificates (other than the Class R Certificates) and Subgroup 2 Certificates and each Distribution Date, means an amount equal to the sum of the following (but in no event greater than the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subgroup 1 Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) or Subgroup 2 Certificates, as applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution Date): 


(1)        the applicable Subgroup Senior Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the principal portion of all Monthly Payments due on the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup on the related Due Date, as specified in the amortization schedule at the time applicable thereto (after adjustment for previous principal prepayments but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period); 


(2)        the applicable Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which was the subject of a prepayment in full received by the Master Servicer during the applicable Prepayment Period; 


 









 


(3)        the applicable Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of all partial prepayments allocated to principal received during the applicable Prepayment Period;


(4)        the lesser of (a) the applicable Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the sum of (i) all Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received in respect of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which became a Liquidated Loan during the related Prepayment Period (other than Mortgage Loans described in the immediately following clause (ii)) and all Subsequent Recoveries received in respect of each Liquidated Loan in the related Subgroup during the related Due Period and (ii) the Stated Principal Balance of each such Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup purchased by an insurer from the Trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the related Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, if any, or otherwise; and (b) the applicable Subgroup Senior Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the sum of (i)
the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which became a Liquidated Loan during the related Prepayment Period (other than the Mortgage Loans described in the immediately following clause (ii)) and (ii) the Stated Principal Balance of each such Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup that was purchased by an insurer from the Trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the related Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, if any or otherwise; and


(5)        the applicable Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the sum of (a) the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which was repurchased by EMC or its designee in connection with such Distribution Date and (b) the excess, if any, of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup that has been replaced by EMC or its designee with a substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to the Mortgage Loan purchase agreement in connection with such Distribution Date over the Stated Principal Balance of each such substitute Mortgage Loan.


Subgroup Senior Percentage:  With respect to each Subgroup, the lesser of (a) 100% and (b) the percentage obtained by dividing the Certificate Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates of such Subgroup (other than the Class PO Certificates and Class R Certificates), immediately prior to such Distribution Date, by the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup (other than the PO Percentage thereof with respect to the related Discount Mortgage Loans) as of the beginning of the related Due Period. 


Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage:  The Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage for the Subgroup 1 and Subgroup 2 Certificates, on any Distribution Date occurring during the periods set forth below will be as follows:



	
            Period (dates inclusive)
 	
            Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage
 
	
            November 25, 2005 – October 25, 2010
 	
            100% 
 
	
            November 25, 2010 – October 25, 2011 
 	
            Subgroup Senior Percentage for the related Subgroup Certificates plus 70% of the related Subordinate Percentage.
 



 


 









 


 



	
            November 25, 2011 - October 25, 2012
 	
            Subgroup Senior Percentage for the related Subgroup Certificates plus 60% of the related Subordinate Percentage.
 
	
            November 25, 2012 - October 25, 2013
 	
            Subgroup Senior Percentage for the related Subgroup Certificates plus 40% of the related Subordinate Percentage.
 
	
            November 25, 2013 - October 25, 2014
 	
            Subgroup Senior Percentage for the related Subgroup Certificates plus 20% of the related Subordinate Percentage.
 
	
            November 25, 2014 and thereafter
 	
            Subgroup Senior Percentage for the related Subgroup Certificates.
 



Any scheduled reduction to the Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage for the Subgroup 1 and Subgroup 2 Certificates shall not be made as of any Distribution Date unless, as of the last day of the month preceding such Distribution Date (1) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and such Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related mortgaged property has been acquired by the trust) averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subordinate Certificates does not exceed 50% and (2) cumulative Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans do not exceed (a) 30% of the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subordinate Certificates as of the closing date (“Original Subordinate Principal Balance”) if such
Distribution Date occurs between and including November 2010 and October 2011, (b) 35% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including November 2011 and October 2012, (c) 40% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including November 2012 and October 2013, (d) 45% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including November 2013 and October 2014, and (e) 50% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs during or after November 2014.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on any Distribution Date, the percentage for Subgroup 1 or Subgroup 2, the numerator of which is the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates (other than the Class PO Certificates and Class R Certificates) of such Subgroup immediately preceding such Distribution Date, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in such Subgroup (other than the PO Percentage thereof with respect to the related Discount Mortgage Loans) as of the beginning of the related Due Period, exceeds such percentage as of the cut-off date, then the Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage with respect to the Senior Certificates of each Subgroup for such Distribution Date will equal 100%.


Subordinate Certificates: Any of the Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.


Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount:  With respect to the Subordinate Certificates, the amount by which (x) the sum of the Certificate Principal Balances of the Certificates (other than the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1, Class R and Class P 


 









Certificates) (after giving effect to the distribution of principal and the allocation of Realized Losses in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances of the Certificates (other than the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1, Class R and Class P Certificates) on such Distribution Date) exceeds (y) the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans on the Due Date related to such Distribution Date.


Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount: With respect to the Subordinate Certificates and each Distribution Date will be an amount equal to the sum of the following from each Subgroup (but in no event greater than the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Subordinate Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date):


(1)        the applicable Subordinate Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the principal portion of all Monthly Payments due on each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup on the related Due Date, as specified in the amortization schedule at the time applicable thereto (after adjustment for previous principal prepayments but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period);


(2)        the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which was the subject of a prepayment in full received by the Master Servicer during the applicable Prepayment Period;


(3)        the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of all partial prepayments of principal received during the applicable Prepayment Period for each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup;


(4)        the excess, if any, of (a) the Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received during the related Prepayment Period in respect of each Liquidated Loan in the related Subgroup over (b) the sum of the amounts distributable to the holders of the related Senior Certificates (other than the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1, Class PO and Class R Certificates) pursuant to clause (4) of the definition of “Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount” and clause (iv) of the definition of “Class PO Certificate Principal Distribution Amount” on such Distribution Date;


(5)        the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of the Non-PO Percentage of the sum of (a) the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup which was repurchased by EMC or its designee in connection with such Distribution Date and (b) the difference, if any, between the Stated Principal Balance of a Mortgage Loan in the related Subgroup that has been replaced by EMC or its designee with a substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to the Mortgage Loan purchase agreement in connection with such Distribution Date and the Stated Principal Balance of such substitute Mortgage Loan; and


(6)        on the Distribution Date on which the Certificate Principal Balances of the related Senior Certificates (other than the related Interest Only Certificates and Class PO Certificates) have all been reduced to zero, 100% of any applicable Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount.


 









 


Subordinate Percentage:  As of any Distribution Date and with respect to any Subgroup, 100% minus the related Subgroup Senior Percentage for the Senior Certificates related to such Subgroup. 


Subordinate Prepayment Percentage: As of any Distribution Date and with respect to any Subgroup, 100% minus the related Subgroup Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Subgroup, except that on any Distribution Date after the Certificate Principal Balance of each Class of Senior Certificates have each been reduced to zero, the Subordinate Prepayment Percentage for the Subordinate Certificates with respect to such Subgroup will equal 100%.


Subsequent Cut-off Date: Shall mean with respect to those Subsequent Mortgage Loans sold to the Trust Fund pursuant to a Subsequent Transfer Instrument, the later of (i) the first day of the month in which the related Subsequent Transfer Date occurs or (ii) the date of origination of such Mortgage Loan.


Subsequent Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement: The agreement dated as of the Subsequent Transfer Date, between EMC, as seller, and Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, as purchaser, and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto, regarding the transfer of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by EMC to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, a form of which is attached as Exhibit N.


Subsequent Mortgage Loans: Shall mean the Mortgage Loans which will be acquired by the Trust during the Pre-Funding Period with amounts on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account.


Subsequent Transfer Date: Shall mean with respect to each subsequent transfer instrument, the date on which the Subsequent Mortgage Loans are sold to the Trust.  


Subsequent Transfer Instrument: Each Subsequent Transfer Instrument, dated as of a Subsequent Transfer Date, executed by the Depositor at the written direction of the Depositor and substantially in the form of Exhibit O, by which Subsequent Mortgage Loans are transferred to the Trust Fund.


Subsequent Recoveries: As of any Distribution Date, amounts received by the Master Servicer during the related Due Period or surplus amounts held by the Master Servicer to cover estimated expenses (including, but not limited to, recoveries in respect of the representations and warranties made by the Seller pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement) specifically related to a Liquidated Loan or disposition of an REO Property prior to the related Prepayment Period that resulted in a Realized Loss, after the liquidation or disposition of such Mortgage Loan.


Subservicing Agreement: Any agreement entered into between the Company and a subservicer with respect to the subservicing of any Mortgage Loan hereunder by such subservicer.


Substitution Adjustment Amount: The meaning ascribed to such term pursuant to Section 2.03(d).


Successor Master Servicer: The meaning ascribed to such term pursuant to Section 9.01.


 









 


SunTrust: SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. and any successor thereto.


SunTrust Assignment Agreement: The Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among the Seller, SunTrust and the Trustee evidencing the assignment of the SunTrust Servicing Agreement to the Trust.


SunTrust Servicing Agreement: The Purchase Warranties and Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2002, as amended by Amendment No. 5, dated as of January 24, 2005, between the Seller and SunTrust.


Tax Matters Person: The person designated as “tax matters person” in the manner provided under Treasury Regulation Sections 1.860F-4(d) and 301.6231(a)(7)-1T. The Holder of the greatest Percentage Interest in a class of Residual Certificates shall be the Tax Matters Person for the related REMIC. The Securities Administrator or any successor thereto or assignee thereof shall serve as tax administrator hereunder and as agent for the related Tax Matters Person.


Transfer Affidavit: As defined in Section 7.02(c).


Transfer: Any direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership Interest in a Certificate.


Trust Fund:  The corpus of the trust created hereunder consisting of (i) the Mortgage Loans and all interest accruing and principal due with respect thereto after the Cut-off Date to the extent not applied in computing the Cut-off Date Principal Balance thereof; (ii) the Distribution Account, the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund, the Master Servicer Collection Account maintained by the Master Servicer and the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company and the Servicer and all amounts deposited therein pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement and the Servicing Agreements; (iii) property that secured a Mortgage Loan and has been acquired by foreclosure, deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise; (iv) the mortgagee’s rights under the Insurance Policies with respect to the Mortgage Loans; (v) the Servicing Agreements; (vi) the rights under the
Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement; (vii) the Corridor Contract; and (viii) all proceeds of the foregoing, including proceeds of conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of any of the foregoing into cash or other liquid property.


Trustee: U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, solely in its capacity as trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders under this Agreement, and any successor thereto, and any corporation or national banking association resulting from or surviving any consolidation or merger to which it or its successors may be a party and any successor trustee as may from time to time be serving as successor trustee hereunder.


Uncertificated Accrued Interest: With respect to each REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest, as applicable, on each Distribution Date, an amount equal to one month’s interest at the related Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate or Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate, as applicable, on the Uncertificated Principal Balance of such REMIC Regular Interest. In each case, Uncertificated Accrued Interest will be reduced by any Net Interest Shortfalls and interest portion of Realized Losses (allocated to such REMIC Regular Interests as set forth in Sections 1.02 and 6.05).


 









 


Uncertificated Notional Amount: With respect to REMIC I Regular Interest X, the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 2 that have Net Mortgage Rates greater than 8.000% per annum. With respect to REMIC II Regular Interest X-1, an amount equal to the Uncertificated Notional Amount of REMIC I Regular Interest X. 


Uncertificated Principal Balance: With respect to each REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest, as applicable, the principal amount of such REMIC Regular Interest outstanding as of any date of determination. As of the Closing Date, the Uncertificated Principal Balance of each REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest, as applicable, shall equal the amount set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto as its initial Uncertificated Principal Balance. On each Distribution Date, the Uncertificated Principal Balance of each REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest, as applicable, shall be reduced by all distributions of principal made on such REMIC Regular Interest on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 6.07 and, if and to the extent necessary and appropriate, shall be further reduced on such Distribution Date by
Realized Losses as provided in Section 6.05. The Uncertificated Principal Balance of each REMIC I Regular Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest, as applicable, shall never be less than zero.


Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate: 


With respect to the REMIC I Regular Interests other than REMIC I Regular Interest X, the applicable Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rate for each such REMIC I Regular Interest as set forth in the Preliminary Statement.


With respect to REMIC I Regular Interest X, a rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the excess, if any, of (a) the Net Mortgage Rates on the Mortgage Loans with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than 8.000% over (b) 8.000% per annum.


Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate: 


With respect to the REMIC II Regular Interests other than REMIC II Regular Interest X-1, REMIC II Regular Interest A-1 and REMIC II Regular Interest A-9, a rate per annum equal to the Pass-Through Rate indicated for the Class of Corresponding Certificates as set forth in the Preliminary Statement.


With respect to REMIC II Regular Interest X-1, REMIC II Regular Interest X-1 shall not have an Uncertificated REMIC II Pass-Through Rate, but shall be entitled to 100% of the amounts distributable to REMIC I Regular Interest X for such Distribution Date.


With respect to REMIC II Regular Interest A-1, 8.00% per annum.


With respect to REMIC II Regular Interest A-9, 5.50% per annum.


Voting Rights: The portion of the voting rights of all of the Certificates for purposes of the voting provisions hereunder shall be allocated as follows: (i) 93.50% to the Certificates (other than the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1, Class P and Class R Certificates), in proportion to their respective outstanding Certificate Principal Balances, (ii) 1.00% to each of the 


 









Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10, Class X-1 and Class P Certificates and (iii) 0.50% to each of the Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates.



	
            Section 1.02
 	
            Allocation of Certain Interest Shortfalls.
 



For purposes of calculating the amount of the Accrued Certificate Interest for the Class A (other than the Class A-6 Certificates), Class X-1 and Class B Certificates for any Distribution Date, (1) the aggregate amount of any Net Interest Shortfalls for any Distribution Date shall be allocated first, among such Certificates in proportion to the amount of the interest portion of the Available Funds that would have been allocated to such Certificates in the absence of such Net Interest Shortfalls, and (2) the interest portion of Realized Losses shall be allocated first, to the Class B-6 Certificates, second to the Class B-5 Certificates, third to the Class B-4 Certificates, fourth to the Class B-3 Certificates, fifth to the Class B-2 Certificates and sixth to the Class B-1 Certificates, and following the Cross-Over Date, fourth to the Senior Certificates, on a pro rata basis.


For purposes of calculating the amount of Uncertificated Accrued Interest for the REMIC I Regular Interests (other than REMIC I Regular Interest P, REMIC I Regular Interest PO, REMIC I Regular Interest R-2 and REMIC I Regular Interest R-3) for any Distribution Date, the aggregate amount of any Net Interest Shortfalls for any Distribution Date shall be allocated first, among REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ and REMIC I Regular Interest X, pro rata, based on, and to the extent of, one month’s interest at the then applicable respective Uncertificated REMIC I Pass-Through Rates on the respective Uncertificated Principal Balances of each such REMIC I Regular Interest.


For purposes of calculating the amount of Uncertificated Accrued Interest for the REMIC II Regular Interests (other than REMIC II Regular Interest P, REMIC II Regular Interest PO, REMIC II Regular Interest A-6 and REMIC II Regular Interest R-3) for any Distribution Date, the aggregate amount of any Net Interest Shortfalls for any Distribution Date shall be allocated among such REMIC II Regular Interests as such amounts are allocable to the Corresponding Certificates; provided that, solely for purposes of the foregoing, any shortfalls otherwise allocable to the Class A-2 Certificates or Class A-3 Certificates shall be deemed to be allocated entirely to the Class A-1 Certificates, and any shortfalls otherwise allocable to the Class A-10 Certificates shall be deemed to be allocated entirely to the Class A-9 Certificates.



 









 


ARTICLE II


 


CONVEYANCE OF TRUST FUND


REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES


Section 2.01     Conveyance of Trust Fund. Pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Seller sold, transferred, assigned, set over and otherwise conveyed to the Depositor, without recourse, all the right, title and interest of the Seller in and to the assets in the Trust Fund.


The Seller has entered into this Agreement in consideration for the purchase of the Mortgage Loans by the Depositor pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement and has agreed to take the actions specified herein.


The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Trustee for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, without recourse, all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the Trust Fund.


In connection with such sale, the Depositor has delivered to, and deposited with, the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, the following documents or instruments with respect to each Mortgage Loan so assigned: (i) the original Mortgage Note, including any riders thereto, endorsed without recourse (A) to the order of “U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for certificateholders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” or (B) in the case of a loan registered on the MERS system, in blank, and in each case showing to the extent available to the Seller an unbroken chain of endorsements from the original payee thereof to the Person endorsing it to the Trustee, (ii) the original Mortgage and, if the related Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, noting the presence of the MIN and language indicating that such Mortgage Loan is a MOM
Loan, which shall have been recorded (or if the original is not available, a copy), with evidence of such recording indicated thereon (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form), (iii) unless the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, the assignment (either an original or a copy, which may be in the form of a blanket assignment if permitted in the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located) to the Trustee of the Mortgage with respect to each Mortgage Loan in the name of “U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for certificateholders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” which shall have been recorded (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form) (iv) an original or a copy of all intervening assignments of the Mortgage, if any, to the extent available to the Seller, with evidence of recording thereon, (v) the original policy of title insurance or
mortgagee’s certificate of title insurance or commitment or binder for title insurance, if available, or a copy thereof, or, in the event that such original title insurance policy is unavailable, a photocopy thereof, or in lieu thereof, a current lien search on the related Mortgaged Property and (vi) originals or copies of all available assumption, modification or substitution agreements, if any; provided, however, that in lieu of the foregoing, the Seller may deliver the following documents, under the circumstances set forth below: (x) if any Mortgage, assignment thereof to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof have been delivered or are being delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned in time to permit their delivery as specified above, the Depositor may deliver a true copy thereof with a certification by the Seller or the title company issuing the 


 









commitment for title insurance, on the face of such copy, substantially as follows: “Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has been transmitted for recording” and (y) in lieu of the Mortgage Notes relating to the Mortgage Loans identified in the list set forth in Exhibit I, the Depositor may deliver a lost note affidavit and indemnity and a copy of the original note, if available; and provided, further, however, that in the case of Mortgage Loans which have been prepaid in full after the Cut-off Date and prior to the Closing Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to the Trustee and its Custodian a certification of a Servicing Officer to such effect and in such case shall deposit all amounts paid in respect of such Mortgage Loans, in the Master Servicer Collection Account or in the Distribution Account on the Closing Date. In the case
of the documents referred to in clause (x) above, the Depositor shall deliver such documents to the Trustee or its Custodian promptly after they are received. The Seller shall cause, at its expense, the Mortgage and intervening assignments, if any, and to the extent required in accordance with the foregoing, the assignment of the Mortgage to the Trustee to be submitted for recording promptly after the Closing Date provided that the Seller need not cause to be recorded any assignment (a) in any jurisdiction under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee delivered by the Seller to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, the recordation of such assignment is not necessary to protect the Trustee’s interest in the related Mortgage Loan or (b) if MERS is identified on the Mortgage or on a properly recorded assignment of the Mortgage as mortgagee of record solely as nominee for Seller and its successors and assigns. In the event that the Seller, the
Depositor or the Master Servicer gives written notice to the Trustee that a court has recharacterized the sale of the Mortgage Loans as a financing, the Seller shall submit or cause to be submitted for recording as specified above or, should the Seller fail to perform such obligations, the Master Servicer shall cause each such previously unrecorded assignment to be submitted for recording as specified above at the expense of the Trust. In the event a Mortgage File is released to the Company or the Servicer as a result of such Person having completed a Request for Release, the Custodian shall, if not so completed, complete the assignment of the related Mortgage in the manner specified in clause (iii) above.


In connection with the assignment of any Mortgage Loan registered on the MERS® System, the Seller further agrees that it will cause, at the Seller’s own expense, within 30 days after the Closing Date, the MERS® System to indicate that such Mortgage Loans have been assigned by the Seller to the Depositor and by the Depositor to the Trustee in accordance with this Agreement for the benefit of the Certificateholders by including (or deleting, in the case of Mortgage Loans which are repurchased in accordance with this Agreement) in such computer files (a) the code in the field which identifies the specific Trustee and (b) the code in the field “Pool Field” which identifies the series of the Certificates issued in connection with such Mortgage Loans. The Seller further agrees that it will not, and will not permit the Company, any Servicer or the Master Servicer to, and
the Master Servicer agrees that it will not, alter the codes referenced in this paragraph with respect to any Mortgage Loan during the term of this Agreement unless and until such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement.



	
            Section 2.02
 	
            Acceptance of the Mortgage Loans.
 



(a)        Based on the Initial Certification received by it from the Custodian, the Trustee acknowledges receipt of, subject to the further review and exceptions reported by the Custodian pursuant to the procedures described below, the documents (or certified copies 


 









thereof) delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf pursuant to Section 2.01 and declares that it holds and will continue to hold directly or through a custodian those documents and any amendments, replacements or supplements thereto and all other assets of the Trust Fund delivered to it in trust for the use and benefit of all present and future Holders of the Certificates. On the Closing Date, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf will deliver the Seller and the Trustee an Initial Certification confirming whether or not it has received the Mortgage File for each Mortgage Loan, but without review of such Mortgage File, except to the extent necessary to confirm whether such Mortgage File contains the original Mortgage Note or a lost note affidavit and indemnity in lieu thereof. No later than 90 days after the Closing Date, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf shall, for the benefit
of the Certificateholders, review each Mortgage File delivered to it and execute and deliver to the Seller and, if reviewed by the Custodian, the Trustee, an Interim Certification. In conducting such review, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf will ascertain whether all required documents have been executed and received and whether those documents relate, determined on the basis of the Mortgagor name, original principal balance and loan number, to the Mortgage Loans identified in Exhibit B to this Agreement, as supplemented (provided, however, that with respect to those documents described in subclauses (iv) and (vi) of Section 2.01, such obligations shall extend only to documents actually delivered pursuant to such subclauses). In performing any such review, the Trustee and the Custodian may conclusively rely on the purported due execution and genuineness of any such document and on the purported genuineness of any signature thereon. If the Trustee or the Custodian on its
behalf finds any document constituting part of the Mortgage File not to have been executed or received, or to be unrelated to the Mortgage Loans identified in Exhibit B or to appear to be defective on its face, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf shall include such information in the exception report. The Seller shall correct or cure any such defect or, if prior to the end of the second anniversary of the Closing Date, the Seller may substitute for the related Mortgage Loan a Replacement Mortgage Loan, which substitution shall be accomplished in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.03 or shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee to the effect that such defect does not materially or adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders in such Mortgage Loan within 60 days from the date of notice from the Trustee of the defect and if the Seller fails to correct or cure the defect or deliver such opinion within such
period, the Seller will, subject to Section 2.03, within 90 days from the notification of the Trustee purchase such Mortgage Loan at the Purchase Price; provided, however, that if such defect relates solely to the inability of the Seller to deliver the Mortgage, assignment thereof to the Trustee, or intervening assignments  thereof with evidence of recording thereon because such documents have been submitted for recording and have not been returned by the applicable jurisdiction, the Seller shall not be required to purchase such Mortgage Loan if the Seller delivers such documents promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after the Closing Date.


(b)        No later than 180 days after the Closing Date, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf will review, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Mortgage Files and will execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered to the Seller and, if reviewed by the Custodian, the Trustee, a Final Certification. In conducting such review, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf will ascertain whether each document required to be recorded has been returned from the recording office with evidence of recording thereon and the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf has received either an original or a copy thereof, as required in Section 2.01 (provided, however, that with respect to those documents described in subclauses (iv) and 


 









(vi) of Section 2.01, such obligations shall extend only to documents actually delivered pursuant to such subclauses). If the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf finds any document with respect to a Mortgage Loan has not been received, or to be unrelated, determined on the basis of the Mortgagor name, original principal balance and loan number, to the Mortgage Loans identified in Exhibit B or to appear defective on its face, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf shall note such defect in the exception report attached to the Final Certification and shall promptly notify the Seller. The Seller shall correct or cure any such defect or, if prior to the end of the second anniversary of the Closing Date, the Seller may substitute for the related Mortgage Loan a Replacement Mortgage Loan, which substitution shall be accomplished in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.03 or
shall deliver to the Trustee and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee to the effect that such defect does not materially or adversely affect the interests of Certificateholders in such Mortgage Loan (such determination to be made within 60 days from the date of notice from the Trustee of the defect and if the Seller is unable within such period to correct or cure such defect, or to substitute the related Mortgage Loan with a Replacement Mortgage Loan or to deliver such opinion, the Seller shall, subject to Section 2.03, within 90 days from the notification of the Trustee, purchase such Mortgage Loan at the Purchase Price; provided, however, that if such defect relates solely to the inability of the Seller to deliver the Mortgage, assignment thereof to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof with evidence of recording thereon, because such documents have not been returned by the applicable jurisdiction, the Seller shall not be required to purchase such Mortgage Loan,
if the Seller delivers such documents promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after the Closing Date.


(c)        In the event that a Mortgage Loan is purchased by the Seller in accordance with subsections 2.02(a) or (b) above or Section 2.03, the Seller shall remit the applicable Purchase Price to the Master Servicer for deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account and shall provide written notice to the Trustee detailing the components of the Purchase Price, signed by a Servicing Officer. Upon deposit of the Purchase Price in the Master Servicer Collection Account and upon receipt of a Request for Release with respect to such Mortgage Loan, the Trustee or the Custodian will release to the Seller the related Mortgage File and the Trustee shall execute and deliver all instruments of transfer or assignment, without recourse, representation or warranty furnished to it by the Seller, as are necessary to vest in the Seller title to and rights under
the Mortgage Loan. Such purchase shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on which the deposit into the Master Servicer Collection Account was made. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Rating Agencies of such repurchase. The obligation of the Seller to cure, repurchase or substitute for any Mortgage Loan as to which a defect in a constituent document exists shall be the sole remedies respecting such defect available to the Certificateholders or to the Trustee on their behalf.


(d)        The Seller shall deliver to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf, and Trustee agrees to accept the Mortgage Note and other documents constituting the Mortgage File with respect to any Replacement Mortgage Loan, which the Trustee or the Custodian will review as provided in subsections 2.02(a) and 2.02(b), provided, that the Closing Date referred to therein shall instead be the date of delivery of the Mortgage File with respect to each Replacement Mortgage Loan.


 









 


Section 2.03     Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company, the Master Servicer and the Seller. 


(a)        The Company hereby represents and warrants to the Master Servicer, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee as follows, as of the Closing Date:


(i)         It is duly organized and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is duly authorized and qualified to transact any and all business contemplated by this Agreement to be conducted by it in any state in which a Mortgaged Property related to an EMC Mortgage Loan is located or is otherwise not required under applicable law to effect such qualification and, in any event, is in compliance with the doing business laws of any such state, to the extent necessary to ensure its ability to enforce each EMC Mortgage Loan, to service the EMC Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof.


(ii)         It has the full corporate power and authority to service each EMC Mortgage Loan, and to execute, deliver and perform, and to enter into and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party and has duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on its part the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement to which it is a party; and this Agreement to which it is a party, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the other parties hereto, constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except that (a) the enforceability hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and (b) the remedy of specific
performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.


(iii)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement to which it is a party by it, the servicing of the EMC Mortgage Loans by it under this Agreement, the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party, and the fulfillment of or compliance with the terms hereof are in its ordinary course of business and will not (A) result in a breach of any term or provision of its charter or by-laws or (B) conflict with, result in a breach, violation or acceleration of, or result in a default under, the terms of any other material agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it may be bound, or (C) constitute a violation of any statute, order or regulation applicable to it of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it;
and it is not in breach or violation of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument, or in violation of any statute, order or regulation of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it which breach or violation may materially impair its ability to perform or meet any of its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party.


 









 


(iv)        It is an approved servicer of conventional mortgage loans for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and is a mortgagee approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to sections 203 and 211 of the National Housing Act.


(v)        No litigation is pending or, to the best of its knowledge, threatened, against it that would materially and adversely affect the execution, delivery or enforceability of this Agreement to which it is a party or its ability to service the EMC Mortgage Loans or to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof.


(vi)        No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for its execution, delivery and performance of, or compliance with, this Agreement to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, or if any such consent, approval, authorization or order is required, it has obtained the same.


(b)        Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacity as Master Servicer and Securities Administrator hereby represents and warrants to the Seller, the Depositor, the Trustee as follows, as of the Closing Date:


(i)         It is a national banking association duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America and is duly authorized and qualified to transact any and all business contemplated by this Agreement to be conducted by the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator in any state in which a Mortgaged Property is located or is otherwise not required under applicable law to effect such qualification and, in any event, is in compliance with the doing business laws of any such state, to the extent necessary to ensure its ability to enforce each Mortgage Loan, to service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to which it is a party and to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof;


(ii)         It has the full corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform, and to enter into and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party and has duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on its part the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement to which it is a party; and this Agreement to which it is a party, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the other parties hereto, constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except that (a) the enforceability hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and (b) the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other
forms of equitable relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.


(iii)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement to which it is a party by it, the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, to which it is a party and the fulfillment of or compliance with the terms hereof are in its ordinary course of business and will not (A) result in a material breach of any term or 


 









provision of its charter or by-laws or (B) materially conflict with, result in a material breach, violation or acceleration of, or result in a material default under, the terms of any other material agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it may be bound, or (C) constitute a material violation of any statute, order or regulation applicable to it of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it; and it is not in breach or violation of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument, or in violation of any statute, order or regulation of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it which breach or violation may materially impair its ability to perform or meet any of its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party.


(iv)        No litigation is pending or, to the best of its knowledge, threatened, against it that would materially and adversely affect the execution, delivery or enforceability of this Agreement to which it is a party or its ability to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof.


(v)        No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for its execution, delivery and performance of, or compliance with, this Agreement to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or if any such consent, approval, authorization or order is required, it has obtained the same.


(c)        The Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Trustee as follows, as of the Closing Date:


(i)         The Seller is duly organized as a Delaware corporation and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is duly authorized and qualified to transact any and all business contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party to be conducted by the Seller in any state in which a Mortgaged Property is located or is otherwise not required under applicable law to effect such qualification and, in any event, is in compliance with the doing business laws of any such state, to the extent necessary to ensure its ability to enforce each Mortgage Loan, to sell the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof.


(ii)         The Seller has the full corporate power and authority to sell each Mortgage Loan, and to execute, deliver and perform, and to enter into and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party and has duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Seller the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement to which it is a party; and this Agreement to which it is a party, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the other parties hereto or thereto, as applicable, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller, enforceable against the Seller in accordance with its terms, except that (a) the enforceability hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to
creditors’ rights generally and (b) the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief 


 









may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.


(iii)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement to which it is a party by the Seller, the sale of the Mortgage Loans by the Seller under the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party, and the fulfillment of or compliance with the terms hereof and thereof are in the ordinary course of business of the Seller and will not (A) result in a breach of any term or provision of the charter or by-laws of the Seller or (B) conflict with, result in a breach, violation or acceleration of, or result in a default under, the terms of any other material agreement or instrument to which the Seller is a party or by which it may be bound, or (C) constitute a violation of any statute, order or regulation applicable to the Seller of any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Seller; and the Seller is not in breach or violation of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument, or in violation of any statute, order or regulation of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it which breach or violation may materially impair the Seller’s ability to perform or meet any of its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party.


(iv)        The Seller is an approved seller of conventional mortgage loans for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and is a mortgagee approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to sections 203 and 211 of the National Housing Act.


(v)        No litigation is pending or, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, threatened, against the Seller that would materially and adversely affect the execution, delivery or enforceability of this Agreement to which it is a party or the ability of the Seller to sell the Mortgage Loans or to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof.


(vi)        No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of, or compliance by the Seller with, this Agreement to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or if any such consent, approval, authorization or order is required, the Seller has obtained the same.


(vii)       As of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties concerning the Mortgage Loans set forth in Section 7 of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement are true and correct in all material respects.


(d)        Upon discovery by any of the parties hereto of a breach of a representation or warranty set forth in Section 7 of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement that materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice thereof to the other parties. The Seller hereby covenants with respect to the representations and warranties set forth in Section 7 of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, that within 90 days of the discovery of a breach of any representation or warranty set forth therein that materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan, it shall cure such breach in all material respects 


 









and, if such breach is not so cured, (i) if such 90-day period expires prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date, remove such Mortgage Loan (a “Deleted Mortgage Loan”) from the Trust Fund and substitute in its place a Replacement Mortgage Loan, in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in this Section; or (ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans from the Trustee at the Purchase Price in the manner set forth below; provided that any such substitution pursuant to (i) above or repurchase pursuant to (ii) above shall not be effected prior to the delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel if required by Section 2.05 hereof and any such substitution pursuant to (i) above shall not be effected prior to the additional delivery to the Trustee of a Request for Release. The Seller shall promptly reimburse the Master Servicer and the Trustee for any expenses
reasonably incurred by the Master Servicer or the Trustee in respect of enforcing the remedies for such breach. To enable the Securities Administrator to amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule, the Seller shall, unless it cures such breach in a timely fashion pursuant to this Section 2.03, promptly notify the Securities Administrator whether it intends either to repurchase, or to substitute for, the Mortgage Loan affected by such breach. With respect to the representations and warranties in Section 7 of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement that are made to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, if it is discovered by any of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Seller, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee that the substance of such representation and warranty is inaccurate and such inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the value of the related Mortgage Loan, notwithstanding the Seller’s lack of knowledge with respect to the substance of such representation or warranty,
the Seller shall nevertheless be required to cure, substitute for or repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan in accordance with the foregoing.


With respect to any Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans, the Seller shall deliver to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders such documents and agreements as are required by Section 2.01. No substitution shall be made in any calendar month after the Determination Date for such month. Scheduled Payments due with respect to Replacement Mortgage Loans in the Due Period related to the Distribution Date on which such proceeds are to be distributed shall not be part of the Trust Fund and shall be retained by the Seller. For the month of substitution, distributions to Certificateholders will include the Scheduled Payment due on any Deleted Mortgage Loan for the related Due Period and thereafter the Seller shall be entitled to retain all amounts received in respect of such Deleted Mortgage Loan. The Securities Administrator shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule for the benefit of
the Certificateholders to reflect the removal of such Deleted Mortgage Loan and the substitution of the Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans and the Securities Administrator shall deliver the amended Mortgage Loan Schedule to the Trustee and the Custodian. Upon such substitution, the Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement in all respects, and the Seller shall be deemed to have made with respect to such Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans, as of the date of substitution, the representations and warranties set forth in Section 7 of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan. Upon any such substitution and the deposit into the Master Servicer Collection Account of the amount required to be deposited therein in connection with such substitution as described in the following paragraph and receipt by the Trustee of a Request for Release for such Mortgage Loan, the Trustee or the Custodian shall release to the Seller the
Mortgage File relating to such Deleted Mortgage Loan and held for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Trustee shall execute and deliver at the Seller’s direction such instruments of transfer or assignment as have been prepared by the Seller, in each case without recourse, representation or warranty as shall be necessary to vest in the Seller, or its 


 









respective designee, title to the Trustee’s interest in any Deleted Mortgage Loan substituted for pursuant to this Section 2.03.


For any month in which the Seller substitutes one or more Replacement Mortgage Loans for a Deleted Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer will determine the amount (if any) by which the aggregate principal balance of all the Replacement Mortgage Loans as of the date of substitution is less than the Stated Principal Balance (after application of the principal portion of the Scheduled Payment due in the month of substitution) of such Deleted Mortgage Loan. An amount equal to the aggregate of such deficiencies, described in the preceding sentence for any Distribution Date (such amount, the “Substitution Adjustment Amount”) shall be deposited into the Master Servicer Collection Account, by the Seller delivering such Replacement Mortgage Loan on the Determination Date for the Distribution Date relating to the Prepayment Period during which the related Mortgage Loan became required to be
purchased or replaced hereunder.


In the event that the Seller shall have repurchased a Mortgage Loan, the Purchase Price therefor shall be deposited into the Master Servicer Collection Account maintained by the Master Servicer, on the Determination Date for the Distribution Date in the month following the month during which the Seller became obligated to repurchase or replace such Mortgage Loan and upon such deposit of the Purchase Price, the delivery of an Opinion of Counsel if required by Section 2.05 and the receipt of a Request for Release, the Trustee or the Custodian shall release the related Mortgage File held for the benefit of the Certificateholders to the Seller, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver at such Person’s direction the related instruments of transfer or assignment prepared by the Seller, in each case without recourse, representation or warranty as shall be necessary to transfer title from
the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders and transfer the Trustee’s interest to the Seller to any Mortgage Loan purchased pursuant to this Section 2.03. It is understood and agreed that the obligation under this Agreement of the Seller to cure, repurchase or replace any Mortgage Loan as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing shall constitute the sole remedies against the Seller respecting such breach available to Certificateholders, the Depositor or the Trustee.


(e)        The representations and warranties set forth in Section 2.03 hereof shall survive delivery of the respective Mortgage Loans and Mortgage Files to the Trustee or the Custodian for the benefit of the Certificateholders.


Section 2.04     Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee   as follows, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:


(i)         The Depositor is duly organized and is validly existing as limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has full power and authority necessary to own or hold its properties and to conduct its business as now conducted by it and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party.


(ii)         The Depositor has the full power and authority to execute, deliver and perform, and to enter into and consummate the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement to which it is a party and has duly authorized, by all necessary action on its part, the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement to which it is a party; 


 









and this Agreement to which it is a party, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery hereof and thereof by the other parties hereto and thereto, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against the Depositor in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law.


(iii)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement to which it is a party by the Depositor, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to which it is a party, and the fulfillment of or compliance with the terms hereof are in the ordinary course of business of the Depositor and will not (A) result in a breach of any term or provision of the organizational documents of the Depositor or (B) conflict with, result in a breach, violation or acceleration of, or result in a default under, the terms of any other material agreement or instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it may be bound or (C) constitute a violation of any statute, order or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over the
Depositor; and the Depositor is not in breach or violation of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument, or in violation of any statute, order or regulation of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over it which breach or violation may materially impair the Depositor’s ability to perform or meet any of its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party.


(iv)        No litigation is pending, or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, threatened, against the Depositor that would materially and adversely affect the execution, delivery or enforceability of this Agreement to which it is a party or the ability of the Depositor to perform its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with the terms hereof.


(v)        No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Depositor of, or compliance by the Depositor with, this Agreement to which it is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, or if any such consent, approval, authorization or order is required, the Depositor has obtained the same.


The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee as of the Closing Date, following the transfer of the Mortgage Loans to it by the Seller, the Depositor had good title to the Mortgage Loans and the related Mortgage Notes were subject to no offsets, claims, defenses or counterclaims.


It is understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall survive delivery of the Mortgage Files to the Trustee or the Custodian for the benefit of the Certificateholders. Upon discovery by the Depositor, the Trustee of a breach of such representations and warranties, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others and to each Rating Agency.


 









 


Section 2.05     Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with Substitutions and Repurchases. 


(a)        Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, with respect to any Mortgage Loan that is not in default or as to which default is not imminent, no repurchase or substitution pursuant to Sections 2.02 or 2.03 shall be made unless the Seller delivers to the Trustee  an Opinion of Counsel, addressed to the Trustee, to the effect that such repurchase or substitution would not (i) result in the imposition of the tax on “prohibited transactions” of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III or contributions after the Closing Date, as defined in Sections 860F(a)(2) and 860G(d) of the Code, respectively, or (ii) cause any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding. Any Mortgage Loan as to which repurchase or substitution was delayed pursuant to this paragraph shall be
repurchased or the substitution therefor shall occur (subject to compliance with Sections 2.02 or 2.03) upon the earlier of (a) the occurrence of a default or imminent default with respect to such Mortgage Loan and (b) receipt by the Trustee  of an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee to the effect that such repurchase or substitution, as applicable, will not result in the events described in clause (i) or clause (ii) of the preceding sentence.


(b)        Upon discovery by the Depositor, the Seller, the Custodian or the Master Servicer that any Mortgage Loan does not constitute a “qualified mortgage” within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, the party discovering such fact shall promptly (and in any event within 5 Business Days of discovery) give written notice thereof to the other parties and the Trustee. In connection therewith, the Trustee, or the Custodian on its behalf, shall require the Seller, at the Seller’s option, to either (i) substitute, if the conditions in Section 2.03(d) with respect to substitutions are satisfied, a Replacement Mortgage Loan for the affected Mortgage Loan, or (ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan within 90 days of such discovery in the same manner as it would a Mortgage Loan for a breach of representation or warranty contained
in Section 2.03. The Trustee, or the Custodian on its behalf, shall reconvey to the Seller the Mortgage Loan to be released pursuant hereto (and the Custodian shall deliver the related Mortgage File) in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as it would a Mortgage Loan repurchased for breach of a representation or warranty contained in Section 2.03.



	
            Section 2.06
 	
            Countersignature and Delivery of Certificates.
 



(a)        The Trustee acknowledges the sale, transfer and assignment to it of the Trust Fund and, concurrently with such transfer and assignment, the Securities Administrator has executed, countersigned and delivered, to or upon the order of the Depositor, the Certificates in authorized denominations evidencing the entire ownership of the Trust Fund. The Trustee agrees to hold the Trust Fund and exercise the rights referred to above for the benefit of all present and future Holders of the Certificates  and to perform the duties set forth in this Agreement in accordance with its terms.


(b)        The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey in trust to the Trustee without recourse all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the REMIC I Regular Interests and the other assets of REMIC II for the benefit of the holders of the REMIC II Interests. The Trustee acknowledges receipt of the REMIC I Regular Interests (all of which are uncertificated) and the 


 









other assets of REMIC II and declares that it holds and will hold the same in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of the holders of the REMIC II Interests.


(c)        The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey in trust to the Trustee without recourse all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the REMIC II Regular Interests and the other assets of REMIC III for the benefit of the holders of the REMIC III Certificates. The Trustee acknowledges receipt of the REMIC II Regular Interests (all of which are uncertificated) and the other assets of REMIC III and declares that it holds and will hold the same in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of the holders of the REMIC III Certificates.



	
            Section 2.07
 	
            Conveyance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans.
 



(a)        In consideration of the Securities Administrator's delivery on the Subsequent Transfer Date to or upon the written order of the Depositor of all or a portion of the balance of funds in the Pre-Funding Account, the Depositor shall, on such Subsequent Transfer Date, sell, transfer, assign, set over and convey without recourse to the Trust Fund (subject to the other terms and provisions of this Agreement) all its right, title and interest in and to (i) the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the related Subsequent Transfer Instrument delivered by the Seller on such Subsequent Transfer Date, (ii) all interest accruing thereon on and after the Subsequent Cut-off Date and all collections in respect of interest and principal due after the Subsequent Cut-off Date and (iii) all items with respect to such
Subsequent Mortgage Loans to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.01 and the other items in the related Mortgage Files; provided, however, that the Seller reserves and retains all right, title and interest in and to principal received and interest accruing on such Subsequent Mortgage Loans prior to the related Subsequent Cut-off Date. The transfer to the Trustee for deposit by the Depositor of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule shall (i) be absolute and is intended by the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Certificateholders to constitute and to be treated as a sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by the Depositor to the Trust. The related Mortgage File for each Subsequent Mortgage Loan shall be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, at least three Business Days prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date. 


The purchase price paid by the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trustee from amounts released from the Pre-Funding Account shall be 100% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans so transferred (as identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule provided by the Depositor). This Agreement shall constitute a fixed price purchase contract in accordance with Section 860G(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Code.


(b)        The Depositor shall transfer to the Trustee for deposit in the Trust Fund, the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, and the other property and rights related thereto as described in paragraph (a) above, and the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trustee shall release funds from the Pre-Funding Account only upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions on or prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date:


(i)         the Depositor shall have delivered to the Trustee a duly executed Subsequent Transfer Instrument, which shall include a Mortgage Loan Schedule listing the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, and the Seller shall cause to be delivered a computer 


 









file containing such Mortgage Loan Schedule to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer at least three Business Days prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date;


(ii)         the Depositor shall have furnished to the Master Servicer, no later than three Business Days prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date, (x) if the servicer or servicers of such Subsequent Mortgage Loans are existing Servicers, then a written acknowledgement of each such Servicer that it is servicing such Subsequent Mortgage Loans pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, or (y) if the servicer or servicers are not existing Servicers, then a servicing agreement and assignment agreements with respect to such servicer or servicers in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Master Servicer;


(iii)        as of each Subsequent Transfer Date, as evidenced by delivery of the Subsequent Transfer Instrument, substantially in the form of Exhibit O, the Depositor shall not be bankrupt or insolvent nor shall it have been rendered bankrupt or insolvent by such transfer nor shall it be aware of any pending bankruptcy or insolvency with respect to it:


(iv)        such sale and transfer shall not result in a material adverse tax consequences to the Trust or the Certificateholders.  



	
            (v)
 	
            the Pre-Funding Period shall not have terminated;
 



(vi)        the Depositor shall not have selected the Subsequent Mortgage Loans in a manner that it believed to be adverse to the interests of the Certificateholders; and


(vii)       the Depositor shall have delivered to the Trustee a Subsequent Transfer Instrument confirming the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in this Section 2.07 and, pursuant to the Subsequent Transfer Instrument, assigned to the Trustee without recourse for the benefit of the Certificateholders all the right, title and interest of the Depositor, in, to and under the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, to the extent of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans.


(c)        Any conveyance of Subsequent Mortgage Loans on a Subsequent Transfer Date is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to the following:


(i)         Each such Subsequent Mortgage Loan must satisfy the representations and warranties specified in the related Subsequent Transfer Instrument and this Agreement;


(ii)         The Depositor will not select such Subsequent Mortgage Loans in a manner that it believes to be adverse to the interests of the Certificateholders;


(iii)        the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating Agencies are provided with an Opinion of Counsel or Opinions of Counsel, at the expense of the Depositor, stating that each REMIC in the Trust Fund is and shall continue to qualify as a REMIC following the transfer of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, to be delivered as provided pursuant to this Section 2.07;


 









 


(iv)        the Rating Agencies and the Trustee are provided with an Opinion of Counsel or Opinions of Counsel, at the expense of the Depositor, confirming that the transfer of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans conveyed on such Subsequent Transfer Date is a true sale, to be delivered as provided pursuant to this Section 2.07; and


(v)        the execution and delivery of such Subsequent Transfer Agreement or conveyance of the related Subsequent Mortgage Loans does not result in a reduction or withdrawal of any ratings assigned to the Certificates by the Rating Agencies.


The Securities Administrator shall be entitled to rely upon the confirmation made by the Depositor pursuant to the related Subsequent Transfer Instrument and the Opinions of Counsel delivered pursuant to clause (c)(iii) and (iv) above in determining that the condition precedents are met for the release of funds from the Pre-Funding Account


 









 


ARTICLE III


 


ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF EMC MORTGAGE LOANS BY COMPANY


Section 3.01     The Company. The Company shall service and administer the EMC Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary and usual standards of practice of prudent mortgage loan servicers in the respective states in which the related Mortgaged Properties are located. In connection with such servicing and administration, the Company shall have full power and authority, acting alone and/or through subservicers as provided in Section 3.03, to do or cause to be done any and all things that it may deem necessary or desirable in connection with such servicing and administration, including but not limited to, the power and authority, subject to the terms hereof (i) to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Trustee, customary consents or waivers and other instruments and documents, (ii) to consent to
transfers of any related Mortgaged Property and assumptions of the Mortgage Notes and related Mortgages (but only in the manner provided herein), (iii) to collect any Insurance Proceeds and other Liquidation Proceeds or Subsequent Recoveries, and (iv) subject to Section 3.09, to effectuate foreclosure or other conversion of the ownership of the Mortgaged Property securing any EMC Mortgage Loan; provided that the Company shall take no action that is inconsistent with or prejudices the interests of the Trust Fund or the Certificateholders in any EMC Mortgage Loan or the rights and interests of the Depositor, the Trustee under this Agreement to which it is a party.


Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company, in its own name or in the name of the Trust, the Depositor or the Trustee, is hereby authorized and empowered by the Trust, the Depositor and the Trustee, when the Company believes it appropriate in its reasonable judgment, to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders or any of them, any and all instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge and all other comparable instruments, with respect to the EMC Mortgage Loans, and with respect to the related Mortgaged Properties held for the benefit of the Certificateholders. The Company shall prepare and deliver to the Depositor and/or the Trustee such documents requiring execution and delivery by any or all of them as are necessary or appropriate to enable the Company to service and administer the
EMC Mortgage Loans. Upon receipt of such documents, the Depositor and/or the Trustee shall execute such documents and deliver them to the Company.


In accordance with the standards of the first paragraph of this Section 3.01, the Company shall advance or cause to be advanced funds as necessary for the purpose of effecting the payment of taxes and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans, which advances shall be reimbursable in the first instance from related collections from the Mortgagors pursuant to Section 5.04, and further as provided in Section 5.02. All costs incurred by the Company, if any, in effecting the timely payments of taxes and assessments on the Mortgaged Properties relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans and related insurance premiums shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly distributions to the Certificateholders, be added to the Stated Principal Balance under the related EMC Mortgage Loans, notwithstanding that the terms of such Mortgage Loans so permit.


 









 



	
            Section 3.02
 	
            Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements.
 



(a)        Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.02, when any property subject to a Mortgage has been or is about to be conveyed by the Mortgagor, the Company shall to the extent that it has knowledge of such conveyance, enforce any due-on-sale clause contained in any Mortgage Note or Mortgage, to the extent permitted under applicable law and governmental regulations, but only to the extent that such enforcement will not adversely affect or jeopardize coverage under any Required Insurance Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company is not required to exercise such rights with respect to an EMC Mortgage Loan if the Person to whom the related Mortgaged Property has been conveyed or is proposed to be conveyed satisfies the terms and conditions contained in the Mortgage Note and Mortgage related thereto and the consent of the mortgagee
under such Mortgage Note or Mortgage is not otherwise so required under such Mortgage Note or Mortgage as a condition to such transfer. In the event that the Company is prohibited by law from enforcing any such due-on-sale clause, or if coverage under any Required Insurance Policy would be adversely affected, or if nonenforcement is otherwise permitted hereunder, the Company is authorized, subject to Section 3.02(b), to take or enter into an assumption and modification agreement from or with the person to whom such property has been or is about to be conveyed, pursuant to which such person becomes liable under the Mortgage Note and, unless prohibited by applicable state law, the Mortgagor remains liable thereon, provided that the Mortgage Loan shall continue to be covered (if so covered before the Company enters such agreement) by the applicable Required Insurance Policies. The Company, subject to Section 3.02(b), is also authorized with the prior approval of the insurers under any
Required Insurance Policies to enter into a substitution of liability agreement with such Person, pursuant to which the original Mortgagor is released from liability and such Person is substituted as Mortgagor and becomes liable under the Mortgage Note. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be deemed to be in default under this Section 3.02(a) by reason of any transfer or assumption that the Company reasonably believes it is restricted by law from preventing.


(b)        Subject to the Company’s duty to enforce any due-on-sale clause to the extent set forth in Section 3.02(a), in any case in which a Mortgaged Property has been conveyed to a Person by a Mortgagor, and such Person is to enter into an assumption agreement or modification agreement or supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage that requires the signature of the Trustee, or if an instrument of release signed by the Trustee is required releasing the Mortgagor from liability on the related EMC Mortgage Loan, the Company shall prepare and deliver or cause to be prepared and delivered to the Trustee for signature and shall direct, in writing, the Trustee to execute the assumption agreement with the Person to whom the Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed and such modification agreement or supplement to the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or other
instruments as are reasonable or necessary to carry out the terms of the Mortgage Note or Mortgage or otherwise to comply with any applicable laws regarding assumptions or the transfer of the Mortgaged Property to such Person. In connection with any such assumption, no material term of the Mortgage Note (including, but not limited to, the Mortgage Rate, the amount of the Scheduled Payment and any other term affecting the amount or timing of payment on the EMC Mortgage Loan) may be changed. In addition, the substitute Mortgagor and the Mortgaged Property must be acceptable to the Company in accordance with its servicing standards as then in effect. The Company shall notify the Trustee that any such substitution or assumption agreement has been completed by forwarding to the 


 









Trustee the original of such substitution or assumption agreement, which in the case of the original shall be added to the related Mortgage File and shall, for all purposes, be considered a part of such Mortgage File to the same extent as all other documents and instruments constituting a part thereof. Any fee collected by the Company for entering into an assumption or substitution of liability agreement shall be retained by the Company as additional servicing compensation.


Section 3.03     Subservicers. The Company shall perform all of its servicing responsibilities hereunder or may cause a subservicer to perform any such servicing responsibilities on its behalf, but the use by the Company of a subservicer shall not release the Company from any of its obligations hereunder and the Company shall remain responsible hereunder for all acts and omissions of each subservicer as fully as if such acts and omissions were those of the Company. The Company shall pay all fees of each subservicer from its own funds, and a subservicer’s fee shall not exceed the Servicing Fee payable to the Company hereunder.


At the cost and expense of the Company, without any right of reimbursement from its Protected Account, the Company shall be entitled to terminate the rights and responsibilities of a subservicer and arrange for any servicing responsibilities to be performed by a successor subservicer; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be deemed to prevent or prohibit the Company, at the Company’s option, from electing to service the related EMC Mortgage Loans itself. In the event that the Company’s responsibilities and duties under this Agreement are terminated pursuant to Section 9.05, the Company shall at its own cost and expense terminate the rights and responsibilities of each subservicer effective as of the date of termination of the Company. The Company shall pay all fees, expenses or penalties necessary in order to terminate the rights and responsibilities of each
subservicer from the Company’s own funds without reimbursement from the Trust Fund.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be relieved of its obligations hereunder and shall be obligated to the same extent and under the same terms and conditions as if it alone were servicing and administering the EMC Mortgage Loans. The Company shall be entitled to enter into an agreement with a subservicer for indemnification of the Company by the subservicer and nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to limit or modify such indemnification.


Any subservicing agreement and any other transactions or services relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans involving a subservicer shall be deemed to be between such subservicer and the Company alone, and neither the Master Servicer nor the Trustee shall have any obligations, duties or liabilities with respect to such subservicer including any obligation, duty or liability of either the Master Servicer or the Trustee to pay such subservicer’s fees and expenses. For purposes of remittances to the Master Servicer pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall be deemed to have received a payment on an EMC Mortgage Loan when a subservicer has received such payment.


Section 3.04    Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Company To Be Held for Trustee. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, the Company shall transmit to the Trustee as required by this Agreement all documents and instruments in respect of an EMC Mortgage Loan coming into the possession of the Company from time to time and shall account fully to the Trustee for any funds received by the Company or that otherwise are collected by the 


 









Company as Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds in respect of any such Mortgage Loan. All Mortgage Files and funds collected or held by, or under the control of, the Company in respect of any EMC Mortgage Loans, whether from the collection of principal and interest payments or from Liquidation Proceeds, including but not limited to, any funds on deposit in the Protected Account maintained by the Company, shall be held by the Company for and on behalf of the Trustee and shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of the Trustee, subject to the applicable provisions of this Agreement. The Company also agrees that it shall not create, incur or subject any Mortgage File or any funds that are deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company or the Master Servicer Collection Account or in any Escrow Account, or any funds that otherwise are or may become due or payable to the Trustee for
the benefit of the Certificateholders, to any claim, lien, security interest, judgment, levy, writ of attachment or other encumbrance, or assert by legal action or otherwise any claim or right of set off against any Mortgage File or any funds collected on, or in connection with, an EMC Mortgage Loan, except, however, that the Company shall be entitled to set off against and deduct from any such funds any amounts that are properly due and payable to the Company under this Agreement.


Section 3.05     Maintenance of Hazard Insurance. The Company shall cause to be maintained, for each EMC Mortgage Loan, hazard insurance on buildings upon, or comprising part of, the Mortgaged Property against loss by fire, hazards of extended coverage and such other hazards as are customary in the area where the related Mortgaged Property is located with an insurer which is licensed to do business in the state where the related Mortgaged Property is located. Each such policy of standard hazard insurance shall contain, or have an accompanying endorsement that contains, a standard mortgagee clause. The Company shall also cause flood insurance to be maintained on property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any EMC Mortgage Loan, to the extent described below. Pursuant to Section 5.01, any
amounts collected by the Company under any such policies (other than the amounts to be applied to the restoration or repair of the related Mortgaged Property or property thus acquired or amounts released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the Company’s normal servicing procedures) shall be deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company. Any cost incurred by the Company in maintaining any such insurance shall not, for the purpose of calculating monthly distributions to the Certificateholders or remittances to the Trustee for their benefit, be added to the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan, notwithstanding that the terms of the EMC Mortgage Loan so permit. Such costs shall be recoverable by the Company out of late payments by the related Mortgagor or out of Liquidation Proceeds to the extent permitted by Section 5.02. It is understood and agreed that no earthquake or other additional insurance is to be required of any Mortgagor or maintained on property acquired
in respect of a Mortgage other than pursuant to such applicable laws and regulations as shall at any time be in force and as shall require such additional insurance. If the Mortgaged Property is located at the time of origination of the related EMC Mortgage Loan in a federally designated special flood hazard area and such area is participating in the national flood insurance program, the Company shall cause flood insurance to be maintained with respect to such EMC Mortgage Loan. Such flood insurance shall be in an amount equal to the least of (i) the Stated Principal Balance of the related EMC Mortgage Loan, (ii) minimum amount required to compensate for damage or loss on a replacement cost basis or (iii) the maximum amount of such insurance available for the related Mortgaged Property under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended.


 









 


In the event that the Company shall obtain and maintain a blanket policy insuring against hazard losses on all of the EMC Mortgage Loans, it shall conclusively be deemed to have satisfied its obligations as set forth in the first sentence of this Section 3.05, it being understood and agreed that such policy may contain a deductible clause on terms substantially equivalent to those commercially available and maintained by comparable servicers. If such policy contains a deductible clause, the Company shall, in the event that there shall not have been maintained on the related Mortgaged Property a policy complying with the first sentence of this Section 3.05, and there shall have been a loss that would have been covered by such policy, deposit in the Protected Account maintained by the Company the amount not otherwise payable under the blanket policy because of such deductible clause. Such
deposit shall be from the Company’s own funds without reimbursement therefor. In connection with its activities as administrator and servicer of the EMC Mortgage Loans, the Company agrees to present, on behalf of itself, the Depositor and the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, claims under any such blanket policy.


Section 3.06    Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds. The Company shall prepare and present on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders  all claims under the Insurance Policies relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans and take such actions (including the negotiation, settlement, compromise or enforcement of the insured’s claim) as shall be necessary to realize recovery under such Insurance Policies. Any proceeds disbursed to the Company in respect of such Insurance Policies shall be promptly deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company upon receipt, except that any amounts realized that are to be applied to the repair or restoration of the related Mortgaged Property as a condition precedent to the presentation of claims on the related EMC Mortgage Loan to the insurer under any applicable
Insurance Policy need not be so deposited (or remitted).



	
            Section 3.07
 	
            Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies.
 



(a)        The Company shall not take any action that would result in noncoverage under any applicable Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy of any loss which, but for the actions of the Company would have been covered thereunder. The Company shall use its best efforts to keep in force and effect (to the extent that the EMC Mortgage Loan requires the Mortgagor to maintain such insurance), Primary Mortgage Insurance applicable to each EMC Mortgage Loan. The Company shall not cancel or refuse to renew any such Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy that is in effect at the date of the initial issuance of the related Mortgage Note and is required to be kept in force hereunder.


(b)        The Company agrees to present on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders, claims to the insurer under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans and, in this regard, to take such reasonable action as shall be necessary to permit recovery under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies respecting defaulted EMC Mortgage Loans. Pursuant to Section 5.01, any amounts collected by the Company under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies shall be deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company, subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 5.02 hereof.


Section 3.08     Fidelity Bond, Errors and Omissions Insurance. The Company shall maintain, at its own expense, a blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy, with broad coverage with responsible companies on all officers, employees or other 


 









persons acting in any capacity with regard to the EMC Mortgage Loans and who handle funds, money, documents and papers relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans. The fidelity bond and errors and omissions insurance shall be in the form of the Mortgage Banker’s Blanket Bond and shall protect and insure the Company against losses, including forgery, theft, embezzlement, fraud, errors and omissions and negligent acts of such persons. Such fidelity bond shall also protect and insure the Company against losses in connection with the failure to maintain any insurance policies required pursuant to this Agreement and the release or satisfaction of an EMC Mortgage Loan which is not in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices. No provision of this Section 3.08 requiring the fidelity bond and errors and omissions insurance shall diminish or relieve the Company from its duties and obligations as set forth in this
Agreement. The minimum coverage under any such bond and insurance policy shall be at least equal to the corresponding amounts required by Accepted Servicing Practices. The Company shall deliver to the Master Servicer a certificate from the surety and the insurer as to the existence of the fidelity bond and errors and omissions insurance policy and shall obtain a statement from the surety and the insurer that such fidelity bond or insurance policy shall in no event be terminated or materially modified without thirty days prior written notice to the Master Servicer and the Trustee. The Company shall notify the Master Servicer and the Trustee within five business days of receipt of notice that such fidelity bond or insurance policy will be, or has been, materially modified or terminated. The Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders  must be named as loss payees on the fidelity bond and as additional insured on the errors and omissions policy.


Section 3.09     Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Determination of Excess Liquidation Proceeds and Realized Losses; Repurchases of Certain Mortgage Loans. 


(a)        The Company shall use reasonable efforts to foreclose upon or otherwise comparably convert the ownership of properties securing such of the EMC Mortgage Loans as come into and continue in default and as to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent payments. In connection with such foreclosure or other conversion, the Company shall follow such practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable and as shall be normal and usual in its general mortgage servicing activities and the requirements of the insurer under any Required Insurance Policy; provided that the Company shall not be required to expend its own funds in connection with any foreclosure or towards the restoration of any property unless it shall determine (i) that such restoration and/or foreclosure will increase the proceeds of
liquidation of the EMC Mortgage Loan after reimbursement to itself of such expenses and (ii) that such expenses will be recoverable to it through Insurance Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds (respecting which it shall have priority for purposes of withdrawals from the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 5.02). If the Company reasonably believes that Liquidation Proceeds with respect to any such EMC Mortgage Loan would not be increased as a result of such foreclosure or other action, such EMC Mortgage Loan will be charged-off and will become a Liquidated Loan. The Company will give notice of any such charge-off to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator. The Company shall be responsible for all other costs and expenses incurred by it in any such proceedings; provided that such costs and expenses shall be Servicing Advances and that it shall be entitled to reimbursement thereof from the proceeds of liquidation of the related Mortgaged Property, as
contemplated in Section 5.02. If the Company has knowledge that a Mortgaged Property that the Company is contemplating acquiring in foreclosure or by deed- in-lieu of foreclosure is located within a one-mile radius of any site with environmental or hazardous waste risks known to the Company, the 


 









Company will, prior to acquiring the related Mortgaged Property, consider such risks and only take action in accordance with its established environmental review procedures.


With respect to any REO Property relating to an EMC Mortgage Loan, the deed or certificate of sale shall be taken in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders  (or the Trustee’s nominee on behalf of the Certificateholders ). The Trustee’s name shall be placed on the title to such REO Property solely as the Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity. The Company shall ensure that the title to such REO Property references this Agreement and the Trustee’s capacity hereunder. Pursuant to its efforts to sell such REO Property, the Company shall either itself or through an agent selected by the Company protect and conserve such REO Property in the same manner and to such extent as is customary in the locality where such REO Property is located and may, incident to its conservation and protection of the interests of the Certificateholders, rent
the same, or any part thereof, as the Company deems to be in the best interest of the Company and the Certificateholders  for the period prior to the sale of such REO Property. The Company shall prepare for and deliver to the Trustee and the Securities Administrator a statement with respect to each such REO Property that has been rented showing the aggregate rental income received and all expenses incurred in connection with the management and maintenance of such REO Property at such times as is necessary to enable the Trustee to comply with the reporting requirements of the REMIC Provisions. The net monthly rental income, if any, from such REO Property shall be deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company no later than the close of business on each Determination Date. The Company shall perform the tax reporting and withholding related to foreclosures, abandonments and cancellation of indebtedness income as specified by Sections 1445, 6050J and 6050P of the Code by
preparing and filing such tax and information returns, as may be required.


In the event that the Trust Fund acquires any Mortgaged Property as aforesaid or otherwise in connection with a default or imminent default on an EMC Mortgage Loan, the Company shall dispose of such Mortgaged Property prior to three years after its acquisition by the Trust Fund or, at the expense of the Trust Fund, request more than 60 days prior to the day on which such three-year period would otherwise expire, an extension of the three-year grace period unless the Trustee  shall have been supplied with an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee  (such opinion not to be an expense of the Trustee) to the effect that the holding by the Trust Fund of such Mortgaged Property subsequent to such three-year period will not result in the imposition of taxes on “prohibited transactions” of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III as defined in Section 860F of the Code or cause either REMIC
I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding, in which case the Trust Fund may continue to hold such Mortgaged Property (subject to any conditions contained in such Opinion of Counsel). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no Mortgaged Property acquired by the Trust Fund shall be rented (or allowed to continue to be rented) or otherwise used for the production of income by or on behalf of the Trust Fund in such a manner or pursuant to any terms that would (i) cause such Mortgaged Property to fail to qualify as “foreclosure property” within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code or (ii) subject any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to the imposition of any federal, state or local income taxes on the income earned from such Mortgaged Property under Section 860G(c) of the Code or otherwise, unless the Company has agreed to indemnify and hold harmless the Trust Fund with respect to the
imposition of any such taxes.


 









 


The decision of the Company to foreclose on a defaulted EMC Mortgage Loan shall be subject to a determination by the Company that the proceeds of such foreclosure would exceed the costs and expenses of bringing such a proceeding. The income earned from the management of any Mortgaged Properties acquired through foreclosure or other judicial proceeding, net of reimbursement to the Company for expenses incurred (including any property or other taxes) in connection with such management and net of unreimbursed Servicing Fees, Advances, Servicing Advances and any management fee paid or to be paid with respect to the management of such Mortgaged Property, shall be applied to the payment of principal of, and interest on, the related defaulted EMC Mortgage Loans (with interest accruing as though such Mortgage Loans were still current) and all such income shall be deemed, for all purposes in the
Agreement, to be payments on account of principal and interest on the related Mortgage Notes and shall be deposited into the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company. To the extent the income received during a Prepayment Period is in excess of the amount attributable to amortizing principal and accrued interest at the related Mortgage Rate on the related EMC Mortgage Loan, such excess shall be considered to be a partial Principal Prepayment for such Mortgage Loan for all purposes hereof.


The Liquidation Proceeds from any liquidation of a related EMC Mortgage Loan, net of any payment to the Company as provided above, shall be deposited in the related Protected Account maintained by the Company on the next succeeding Determination Date following receipt thereof for distribution on the related Distribution Date, except that any Excess Liquidation Proceeds shall be retained by the Company as additional servicing compensation.


The proceeds of any Liquidated Loan, as well as any recovery resulting from a partial collection of related Liquidation Proceeds or any income from a related REO Property, shall be applied in the following order of priority: first, to reimburse the Company for any related unreimbursed Servicing Advances and Servicing Fees, pursuant to Section 5.02 or this Section 3.09; second, to reimburse the Company for any unreimbursed Advances, pursuant to Section 5.02 or this Section 3.09; third, to accrued and unpaid interest (to the extent no Advance has been made for such amount) on the EMC Mortgage Loan or related REO Property, at the Net Mortgage Rate to the first day of the month in which such amounts are required to be distributed; and fourth, as a recovery of principal of the EMC Mortgage Loan.


(b)        On each Determination Date, the Company shall determine the aggregate amounts of Excess Liquidation Proceeds and Realized Losses, if any, for the related Prepayment Period.


(c)        The Company has no intent to foreclose on any EMC Mortgage Loan based on the delinquency characteristics as of the Closing Date; provided, that the foregoing does not prevent the Company from initiating foreclosure proceedings on any date hereafter if the facts and circumstances of such EMC Mortgage Loans including delinquency characteristics in the Company’s discretion so warrant such action.


Section 3.10     Servicing Compensation. As compensation for its activities hereunder, the Company shall be entitled to retain or withdraw from its Protected Accounts out of each payment of interest on an EMC Mortgage Loan included in the Trust Fund an amount equal to the Servicing Fee.


 









 


Additional servicing compensation in the form of any Excess Liquidation Proceeds, assumption fees, late payment charges, all Prepayment Interest Excess on any EMC Mortgage Loan, all income and gain net of any losses realized from Permitted Investments with respect to funds in or credited to the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company shall be retained by the Company to the extent not required to be deposited in the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 5.02. The Company shall be required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its servicing activities hereunder (including payment of any premiums for hazard insurance, as required by Section 3.05 and maintenance of the other forms of insurance coverage required by Section 3.07) and shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as specifically provided in Section 5.02.


EMC shall be entitled to retain any Prepayment Interest Excess pursuant to Section 5.07(e).



	
            Section 3.11
 	
            REO Property.
 



(a)        In the event the Trust Fund acquires ownership of any REO Property in respect of any related EMC Mortgage Loan, the deed or certificate of sale shall be issued to the Trustee, or to its nominee, on behalf of the related Certificateholders. The Company shall sell any such REO Property as expeditiously as possible and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Pursuant to its efforts to sell such REO Property, the Company shall protect and conserve such REO Property in the manner and to the extent required herein, in accordance with the REMIC Provisions.


(b)        The Company shall deposit all funds collected and received in connection with the operation of any REO Property in respect of any EMC Mortgage Loan into the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company.


(c)        The Company, upon the final disposition of any REO Property in respect of any EMC Mortgage Loan, shall be entitled to reimbursement for any related unreimbursed Advances, unreimbursed Servicing Advances or Servicing Fees from Liquidation Proceeds received in connection with the final disposition of such REO Property; provided, that any such unreimbursed Advances or Servicing Fees as well as any unpaid Servicing Fees may be reimbursed or paid, as the case may be, prior to final disposition, out of any net rental income or other net amounts derived from such REO Property.


Section 3.12     Liquidation Reports. Upon the foreclosure of any Mortgaged Property relating to an EMC Mortgage Loan or the acquisition thereof by the Trust Fund pursuant to a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, the Company shall submit a liquidation report to the Master Servicer containing such information as shall be mutually acceptable to the Company and the Master Servicer with respect to such Mortgaged Property.



	
            Section 3.13
 	
            Annual Statement as to Compliance; Annual Certification.
 



The Company will deliver to the Master Servicer  not later than March 1, 2006 and not later than March 1 of each year thereafter, a certificate of a Servicing Officer stating, as to each signatory thereof, that (i) a review of the activities of the Company during the preceding calendar year and of performance under this Agreement has been made under such officers’ supervision, 


 









and (ii) to the best of such officers’ knowledge, based on such review, the Company has fulfilled all of its obligations under this Agreement throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to such officers and the nature and status thereof except for such defaults as such officer in its good faith judgment believe to be immaterial.


(a)        (i)  The Company will deliver to the Master Servicer, on or before March 1 of each year beginning March 1, 2006 (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day), or on any alternative date specified by the Master Servicer upon thirty (30) days written request, a certification containing the information set forth in Exhibit K. Such certification shall be signed by the senior officer in charge of servicing of the Company. In addition, the Company shall provide such other information with respect to the EMC Mortgage Loans and the servicing and administration thereof within the control of the Company which shall be required to enable the Master Servicer to comply with the reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.


(ii)         The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Master Servicer and its officers, directors, agents and affiliates from and against any losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, reasonable legal fees and related costs, judgments and other costs and expenses arising out of or based upon a breach by the Company or any of its officers, directors, agents or affiliates of its obligations under this Section 3.13(a) or the Company’s negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct in connection therewith. If the indemnification provided for herein is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless the Master Servicer, then the Company agrees that it shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Master Servicer as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities of the Master Servicer in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Master Servicer on the one hand and the Company on the other in connection with a breach of the Company’s obligations under this Section 3.13(a).


Section 3.14     Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants’ Servicing Report. The Company at its expense shall cause a firm of independent public accountants which is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to furnish not later than March 1, 2006 and not later than March 1 of each year thereafter a statement, in a form acceptable for filing with the Commission on an Exhibit to Form 10-K, to the Master Servicer  to the effect that, with respect to the preceding calendar year such firm has examined certain documents and records relating to the Company’s servicing of mortgage loans of the same type as the EMC Mortgage Loans pursuant to servicing agreements substantially similar to this Agreement, which agreements may include this Agreement, and that, on the basis of such an
examination, conducted substantially in compliance with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, such firm is of the opinion that the Company’s servicing has been conducted in compliance with the agreements examined pursuant to this Section 3.14, except for (i) such exceptions as such firm shall believe to be immaterial,(ii) such other exceptions as shall be set forth in such statement and (iii) such exceptions that the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers requires it to report.


Section 3.15     Books and Records. The Company shall be responsible for maintaining, and shall maintain, a complete set of books and records for the EMC Mortgage Loans which shall be appropriately identified in the Company’s computer system to clearly reflect the 


 









ownership of the EMC Mortgage Loans by the Trust. In particular, the Company shall maintain in its possession, available for inspection by the Master Servicer, the Trustee  and shall deliver to Master Servicer, the Trustee  upon demand, evidence of compliance with all federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. To the extent that original documents are not required for purposes of realization of Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds, documents maintained by the Company may be in the form of microfilm or microfiche or such other reliable means of recreating original documents, including, but not limited to, optical imagery techniques so long as the Company complies with the requirements of Accepted Servicing Practices.


The Company shall maintain with respect to each EMC Mortgage Loan and shall make available for inspection by the Master Servicer, the Trustee  the related servicing file during the time such EMC Mortgage Loan is subject to this Agreement and thereafter in accordance with applicable law.


 









 


ARTICLE IV


 


ADMINISTRATION AND MASTER SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY MASTER SERVICER


Section 4.01     Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall, beginning on the Closing Date, supervise, monitor and oversee the obligation of the Company and the related Servicer to service and administer their respective Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement and shall have full power and authority to do any and all things which it may deem necessary or desirable in connection with such master servicing and administration. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall oversee and consult with the Company and the related Servicer as necessary from time-to-time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall
receive, review and evaluate all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by the Company and the related Servicer and shall cause the Company and related Servicer to perform and observe the covenants, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Person under this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor the Company and the related Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan, reconcile the results of such monitoring with such information provided in the previous sentence on a monthly basis and coordinate corrective adjustments to the Company’s, the related Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 6.06
and any other information and statements required hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of the Company and each Servicer pursuant to this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement.


The Trustee shall furnish the Company, the Servicers and the Master Servicer with any powers of attorney and other documents in form as provided to it necessary or appropriate to enable the Company, the Servicer and the Master Servicer to service and administer the related Mortgage Loans and REO Property.


The Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf and the Securities Administrator shall provide access to the records and documentation in possession of the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf or the Securities Administrator regarding the related Mortgage Loans and REO Property and the servicing thereof to the Certificateholders, the FDIC, and the supervisory agents and examiners of the FDIC, such access being afforded only upon reasonable prior written request and during normal business hours at the office of the Trustee, the Custodian or the Securities Administrator; provided, however, that, unless otherwise required by law, neither the Trustee, the Custodian nor the Securities Administrator shall be required to provide access to such records and documentation if the provision thereof would violate the legal right to privacy of any Mortgagor. The Trustee, the Custodian and the Securities
Administrator shall allow representatives of the above entities to photocopy any of the records and documentation and shall provide equipment for that purpose at a charge that covers the Trustee’s, the Custodian’s or the Securities Administrator’s actual costs.


 









 


The Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Company or the related Servicer and the Master Servicer any court pleadings, requests for trustee’s sale or other documents necessary or desirable to (i) the foreclosure or trustee’s sale with respect to a Mortgaged Property; (ii) any legal action brought to obtain judgment against any Mortgagor on the Mortgage Note or Security Instrument; (iii) obtain a deficiency judgment against the Mortgagor; or (iv) enforce any other rights or remedies provided by the Mortgage Note or Security Instrument or otherwise available at law or equity.


Section 4.02     REMIC-Related Covenants. For as long as each REMIC created hereunder shall exist, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall act in accordance herewith to assure continuing treatment of such REMIC as a REMIC, and the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall comply with any directions of the Seller, the Company, the Servicers or the Master Servicer to assure such continuing treatment. In particular, the Trustee shall not (a) sell or permit the sale of all or any portion of the Mortgage Loans or of any investment of deposits in an Account unless such sale is as a result of a repurchase of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to this Agreement or the Trustee has received a REMIC Opinion addressed to the Trustee prepared at the expense of the Trust Fund; and (b) other than with respect to a
substitution pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.03 of this Agreement, as applicable, accept any contribution to any REMIC after the Startup Day without receipt of a REMIC Opinion.



	
            Section 4.03
 	
            Monitoring of Company and Servicer.
 



(a)        The Master Servicer shall be responsible for reporting to the Trustee and the Seller the compliance by the Company and the related Servicer with its duties under this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement. In the review of the Company’s and the related Servicer’s activities, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Company and the related Servicer with regard to such Person’s compliance with the terms of this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that the Company or the related Servicer should be terminated in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event
that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Seller and the Trustee thereof and the Master Servicer shall issue such notice or take such other action as it deems appropriate.


(b)        The Master Servicer, for the benefit of the Trustee and the Certificateholders, shall enforce the obligations of the Company under this Agreement and the related Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement, and shall, in the event that the Company or the related Servicer fails to perform its obligations in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, subject to the preceding paragraph, terminate the rights and obligations of such Person thereunder and act as servicer of the related Mortgage Loans or to cause the Trustee to enter into a new Servicing Agreement with a successor Servicer selected by the Master Servicer; provided, however, it is understood and acknowledged by the parties hereto that there shall be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully
transferred to such successor Servicer. Such enforcement, including, without limitation, the legal prosecution of claims, termination of the related Servicing Agreement and the pursuit of other appropriate remedies, shall be in such form and carried out to such an extent and at such time as the Master Servicer, in its good faith business judgment, 


 









would require were it the owner of the related Mortgage Loans. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement at its own expense, subject to its right of reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, provided that the Master Servicer shall not be required to prosecute or defend any legal action except to the extent that the Master Servicer shall have received reasonable indemnity for its costs and expenses in pursuing such action.


(c)        To the extent that the costs and expenses of the Master Servicer related to any termination of the Company or the related Servicer, appointment of a successor Servicer or the transfer and assumption of servicing by the Master Servicer with respect to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement (including, without limitation, (i) all legal costs and expenses and all due diligence costs and expenses associated with an evaluation of the potential termination of the Company or the related Servicer as a result of an event of default by such Person and (ii) all costs and expenses associated with the complete transfer of servicing, including all servicing files and all servicing data and the completion, correction or manipulation of such servicing data as may be required by the successor servicer to correct any errors or insufficiencies in
the servicing data or otherwise to enable the successor service to service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) are not fully and timely reimbursed by the Company or the terminated Servicer, the Master Servicer shall be entitled to reimbursement of such costs and expenses from the Master Servicer Collection Account.


(d)        The Master Servicer shall require the Company and the related Servicer to comply with the remittance requirements and other obligations set forth in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable.


(e)        If the Master Servicer acts as a servicer, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of the Company or the related Servicer, if any, that it replaces.


Section 4.04     Fidelity Bond. The Master Servicer, at its expense, shall maintain in effect a blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy, affording coverage with respect to all directors, officers, employees and other Persons acting on such Master Servicer’s behalf, and covering errors and omissions in the performance of the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder. The errors and omissions insurance policy and the fidelity bond shall be in such form and amount generally acceptable for entities serving as master servicers or trustees.


Section 4.05     Power to Act; Procedures. The Master Servicer shall master service the Mortgage Loans and shall have full power and authority, subject to the REMIC Provisions and the provisions of Article XI hereof, to do any and all things that it may deem necessary or desirable in connection with the master servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans, including but not limited to the power and authority (i) to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Trustee, customary consents or waivers and other instruments and documents, (ii) to consent to transfers of any Mortgaged Property and assumptions of the Mortgage Notes and related Mortgages, (iii) to collect any Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds, and (iv) to effectuate foreclosure or other conversion of the ownership of the
Mortgaged Property securing any Mortgage Loan, in each case, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable; provided, however, that the Master Servicer shall not (and, consistent with its responsibilities under 


 









Section 4.03, shall not permit the Company or the related Servicer to) knowingly or intentionally take any action, or fail to take (or fail to cause to be taken) any action reasonably within its control and the scope of duties more specifically set forth herein, that, under the REMIC Provisions, if taken or not taken, as the case may be, would cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC or result in the imposition of a tax upon the Trust Fund (including but not limited to the tax on prohibited transactions as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code and the tax on contributions to a REMIC set forth in Section 860G(d) of the Code) unless the Master Servicer has received an Opinion of Counsel (but not at the expense of the Master Servicer) to the effect that the contemplated action will not cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC or result in the imposition
of a tax upon REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III as the case may be. The Trustee shall furnish the Master Servicer, upon written request from a Servicing Officer, with any powers of attorney empowering the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer to execute and deliver instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge, and to foreclose upon or otherwise liquidate Mortgaged Property, and to appeal, prosecute or defend in any court action relating to the Mortgage Loans or the Mortgaged Property, in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement and this Agreement, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver such other documents, as the Master Servicer may request, to enable the Master Servicer to master service and administer the Mortgage Loans and carry out its duties hereunder, in each case in accordance with Accepted Master Servicing Practices (and the Trustee shall have no liability for misuse of any such powers of attorney by the Master
Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer). If the Master Servicer or the Trustee has been advised that it is likely that the laws of the state in which action is to be taken prohibit such action if taken in the name of the Trustee or that the Trustee would be adversely affected under the “doing business” or tax laws of such state if such action is taken in its name, the Master Servicer shall join with the Trustee in the appointment of a co-trustee pursuant to Section 10.11 hereof. In the performance of its duties hereunder, the Master Servicer shall be an independent contractor and shall not, except in those instances where it is taking action in the name of the Trustee, be deemed to be the agent of the Trustee.


Section 4.06     Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements. To the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, to the extent Mortgage Loans contain enforceable due-on-sale clauses, the Master Servicer shall cause the Company and the related Servicer to enforce such clauses in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement. If applicable law prohibits the enforcement of a due-on-sale clause or such clause is otherwise not enforced in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, and, as a consequence, a Mortgage Loan is assumed, the original Mortgagor may be released from liability in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.



	
            Section 4.07
 	
            Release of Mortgage Files.
 



(a)        Upon becoming aware of the payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or the receipt by the Company or the related Servicer of a notification that payment in full has been escrowed in a manner customary for such purposes for payment to Certificateholders on the next Distribution Date, the Company or the related Servicer will, if required under the related  Servicing Agreement (or if the Company or the related Servicer does not, the Master Servicer may), promptly furnish to the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, two copies of a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto signed by a Servicing Officer or in a mutually agreeable electronic format which will, in lieu of a signature on its face, originate from a 


 









Servicing Officer (which certification shall include a statement to the effect that all amounts received in connection with such payment that are required to be deposited in the Protected Account maintained by the Company or the Servicer pursuant to Article V or by the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement have been or will be so deposited) and shall request that the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, deliver to the Company or the related Servicer the related Mortgage File. Upon receipt of such certification and request, the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, shall promptly release the related Mortgage File to the Company or the related Servicer and the Trustee and Custodian shall have no further responsibility with regard to such Mortgage File. Upon any such payment in full, the Company or the related Servicer is authorized, to give, as agent for the Trustee, as the mortgagee
under the Mortgage that secured the Mortgage Loan, an instrument of satisfaction (or assignment of mortgage without recourse, representation or warranty) regarding the Mortgaged Property subject to the Mortgage, which instrument of satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be delivered to the Person or Persons entitled thereto against receipt therefor of such payment, it being understood and agreed that no expenses incurred in connection with such instrument of satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be chargeable to the Protected Account.


(b)        From time to time and as appropriate for the servicing or foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, the Trustee shall execute such documents as shall be prepared and furnished to the Trustee by the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer (in form reasonably acceptable to the Trustee) and as are necessary to the prosecution of any such proceedings. The Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, shall, upon the request of the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer, and delivery to the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, of two copies of a request for release signed by a Servicing Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit G (or in a mutually agreeable electronic format which will, in lieu of a signature on its face, originate from a Servicing Officer),
release the related Mortgage File held in its possession or control to the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer, as applicable. Such trust receipt shall obligate the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer to return the Mortgage File to the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, when the need therefor by such Person no longer exists unless the Mortgage Loan shall be liquidated, in which case, upon receipt of a certificate of a Servicing Officer similar to that hereinabove specified, the Mortgage File shall be released by the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, to the Company, the related Servicer or the Master Servicer.


Section 4.08     Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Master Servicer, Company and Servicer To Be Held for Trustee. 


(a)        The Master Servicer shall transmit and the Company or the related Servicer (to the extent required by this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) shall transmit to the Trustee or Custodian such documents and instruments coming into the possession of such Person from time to time as are required by the terms hereof, or in the case of the related Servicer, the related Servicing Agreement, to be delivered to the Trustee or Custodian. Any funds received by the Master Servicer, the Company or by the related Servicer in respect of any Mortgage Loan or which otherwise are collected by the Master Servicer, the Company or by the related Servicer as Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds in respect of any Mortgage Loan shall be held for the benefit of the Trustee, the Certificateholders  subject to the Master Servicer’s right to
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Servicing Compensation and other amounts provided in this Agreement, and to the right of the Company and the related Servicer to retain its Servicing Fee and other amounts as provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, and (to the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) shall cause the Company and the related Servicer to, provide access to information and documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee, its agents and accountants at any time upon reasonable request and during normal business hours, and to Certificateholders that are savings and loan associations, banks or insurance companies, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the FDIC and the supervisory agents and examiners of such Office and Corporation or examiners of any other federal or state banking or insurance regulatory authority if so required by applicable
regulations of the Office of Thrift Supervision or other regulatory authority, such access to be afforded without charge but only upon reasonable request in writing and during normal business hours at the offices of the Master Servicer designated by it. In fulfilling such a request the Master Servicer shall not be responsible for determining the sufficiency of such information.


(b)        All Mortgage Files and funds collected or held by, or under the control of, the Master Servicer, in respect of any Mortgage Loans, whether from the collection of principal and interest payments or from Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds, shall be held by the Master Servicer for and on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders and shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of the Trustee; provided, however, that the Master Servicer, the Company and the related Servicer shall be entitled to setoff against, and deduct from, any such funds any amounts that are properly due and payable to the Master Servicer or such Servicer under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.



	
            Section 4.09
 	
            Standard Hazard Insurance and Flood Insurance Policies.
 



(a)        For each Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer shall enforce any obligation of the Company and the related Servicer under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement to maintain or cause to be maintained standard fire and casualty insurance and, where applicable, flood insurance, all in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement. It is understood and agreed that such insurance shall be with insurers meeting the eligibility requirements set forth in this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement and that no earthquake or other additional insurance is to be required of any Mortgagor or to be maintained on property acquired in respect of a defaulted loan, other than pursuant to such applicable laws and regulations as shall at any time be in force and as shall require such additional insurance.


(b)        Pursuant to Sections 5.01, 5.04 and 5.06 any amounts collected by the Company, the Servicers or the Master Servicer, or by the Company or the Servicers, under any insurance policies (other than amounts to be applied to the restoration or repair of the property subject to the related Mortgage or released to the Mortgagor in accordance with this Agreement or the Servicing Agreements) shall be deposited by the Company in its Protected Account or by the related Servicer or the Master Servicer into the Master Servicer Collection Account, subject to withdrawal pursuant to Sections 5.02, 5.04, 5.05 and 5.07, as applicable. Any cost incurred by the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer in maintaining any such insurance if the Mortgagor defaults in its obligation to do so shall be added to the amount owing under the Mortgage Loan
where the terms of the Mortgage Loan so permit; provided, however, that the addition of any such cost shall not be taken into account for purposes of calculating the 


 









distributions to be made to Certificateholders and shall be recoverable by the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer pursuant to Sections 5.02, 5.04, 5.05 and 5.07, as applicable.


Section 4.10     Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds. The Master Servicer shall (to the extent provided in this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement) cause the Company or the Servicer to, prepare and present on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders all claims under the Insurance Policies and take such actions (including the negotiation, settlement, compromise or enforcement of the insured’s claim) as shall be necessary to realize recovery under such policies. Any proceeds disbursed to the Master Servicer (or disbursed to the Company or the related Servicer and remitted to the Master Servicer) in respect of such policies, bonds or contracts shall be promptly deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account upon receipt, except that any amounts realized that are to be applied to
the repair or restoration of the related Mortgaged Property as a condition precedent to the presentation of claims on the related Mortgage Loan to the insurer under any applicable Insurance Policy need not be so deposited (or remitted).



	
            Section 4.11
 	
            Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies.
 



(a)        The Master Servicer shall not take, or permit the Company or the related Servicer (to the extent such action is prohibited under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) to take, any action that would result in noncoverage under any applicable Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy of any loss which, but for the actions of the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer, would have been covered thereunder. The Master Servicer shall use its best reasonable efforts to cause the Company and the related Servicer (to the extent required under this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement) to keep in force and effect (to the extent that the Mortgage Loan requires the Mortgagor to maintain such insurance), primary mortgage insurance applicable to each Mortgage Loan (including any LPMI Policy) in accordance with the provisions
of this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall not, and shall not permit the Company or the related Servicer (to the extent required under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) to, cancel or refuse to renew any such Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy that is in effect at the date of the initial issuance of the Mortgage Note and is required to be kept in force hereunder except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable.


(b)        The Master Servicer agrees to cause the Company and the related Servicer (to the extent required under this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement) to present, on behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders, claims to the insurer under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies and, in this regard, to take such reasonable action as shall be necessary to permit recovery under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies respecting defaulted Mortgage Loans. Pursuant to Sections 5.01, 5.05 and 5.07, any amounts collected by the Company or the related Servicer under any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies shall be deposited by the Company in its Protected Account or by the related Servicer in the Master Servicer Collection Account, subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 5.02 or 5.07, as applicable.


Section 4.12     Trustee to Retain Possession of Certain Insurance Policies and Documents. The Trustee (or the Custodian, as directed by the Trustee), shall retain possession 


 









and custody of the originals (to the extent available) of any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies, or certificate of insurance if applicable, and any certificates of renewal as to the foregoing as may be issued from time to time as contemplated by this Agreement. Until all amounts distributable in respect of the Certificates have been distributed in full and the Master Servicer otherwise has fulfilled its obligations under this Agreement, the Trustee (or its Custodian, if any, as directed by the Trustee) shall also retain possession and custody of each Mortgage File in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The Master Servicer shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee (or the Custodian, as directed by the Trustee), upon the execution or receipt thereof the originals of any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies, any certificates of renewal, and such
other documents or instruments that constitute portions of the Mortgage File that come into the possession of the Master Servicer from time to time.


Section 4.13     Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans. The Master Servicer shall cause the Company and the related Servicer (to the extent required under this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement) to foreclose upon, repossess or otherwise comparably convert the ownership of Mortgaged Properties securing such of the Mortgage Loans as come into and continue in default and as to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent payments, all in accordance with this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.


Section 4.14     Compensation for the Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall be entitled to the sum of (i) the Master Servicing Fee for the related Distribution Date, (ii) all income and gain realized from any investment of funds on Permitted Investments in the Master Servicer Collection Account and Distribution Account as compensation for the performance of its obligations hereunder (“Master Servicing Compensation”) and (iii) any interest remitted by the related Servicer in connection with a Principal Prepayment in full or otherwise in excess of amounts required to be remitted to the Master Servicer Collection Account (“Additional Master Servicing Compensation”). The Master Servicer shall be required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities hereunder and shall not
be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as provided in this Agreement.



	
            Section 4.15
 	
            REO Property.
 



(a)        In the event the Trust Fund acquires ownership of any REO Property in respect of any related Mortgage Loan, the deed or certificate of sale shall be issued to the Trustee, or to its nominee, on behalf of the related Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall, to the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, cause the Company or the related Servicer to sell, any REO Property as expeditiously as possible and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Pursuant to its efforts to sell such REO Property, the Master Servicer shall cause the Company or the related Servicer to protect and conserve, such REO Property in the manner and to the extent required by this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, in accordance with the REMIC Provisions and in a
manner that does not result in a tax on “net income from foreclosure property” or cause such REO Property to fail to qualify as “foreclosure property” within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code.


(b)        The Master Servicer shall, to the extent required by this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, cause the Company or the related Servicer to deposit all funds 


 









collected and received in connection with the operation of any REO Property in the Protected Account.


(c)        The Master Servicer and the Company or the related Servicer, upon the final disposition of any REO Property, shall be entitled to reimbursement for any related unreimbursed Advances and other unreimbursed advances as well as any unpaid Servicing Fees from Liquidation Proceeds received in connection with the final disposition of such REO Property; provided, that any such unreimbursed Monthly Advances as well as any unpaid Servicing Fees may be reimbursed or paid, as the case may be, prior to final disposition, out of any net rental income or other net amounts derived from such REO Property.


(d)        To the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, the Liquidation Proceeds from the final disposition of the REO Property, net of any payment to the Master Servicer and the Company or the related Servicer as provided above shall be deposited in the Protected Account on or prior to the Determination Date in the month following receipt thereof and be remitted by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the Master Servicer for deposit into the related Master Servicer Collection Account on the next succeeding Remittance Date.



	
            Section 4.16
 	
            Annual Officer’s Certificate as to Compliance.
 



(a)        The Master Servicer shall deliver to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Rating Agencies on or before March 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2006, an Officer’s Certificate, certifying that with respect to the period ending December 31 of the prior year: (i) such Servicing Officer has reviewed the activities of such Master Servicer during the preceding calendar year or portion thereof and its performance under this Agreement, (ii) to the best of such Servicing Officer’s knowledge, based on such review, such Master Servicer has performed and fulfilled its duties, responsibilities and obligations under this Agreement in all material respects throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such duties, responsibilities or obligations, specifying each such default known to such
Servicing Officer and the nature and status thereof, (iii) nothing has come to the attention of such Servicing Officer to lead such Servicing Officer to believe that the Company or any Servicer has failed to perform any of its duties, responsibilities and obligations under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement in all material respects throughout such year, or, if there has been a material default in the performance or fulfillment of any such duties, responsibilities or obligations, specifying each such default known to such Servicing Officer and the nature and status thereof.


(b)        Copies of such statements shall be provided to any Certificateholder upon request, by the Master Servicer or by the Trustee at the Master Servicer’s expense if the Master Servicer failed to provide such copies (unless (i) the Master Servicer shall have failed to provide the Trustee with such statement or (ii) the Trustee shall be unaware of the Master Servicer’s failure to provide such statement).


Section 4.17     Annual Independent Accountant’s Servicing Report. If the Master Servicer has, during the course of any fiscal year, directly serviced any of the Mortgage Loans, then the Master Servicer at its expense shall cause a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants to furnish a statement to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee, 


 









the Rating Agencies and the Seller on or before March 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2006 to the effect that, with respect to the most recently ended fiscal year, such firm has examined certain records and documents relating to the Master Servicer’s performance of its servicing obligations under this Agreement and pooling and servicing and trust agreements in material respects similar to this Agreement and to each other and that, on the basis of such examination conducted substantially in compliance with the audit program for mortgages serviced for Freddie Mac or the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers, such firm is of the opinion that the Master Servicer’s activities have been conducted in compliance with this Agreement, or that such examination has disclosed no material items of noncompliance except for (i) such exceptions as such firm believes to be immaterial, (ii)
such other exceptions as are set forth in such statement and (iii) such exceptions that the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or the Audit Program for Mortgages Serviced by Freddie Mac requires it to report. Copies of such statements shall be provided to any Certificateholder upon request by the Master Servicer, or by the Trustee at the expense of the Master Servicer if the Master Servicer shall fail to provide such copies (unless (i) the Master Servicer shall have failed to provide the Trustee with such statement or (ii) the Trustee shall be unaware of the Master Servicer’s failure to provide such statement). If such report discloses exceptions that are material, the Master Servicer shall advise the Trustee whether such exceptions have been or are susceptible of cure, and will take prompt action to do so.


Section 4.18     Reports Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission. Within 15 days after each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall, in accordance with industry standards, file with the Commission via the Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”), a Form 8-K (or other comparable Form containing the same or comparable information or other information mutually agreed upon) a copy of the statement to the Certificateholders for such Distribution Date as an exhibit thereto. Prior to January 30 in each year, the Securities Administrator shall, in accordance with industry standards and only if instructed by the Depositor, file a Form 15 Suspension Notice with respect to the Trust Fund, if applicable. Prior to (i) March 15, 2006 and (ii) unless and until a Form 15 Suspension
Notice shall have been filed, prior to March 15 of each year thereafter, the Master Servicer shall provide the Securities Administrator with a Master Servicer Certification, together with a copy of the annual independent accountant’s servicing report and annual statement of compliance of the Company to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement and each Servicer, in each case, required to be delivered pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, and, if applicable, the annual independent accountant’s servicing report and annual statement of compliance to be delivered by the Master Servicer pursuant to Sections 4.16 and 4.17. Prior to (i) March 31, 2006 and (ii) unless and until a Form 15 Suspension Notice shall have been filed, March 31 of each year thereafter, the Securities Administrator shall file a Form 10-K, in substance conforming to industry standards, with respect to the Trust. Such Form 10-K shall include the Master Servicer Certification and other documentation
provided by the Master Servicer pursuant to the second preceding sentence. The Depositor hereby grants to the Securities Administrator a limited power of attorney to execute and file each such document on behalf of the Depositor. Such power of attorney shall continue until either the earlier of (i) receipt by the Securities Administrator from the Depositor of written termination of such power of attorney and (ii) the termination of the Trust Fund. The Depositor agrees to promptly furnish to the Securities Administrator, from time to time upon request, such further information, reports and financial statements within its control related to this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans as the Securities Administrator reasonably deems 


 









appropriate to prepare and file all necessary reports with the Commission. The Securities Administrator shall have no responsibility to file any items other than those specified in this Section 4.18; provided, however, the Securities Administrator will cooperate with the Depositor in connection with any additional filings with respect to the Trust Fund as the Depositor deems necessary under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Copies of all reports filed by the Securities Administrator under the Exchange Act shall be sent to: the Depositor c/o Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Attn: Managing Director-Analysis and Control, One Metrotech Center North, Brooklyn, New York 11202-3859. Fees and expenses incurred by the Securities Administrator in connection with this Section 4.18 shall not be reimbursable from the Trust Fund except for expenses incurred by the Securities
Administrator in connection with any additional filings, which shall be reimbursed by the Depositor.  


Section 4.19     UCC. The Trustee agrees to file continuation statements for any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements which the Seller has informed the Trustee were filed on the Closing Date in connection with the Trust. The Seller shall file any financing statements or amendments thereto required by any change in the Uniform Commercial Code.


Section 4.20     Optional Purchase of Certain Mortgage Loans. With respect to any Mortgage Loans which as of the first day of a Fiscal Quarter is delinquent in payment by 90 days or more or is an REO Property, EMC shall have the right to purchase any Mortgage Loan from the Trust which becomes 90 days or more delinquent or becomes an REO Property at a price equal to the Repurchase Price; provided however (i) that such Mortgage Loan is still 90 days or more delinquent or is an REO Property as of the date of such purchase and (ii) this purchase option, if not theretofore exercised, shall terminate on the date prior to the last day of the related Fiscal Quarter. This purchase option, if not exercised, shall not be thereafter reinstated unless the delinquency is cured and the Mortgage Loan thereafter again becomes 90 days
or more delinquent or becomes an REO Property, in which case the option shall again become exercisable as of the first day of the related Fiscal Quarter.


In addition, EMC shall, at its option, purchase any Mortgage Loan from the Trust if the first Due Date for such Mortgage Loan is subsequent to the Cut-off Date and the initial Monthly Payment is not made within thirty (30) days of such Due Date. Such purchase shall be made at a price equal to the Repurchase Price. 


If at any time EMC remits to the Master Servicer a payment for deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account covering the amount of the Repurchase Price for such a Mortgage Loan, and EMC provides to the Trustee a certification signed by a Servicing Officer stating that the amount of such payment has been deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account, then the Trustee shall execute the assignment of such Mortgage Loan prepared and delivered to the Trustee, at the request of EMC, without recourse, representation or warranty, to EMC which shall succeed to all the Trustee’s right, title and interest in and to such Mortgage Loan, and all security and documents relative thereto. Such assignment shall be an assignment outright and not for security. EMC will thereupon own such Mortgage, and all such security and documents, free of any further obligation to the Trustee or the
Certificateholders with respect thereto.


 









 


ARTICLE V


 


ACCOUNTS


Section 5.01     Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Protected Account; Corridor Contract Reserve Fund. 


(a)        The Company shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with customary and usual standards of practice of prudent mortgage lenders in the respective states in which the Mortgaged Properties related to the EMC Mortgage Loans are located to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the EMC Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing, the Company may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge and (ii) extend the Due Dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note related to an EMC Mortgage Loan for a period not greater than 125 days. In the event of any such arrangement, the Company shall make Advances on the related EMC Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance
with the amortization schedule of such EMC Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements, and shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor in accordance with Section 6.01. The Company shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. In addition, if (x) an EMC Mortgage Loan is in default or default is imminent or (y) the Company delivers to the Trustee  a certification addressed to the Trustee, based on the advice of counsel or certified public accountants, in either case, that have a national reputation with respect to taxation of REMICs, that a modification of such EMC Mortgage Loan will not result in
the imposition of taxes on or disqualify from REMIC status any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III, the Company may, (A) amend the related Mortgage Note to reduce the Mortgage Rate applicable thereto, provided that such reduced Mortgage Rate shall in no event be lower than 5.00% with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loan and (B) amend any Mortgage Note related to an EMC Mortgage Loan to extend to the maturity thereof.


In accordance with the standards of the first paragraph of Section 3.01, the Company shall not waive (or permit a sub-servicer to waive) any Prepayment Charge related to an EMC Mortgage Loan unless: (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally, (ii) the enforcement thereof is illegal, or any local, state or federal agency has threatened legal action if the prepayment penalty is enforced, (iii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment or (iv) such waiver is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans and relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default and would, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, maximize recovery of total proceeds taking
into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and the related EMC Mortgage Loan. If a Prepayment Charge is waived, but does not meet the standards described above, then the Company is required to pay the amount of such waived Prepayment Charge, for the benefit of the Class P Certificates, by remitting such amount to the Master Servicer by the Remittance Date.


 









 


(b)        The Company shall establish and maintain a Protected Account (which shall at all times be an Eligible Account) with a depository institution in the name of the Company for the benefit of the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders  and designated “U.S. Bank National Association, in trust for registered holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-AC8”. The Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited into the Protected Account on a daily basis within one Business Day of receipt, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the following payments and collections remitted by subservicers or received by it in respect of the EMC Mortgage Loans subsequent to the Cut-off Date (other than in respect of principal and interest due on the EMC Mortgage Loans on or before the Cut-off
Date) and the following amounts required to be deposited hereunder:


(i)         all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the EMC Mortgage Loans;


(ii)         all payments on account of interest on the EMC Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.10 and LPMI Fees, if any;


(iii)        all Liquidation Proceeds and Insurance Proceeds with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loans, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property or released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the Company’s normal servicing procedures;


(iv)        any amount required to be deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 5.01(c) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments;


(v)        any amounts required to be deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.05;



	
            (vi)
 	
            any Prepayment Charges collected on the EMC Mortgage Loans; and
 
	
            (vii)
 	
            any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder.
 	
             




The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Company into the Protected Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, payments in the nature of late payment charges or assumption fees, if collected, need not be remitted by the Company. In the event that the Company shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 5.02, it may at any time withdraw or direct the institution maintaining the Protected Account, to withdraw such amount from the Protected Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. Such withdrawal or direction may be accomplished by delivering written notice thereof to the institution maintaining the Protected Account, that describes the amounts deposited in error in the Protected Account. The Company shall maintain adequate
records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Protected Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders  until withdrawn in accordance with Section 5.02.


(c)        The institution that maintains the Protected Account shall invest the funds in the Protected Account, in the manner directed by the Company, in Permitted Investments which shall mature not later than the Remittance Date and shall not be sold or disposed of prior 


 









to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from any such investment shall be for the benefit of the Company as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Protected Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Company into the Protected Account, out of the Company’s own funds.


(d)        The Company shall give at least 30 days advance notice to the Trustee, the Seller, the Master Servicer, each Rating Agency  and the Depositor of any proposed change of location of the Protected Account prior to any change thereof.


(e)        On the Closing Date, the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall establish and maintain in its name, in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Class A-9 Certificates, the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund, and shall deposit $5,000 therein upon receipt from or on behalf of the Depositor of such amount.  The Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be an Eligible Account and all funds on deposit in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be held separate and apart from, and shall not be commingled with, any other moneys, including without limitation, other moneys held by the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Agreement.


On each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall deposit into the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund all amounts received in respect of the Corridor Contract for the related Interest Accrual Period. The Securities Administrator shall make withdrawals from the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund to make distributions pursuant to Section 5.13 exclusively (other than as expressly provided for in Section 5.02).


The Corridor Contract Reserve Fund is an “outside reserve fund” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.860G-2(h) and shall be an asset of the Trust Fund but not an asset of any REMIC. The Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trust shall be the nominal owner of the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund. The Depositor shall be the beneficial owner of the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund, subject to the power of the Securities Administrator to transfer amounts under Section 6.04(a). Amounts in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be held either uninvested in a trust or deposit account of the Securities Administrator with no liability for interest or other compensation thereof or, at the direction of the Depositor, be invested in Permitted Investments that mature no later than the Business Day prior to the next succeeding Distribution Date. All net
income and gain from such investments shall be distributed to the Depositor, not as a distribution in respect of any interest in any REMIC, on such Distribution Date. All amounts earned on amounts on deposit in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be taxable to the Depositor. Any losses on such investments shall be deposited in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund by the Depositor holder out of its own funds immediately as realized. In the event that the Depositor shall fail to provide investment instructions to the Securities Administrator, the amounts on deposit in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund shall be held uninvested.


 









 


Section 5.02     Permitted Withdrawals From the Protected Account and the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund. 


(a)        The Company may from time to time make withdrawals from the Protected Account for the following purposes:


(i)         to pay itself (to the extent not previously paid to or withheld by the Company), as servicing compensation in accordance with Section 3.10, that portion of any payment of interest that equals the Servicing Fee for the period with respect to which such interest payment was made, and, as additional servicing compensation, those other amounts set forth in Section 3.10;


(ii)         to reimburse the Company for Advances made by it with respect to the Mortgage Loans, provided, however, that the Company’s right of reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (ii) shall be limited to amounts received on particular EMC Mortgage Loan(s) (including, for this purpose, Liquidation Proceeds and Insurance Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries) that represent late recoveries of payments of principal and/or interest on such particular EMC Mortgage Loan(s) in respect of which any such Advance was made;


(iii)        to reimburse the Company for any previously made portion of a Servicing Advance or an Advance made by the Company that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, will not be ultimately recoverable by it from the related Mortgagor, any related Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or otherwise (a “Nonrecoverable Advance”), to the extent not reimbursed pursuant to clause (ii) or clause (v);


(iv)        to reimburse the Company from Insurance Proceeds for Insured Expenses covered by the related Insurance Policy;


(v)        to pay the Company any unpaid Servicing Fees and to reimburse it for any unreimbursed Servicing Advances, provided, however, that the Company’s right to reimbursement for Servicing Advances pursuant to this subclause (v) with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loan shall be limited to amounts received on particular EMC Mortgage Loan(s) (including, for this purpose, Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds and purchase and repurchase proceeds) that represent late recoveries of the payments for which such Servicing Advances were made;


(vi)        to pay to the Seller, the Depositor or itself, as applicable, with respect to each EMC Mortgage Loan or property acquired in respect thereof that has been purchased pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03 or 4.20 of this Agreement, all amounts received thereon and not taken into account in determining the related Stated Principal Balance of such repurchased EMC Mortgage Loan;


(vii)       to pay any expenses recoverable by the Company pursuant to Section 8.04 of this Agreement;


(viii)      to withdraw pursuant to Section 5.01 any amount deposited in the Protected Account and not required to be deposited therein; and


 









 


(ix)        to clear and terminate the Protected Account upon termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 11.01 hereof.


In addition, no later than 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on the Remittance Date, the Company shall withdraw from the Protected Accounts and remit to the Master Servicer the amount required to be withdrawn therefrom pursuant to Section 5.05 hereof. With respect to any remittance received by the Master Servicer from EMC after the date on which such remittance was due, EMC shall pay to the Master Servicer interest on any such late remittance at an annual rate equal to the prime rate announced to be in effect from time to time as published as the average rate in The Wall Street Journal (Northeast Edition), plus two percentage points, but in no event greater than the maximum amount permitted by applicable law. Such interest shall be deposited in EMC’s Protected Account by EMC on the date such late payment is made and shall cover the period commencing with the day following the date on which
such remittance was due and ending with the Business Day on which such remittance is made, both inclusive. Such interest shall be remitted along with the distribution payable on the next succeeding Remittance Date. The payment by EMC of any such interest shall not be deemed an extension of time for payment or a waiver of any Event of Default with respect to EMC.


The Company shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on a Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, for the purpose of justifying any withdrawal from the Protected Account pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi) above. Prior to making any withdrawal from the Protected Account pursuant to subclause (iii), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of a Servicing Officer indicating the amount of any previous Advance or Servicing Advance determined by the Company to be a Nonrecoverable Advance and identifying the related EMC Mortgage Loan(s), and their respective portions of such Nonrecoverable Advance.


(b)        The Securities Administrator shall withdraw funds from the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund for distribution to the Class A-9 Certificates in the manner specified in Section 5.13 (and to withhold from the amounts so withdrawn the amount of any taxes that it is authorized to retain pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 5.01).  In addition, the Securities Administrator may from time to time make withdrawals from the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund for the following purposes:


(i)         to withdraw any amount deposited in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund and not required to be deposited therein; and


(c)        to clear and terminate the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund upon the earlier of (x) the reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates to zero, and (y) the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 11.01.


Section 5.03     Reports to Master Servicer. On or before the tenth calendar day of each month, the Company shall furnish to the Master Servicer electronically in a format acceptable to the Master Servicer loan accounting reports in the investor’s assigned loan number order to document the payment activity on each EMC Mortgage Loan on an individual mortgage loan basis. With respect to each month, such loan accounting reports shall contain the following:


 









 


(i)         with respect to each Scheduled Payment and each Subgroup (on both an actual and scheduled basis with respect to mortgage loan balances and on an actual basis with respect to paid-through dates), the amount of such remittance allocable to principal (including a separate breakdown of any Principal Prepayment, including the amount of any Prepayment Interest Shortfall);


(ii)         with respect to each Monthly Payment and each Subgroup, the amount of such remittance allocable to scheduled interest;


(iii)        the amount of servicing compensation received by the Company during the prior calendar month;


(iv)        with respect to each Subgroup, the aggregate stated principal balance of the EMC Mortgage Loans;


(v)        with respect to each Subgroup, the aggregate amount of Advances made by the Company pursuant to Section 6.01;


(vi)        with respect to each Subgroup, the aggregate of any expenses reimbursed to the Company during the prior calendar month pursuant to Section 5.02;  


(vii)       with respect to each Subgroup, the number and aggregate outstanding principal balances of EMC Mortgage Loans (a) delinquent (1) 30 to 59 days, (2) 60 to 89 days, (3) 90 days or more; (b) as to which foreclosure has commenced; and (c) as to which REO Property has been acquired; and


(viii)      with respect to each Subgroup, the amount of any Prepayment Charges collected by the Company and the amount of Prepayment Charges paid by the Company in connection with a waiver that is not permitted under this Agreement.


Section 5.04     Collection of Taxes; Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow Accounts. With respect to each EMC Mortgage Loan, to the extent required by the related Mortgage Note, the Company shall establish and maintain one or more accounts (each, an “Escrow Account”) and deposit and retain therein all collections from the Mortgagors (or advances by the Company) for the payment of taxes, assessments, hazard insurance premiums or comparable items for the account of the Mortgagors. Nothing herein shall require the Company to compel a Mortgagor to establish an Escrow Account in violation of applicable law.


Withdrawals of amounts so collected from the Escrow Accounts may be made only to effect timely payment of taxes, assessments, hazard insurance premiums, condominium or PUD association dues, or comparable items, to reimburse the Company out of related collections for any payments made with respect to each EMC Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 3.01 (with respect to taxes and assessments and insurance premiums) and Section 3.05 (with respect to hazard insurance), to refund to any Mortgagors for any EMC Mortgage Loans any sums as may be determined to be overages, to pay interest, if required by law or the terms of the related Mortgage or Mortgage Note, to such Mortgagors on balances in the Escrow Account or to clear and terminate the Escrow Account at the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.01 thereof. The Escrow Account shall not be a part of the Trust Fund.


 









 



	
            Section 5.05
 	
            Servicer Protected Accounts.
 



(a)        The Master Servicer shall enforce the obligation of the Company and the Servicers to establish and maintain a Protected Account in accordance with this Agreement and the Servicing Agreements, with records to be kept with respect thereto on a Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, into which accounts shall be deposited within one Business Day (or as of such other time specified in the Servicing Agreements) of receipt all collections of principal and interest on any Mortgage Loan and with respect to any REO Property received by the Company or the related Servicer, including Principal Prepayments, Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries, and advances made from the Company’s or such Servicer’s own funds (less servicing compensation as permitted by this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) and all other
amounts to be deposited in the Protected Accounts. Each of the Company and the Servicers are hereby authorized to make withdrawals from and deposits to the related Protected Account for purposes required or permitted by this Agreement. To the extent provided in this Agreement or any Servicing Agreement, the Protected Account shall be held in a Designated Depository Institution and segregated on the books of such institution in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders.


(b)        To the extent provided in this Agreement or any Servicing Agreement, amounts on deposit in a Protected Account may be invested in Permitted Investments in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, except as provided in the preceding paragraph, not commingled with any other funds, such Permitted Investments to mature, or to be subject to redemption or withdrawal, no later than the date on which such funds are required to be withdrawn for deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account, and shall be held until required for such deposit. The income earned from Permitted Investments made pursuant to this Section 5.05 shall be paid to the Company or the related Servicer under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, and the risk of loss of moneys required to be distributed to the Certificateholders resulting
from such investments shall be borne by and be the risk of the Company or the related Servicer, as the case may be. The Company or the related Servicer (to the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement) shall deposit the amount of any such loss in the Protected Account within two Business Days of receipt of notification of such loss but not later than the second Business Day prior to the Distribution Date on which the moneys so invested are required to be distributed to the Certificateholders.


(c)        To the extent provided in this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement and subject to this Article V, on or before each Remittance Date, the Company or the related Servicer shall withdraw or shall cause to be withdrawn from its Protected Account and shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account amounts representing the following collections and payments (other than with respect to principal of or interest on the Mortgage Loans due on or before the Cut-off Date):


(i)         Scheduled Payments on the Mortgage Loans received or any related portion thereof advanced by the Company or the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement which were due on or before the related Due Date, net of the amount thereof comprising the Servicing Fees;


(ii)         Full Principal Prepayments and any Liquidation Proceeds received by the Company or the related Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans in the related 


 









Prepayment Period, with interest to the date of prepayment or liquidation, net of the amount thereof comprising the Servicing Fees and LPMI Fees, if any;


(iii)        Partial Principal Prepayments received by the Company or the related Servicer for such Mortgage Loans in the related Prepayment Period;



	
            (iv)
 	
            any amount to be used as an Advance; and
 



(v)        the amount of any Prepayment Charges collected with respect to the Mortgage Loans and the amount of any Prepayment Charges paid by the Company or the related Servicer in connection with the waiver of a Prepayment Charge in a manner that is not permitted under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.


(d)        withdrawals may be made from a Protected Account by the Company as described in Section 5.02 hereof and by the Master Servicer or the related Servicer only to make remittances as provided in Section 5.05(c), 5.06 and 5.07; to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Servicer for Advances which have been recovered by subsequent collection from the related Mortgagor; to remove amounts deposited in error; to remove fees, charges or other such amounts deposited on a temporary basis; or to clear and terminate the account at the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.01. As provided in Sections 5.05(c) and 5.06(b) certain amounts otherwise due to the related Servicer may be retained by the related Servicer and need not be deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account.



	
            Section 5.06
 	
            Master Servicer Collection Account.
 



(a)        The Master Servicer shall establish and maintain in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Master Servicer Collection Account which shall be an Eligible Account. The Master Servicer will deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account as identified by the Master Servicer and as received by the Master Servicer, the following amounts:



	
            (i)
 	
            any Advance and any Compensating Interest Payments;
 



(ii)         any Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds or Subsequent Recoveries received by or on behalf of the Master Servicer or which were not deposited in a Protected Account;


(iii)        the Repurchase Price with respect to any Mortgage Loans purchased by the Seller or Section 2.02 or 2.03, any amounts which are to be treated pursuant to Section 5.09 of this Agreement as the payment of such a Repurchase Price, the Repurchase Price with respect to any Mortgage Loans purchased by EMC pursuant to Section 4.20, and all proceeds of any Mortgage Loans or property acquired with respect thereto repurchased by the Seller or its designee pursuant to Section 11.01;


(iv)        any amounts required to be deposited with respect to losses on investments of deposits in an Account; and


 









 


(v)        any other amounts received by or on behalf of the Master Servicer or the Trustee and required to be deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to this Agreement.


(b)        All amounts deposited to the Master Servicer Collection Account shall be held by the Master Servicer in the name of the Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement. The requirements for crediting the Master Servicer Collection Account or the Distribution Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, payments in the nature of late payment charges or assumption, tax service, statement account or payoff, substitution, satisfaction, release and other like fees and charges, need not be credited by the Master Servicer or the related Servicer to the Distribution Account or the Master Servicer Collection Account, as applicable. In the event that the Master Servicer shall deposit or cause to be deposited
to the Distribution Account any amount not required to be credited thereto, the Securities Administrator, upon receipt of a written request therefor signed by a Servicing Officer of the Master Servicer, shall promptly transfer such amount to the Master Servicer, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding.


(c)        The amount at any time credited to the Master Servicer Collection Account may be invested, in the name of the Trustee, or its nominee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, in Permitted Investments or be held in cash as directed by Master Servicer. All Permitted Investments shall mature or be subject to redemption or withdrawal on or before, and shall be held until, the next succeeding Distribution Account Deposit Date. Any and all investment earnings from the Master Servicer Collection Account shall be paid to the Master Servicer. The risk of loss of moneys required to be distributed to the Certificateholders resulting from such investments shall be borne by and be the risk of the Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall deposit the amount of any such loss in the Master Servicer Collection Account within two Business Days of
receipt of notification of such loss but not later than the second Business Day prior to the Distribution Date on which the moneys so invested are required to be distributed to the Certificateholders.


Section 5.07     Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Master Servicer Collection Account. 


(a)        The Master Servicer will, from time to time on demand of the Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator, make or cause to be made such withdrawals or transfers from the Master Servicer Collection Account as the Master Servicer has designated for such transfer or withdrawal pursuant to this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer may clear and terminate the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to Section 11.01 and remove amounts from time to time deposited in error.


(b)        On an ongoing basis, the Master Servicer shall withdraw from the Master Servicer Collection Account to pay itself as provided in Section 4.14 and to pay any expenses, costs and liabilities recoverable by the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Custodian or the Securities Administrator pursuant to Sections 4.03, 8.03, 8.04 and 10.05; provided however, that the Master Servicer shall be obligated to pay from its own funds any amounts which it is required to pay under Section 8.03(a).


 









 


(c)        In addition, on or before each Distribution Account Deposit Date, the Master Servicer shall deposit in the Distribution Account (or remit to the Securities Administrator for deposit therein) any Advances required to be made by the Master Servicer with respect to the Mortgage Loans.


(d)        No later than 3:00 p.m. New York time on each Distribution Account Deposit Date, the Master Servicer will transfer all Available Funds on deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account with respect to the related Distribution Date to the Securities Administrator for deposit in the Distribution Account.



	
            Section 5.08
 	
            Distribution Account.
 



(a)        The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Distribution Account as a segregated trust account or accounts.


(b)        All amounts deposited to the Distribution Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in the name of the Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders  in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.


(c)        The Distribution Account shall constitute an Eligible Account of the Trust Fund segregated on the books of the Securities Administrator and held by the Securities Administrator and the Distribution Account and the funds deposited therein shall not be subject to, and shall be protected from, all claims, liens, and encumbrances of any creditors or depositors of the Securities Administrator (whether made directly, or indirectly through a liquidator or receiver of the Securities Administrator. The amount at any time credited to the Distribution Account may be, as directed by the Master Servicer, held either uninvested in a trust or deposit account of the Securities Administrator with no liability for interest or other compensation thereof, except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Master Servicer, or invested in the name of the Trustee,
in such Permitted Investments as may be selected by the Master Servicer on such direction which mature not later than the Business Day next preceding the succeeding Distribution Date, except if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of or is managed by the institution that maintains such fund or account, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date. Permitted Investments in respect of the Distribution Account shall not be sold or disposed of prior to their maturity. All investment earnings on amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account or benefit from funds uninvested therein from time to time shall be for the account of the Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall be permitted to receive distribution of any and all investment earnings from the Distribution Account on each Distribution Date. If there is any loss on a Permitted Investment or demand deposit, the Master Servicer shall deposit the amount of the loss in the Distribution
Account. With respect to the Distribution Account and the funds deposited therein, the Securities Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the Certificateholders  shall be entitled to the priorities afforded to such a trust account (in addition to a claim against the estate of the Securities Administrator) as provided by 12 U.S.C. § 92a(e), and applicable regulations pursuant thereto, if applicable, or any applicable comparable state statute applicable to state chartered banking corporations.


 









 



	
            Section 5.09
 	
            Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Distribution Account.
 



(a)        The Securities Administrator will, from time to time on demand of the Master Servicer, make or cause to be made such withdrawals or transfers from the Distribution Account as the Master Servicer has designated for such transfer or withdrawal pursuant to this Agreement or any Servicing Agreement (limited in the case of amounts due the Master Servicer to those not withdrawn from the Master Servicer Collection Account in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided that the Securities Administrator shall not be responsible for such determination and may rely on the Master Servicer’s instructions under this Section 5.09):


(i)         to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer for any Advance or Servicing Advance of its own funds, the right of the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer to reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (i) being limited to amounts received on a particular Mortgage Loan (including, for this purpose, the Repurchase Price therefor, Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds) which represent late payments or recoveries of the principal of or interest on such Mortgage Loan respecting which such Advance or Servicing Advance was made;


(ii)         to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer from Insurance Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds relating to a particular Mortgage Loan for amounts expended by the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer in good faith in connection with the restoration of the related Mortgaged Property which was damaged by an uninsured cause or in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan;


(iii)        to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer from Insurance Proceeds relating to a particular Mortgage Loan for insured expenses incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan and to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or the related Servicer from Liquidation Proceeds from a particular Mortgage Loan for Liquidation Expenses incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan; provided that the Master Servicer shall not be entitled to reimbursement for Liquidation Expenses with respect to a Mortgage Loan to the extent that (i) any amounts with respect to such Mortgage Loan were paid as Excess Liquidation Proceeds pursuant to clause (x) of this Subsection (a) to the Master Servicer; and (ii) such Liquidation Expenses were not included in the computation of such Excess Liquidation Proceeds;


(iv)        to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or a Servicer for advances of funds pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, and the right to reimbursement pursuant to this subclause being limited to amounts received on the related Mortgage Loan (including, for this purpose, the Repurchase Price therefor, Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds) which represent late recoveries of the payments for which such advances were made;


(v)        to reimburse the Master Servicer, the Company or a Servicer for any Advance or advance, after a Realized Loss has been allocated with respect to the related Mortgage Loan if the Advance or advance has not been reimbursed pursuant to clauses (i) through (iv);


 









 



	
            (vi)
 	
            to pay the Master Servicer as set forth in Section 4.14;
 



(vii)       to reimburse the Master Servicer for expenses, costs and liabilities incurred by and reimbursable to it pursuant to Sections 4.03, 8.04(c) and (d) and 12.02 or otherwise reimbursable to it pursuant to this Agreement;


(viii)      to pay to the Master Servicer, as additional servicing compensation, any Excess Liquidation Proceeds to the extent not retained by the Company or the related Servicer;


(ix)        to reimburse or pay the Company or the related Servicer any such amounts as are due thereto under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement and have not been retained by or paid to the Company or the related Servicer, to the extent provided herein and in the related Servicing Agreement;


(x)        to reimburse the Trustee, the Custodian or the Securities Administrator for expenses, costs and liabilities incurred by or reimbursable to it pursuant to this Agreement (to the extent not reimbursed from the Master Servicer Collection Account in accordance with Section 5.07);



	
            (xi)
 	
            to remove amounts deposited in error; and
 	
             

	
            (xii)
 	
            to clear and terminate the Distribution Account pursuant to Section 11.01.
 



(b)        The Master Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on a Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, for the purpose of accounting for any reimbursement from the Distribution Account pursuant to subclauses (i) through (iv), inclusive, and (vi) or with respect to any such amounts which would have been covered by such subclauses had the amounts not been retained by the Master Servicer without being deposited in the Distribution Account under Section 5.08.


(c)        On each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall distribute the Available Funds to the extent of funds on deposit in the Distribution Account to the Holders of the related Certificates  in accordance with the Remittance Report upon which the Securities Administrator may conclusively rely.



	
            Section 5.10
 	
            Pre-Funding Account.
 



(a)        No later than the Closing Date, the Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain a segregated trust account or sub-account of a trust account, which shall be titled “Pre-Funding Account, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as securities administrator on behalf of U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the benefit of holders of Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8” (the “Pre-Funding Account”). The Pre-Funding Account shall be an Eligible Account or a sub account of an Eligible Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit in the Pre-Funding Account and retain therein the Pre-Funding Amount remitted on the Closing Date to the Securities Administrator by the Depositor. Funds deposited in the Pre-Funding Account shall be held in trust by the Securities Administrator for 


 









the Holders of the Certificates related to the Mortgage Loans for the uses and purposes set forth herein.


(b)        The Securities Administrator shall invest funds deposited in the Pre-Funding Account as directed by the Depositor or its designee in writing in Permitted Investments with a maturity date no later than the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which such funds are required to be withdrawn from such account pursuant to this Agreement, or, if no written direction is received by the Securities Administrator from the Depositor, then funds in such account shall remain uninvested. For federal income tax purposes, the Depositor or its designee shall be the owner of the Pre-Funding Account and shall report all items of income, deduction, gain or loss arising therefrom. All income and gain realized from investment of funds deposited in the Pre-Funding Account shall be transferred to the Interest Coverage Account on the Business Day
immediately preceding each Distribution Date. The Depositor or its designee shall deposit in the Pre-Funding Account the amount of any net loss incurred in respect of any such Permitted Investment immediately upon realization of such loss without any right of reimbursement therefor. At no time will the Pre-Funding Account be an asset of any REMIC created hereunder.


(c)        Amounts on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account shall be withdrawn by the Securities Administrator as follows:


(i)         On any Subsequent Transfer Date, the Securities Administrator shall withdraw from the Pre-Funding Account an amount equal to 100% of the Stated Principal Balances of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans (as identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule provided by the Depositor) transferred and assigned to the Securities Administrator for deposit in the Trust Fund on such Subsequent Transfer Date and remit such amount to the Depositor;


(ii)         If the amount on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account (exclusive of investment income) has not been reduced to zero by the close of business on the date of termination of the Pre-Funding Period, then at the close of business on such date, the Securities Administrator shall deposit into the Distribution Account any amounts remaining in the Pre-Funding Account (exclusive of investment income) for distribution in accordance with Section 5.09;


(iii)        To withdraw any amount not required to be deposited in the Pre-Funding Account or deposited therein in error; and


(iv)        Upon the earliest of (i) the reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Certificates to zero or (ii) the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 10.01, to withdraw any amount remaining on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account for payment to the related Certificateholders then entitled to distributions in respect of principal until the Certificate Principal Balance of the Certificates has been reduced to zero, and any remaining amount to the Depositor.


Withdrawals pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) and (iv) shall be treated as contributions of cash to REMIC I on the date of withdrawal.


 









 



	
            Section 5.11
 	
            Interest Coverage Account.  
 



(a)        No later than the Closing Date, the Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain a segregated trust account or a sub account of a trust account, which shall be titled “Interest Coverage Account, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as securities administrator on behalf of U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the benefit of holders of Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8” (the “Interest Coverage Account”). The Interest Coverage Account shall be an Eligible Account or a sub account of an Eligible Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit in the Interest Coverage Account and retain therein the Initial Interest Coverage Deposit for the Mortgage Loans remitted on the Closing Date to the Securities Administrator by the Depositor and all income and gain realized
from investment of funds deposited in the Pre-Funding Account. Funds deposited in the Interest Coverage Account shall be held in trust by the Securities Administrator for the Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth herein.


(b)        For federal income tax purposes, the Depositor shall be the owner of the Interest Coverage Account and shall report all items of income, deduction, gain or loss arising therefrom. At no time will the Interest Coverage Account be an asset of any REMIC created hereunder. All income and gain realized from investment of funds deposited in the Interest Coverage Account, which investment shall be made solely upon the written direction of the Depositor, shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Depositor and shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Depositor no later than the first Business Day following receipt of such income and gain by the Securities Administrator. If no written direction with respect to such investment shall be received by the Securities Administrator from the Depositor, then funds in such Account
shall remain uninvested.  The Depositor shall deposit in the Interest Coverage Account the amount of any net loss incurred in respect of any such Permitted Investment immediately upon realization of such loss.


(c)        On each Distribution Date during the Pre-Funding Period and on the day of termination of the Pre-Funding Period, the Securities Administrator shall withdraw from the Interest Coverage Account and deposit in the Distribution Account an amount equal to the Interest Coverage Distribution Amount for such Distribution Date. Such withdrawal and deposit shall be treated as a contribution of cash by the Seller to REMIC I on the date thereof. Immediately following any such withdrawal and deposit, and immediately following the conveyance of any Subsequent Mortgage to the Trust on any Subsequent Transfer Date, the Securities Administrator shall, at the request of the Seller, withdraw from the Interest Coverage Account and remit to the Seller or its designee an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the amount remaining in such Interest Coverage
Account over the amount that would be required to be withdrawn therefrom (assuming sufficient funds therein) pursuant to the second preceding sentence on each subsequent Distribution Date, if any, that will occur during the Pre-Funding Period or on the day of termination of the Pre-Funding Period, if no Subsequent Mortgage Loan were acquired by the Trust Fund after the end of the Prepayment Period relating to the current Distribution Date or the Distribution Date following the end of the Pre-Funding Period, as applicable.  On the day of termination of the Pre-Funding Period, the Securities Administrator shall withdraw from the Interest Coverage Account and remit to the Depositor or its designee the amount remaining in such Interest Coverage Account after payment of the amount required to be withdrawn therefrom pursuant to the third preceding sentence on the day of termination of the Pre-Funding Period.  


 









 


Upon the earliest of (i) the Distribution Date immediately following the end of the Pre-Funding Period, (ii) the reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of the Certificates to zero or (iii) the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.01, any amount remaining on deposit in the Interest Coverage Account after distributions pursuant to paragraph (c) above shall be withdrawn by the Securities Administrator and paid to the Depositor or its designee.



	
            Section 5.12
 	
            The Corridor Contract.
 



The Corridor Contract will be an asset of the Trust Fund but will not be an asset of any REMIC.  The Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall cause to be deposited any amounts received from time to time with respect to the Corridor Contract into the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund.


The Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall prepare and deliver any notices required to be delivered under the Corridor Contract.


Upon any termination, the applicable Corridor Contract Counterparty will be obligated to pay the Securities Administrator, for the benefit of the Trust Fund, an amount in respect of such termination.  Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator for the benefit of the Trust Fund in respect of such termination shall be deposited and held in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund and applied on future Distribution Dates to pay any Corridor Contract Amounts to the Class A-9 Certificates.  Any amounts remaining in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund, after the earlier of (i) the date on which the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates has been reduced to zero and (ii) the Corridor Contract Scheduled Termination Date, will be distributed to the Depositor.



	
            Section 5.13
 	
            Distributions for the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund.
 



On each Distribution Date on or prior to the earlier of (i) the termination of this Agreement and (ii) the date on which the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates is reduced to zero, amounts on deposit in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund will be withdrawn therefrom and distributed to the Class A-9 Certificates to the extent needed to pay any Corridor Contract Amount for such Distribution Date.  Any remaining amounts received on the Corridor Contract in excess of the Corridor Contract Amount for the Class A-9 Certificates for any Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Depositor.


Any amounts remaining in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund after the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates has been reduced to zero will be distributed to the Depositor.


 









 


ARTICLE VI


 


DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCES



	
            Section 6.01
 	
            Advances.
 



(a)        The Company shall make an Advance with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loan and deposit such Advance in the Master Servicer Collection Account no later than 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on the Remittance Date in immediately available funds. The Master Servicer shall cause the related Servicer to remit any such Advance required pursuant to the terms of the related Servicing Agreement. The Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, shall be obligated to make any such Advance only to the extent that such advance would not be a Nonrecoverable Advance. If the Company or the related Servicer shall have determined that it has made a Nonrecoverable Advance or that a proposed Advance or a lesser portion of such Advance would constitute a Nonrecoverable Advance, the Company or the related Servicer, as the case may be, shall deliver (i) to the Securities
Administrator for the benefit of the Certificateholders  funds constituting the remaining portion of such Advance, if applicable, and (ii) to the Depositor, the Master Servicer, each Rating Agency and the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the basis for such determination. Subject to the Master Servicer’s recoverability determination, in the event that a Servicer fails to make a required Advance, the Master Servicer shall be required to remit the amount of such Advance to the Distribution Account.


In lieu of making all or a portion of such Advance from its own funds, the Company may (i) cause to be made an appropriate entry in its records relating to the Protected Account that any Amounts Held for Future Distribution has been used by the Company in discharge of its obligation to make any such Advance and (ii) transfer such funds from the Protected Account to the Distribution Account. Any funds so applied and transferred shall be replaced by the Company by deposit in the Distribution Account, no later than the close of business on the Remittance Date immediately preceding the Distribution Date on which such funds are required to be distributed pursuant to this Agreement.


The Company shall be entitled to be reimbursed from the Protected Account for all Advances of its own funds made pursuant to this Section as provided in Section 5.02. The obligation to make Advances with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loan shall continue until such EMC Mortgage Loan is paid in full or the related Mortgaged Property or related REO Property has been liquidated or until the purchase or repurchase thereof (or substitution therefor) from the Trust Fund pursuant to any applicable provision of this Agreement, except as otherwise provided in this Section 6.01.


(b)        If the Scheduled Payment on a Mortgage Loan that was due on a related Due Date and is delinquent other than as a result of application of the Relief Act and for which the Company or the related Servicer was required to make an Advance pursuant to this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement exceeds the amount deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account which shall be used for an Advance with respect to such Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer will deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account not later than the Distribution Account Deposit Date immediately preceding the related Distribution Date an amount equal to such deficiency, net of the Servicing Fee for such Mortgage Loan except to the 


 









extent the Master Servicer determines any such Advance to be nonrecoverable from Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or future payments on the Mortgage Loan for which such Advance was made. Subject to the foregoing, the Master Servicer shall continue to make such Advances through the date that the Company or the related Servicer is required to do so under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable. If applicable, on the Distribution Account Deposit Date, the Master Servicer shall present an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee (i) stating that the Master Servicer elects not to make an Advance in a stated amount and (ii) detailing the reason it deems the advance to be nonrecoverable.


Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Article IX hereof, in the event the Master Servicer fails to make such Advance, then the Trustee, as Successor Master Servicer, shall be obligated to make such Advance, subject to the provisions of this Section 6.01.



	
            Section 6.02
 	
            Compensating Interest Payments.
 



(a)        In the event that there is a Prepayment Interest Shortfall arising from a voluntary Principal Prepayment in part or in full by the Mortgagor with respect to any EMC Mortgage Loan, the Company shall, to the extent of the Servicing Fee for such Distribution Date, deposit into the Master Servicer Collection Account, as a reduction of the Servicing Fee for such Distribution Date, no later than the close of business on the Remittance Date immediately preceding such Distribution Date, an amount equal to the Prepayment Interest Shortfall; and in case of such deposit, the Company shall not be entitled to any recovery or reimbursement from the Depositor, the Trustee, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trust Fund or the Certificateholders.


(b)        The Master Servicer shall cause each Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement to remit any required Compensating Interest Payments to the Master Servicer Collection Account on the Remittance Date.


(c)        The Master Servicer shall be required to remit the amount of any such Prepayment Interest Shortfalls, to the extent of the Master Servicing Compensation for such Distribution Date, in the event the Company or the related Servicer is required to make such payment but fails to do so.


Section 6.03    REMIC Distributions. On each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator, as agent for the Trustee, shall be deemed to make distributions to the REMIC I Regular Interests and the REMIC II Regular Interests in accordance with Section 6.07 hereof.



	
            Section 6.04
 	
            Distributions.
 



(a)        Subject to clause (d) below, on each Distribution Date the Available Funds will be distributed to the Certificates as follows:


first, to the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10 and Class X-1 Certificates, on a pro rata basis, the Accrued Certificate Interest on such Classes for such Distribution Date. As described below, accrued interest on the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, 


 









Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10 and Class X-1 Certificates is subject to reduction in the event of certain Net Interest Shortfalls allocable thereto;


second, to the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-10 and Class X-1 Certificates, on a pro rata basis, any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates, to the extent of remaining Available Funds;


third, concurrently as follows:



	
            (I)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 2, to the Class A-1 Certificates, as principal, the Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 2, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof have been reduced to zero; 
 
	
            (II)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class R-1, Class R-2 and Class R-3 Certificates, pro rata, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero;
 
	
            (III)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class A-4 Certificates, as principal, the remaining Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance thereof, up to an aggregate amount of $720,000, until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
 
	
            (IV)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class A-5 Certificates and Class A-9 Certificates, pro rata, as principal, the remaining Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero;
 
	
            (V)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class A-6 Certificates and Class A-7 Certificates, pro rata, as principal, the remaining Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero;
 
	
            (VI)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class A-8 Certificates, as principal, the remaining Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1, until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and
 



 


 









 



	
            (VII)
 	
            to the extent of the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 1, to the Class A-4 Certificates, as principal, the remaining Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1, until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
 



fourth, to the Class PO Certificates, the Class PO Certificate Principal Distribution Amount for such Distribution Date to the extent of the remaining Available Funds, until the Certificate Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and


fifth, to the Class PO Certificates, the Class PO Certificate Deferred Payment Writedown Amount, provided, that (i) on any Distribution Date, distributions pursuant to this priority fifth shall not exceed the excess, if any, of (x) Available Funds remaining after giving effect to distributions pursuant to priority first through fourth above over (y) the sum of the amount of Accrued Certificate Interest for such Distribution Date and Accrued Certificate Interest remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates on all Classes of Subordinate Certificates then outstanding, (ii) such distributions shall not reduce the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class PO Certificates and (iii) no distribution
will be made in respect of the Class PO Certificate Deferred Payment Writedown Amount on or after the Cross-Over Date.


(b)        Except as provided in paragraph (c) below, on each Distribution Date on or prior to the Cross-Over Date, an amount equal to the sum of the remaining Available Funds after the distributions in (a) above will be distributed sequentially, in the following order, to the Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates, respectively, in each case up to an amount equal to and in the following order: (a) the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution Date, (b) any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates and (c) such Class’s Allocable Share, if any, for such Distribution Date, in each case, to the extent of the sum of the remaining Available Funds.


(c)        If, after distributions have been made pursuant to priorities first and second of clause (a) above on any Distribution Date, the remaining Available Funds (excluding $150 allocable to the Class R Certificates) related to Subgroup 1 is less than the sum of the Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1 and Class PO Certificate Principal Distribution Amount or the remaining Available Funds related to Subgroup 2 is less than the Subgroup Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 2, such amounts shall be reduced, and such remaining funds will be distributed to the related Senior Certificates (other than the related Interest Only Certificates and Class R Certificates) on the basis of such reduced amounts. Notwithstanding any reduction in
principal distributable to the Class PO Certificates pursuant to this paragraph, the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class PO Certificates shall be reduced not only by principal so distributed but also by the difference between (i) principal distributable to the Class PO Certificates in accordance with priority fourth of clause (a) above, and (ii) principal actually distributed to the Class PO Certificates after giving effect to this paragraph (such difference for the Class PO Certificates, the “Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfall”). The Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfall for the Class PO Certificates with respect to any Distribution Date will be added to the Class PO Certificate Deferred Payment Writedown Amount.


 









 


(d)        Prior to the Accretion Termination Date, Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-8 Certificates will be distributed in the following order of priority:  (i) first, to the Class A-5 Certificates and Class A-9 Certificates, on a pro rata basis, as principal, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero, and (ii) second, to the Class A-6 Certificates and Class A-7 Certificates, on a pro rata basis, as principal, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balances thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero.  This Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-8 Certificates will be added to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-8 Certificates on the related Distribution Date.  The amount that is added to
the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-8 Certificates will accrue interest at a rate of 5.50% per annum.  On each Distribution Date on or after the Accretion Termination Date, the entire Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-8 Certificates for that date will be payable to the holders of the Class A-8 Certificates as interest, to the extent not required to fully reduce the Certificate Principal Balances of the Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-9 Certificates to zero on the Accretion Termination Date.


(e)        Subject to Section 11.02 hereof respecting the final distribution, on each Distribution Date the Securities Administrator shall make distributions to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if (i) such Holder has so notified the Securities Administrator at least 5 Business Days prior to the related Record Date and (ii) such Holder shall hold Regular Certificates with aggregate principal denominations of not less than $1,000,000 or evidencing a Percentage Interest aggregating 10% or more with respect to such Class or, if not, by check mailed by first class mail to such Certificateholder at the address of such Holder appearing in the Certificate Register. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, but subject to Section 11.02 hereof respecting the final distribution, distributions with respect to Certificates registered in the name of a Depository shall be made to such Depository in immediately available funds.


(f)         On or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the fifth Business Day immediately preceding each Distribution Date, the Master Servicer shall deliver a report to the Securities Administrator in the form of a computer readable magnetic tape (or by such other means as the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator may agree from time to time) containing such data and information, as agreed to by the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator such as to permit the Securities Administrator to prepare the Monthly Statement to Certificateholders and to direct the Securities Administrator in writing to make the required distributions for the related Distribution Date (the “Remittance Report”). 



	
            Section 6.05
 	
            Allocation of Realized Losses.
 



(a)        On or prior to each Determination Date, the Master Servicer shall determine the amount of any Realized Loss in respect of each Subgroup in respect of each related Mortgage Loan that occurred during the immediately preceding calendar month.


(b)        The interest portion of Realized Losses with respect to each Subgroup shall be allocated to the related Certificates as described in Section 1.02 hereof.


 









 


(c)        On each Distribution Date, the PO Percentage of the principal portion of any Realized Loss on a Discount Mortgage Loan and any Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfall will be allocated to the Class PO Certificates until the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class PO Certificates is reduced to zero and the remainder of such Realized Losses will be allocated as described in the following paragraph below. With respect to any Distribution Date through the Cross-Over Date, the aggregate of all amounts so allocable to the Class PO Certificates on such date in respect of any Realized Losses and any Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfalls and all amounts previously allocated in respect of such Realized Losses or Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfalls and not distributed on prior Distribution Dates will be the “Class PO Certificate Deferred
Amount.” To the extent funds are available therefor on any Distribution Date through the Cross-Over Date, distributions in respect of the Class PO Certificate Deferred Amount for the Class PO Certificates will be made in accordance with priority fifth of clause (a) under Section 6.04. No interest will accrue on the Class PO Certificate Deferred Amount. On each Distribution Date through the Cross-Over Date, the Certificate Principal Balance of the lowest ranking Class of Subordinate Certificates then outstanding will be reduced by the amount of any distributions in respect of any Class PO Certificate Deferred Amount on such Distribution Date in accordance with the priorities set forth above, through the operation of the Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount. After the Cross-Over Date, no more distributions will be made in respect of, and applicable Realized Losses and Class PO Certificate Cash Shortfalls allocable to the Class PO
Certificates shall not be added to, the Class PO Certificate Deferred Amount.


(d)        The Non-PO Percentage of the principal portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans will be allocated on any Distribution Date as follows: first, to the Class B-6 Certificates; second, to the Class B-5 Certificates; third, to the Class B-4 Certificates; fourth, to the Class B-3 Certificates; fifth, to the Class B-2 Certificates; and sixth, to the Class B-1 Certificates, in each case until the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to zero. Thereafter, the Non-PO Percentage of principal portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans will be allocated on any Distribution Date to the outstanding Class or Classes of Senior Certificates (other than the Interest Only Certificates and Class R Certificates), pro rata, based upon their respective Certificate Principal Balances.


(e)        No reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance of any Class of a Senior Certificate (other than the related Interest Only Certificates and Class R Certificates) shall be made on any Distribution Date on account of Realized Losses to the extent that such reduction would have the effect of reducing the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of all of the Classes of such Senior Certificates (other than the related Interest Only Certificates and Class R Certificates) as of such Distribution Date to an amount less than the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans as of the related Due Date. 


(f)         All Realized Losses to be allocated to the Certificate Principal Balances of all related Classes on any Distribution Date shall be so allocated after the actual distributions to be made on such date as provided above. All references above to the Certificate Principal Balance of any Class of Certificates shall be to the Certificate Principal Balance of such Class immediately prior to the relevant Distribution Date, before reduction thereof by any Realized Losses, in each case to be allocated to such Class of Certificates, on such Distribution Date.


(g)        Any allocation of the principal portion of Realized Losses to a Certificate on any Distribution Date shall be made by reducing the Certificate Principal Balance thereof by 


 









the amount so allocated. No allocations of any Realized Losses shall be made to the Certificate Principal Balances of the Class P Certificates and Class R Certificates.


(h)        All Realized Losses and all other losses allocated to a Class of Certificates hereunder shall be allocated among the Certificates of such Class in proportion to the Percentage Interests evidenced thereby.


(i)         In addition, in the event that the Master Servicer receives any Subsequent Recoveries from the Company or the related Servicer, the Master Servicer shall deposit such funds into the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.06. If, after taking into account such Subsequent Recoveries, the amount of a Realized Loss is reduced, the amount of such Subsequent Recoveries shall be applied to increase the Certificate Principal Balance of the related Class of Subordinate Certificates with the highest payment priority to which Realized Losses have been allocated, but not by more than the amount of Realized Losses previously allocated to that Class of Subordinate Certificates pursuant to this Section 6.05. Holders of Certificates will not be entitled to any payment in respect of current interest on the amount of increases
described herein for any Interest Accrual Period preceding the Distribution Date on which such increase occurs. Any such increases shall be applied to the Certificate Principal Balance of each related Subordinate Certificate of such Class in accordance with its respective Percentage Interest.


(j)         The interest portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans shall be allocated on each Distribution Date among REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ and REMIC I Regular Interest X, pro rata, based on the Uncertificated Accrued Interest for each such REMIC I Regular Interest prior to such allocation. The principal portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in each of the Subgroups shall be applied on each Distribution Date, first, to the related REMIC I Regular Interest ending with the designation “Sub,” so that the Uncertificated Principal Balance of each such REMIC I Regular Interest is equal to 0.1% of the excess of (x) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup (other than principal
balance attributable to the Class PO Certificates) over (y) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates (other than the Class PO Certificates and the Class R Certificates) in the related Subgroup (except that if any such excess is a larger number than in the preceding distribution period, the least amount of Realized Losses shall be applied to such REMIC I Regular Interests such that the REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio is maintained); and second, any remaining Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in each of the Subgroups shall be allocated to the related REMIC I Regular Interests ending with the designation “ZZZ” (except that if a Realized Loss is recognized with respect to a Discount Mortgage Loan, the PO Percentage of such Realized Loss shall be allocated to REMIC I Regular Interest PO). All Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans shall be allocated on each Distribution Date to the REMIC II Regular Interests in the same manner as Realized
Losses are allocated to the Corresponding Certificates pursuant to Sections 1.02, 6.05(c) and 6.05(d); provided that, solely for purposes of allocating the interest portion of such Realized Losses to the REMIC II Regular Interests, any such portion otherwise allocable to the Class A-2 Certificates or Class A-3 Certificates under Section 1.02 shall be deemed to be allocated entirely to the Class A-1 Certificates, and any such portion otherwise allocable to the Class A-10 Certificates under Section 1.02 shall be deemed to be allocated entirely to the Class A-9 Certificates.


 









 



	
            Section 6.06
 	
            Monthly Statements to Certificateholders.
 



(a)        Not later than each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall prepare and make available to each Holder of Certificates, the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Depositor a statement setting forth for the Certificates:


(i)         the amount of the related distribution to Holders of each related Class allocable to principal, separately identifying (A) the aggregate amount of any Principal Prepayments included therein and (B) the aggregate of all scheduled payments of principal included therein;


(ii)         the amount of such distribution to Holders of the Class A-9 Certificates allocable to interest and the portion thereof, if any, provided by the Corridor Contract;


(iii)        with respect to each Subgroup, the amount of such distribution to Holders of each related Class allocable to interest;


(iv)        with respect to each Subgroup, the Certificate Principal Balance or Notional Amount of each related Class after giving effect (i) to all distributions allocable to principal on such Distribution Date and (ii) the allocation of any Applied Realized Loss Amounts for such Distribution Date;


(v)        the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of all of the related Mortgage Loans for the following Distribution Date;


(vi)        the amount of the Servicing Fees paid to or retained by the Company or the related Servicer for the related Due Period;


(vii)       the Pass-Through Rate for each Class of Certificates with respect to the current Interest Accrual Period;


(viii)      the amount of Advances included in the distribution on such Distribution Date;



	
            (ix)
 	
            the cumulative amount of Applied Realized Loss Amounts to date;
 



(x)        the number and aggregate principal amounts of Mortgage Loans (A) Delinquent (exclusive of Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and bankruptcy) (1) 31 to 60 days, (2) 61 to 90 days and (3) 91 or more days, (B) in foreclosure and delinquent (1) 31 to 60 days, (2) 61 to 90 days and (3) 91 or more days and (C) in bankruptcy and delinquent (1) 31 to 60 days, (2) 61 to 90 days and (3) 91 or more days, in each case as of the close of business on the last day of the calendar month preceding such Distribution Date;


(xi)        with respect to any Mortgage Loan that was liquidated during the preceding calendar month, the loan number and Stated Principal Balance of, and Realized Loss on, such Mortgage Loan as of the end of the related Prepayment Period;


 









 


(xii)       the total number and principal balance of any real estate owned or REO Properties as of the end of the related Prepayment Period;


(xiii)      the three month rolling average of the percent equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans that are 60 days or more delinquent or are in bankruptcy or foreclosure or are REO Properties, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all of the Mortgage Loans as of the last day of the calendar month preceding such Distribution Date;


(xiv)      the Realized Losses during the related Prepayment Period and the cumulative Realized Losses through the end of the preceding month;


(xv)       the amount due, and the amount received, in respect of the Corridor Contract; 


(xvi)      the amount paid to the Class A-9 Certificates from the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund;


(xvii)     the amount on deposit in the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund for the following Distribution Date; and


(xviii)    the amount of the distribution made on such Distribution Date to the Holders of the Class P Certificates allocable to related Prepayment Charges.


The Securities Administrator may make the foregoing Monthly Statement (and, at its option, any additional files containing the same information in an alternative format) available each month to Certificateholders  via the Securities Administrator’s internet website. The Securities Administrator’s internet website shall initially be located at “www.ctslink.com”. Assistance in using the website can be obtained by calling the Securities Administrator’s customer service desk at (301) 815-6600. Parties that are unable to use the above distribution options are entitled to have a paper copy mailed to them via first class mail by calling the customer service desk and indicating such. The Securities Administrator may change the way Monthly Statements are distributed in order to make such distributions more convenient or more accessible to the above parties.


(b)        The Securities Administrator’s responsibility for making the above information available to the Certificateholders is limited to the availability, timeliness and accuracy of the information derived from the Master Servicer, the Company and the Servicers. The Securities Administrator will make available a copy of each statement provided pursuant to this Section 6.06 to each Rating Agency.


(c)        Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, the Securities Administrator shall furnish upon request to each Person who at any time during the calendar year was a Certificateholder, the information set forth in clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of this Section 6.06 aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion thereof during which such Person was a Certificateholder. Such obligation of the Securities Administrator shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent that substantially comparable information shall be provided 


 









by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator pursuant to any requirements of the Code as from time to time in effect.


(d)        Upon filing with the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities Administrator shall furnish to the Holders of the Residual Certificates the applicable Form 1066 and each applicable Form 1066Q and shall respond promptly to written requests made not more frequently than quarterly by any Holder of a Residual Certificate with respect to the following matters:


(i)         The original projected principal and interest cash flows on the Closing Date on each Class of related Regular Interests and related Residual Interests created hereunder and on the Mortgage Loans, based on the Prepayment Assumption;


(ii)         The projected remaining principal and interest cash flows as of the end of any calendar quarter with respect to each related class of Regular Interests and Residual Interests created hereunder and the Mortgage Loans, based on the Prepayment Assumption;


(iii)        The applicable Prepayment Assumption and any interest rate assumptions used in determining the projected principal and interest cash flows described above;


(iv)        The original issue discount (or, in the case of the Mortgage Loans, market discount) or premium accrued or amortized through the end of such calendar quarter with respect to each related class of Regular Interests or Residual Interests created hereunder and to the Mortgage Loans, together with each constant yield to maturity used in computing the same;


(v)        The treatment of losses realized with respect to the Mortgage Loans or the Regular Interests created hereunder, including the timing and amount of any cancellation of indebtedness income of a REMIC with respect to such Regular Interests or bad debt deductions claimed with respect to the Mortgage Loans;



	
            (vi)
 	
            The amount and timing of any non-interest expenses of a REMIC; and
 



(vii)       Any taxes (including penalties and interest) imposed on the REMIC, including, without limitation, taxes on “prohibited transactions,” “contributions” or “net income from foreclosure property” or state or local income or franchise taxes.


The information pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above shall be provided by the Depositor pursuant to Section 10.12.



	
            Section 6.07
 	
            REMIC Designations and REMIC Distributions.
 



(a)        The Trustee shall elect that each of REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III shall be treated as a REMIC under Section 860D of the Code. Any inconsistencies or ambiguities in this Agreement or in the administration of this Agreement shall be resolved in a manner that preserves the validity of such REMIC elections. The assets of REMIC I shall include the Mortgage Loans and all interest owing in respect of and principal due thereon, the funds in the Distribution Account, the Master Servicer Collection Account, the Class P Certificate Account 


 









and the Protected Accounts maintained by the Company and the Servicers, any REO Property, and any other assets related to the Mortgage Loans subject to this Agreement (other than the Pre-Funding Account, the Interest Coverage Account, the Corridor Contract and the Corridor Contract Reserve Fund). The REMIC I Regular Interests shall constitute the assets of REMIC II. The REMIC II Regular Interests shall constitute the assets of REMIC III. 


(b)        On each Distribution Date, the Available Funds, in the following order of priority and in accordance with the Remittance Report, shall be deemed distributed by REMIC I to REMIC II on account of the REMIC I Regular Interests or withdrawn from the Distribution Account and distributed to the Holders of the Class R-1 Certificates:


(i)         to the holders of REMIC I Regular Interest 1-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 1-ZZZ, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-Sub, REMIC I Regular Interest 2-ZZZ and REMIC I Regular Interest X, pro rata, an amount equal to (A) the Uncertificated Accrued Interest for such Distribution Date, plus (B) any amounts in respect thereof remaining unpaid from previous Distribution Dates; 


(ii)         to the extent of the remainder of the Available Funds for such Distribution Date after the distributions made pursuant to clause (i) above, to the Class R-1 Certificates, REMIC I Regular Interest R-2 and REMIC I Regular Interest R-3, pro rata, as principal, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance and Uncertificated Principal Balances, as applicable, thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balance and Uncertificated Principal Balances, as applicable, thereof have been reduced to zero;


(iii)        the remainder of the Available Funds for such Distribution Date after the distributions made pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above, allocated as follows:


(A)              first, to each REMIC I Regular Interest ending with the designation “Sub,” the portion of such remainder from the related Subgroup, so that the Uncertificated Principal Balance of each such REMIC I Regular Interest is equal to 0.1% of the excess of (x) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Subgroup (other than the principal balance attributable to the Class PO Certificates) over (y) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Senior Certificates in such Subgroup (other than the Class PO Certificates and the Class R Certificates) (except that if any such excess is a larger number than in the preceding distribution period, the least amount of funds shall be distributed to such REMIC I Regular Interests such that
the REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio is maintained); and 


(B)              second, any remaining funds from each Subgroup to the related REMIC I Regular Interest ending with the designation “ZZZ” (provided that a portion of the remaining funds equal to the Class PO Certificate Principal Distribution Amount attributable to the Discount Mortgage Loans shall be distributed to REMIC I Regular Interest PO); and


 









 


(iv)        any remaining amount after the distributions pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, to the Holders of the Class R-1 Certificates.


(c)        On each Distribution Date, all amounts representing Prepayment Charges shall be deemed distributed in respect of REMIC I Regular Interest P, provided that such amounts shall not reduce the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC I Regular Interest P. On the Distribution Date in November 2010, $100 shall be deemed distributed in respect of REMIC I Regular Interest P in reduction of the Uncertificated Principal Balance thereof.


(d)        On each Distribution Date, the Available Funds, in the following order of priority and in accordance with the Remittance Report, shall be deemed distributed by REMIC II to REMIC III on account of the REMIC II Regular Interests or withdrawn from the Distribution Account and distributed to the Holders of the Class R-2 Certificates:


(i)         to the holders of the REMIC II Regular Interests (other than REMIC II Regular Interest P, REMIC II Regular Interest PO, REMIC II Regular Interest A-6 and REMIC II Regular Interest R-3) in the same manner and priority as paid to the Corresponding Certificates,


(A)              the Uncertificated Accrued Interest for such Distribution Date, plus


(B)              any amounts in respect thereof remaining unpaid from previous Distribution Dates; 


(ii)         to the extent of the remainder of the Available Funds for such Distribution Date after the distributions made pursuant to clause (i) above, to the Class R-2 Certificates and REMIC II Regular Interest R-3, pro rata, as principal, in reduction of the Certificate Principal Balance and Uncertificated Principal Balance, as applicable, thereof, until the Certificate Principal Balance and Uncertificated Principal Balance, as applicable, thereof have been reduced to zero; and


(iii)        to the holders of the REMIC II Regular Interests (other than REMIC II Regular Interest P and REMIC II Regular Interest R-3), in an amount equal to the remainder of the Available Funds for such Distribution Date after the distributions made pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above, allocated in the same manner and priority as paid to the Corresponding Certificates, and any remaining amount to the Holders of the Class R-2 Certificates.


(e)        On each Distribution Date, all amounts representing Prepayment Charges distributed in respect of the Class P Certificates shall be deemed distributed in respect of REMIC II Regular Interest P, provided that such amounts shall not reduce the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest P. On the Distribution Date in November 2010, $100 shall be deemed distributed in respect of REMIC II Regular Interest P in reduction of the Uncertificated Principal Balance thereof.


 









 



	
            Section 6.08
 	
            [Reserved].
 



Section 6.09     Class P Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain with itself a separate, segregated trust account for the Class P Certificate, titled “Bear Stearns Asset-Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8 Class P Certificate Account” (the “Class P Certificate Account”). On the Closing Date, the Depositor will deposit, or cause to be deposited in each Class P Certificate Account $100.00.  Prepayment charges shall be allocated to the related Class P Certificate. The amount on deposit in each Class P Certificate Account shall be held uninvested. On the November 2010 Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall withdraw the amount on deposit in each Class P Certificate Account and remit such amount to the Holders of the related Class P Certificates in
reduction of the related Certificate Principal Balance thereof.


 









 


ARTICLE VII


 


THE CERTIFICATES


Section 7.01     The Certificates. The Certificates shall be substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibits A-1 through A-6. The Certificates shall be issuable in registered form, in the minimum dollar denominations, integral dollar multiples in excess thereof (except that one Certificate of each Class may be issued in a different amount which must be in excess of the applicable minimum dollar denomination) and aggregate dollar denominations as set forth in the following table:



	
            Class
 	
             
 	
            Minimum Denomination
 	
             
 	
            Integral Multiple in Excess of Minimum
 	
             
 	
            Original Certificate Principal Balance
 	
             
 	
            Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            141,176,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-1 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-2
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            (2)
 	
             
 	
            Class A-2 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-3
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            (2)
 	
             
 	
            Class A-3 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-4
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            61,000,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-4 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-5
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            82,030,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-5 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-6
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1,209,000
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 
	
            A-7
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            13,298,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-7 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-8
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            20,000,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-8 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-9
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            25,000,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class A-9 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            A-10
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            (3)
 	
             
 	
            Class A-10 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            X-1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            (4)
 	
             
 	
            Class X-1 Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            PO
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            54,217.74
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 
	
            R-1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            N/A
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 
	
            R-2
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            N/A
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 
	
            R-3
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            N/A
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            50.00
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 
	
            B-1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            15,194,000.00
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            B-2
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
        6,647,000.00 
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            B-3
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
        3,989,000.00 
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            B-4
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
        4,558,000.00 
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            B-5
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
        3,229,000.00 
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            B-6
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100,000
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            1
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
        2,470,046.09
 	
             
 	
            Class B Pass-Through Rate
 	
             
 
	
            P
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            N/A
 	
             
 	
            $
 	
            100.00
 	
             
 	
            N/A(1)
 	
             
 



__________



	
            (1)
 	
            The Class A-6, Class PO, Class R-1, Class R-2, Class R-3 and Class P Certificates are not entitled to distributions in respect of interest.
 
	
            (2)
 	
            The Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates do not have an initial Certificate Principal Balance. The Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates each have an initial Notional Amount of $141,176,000.00, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates will each have a Notional Amount equal to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-1 Certificates as of such Distribution Date.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of each of the Class A-2 Certificates and Class A-3 Certificates will be the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-1.
 
	
            (3)
 	
            The Class A-10 Certificates do not have a Certificate Principal Balance. The Class A-10 Certificates have an initial Notional Amount of $25,000,000.00, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class A-10 Certificates will have a Notional Amount equal to the Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates as of such Distribution Date.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of the Class A-10 Certificates will be the Uncertificated Principal Balance of REMIC II Regular Interest A-9.
 
	
            (4)
 	
            The Class X-1 Certificates do not have a Certificate Principal Balance. The Class X-1 Certificates have an initial Notional Amount of $4,801,590.54, and for any subsequent Distribution Date, the Class X-1 Certificates will have a Notional Amount equal to the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 2 that have Net Mortgage Rates greater than 8.00% per annum.  For federal income tax purposes, however, the Notional Amount of the Class X-1 Certificates will be an amount equal to the Uncertificated Notional Amount of REMIC II Regular Interest X-1.
 



 


 









 


The Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of the Securities Administrator by an authorized officer. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures were affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Securities Administrator shall bind the Securities Administrator, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such authentication and delivery. No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears on such Certificate the countersignature of the Securities Administrator by manual signature, and such countersignature upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Certificate has been duly countersigned and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their countersignature. On the Closing Date, the Securities Administrator shall authenticate the Certificates to be issued at the written direction of the Depositor, or any affiliate thereof.


The Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Securities Administrator on a continuous basis, an adequate inventory of Certificates to facilitate transfers.


Section 7.02     Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. 


(a)        The Securities Administrator shall maintain, or cause to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.09 hereof, a Certificate Register for the Trust Fund in which, subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) below and to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Securities Administrator shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of Transfer of any Certificate, the Securities Administrator shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same Class and of like aggregate Percentage Interest.


At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Securities Administrator. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Securities Administrator shall execute, authenticate, and deliver the Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of Transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.


No service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any registration of Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any Transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required.


All Certificates surrendered for registration of Transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed by the Securities Administrator in accordance with the Securities Administrator’s customary procedures.


 









 


(b)        No Transfer of a Private Certificate shall be made unless such Transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a Transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and such laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such Transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Securities Administrator in writing the facts surrounding the Transfer in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibit D (the “Transferor Certificate”) and (x) deliver a letter in substantially the form of either Exhibit E
(the “Investment Letter”) or Exhibit F (the “Rule 144A Letter”) or (y) there shall be delivered to the Securities Administrator an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Securities Administrator that such Transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Holder of a Private Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Holder, information regarding the related Certificates and the Mortgage Loans and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for Transfer of any such Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. The Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer shall cooperate with the Depositor in
providing the Rule 144A information referenced in the preceding sentence, including providing to the Depositor such information regarding the Certificates, the Mortgage Loans and other matters regarding the Trust Fund as the Depositor shall reasonably request to meet its obligation under the preceding sentence. Notwithstanding the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence, no restrictions shall apply with respect to the transfer or registration of transfer of a beneficial interest in any Certificate that is a Global Certificate of a Class to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate of such Class provided that each such transferee shall be deemed to have made such representations and warranties contained in the Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate as are sufficient to establish that it is a QIB. Each Holder of a Private Certificate desiring to effect such Transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee,
the Depositor, the Seller, the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer against any liability that may result if the Transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.


No Transfer of an ERISA Restricted Certificate shall be made unless either (i) the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator shall have received a representation from the transferee of such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator, to the effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA and/or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a Person acting on behalf of any such plan or using the assets of any such plan, or (ii) in the case of any such ERISA Restricted Certificate presented for registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA, or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent enactments), or a trustee of any such plan or any other person acting on behalf of any such plan, the
Securities Administrator shall have received an Opinion of Counsel for the benefit of the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator and on which they may rely, satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, to the effect that the purchase and holding of such ERISA Restricted Certificate is permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or result in the assets of the Trust being deemed to be “plan assets” under 


 









ERISA or the Code, will not result in any prohibited transactions under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Depositor or the Securities Administrator to any obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Depositor or the Securities Administrator. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of an ERISA Restricted Certificate to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA and/or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code without the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel as described above shall be void and of no effect; provided that the restriction set forth in this sentence shall not be applicable if there has been delivered to the Securities Administrator an Opinion of Counsel
meeting the requirements of clause (ii) of the first sentence of this paragraph. None of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer shall be required to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with the transfer restrictions with respect to any ERISA Restricted Certificate that is a Book-Entry Certificate, and none of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer shall have any liability for transfers of any such Book-Entry Certificates made through the book-entry facilities of any Depository or between or among participants of the Depository or Certificate Owners made in violation of the transfer restrictions set forth herein. None of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any ERISA Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 7.02(b) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Holder thereof or
taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Agreement. The Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall each be entitled, but not obligated, to recover from any Holder of any ERISA Restricted Certificate that was in fact an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code or a Person acting on behalf of any such plan at the time it became a Holder or, at such subsequent time as it became such a plan or Person acting on behalf of such a plan, all payments made on such ERISA Restricted Certificate at and after either such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be paid and delivered by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator to the last preceding Holder of such Certificate that is not such a plan or Person acting on behalf of a plan.


Each beneficial owner of a Class B-1, Class B-2 or Class B-3 Certificate or any interest therein shall be deemed to have represented, by virtue of its acquisition or holding of that certificate or interest therein, that either (i) it is not a Plan or investing with “Plan Assets”, (ii) it has acquired and is holding such certificate in reliance on the Exemption, and that it understands that there are certain conditions to the availability of the Exemption, including that the certificate must be rated, at the time of purchase, not lower than “BBB-”(or its equivalent) by S&P, Fitch Ratings or Moody’s, and the certificate is so rated or (iii) (1) it is an insurance company, (2) the source of funds used to acquire or hold the certificate or interest therein is an “insurance company general account,” as such term is defined in Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60, and (3) the conditions in Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 have been satisfied.


No transfer of any Class B-3, Class B-5 or Class B-6 Certificates will be registered by the Trustee unless (i) the Trustee receives:  a representation from the transferee of such Class B-4, Class B-5 or Class B-6 Certificate, to the effect that such transferee is not acquiring such Certificate directly or indirectly for, or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (which 


 









representation shall be deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the transferee’s acceptance of such Certificate); or (ii) the transferee provides a representation, or deemed representation in the case of the Global Certificate, or an opinion of counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer and holding of such Certificate and the servicing, management and operation of the Trust and its assets:  (I) will not result in any prohibited transaction which is not covered under an individual or class prohibited transaction exemption, including, but not limited to, Prohibited Transaction Exemption (“PTE”) 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60 or PTE 96-23 and (II) will not give rise to any additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Securities Administration, the Master Servicer or the Trustee.


(c)        Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and the rights of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate are expressly subject to the following provisions:


(i)         Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change or impending change in its status as a Permitted Transferee.


(ii)         No Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate may be registered on the Closing Date or thereafter transferred, and the Securities Administrator shall not register the Transfer of any Residual Certificate unless, in addition to the certificates required to be delivered to the Securities Administrator under subparagraph (b) above, the Securities Administrator shall have been furnished with an affidavit (a “Transfer Affidavit”) of the initial owner or the proposed transferee in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.


(iii)        Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to whom such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom such Person is acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer of a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to any other Person if it has actual knowledge that such Person is not a Permitted Transferee.


(iv)        Any attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 7.02(c) shall be absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 7.02(c), then the last preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights as Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration of Transfer of such Residual Certificate. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in fact not permitted by Section 7.02(b) and this Section 7.02(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the Transfer was registered after receipt of the related Transfer Affidavit. The Securities Administrator 


 









shall be entitled but not obligated to recover from any Holder of a Residual Certificate that was in fact not a Permitted Transferee at the time it became a Holder or, at such subsequent time as it became other than a Permitted Transferee, all payments made on such Residual Certificate at and after either such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Securities Administrator shall be paid and delivered by the Securities Administrator to the last preceding Permitted Transferee of such Certificate.


(v)        The Master Servicer shall make available within 60 days of written request from the Securities Administrator, all information necessary to compute any tax imposed under Section 860E(e) of the Code as a result of a Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a Permitted Transferee.


The restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in this Section 7.02(c) shall cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the legend on a Residual Certificate may be deleted) with respect to Transfers occurring after delivery to the Securities Administrator  of an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Securities Administrator, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Seller or the Master Servicer to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions will not cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III, as applicable, to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates are outstanding or result in the imposition of any tax on the Trust Fund, a Certificateholder or another Person. Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate hereby consents to any amendment of this
Agreement that, based on an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Securities Administrator  and furnished to the Securities Administrator is reasonably necessary (a) to ensure that the record ownership of, or any beneficial interest in, a Residual Certificate is not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee and (b) to provide for a means to compel the Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is held by a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.


(d)        The preparation and delivery of all certificates and opinions referred to above in this Section 7.02 shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Depositor, the Seller, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer.


(e)        Subject to Subsection 7.02(i), so long as a Global Certificate of such Class is outstanding and is held by or on behalf of the Depository, transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Certificate, or transfers by holders of Individual Certificates of such Class to transferees that take delivery in the form of beneficial interests in the Global Certificate, may be made only in accordance with Subsection 7.02(b) and in accordance with the rules of the Depository:


(i)         In the case of a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate being transferred to an Institutional Accredited Investor, such transferee shall be required to take delivery in the form of an Individual Certificate or Certificates and the Securities Administrator shall register such transfer only upon compliance with the provisions of Subsection 7.02(b).


(ii)         In the case of a beneficial interest in a Class of Global Certificates being transferred to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of an Individual Certificate or Certificates of such Class, except as set forth in clause (i) above, the Securities 


 









Administrator shall register such transfer only upon compliance with the provisions of Subsection 7.02(b).


(iii)        In the case of an Individual Certificate of a Class being transferred to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate of such Class, the Securities Administrator shall register such transfer if the transferee has provided the Securities Administrator with a Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate or comparable evidence as to its QIB status.


(iv)        No restrictions shall apply with respect to the transfer or registration of transfer of a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate of a Class to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate of such Class; provided that each such transferee shall be deemed to have made such representations and warranties contained in the Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate as are sufficient to establish that it is a QIB.


(f)         Subject to Subsection 7.02(h), an exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate of a Class for an Individual Certificate or Certificates of such Class, an exchange of an Individual Certificate or Certificates of a Class for a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate of such Class and an exchange of an Individual Certificate or Certificates of a Class for another Individual Certificate or Certificates of such Class (in each case, whether or not such exchange is made in anticipation of subsequent transfer, and, in the case of the Global Certificate of such Class, so long as such Certificate is outstanding and is held by or on behalf of the Depository) may be made only in accordance with this Subsection 7.02(e) and in accordance with the rules of the Depository:


(i)         A holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate of a Class may at any time exchange such beneficial interest for an Individual Certificate or Certificates of such Class.


(ii)         A holder of an Individual Certificate or Certificates of a Class may exchange such Certificate or Certificates for a beneficial interest in the Global Certificate of such Class if such holder furnishes to the Securities Administrator a Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate or comparable evidence as to its QIB status.


(iii)        A holder of an Individual Certificate of a Class may exchange such Certificate for an equal aggregate principal amount of Individual Certificates of such Class in different authorized denominations without any certification.


(g)        (i)         Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of an Individual Certificate of a Class for a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate of such Class as provided herein, the Securities Administrator shall cancel such Individual Certificate and shall (or shall request the Depository to) endorse on the schedule affixed to the applicable Global Certificate (or on a continuation of such schedule affixed to the Global Certificate and made a part thereof) or otherwise make in its books and records an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and an increase in the certificate balance of the Global Certificate equal to the certificate balance of such Individual Certificate exchanged or transferred therefor.


 









 


(ii)         Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate of a Class for an Individual Certificate of such Class as provided herein, the Securities Administrator shall (or shall request the Depository to) endorse on the schedule affixed to such Global Certificate (or on a continuation of such schedule affixed to such Global Certificate and made a part thereof) or otherwise make in its books and records an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and a decrease in the certificate balance of such Global Certificate equal to the certificate balance of such Individual Certificate issued in exchange therefor or upon transfer thereof.


(h)        Any Individual Certificate issued in exchange for or upon transfer of another Individual Certificate or of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate shall bear the applicable legends set forth in Exhibit A-2.


(i)         Subject to the restrictions on transfer and exchange set forth in this Section 7.02, the holder of any Individual Certificate may transfer or exchange the same in whole or in part (in an initial certificate balance equal to the minimum authorized denomination set forth in Section 7.01 above or any integral multiple of $1.00 in excess thereof) by surrendering such Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office, or at the office of any transfer agent, together with an executed instrument of assignment and transfer satisfactory in form and substance to the Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator in the case of transfer and a written request for exchange in the case of exchange. The holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate may, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depository, cause the Depository (or its
nominee) to notify the Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator in writing of a request for transfer or exchange of such beneficial interest for an Individual Certificate or Certificates. Following a proper request for transfer or exchange, the Securities Administrator shall, within five Business Days of such request made at the Corporate Trust Office, sign, countersign and deliver at the Corporate Trust Office, to the transferee (in the case of transfer) or holder (in the case of exchange) or send by first class mail at the risk of the transferee (in the case of transfer) or holder (in the case of exchange) to such address as the transferee or holder, as applicable, may request, an Individual Certificate or Certificates, as the case may require, for a like aggregate Percentage Interest and in such authorized denomination or denominations as may be requested. The presentation for transfer or exchange of any Individual Certificate shall not be valid unless made at the
Corporate Trust Office by the registered holder in person, or by a duly authorized attorney-in-fact.


Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator nor the Master Servicer shall be required to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with the transfer restrictions with respect to the Global Certificates. Any attempted or purported transfer of any Certificate in violation of the provisions of Subsections (a) or (b) above shall be void ab initio and such Certificate shall be considered to have been held continuously by the prior permitted Certificateholder. Any transferor of any Certificate in violation of such provisions, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer from and against any and all liabilities, claims, costs or expenses incurred by the Securities Administrator, the Trustee or the Master Servicer as a result of such attempted or purported transfer. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
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or among Depository Participants or Certificate Owners made in violation of the transfer restrictions set forth herein.


Section 7.03     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Securities Administrator, or the Securities Administrator receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and of the ownership thereof and (b) there is delivered to the Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Securities Administrator that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Securities Administrator shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like Class, tenor and Percentage
Interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 7.03, the Securities Administrator may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Securities Administrator) connected therewith. Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 7.03 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership in the Trust Fund, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any time. All Certificates surrendered to the Securities Administrator under the terms of this Section 7.03 shall be canceled and destroyed by the Securities Administrator in accordance with its standard procedures without liability on its part.


Section 7.04     Persons Deemed Owners. The Securities Administrator, the Trustee and any agent of the Securities Administrator, the Trustee may treat the person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Securities Administrator, the Trustee nor any agent of the Securities Administrator, the Trustee s shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.


Section 7.05     Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses. If three or more Certificateholders (a) request such information in writing from the Securities Administrator, (b) state that such Certificateholders desire to communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Certificates, and (c) provide a copy of the communication that such Certificateholders propose to transmit or if the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall request such information in writing from the Securities Administrator, then the Securities Administrator shall, within ten Business Days after the receipt of such request, provide the Depositor, the Master Servicer or such Certificateholders at such recipients’ expense the most recent list of the Certificateholders of
the Trust Fund held by the Securities Administrator, if any. The Depositor and every Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, agree that the Securities Administrator shall not be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the list of the Certificateholders hereunder, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.


Section 7.06     Book-Entry Certificates. The Offered Certificates, upon original issuance, shall be issued in the form of one or more typewritten Certificates representing the Book-Entry Certificates, to be delivered to the Depository by or on behalf of the Depositor. Such Certificates shall initially be registered on the Certificate Register in the name of the Depository or its nominee, and no Certificate Owner of such Certificates will receive a definitive certificate 


 









representing such Certificate Owner’s interest in such Certificates, except as provided in Section 7.08. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Certificates (“Definitive Certificates”) have been issued to the Certificate Owners of such Certificates pursuant to Section 7.08:



	
            (a)
 	
            the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;
 



(b)        the Depositor, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee may deal with the Depository and the Depository Participants for all purposes (including the making of distributions) as the authorized representative of the respective Certificate Owners of such Certificates;


(c)        registration of the Book-Entry Certificates may not be transferred by the Trustee except to another Depository;


(d)        the rights of the respective Certificate Owners of such Certificates shall be exercised only through the Depository and the Depository Participants and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between the Owners of such Certificates and the Depository and/or the Depository Participants. Pursuant to the Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 7.08, the Depository will make book-entry transfers among the Depository Participants and receive and transmit distributions of principal and interest on the related Certificates to such Depository Participants;


(e)        the Depository may collect its usual and customary fees, charges and expenses from its Depository Participants;


(f)         the Securities Administrator may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its Depository Participants; and


(g)        to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section shall control.


For purposes of any provision of this Agreement requiring or permitting actions with the consent of, or at the direction of, Certificateholders evidencing a specified percentage of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of any Class of Certificates, such direction or consent may be given by Certificate Owners (acting through the Depository and the Depository Participants) owning Book-Entry Certificates evidencing the requisite percentage of principal amount of such Class of Certificates.


The Private Certificates shall initially be held in fully registered certificated form. If at any time the Holders of all of the Certificates of one or more such Classes request that the Trustee cause such Class to become Global Certificates, the Depositor (with the assistance of the Trustee) will take such action as may be reasonably required to cause the Depository to accept such Class or Classes for trading if it may legally be so traded.  If at anytime there are to be Global Certificates, the Global Certificates shall be delivered to the Depository by the Depositor or deposited with the Trustee as custodian for the Depository.


 









 


All transfers by Certificate Owners of such respective Classes of Book-Entry Certificates and any Global Certificates shall be made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant or brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owners. Each Depository Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with the Depository’s normal procedures.


Section 7.07     Notices to Depository. Whenever any notice or other communication is required to be given to Certificateholders of a Class with respect to which Book-Entry Certificates have been issued, unless and until Definitive Certificates shall have been issued to the related Certificate Owners, the Securities Administrator shall give all such notices and communications to the Depository.


Section 7.08    Definitive Certificates. If, after Book-Entry Certificates have been issued with respect to any Certificates, (a) the Depositor or the Depository advises the Securities Administrator that the Depository is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities under the Depository Agreement with respect to such Certificates and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Depositor, at its sole option, advises the Securities Administrator that it elects to terminate the book-entry system with respect to such Certificates through the Depository or (c) after the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, Certificate Owners of such Book-Entry Certificates having not less than 51% of the Voting Rights evidenced by any Class of Book-Entry Certificates advise the
Securities Administrator and the Depository in writing through the Depository Participants that the continuation of a book-entry system with respect to Certificates of such Class through the Depository (or its successor) is no longer in the best interests of the Certificate Owners of such Class, then the Securities Administrator shall notify all Certificate Owners of such Certificates, through the Depository, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Certificates to applicable Certificate Owners requesting the same. The Depositor shall provide the Securities Administrator with an adequate inventory of certificates to facilitate the issuance and transfer of Definitive Certificates. Upon surrender to the Securities Administrator of any such Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by registration instructions from the Depository for registration, the Securities Administrator shall countersign and deliver such Definitive Certificates. Neither the
Depositor nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and each may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of such Definitive Certificates, all references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be performed by the Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and performed by the Securities Administrator, to the extent applicable with respect to such Definitive Certificates and the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall recognize the Holders of such Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder.


Section 7.09     Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Securities Administrator will maintain or cause to be maintained at its expense an office or offices or agency or agencies at Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479 where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Securities Administrator will give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders  of any change in such location of any such office or agency.


 









 


ARTICLE VIII


 


THE COMPANY AND THE MASTER SERVICER


Section 8.01     Liabilities of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer. Each of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed upon and undertaken by it herein.


Section 8.02     Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer. 


(a)        Each of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer will keep in full force and effect its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of the state of its incorporation, and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement to which it is  a party, the Certificates or any of the Mortgage Loans and to perform its duties under this Agreement to which it is  a party.


(b)        Any Person into which the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer may be merged or consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the business of the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer, shall be the successor of the Depositor, the Company or the Master Servicer hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.


Section 8.03     Indemnification of the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator. 


(a)        The Master Servicer agrees to indemnify the Indemnified Persons for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred on their part that may be sustained in connection with, arising out of, or relating to, any claim or legal action (including any pending or threatened claim or legal action) relating to this Agreement, including the powers of attorney delivered pursuant to Sections 4.01 and 4.06 hereof, the Assignment Agreements, the Custodial Agreement or the Certificates (i) related to the Master Servicer’s failure to perform its duties in compliance with this Agreement (except as any such loss, liability or expense shall be otherwise reimbursable pursuant to this Agreement) or (ii) incurred by reason of the Master Servicer’s willful
misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder, provided, in each case, that with respect to any such claim or legal action (or pending or threatened claim or legal action), the Trustee shall have given the Master Servicer and the Seller written notice thereof promptly after the Trustee shall have with respect to such claim or legal action knowledge thereof; provided, however that the failure to give such notice shall not relieve the Master Servicer of its indemnification obligations hereunder. This indemnity shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee, Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator and the termination of this Agreement.


 









 


(b)        The Company agrees to indemnify the Indemnified Persons and to hold them harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and related costs, judgments, and any other costs, fees and expenses that the Indemnified Persons may sustain in any way related to the failure of the Company to perform in any way its duties and service the EMC Mortgage Loans in strict compliance with the terms of this Agreement and for breach of any representation or warranty of the Company contained herein. The Company shall immediately notify the Master Servicer and the Trustee if a claim is made by a third party with respect to this Agreement or the EMC Mortgage Loans, assume (with the consent of the Master Servicer and the Trustee and with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Master Servicer and the
Trustee) the defense of any such claim and pay all expenses in connection therewith, including counsel fees, and promptly pay, discharge and satisfy any judgment or decree which may be entered against it or any Indemnified Person in respect of such claim but failure to so notify the Company shall not limit its obligations hereunder. The Company agrees that it will not enter into any settlement of any such claim without the consent of the Indemnified Persons unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Persons from all liability that is the subject matter of such claim. The provisions of this Section 8.03(b) shall survive termination of this Agreement.


(c)        The Seller will indemnify any Indemnified Person for any loss, liability or expense of any Indemnified Person not otherwise paid or covered pursuant to Subsections (a) or (b) above.


Section 8.04     Limitations on Liability of the Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer and Others. Subject to the obligation of the Seller, the Company and the Master Servicer to indemnify the Indemnified Persons pursuant to Section 8.03:


(a)        Neither the Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer nor any of the directors, officers, employees or agents of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer shall be under any liability to the Indemnified Persons, the Trust Fund or the Certificateholders for taking any action or for refraining from taking any action in good faith pursuant to this Agreement, or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer or any such Person against any breach of warranties or representations made herein or any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reason of such Person’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder.


(b)        The Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Depositor, the Company and the Master Servicer may rely in good faith on any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising hereunder.


(c)        The Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer the Securities Administrator, the Trustee, the Custodian and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Depositor, the Company, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee or the Custodian shall be indemnified by the Trust and held harmless thereby against any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred on their part that may be sustained in connection with, arising out of, or related to, any claim or legal action (including any pending or threatened claim or legal action) relating to this Agreement, the 


 









Assignment Agreements, the Custodial Agreement, the Certificates or the Servicing Agreements (except with respect to the Master Servicer only, to the extent that the Master Servicer is indemnified by the Company under this Agreement or by the related Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement), other than (i) any such loss, liability or expense related to the Company’s or the Master Servicer’s failure to perform its respective duties in compliance with this Agreement (except as any such loss, liability or expense shall be otherwise reimbursable pursuant to this Agreement), or to the Custodian’s failure to perform its duties under the Custodial Agreement, or (ii) any such loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of the Company’s, the Master Servicer’s or the Custodian’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or under
the Custodial Agreement, as applicable, or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder or under the Custodial Agreement, as applicable.


(d)        Neither the Depositor, the Company nor the Master Servicer shall be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not incidental to its duties under this Agreement and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however, the Master Servicer may in its discretion, with the consent of the Trustee (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), undertake any such action which it may deem necessary or desirable with respect to this Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties hereto and the interests of the Certificateholders hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Trust Fund, and the Master Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor out of the
Master Servicer Collection Account as provided by Section 5.07. Nothing in this Subsection 8.04(d) shall affect the Master Servicer’s obligation to supervise, or to take such actions as are necessary to ensure, the servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to Subsection 4.01(a).


(e)        In taking or recommending any course of action pursuant to this Agreement, unless specifically required to do so pursuant to this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall not be required to investigate or make recommendations concerning potential liabilities which the Trust might incur as a result of such course of action by reason of the condition of the Mortgaged Properties but shall give notice to the Trustee if it has notice of such potential liabilities.


(f)         The Master Servicer shall not be liable for any acts or omissions of the Company or the Servicers, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.


Section 8.05     Master Servicer and Company Not to Resign. (a) Except as provided in Section 8.07, the Master Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except (i) with the prior written consent of the Trustee  (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) or (ii) upon a determination that any such duties hereunder are no longer permissible under applicable law and such impermissibility cannot be cured. Any such determination permitting the resignation of the Master Servicer shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect, addressed to and delivered to, the Trustee. No such resignation by the Master Servicer shall become effective until EMC or the Trustee or a successor to the Master Servicer reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee shall have assumed the
responsibilities and obligations of the Master Servicer in accordance with Section 9.02 hereof. The Trustee shall notify the Rating Agencies of the resignation of the Master Servicer.


 









 


(b)        The Company shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except (i) upon the assignment of its servicing duties with respect to all or a portion of the EMC Mortgage Loans to an institution that is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved seller/servicer in good standing that has a net worth of not less than $10,000,000 and with the prior written consent of the Master Servicer (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) or (ii) upon the determination that its duties hereunder are no longer permissible under applicable law and such incapacity cannot be cured by the Company. Any determination permitting the resignation of the Company shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect addressed to and delivered, to the Master Servicer and the Trustee which Opinion of Counsel shall be in form and substance
acceptable to the Master Servicer and the Trustee. No appointment of a successor to the Company shall be effective hereunder unless (a) the Rating Agencies have confirmed in writing that such appointment will not result in a downgrade, qualification or withdrawal of the then current ratings assigned to the Certificates, (b) such successor shall have represented that it is meets the eligibility criteria set forth in clause (i) above and (c) such successor has agreed to assume the obligations of the Company hereunder to the extent of the EMC Mortgage Loans to be serviced by such successor. The Company shall provide a copy of the written confirmation of the Rating Agencies and the agreement executed by such successor to the Master Servicer and the Trustee. No such resignation shall become effective until a Qualified Successor or the Master Servicer shall have assumed the Company’s responsibilities and obligations hereunder. The Company shall notify the Master Servicer, the Trustee
and the Rating Agencies of the resignation of the Company or the assignment of all or a portion of its servicing duties hereunder in accordance with this Section 8.05.


Section 8.06     Successor Master Servicer. In connection with the appointment of any successor Master Servicer or the assumption of the duties of the Master Servicer, EMC or the Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor master servicer out of payments on the Mortgage Loans as EMC or the Trustee and such successor master servicer shall agree. If the successor master servicer does not agree that such market value is a fair price, such successor master servicer shall obtain two quotations of market value from third parties actively engaged in the servicing of single-family mortgage loans. In no event shall the compensation of any successor master servicer exceed that permitted the Master Servicer without the consent of all of the Certificateholders.


Section 8.07     Sale and Assignment of Master Servicing. The Master Servicer may sell and assign its rights and delegate its duties and obligations in its entirety as Master Servicer under this Agreement and EMC may terminate the Master Servicer without cause and select a new Master Servicer; provided, however, that: (i) the purchaser or transferee accepting such assignment and delegation (a) shall be a Person which (or an Affiliate thereof the primary business of which is the servicing of conventional residential mortgage loans) shall be qualified to service mortgage loans for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac; (b) shall have a net worth of not less than $10,000,000 (unless otherwise approved by each Rating Agency pursuant to clause (ii) below); (c) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee  (as evidenced in a
writing signed by the Trustee ); and (d) shall execute and deliver to the Trustee  an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, which contains an assumption by such Person of the due and punctual performance and observance of each covenant and condition to be performed or observed by it as master servicer under this Agreement, any custodial agreement from and after the effective date of such agreement; (ii) each Rating Agency  shall be given prior 


 









written notice of the identity of the proposed successor to the Master Servicer and each Rating Agency’s rating of the Certificates in effect immediately prior to such assignment, sale and delegation will not be downgraded, qualified or withdrawn as a result of such assignment, sale and delegation, as evidenced by a letter to such effect delivered to the Master Servicer and the Trustee ; (iii) the Master Servicer assigning and selling the master servicing shall deliver to the Trustee  an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, each stating that all conditions precedent to such action under this Agreement have been completed and such action is permitted by and complies with the terms of this Agreement; and (iv) in the event the Master Servicer is terminated without cause by EMC, EMC shall pay, from its own funds and without any right of reimbursement, the
terminated Master Servicer a termination fee equal to 0.25% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans at the time the master servicing of the Mortgage Loans is transferred to the successor Master Servicer. No such assignment or delegation shall affect any liability of the Master Servicer arising prior to the effective date thereof.


 









 


ARTICLE IX


 


DEFAULT; TERMINATION OF MASTER SERVICER;


TERMINATION OF COMPANY


Section 9.01     Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events:


(i)         any failure by the Master Servicer to remit to the Securities Administrator any amounts received or collected by the Master Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans and required to be remitted by it hereunder or any Advance required to be made by it pursuant to this Agreement, which failure shall continue unremedied for one Business Day after the date on which written notice of such failure shall have been given to the Master Servicer by the Trustee or the Depositor, or to the Trustee and the Master Servicer by the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates; or


(ii)         any failure by the Master Servicer to observe or perform in any material respect any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Master Servicer contained in this Agreement or any breach of a representation or warranty by the Master Servicer, which failure or breach shall continue unremedied for a period of 60 days after the date on which written notice of such failure shall have been given to Master Servicer by the Trustee or the Depositor, or to the Trustee and the Master Servicer by the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates; or


(iii)        a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against the Master Servicer and such decree or order shall have remained in force undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or


(iv)        the Master Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or relating to the Master Servicer or all or substantially all of the property of the Master Servicer; or


(v)        the Master Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of, or commence a voluntary case under, any applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations;


(vi)        the Master Servicer assigns or delegates its duties or rights under this Agreement in contravention of the provisions permitting such assignment or delegation under Sections 8.05 or 8.07; or


 









 


(vii)       The Master Servicer fails to deposit, or cause to be deposited, in the Distribution Account any Advance required to be made by the Master Servicer (other than a Nonrecoverable Advance) by 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Distribution Account Deposit Date.


If an Event of Default shall occur, then, and in each and every such case, so long as such Event of Default shall not have been remedied, the Trustee may, and at the direction of the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates, the Trustee shall, by notice in writing to the Master Servicer, with a copy to the Rating Agencies, and with the consent of the Company, may terminate all of the rights and obligations (but not the liabilities) of the Master Servicer (and the Securities Administrator if the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator are the same entity) under this Agreement and in and to the Mortgage Loans and the proceeds thereof, other than its rights as a Certificateholder hereunder. On or after the receipt by the Master Servicer of such written notice, all authority and power of the Master Servicer (and, if
applicable, the Securities Administrator) hereunder, whether with respect to the Mortgage Loans or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Trustee, or any successor appointed pursuant to Section 9.02 (a “Successor Master Servicer” and, if applicable, “Successor Securities Administrator”). Such Successor Master Servicer shall thereupon if such Successor Master Servicer is a successor to the Master Servicer, make any Advance required by Article VI, subject, in the case of the Trustee, to Section 9.02. The Trustee is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the terminated Master Servicer and, if applicable, the terminated Securities Administrator, as attorney- in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer and endorsement or assignment of any Mortgage Loans
and related documents, or otherwise. Unless expressly provided in such written notice, no such termination shall affect any obligation of the Master Servicer to pay amounts owed pursuant to Article VIII or Article X. The Master Servicer and, if applicable, the Securities Administrator agrees to cooperate with the Trustee in effecting the termination of the Master Servicer’s and, if applicable, the Securities Administrator’s responsibilities and rights hereunder, including, without limitation, the transfer to the applicable Successor Master Servicer of all cash amounts which shall at the time be credited to the Master Servicer Collection Account maintained pursuant to Section 5.06, or thereafter be received with respect to the applicable Mortgage Loans. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Rating Agencies  of the occurrence of an Event of Default known to the Trustee.


Notwithstanding any termination of the activities of the Master Servicer hereunder, the Master Servicer shall be entitled to receive, out of any late collection of a Scheduled Payment on a Mortgage Loan that was due prior to the notice terminating the Master Servicer’s rights and obligations as Master Servicer hereunder and received after such notice, that portion thereof to which the Master Servicer would have been entitled pursuant to Sections 5.05 and to receive any other amounts payable to the Master Servicer hereunder the entitlement to which arose prior to the termination of its activities hereunder.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default described in clause (vii) of this Section 9.01 shall occur, the Trustee shall, by notice in writing to the Master Servicer which may be delivered by telecopy, immediately terminate all of the rights and obligations of the Master Servicer thereafter arising under this Agreement, but without prejudice to any rights it may have 


 









as a Certificateholder or to reimbursement of Advances and other advances of its own funds, and the Trustee shall act as provided in Section 8.02 to carry out the duties of the Master Servicer, including the obligation to make any Advance  the nonpayment of which was an Event of Default described in clause (vii) of this Section 9.01. Any such action taken by the Trustee must be prior to the distribution on the relevant Distribution Date.


Section 9.02     Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor. On and after the time the Master Servicer receives a notice of termination pursuant to Section 9.01 hereof the Trustee shall automatically become the successor to the Master Servicer with respect to the transactions set forth or provided for herein and after a transition period (not to exceed 90 days), shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Master Servicer by the terms and provisions hereof; provided, however, that the Company shall have the right to either (a) immediately assume the duties of the Master Servicer or (b) select a successor Master Servicer; provided, further, however that, pursuant to Article VI hereof, the Trustee in its capacity as successor Master Servicer shall be responsible for
making any Advances required to be made by the Master Servicer immediately upon the termination of the Master Servicer and any such Advance shall be made on the Distribution Date on which such Advance was required to be made by the predecessor Master Servicer. Effective on the date of such notice of termination, as compensation therefor, the Trustee shall be entitled to all compensation, reimbursement of expenses and indemnifications that the Master Servicer would have been entitled to if it had continued to act hereunder, provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be (i) liable for any acts or omissions of the Master Servicer, (ii) obligated to make Advances if it is prohibited from doing so under applicable law, (iii) responsible for expenses of the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 2.03 or (iv) obligated to deposit losses on any Permitted Investment directed by the Master Servicer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee may, if it shall be unwilling to so act, or shall, if
it is prohibited by applicable law from making Advances pursuant to Article VI or if it is otherwise unable to so act, appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any established mortgage loan servicing institution the appointment of which does not adversely affect the then current rating of the Certificates by each Rating Agency as the successor to the Master Servicer hereunder in the assumption of all or any part of the responsibilities, duties or liabilities of the Master Servicer hereunder. Any Successor Master Servicer shall (i) be an institution that is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved seller/servicer in good standing, that has a net worth of at least $15,000,000 and (ii) be willing to act as successor servicer of any Mortgage Loans under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement with respect to which the Company or the original Servicer has been terminated as servicer, and shall have executed and delivered to the Depositor, the Trustee  an
agreement accepting such delegation and assignment, that contains an assumption by such Person of the rights, powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations and liabilities of the Master Servicer (other than any liabilities of the Master Servicer hereof incurred prior to termination of the Master Servicer under Section 9.01 or as otherwise set forth herein), with like effect as if originally named as a party to this Agreement, provided that each Rating Agency shall have acknowledged in writing that its rating of the Certificates in effect immediately prior to such assignment and delegation will not be qualified or reduced as a result of such assignment and delegation. If the Trustee assumes the duties and responsibilities of the Master Servicer in accordance with this Section 9.02, the Trustee shall not resign as Master Servicer until a Successor Master Servicer has been appointed and has accepted such appointment. Pending appointment of a successor to the Master Servicer hereunder,
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acting, shall, subject to Section 4.04 hereof, act in such capacity as hereinabove provided. In connection with such appointment and assumption, the Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of payments on Mortgage Loans or otherwise as it and such successor shall agree; provided that no such compensation unless agreed to by the Certificateholders shall be in excess of that permitted the Master Servicer hereunder. The Trustee and such successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession. Neither the Trustee nor any other Successor Master Servicer shall be deemed to be in default hereunder by reason of any failure to make, or any delay in making, any distribution hereunder or any portion thereof or any failure to perform, or any delay in performing, any duties or responsibilities hereunder, in either
case caused by the failure of the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator to deliver or provide, or any delay in delivering or providing, any cash, information, documents or records to it.


The costs and expenses of the Trustee in connection with the termination of the Master Servicer, appointment of a Successor Master Servicer and, if applicable, any transfer of servicing, including, without limitation, all costs and expenses associated with the complete transfer of all servicing data and the completion, correction or manipulation of such servicing data as may be required by the Trustee to correct any errors or insufficiencies in the servicing data or otherwise to enable the Trustee or the Successor Master Servicer to service the related Mortgage Loans properly and effectively, to the extent not paid by the terminated Master Servicer, shall be payable to the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.05. Any successor to the Master Servicer as successor servicer under any Subservicing Agreement shall give notice to the applicable Mortgagors of such change of servicer and shall, during
the term of its service as successor servicer maintain in force the policy or policies that the Master Servicer is required to maintain pursuant to Section 4.04.



	
            Section 9.03
 	
            Notification to Certificateholders and Rating Agencies.
 



(a)        Upon any termination of or appointment of a successor to the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to Certificateholders and to each Rating Agency.


(b)        Within 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Certificateholders  notice of each such Event of Default hereunder actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.


Section 9.04     Waiver of Defaults. The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Certificateholders, within 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured, notice of each such Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee. The Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 51% of the Voting Rights may, on behalf of all Certificateholders, waive any default by the Master Servicer in the performance of its obligations hereunder and the consequences thereof, except a default in the making of or the causing to be made of any required distribution on the Certificates. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall be deemed to cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
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any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon except to the extent expressly so waived. The Trustee shall give notice of any such waiver to the Rating Agencies.


Section 9.05     Company Default. In case one or more of the following events of default by the Company (each, a “Company Default”) shall occur and be continuing, that is to say:


(i)         any failure by the Company to remit to the Master Servicer any payment including any Advance required to be made under the terms of this Agreement on any Remittance Date; or


(ii)         failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform in any material respect any other of the covenants or agreements (other than Sections 3.13 or 3.14) on the part of the Company set forth in this Agreement, the breach of which has a material adverse effect and which continue unremedied for a period of sixty days (except that such number of days shall be fifteen in the case of a failure to pay any premium for any insurance policy required to be maintained under this Agreement and such failure shall be deemed to have a material adverse effect) after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Company by the Master Servicer; or


(iii)        a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction for the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, bankruptcy, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against the Company and such decree or order shall have remained in force undischarged or unstayed for a period of sixty days; or


(iv)        the Company shall consent to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, bankruptcy, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or relating to the Company or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property; or


(v)        the Company shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations; or


(vi)        the Company attempts to assign its right to servicing compensation hereunder or the Company attempts to sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property or assets or to assign this Agreement or the servicing responsibilities hereunder or to delegate its duties hereunder or any portion thereof except as otherwise permitted herein; or


(vii)       the Company ceases to be qualified to transact business in any jurisdiction where it is currently so qualified, but only to the extent such non-qualification materially and adversely affects the Company’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder;


 









 


(viii)      failure by the Company to duly perform, within the required time period, its obligations under Section  3.13 or Section 3.14 which failure continues unremedied for a period of fifteen (15) days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Company by the Master Servicer.


then, and in each and every such case, so long as a Company Default shall not have been remedied, the Master Servicer, by notice in writing to the Company may, in addition to whatever rights the Master Servicer and the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders  may have under Section 8.03 and at law or equity to damages, including injunctive relief and specific performance, terminate all the rights and obligations of the Company under this Agreement and in and to the EMC Mortgage Loans and the proceeds thereof without compensating the Company for the same. On or after the receipt by the Company of such written notice, all authority and power of Company under this Agreement, whether with respect to the EMC Mortgage Loans or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Master Servicer. Upon written request from the Master Servicer, the Company shall prepare, execute and deliver, any and all documents and
other instruments, place in the Master Servicer’s possession all Mortgage Files relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans, and do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer and endorsement or assignment of the EMC Mortgage Loans and related documents, or otherwise, at the Company’s sole expense. The Company agrees to cooperate with the Master Servicer  in effecting the termination of the Company’s responsibilities and rights hereunder, including, without limitation, the transfer to such successor for administration by it of all cash amounts which shall at the time be credited by the Company to its Protected Account or Escrow Account or thereafter received with respect to the EMC Mortgage Loans or any related REO Property.


Section 9.06     Waiver of Company Defaults. The Master Servicer, with the consent of the Trustee, , may waive only by written notice any default by the Company in the performance of its obligations hereunder and its consequences. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to exist, and any Company Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon except to the extent expressly so waived in writing.


 









 


ARTICLE X


 


CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR



	
            Section 10.01
 	
            Duties of Trustee and Securities Administrator.
 



(a)        The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default which may have occurred, and the Securities Administrator each undertake to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement as duties of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator, respectively. If an Event of Default has occurred and has not been cured or waived, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person’s own affairs.


(b)        Upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments which are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, shall examine them to determine whether they are, on their face, in the form required by this Agreement; provided, however, that neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be responsible for the accuracy or content of any resolution, certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order or other instrument furnished by the Master Servicer; provided, further, that neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be responsible for the accuracy or verification of any calculation provided to it pursuant
to this Agreement.


(c)        On each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator shall make monthly distributions and the final distribution to the related Certificateholders from related funds in the Distribution Account as provided in Sections 6.04 and 11.02 herein based solely on the applicable Remittance Report.


(d)        No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Trustee or the Securities Administrator from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct; provided, however, that:


(i)         Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, and after the curing or waiver of all such Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to the Trustee and at all times with respect to the Securities Administrator, the duties and obligations of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable except for the performance of their respective duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Trustee or the Securities Administrator and, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, respectively, may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement;


 









 


(ii)         Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable in its individual capacity for an error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee or an officer or officers of the Securities Administrator, respectively, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;


(iii)        Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the directions of the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the aggregate Voting Rights of the Certificates (or such other percentage as specifically set forth herein), if such action or non-action relates to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, or exercising any trust or other power conferred upon the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, under this Agreement;


(iv)        The Trustee shall not be required to take notice or be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge thereof. In the absence of such notice, the Trustee may conclusively assume there is no such default or Event of Default;


(v)        The Securities Administrator shall not in any way be liable by reason of any insufficiency in any Account held in the name of Trustee unless it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a non-appealable judgment that the Securities Administrator’s gross negligence or willful misconduct was the primary cause of such insufficiency (except to the extent that the Securities Administrator is obligor and has defaulted thereon);


(vi)        The Trustee shall not in any way be liable by reason of any insufficiency in any Account held in the name of Trustee unless it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a non-appealable judgment that the Trustee’s gross negligence or willful misconduct was the primary cause of such insufficiency (except to the extent that the Trustee is obligor and has defaulted thereon);


(vii)       Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Trustee or the Securities Administrator be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and


(viii)      None of the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Seller, the Depositor or the Trustee shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of the other, it being understood that this Agreement shall not be construed to render them partners, joint venturers or agents of one another.


Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be required 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 there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably 


 









assured to it, and none of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall in any event require the Trustee or the Securities Administrator to perform, or be responsible for the manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Master Servicer or the Company hereunder or any Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement.


(e)        All funds received by the Securities Administrator and required to be deposited in the Distribution Account pursuant to this Agreement shall be promptly so deposited by the Securities Administrator.



	
            Section 10.02
 	
            Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and the Securities Administrator.
 
	
             
	
            (a)
 	
            Except as otherwise provided in Section 10.01:
 	
             

				



(i)         The Trustee and the Securities Administrator may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting in reliance on any resolution or certificate of the Seller, the Company, the Master Servicer or the related Servicer, any certificates of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;


(ii)         The Trustee and the Securities Administrator may consult with counsel and any advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection with respect to any action taken or suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;


(iii)        Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be under any obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Agreement, other than its obligation to give notices pursuant to this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby. Nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has
actual knowledge (which has not been cured or waived), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;


(iv)        Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to the Trustee and at all times with respect to the Securities Administrator, neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable in its individual capacity for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;


(v)        Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, 


 









statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the aggregate Voting Rights of the Certificates and provided that the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, reasonably assured to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Agreement. The Trustee or the Securities Administrator may require reasonable indemnity against such expense or liability as a condition to taking any such action. The reasonable expense of every such
examination shall be paid by the Certificateholders requesting the investigation;


(vi)        The Trustee and the Securities Administrator may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or through Affiliates, agents or attorneys; provided, however, that the Trustee may not appoint any paying agent other than the Securities Administrator to perform any paying agent functions under this Agreement without the express written consent of the Master Servicer, which consents will not be unreasonably withheld. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable or responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any of the Trustee’s or the Securities Administrator’s agents or attorneys or paying agent appointed hereunder by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator with due care and, when required, with the consent of the Master Servicer;


(vii)       Should the Trustee or the Securities Administrator deem the nature of any action required on its part to be unclear, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, may require prior to such action that it be provided by the Depositor with reasonable further instructions; the right of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty, and neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be accountable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act;


(viii)      Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be required to give any bond or surety with respect to the execution of the trust created hereby or the powers granted hereunder, except as provided in Subsection 10.07; and


(ix)        Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall have any duty to conduct any affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of any condition requiring the repurchase of any Mortgage Loan by any Person pursuant to this Agreement, or the eligibility of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of this Agreement.


(b)        The Trustee is hereby directed by the Depositor to execute and deliver the Corridor Contract. Amounts payable by the Trust on the Closing Date pursuant to the Corridor Contract shall be paid by the Depositor or its designee. The Trustee in its individual capacity shall have no responsibility for any of the undertakings, agreements or representations with respect to the Corridor Contract, including, without limitation, for making any payments thereunder.


 









 


Section 10.03   Trustee and Securities Administrator Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than the signature and countersignature of the Trustee on the Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor, and neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall have any responsibility for their correctness. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator makes any representation as to the validity or sufficiency of the Certificates (other than the signature and countersignature of the Trustee on the Certificates) or of any Mortgage Loan except as expressly provided in Sections 2.02 and 2.06 hereof; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not relieve the Trustee, or the Custodian on its behalf, of the obligation to review the
Mortgage Files pursuant to Section 2.02 of this Agreement. The Trustee’s signature and countersignature (or countersignature of its agent) on the Certificates shall be solely in its capacity as Trustee and shall not constitute the Certificates an obligation of the Trustee in any other capacity. Neither the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of any of the Certificates or of the proceeds of such Certificates, or for the use or application of any funds paid to the Depositor with respect to the Mortgage Loans. Subject to Section 2.06, neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be responsible for the legality or validity of this Agreement or any document or instrument relating to this Agreement, the validity of the execution of this Agreement or of any supplement hereto or instrument of further assurance, or the validity, priority, perfection or sufficiency of the security for the Certificates issued
hereunder or intended to be issued hereunder. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall at any time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of any Mortgage or any Mortgage Loan, or the perfection and priority of any Mortgage or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Trust Fund or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders, under this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall have any responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to record this Agreement.


Section 10.04   Trustee and Securities Administrator May Own Certificates. Each of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator in its individual capacity or in any capacity other than as Trustee or Securities Administrator hereunder may become the owner or pledgee of any Certificates with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, and may otherwise deal with the parties hereto.


Section 10.05   Trustee’s and Securities Administrator’s Fees and Expenses. The fees and expenses of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall be paid in accordance with a side letter agreement with the Master Servicer and at the expense of the Master Servicer. In addition, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall be entitled to recover from the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.07 all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances and the expenses of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator, respectively, in connection with any Event of Default, any breach of this Agreement or any claim or legal action (including any pending or threatened claim or legal action) incurred or made by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, in the
administration of the trusts hereunder (including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of its counsel) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or intentional misconduct or which is the responsibility of the Certificateholders or the Trust Fund 


 









hereunder. If funds in the Master Servicer Collection Account are insufficient therefor, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall recover such expenses, disbursements or advances from the Depositor and the Depositor hereby agrees to pay such expenses, disbursements or advances upon demand. Such compensation and reimbursement obligation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust.


Section 10.06   Eligibility Requirements for Trustee and Securities Administrator. The Trustee and any successor Trustee and the Securities Administrator and any successor Securities Administrator shall during the entire duration of this Agreement be a state bank or trust company or a national banking association organized and doing business under the laws of a state or the United States of America, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of at least $40,000,000 or, in the case of a successor Trustee, $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and, in the case of the Trustee, rated “BBB” or higher by Fitch, Inc. with respect to their long-term rating and rated “BBB” or higher by Standard
& Poor’s and “Baa2” or higher by Moody’s with respect to any outstanding long-term unsecured unsubordinated debt, and, in the case of a successor Trustee or successor Securities Administrator other than pursuant to Section 10.10, rated in one of the two highest long-term debt categories of, or otherwise acceptable to, each of the Rating Agencies  (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). The Trustee shall not be an Affiliate of the Master Servicer. If the Trustee publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 10.06 the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its total equity capital (combined capital and surplus) as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.06, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.08.


Section 10.07   Insurance. The Trustee and the Securities Administrator, at their own expense, shall at all times maintain and keep in full force and effect: (i) fidelity insurance, (ii) theft of documents insurance and (iii) forgery insurance (which may be collectively satisfied by a “Financial Institution Bond” and/or a “Bankers’ Blanket Bond”). All such insurance shall be in amounts, with standard coverage and subject to deductibles, as are customary for insurance typically maintained by banks or their affiliates which act as custodians for investor-owned mortgage pools. A certificate of an officer of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator as to the Trustee’s or the Securities Administrator’s, respectively, compliance with this Section 10.07 shall be furnished to any Certificateholder
 upon reasonable written request.


Section 10.08   Resignation and Removal of Trustee and Securities Administrator. The Trustee and the Securities Administrator may at any time resign (including, in the case of the Securities Administrator, in connection with the resignation or termination of the Master Servicer) and be discharged from the Trust hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor, the Seller, the Securities Administrator (or the Trustee, if the Securities Administrator resigns) and the Master Servicer, with a copy to the Rating Agencies. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or successor securities administrator, as applicable, by written instrument, in triplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to each of the resigning trustee or securities
administrator, as applicable, and the successor trustee or securities administrator, as applicable. If no successor trustee or 


 









successor securities administrator shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or Securities Administrator may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee or securities administrator.


If at any time (i) the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06 hereof and shall fail to resign after written request thereto by the Depositor, (ii) the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, or (iii)(A) a tax is imposed with respect to the Trust Fund by any state in which the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or the Trust Fund is located, (B) the imposition of such tax would be avoided by the appointment of a different trustee or
securities administrator and (C) the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable fails to indemnify the Trust Fund against such tax, then the Depositor or the Master Servicer may remove the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, and appoint a successor trustee or successor securities administrator, as applicable, by written instrument, in multiple copies, a copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, each Master Servicer and the successor trustee or successor securities administrator, as applicable.


The Holders evidencing at least 51% of the Voting Rights of each Class of Certificates may at any time remove the Trustee or Securities Administrator and appoint a successor trustee or securities administrator by written instrument or instruments, in multiple copies, signed by such Holders or their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, one complete set of which instruments shall be delivered by the successor trustee or successor securities administrator to each of the Master Servicer, the Trustee or Securities Administrator so removed and the successor trustee or securities administrator so appointed. Notice of any removal of the Trustee or Securities Administrator shall be given to each Rating Agency  by the Trustee or successor trustee.


Any resignation or removal of the Trustee or Securities Administrator and appointment of a successor trustee or securities administrator pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 10.08 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee or securities administrator as provided in Section 10.09 hereof.


Section 10.09   Successor Trustee or Securities Administrator. Any successor trustee or securities administrator appointed as provided in Section 10.08 hereof shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor trustee or predecessor securities administrator, as applicable, and the Master Servicer  an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee or securities administrator shall become effective and such successor trustee or securities administrator, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally named as trustee or securities administrator herein.


No successor trustee or securities administrator shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 10.09 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee or securities 


 









administrator shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 10.06 hereof and its appointment shall not adversely affect the then current rating of the Certificates.


Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee or securities administrator as provided in this Section 10.09, the successor trustee or securities administrator shall mail notice of the succession of such trustee or securities administrator hereunder to all Holders of Certificates.  If the successor trustee or securities administrator fails to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment, the Depositor shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Trust Fund.


Section 10.10   Merger or Consolidation of Trustee or Securities Administrator. Any corporation, state bank or national banking association into which the Trustee or the Securities Administrator may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any corporation, state bank or national banking association resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be a party, or any corporation, state bank or national banking association succeeding to substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee or of the business of the Securities Administrator, shall be the successor of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 10.06 hereof without the execution
or filing of any paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.


Section 10.11   Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Fund or property securing any Mortgage Note may at the time be located, the Master Servicer and the Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees jointly with the Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Fund, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Certificateholders, such title to the Trust Fund or any part thereof, whichever is applicable, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section 10.11, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Master Servicer and the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Master Servicer shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request to do so, or in the case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 10.06 and no notice to Certificateholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 10.09.


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 Trustee, except for the obligation of the Trustee under this Agreement to advance funds on behalf of the Master Servicer, shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the 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 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 (whether a Trustee hereunder or as a Successor Master Servicer hereunder), the 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 Trust Fund 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 Trustee;


(ii)         No trustee hereunder shall be held personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and


(iii)        The Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.


Any notice, request or other writing given to the 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 Agreement and the conditions of this Article X. 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 Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Master Servicer and the Depositor.


Any separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the 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 Agreement 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 Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.


Section 10.12   Tax Matters. It is intended that the Trust Fund shall constitute one or more REMICs, and that the affairs of the Trust Fund shall be conducted so that each REMIC formed hereunder qualifies as a “real estate mortgage investment conduit” as defined in and in accordance with the REMIC Provisions. In furtherance of such intention, the Securities Administrator covenants and agrees that it shall act as agent for so long as it is also Master Servicer (and the Securities Administrator is hereby appointed to act as agent) on behalf of the Trust Fund. The Trustee and/or the Securities Administrator, as agent on behalf of the Trust Fund, shall do or refrain from doing, as applicable, the following: (a) the Securities Administrator shall prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, in a timely manner,
U.S. Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit Income Tax Returns (Form 1066 or any successor form adopted by the Internal Revenue Service) and prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed with the Internal Revenue Service and applicable state or local tax authorities income tax or information returns for each taxable year with respect to each such REMIC containing such information and at the times and in the manner as may be required by the Code or state or local tax laws, regulations or rules, and furnish or cause to be furnished, to Certificateholders the schedules, statements or information at such times and in such manner as may be required thereby; (b) the Securities Administrator shall apply for an employer identification number with 


 









the Internal Revenue Service via a Form SS-4 or other comparable method for each REMIC that is or becomes a taxable entity, and within thirty days of the Closing Date, furnish or cause to be furnished to the Internal Revenue Service on Forms 8811 or as otherwise may be required by the Code, the name, title, address, and telephone number of the person that the Holders of the Certificates may contact for tax information relating thereto, together with such additional information as may be required by such form, and update such information at the time or times in the manner required by the Code for the Trust Fund; (c) the Trustee shall make, or cause to be made, elections on behalf of each REMIC formed hereunder to be treated as a REMIC on the federal tax return of such REMIC for its first taxable year (and, if necessary, under applicable state law); (d) the Securities Administrator shall prepare and forward,
or cause to be prepared and forwarded, to the Certificateholders and to the Internal Revenue Service and, if necessary, state tax authorities, all information returns and reports as and when required to be provided to them in accordance with the REMIC Provisions, including without limitation, the calculation of any original issue discount using the Prepayment Assumption; (e) the Securities Administrator shall provide information necessary for the computation of tax imposed on the transfer of a Residual Certificate to a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or an agent (including a broker, nominee or other middleman) of a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or a pass-through entity in which a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee is the record Holder of an interest (the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing such information may be charged to the Person liable for such tax); (f) each of the Securities Administrator and the Trustee shall, to the extent under its
control, conduct the affairs of the Trust Fund at all times that any Certificates are outstanding so as to maintain the status of each REMIC formed hereunder as a REMIC under the REMIC Provisions; (g) neither the Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall knowingly or intentionally take any action or omit to take any action that would cause the termination of the REMIC status of any REMIC formed hereunder; (h) the Trustee shall pay, from the sources specified in the penultimate paragraph of this Section 10.12, as directed by the Securities Administrator in its Remittance Report, the amount of any federal, state and local taxes, including prohibited transaction taxes as described below, imposed on any REMIC formed hereunder prior to the termination of the Trust Fund when and as the same shall be due and payable (but such obligation shall not prevent the Trustee, the Securities Administrator at the written request of the Trustee, or any other appropriate Person from contesting any
such tax in appropriate proceedings and shall not prevent the Securities Administrator from withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings); (i) the Trustee shall sign or cause to be signed federal, state or local income tax or information returns or any other document prepared by the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Section 10.12 requiring a signature thereon by the Trustee; (j) the Securities Administrator shall maintain records relating to each REMIC formed hereunder including but not limited to the income, expenses, assets and liabilities of each such REMIC and adjusted basis of the Trust Fund property determined at such intervals as may be required by the Code, as may be necessary to prepare the foregoing returns, schedules, statements or information; (k) the Securities Administrator shall, for federal income tax purposes, maintain books and records with respect to the REMICs on a calendar year and on an accrual basis; (l)
neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall enter into any arrangement not otherwise provided for in this Agreement by which the REMICs will receive a fee or other compensation for services nor permit the REMICs to receive any income from assets other than “qualified mortgages” as defined in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code or “permitted investments” as defined in Section 860G(a)(5) of the Code; and (m) as and when necessary and appropriate, the Trustee, or at the written request of 


 









the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, shall represent the Trust Fund in any administrative or judicial proceedings relating to an examination or audit by any governmental taxing authority, request an administrative adjustment as to any taxable year of any REMIC formed hereunder, enter into settlement agreements with any governmental taxing agency, extend any statute of limitations relating to any tax item of the Trust Fund, and otherwise act on behalf of each REMIC formed hereunder in relation to any tax matter involving any such REMIC.


In order to enable each of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator to perform its duties as set forth herein, the Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator within 10 days after the Closing Date all information or data that the Trustee or the Securities Administrator requests in writing and determines to be relevant for tax purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the Certificates, including, without limitation, the price, yield, prepayment assumption and projected cash flows of the Certificates and the related Mortgage Loans. Thereafter, the Depositor shall provide to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator promptly upon written request therefor, any such additional information or data that the Trustee or the Securities Administrator may, from time to time, request in order to enable the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator to perform its duties as set forth herein. The Depositor hereby indemnifies each of Trustee and the Securities Administrator for any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator arising from any errors or miscalculations of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, that result from any failure of the Depositor to provide, or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, on a timely basis.


In the event that any tax is imposed on “prohibited transactions” of any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code, on the “net income from foreclosure property” of the Trust Fund as defined in Section 860G(c) of the Code, on any contribution to any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III after the Startup Day pursuant to Section 860G(d) of the Code, or any other tax is imposed, including, without limitation, any federal, state or local tax or minimum tax imposed upon any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III and is not paid as otherwise provided for herein, such tax shall be paid by (i) the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, if any such tax arises out of or results from a breach by the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, of any of its obligations under this Agreement, (ii) any party hereto (other than the Trustee or
the Securities Administrator) to the extent any such tax arises out of or results from a breach by such other party of any of its obligations under this Agreement or (iii) in all other cases, or in the event that any liable party hereto fails to honor its obligations under the preceding clauses (i) or (ii), any such tax shall be paid first with amounts otherwise to be distributed to the Class R Certificateholders, on a pro rata basis, and second, with amounts otherwise to be distributed to the following Classes of  Certificateholders in the following order of priority: first, to the Class B-6 Certificates, second, to the Class B-5 Certificates, third, to the Class B-4 Certificates, fourth, to the Class B-3 Certificates, fifth, to the Class B-2 Certificates, sixth, to the Class B-1 Certificates, and seventh, to the Class A Certificates, on a pro rata basis, based on the amounts to be distributed.


Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, to the extent that such tax is payable by the Holder of any Certificates, the Securities Administrator is hereby authorized to retain on any Distribution Date, from the Holders of the Class R Certificates (and, if necessary, second, from the Holders of the other related Certificates in the priority specified in the 


 









preceding sentence), funds otherwise distributable to such Holders in an amount sufficient to pay such tax. The Securities Administrator shall include in its Remittance Report instructions as to distributions to such parties taking into account the priorities described in the second preceding sentence. The Securities Administrator, on written request by the Trustee, agrees to promptly notify in writing the party liable for any such tax of the amount thereof and the Due Date for the payment thereof.


The Trustee and the Securities Administrator each agree that, in the event it should obtain any information necessary for the other party to perform its obligations pursuant to this Section 10.12, it will promptly notify and provide such information to such other party. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee agrees that, in the event that the Trustee obtains actual knowledge that the Securities Administrator has breached any of its obligations pursuant to this Section 10.12, the Trustee shall perform such obligations on its behalf to the extent that the Trustee possesses all documents necessary to so perform and receives reasonable compensation therefor, provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be liable for any losses resulting from any such breach.


 









 


ARTICLE XI


 


TERMINATION


Section 11.01   Termination upon Liquidation or Repurchase of all Mortgage Loans. Subject to Section 11.03, the obligations and responsibilities of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Seller and the Trustee created hereby with respect to the Trust shall terminate upon the earlier of (a) the purchase by EMC or its designee of all of the Mortgage Loans (and related REO Properties) remaining in the Trust Fund at a price (the “Mortgage Loan Purchase Price”) equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan (other than in respect of related REO Property), (ii) accrued interest thereon at the Mortgage Rate to, but not including, the first day of the month of such purchase, (iii) the appraised value of any REO Property in the Trust (up to the Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan), such appraisal to be conducted by an appraiser mutually agreed upon by the Master Servicer and the Trustee and (iv) unreimbursed out-of pocket costs of the Company, the Servicers or the Master Servicer, including unreimbursed servicing advances and the principal portion of any unreimbursed Advances made on the Mortgage Loans prior to the exercise of such repurchase right, and (v) any unreimbursed costs and expenses of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator payable pursuant to Section 10.05 and (b) the later of (i) the maturity or other liquidation (or any Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust and the disposition of all related REO Property and (ii) the distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to this Agreement.


In no event shall the Trust created hereby continue beyond the earlier of (i) the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy, the late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, living on the date hereof and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date.


The right to repurchase all Mortgage Loans and related REO Properties pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be exercisable in each case on or after the Optional Termination Date.


Section 11.02   Final Distribution on the Certificates. If on any Determination Date, (i) the Master Servicer determines that there are no related Outstanding Mortgage Loans and no other funds or assets in the Trust other than the funds in the Master Servicer Collection Account, the Master Servicer shall direct the Securities Administrator to send a final distribution notice promptly to each related Certificateholder or (ii) the Securities Administrator determines that a Class of Certificates shall be retired after a final distribution on such Class, the Securities Administrator shall notify the related Certificateholders within five (5) Business Days after such Determination Date that the final distribution in retirement of such Class of Certificates is scheduled to be made on the immediately following Distribution Date. Any
final distribution made pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence shall be made only upon presentation and surrender of the related Certificates at the office of the Securities Administrator specified in the final distribution notice to related Certificateholders. If the EMC or its designee, elects to terminate the Trust pursuant to Section 11.01, at least 20 days prior to the date notice is to be mailed to the Certificateholders, EMC or its designee, shall notify the Depositor, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee of the date EMC or its designee intends to terminate the Trust. The Master Servicer shall remit the related Mortgage Loan Purchase Price to the Securities 


 









Administrator on the Business Day prior to the Distribution Date for such Optional Termination by EMC or its designee.


Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Distribution Date on which related Certificateholders may surrender their Certificates for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Securities Administrator by letter to related Certificateholders mailed not earlier than the 10th day and no later than the 15th day of the month immediately preceding the month of such final distribution. Any such notice shall specify (a) the Distribution Date upon which final distribution on the related Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of related Certificates at the office therein designated, (b) the amount of such final distribution, (c) the location of the office or agency at which such presentation and surrender must be made and (d) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, distributions
being made only upon presentation and surrender of the related Certificates at the office therein specified. The Securities Administrator will give such notice to each Rating Agency at the time such notice is given to related Certificateholders.


In the event such notice is given, the Master Servicer shall cause all related funds in the Master Servicer Collection Account to be remitted to the Securities Administrator for deposit in the Distribution Account on the Business Day prior to the applicable Distribution Date in an amount equal to the final distribution in respect of the related Certificates. Upon such final deposit with respect to the Trust and the receipt by the Trustee of a Request for Release therefor, the Trustee or the Custodian shall promptly release to the Master Servicer, as applicable the Mortgage Files for the related Mortgage Loans and the Trustee shall execute and deliver any documents prepared and delivered to it which are necessary to transfer any REO Property.


Upon presentation and surrender of the related Certificates, the Securities Administrator shall cause to be distributed to related Certificateholders of each Class in accordance with the Remittance Report the amounts allocable to such Certificates held in the Distribution Account in the order and priority set forth in Section 6.04 hereof on the final Distribution Date and in proportion to their respective Percentage Interests.


In the event that any affected Certificateholders shall not surrender Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Securities Administrator shall give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within six months after the second notice all the applicable Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Securities Administrator may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that remain a part of the Trusts. If within one year after the second notice all related Certificates shall not have
been surrendered for cancellation, the related Residual Certificateholders shall be entitled to all unclaimed funds and other assets of the Trust Fund that remain subject hereto.



	
            Section 11.03
 	
            Additional Termination Requirements.
 



(a)        Upon exercise by EMC or its designee of its purchase option as provided in Section 11.01, the Trust shall be terminated in accordance with the following additional 


 









requirements, unless each of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator have been supplied with an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, at the expense of EMC or its designee, as applicable, to the effect that the failure of the Trust to comply with the requirements of this Section 11.03 will not (i) result in the imposition of taxes on “prohibited transactions” of a REMIC, or (ii) cause a REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding:


(1)        EMC or its designee, shall establish a 90-day liquidation period for REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III and notify the Trustee and Securities Administrator thereof, and the Securities Administrator shall in turn specify the first day of such period in a statement attached to the tax return for REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.860F-1. EMC or its designee, shall satisfy all the requirements of a qualified liquidation under Section 860F of the Code and any regulations thereunder, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee and Securities Administrator obtained at the expense of EMC or its designee;


(2)        During such 90-day liquidation period, and at or prior to the time of making the final payment on the Certificates, the Securities Administrator as agent of the Trustee shall sell all of the assets of REMIC I for cash; and


(3)        At the time of the making of the final payment on the related Certificates, the Securities Administrator as agent for the Trustee shall distribute or credit, or cause to be distributed or credited, to the Holders of the related Residual Certificates all cash on hand (other than cash retained to meet claims), and REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III shall terminate at that time.


(b)        By their acceptance of the related Certificates, the Holders thereof hereby authorize the adoption of a 90-day liquidation period for the related REMIC, which authorization shall be binding upon all successor related Certificateholders.


(c)        The Securities Administrator, as agent for each related REMIC, hereby agrees to adopt and sign such a plan of complete liquidation upon the written request of EMC or its designee, and the receipt of the Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section 11.03(a)(1), and to take such other action in connection therewith as may be reasonably requested by EMC or its designee.


 









 


ARTICLE XII


 


MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS


Section 12.01   Amendment. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by parties hereto, without the consent of any of the Certificateholders to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein (including to give effect to the expectations of investors), to change the manner in which the Master Servicer Collection Account maintained by the Master Servicer or the Protected Account maintained by the Company is maintained or to make such other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement as shall not be inconsistent with any other provisions herein if such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder; provided that any such amendment shall be deemed not to
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Certificateholders and no such Opinion of Counsel shall be required if the Person requesting such amendment obtains a letter from each Rating Agency stating that such amendment would not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the respective ratings then assigned to the Certificates.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, without the consent of the Certificateholders, the parties hereto may at any time and from time to time amend this Agreement to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to such extent as shall be necessary or appropriate to maintain the qualification of each of REMIC I, REMIC II and REMIC III as a REMIC under the Code or to avoid or minimize the risk of the imposition of any tax on any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III pursuant to the Code that would be a claim against any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III at any time prior to the final redemption of the Certificates, provided that the Trustee  have been provided an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting such opinion but in any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Trust Fund, to the effect
that such action is necessary or appropriate to maintain such qualification or to avoid or minimize the risk of the imposition of such a tax.


This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the parties hereto with the consent of the Holders of each Class of Certificates affected thereby evidencing over 50% of the Voting Rights of such Class or Classes for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Certificates; provided that no such amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing of, payments required to be distributed on any Certificate without the consent of the Holder of such Certificate, (ii) cause any of REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to cease to qualify as a REMIC or (iii) reduce the aforesaid percentages of Certificates of each Class the Holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment without the consent of the Holders of all
Certificates of such Class then outstanding.


Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not consent to any amendment to this Agreement unless it  shall have first received an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee, which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting such amendment but in any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, to the effect that such amendment will not (other than an amendment pursuant to 


 









clause (ii) of, and in accordance with, the preceding paragraph) cause the imposition of any tax on REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III or the Certificateholders or cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to cease to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding. Further, nothing in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to enter into an amendment without receiving an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to the Trustee (i) that such amendment is permitted and is not prohibited by this Agreement and (ii) that all requirements for amending this Agreement (including any consent of the applicable Certificateholders) have been complied with.


Promptly after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement requiring the consent of Certificateholders, the Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment to each Certificateholder and each Rating Agency.


It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.


Section 12.02  Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts. To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement is subject to recordation in all appropriate public offices for real property records in all of the counties or other comparable jurisdictions in which any or all of the Mortgaged Properties are situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere. The Master Servicer shall effect such recordation at the Trust’s expense upon the request in writing of a Certificateholder, but only if such direction is accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (provided at the expense of the Certificateholder requesting recordation) to the effect that such recordation would materially and beneficially affect the interests of the Certificateholders or is required by law.


For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.



	
            Section 12.03
 	
            Governing Law.
 



THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE SUBSTANTIVE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAWS).


Section 12.04   Intention of Parties. It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the conveyance of the Mortgage Notes, Mortgages, assignments of Mortgages, title insurance policies and any modifications, extensions and/or assumption agreements and private mortgage insurance policies relating to the Mortgage Loans by the Seller to the Depositor, and by the 


 









Depositor to the Trustee be, and be construed as, an absolute sale thereof to the Depositor or the Trustee, as applicable. It is, further, not the intention of the parties that such conveyance be deemed a pledge thereof by the Seller to the Depositor, or by the Depositor to the Trustee. However, in the event that, notwithstanding the intent of the parties, such assets are held to be the property of the Seller or the Depositor, as applicable, or if for any other reason the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or this Agreement is held or deemed to create a security interest in such assets, then (i) the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement and this Agreement shall each be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York and (ii) the conveyance provided for in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement from the Seller to the Depositor, and the conveyance provided
for in this Agreement from the Depositor to the Trustee, shall be deemed to be an assignment and a grant by the Seller or the Depositor, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, of a security interest in all of the assets that constitute the Trust Fund, whether now owned or hereafter acquired.


The Depositor for the benefit of the Certificateholders  shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create a security interest in the assets of the Trust Fund, such security interest would be deemed to be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable law and shall be maintained as such throughout the term of the Agreement.



	
            Section 12.05
 	
            Notices.
 



(a)        The Trustee shall use its best efforts to promptly provide notice to each Rating Agency  with respect to each of the following of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge:



	
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            The occurrence of any Event of Default that has not been cured;
 



(iii)        The resignation or termination of the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee and the appointment of any successor;


(iv)        the repurchase or substitution of related Mortgage Loans pursuant to Sections 2.02, 2.03, 4.20 and 11.01; and



	
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            The final payment to Certificateholders.
 



(b)        All directions, demands and notices hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered at or mailed by registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or by recognized overnight courier, or by facsimile transmission to a number provided by the appropriate party if receipt of such transmission is confirmed to (i) in the case of the Depositor, Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Chief Counsel; (ii) in the case of the Seller or the Company, EMC Mortgage Corporation, 909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Irving, Texas 75038, Attention: Ralene Ruyle or such other address as may be hereafter furnished to the other parties hereto by the Master Servicer in writing; (iii) in the case of the Trustee, at each Corporate Trust Office or such other
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the Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator, P. O. Box 98, Columbia, Maryland 21046 (or, for overnight deliveries, 9062 Old Annapolis Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045), Attention: BSABS I 2005-AC8 or such other address as may be hereafter furnished to the other parties hereto by the Securities Administrator in writing, and (v) in the case of the Rating Agencies, (x) Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., 99 Church Street, New York, New York 10007, Attention: Home Equity Monitoring and (y) Standard & Poor’s, 55 Water Street, 41st Floor, New York, New York 10041, Attention: Mortgage Surveillance Group. Any notice delivered to the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee under this Agreement shall be effective only upon receipt. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to a Certificateholder, unless otherwise provided herein, shall be given by first-class
mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register; any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives such notice.


Section 12.06   Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.


Section 12.07   Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, except as provided pursuant to Section 8.07, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Master Servicer, the Seller or the Depositor.


Section 12.08   Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders. The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust Fund, nor entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representative or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or commence any proceeding in any court for a petition or winding up of the Trust Fund, or otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.


No Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided herein) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth or contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to constitute the Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association; nor shall any Certificateholder be under any liability to any third party by reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any provision hereof.


No Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as appropriate, a written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall also have made written request to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as appropriate to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as appropriate, hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as appropriate, such reasonable indemnity as it may
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therein or thereby, and the Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as appropriate, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself or themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the common benefit of all Certificateholders. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section 12.08, each and every Certificateholder, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.


Section 12.09   Inspection and Audit Rights. The Master Servicer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Depositor or the Trustee during the Master Servicer’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Master Servicer relating to the Mortgage Loans, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by independent certified public accountants selected by the Depositor or the Trustee and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts relating to such Mortgage Loans with its officers, employees and independent public accountants (and by this provision the Master Servicer hereby authorizes such accountants to discuss with such representative such affairs, finances and accounts), all at such reasonable
times and as often as may be reasonably requested. Any out-of-pocket expense incident to the exercise by the Depositor or the Trustee of any right under this Section 12.09 shall be borne by the party requesting such inspection, subject to such party’s right to reimbursement hereunder (in the case of the Trustee, pursuant to Section 10.05 hereof).



	
            Section 12.10
 	
            Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
 



It is the intention of the Depositor that Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust Fund, that the interests in the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates shall be nonassessable for any reason whatsoever, and that the Certificates, upon due authentication thereof by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall be deemed fully paid.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Seller, the Company, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL 
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            U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
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            COUNTY OF NEW YORK
 	
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On this 31st day of October, 2005, before me, a notary public in and for said State, appeared __________________ personally known to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be an authorized representative of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, one of the companies that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of such limited liability company and acknowledged to me that such limited liability company executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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            STATE OF MARYLAND
 	
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            COUNTY OF BALTIMORE
 	
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On this 31st day of October, 2005, before me, a notary public in and for said State, appeared ____________________, personally known to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be an authorized representative of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of such national banking association, and acknowledged to me that such national banking association executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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            STATE OF TEXAS
 	
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            COUNTY OF DALLAS
 	
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On this 31st day of October, 2005, before me, a notary public in and for said State, appeared ________________________, personally known to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be an authorized representative of EMC Mortgage Corporation, one of the corporations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of such corporation and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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            STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
 	
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            COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
 	
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On this 31st day of October, 2005, before me, a notary public in and for said State, appeared Maryellen Hunter, personally known to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be an authorized representative of U.S. Bank National Association that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of such corporation, and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT A-1


FORM OF CLASS [A-_][X-1][PO] CERTIFICATE


SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A “REGULAR INTEREST” IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE “CODE”).


[FOR CLASS A-1, CLASS A-4, CLASS A-5. CLASS A-6, CLASS A-7, CLASS A-8, CLASS A-9 AND CLASS PO CERTIFICATES:] THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DECREASED BY THE PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS HEREON AND REALIZED LOSSES ALLOCABLE HERETO. ACCORDINGLY, FOLLOWING THE INITIAL ISSUANCE OF THE CERTIFICATES, THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE DENOMINATION SHOWN BELOW. ANYONE ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ASCERTAIN ITS CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE BY INQUIRY OF THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR NAMED HEREIN.


UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.


 






 









 


 



	
 

            Certificate No.1
 	
            [Adjustable][Fixed] Pass-Through Rate
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Class [A-_], [X-1], [PO] Senior
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Cut-off Date:

October 1, 2005
 	
             

Aggregate Initial Certificate [Principal Balance][Notional Amount] of this  Certificate as of the Cut-off Date:

$[_____________]
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

First Distribution Date:

November 25, 2005
 	
             

Initial [Certificate Principal][Notional] Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date: $[_____________]
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Master Servicer:

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
 	
             

CUSIP: ___________
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Assumed Final Distribution Date:

November 25, 20__
 	
             

 
 



 

 

ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATE


SERIES 2005-AC8


evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Class [A-_] [X-1] [PO] Certificates with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate mortgage loans sold by BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC.


This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund, and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator referred to below or any of their affiliates or any other person. Neither this Certificate nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental entity or by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or any of their affiliates or any other person. None of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the Certificates.


This certifies that Cede & Co. is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest evidenced hereby in the beneficial ownership interest of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate in a trust (the “Trust Fund”) generally consisting of conventional first lien, fixed rate 


 









mortgage loans secured by one- to four- family residences (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”) sold by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (“BSABS I”). The Mortgage Loans were sold by EMC Mortgage Corporation (“EMC”) to BSABS I. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association will act as master servicer of the Mortgage Loans (the “Master Servicer,” which term includes any successors thereto under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”), among BSABS I, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC Mortgage Corporation as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer and securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the
“Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.


[For Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-9 and Class A-10 Certificates:]  [Interest on this Certificate will accrue from and including the 25th day of the calendar month preceding the month in which a Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined) occurs to and including the 24th day of the calendar month in which that Distribution Date occurs on the Certificate [Principal Balance][Notional Amount] hereof at a per annum rate equal to the Pass-Through Rate set forth above and as further described in the Agreement.]  [For Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-7, Class A-8 Certificates:][Interest on this Certificate will accrue during the month prior to the month in which a Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined) occurs on the Certificate Principal Balance hereof at a per annum rate equal to the Pass-Through Rate set forth above.] The Securities Administrator will distribute on the 25th day of
each month, or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day (each, a “Distribution Date”), commencing on the First Distribution Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date, an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of interest and principal, if any) required to be distributed to the Holders of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate. The Assumed Final Distribution Date is the Distribution Date in the month immediately following the month of the latest scheduled maturity date of any Mortgage Loan and is not likely to be the date on which the Certificate Principal Balance of this Class of Certificates will be reduced to zero.


[For the Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-10 and Class X-1 Certificates:  The Class  [A-_][X-1] Certificates have no Certificate Principal Balance.]


Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Securities Administrator by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Certificate Register or, if such Person so requests by notifying the Securities Administrator in writing as specified in the Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice by the Securities Administrator of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed by the Securities Administrator for that purpose and designated in such notice. [The Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The Certificate Principal Balance 


 









hereof will be reduced to the extent of distributions allocable to principal hereon and any Realized Losses allocable thereto.][The Initial Notional Amount of this Certificate is set forth above.]


This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated as set forth on the face hereof (the “Certificates”). The Certificates, in the aggregate, evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund formed pursuant to the Agreement.


The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the Trust Fund for payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement.


This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced hereby, and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee.


The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement from time to time by the parties thereto with the consent of the Certificate Insurers and the Holders of the Class or Classes of Certificates affected thereby evidencing over 50% of the Voting Rights of such Class or Classes.  Any such consent by the Certificate Insurers and the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.


As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable with the Securities Administrator upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Securities Administrator for such purposes, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder(s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations representing a like aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee.


The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in the Classes and denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for one or more new Certificates evidencing the same Class and in the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.


No service charge will be made to the Certificateholders for any such registration of transfer, but the Securities Administrator may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and any agent of any of them may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of Depositor, the 


 









Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


The obligations created by the Agreement and the Trust Fund created thereby (other than the obligations to make payments to related Certificateholders with respect to the termination of the Agreement) shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) the later of (A) the maturity or other liquidation (or Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund and disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (B) the remittance of all related funds due under the Agreement, or (ii) the optional repurchase by the party named in the Agreement of all the Mortgage Loans and other assets of the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Such optional repurchase may be made only on or after the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than the
percentage of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance specified in the Agreement of the Mortgage Loans at the Cut-off Date. The exercise of such right will effect the early retirement of the Certificates. In no event, however, will the Trust Fund created by the Agreement continue beyond earlier of (i) the expiration of beyond the expiration of 21 years after the death of certain persons identified in the Agreement and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date specified in the Agreement.


Unless this Certificate has been countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any purpose.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Securities Administrator has caused this


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            WELLS FARGO BANK,
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This is one of the Class [A-_][X-1][PO] Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Agreement.


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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ASSIGNMENT


 


FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto __________________________________ (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Asset-Backed Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.


 


I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate to the following address:


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DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS


 


This assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:


 


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EXHIBIT A-2


FORM OF CLASS B-[_] CERTIFICATE


THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE SENIOR CERTIFICATES [AND THE CLASS B-_ CERTIFICATES] AS DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED BELOW).


SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A “REGULAR INTEREST” IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE “CODE”).


THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DECREASED BY THE PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS HEREON AND REALIZED LOSSES ALLOCABLE HERETO AS DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, FOLLOWING THE INITIAL ISSUANCE OF THE CERTIFICATES, THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE DENOMINATION SHOWN BELOW. ANYONE ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ASCERTAIN ITS CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE BY INQUIRY OF THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR NAMED HEREIN.


[For Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3] UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.


[For Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3] EACH BENEFICIAL OWNER OF THIS CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED, BY VIRTUE OF ITS ACQUISITION OR HOLDING OF THIS CERTIFICATE OR INTEREST HEREIN, THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (“PLAN”),  OR INVESTING WITH ASSETS OF A PLAN OR (II) IT HAS ACQUIRED AND IS HOLDING SUCH CERTIFICATE IN RELIANCE ON PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION 90-30, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME (“EXEMPTION”), AND THAT IT UNDERSTANDS THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN CONDITIONS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION, INCLUDING THAT THE CERTIFICATE MUST 


 









BE RATED, AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, NOT LOWER THAN "BBB-" (OR ITS EQUIVALENT) BY STANDARD & POOR'S, FITCH, INC. OR MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE, INC., AND THE CERTIFICATE IS SO RATED OR (III) (1) IT IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY, (2) THE SOURCE OF FUNDS USED TO ACQUIRE OR HOLD THE CERTIFICATE OR INTEREST HEREIN IS AN “INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT”, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION ((PTCE() 95-60, AND (3) THE CONDITIONS IN SECTIONS I AND III OF PTCE 95-60 HAVE BEEN SATISFIED.             


[For Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6][THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A “QIB”), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (3) IN CERTIFICATED FORM TO AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE ACT OR ANY ENTITY IN WHICH ALL OF THE EQUITY OWNERS COME WITHIN SUCH PARAGRAPHS PURCHASING NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.]


[For Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6] [THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE CERTIFIES OR REPRESENTS THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER AND HOLDING OF A CERTIFICATE AND THE SERVICING, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE TRUST AND ITS ASSETS: (I) WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY PROHIBITED TRANSACTION WHICH IS NOT COVERED UNDER AN INDIVIDUAL OR CLASS PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION, INCLUDING, 


 









BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION (“PTE”) 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60 OR PTE 96-23 AND (II) WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO ANY ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON THE PART OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE MASTER SERVICER OR THE TRUSTEE, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED REPRESENTED BY AN OWNER OF A BOOK-ENTRY CERTIFICATE OR A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE OR UNLESS AN OPINION SPECIFIED IN SECTION 7.08(a) OF THE AGREEMENT IS PROVIDED.]  






 









 


 



	
             

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Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Cut-off Date:

October 1, 2005
 	
             

Aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date:

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First Distribution Date:

November 25, 2005
 	
             

Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date: 

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Master Servicer:

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ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATE


SERIES 2005-AC8


evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the CLASS B-[_] Certificates with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate mortgage loans sold by BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC.


This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund, and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator referred to below or any of their affiliates or any other person. Neither this Certificate nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental entity or by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or any of their affiliates or any other person. None of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the Certificates.


This certifies that ________________  is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest evidenced hereby in the beneficial ownership interest of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate in a trust (the “Trust Fund”) generally consisting of conventional first lien, fixed rate mortgage loans secured by one- to four- family residences (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”) sold by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (“BSABS I”). The Mortgage Loans were sold by 


 









EMC Mortgage Corporation (“EMC”) to BSABS I. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association will act as master servicer of the Mortgage Loans (the “Master Servicer,” which term includes any successors thereto under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”), among BSABS I, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC Mortgage Corporation as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer and securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”) and U.S. Bank National Association as trustee (the “Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the
Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.


[For the Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates: Each Holder of this Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the restrictions set forth in the Agreement to the effect that (i) each person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in this Certificate must be a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee, (ii) the transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate will be conditioned upon the delivery to the Trustee of, among other things, an affidavit to the effect that it is a United States Person and Permitted Transferee, (iii) any attempted or purported transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such restrictions will be absolutely null and void and will vest no rights in the purported transferee, and (iv) if any person other than a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee acquires any Ownership Interest in this
Certificate in violation of such restrictions, then the Depositor will have the right, in its sole discretion and without notice to the Holder of this Certificate, to sell this Certificate to a purchaser selected by the Depositor, which purchaser may be the Depositor, or any affiliate of the Depositor, on such terms and conditions as the Depositor may choose.]


[For the Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates: Interest on this Certificate will accrue during the month prior to the month in which a Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined) occurs on the Certificate Principal Balance hereof at a per annum rate equal to the Pass-Through Rate set forth above. The Securities Administrator will distribute on the 25th day of each month, or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day (each, a (Distribution Date”), commencing on the First Distribution Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the Distribution Date occurs, an amount equal
to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of interest and principal, if any) required to be distributed to the Holders of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate. The Assumed Final Distribution Date is the Distribution Date in the month following the latest scheduled maturity date of any Mortgage Loan and is not likely to be the date on which the Certificate Principal Balance of this Class of Certificates will be reduced to zero.]


Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Securities Administrator by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Certificate Register or, if such Person so requests by notifying the Securities Administrator in 


 









writing as specified in the Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice by the Securities Administrator of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed by the Securities Administrator for that purpose and designated in such notice. The Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of distributions allocable to principal hereon and any Realized Losses allocable hereto.


[For the Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates: No transfer of this Certificate shall be made unless the transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and an effective registration or qualification under applicable state securities laws, or is made in a transaction that does not require such registration or qualification. In the event that such a transfer of this Certificate is to be made without registration or qualification, the Trustee shall require receipt of (i) if such transfer is purportedly being made in reliance upon Rule 144A under the 1933 Act, written certifications from the Holder of the Certificate desiring to effect the transfer, and from such Holder’s prospective transferee, substantially in the forms attached to the Agreement as Exhibit E and either F or G, as
applicable, and (ii) in all other cases, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it that such transfer may be made without such registration or qualification (which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund or of the Depositor, the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer in their respective capacities as such), together with copies of the written certification(s) of the Holder of the Certificate desiring to effect the transfer and/or such Holder’s prospective transferee upon which such Opinion of Counsel is based. Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee is obligated to register or qualify the Class of Certificates specified on the face hereof under the 1933 Act or any other securities law or to take any action not otherwise required under the Agreement to permit the transfer of such Certificates without registration or qualification. Any Holder desiring to effect a transfer of this Certificate shall be required to indemnify the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Depositor, the Seller and the Master Servicer against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.]


This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated as set forth on the face hereof (the “Certificates”). The Certificates, in the aggregate, evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund formed pursuant to the Agreement.


[For Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3: Each beneficial owner of this Certificate or any interest herein shall be deemed to have represented, by virtue of its acquisition or holding of this certificate or interest herein, that either (i) it is not an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Plan”),  or investing with assets of a Plan or (ii) it has acquired and is holding such certificate in reliance on Prohibited Transaction Exemption 90-30, as amended from time to time (“Exemption”), and that it understands that there are certain conditions to the availability of the Exemption, including that the  certificate must be rated, at the time of purchase, not lower than “BBB-” (or its equivalent) by Standard
& Poor(s, Fitch, Inc. or Moody(s Investors Service, Inc., and the certificate is so rated or (iii) (1) it is an insurance company, (2) the source of funds used to acquire or hold the certificate or interest herein is an 


 









“insurance company general account”, as such term is defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60, and (3) the conditions in Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 have been satisfied.]


The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the Trust Fund for payment hereunder and that the Trustee or the Securities Administrator is not liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement.


This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced hereby, and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator.


The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement from time to time by the parties thereto with the consent of the Certificate Insurers and the Holders of the Class or Classes of Certificates affected thereby evidencing over 50% of the Voting Rights of such Class or Classes.  Any such consent by the Certificate Insurers and the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.


As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable with the Securities Administrator upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Securities Administrator for such purposes, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder(s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations representing a like aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee.


[For the Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates: This Certificate may not be acquired directly or indirectly by, or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, unless the transferee certifies or represents that the proposed transfer and holding of a Certificate and the servicing, management and operation of the trust and its assets: (i) will not result in any prohibited transaction which is not covered under an individual or class prohibited transaction exemption, including, but not limited to, Prohibited Transaction Exemption (“PTE”) 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60 or PTE 96-23 and (ii) will not give rise to any additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Master
Servicer or the Trustee, which will be deemed represented by an owner of a Book-Entry Certificate or a Global Certificate or unless an opinion specified in section 7.02 of the Agreement is provided. This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated as set forth on 


 









the face hereof (the “Certificates”). The Certificates, in the aggregate, evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund formed pursuant to the Agreement.]


The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in the Classes and denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for one or more new Certificates evidencing the same Class and in the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.


No service charge will be made to the Certificateholders for any such registration of transfer, but the Securities Administrator may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and any agent of any of them may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


The obligations created by the Agreement and the Trust Fund created thereby (other than the obligations to make payments to related Certificateholders with respect to the termination of the Agreement) shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) the later of (A) the maturity or other liquidation (or Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund and disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (B) the remittance of all related funds due under the Agreement, or (ii) the optional repurchase by the party named in the Agreement of all the Mortgage Loans and other assets of the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Such optional repurchase may be made only on or after the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than the
percentage of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance specified in the Agreement of the Mortgage Loans at the Cut-off Date. The exercise of such right will effect the early retirement of the Certificates. In no event, however, will the Trust Fund created by the Agreement continue beyond the earlier of (i) the expiration of beyond the expiration of 21 years after the death of certain persons identified in the Agreement and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date specified in the Agreement.


Unless this Certificate has been countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any purpose.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Securities Administrator has caused this


Certificate to be duly executed.


 



	
            Dated: October 31, 2005
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK,
 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 as Securities Administrator
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


 


This is one of the Class B-[_] Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Agreement.


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK,
 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 as Securities Administrator
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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ASSIGNMENT


 


FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto __________________________________ (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Asset-Backed Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.


 


I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate to the following address:


______________________________________________________________________________


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            Dated:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Signature by or on behalf of assignor
 



 


 



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Signature Guaranteed
 



 


 


 


DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS


 


This assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:


 


Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available funds 


 









 


 



	
            to
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            for the account of
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            account number___________, or, if mailed by check, to
 	
            
 
 
 	
            ,
 
	
            Applicable statements should be mailed to
 	
            
 
 
 	
            ,
 
	
            
 
 
 	
            .
 
						



 



	
            This information is provided by
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            the assignee named above, or
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            as its agent.
 	
             
 	
             
 
					



 



 









 


EXHIBIT A-3


FORM OF CLASS P CERTIFICATES


SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A “REGULAR INTEREST” IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE “CODE”).


THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DECREASED BY THE PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS HEREON.   ACCORDINGLY, FOLLOWING THE INITIAL ISSUANCE OF THE CERTIFICATES, THE CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE DENOMINATION SHOWN BELOW. ANYONE ACQUIRING THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ASCERTAIN ITS CERTIFICATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE BY INQUIRY OF THE TRUSTEE NAMED HEREIN.


THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A “QIB”), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (3) IN CERTIFICATED FORM TO AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE ACT OR ANY ENTITY IN WHICH ALL OF THE EQUITY OWNERS COME WITHIN SUCH PARAGRAPHS PURCHASING NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.


THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER 


 









RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, UNLESS THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE PROVIDES THE TRUSTEE WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ADDRESSED TO THE TRUSTEE, DEPOSITOR, MASTER SERVICER AND SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR AND ON WHICH THEY MAY RELY THAT IS SATISFACTORY TO THE TRUSTEE THAT THE PURCHASE OF CERTIFICATES ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSON WILL NOT RESULT IN OR CONSTITUTE A NONEXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION, IS PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW AND WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO ANY ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON THE PART OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE MASTER SERVICER, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR THE TRUSTEE.






 









 


 



	

             

Certificate No.1
 	
             

Percentage Interest: 100%
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Class P
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Cut-off Date:

October 1, 2005
 	
             

Aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date:

$100.00
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

First Distribution Date:

November 25, 2005
 	
             

Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date: 

$100.00
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Master Servicer:

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
 	
             

CUSIP: _________________
 
	
             

 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

Assumed Final Distribution Date:

November 25, 2035
 	
             

 
 



 

 

ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATE


SERIES 2005-AC8


evidencing a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Class  P Certificates with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate mortgage loans sold by BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC.


This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund, and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator referred to below or any of their affiliates or any other person. Neither this Certificate nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental entity or by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or any of their affiliates or any other person. None of  Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the Certificates.


This certifies that Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest evidenced hereby in the beneficial ownership interest of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate in a trust (the “Trust Fund”) generally consisting of conventional first lien, fixed rate mortgage loans secured by one- to four- family residences (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”) sold by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (“BSABS I”). The Mortgage Loans 


 









were sold by EMC Mortgage Corporation (“EMC”) to BSABS I. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association will act as master servicer of the Mortgage Loans (the “Master Servicer,” which term includes any successors thereto under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”), among BSABS I, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC Mortgage Corporation as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer and securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them
in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.


Each Holder of this Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the restrictions set forth in the Agreement to the effect that (i) each person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in this Certificate must be a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee, (ii) the transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate will be conditioned upon the delivery to the Trustee of, among other things, an affidavit to the effect that it is a United States Person and Permitted Transferee, (iii) any attempted or purported transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such restrictions will be absolutely null and void and will vest no rights in the purported transferee, and (iv) if any person other than a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee acquires any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such restrictions, then the
Depositor will have the right, in its sole discretion and without notice to the Holder of this Certificate, to sell this Certificate to a purchaser selected by the Depositor, which purchaser may be the Depositor, or any affiliate of the Depositor, on such terms and conditions as the Depositor may choose.


The Securities Administrator will distribute on the 25th day of each month, or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day (each, a “Distribution Date”), commencing on the First Distribution Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the Distribution Date occurs, an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amounts required to be distributed to the Holders of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate. The Assumed Final Distribution Date is the Distribution Date in the month following the latest
scheduled maturity date of any Mortgage Loan.


Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Securities Administrator by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Certificate Register or, if such Person so requests by notifying the Trustee in writing as specified in the Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed by the Trustee for that purpose and designated in such notice.


 









 


No transfer of this Certificate shall be made unless the transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and an effective registration or qualification under applicable state securities laws, or is made in a transaction that does not require such registration or qualification. In the event that such a transfer of this Certificate is to be made without registration or qualification, the Trustee shall require receipt of (i) if such transfer is purportedly being made in reliance upon Rule 144A under the 1933 Act, written certifications from the Holder of the Certificate desiring to effect the transfer, and from such Holder(s prospective transferee, substantially in the forms attached to the Agreement as Exhibit E and either F or G, as applicable, and (ii) in all other cases, an Opinion of Counsel
satisfactory to it that such transfer may be made without such registration or qualification (which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund or of the Depositor, the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer in their respective capacities as such), together with copies of the written certification(s) of the Holder of the Certificate desiring to effect the transfer and/or such Holder(s prospective transferee upon which such Opinion of Counsel is based. Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee is obligated to register or qualify the Class of Certificates specified on the face hereof under the 1933 Act or any other securities law or to take any action not otherwise required under the Agreement to permit the transfer of such Certificates without registration or qualification. Any Holder desiring to effect a transfer of this Certificate shall be required to indemnify the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Depositor, the Seller and the Master
Servicer against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.


This certificate may not be acquired directly or indirectly by, or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, unless the proposed transferee provides the Trustee with an opinion of counsel addressed to the Trustee, Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator and on which they may rely (which shall not be at the expense of the Trustee, Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator) which is acceptable to the Trustee, that the purchase of this Certificate will not result in or constitute a nonexempt prohibited transaction, is permissible under applicable law and will not give rise to any additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee.


This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated as set forth on the face hereof (the “Certificates”). The Certificates, in the aggregate, evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund formed pursuant to the Agreement.


The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the Trust Fund for payment hereunder and that the Trustee or the Securities Administrator is not liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement.


This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced hereby, and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator.


 









 


The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement from time to time by the parties thereto with the consent of the Certificates Insurers and the Holders of the Class or Classes of Certificates affected thereby evidencing over 50% of the Voting Rights of such Class or Classes.  Any such consent by the Certificates Insurers and the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.


As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable with the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee for such purposes, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder(s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations representing a like aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee.


The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in the Classes and denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for one or more new Certificates evidencing the same Class and in the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.


No service charge will be made to the Certificateholders for any such registration of transfer, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and any agent of any of them may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


The obligations created by the Agreement and the Trust Fund created thereby (other than the obligations to make payments to Certificateholders with respect to the termination of the Agreement) shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) the later of (A) the maturity or other liquidation (or Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund and  disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (B) the remittance of all funds due under the Agreement, or (ii) the optional repurchase by the party named in the Agreement of all the Mortgage Loans and other assets of the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Such optional repurchase may be made only on or after the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than the percentage of the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance specified in the Agreement of the Mortgage Loans at the Cut-off Date. The exercise of such right will effect the early retirement of the Certificates. In no event, however, will the Trust Fund created by the Agreement continue beyond the expiration of 21 years after the death of certain persons identified in the Agreement.


 









 


Unless this Certificate has been countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Trustee by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any purpose.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly 


executed.


 



	
            Dated: __________, 20__
 	
             
 	
            U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 not in its individual capacity but solely as 
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


 


This is one of the Class P Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Agreement.


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL 
 ASSOCIATION  
 as Securities Administrator
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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ASSIGNMENT


 


FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto __________________________________ (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Asset-Backed Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.


 


I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate to the following address:


______________________________________________________________________________


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            Dated:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Signature by or on behalf of assignor
 



 


 



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS


 


This assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:


 


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            to
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            for the account of
 	
            
 
 
 	
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            account number___________, or, if mailed by check, to
 	
            
 
 
 	
            ,
 
	
            Applicable statements should be mailed to
 	
            
 
 
 	
            ,
 
	
            
 
 
 	
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EXHIBIT A-4


FORM OF CLASS R-[_] CERTIFICATE


THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE HELD BY OR TRANSFERRED TO A NON-UNITED STATES PERSON OR A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION (AS DEFINED BELOW).


SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A “RESIDUAL INTEREST” IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 (THE “CODE”).


THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, UNLESS THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE PROVIDES THE TRUSTEE WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ADDRESSED TO THE TRUSTEE, DEPOSITOR, MASTER SERVICER AND SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR AND ON WHICH THEY MAY RELY THAT IS SATISFACTORY TO THE TRUSTEE THAT THE PURCHASE OF CERTIFICATES ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSON WILL NOT RESULT IN OR CONSTITUTE A NONEXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION, IS PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW AND WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO ANY ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON THE PART OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE MASTER SERVICER, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR THE TRUSTEE.


ANY RESALE, TRANSFER OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE ONLY IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE PROVIDES A TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT TO THE MASTER SERVICER AND THE TRUSTEE THAT (1) SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT (A) THE UNITED STATES, ANY STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF, ANY POSSESSION OF THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING (OTHER THAN AN INSTRUMENTALITY WHICH IS A CORPORATION IF ALL OF ITS ACTIVITIES ARE SUBJECT TO TAX AND EXCEPT FOR FREDDIE MAC, A MAJORITY OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS NOT SELECTED BY SUCH GOVERNMENTAL UNIT), (B) A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, ANY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, OR ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF EITHER OF THE FOREGOING, (C) ANY ORGANIZATION (OTHER THAN CERTAIN FARMERS( COOPERATIVES DESCRIBED IN SECTION 521 OF THE CODE) WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM THE TAX IMPOSED BY CHAPTER 1 OF THE CODE UNLESS SUCH ORGANIZATION IS SUBJECT TO THE
TAX IMPOSED BY SECTION 511 OF THE CODE (INCLUDING THE TAX IMPOSED BY SECTION 511 OF THE CODE ON UNRELATED BUSINESS TAXABLE INCOME), (D) RURAL ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES DESCRIBED IN SECTION 


 









1381(a)(2)(C) OF THE CODE, (E) AN ELECTING LARGE PARTNERSHIP UNDER SECTION 775(a) OF THE CODE (ANY SUCH PERSON DESCRIBED IN THE FOREGOING CLAUSES (A), (B), (C), (D) OR (E) BEING HEREIN REFERRED TO AS A “DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION”), OR (F) AN AGENT OF A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION, (2) NO PURPOSE OF SUCH TRANSFER IS TO IMPEDE THE ASSESSMENT OR COLLECTION OF TAX, (3) SUCH TRANSFEREE SATISFIES CERTAIN ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE AND (4) SUCH TRANSFEREE IS A UNITED STATES PERSON.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE REGISTRATION IN THE CERTIFICATE REGISTER OR ANY TRANSFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION OR AN AGENT OF A DISQUALIFIED ORGANIZATION OR A NON-UNITED STATES PERSON, SUCH REGISTRATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE OF NO LEGAL FORCE OR EFFECT WHATSOEVER AND SUCH PERSON SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO BE A CERTIFICATEHOLDER FOR ANY PURPOSE HEREUNDER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF
DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS CERTIFICATE.  EACH HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE CONSENTED TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH.






 









 


 



	
             

Certificate No.1
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

Variable Pass-Through Rate
 
	
             

CLASS R-[_] 
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

Percentage Interest: 100%
 
	
             

Date of Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Cut-off Date:

October 1, 2005
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

Aggregate Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date:$[     ]

 
 
	
             

First Distribution Date:

November 25, 2005
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate as of the Cut-off Date: $[     ]
 
	
             

Master Servicer:

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
 	
             

 
 
	
             

 
 	
             

CUSIP: [____________]
 
	
             

Assumed Final Distribution Date:

November 25, 2035
 	
             

 
 



 

 

ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATE


SERIES 2005-AC8


evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the distributions allocable to the CLASS R-[_] Certificates with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of a pool of conventional one- to four-family fixed interest rate mortgage loans sold by BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC.


This Certificate is payable solely from the assets of the Trust Fund, and does not represent an obligation of or interest in Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator referred to below or any of their affiliates or any other person. Neither this Certificate nor the underlying Mortgage Loans are guaranteed or insured by any governmental entity or by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator or any of their affiliates or any other person. None of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, the Master Servicer or any of their affiliates will have any obligation with respect to any certificate or other obligation secured by or payable from payments on the Certificates.


This certifies that __________________ is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest evidenced hereby in the beneficial ownership interest of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate in a trust (the “Trust Fund”) generally consisting of conventional first lien, fixed rate 


 









mortgage loans secured by one- to four- family residences (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”) sold by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (“BSABS I”). The Mortgage Loans were sold by EMC Mortgage Corporation (“EMC”) to BSABS I. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association will act as master servicer of the Mortgage Loans (the “Master Servicer,” which term includes any successors thereto under the Agreement referred to below). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”), among BSABS I, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC Mortgage Corporation as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer and securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”) and U.S. Bank National Association as trustee (the
“Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth hereafter. To the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound.


Each Holder of this Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the restrictions set forth in the Agreement to the effect that (i) each person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in this Certificate must be a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee, (ii) the transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate will be conditioned upon the delivery to the Trustee of, among other things, an affidavit to the effect that it is a United States Person and Permitted Transferee, (iii) any attempted or purported transfer of any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such restrictions will be absolutely null and void and will vest no rights in the purported transferee, and (iv) if any person other than a United States Person and a Permitted Transferee acquires any Ownership Interest in this Certificate in violation of such restrictions, then the
Depositor will have the right, in its sole discretion and without notice to the Holder of this Certificate, to sell this Certificate to a purchaser selected by the Depositor, which purchaser may be the Depositor, or any affiliate of the Depositor, on such terms and conditions as the Depositor may choose.


Interest on this Certificate will accrue during the month prior to the month in which a Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined) occurs on the Certificate Principal Balance hereof at a per annum rate equal to the Pass-Through Rate set forth above. The Securities Administrator will distribute on the 25th day of each month, or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day (each, a “Distribution Date”), commencing on the First Distribution Date specified above, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such last day) of the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the Distribution Date occurs, an amount equal to the product of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate and the amount (of interest and principal, if any) required to be distributed to the Holders of Certificates of the same Class as this Certificate. The Assumed Final Distribution Date is the Distribution Date in the month following the latest scheduled maturity date of any Mortgage Loan.


Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Securities Administrator by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Certificate Register or, if such Person so requests by notifying the Trustee in writing as specified in the Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made 


 









after due notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency appointed by the Trustee for that purpose and designated in such notice.


The Initial Certificate Principal Balance of this Certificate is set forth above. The Certificate Principal Balance hereof will be reduced to the extent of distributions allocable to principal hereon and any Realized Losses allocable hereto.


This certificate may not be acquired directly or indirectly by, or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, unless the proposed transferee provides the Trustee with an opinion of counsel addressed to the Trustee, Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator and on which they may rely (which shall not be at the expense of the Trustee, Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator) which is acceptable to the Trustee, that the purchase of this Certificate will not result in or constitute a nonexempt prohibited transaction, is permissible under applicable law and will not give rise to any additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee.


This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated as set forth on the face hereof (the “Certificates”). The Certificates, in the aggregate, evidence the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund formed pursuant to the Agreement.


The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the Trust Fund for payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement.


This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced hereby, and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee.


The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Class A Insurer and the Certificateholders under the Agreement from time to time by the parties thereto with the consent of the Class A Insurer and the Holders of the Class or Classes of Certificates affected thereby evidencing over 50% of the Voting Rights of such Class or Classes.  Any such consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.


As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable with the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee for such purposes, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee 


 









duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder(s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations representing a like aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee.


The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in the Classes and denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Certificate is exchangeable for one or more new Certificates evidencing the same Class and in the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.


No service charge will be made to the Certificateholders for any such registration of transfer, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and any agent of any of them may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


The obligations created by the Agreement and the Trust Fund created thereby (other than the obligations to make payments to Certificateholders with respect to the termination of the Agreement) shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) the later of (A) the maturity or other liquidation (or Advance with respect thereto) of the last Mortgage Loan remaining in the Trust Fund and  disposition of all property acquired upon foreclosure or deed in lieu of foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and (B) the remittance of all funds due under the Agreement, or (ii) the optional repurchase by the party named in the Agreement of all the Mortgage Loans and other assets of the Trust Fund in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Such optional repurchase may be made only on or after the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than the percentage of the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance specified in the Agreement of the Mortgage Loans at the Cut-off Date. The exercise of such right will effect the early retirement of the Certificates. In no event, however, will the Trust Fund created by the Agreement continue beyond the expiration of (i) the expiration of beyond the expiration of 21 years after the death of certain persons identified in the Agreement and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date specified in the Agreement.


Unless this Certificate has been countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Trustee by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any purpose.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.


 



	
            Dated: __________, 20__
 	
             
 	
            U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 not in its individual capacity but solely as 
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


 


This is one of the CLASS R-[_] Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Agreement.


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
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ASSIGNMENT


 


FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto __________________________________ (Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee) a Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Asset-Backed Certificate and hereby authorizes the transfer of registration of such interest to assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.


 


I (We) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new Certificate of a like denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate to the following address:


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DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS


 


This assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:


 


Distributions shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available funds 


 









 


 



	
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EXHIBIT B


 


MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE


 


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EXHIBIT C


FORM OF TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT


 


Affidavit pursuant to Section 860E(e)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and for other purposes 


 



	
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[NAME OF OFFICER], being first duly sworn, deposes and says:


1.          That he/she is [Title of Officer] of [Name of Investor] (the “Investor”), a [savings institution] [corporation] duly organized and existing under the laws of [the State of _____] [the United States], on behalf of which he makes this affidavit.


2.          That (i) the Investor is not a “disqualified organization” as defined in Section 860E(e)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or an “electing large partnership” as defined in Section 775(a) of the Code and will not be a disqualified organization or an electing large partnership as of [Closing Date] [date of purchase]; (ii) it is not acquiring the Bear Stearns Asset-Backed Securities I LLC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8, Class R-__ Certificates (the “Residual Certificates”) for the account of a disqualified organization or an electing large partnership; (iii) it consents to any amendment of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement that shall be deemed necessary by Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (upon advice of counsel) to constitute a
reasonable arrangement to ensure that the Residual Certificates will not be owned directly or indirectly by a disqualified organization or an electing large partnership; and (iv) it will not transfer such Residual Certificates unless (a) it has received from the transferee an affidavit in substantially the same form as this affidavit containing these same four representations and (b) as of the time of the transfer, it does not have actual knowledge that such affidavit is false.


3.          That the Investor is one of the following: (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership (including an entity treated as a corporation or partnership for federal income tax purposes) created or organized in, or under the laws of, the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia (except, in the case of a partnership, to the extent provided in regulations), provided that no partnership or other entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes shall be treated as a United States person unless all persons that own an interest in such partnership either directly or through any entity that is not a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes are United States persons, (iii) an estate whose income is subject to United States federal
income tax regardless of its source, or (iv) a trust other than a (foreign trust,( as defined in Section 7701 (a)(31) of the Code.



	
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5.          That no purpose of the acquisition of the Residual Certificates is to avoid or impede the  assessment or collection of tax.


6.          That the Investor understands that, as the holder of the Residual Certificates, the Investor may incur tax liabilities in excess of any cash flows generated by such Residual Certificates.


7.          That the Investor intends to pay taxes associated with holding the Residual Certificates as they become due.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Investor has caused this instrument to be executed on its behalf, pursuant to authority of its Board of Directors, by its [Title of Officer] this ____ day of _________, 20__.


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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Personally appeared before me the above-named [Name of Officer], known or proved to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and to be the [Title of Officer] of the Investor, and acknowledged to me that he/she executed the same as his/her free act and deed and the free act and deed of the Investor.


 


Subscribed and sworn before me this ___ day of _________, 20___.


 


NOTARY PUBLIC


 


COUNTY OF


 


STATE OF


 


My commission expires the ___ day of ___________________, 20___.


 



 









 


EXHIBIT D


FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE


______________,200___


Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC


383 Madison Avenue


New York, New York 10179


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110


Attention: Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC


Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8, Class__
 
 



 


Ladies and Gentlemen:


In connection with the sale by ___________ (the “Seller”) to ________ (the “Purchaser”) of $_________ Initial Certificate Principal Balance of Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8, Class _____ (the “Certificates”), issued pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), dated as of October 1, 2005, among Bear Stearns Asset-Backed Securities I LLC, as depositor (the “Depositor”), EMC Mortgage Corporation, as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer and securities administrator and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Seller hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, a covenants with, the Depositor and the Trustee that:


Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on its behalf has (a) offered, pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other similar security to any person in any manner, (b) has solicited any offer to buy or to accept a pledge, disposition or other transfer of any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other similar security from any person in any manner, (c) has otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other similar security with any person in any manner, (d) has made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or (e) has taken any other action, that (as to any of (a) through (e) above) would constitute a distribution of the Certificates under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”), that would render the
disposition of any Certificate a violation of Section 5 of the Act or any state securities law, or that would require registration or qualification pursuant thereto. The Seller will not act in any manner set forth in the foregoing sentence with respect to any Certificate. The Seller has not and will not sell or otherwise transfer any of the Certificates, except in compliance with the provisions of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.


 









 


 



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT E


FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER


[Date]


[SELLER]


Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC


383 Madison Avenue


New York, New York 10179


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (the “Certificates”), including the Class B-4, Class B-5, Class B-6 and Class P Certificates (the “Privately Offered Certificates”).
 
 



 


Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:


In connection with our purchase of Privately Offered Certificates, we confirm that:



	
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            we understand that the Privately Offered Certificates are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) or any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws, and are being sold to us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of such laws;
 
	
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            any information we desired concerning the Certificates, including the Privately Offered Certificates, the trust in which the Certificates represent the entire beneficial ownership interest (the “Trust”) or any other matter we deemed relevant to our decision to purchase Privately Offered Certificates has been made available to us; 
 
	
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            we are able to bear the economic risk of investment in Privately Offered Certificates; we are an institutional “accredited investor” as defined in Section 501(a) of Regulation D promulgated under the Act and a sophisticated institutional investor;
 
	
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            we are acquiring Privately Offered Certificates for our own account, not as nominee for any other person, and not with a present view to any distribution or other disposition of the Privately Offered Certificates;
 
	
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            we agree the Privately Offered Certificates must be held indefinitely by us (and may not be sold, pledged, hypothecated or in any way disposed of) 
 



 









unless subsequently registered under the Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws is available;



	
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            we agree that in the event that at some future time we wish to dispose of or exchange any of the Privately Offered Certificates (such disposition or exchange not being currently foreseen or contemplated), we will not transfer or exchange any of the Privately Offered Certificates unless:
 



(A) (1) the sale is to an Eligible Purchaser (as defined below), (2) if required by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (as defined below) a letter to substantially the same effect as either this letter or, if the Eligible Purchaser is a Qualified Institutional Buyer as defined under Rule 144A of the Act, the Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate in the form attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (as defined below) (or such other documentation as may be acceptable to the Trustee) is executed promptly by the purchaser and delivered to the addressees hereof and (3) all offers or solicitations in connection with the sale, whether directly or through any agent acting on our behalf, are limited only to Eligible Purchasers and are not made by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising whatsoever; and


(B)        if the Privately Offered Certificate is not registered under the Act (as to which we acknowledge you have no obligation), the Privately Offered Certificate is sold in a transaction that does not require registration under the Act and any applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws and, if U.S. Bank National Association (the “Trustee”) so requests, a satisfactory Opinion of Counsel is furnished to such effect, which Opinion of Counsel shall be an expense of the transferor or the transferee; 



	
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PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60, or PTE 96-23 and (II) will not give rise to any additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee or (iii) in the case of the Privately Offered Securities have attached hereto the opinion specified in Section 7.02(b) of the Agreement.



	
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INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (3) IN CERTIFICATED FORM TO AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE ACT OR ANY ENTITY IN WHICH ALL OF THE EQUITY OWNERS COME WITHIN SUCH PARAGRAPHS PURCHASING NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION. [In the case of the Class B-4,
Class B-5, Class B-6 and Class P Certificates: THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, UNLESS THE PROPOSED TRANSFER AND 
 



 









HOLDING OF A CERTIFICATE AND THE SERVICING, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE TRUST AND ITS ASSETS: (1) WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY PROHIBITED TRANSACTION WHICH IS NOT COVERED UNDER AN INDIVIDUAL OR CLASS PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION ((PTE() 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60 OR PTE 96-23 AND (II) WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO ANY ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON THE PART OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE MASTER SERVICER, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR THE TRUSTEE, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED REPRESENTED BY AN OWNER OF A BOOK-ENTRY CERTIFICATE OR A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE OR UNLESS THE OPINION PROVIDED IN SECTION 5.07 OF THE AGREEMENT IS PROVIDED.(] 


“Eligible Purchaser” means a corporation, partnership or other entity which we have reasonable grounds to believe and do believe (i) can make representations with respect to itself to substantially the same effect as the representations set forth herein, and (ii) is either a Qualified Institutional Buyer as defined under Rule 144A of the Act or an institutional (Accredited Investor( as defined under Rule 501 of the Act.


Terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005, between Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, as depositor, EMC Mortgage Corporation, as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer and securities administrator and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”).


If the Purchaser proposes that its Certificates be registered in the name of a nominee on its behalf, the Purchaser has identified such nominee below, and has caused such nominee to complete the Nominee Acknowledgment at the end of this letter.


Name of Nominee (if any): ________________


 



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this document has been executed by the undersigned who is duly authorized to do so on behalf of the undersigned Eligible Purchaser on the ___ day of ________, 20___.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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Nominee Acknowledgment


The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that as to the Certificates being registered in its name, the sole beneficial owner thereof is and shall be the Purchaser identified above, for whom the undersigned is acting as nominee.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT F


FORM OF RULE 144A AND RELATED MATTERS CERTIFICATE


[SELLER]


Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC


383 Madison Avenue


New York, New York 10179


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (the “Certificates”), including the Class B-4, Class B-5, Class B-6 and Class P Certificates (the “Privately Offered Certificates”).
 
 



 


Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:


In connection with our purchase of Privately Offered Certificates, the undersigned certifies to each of the parties to whom this letter is addressed that it is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”)) as follows:



	
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            It owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis eligible securities (excluding affiliate(s securities, bank deposit notes and CD(s, loan participations, repurchase agreements, securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and swaps), as described below:
 



Date: ______________, 20__ (must be on or after the close of its most recent fiscal year) 


Amount: $ _____________________; and



	
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            The dollar amount set forth above is:
 	
             

	
             
	
            a.
 	
            greater than $100 million and the undersigned is one of the following entities:
 	
             

	
             
	
            (x)
 	
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            an insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the Act1; or
 
	 	(y)	[_]	an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act or any business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act of 1940; or
							



 


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1           A purchase by an insurance company for one or more of its separate accounts, as defined by Section 2(a)(37) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are neither registered nor required to be registered thereunder, shall be deemed to be a purchase for the account of such insurance company. 


 


 









 



	
             
	
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            [_]          a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; or
 
	
             
	
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            (bb)
 	
            [_]          a business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or
 
	
             
	
            (cc)
 	
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            [_]          a U.S. bank, savings and loan association or equivalent foreign institution, which has an audited net worth of at least $25 million as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements; or
 
	
             
	
            (ee)
 	
            [_]          an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act; or
 
	
            b.
 	
            [_]          greater than $10 million, and the undersigned is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC; or
 
	
            c.
 	
            [_]          less than $ 10 million, and the undersigned is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and will only purchase Rule 144A securities in transactions in which it acts as a riskless principal (as defined in Rule 144A); or
 
	
            d.
 	
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            e.
 	
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The undersigned further certifies that it is purchasing a Privately Offered Certificate for its own account or for the account of others that independently qualify as “Qualified Institutional Buyers” as defined in Rule 144A. It is aware that the sale of the Privately Offered Certificates is being made in reliance on its continued compliance with Rule 144A. It is aware that the transferor may rely on the exemption from the provisions of Section 5 of the Act provided by Rule 144A. The undersigned understands that the Privately Offered Certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred 


 









only to (i) a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer that purchases for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance in Rule 144A, or (ii) an institutional “accredited investor,” as such term is defined under Rule 501 of the Act in a transaction that otherwise does not constitute a public offering. 


The undersigned agrees that if at some future time it wishes to dispose of or exchange any of the Privately Offered Certificates, it will not transfer or exchange any of the Privately Offered Certificates to a Qualified Institutional Buyer without first obtaining a Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate in the form hereof from the transferee and delivering such certificate to the addressees hereof. Prior to making any transfer of Privately Offered Certificates, if the proposed Transferee is an institutional “accredited investor,” the transferor shall obtain from the transferee and deliver to the addressees hereof an Investment Letter in the form attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005, among Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, EMC Mortgage Corporation and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee, pursuant to which the Certificates were issued.


The undersigned certifies that it either: (i) is not acquiring the Privately Offered Certificate directly or indirectly by, or on behalf of, an employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or (ii) in the case of the Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates, is providing a representation to the effect that the proposed transfer and holding of a Privately Offered Certificate and the servicing, management and operation of the Trust and its assets: (I) will not result in any prohibited transaction which is not covered under a prohibited transaction exemption, including, but not limited to, Prohibited Transaction Exemption ((PTE() 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60, PTE 96-23 and (II) will not give rise to any
additional obligations on the part of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee or (iii) in the case of the Privately Offered Certificates, has attached hereto the opinion specified in Section 7.08(a) of the Agreement.


If the Purchaser proposes that its Certificates be registered in the name of a nominee on its behalf, the Purchaser has identified such nominee below, and has caused such nominee to complete the Nominee Acknowledgment at the end of this letter. 






 









 


Name of Nominee (if any):


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this document has been executed by the undersigned who is duly authorized to do so on behalf of the undersigned Eligible Purchaser on the ____ day of ___________, 20___.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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Nominee Acknowledgment


The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that as to the Certificates being registered in its name, the sole beneficial owner thereof is and shall be the Purchaser identified above, for whom the undersigned is acting as nominee.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT G


FORM OF REQUEST FOR RELEASE



	
            To:
 	
            U.S. Bank National Association
 



One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005, between Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, as Depositor, EMC Mortgage Corporation, as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer and securities administrator and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee
 
 



 


In connection with the administration of the Mortgage Loans held by you pursuant to the above-captioned Pooling and Servicing Agreement, we request the release, and hereby acknowledge receipt, of the Mortgage File for the Mortgage Loan described below, for the reason indicated.


Mortgage Loan Number:


Mortgagor Name, Address & Zip Code:


Reason for Requesting Documents (check one):



	
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            Mortgage Paid in Full and proceeds have been deposited into the Custodial Account
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
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EXHIBIT H


 


DTC LETTER OF REPRESENTATIONS


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EXHIBIT I


 


SCHEDULE OF MORTGAGE LOANS WITH LOST NOTES


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EXHIBIT J


FORM OF CUSTODIAL AGREEMENT


THIS CUSTODIAL AGREEMENT (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Agreement”), dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement defined below (including its successors under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement defined below, the “Trustee”), BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, as depositor (together with any successor in interest, the “Depositor”), EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as seller (the “Seller”) and company (together with any successor in interest or successor under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement referred to below, the “Company”) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as master servicer (together with any successor in interest or successor under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement referred to below, the “Master
Servicer”), securities administrator and custodian (together with any successor in interest or any successor appointed hereunder, the “Custodian”).


WITNESSETH THAT:


WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer and the Trustee have entered into a Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005, relating to the issuance of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (as in effect on the date of this agreement, the “Original Pooling and Servicing Agreement,” and as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”); and


WHEREAS, the Custodian has agreed to act as agent for the Trustee for the purposes of receiving and holding certain documents and other instruments delivered by the Depositor, the Seller or the Master Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Servicers under their respective Servicing Agreements, all upon the terms and conditions and subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth;


NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the Trustee, the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer and the Custodian hereby agree as follows:


SECTION 1.      


DEFINITIONS


Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned in the Original Pooling and Servicing Agreement, unless otherwise required by the context herein.


 









 


SECTION 2.      


CUSTODY OF MORTGAGE DOCUMENTS


(a)        Custodian to Act as Agent: Acceptance of Mortgage Files.  The Custodian, as the duly appointed custodial agent of the Trustee for these purposes, acknowledges (subject to any exceptions noted in the Initial Certification referred to in Section 2.3(a)) receipt of the Mortgage Files relating to the Mortgage Loans identified on the schedule attached hereto (the “Mortgage Files”) and declares that it holds and will hold such Mortgage Files as agent for the Trustee, in trust, for the use and benefit of all present and future Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers.


(b)        Recordation of Assignments.  If any Mortgage File includes one or more assignments of Mortgage that have not been recorded pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the related Mortgage Loan is not a MOM Loan or the related Mortgaged Properties are located in jurisdictions specifically excluded by the Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, each such assignment shall be delivered by the Custodian to the Seller for the purpose of recording it in the appropriate public office for real property records, and the Seller, at no expense to the Custodian, shall promptly cause to be recorded in the appropriate public office for real property records each such assignment of Mortgage and, upon
receipt thereof from such public office, shall return each such assignment of Mortgage to the Custodian.



	
            (c)
 	
            Review of Mortgage Files.
 



(i)         On or prior to the Closing Date, in accordance with Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Custodian shall deliver to the Seller, the Trustee and the Certificate Insurers an Initial Certification in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit One evidencing receipt (subject to any exceptions noted therein) of a Mortgage File for each of the Mortgage Loans listed on the Schedule attached hereto (the “Mortgage Loan Schedule”).


(ii)         Within 90 days of the Closing Date, the Custodian agrees, for the benefit of Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers, to review, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, each such document, and shall deliver to the Seller, the Trustee and the Certificate Insurers an Interim Certification in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit Two to the effect that all such documents have been executed and received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached to such Interim Certification. The Custodian shall be under no duty or obligation to inspect, review or examine said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to determine that the same are genuine, enforceable, or
appropriate for the represented purpose or that they have actually been recorded or that they are other than what they purport to be on their face.


(iii)        Not later than 180 days after the Closing Date, the Custodian shall review the Mortgage Files as provided in Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and deliver to the Seller, the Trustee and the Certificate Insurers a Final Certification in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit Three evidencing the completeness of the Mortgage Files.


 









 


(iv)        In reviewing the Mortgage Files as provided herein and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Custodian shall make no representation as to and shall not be responsible to verify (i) the validity, legality, enforceability, due authorization, recordability, sufficiency or genuineness of any of the documents included in any Mortgage File or (ii) the collectibility, insurability, effectiveness or suitability of any of the documents in any Mortgage File.


Upon receipt of written request from the Trustee, the Custodian shall as soon as practicable supply the Trustee with a list of all of the documents relating to the Mortgage Loans missing from the Mortgage Files.


(d)        Notification of Breaches of Representations and Warranties.  Upon discovery by the Custodian of a breach of any representation or warranty made by the Depositor as set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to a Mortgage Loan relating to a Mortgage File, the Custodian shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the related Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate Insurers.


(e)        Custodian to Cooperate: Release of Mortgage Files.  Upon receipt of written notice from the Trustee that the Seller has repurchased a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Article II of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and a request for release (a “Request for Release”) confirming that the purchase price therefore has been deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account or the Distribution Account, then the Custodian agrees to promptly release to the Seller the related Mortgage File.


Upon the Custodian’s receipt of a Request for Release substantially in the form of Exhibit G to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement signed by a Servicing Officer of a Servicer, stating that it has received payment in full of a Mortgage Loan or that payment in full will be escrowed in a manner customary for such purposes, the Custodian agrees promptly to release to the Servicer, the related Mortgage File.  The Depositor shall deliver to the Custodian and the Custodian agrees to review in accordance with the provisions of their Agreement the Mortgage Note and other documents constituting the Mortgage File with respect to any Replacement Mortgage Loan.


Upon receipt of the foregoing, the Custodian shall deliver the Mortgage File to the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable. The Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, shall cause each Mortgage File or any document therein so released to be returned to the Custodian when the need therefore by the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, no longer exists, unless (i) the Mortgage Loan has been liquidated and the Liquidation Proceeds relating to the Mortgage Loan have been deposited in the Master Servicer Collection Account or the Distribution Account or (ii) the Mortgage File or such document has been delivered to an attorney, or to a public trustee or other public official as required by law, for purposes of initiating or pursuing legal action or other proceedings for the foreclosure of the Mortgaged Property either judicially or non-judicially, and the Company or the
related Servicer, as applicable, has delivered to the Custodian a certificate of a Servicing Officer certifying as to the name and address of the Person to which such Mortgage File or such document was delivered and the purpose or purposes of such delivery.


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two copies of the Request for Release if delivered in hard copy or the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, may furnish such Request for Release electronically to the Custodian, in which event the Servicing Officer transmitting the same shall be deemed to have signed the Request for Release. In connection with any Request for Release of a Mortgage File because of a repurchase of a Mortgage Loan, such Request for Release shall be accompanied by an assignment of mortgage, without recourse, representation or warranty from the Trustee to the Seller (unless such Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan) and the related Mortgage Note shall be endorsed without recourse, representation or warranty by the Trustee (unless such Mortgage Loans is registered on the MERS System) and be returned to the Seller. In connection with any Request for Release of a Mortgage File because of the payment in full of a Mortgage Loan,
such Request for Release shall be accompanied by a certificate of satisfaction or other similar instrument to be executed by or on behalf of the Trustee and returned to the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable.


(f)         Assumption Agreements.  In the event that any assumption agreement, substitution of liability agreement or sale of servicing agreement is entered into with respect to any Mortgage Loan subject to this Agreement in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, to the extent provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement, shall cause the Company or the related Servicer, as applicable, to notify the Custodian that such assumption or substitution agreement has been completed by forwarding to the Custodian the original of such assumption or substitution agreement, which shall be added to the related Mortgage File and, for all purposes, shall be considered a part of such Mortgage File to the same extent
as all other documents and instruments constituting parts thereof.


SECTION 3.      


CONCERNING THE CUSTODIAN


(a)        Custodian a Bailee and Agent of the Trustee.  With respect to each Mortgage Note, Mortgage and other documents constituting each Mortgage File which are delivered to the Custodian, the Custodian is exclusively the bailee and custodial agent of the Trustee and has no instructions to hold any Mortgage Note or Mortgage for the benefit of any person other than the Trustee, the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers and undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. Except upon compliance with the provisions of Section 2.5 of this Agreement, no Mortgage Note, Mortgage or Mortgage File shall be delivered by the Custodian to the Company, the Depositor, any Servicer or the Master Servicer or
otherwise released from the possession of the Custodian.


(b)        Custodian May Own Certificates.  The Custodian in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights it would have if it were not Custodian.


(c)        Master Servicer to Pay Custodian’s Fees and Expenses.  The Master Servicer covenants and agrees to pay to the Custodian from time to time, and the Custodian shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it in the exercise and performance of any of the powers and duties hereunder of the Custodian, and the Master Servicer will pay or reimburse the Custodian upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or 


 









made by the Custodian in accordance with any of the provisions of this Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all persons not regularly in its employ), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith or to the extent that such cost or expense is indemnified by the Depositor pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.


(d)        Custodian May Resign; Trustee May Remove Custodian.  The Custodian may resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed upon it as such obligations and duties relate to its acting as Custodian of the Mortgage Loans. Upon receiving such written notice of resignation, the Trustee shall either take custody of the Mortgage Files itself and give prompt written notice thereof to the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Certificate Insurers and the Custodian, or promptly appoint a successor Custodian by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Custodian and one copy to the successor Custodian. If the Trustee shall not have taken custody of the Mortgage Files and no successor Custodian shall have been so appointed and have accepted
appointment within 30 days after the giving of such written notice of resignation, the resigning Custodian may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Custodian.


The Trustee may remove the Custodian at any time upon 60 days prior written notice to Custodian. In such event, the Trustee shall appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, a successor Custodian hereunder. Any successor Custodian shall be a depository institution subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority shall be able to satisfy the other requirements contained in Section 3.6 and shall be unaffiliated with the Servicers, the Company and the Depositor.


Any resignation or removal of the Custodian and appointment of a successor Custodian pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 3.4 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Custodian. The Trustee shall give prompt notice to the Depositor, the Master Servicer and Certificate Insurers of the appointment of any successor Custodian. No successor Custodian shall be appointed by the Trustee without the prior approval of the Depositor and the Master Servicer and with the prior written consent of the Certificate Insurers (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).


(e)        Merger or Consolidation of Custodian.  Any Person into which the Custodian may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Custodian shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the business of the Custodian, shall be the successor of the Custodian hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.


(f)         Representations of the Custodian.  The Custodian hereby represents that it is a depository institution subject to supervision or examination by a federal or state authority, has a combined capital and surplus of at least $15,000,000 and is qualified to do business in the jurisdictions in which it will hold any Mortgage File.


 









 


SECTION 4.      


MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS


(a)        Notices.  All notices, requests, consents and demands and other communications required under this Agreement or pursuant to any other instrument or document delivered hereunder shall be in writing and, unless otherwise specifically provided, may be delivered personally, by telegram or telex, or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, at the addresses specified on the signature page hereof (unless changed by the particular party whose address is stated herein by similar notice in writing), in which case the notice will be deemed delivered when received.


(b)        Certificate Insurers’ Rights.  The Certificate Insurers shall be an express third party beneficiary of this Custodial Agreement for the purpose of enforcing the provisions hereof to the extent of the Certificate Insurers’ or the respective Certificateholder’s rights explicitly specified herein as if a party hereto.


(c)        Amendments.  No modification or amendment of or supplement to this Agreement shall be valid or effective unless the same is in writing and signed by all parties hereto, with the prior written consent of the Certificate Insurers (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).  The Trustee shall give prompt notice to the Custodian of any amendment or supplement to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and furnish the Custodian with written copies thereof.


(d)        GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW.


(e)        Recordation of Agreement.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement is subject to recordation in all appropriate public offices for real property records in all the counties or other comparable jurisdictions in which any or all of the properties subject to the Mortgages are situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Depositor and at the Trust’s expense, but only upon direction accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor to the effect that the failure to effect such recordation is likely to materially and adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders.


For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.


I.1.       Severability of Provisions.  If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement is executed as of the date first above written.



	
            Address:

 

One Federal Street, 3rd Floor

Boston, MA 02110

 

Attention: Corporate Trust Services, BSABS I 2005-AC8

Telecopy: (617)603-6638

Confirmation:
 	
            U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

 

 

By:_______________________________

Name:  

Title:                
 
	
             

Address:

 

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179
 	
             

BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC

 

 

By:_______________________________

Name:  

Title:                   

 
 
	
             

Address:

 

909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200

Irving, Texas 75038
 	
             

EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION

 

 

By:_______________________________

Name:        

Title:                   

 
 
	
             

Address:

 

9062 Old Annapolis Road

Columbia, Maryland 21045

 

 
 	
             

WELLS FARGO BANK,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Custodian and Master Servicer

 

By:_______________________________

Name:  

Title:  
 




 









 


 



	
            STATE OF NEW YORK
 	
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            ss.:
 
	
            COUNTY OF NEW YORK
 	
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On the  ______ day of October 2005 before me, a notary public in and for said State, personally appeared _______________, known to me to be a _________________of U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said corporation and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Notary Public
 



 


 


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            STATE OF NEW YORK
 	
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            ss.:
 
	
            COUNTY OF NEW YORK
 	
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On the ______ day of October 2005 before me, a notary public in and for said State, personally appeared ________________, known to me to be a _____________ of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Notary Public
 



 


 


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            STATE OF TEXAS
 	
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            ss.:
 
	
            COUNTY OF DALLAS
 	
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On the ______ day of October 2005 before me, a notary public in and for said State, personally appeared ________________, known to me to be a __________________ of EMC Mortgage Corporation, one of the corporations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said corporation, and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Notary Public
 



 


 


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            STATE OF MARYLAND
 	
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            ss.:
 
	
            COUNTY OF HOWARD
 	
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On the ______ day of October 2005 before me, a notary public in and for said State, personally appeared ____________, known to me to be a of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, one of the national associations that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said national association, and acknowledged to me that such national association executed the within instrument.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.



	
             
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT ONE


FORM OF CUSTODIAN INITIAL CERTIFICATION


October 31, 2005


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110


EMC Mortgage Corporation


909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200


Irving, Texas 75038


Attention: Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Series 2005-AC8



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Custodial Agreement, dated as of October 31,, 2005, by and among U.S. Bank National Association, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation relating to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8
 
 



 


Ladies and Gentlemen:


In accordance with Section 2.3(a) of the above-captioned Custodial Agreement, and subject to Section 2.02(a) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has received a Mortgage File (which contains an original Mortgage Note or lost note affidavit) to the extent required in Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, with any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached hereto.


Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement.



	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:        
 
	
             
 	
            Title:                   
 



 



 









 


EXHIBIT TWO


FORM OF CUSTODIAN INTERIM CERTIFICATION


[DATE]


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110


EMC Mortgage Corporation


909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200


Irving, Texas 75038


Attention: Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Series 2005-AC8


 



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Custodial Agreement, dated as of October 31,, 2005, by and among U.S. Bank National Association, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation relating to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8
 
 



 


Ladies and Gentlemen:


In accordance with Section 2.3(b) of the above-captioned Custodial Agreement and subject to Section 2.02(a) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has received a Mortgage File to the extent required pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, and it has reviewed the Mortgage File and the Mortgage Loan Schedule and has determined that: all required documents have been executed and received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, with any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached hereto.


Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement.



	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:        
 
	
             
 	
            Title:                   
 



 



 









 


EXHIBIT THREE


FORM OF CUSTODIAN FINAL CERTIFICATION


[DATE]


U.S. Bank National Association


One Federal Street, 3rd Floor


Boston, MA 02110


EMC Mortgage Corporation


909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200


Irving, Texas 75038


Attention: Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Series 2005-AC8



	
             
 	
            Re:
 	
            
Custodial Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, by and among U.S. Bank National Association, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation relating to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8
 
 



 


In accordance with Section 2.3(c) of the above-captioned Custodial Agreement


and, subject to Section 2.02(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the undersigned, as Custodian, hereby certifies that it has received a Mortgage File to the extent required pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to each Mortgage Loan listed in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, and it has reviewed the Mortgage File and the Mortgage Loan Schedule and has determined that: all required documents have been executed and received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, with any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached hereto.


Capitalized words and phrases used herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the above-captioned Custodial Agreement or in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as applicable.



	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:  Stacey Taylor
 
	
             
 	
            Title:    Vice President
 



 



 









 


SCHEDULE A


 


(PROVIDED UPON REQUEST)



 









 


EXHIBIT K


 


FORM OF MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT


 


MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of October 31, 2005, as amended and supplemented by any and all amendments hereto (collectively, “this Agreement”), by and between EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Mortgage Loan Seller”) and BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Purchaser”).


Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, certain conventional, fixed rate, first lien mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residences (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”) as described herein. The Purchaser intends to deposit the Mortgage Loans into a trust fund (the “Trust Fund”) and create Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (the “Certificates”), under a pooling and servicing agreement, to be dated as of October 1, 2005 (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), among the Purchaser, as Purchaser,
the Mortgage Loan Seller, as seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer (the “Master Servicer”) and as securities administrator and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).


The Purchaser has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (Number 333-125422) relating to its Asset-Backed Certificates and the offering of certain series thereof (including certain classes of the Certificates) from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (the “Securities Act”). Such registration statement, when it became effective under the Securities Act, and the prospectus relating to the public offering of certain classes of the Certificates by the Purchaser (the “Public Offering”), as each may be amended or supplemented from time to
time pursuant to the Securities Act or otherwise, are referred to herein as the “Registration Statement” and the “Prospectus,” respectively. The “Prospectus Supplement” shall mean that supplement, dated October 28, 2005, to the Prospectus, dated June 24, 2005, relating to certain classes of the Certificates. With respect to the Public Offering of certain classes of the Certificates, the Purchaser and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (“Bear Stearns”) have entered into a terms agreement, dated as of October 28, 2005, to an underwriting agreement, dated January 25, 2005, between the Purchaser and Bear Stearns (together, the “Underwriting Agreement”).


Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:


SECTION 1.    Definitions.  Certain terms are defined herein. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The following other terms are defined as follows:


 









 


Acquisition Price:  Cash in an amount equal to $      2       (plus $      *        in accrued interest), and the Retained Certificates.


Bear Stearns:  Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.


Closing Date: October 31, 2005.


Custodial Agreement:  An agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005 among the Depositor, the Seller, the Trustee and the Custodian.


Cut-Off Date:  October 1, 2005.


Cut-off Date Balance:  Shall mean $379,854,264.


Deleted Mortgage Loan:  A Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced by a Replacement Mortgage Loan.


Due Date:  With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the date in each month on which its scheduled payment is due, as set forth in the related Mortgage Note.


MERS:  Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor thereto.


MERS® System:  The system of recording transfers of Mortgages electronically maintained by MERS.


MOM Loan:  With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof.


Moody’s:  Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or its successors in interest.


Mortgage:  The mortgage or deed of trust creating a first lien on an interest in real property securing a Mortgage Note.


Mortgage File:  The items referred to in Exhibit 1 pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required to be added to such documents pursuant to this Agreement.


Mortgage Rate:  The annual rate of interest borne by a Mortgage Note as stated therein.


Mortgagor:  The obligor(s) on a Mortgage Note.


 


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*  Please contact Bear Stearns for pricing information.


 


 









 


Net Mortgage Rate:  For each Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage Rate for such Mortgage Loan less (i) the Master Servicing Fee Rate, (ii) the Servicing Fee Rate and (ii) the rate at which the LPMI Fee is calculated, if applicable.


Opinion of Counsel:  A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Purchaser, reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.


Person:  Any legal person, including any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.


Purchase Price:  With respect to any Mortgage Loan required to be purchased by the Mortgage Loan Seller pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the principal remaining unpaid on such Mortgage Loan as of the date of purchase (including if a foreclosure has already occurred, the principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan at the time the Mortgaged Property was acquired), (ii) accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Mortgage Rate through and including the last day of the month of purchase and (iii) any costs and damages (if any) incurred by the Trust in connection with any violation of such Mortgage Loan of any anti-predatory lending laws.


Rating Agencies:  Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, each a “Rating Agency.”


Replacement Mortgage Loan:  A mortgage loan substituted for a Deleted


Mortgage Loan which must meet on the date of such substitution the requirements stated herein and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; upon such substitution, such mortgage loan shall be a “Mortgage Loan” hereunder.


Securities Act:  The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


Standard & Poor’s:  Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or its successors in interest.


Transaction Documents: This Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Custodial Agreement and the Underwriting Agreement and the Assured Premium Letter.


Value:  The value of the Mortgaged Property at the time of origination of the related Mortgage Loan, such value being the lesser of (i) the value of such property set forth in an appraisal accepted by the applicable originator of the Mortgage Loan or (ii) the sales price of such property at the time of origination.


Wells Fargo:  Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.



	
            SECTION 2.
 	
            Purchase and Sale of the Mortgage Loans and Related Rights.  
 



(a)        Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 10 hereof, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase Mortgage Loans having an aggregate outstanding principal balance as of the Cut-off Date equal to the related Cut-off Date Balance.


 









 


(b)        The closing for the purchase and sale of the Mortgage Loans and the closing for the issuance of  the Certificates will take place on the Closing Date at the office of the Purchaser’s counsel in New York, New York or such other place as the parties shall agree.


(c)        Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 10 hereof, on the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall pay to the Mortgage Loan Seller the Acquisition Price for the Mortgage Loans in immediately available funds by wire transfer to such account or accounts as shall be designated by the Mortgage Loan Seller.


(d)        In addition to the foregoing, on the Closing Date the Mortgage Loan Seller assigns to the Purchaser all of its right, title and interest in the Servicing Agreements.


SECTION 3.    Mortgage Loan Schedules.  The Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to provide to the Purchaser as of the date hereof a preliminary listing of the Mortgage Loans (the “Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule”) setting forth the information listed on Exhibit 2 to this Agreement with respect to each of the Mortgage Loans being sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller. If there are changes to the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall provide to the Purchaser as of the Closing Date a final schedule (the “Final Mortgage Loan Schedule”) setting forth the information listed on Exhibit 2 to this Agreement with respect to each of the Mortgage Loans being sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the
Purchaser. The Final Mortgage Loan Schedule shall be delivered to the Purchaser on the Closing Date, shall be attached to an amendment to this Agreement to be executed on the Closing Date by the parties hereto and shall be in form and substance mutually agreed to by the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser (the “Amendment”). If there are no changes to the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule, the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule shall be the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule for all purposes hereof.



	
            SECTION 4.
 	
            Mortgage Loan Transfer.
 



(a)        The Purchaser will be entitled to all scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Mortgage Loans due after the Cut-off Date (regardless of when actually collected) and all payments thereof.  The Mortgage Loan Seller will be entitled to all scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Mortgage Loans due on or before the Cut-off Date (including payments collected after the Cut-off Date) and all payments thereof.  Such principal amounts and any interest thereon belonging to the Mortgage Loan Seller as described above will not be included in the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date as set forth on the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule.


(b)        Pursuant to various conveyancing documents to be executed on the Closing Date and pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Purchaser will assign on the Closing Date all of its right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers. In connection with the transfer and assignment of the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgage Loan Seller has delivered or will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee by the Closing Date or such later date as is agreed to by the Purchaser and the Mortgage Loan Seller (each of the Closing Date and such later date is referred to as a “Mortgage File Delivery Date”), the items of each Mortgage File, provided, however, that in lieu of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver the following documents, under the circumstances set forth below: (x) in lieu of the original Mortgage, 


 









assignments to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof which have been delivered, are being delivered or will upon receipt of recording information relating to the Mortgage required to be included thereon, be delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned in time to permit their delivery as specified above, the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver a true copy thereof with a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master Servicer, on the face of such copy, substantially as follows: “Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has been transmitted for recording;” (y) in lieu of the Mortgage, assignments to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof, if the applicable jurisdiction retains the originals of such documents or if the originals are lost (in each case, as evidenced by a certification from the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master
Servicer to such effect), the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver photocopies of such documents containing an original certification by the judicial or other governmental authority of the jurisdiction where such documents were recorded; and (z) in lieu of the Mortgage Notes relating to the Mortgage Loans, each identified in the list delivered by the Purchaser to the Trustee on the Closing Date and attached hereto as Exhibit 5 the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver lost note affidavits and indemnities of the Mortgage Loan Seller; and provided further, however, that in the case of Mortgage Loans which have been prepaid in full after the Cut-off Date and prior to the Closing Date, the Mortgage Loan Seller, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to the Trustee a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master Servicer to such effect. The Mortgage Loan Seller shall deliver such original documents (including any original
documents as to which certified copies had previously been delivered) or such certified copies to the Trustee, or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, promptly after they are received. The Mortgage Loan Seller shall cause the Mortgage and intervening assignments, if any, and the assignment of the Mortgage to be recorded not later than 180 days after the Closing Date unless such assignment is not required to be recorded under the terms set forth in  Section 6(a) hereof.


(c)        In connection with the assignment of any Mortgage Loan registered on the MERS® System, the Mortgage Loan Seller further agrees that it will cause, at the Mortgage Loan Seller’s own expense, within 30 days after the Closing Date, the MERS® System to indicate that such Mortgage Loans have been assigned by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser and by the Purchaser to the Trustee in accordance with this Agreement for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers by including (or deleting, in the case of Mortgage Loans which are repurchased in accordance with this Agreement) in such computer files (a) the code in the field which identifies the specific Trustee and (b) the code in the field “Pool Field” which identifies the series of the Certificates issued in connection with such Mortgage Loans.
The Mortgage Loan Seller further agrees that it will not, and will not permit any Servicer or the Master Servicer to, and the Master Servicer agrees that it will not, alter the codes referenced in this paragraph with respect to any Mortgage Loan during the term of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement unless and until such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.


(d)        The Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser acknowledge hereunder that all of the Mortgage Loans and the related servicing (other than the servicing rights with respect to the PHH Loans, Savannah Loans, HSBC Loans, the SunTrust Loans and the GreenPoint Loans), will ultimately be assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers, on the date hereof.


 









 



	
            SECTION 5.
 	
            Examination of Mortgage Files.
 



(a)        On or before the Mortgage File Delivery Date, the Mortgage Loan Seller will have made the Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser or its agent for examination which may be at the offices of the Trustee or the Mortgage Loan Seller and/or the Mortgage Loan Seller’s custodian. The fact that the Purchaser or its agent has conducted or has failed to conduct any partial or complete examination of the Mortgage Files shall not affect the Purchaser’s rights to demand cure, repurchase, substitution or other relief as provided in this Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall make the Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser or its agent from time to time so as to permit the Purchaser to confirm the Mortgage Loan Seller’s compliance with the delivery and recordation requirements of this Agreement and
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. In addition, upon request of the Purchaser, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to provide to the Purchaser, Bear Stearns, the Certificate Insurers and to any investors or prospective investors in the Certificates information regarding the Mortgage Loans and their servicing, to make the Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser, Bear Stearns, the Certificate Insurers and to such investors or prospective investors (which may be at the offices of the Mortgage Loan Seller and/or the Mortgage Loan Seller’s custodian) and to make available personnel knowledgeable about the Mortgage Loans for discussions with the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and such investors or prospective investors, upon reasonable request during regular business hours, sufficient to permit the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and such investors or potential investors to conduct such due diligence as any such party reasonably believes is appropriate.


(b)        Pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, on the Closing Date the Trustee (or the Custodian as obligated under the Custodial Agreement), for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Certificate Insurers, will review items of the Mortgage Files as set forth on Exhibit 1 and will deliver to the Mortgage Loan Seller an initial certification in the form attached as Exhibit One to the Custodial Agreement.


(c)        Within 90 days of the Closing Date, the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf shall, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, deliver to the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Trustee an Interim Certification in the form attached as Exhibit Two to the Custodial Agreement to the effect that all such documents have been executed and received and that such documents relate to the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached to such Interim Certification. The Custodian shall be under no duty or obligation to inspect, review or examine said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to determine that the same are genuine, enforceable, or appropriate for the represented purpose or that they have actually been recorded or that
they are other than what they purport to be on their face.


(d)        The Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf will review the Mortgage Files within 180 days of the Closing Date and will deliver to the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Master Servicer, and if reviewed by the Custodian, the Trustee, a final certification substantially in the form of Exhibit Three to the Custodial Agreement. If the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf is unable to deliver a final certification with respect to the items listed in Exhibit 1 due to any document that is missing, has not been executed, is unrelated, determined on the basis of the Mortgagor name, original principal balance and loan number, to the Mortgage Loans identified in the Final Mortgage 


 









Loan Schedule (a “Material Defect”), the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf shall notify the Mortgage Loan Seller of such Material Defect. The Mortgage Loan Seller shall correct or cure any such Material Defect within 90 days from the date of notice from the Trustee or the Certificate Insurers of the Material Defect and if the Mortgage Loan Seller does not correct or cure such Material Defect within such period and such defect materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders or Certificate Insurers in the related Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage Loan Seller will, in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, within 90 days of the date of notice, provide the Trustee with a Replacement Mortgage Loan (if within two years of the Closing Date) or purchase the related Mortgage Loan at the applicable Purchase
Price; provided, however, that if such defect relates solely to the inability of the Mortgage Loan Seller to deliver the original security instrument or intervening assignments thereof, or a certified copy because the originals of such documents, or a certified copy, have not been returned by the applicable jurisdiction, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall not be required to purchase such Mortgage Loan if the Mortgage Loan Seller delivers such original documents or certified copy promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after the Closing Date. The foregoing repurchase obligation shall not apply in the event that the Mortgage Loan Seller cannot deliver such original or copy of any document submitted for recording to the appropriate recording office in the applicable jurisdiction because such document has not been returned by such office; provided that the Mortgage Loan Seller
shall instead deliver a recording receipt of such recording office or, if such receipt is not available, a certificate of Mortgage Loan Seller or a Servicing Officer confirming that such documents have been accepted for recording, and delivery to the Trustee shall be effected by the Mortgage Loan Seller within thirty days of its receipt of the original recorded document.


(e)        At the time of any substitution, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered the Replacement Mortgage Loan, the related Mortgage File and any other documents and payments required to be delivered in connection with a substitution pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. At the time of any purchase or substitution, the Trustee shall (i) assign the selected Mortgage Loan to the Mortgage Loan Seller and shall release or cause the Custodian to release the documents (including, but not limited to the Mortgage, Mortgage Note and other contents of the Mortgage File) in the possession of the Trustee or the Custodian, as applicable relating to the Deleted Mortgage Loan and (ii) execute and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in the Mortgage Loan
Seller title to such Deleted Mortgage Loan.



	
            SECTION 6.
 	
            Recordation of Assignments of Mortgage.
 



(a)        The Mortgage Loan Seller will, promptly after the Closing Date, cause each Mortgage and each assignment of Mortgage from the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee, and all unrecorded intervening assignments, if any, delivered on or prior to the Closing Date, to be recorded in all recording offices in the jurisdictions where the related Mortgaged Properties are located; provided, however, the Mortgage Loan Seller need not cause to be recorded any assignment which relates to a Mortgage Loan that is a MOM Loan or for which the related Mortgaged Property is located in any jurisdiction under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee, the Certificate Insurers and the Rating Agencies, the
recordation of such assignment is not necessary to protect the Trustee’s interest in the related Mortgage Loan; provided, however, notwithstanding the delivery of any Opinion of Counsel, each 


 









assignment of Mortgage shall be submitted for recording by the Mortgage Loan Seller in the manner described above, at no expense to the Trust Fund or Trustee, upon the earliest to occur of (i) reasonable direction by the Holders of Certificates evidencing Percentage Interests aggregating not less than 25% of the Trust, (ii) the occurrence of a Company Default, (iii) the occurrence of a bankruptcy, insolvency or foreclosure relating to the Mortgage Loan Seller under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, (iv) the occurrence of a servicing transfer as described in Section 9.05 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or an assignment of the servicing as described in Section 8.05(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or (iv) with respect to any one assignment of Mortgage, the occurrence of a bankruptcy, insolvency or foreclosure relating to the Mortgagor under the related Mortgage.


While each such Mortgage or assignment is being recorded, if necessary, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall leave or cause to be left with the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf a certified copy of such Mortgage or assignment. In the event that, within 180 days of the Closing Date, the Trustee has not been provided with an Opinion of Counsel as described above or received evidence of recording with respect to each Mortgage Loan delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms hereof or as set forth above and the related Mortgage Loan is not a MOM Loan, the failure to provide evidence of recording or such Opinion of Counsel shall be considered a Material Defect, and the provisions of Section 5(c) and (d) shall apply. All customary recording fees and reasonable expenses relating to the recordation of the assignments of mortgage to the Trustee or the Opinion of Counsel, as the case may be,
shall be borne by the Mortgage Loan Seller.


(b)        It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the conveyance of the Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser, as contemplated by this Agreement be, and be treated as, a sale. It is, further, not the intention of the parties that such conveyance be deemed a pledge of the Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser to secure a debt or other obligation of the Mortgage Loan Seller. However, in the event that, notwithstanding the intent of the parties, the Mortgage Loans are held by a court to continue to be property of the Mortgage Loan Seller, then (a) this Agreement shall also be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the applicable Uniform Commercial Code; (b) the transfer of the Mortgage Loans provided for herein shall be deemed to be a grant by the Mortgage Loan
Seller to the Purchaser of a security interest in all of the Mortgage Loan Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans and all amounts payable to the holders of the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms thereof and all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of the foregoing into cash, instruments, securities or other property, to the extent the Purchaser would otherwise be entitled to own such Mortgage Loans and proceeds pursuant to Section 4 hereof, including all amounts, other than investment earnings, from time to time held or invested in any accounts created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, whether in the form of cash, instruments, securities or other property; (c) the possession by the Purchaser or the Trustee (or the Custodian on its behalf) of Mortgage Notes and such other items of property as constitute instruments, money, negotiable documents or chattel paper shall be deemed to be “possession by the secured
party” for purposes of perfecting the security interest pursuant to Section 9-305 (or comparable provision) of the applicable Uniform Commercial Code; and (d) notifications to persons holding such property, and acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from persons holding such property, shall be deemed notifications to, or acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from, financial intermediaries, bailees or agents (as applicable) of the Purchaser for the purpose of 


 









perfecting such security interest under applicable law. Any assignment of the interest of the Purchaser pursuant to any provision hereof or pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall also be deemed to be an assignment of any security interest created hereby. The Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take such actions as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create a security interest in the Mortgage Loans, such security interest would be deemed to be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable law and will be maintained as such throughout the term of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.


SECTION 7.    Representations and Warranties of Mortgage Loan Seller Concerning the Mortgage Loans. The Mortgage Loan Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Purchaser and the Certificate Insurers as of the Closing Date or such other date as may be specified below with respect to each Mortgage Loan being sold by it:


(a)        The information set forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule on the Closing Date is complete, true and correct.


(b)        All payments required to be made prior to the Cut-off Date with respect to each Mortgage Loan have been made and no Mortgage Loan is delinquent thirty one or more days; and the Mortgage Loan Seller has not advanced funds, or induced, solicited or knowingly received any advance of funds from a party other than the owner of the Mortgaged Property subject to the Mortgage, directly or indirectly, for the payment of any amount required under any Mortgage Loan.


(c)        Except with respect to taxes, insurance and other amounts previously advanced by a prior servicer with respect to any Mortgage Loan, there are no delinquent taxes, water charges, sewer rents, assessments, insurance premiums, leasehold payments, including assessments payable in future installments, or other outstanding charges affecting the related Mortgaged Property.


(d)        The terms of the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage have not been impaired, waived, altered or modified in any respect, except by written instruments which in the case of the Mortgage Loans are in the Mortgage File and have been or will be recorded, if necessary to protect the interests of the Trustee, and which have been or will be delivered to the Trustee, all in accordance with this Agreement. The substance of any such waiver, alteration or modification has been approved by the title insurer, to the extent required by the related policy. No Mortgagor has been released, in whole or in part, except in connection with an assumption agreement approved by the title insurer, to the extent required by the policy, and which assumption agreement in the case of the Mortgage Loans is part of the Mortgage File.


(e)        The Mortgage Note and the Mortgage are not subject to any right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or defense, including the defense of usury, nor will the operation of any of the terms of the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage, or the exercise of any right thereunder, render the Mortgage unenforceable, in whole or in part, or subject to any right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or defense, including the defense of usury and no such right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or defense has been asserted with respect thereto.


 









 


(f)         All buildings upon, or comprising part of, the Mortgaged Property are insured by an insurer acceptable to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac against loss by fire, hazards of extended coverage and such other hazards as are customary in the area where the Mortgaged Property is located, and such insurer is licensed to do business in the state where the Mortgaged Property is located. All such insurance policies contain a standard mortgagee clause naming the originator, its successors and assigns as mortgagee and Mortgage Loan Seller has received no notice that all premiums thereon have not been paid. If upon origination of the Mortgage Loan, the Mortgaged Property was, or was subsequently deemed to be, in an area identified in the Federal Register by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood hazards (and such flood
insurance has been made available), which require under applicable law that a flood insurance policy meeting the requirements of the current guidelines of the Federal Insurance Administration (or any successor thereto) be obtained, such flood insurance policy is in effect which policy is with a generally acceptable carrier in an amount representing coverage not less than the least of (A) the Stated Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loan, (B) the minimum amount required to compensate for damage or loss on a replacement cost basis, or (C) the maximum amount of insurance that is available under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. The Mortgage obligates the Mortgagor thereunder to maintain all such insurance at Mortgagor’s cost and expense and, on the Mortgagor’s failure to do so, authorizes the holder of the Mortgage to maintain such insurance at Mortgagor’s cost and expense and to obtain reimbursement therefor from the Mortgagor.


(g)        Any and all requirements of any federal, state or local law including, without limitation, usury, truth in lending, real estate settlement procedures including, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974, as amended, consumer credit protection, equal credit opportunity or disclosure and reporting laws and all anti-predatory lending laws applicable to the Mortgage Loan have been complied with in all material respects.


(h)        The Mortgage has not been satisfied, canceled, subordinated, or rescinded, in whole or in part, and the Mortgaged Property has not been released from the lien of the Mortgage, in whole or in part, nor has any instrument been executed that would effect any such release, cancellation, subordination or rescission.


(i)         The Mortgage is a valid, existing and enforceable first lien on the Mortgaged Property, including all improvements on the Mortgaged Property, if any, subject only to (1) the lien of current real property taxes and assessments not yet due and payable, (2) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way, easements and other matters of the public record as of the date of recording being acceptable to mortgage lending institutions generally and specifically referred to in the lender’s title insurance policy delivered to the originator of the Mortgage Loan and which do not adversely affect the Appraised Value of the Mortgaged Property and (3) other matters to which like properties are commonly subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided by the Mortgage. The Mortgage Loan
Seller has full right to sell and assign the Mortgage to the Purchaser.


(j)         The Mortgage Note and the related Mortgage are genuine and each is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the maker thereof, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or general principles of equity.


 









 


(k)        All parties to the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage had the legal capacity to enter into the Mortgage Loan transaction and to execute and deliver the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage, and the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage have been duly and properly executed by such parties.


(l)         The proceeds of the Mortgage Loan have been fully disbursed and there is no requirement for future advances thereunder and any and all requirements as to completion of any on-site or off-site improvement and as to disbursements of any escrow funds therefor have been complied with. All costs, fees and expenses incurred in making or closing the Mortgage Loan and the recording of the Mortgage were paid, and the Mortgagor is not entitled to any refund of any amounts paid or due under the Mortgage Note or Mortgage.


(m)       Immediately prior to the conveyance of the Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser hereunder, the Mortgage Loan Seller was the sole owner and holder of the Mortgage Loan; the related Originator or the Mortgage Loan Seller or the applicable Servicer was the custodian of the related escrow account, if applicable; the Mortgage Loan had neither been assigned nor pledged, and the Mortgage Loan Seller had good and marketable title thereto, and had full right to transfer and sell the Mortgage Loan and the related servicing rights to the Purchaser free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, lien, pledge, charge, claim or security interest subject to the applicable servicing agreement and had full right and authority subject to no interest or participation of, or agreement with, any other party, to sell and assign the Mortgage Loan and
the related servicing rights, subject to the applicable servicing agreement, to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.


(n)        All parties which have had any interest in the Mortgage, whether as mortgagee, assignee, pledgee or otherwise, are (or, during the period in which they held and disposed of such interest, were) (1) in compliance with any and all applicable licensing requirements of the laws of the state wherein the Mortgaged Property is located, and (2) organized under the laws of such state, qualified to do business in such state, a federal savings and loan association or national bank having principal offices in such state or not deemed to be doing business in such state under applicable law.


(o)        The Mortgage Loan is covered by an ALTA lender’s title insurance policy or equivalent form acceptable to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or any successor thereto, and qualified to do business in the jurisdiction where the Mortgaged Property is located, insuring (subject to the exceptions contained in clause (i) above) the Mortgage Loan Seller (as assignee), its successors and assigns as to the first priority lien of the Mortgage in the original principal amount of the Mortgage Loan. Additionally, such lender’s title insurance policy affirmatively insures ingress and egress, and against encroachments by or upon the Mortgaged Property or any interest therein. With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage Loan Seller (as assignee) is the sole insured of such lender’s title insurance policy, and such
lender’s title insurance policy is in full force and effect. No claims have been made under such lender’s title insurance policy, and no prior holder of the related Mortgage, including the Mortgage Loan Seller, has done, by act or omission, anything which would impair the coverage of such lender’s title insurance policy.


 









 


(p)        Except as provided in clause (b), immediately prior to the Cut-off Date, there was no default, breach, violation or event of acceleration existing under the Mortgage or the Mortgage Note and there was no event which, with the passage of time or with notice and the expiration of any grace or cure period, would constitute a default, breach, violation or event of acceleration, and the Mortgage Loan Seller has not waived any default, breach, violation or event of acceleration.


(q)        There are no mechanics’ or similar liens or claims which have been filed for work, labor or material (and no rights are outstanding that under law could give rise to such lien) affecting the related Mortgaged Property which are or may be liens prior to or equal with, the lien of the related Mortgage.


(r)         All improvements which were considered in any appraisal which was used in determining the Appraised Value of the related Mortgaged Property lay wholly within the boundaries and building restriction lines of the Mortgaged Property, and no improvements on adjoining properties encroach upon the Mortgaged Property.


(s)         The origination, servicing and collection practices with respect to each Mortgage Note and Mortgage including, the establishment, maintenance and servicing of the escrow accounts and escrow payments, if any, since origination, have been conducted in all respects in accordance with the terms of Mortgage Note and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and, unless otherwise required by law or Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac standards, in accordance with the proper, prudent and customary practices in the mortgage origination and servicing business. With respect to the escrow accounts and escrow payments, if any, and an EMC Mortgage Loan all such payments are in the possession or under the control of the Mortgage Loan Seller (including pursuant to a Subservicing Agreement) and there exists no deficiencies in connection therewith
for which customary arrangements for repayment thereof have not been made. Any interest required to be paid pursuant to state and local law has been properly paid and credited.


(t)         The Mortgaged Property is free of material damage and waste and there is no proceeding pending for the total or partial condemnation thereof.


(u)        The Mortgage contains customary and enforceable provisions to render the rights and remedies of the holder thereof adequate for the realization against the Mortgaged Property of the benefits of the security intended to be provided thereby, including, (1) in the case of a Mortgage designated as a deed of trust, by trustee’s sale, and (2) otherwise by judicial foreclosure. There is no other exemption available to the Mortgagor which would interfere with the right to sell the Mortgaged Property at a trustee’s sale or the right to foreclose the Mortgage.  The Mortgagor has not notified the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Mortgage Loan Seller has no knowledge of any relief requested or allowed to the Mortgagor under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.


(v)        The Mortgage Note is not and has not been secured by any collateral except the lien of the applicable Mortgage.


(w)       In the event the Mortgage constitutes a deed of trust, a trustee, duly qualified under applicable law to serve as such, has been properly designated and currently so serves and is named in the Mortgage, and no fees or expenses are or will become payable by the 


 









Certificateholders to the trustee under the deed of trust, except in connection with a trustee’s sale after default by the Mortgagor.


(x)        No Mortgage Loan contains a permanent or temporary “buydown” provision. The Mortgage Loan is not a graduated payment mortgage loan.


(y)        The Mortgagor has received all disclosure materials required by applicable law with respect to the making of the Mortgage Loan.


(z)         No Mortgage Loan was made in connection with the construction or rehabilitation of a Mortgaged Property.


(aa)       To the best of the Mortgage Loan Seller’s knowledge, the Mortgaged Property is lawfully occupied under applicable law and all inspections, licenses and certificates required to be made or issued with respect to all occupied portions of the Mortgaged Property and, with respect to the use and occupancy of the same, including but not limited to certificates of occupancy, have been made or obtained from the appropriate authorities.


(bb)      The assignment of Mortgage with respect to a Mortgage Loan is in recordable form and is acceptable for recording under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located.


(cc)       The Mortgaged Property consists of a single parcel of real property with or without a detached single family residence erected thereon, or an individual condominium unit, or a 2-4 family dwelling, or an individual unit in a planned unit development as defined by Fannie Mae or a townhouse, each structure of which is permanently affixed to the Mortgaged Property, and is legally classified as real estate.


(dd)      Each Mortgage Loan at the time of origination was underwritten in general in accordance with guidelines not inconsistent with the guidelines set forth in the Prospectus Supplement and generally accepted credit underwriting guidelines.


(ee)       No error, omission, misrepresentation, fraud or similar occurrence with respect to a Mortgage Loan has taken place on the part of the Mortgage Loan Seller or the related Originator.


(ff)        None of the Mortgage Loans are (a) loans subject to 12 CFR Part 226.31, 12 CFR Part 226.32 or 12 CFR Part 226.34 of Regulation Z, the regulation implementing TILA, which implements the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994 (“HOEPA”) or (b) classified and/or defined as a “high cost home loan” (or a similarly classified loan using different terminology under a law imposing heightened regulatory scrutiny or additional legal liability for residential mortgage loans having high interest rates, points and/or fees) under any federal, state, or local law, including, but not limited to, the States of Georgia or North Carolina.


(gg)       None of the Mortgage Loans originated on or after October 1, 2002 and before March 7, 2003 was secured by property located in the State of Georgia.


 









 


(hh)       Each Prepayment Charge is enforceable and was originated in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. 


(ii)         At the time of origination, each Mortgaged Property was the subject of an appraisal which conformed to the underwriting requirements of the originator of the Mortgage Loan and, the appraisal is in a form acceptable to Fannie Mae or FHLMC.


(jj)        No Mortgage Loan is a High Cost Loan or Covered Loan, as applicable (as such terms are defined in the then current Standard & Poor’s LEVELS® Glossary which is now Version 5.6b Revised, Appendix E attached hereto as Exhibit 6).


(kk)      None of the Mortgage Loans that are secured by property located in the State of Illinois are in violation of the provisions of the Illinois Interest Act.


(ll)         Each Mortgage Loan was originated with an initial mortgagee of record, or was originated in conformity with the underwriting standards of and purchased by a subsequent mortgagee, that was either (x) a savings and loan association, savings bank, commercial bank, credit union, insurance company, or similar institution which is supervised and examined by a Federal or State authority or (y) a mortgagee approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to sections 203 and 211 of the National Housing Act.


It is understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 7 will inure to the benefit of the Purchaser, its successors and assigns, and the Certificate Insurers, notwithstanding any restrictive or qualified endorsement on any Mortgage Note or assignment of Mortgage or the examination of any Mortgage File. Upon any substitution for a Mortgage Loan, the representations and warranties set forth above shall be deemed to be made by the Mortgage Loan Seller as to any Replacement Mortgage Loan as of the date of substitution.


Upon discovery or receipt of notice by the Mortgage Loan Seller, the Purchaser, the Certificate Insurers or the Trustee of a breach of any representation or warranty of the Mortgage Loan Seller set forth in this Section 7 which materially and adversely affects the value of the interests of the Purchaser, the Certificateholders, the Certificate Insurers or the Trustee in any of the Mortgage Loans delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the party discovering or receiving notice of such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others. In the case of any such breach of a representation or warranty set forth in this Section 7, within 90 days from the date of discovery by the Mortgage Loan Seller, or the date the Mortgage Loan Seller is notified by the party discovering or receiving notice of such breach (whichever occurs earlier), the Mortgage Loan Seller will (i) cure such
breach in all material respects, (ii) purchase the affected Mortgage Loan at the applicable Purchase Price or (iii) if within two years of the Closing Date, substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan in exchange for such Mortgage Loan; provided that, (A) in the case of a breach of the representation and warranty concerning the Mortgage Loan Schedule contained in clause (a) of this Section 7, if such breach is material and relates to any field on the Mortgage Loan Schedule which identifies any Prepayment Charge or (B) in the case of a breach of the representation contained in clause (hh) of this Section 7, then, in each case, in lieu of purchasing such Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at the Purchase Price, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall pay the amount of the Prepayment Charge (net of any amount previously collected by or paid to the Trust Fund in respect of such Prepayment Charge) from its own funds and without reimbursement 


 









therefor, and the Mortgage Loan Seller shall have no obligation to repurchase or substitute for such Mortgage Loan. The obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller to cure, purchase or substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan shall constitute the Purchaser’s, the Trustee’s and the Certificateholder’s sole and exclusive remedy under this Agreement or otherwise respecting a breach of representations or warranties hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans, except for the obligation of the Mortgage Loan Seller to indemnify the Purchaser for such breach as set forth in and limited by Section 13 hereof.


Any cause of action against the Mortgage Loan Seller or relating to or arising out of a breach by the Mortgage Loan Seller of any representations and warranties made in this Section 7 shall accrue as to any Mortgage Loan upon (i) discovery of such breach by the Mortgage Loan Seller or notice thereof by the party discovering such breach and (ii) failure by the Mortgage Loan Seller to cure such breach, purchase such Mortgage Loan or substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan pursuant to the terms hereof.


SECTION 8.    Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage Loan Seller. As of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the Mortgage Loan Seller represents and warrants to the Purchaser and the Certificate Insurers as to itself in the capacity indicated as follows:


(a)        the Mortgage Loan Seller (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (ii) is qualified and in good standing to do business in each jurisdiction where such qualification is necessary, except where the failure so to qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Mortgage Loan Seller’s business as presently conducted or on the Mortgage Loan Seller’s ability to enter into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;


(b)        the Mortgage Loan Seller has full power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party;


(c)        the execution and delivery by the Mortgage Loan Seller of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Mortgage Loan Seller; and neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation of the transactions herein or therein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof or thereof, will conflict with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, any of the provisions of any law, governmental rule, regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on the Mortgage Loan Seller or its properties or the charter or by-laws of the Mortgage Loan Seller, except those conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected to have
a material adverse effect on the Mortgage Loan Seller’s ability to enter into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;


(d)        the execution, delivery and performance by the Mortgage Loan Seller of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any 


 









other action in respect of, any state, federal or other governmental authority or agency, except those consents, approvals, notices, registrations or other actions as have already been obtained, given or made and, in connection with the recordation of the Mortgages, powers of attorney or assignments of Mortgages not yet completed;


(e)        each of this Agreement and the other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Mortgage Loan Seller and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Purchaser, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Mortgage Loan Seller enforceable against it in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally);


(f)         there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Mortgage Loan Seller, threatened against the Mortgage Loan Seller, before or by any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body (i) with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party or (ii) with respect to any other matter which in the judgment of the Mortgage Loan Seller will be determined adversely to the Mortgage Loan Seller and will if determined adversely to the Mortgage Loan Seller materially and adversely affect the Mortgage Loan Seller’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party; and the Mortgage Loan Seller is not in default with respect to any order of any
court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body so as to materially and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and


(g)        the Mortgage Loan Seller’s Information (as defined in Section 13(a) hereof) does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.


SECTION 9.    Representations and Warranties Concerning the Purchaser.  As of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the Purchaser represents and warrants to the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Certificate Insurers as follows:


(a)        the Purchaser (i) is a limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (ii) is qualified and in good standing to do business in each jurisdiction where such qualification is necessary, except where the failure so to qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser’s business as presently conducted or on the Purchaser’s ability to enter into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;


(b)        the Purchaser has full power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party;


(c)        the execution and delivery by the Purchaser of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary action 


 









on the part of the Purchaser; and neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof or thereof, will conflict with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, any of the provisions of any law, governmental rule, regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on the Purchaser or its properties or the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of the Purchaser, except those conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser’s ability to enter into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;


(d)        the execution, delivery and performance by the Purchaser of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any state, federal or other governmental authority or agency, except those consents, approvals, notices, registrations or other actions as have already been obtained, given or made;


(e)        each of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Purchaser and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Mortgage Loan Seller, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser enforceable against it in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally);


(f)         there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Purchaser, threatened against the Purchaser, before or by any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body (i) with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party or (ii) with respect to any other matter which in the judgment of the Purchaser will be determined adversely to the Purchaser and will if determined adversely to the Purchaser materially and adversely affect the Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party; and the Purchaser is not in default with respect to any order of any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body so as to
materially and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party; and


(g)        the Purchaser’s Information (as defined in Section 13(b) hereof) does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.



	
            SECTION 10.
 	
            Conditions to Closing.
 



(a)        The obligations of the Purchaser under this Agreement will be subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions: 


 









 


(1)        Each of the obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall have been duly performed and complied with in all material respects; all of the representations and warranties of the Mortgage Loan Seller under this Agreement shall be true and correct as of the date or dates specified in all material respects; and no event shall have occurred which, with notice or the passage of time, would constitute a default under this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents; and the Purchaser and the Certificate Insurers shall have received certificates to that effect signed by authorized officers of the Mortgage Loan Seller.


(2)        The Purchaser shall have received all of the following closing documents, in such forms as are agreed upon and reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser, duly executed by all signatories other than the Purchaser as required pursuant to the respective terms thereof:


(i)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Amendment dated as of the Closing Date and any documents referred to therein;


(ii)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule containing the information set forth on Exhibit 2 hereto, one copy to be attached to each counterpart of the Amendment;


(iii)        The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the Certificate Insurers and the Purchaser, and all documents required thereby duly executed by all signatories;


(iv)        A certificate of an officer of the Mortgage Loan Seller dated as of the Closing Date, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser and the Certificate Insurers, and attached thereto the resolutions of the Mortgage Loan Seller authorizing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, together with copies of the articles of incorporation, by-laws and certificate of good standing of the Mortgage Loan Seller;


(v)        One or more opinions of counsel from the Mortgage Loan Seller’s counsel otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser, the Trustee, the Certificate Insurers and each Rating Agency;


(vi)        A letter from each of the Rating Agencies giving each Class of Certificates set forth on Schedule A hereto the rating set forth therein; and


(vii)       Such other documents, certificates (including additional representations and warranties) and opinions as may be reasonably necessary to secure the intended ratings from each Rating Agency for the Certificates (without taking into consideration the Insurance Policies).


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(4)        The Mortgage Loan Seller shall have furnished to the Purchaser and the Certificate Insurers such other certificates of its officers or others and such other documents and opinions of counsel to evidence fulfillment of the conditions set forth in this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby as the Purchaser, the Certificate Insurers and their respective counsel may reasonably request.


(b)        The obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller under this Agreement shall be subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions:


(1)        The obligations of the Purchaser required to be performed by it on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall have been duly performed and complied with in all material respects, and all of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser under this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, and no event shall have occurred which would constitute a breach by it of the terms of this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents, and the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Certificate Insurers shall have received a certificate to that effect signed by an authorized officer of the Purchaser.


(2)        The Mortgage Loan Seller shall have received copies of all of the following closing documents, in such forms as are agreed upon and reasonably acceptable to the Mortgage Loan Seller, duly executed by all signatories other than the Mortgage Loan Seller as required pursuant to the respective terms thereof:


(i)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Amendment dated as of the Closing Date and any documents referred to therein;


(ii)         The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Certificate Insurers, and all documents required thereby duly executed by all signatories;


(iii)        A certificate of an officer of the Purchaser dated as of the Closing Date, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Certificate Insurers, and attached thereto the written consent of the member of the Purchaser authorizing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, together with copies of the Purchaser’s certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement, and evidence as to the good standing of the Purchaser dated as of a recent date;


(iv)        One or more opinions of counsel from the Purchaser’s counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Mortgage Loan Seller, the Certificate Insurers and the Rating Agencies; and


(v)        Such other documents, certificates (including additional representations and warranties) and opinions as may be reasonably necessary to secure the intended rating from each Rating Agency for the Certificates (without taking into account the Insurance Policies).


 









 


SECTION 11.  Fees and Expenses.  Subject to Section 16 hereof, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall pay on the Closing Date or such later date as may be agreed to by the Purchaser (i) the fees and expenses of the Mortgage Loan Seller’s attorneys and the reasonable fees and expenses of the Purchaser’s attorneys, (ii) the fees and expenses of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (iii) the fee for the use of Purchaser’s Registration Statement based on the aggregate original principal amount of the Certificates and the filing fee of the Commission as in effect on the date on which the Registration Statement was declared effective, (iv) the fees and expenses including counsel’s fees and expenses in connection with any “blue sky” and legal investment matters, (v) the fees and expenses of the Trustee which shall include
without limitation the fees and expenses of the Trustee (and the fees and disbursements of its counsel) with respect to (A) legal and document review of this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Certificates and related agreements, (B) attendance at the Closing and (C) review of the Mortgage Loans to be performed by the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf, (vi) the expenses for printing or otherwise reproducing the Certificates, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, (vii) the fees and expenses of each Rating Agency (both initial and ongoing), (viii) the fees and expenses relating to the preparation and recordation of mortgage assignments (including intervening assignments, if any and if available, to evidence a complete chain of title from the originator to the Trustee) from the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee or the expenses relating to the Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section 6(a) hereof, as the case may be, and (ix) Mortgage File due diligence
expenses and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Purchaser in connection with the purchase of the Mortgage Loans and by Bear Stearns in connection with the sale of the Certificates. The Mortgage Loan Seller additionally agrees to pay directly to any third party on a timely basis the fees provided for above which are charged by such third party and which are billed periodically.



	
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            Accountants’ Letters.
 



(a)        Deloitte & Touche LLP will review the characteristics of a sample of the Mortgage Loans described in the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule and will compare those characteristics to the description of the Mortgage Loans contained in the Prospectus Supplement under the captions “Summary—The Mortgage Loans” and “The Mortgage Pool” and in Schedule A thereto. The Mortgage Loan Seller will cooperate with the Purchaser in making available all information and taking all steps reasonably necessary to permit such accountants to complete the review and to deliver the letters required of them under the Underwriting Agreement. Deloitte & Touche LLP will also confirm certain calculations as set forth under the caption “Yield, Prepayment and Maturity Considerations” in the Prospectus Supplement.


(b)        To the extent statistical information with respect to the Mortgage Loan Seller’s servicing portfolio is included in the Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Servicing of the Mortgage Loans—EMC—Delinquency and Foreclosure Experience of EMC,” a letter from the certified public accountant for the Mortgage Loan Seller will be delivered to the Purchaser dated the date of the Prospectus Supplement, in the form previously agreed to by the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser, with respect to such statistical information.



	
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            Indemnification.
 



(a)        The Mortgage Loan Seller shall indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser and its directors, officers and controlling persons (as defined in Section 15 of the Securities Act) 


 









from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability or action in respect thereof, to which they or any of them may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon (i) any untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Mortgage Loan Seller’s Information as identified in Exhibit 3, the omission to state in the Prospectus Supplement or Prospectus (or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto approved by the Mortgage Loan Seller and in which additional Mortgage Loan Seller’s Information is identified), in reliance upon and in conformity with Mortgage Loan Seller’s Information a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances in
which they were made, not misleading, (ii) any representation or warranty assigned or made by the Mortgage Loan Seller in Section 7 or Section 8 hereof being, or alleged to be, untrue or incorrect, or (iii) any failure by the Mortgage Loan Seller to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Mortgage Loan Seller shall reimburse the Purchaser and each other indemnified party for any legal and other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action. 


The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which the Mortgage Loan Seller otherwise may have to the Purchaser or any other such indemnified party.


(b)        The Purchaser shall indemnify and hold harmless the Mortgage Loan Seller and its respective directors, officers and controlling persons (as defined in Section 15 of the Securities Act) from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability or action in respect thereof, to which they or any of them may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon (i) any untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Purchaser’s Information as identified in Exhibit 4, the omission to state in the Prospectus Supplement or Prospectus (or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto approved by the Purchaser and in which additional Purchaser’s Information
is identified), in reliance upon and in conformity with the Purchaser’s Information, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) any representation or warranty made by the Purchaser in Section 9 hereof being, or alleged to be, untrue or incorrect, or (iii) any failure by the Purchaser to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Purchaser shall reimburse the Mortgage Loan Seller, and each other indemnified party for any legal and other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action. The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which the Purchaser otherwise may have to the Mortgage Loan Seller, or any other such indemnified party. 


(c)        Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify each party against whom indemnification is to be sought in writing of the commencement thereof (but the failure so to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 13 except to the extent that it has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure or from any liability which it may have otherwise). In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies an indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent it may
elect by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly (but, in any event, within 30 days) after receiving 


 









the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party or parties unless (i) the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by one of the indemnifying parties in connection with the defense of such action, (ii) the indemnifying parties shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such action within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action, or (iii) such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there is a conflict of interest between itself or themselves and the indemnifying party in the conduct of the
defense of any claim or that the interests of the indemnified party or parties are not substantially co-extensive with those of the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying parties shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by the indemnifying parties (provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall be liable only for the fees and expenses of one counsel in addition to one local counsel in the jurisdiction involved. Anything in this subsection to the contrary notwithstanding, an indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement or any claim or action effected without its written consent; provided, however, that such consent was not unreasonably
withheld. 


(d)        If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 13 shall for any reason be unavailable to an indemnified party in respect of any loss, claim, damage or liability, or any action in respect thereof, referred to in Section 13, then the indemnifying party shall in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Mortgage Loan Seller on the one hand and the Purchaser on the other from the purchase and sale of the Mortgage Loans, the offering of the Certificates and the other transactions contemplated hereunder. No person found liable for a fraudulent misrepresentation shall be
entitled to contribution from any person who is not also found liable for such fraudulent misrepresentation. 


(e)        The parties hereto agree that reliance by an indemnified party on any publicly available information or any information or directions furnished by an indemnifying party shall not constitute negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct by such indemnified party. 


SECTION 14. Notices.  All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing but may be delivered by facsimile transmission subsequently confirmed in writing. Notices to the Mortgage Loan Seller shall be directed to EMC Mortgage Corporation, 909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200 Irving, Texas 75038, (Telecopy: (972-444-2880)), and notices to the Purchaser shall be directed to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, (Telecopy: (212-272-7206)), Attention: Chief Counsel; or to any other address as may hereafter be furnished by one party to the other party by like notice. Any such demand, notice or communication hereunder shall be deemed to have been received on the date received at the premises of the addressee (as evidenced, in the case of registered or certified mail, by the date
noted on the return receipt) provided that it is received on a business day during normal business hours and, if received after normal business hours, then it shall be deemed to be received on the next business day.


 









 


SECTION 15.  Transfer of Mortgage Loans.  The Purchaser retains the right to assign the Mortgage Loans and any or all of its interest under this Agreement to the Trustee without the consent of the Mortgage Loan Seller, and, upon such assignment, the Trustee shall succeed to the applicable rights and obligations of the Purchaser hereunder; provided, however, the Purchaser shall remain entitled to the benefits set forth in Sections 11, 13 and 17 hereto and as provided in Section 2(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the sole and exclusive right and remedy of the Trustee with respect to a breach of representation or warranty of the Mortgage Loan Seller shall be the cure, purchase or substitution obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller contained
in Sections 5 and 7 hereof.


SECTION 16.  Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated (a) by the mutual consent of the parties hereto prior to the Closing Date, (b) by the Purchaser, if the conditions to the Purchaser’s obligation to close set forth under Section 10(a) hereof are not fulfilled as and when required to be fulfilled or (c) by the Mortgage Loan Seller, if the conditions to the Mortgage Loan Seller’s obligation to close set forth under Section 10(b) hereof are not fulfilled as and when required to be fulfilled. In the event of termination pursuant to clause (b), the Mortgage Loan Seller shall pay, and in the event of termination pursuant to clause (c), the Purchaser shall pay, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the other in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In the event of a termination
pursuant to clause (a), each party shall be responsible for its own expenses.


SECTION 17.  Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery.  All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement, or contained in certificates of officers of the Mortgage Loan Seller submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect and shall survive delivery of the Mortgage Loans to the Purchaser (and by the Purchaser to the Trustee). Subsequent to the delivery of the Mortgage Loans to the Purchaser, the Mortgage Loan Seller’s representations and warranties contained herein with respect to the Mortgage Loans shall be deemed to relate to the Mortgage Loans actually delivered to the Purchaser and included in the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule and any Replacement Mortgage Loan and not to those Mortgage Loans deleted from the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule
pursuant to Section 3 hereof prior to the Closing.


SECTION 18.  Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement shall be prohibited or invalid under applicable law, this Agreement shall be ineffective only to such extent, without invalidating the remainder of this Agreement.


SECTION 19.  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which will be an original, but which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.


SECTION 20.  Amendment.  This Agreement cannot be amended or modified in any manner without the prior written consent of each party.


SECTION 21.  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW.


 









 


SECTION 22.  Further Assurances.  Each of the parties agrees to execute and deliver such instruments and take such actions as another party may, from time to time, reasonably request in order to effectuate the purpose and to carry out the terms of this Agreement including any amendments hereto which may be required by either Rating Agency.



	
            SECTION 23.
 	
            Successors and Assigns.
 



(a)        This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser and their permitted successors and assigns and, to the extent specified in Section 13 hereof, Bear Stearns, and their directors, officers and controlling persons (within the meaning of federal securities laws), and the Certificate Insurers, to the extent of its rights as a third party beneficiary hereunder. The parties hereto hereby acknowledge that the Certificate Insurers shall be a third party beneficiary of this Agreement. The Mortgage Loan Seller acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser may assign its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, with respect to the Mortgage Loan Seller’s representations and warranties respecting the Mortgage Loans) to the Trustee. Any person into which the
Mortgage Loan Seller may be merged or consolidated (or any person resulting from any merger or consolidation involving the Mortgage Loan Seller), any person resulting from a change in form of the Mortgage Loan Seller or any person succeeding to the business of the Mortgage Loan Seller, shall be considered the “successor” of the Mortgage Loan Seller hereunder and shall be considered a party hereto without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act or consent on the part of any party hereto. Except as provided in the two preceding sentences, this Agreement cannot be assigned, pledged or hypothecated by either party hereto without the written consent of the other parties to this Agreement and any such assignment or purported assignment shall be deemed null and void.


SECTION 24.  The Mortgage Loan Seller.  The Mortgage Loan Seller will keep in full force and effect its existence, all rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of the State of its incorporation and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement.


SECTION 25.  Entire Agreement.  This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements and conditions, express or implied, oral or written, of any nature whatsoever with respect to the subject matter hereof.


SECTION 26.  No Partnership.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to create a partnership or joint venture between the parties hereto.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.



	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 	
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EXHIBIT 1


CONTENTS OF MORTGAGE FILE


With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage File shall include each of the following items, which shall be available for inspection by the Purchaser or its designee, and which shall be delivered to the Purchaser or its designee pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.


(i)         The original Mortgage Note, including any riders thereto, endorsed without recourse to the order of “U.S. Bank National Association”, as Trustee for certificateholders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” and showing to the extent available to the Mortgage Loan Seller an unbroken chain of endorsements from the original payee thereof to the Person endorsing it to the Trustee;


(ii)         the original Mortgage and, if the related Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, noting the presence of the MIN and language indicating that such Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, which shall have been recorded (or if the original is not available, a copy), with evidence of such recording indicated thereon (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form);


(iii)        unless the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, the assignment (either an original or a copy, which may be in the form of a blanket assignment if permitted in the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located) to the Trustee of the Mortgage with respect to each Mortgage Loan in the name of “U.S. Bank National Association”, as Trustee for certificateholders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” which shall have been recorded (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form);


(iv)        an original or a copy of all intervening assignments of the Mortgage, if any, to the extent available to the Mortgage Loan Seller, with evidence of recording thereon;


(v)        the original policy of title insurance or mortgagee’s certificate of title insurance or commitment or binder for title insurance, if available, or a copy thereof, or, in the event that such original title insurance policy is unavailable, a photocopy thereof, or in lieu thereof, a current lien search on the related Mortgaged Property and


(vi)        originals or copies of all available assumption, modification or substitution agreements, if any.


Provided, however, that in lieu of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller may


deliver the following documents, under the circumstances set forth below:  x) if any Mortgage, assignment thereof to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof have been delivered or are being delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned in time to permit their delivery as specified above, the Purchaser may deliver a true copy thereof with a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the title company issuing the commitment for title insurance, on the face of such copy, substantially as follows: “Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has been transmitted for recording” and (y) in lieu of the Mortgage Notes relating to the Mortgage 


 









Loans identified in the list set forth in Exhibit J to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Purchaser may deliver a lost note affidavit and indemnity and a copy of the original note, if available; and provided, further, however, that in the case of Mortgage Loans which have been prepaid in full after the Cut-off Date and prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to the Trustee and its Custodian a certification of a Servicing Officer to such effect and in such case shall deposit all amounts paid in respect of such Mortgage Loans, in the Master Servicer Collection Account or in the Distribution Account on the Closing Date. In the case of the documents referred to in clause (x) above, the Purchaser shall deliver such documents to the Trustee or its Custodian promptly after they are received. The Mortgage Loan Seller shall cause, at its expense, the
Mortgage and intervening assignments, if any, and to the extent required in accordance with the foregoing, the assignment of the Mortgage to the Trustee to be submitted for recording promptly after the Closing Date; provided that the Mortgage Loan Seller need not cause to be recorded any assignment (a) in any jurisdiction under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee delivered by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee, the Certificate Insurers and the Rating Agencies, the recordation of such assignment is not necessary to protect the Trustee’s interest in the related Mortgage Loan or (b) if MERS is identified on the Mortgage or on a properly recorded assignment of the Mortgage as mortgagee of record solely as nominee for Mortgage Loan Seller and its successors and assigns.  In the event that the Mortgage Loan Seller, the Purchaser or the Master Servicer gives written notice to the Trustee that a court has recharacterized the sale of the
Mortgage Loans as a financing, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall submit or cause to be submitted for recording as specified above or, should the Mortgage Loan Seller fail to perform such obligations, the Master Servicer shall cause each such previously unrecorded assignment to be submitted for recording as specified above at the expense of the Trust.  In the event a Mortgage File is released to the Company or the related Servicer as a result of such Person having completed a Request for Release, the Custodian shall, if not so completed, complete the assignment of the related Mortgage in the manner specified in clause (iii) above.



 









 


EXHIBIT 2


MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE INFORMATION


The Preliminary and Final Mortgage Loan Schedules shall set forth the following information with respect to each Mortgage Loan:



	
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            the loan number;
 
	
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            the loan group;
 	
             




	
            (iii)
 	
            the Servicer (or the Company, if it services the Mortgage Loan) and the Servicing Fee Rate;
 



	
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            the Mortgage Rate in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
 	
             

	
            (v)
 	
            the LPMI Fee, if applicable;
 	
             

	
            (vi)
 	
            the Net Mortgage Rate in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
 
	
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            the original principal balance;
 	
             

	
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            the Cut-off Date Balance;
 	
             

	
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            the property type;
 	
             

	
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Such schedule shall also set forth the Cut-off Date Principal Balance for all of the related Mortgage Loans. 


 



 









 


EXHIBIT 3


MORTGAGE LOAN SELLER’S INFORMATION


All information in the Prospectus Supplement described under the following captions: “SUMMARY – The Mortgage Loans,” “THE MORTGAGE POOL,” “SERVICING OF THE MORTGAGE LOANS – EMC” and “SCHEDULE A – Mortgage Loan Statistical Data.”


 



 









 


EXHIBIT 4


PURCHASER’S INFORMATION


All information in the Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, except the Mortgage Loan Seller’s Information.


 



 









 


EXHIBIT 5


SCHEDULE OF LOST NOTES


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EXHIBIT 6


APPENDIX E – Standard & Poor’s Anti-Predatory Lending Categorization


 


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Standard & Poor’s has categorized loans governed by anti-predatory lending laws in the Jurisdictions listed below into three categories based upon a combination of factors that include (a) the risk exposure associated with the assignee liability and (b) the tests and thresholds set forth in those laws. Note that certain loans classified by the relevant statute as Covered are included in Standard & Poor’s High Cost Loan Category because they included thresholds and tests that are typical of what is generally considered High Cost by the industry. 


 



	
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Category under
  Applicable  Anti-
  Predatory  Lending Law
  
  
	
            Arkansas
 	
            Arkansas Home Loan Protection Act, Ark. Code Ann. §§ 23-53-101 et seq.

Effective July 16, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Cleveland Heights, OH
 	
            Ordinance No. 72-2003 (PSH), Mun. Code §§ 757.01 et seq.

Effective June 2, 2003 
 	
            Covered Loan
 
	
            Colorado
 	
            Consumer Equity Protection, Colo. Stat. Ann. §§ 5-3.5-101 et seq.

Effective for covered loans offered or entered into on or after January 1, 2003. Other provisions of the Act took effect on June 7, 2002
 	
            Covered Loan
 
	
            Connecticut
 	
            Connecticut Abusive Home Loan Lending Practices Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 36a-746 et seq. 

Effective October 1, 2001
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            District of Columbia
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, D.C. Code §§ 26-1151.01 et seq.

Effective for loans closed on or after January 28, 2003
 	
            Covered Loan
 



 


 









 


 



	
            Florida
 	
            Fair Lending Act, Fla. Stat. Ann. §§ 494.0078 et seq.

Effective October 2, 2002
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003)
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq.

Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Georgia as amended (Mar. 7, 2003 – current)
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq.

Effective for loans closed on or after March 7, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            HOEPA Section 32
 	
            Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994, 15 U.S.C. § 1639, 12 C.F.R. §§ 226.32 and 226.34

Effective October 1, 1995, amendments October 1, 2002
 	
            High Cost Loan
 
	
            Illinois
 	
            High Risk Home Loan Act, Ill. Comp. Stat. tit. 815, §§ 137/5 et seq.

Effective January 1, 2004 (prior to this date, regulations under Residential Mortgage License Act effective from May 14, 2001)
 	
            High Risk Home Loan 
 
	
            Indiana
 	
            Indiana Home Loan Practices Act, Ind. Code Ann. §§ 24-9-1-1 et seq. 

Effective for loans originated on or after January 1, 2005.
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Kansas
 	
            Consumer Credit Code, Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 16a-1-101 et seq.

Sections 16a-1-301 and 16a-3-207 became effective April 14, 1999; Section 16a-3-308a became effective July 1, 1999 
 	
            High Loan to Value Consumer Loan (id. § 16a-3-207) and;
 
	
            High APR Consumer Loan (id. § 16a-3-308a)
 
	
            Kentucky
 	
            2003 KY H.B. 287 – High Cost Home Loan Act, Ky. Rev. Stat. §§ 360.100 et seq.

Effective June 24, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Maine
 	
            Truth in Lending, Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 9-A, §§ 8-101 et seq.

Effective September 29, 1995 and as amended from time to time
 	
            High Rate High Fee Mortgage
 



 


 









 


 



	
            Massachusetts
 	
            Part 40 and Part 32, 209 C.M.R. §§ 32.00 et seq. and 209 C.M.R. §§ 40.01 et seq.

Effective March 22, 2001 and amended from time to time
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
             
 	
            Massachusetts Predatory Home Loan Practices Act

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183C,  §§ 1 et seq.

Effective November 7, 2004
 	
            High Cost Home Mortgage Loan
 
	
            Nevada
 	
            Assembly Bill No. 284, Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 598D.010 et seq.

Effective October 1, 2003
 	
            Home Loan
 
	
            New Jersey
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq.

Effective for loans closed on or after November 27, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            New Mexico
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, N.M. Rev. Stat. §§ 58-21A-1 et seq.

Effective as of January 1, 2004; Revised as of February 26, 2004
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            New York
 	
            N.Y. Banking Law Article 6-l

Effective for applications made on or after April 1, 2003
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            North Carolina
 	
            Restrictions and Limitations on High Cost Home Loans, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 24-1.1E et seq.

Effective July 1, 2000; amended October 1, 2003 (adding open-end lines of credit)
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            Ohio
 	
            H.B. 386 (codified in various sections of the Ohio Code), Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §§ 1349.25 et seq.

Effective May 24, 2002
 	
            Covered Loan
 



 


 









 


 



	
            Oklahoma
 	
            Consumer Credit Code (codified in various sections of Title 14A)

Effective July 1, 2000; amended effective January 1, 2004
 	
            Subsection 10 Mortgage
 
	
            South Carolina
 	
            South Carolina High Cost and Consumer Home Loans Act, S.C. Code Ann. §§ 37-23-10 et seq.

Effective for loans taken on or after January 1, 2004
 	
            High Cost Home Loan
 
	
            West Virginia 
 	
            West Virginia Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act, W. Va. Code Ann. §§ 31-17-1 et seq.

Effective June 5, 2002
 	
            West Virginia Mortgage Loan Act Loan
 



 



	
            Standard & Poor’s Covered Loan Categorization
 
	
            
State/Jurisdiction
 
 	
            
Name of Anti-Predatory Lending
 Law/Effective Date
 
 	
            
Category under
 Applicable Anti-
 Predatory Lending Law
 
 
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003)
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq.

Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003
 	
            Covered Loan
 
	
            New Jersey
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq.

Effective November 27, 2003 – July 5, 2004
 	
            Covered Home Loan
 



 



	
            Standard & Poor’s Home Loan  Categorization
  
	
            
State/Jurisdiction
  
  	
            
Name of Anti-Predatory Lending
  Law/Effective  Date
  
  	
            
Category under
  Applicable  Anti-
  Predatory  Lending Law
  
  
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003)
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq.

Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003
 	
            Home Loan
 



 


 









 


 



	
            New Jersey
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq.

Effective for loans closed on or after November 27, 2003
 	
            Home Loan
 
	
            New Mexico
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, N.M. Rev. Stat. §§ 58-21A-1 et seq.

Effective as of January 1, 2004; Revised as of February 26, 2004
 	
            Home Loan
 
	
            North Carolina
 	
            Restrictions and Limitations on High Cost Home Loans, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 24-1.1E et seq.

Effective July 1, 2000; amended October 1, 2003 (adding open-end lines of credit)
 	
            Consumer Home Loan
 
	
            South Carolina
 	
            South Carolina High Cost and Consumer Home Loans Act, S.C. Code Ann. §§ 37-23-10 et seq.

Effective for loans taken on or after January 1, 2004
 	
            Consumer Home Loan
 



 



 









 


SCHEDULE A


 


REQUIRED RATINGS FOR EACH CLASS OF CERTIFICATES


Public Certificates


 



	
            Class
 	
            Moody’s
 	
            S&P
 
	
            A-1
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-2
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-3
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-4
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-5
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-6
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-7
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-8
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-9
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            A-10
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            X-1
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            PO
 	
            Aaa
 	
            AAA
 
	
            R-1
 	
            --
 	
            AAA
 
	
            R-2
 	
            --
 	
            AAA
 
	
            R-3
 	
            --
 	
            AAA
 
	
            B-1
 	
            --
 	
            AA
 
	
            B-2
 	
            --
 	
            A
 
	
            B-3
 	
            --
 	
            BBB
 



 


None of the above ratings has been lowered, qualified or withdrawn since the dates of issuance of such ratings by the Rating Agencies.


 


Private Certificates


 



	
            Class
 	
            Moody’s
 	
            S&P
 
	
            B-4
 	
            --
 	
            BB
 
	
            B-5
 	
            --
 	
            B
 
	
            B-6
 	
            --
 	
            --
 




 









 


EXHIBIT L


 


FORM OF COMPANY CERTIFICATION


 


This certificate is being delivered pursuant to Section 3.13(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005 (the “Agreement”), among Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, as depositor, EMC Mortgage Corporation (the “Company”), as seller and servicer, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer and securities administrator, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.


 


I certify that:


 



	
            (i)
 	
            I am a ____________________ of the Company.
 



 



	
            (ii)
 	
            Based on my knowledge, the information in the annual statement of compliance furnished in March 20__ pursuant to Section 3.13(b) of the Agreement and the annual independent certified public accountants( servicing report delivered pursuant to Section 3.14 thereof (collectively, the “Reports”), and all servicing reports, officer(s certificates and other information relating to the EMC Mortgage Loans submitted to the Master Servicer taken as a whole, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading as of the date of this certification.
 



 



	
            (iii)
 	
            The servicing information required to be provided to the Master Servicer by the Company under the Agreement has been provided to the Master Servicer.
 



 



	
            (iv)
 	
            I am responsible for reviewing the servicing activities performed by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, and except as disclosed in the Reports, the Company has, as of the date of this certification, fulfilled its obligations under the Agreement.
 



 



	
            (v)
 	
            I have disclosed to the Master Servicer all significant deficiencies relating to the Company(s compliance with the minimum servicing standards in accordance with a review conducted in compliance with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or similar standard as set forth in the Agreement.
 



 


 


______________________


Dated: March __, 20__


 



 









 


EXHIBIT M


 


FORM OF CORRIDOR CONTRACT


 



 


BEAR STEARNS FINANCIAL PRODUCTS INC.


383 MADISON AVENUE


NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10179


212-272-4009


 


 



	
            DATE:
 	
            October 31, 2005
 
	
             
 	
             
 
	
            TO:
 	
            U.S. Bank National Association, not individually, but solely as Trustee on behalf of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8
 
	
            ATTENTION:
 	
            Maryellen Hunter
 
	
            TELEPHONE:
 	
            617-603-6401
 
	
            FACSIMILE:
 	
            617-603-6638
 
	
             
 	
             
 
	
            FROM:
 	
            Derivatives Documentation
 
	
            TELEPHONE:
 	
            212-272-2711 
 
	
            FACSIMILE: 
 	
            212-272-9857 
 
	
             
 	
             
 
	
            SUBJECT:
 	
            Fixed Income Derivatives Confirmation and Agreement 
 
	
             
 	
             
 
	
            REFERENCE NUMBER:
 	
            FXNEC7561
 



 


The purpose of this letter agreement ("Agreement") is to confirm the terms and conditions of the Transaction entered into on the Trade Date specified below (the "Transaction") between Bear Stearns Financial Products Inc. ("BSFP") and U.S. Bank National Association, not individually, but solely as Trustee (the “Trustee”) on behalf of the Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (“Counterparty”) under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated and effective as of October 1, 2005, among Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, as Depositor, EMC Mortgage Corporation, as Seller and Company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer and Securities Administrator, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”).  This Agreement, which evidences a complete and binding
agreement between you and us to enter into the Transaction on the terms set forth below, constitutes a "Confirmation" as referred to in the "ISDA Form Master Agreement" (as defined below), as well as a “Schedule” as referred to in the ISDA Form Master Agreement.


 


1.    This Agreement is subject to the 2000 ISDA Definitions (the “Definitions”), as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”).  You and we have agreed to enter into this Agreement in lieu of negotiating a Schedule to the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency—Cross Border) form (the "ISDA Form Master Agreement") but, rather, an ISDA Form Master Agreement shall be deemed to have been executed by you and us on the date we entered into the Transaction.  In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and 


 









the Definitions or the ISDA Form Master Agreement, this Agreement shall prevail for purposes of the Transaction.  Terms capitalized but not defined herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

 

	
            2.
 	
            The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:
 



 



	
            Type of Transaction:
 	
            Rate Cap
 



 



	
            Notional Amount:
 	
            With respect to any Calculation Period, the lesser of (i) the amount set forth for such period in Schedule I attached hereto and (ii) the aggregate Certificate Principal Balance of the Class A-9 Certificates immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.
 



 



	
            Trade Date:
 	
            October 26, 2005
 



 



	
            Effective Date:
 	
            November 25, 2005
 



 



	
            Termination Date:
 	
            June 25, 2010
 



 



	
            Fixed Amount (Premium):
 



 



	
            Fixed Rate Payer:
 	
            Counterparty
 



 


Fixed Rate Payer



	
            Payment Date:
 	
            October 31 , 2005
 



 



	
            Fixed Amount:
 	
            USD 153,000
 



 



	
            Floating Amounts:
 



 



	
            Floating Rate Payer:
 	
            BSFP
 



 



	
            Cap Rate:
 	
            4.90000%
 



 


Floating Rate Payer 



	
      Period End Dates: 
 	The 25th calendar day of each month during the Term of this Transaction, commencing December 25, 2005 and ending on the Termination Date, with No Adjustment. 
 



 


Floating Rate Payer 



	
            Payment Dates:
 	
            The 25th calendar day of each month during the Term of this Transaction, commencing December 25, 2005 and ending on the Termination Date, subject to adjustment in accordance with the Business Day Convention. 
 



 



	
            Floating Rate Option:
 	
            USD-LIBOR-BBA, provided, however, that if the Floating
 



 









Rate Option for any Calculation Period is greater than 8.90000% then the Floating Rate Option for such Calculation Period shall be deemed to be 8.90000%


 



	
            Designated Maturity:
 	
            One month
 



 


Floating Rate Day 



	
            Count Fraction:
 	
            30/360
 



 



	
            Reset Dates:
 	
            The first day of each Calculation Period
 



 



	
            Compounding:
 	
            Inapplicable
 



 



	
            Business Days:
 	
            New York
 



 



	
            Business Day Convention:
 	
            Following
 



 



	
      3.          Additional Provisions: 
 	
            1) Each party hereto is hereby advised and acknowledges that the other party has engaged in (or refrained from engaging in) substantial financial transactions and has taken (or refrained from taking) other material actions in reliance upon the entry by the parties into the Transaction being entered into on the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Confirmation relating to such Transaction, as applicable.  This paragraph (1) shall be deemed repeated on the trade date of each Transaction.
 



 



	
            4.
 	
            Provisions Deemed Incorporated in a Schedule to the ISDA Form Master Agreement:
 



 


1)         The parties agree that subparagraph (ii) of Section 2(c) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement will apply to any Transaction.


 



	
            2)
 	
            Termination Provisions. For purposes of the ISDA Form Master Agreement:
 



 



	
            (a)
 	
            "Specified Entity" is not applicable to BSFP or Counterparty for any purpose.
 



 



	
            (b)
 	
            “Breach of Agreement” provision of Section 5(a)(ii) will not apply to BSFP or Counterparty.
 



 



	
            (c)
 	
            “Credit Support Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(iii) will not apply to BSFP or Counterparty.
 



 



	
            (d)
 	
            “Misrepresentation” provisions or Section 5(a)(iv) will not apply to BSFP or Counterparty.
 



 


(e)        "Specified Transaction" is not applicable to BSFP or Counterparty for any purpose, and, accordingly, Section 5(a)(v) shall not apply to BSFP or Counterparty.


 


 









 


(f)         The "Cross Default" provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) will not apply to BSFP or to  Counterparty.  


 


(g)        The "Credit Event Upon Merger" provisions of Section 5(b)(iv) will not apply to BSFP or Counterparty.


 



	
            (h)
 	
            The "Bankruptcy" provision of Section 5(a)(vii)(2) will not apply to Counterparty.
 



 


(i)         The "Automatic Early Termination" provision of Section 6(a) will not apply to BSFP or to Counterparty.


 


(j)         Payments on Early Termination.  For the purpose of Section 6(e) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement:


 



	
            (i)
 	
            Market Quotation will apply.
 



 



	
            (ii)
 	
            The Second Method will apply.
 



 



	
            (k)
 	
            "Termination Currency" means United States Dollars.
 



 



	
            3)
 	
            Tax Representations.  Not applicable
 



 



	
            4)
 	
            The ISDA Form Master Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
 



 


(a)        The word “third” shall be replaced by the word “second” in the third line of Section 5(a)(i) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement;


 



	
            5)
 	
            Documents to be Delivered. For the purpose of Section 4(a):
 



 



	
            (1)
 	
            Tax forms, documents, or certificates to be delivered are:
 



 



	
            Party required to deliver document
 	
            Form/Document/

Certificate
 	
            Date by which to

be delivered
 
	
            BSFP and

the Counterparty
 	
            Any document required or reasonably requested to allow the other party to make payments under this Agreement without any deduction or withholding for or on the account of any Tax or with such deduction or withholding at a reduced rate
 	
            Promptly after the earlier of (i) reasonable demand by either party or (ii) learning that such form or document is required
 



 



	
            (2)
 	
            Other documents to be delivered are:
 



 


 









 



	
            Party required to deliver document
  	
            Form/Document/

Certificate
  	
            Date by which to

be delivered
  	
            Covered by Section 3(d) Representation
  
	
            BSFP and

the Counterparty
 	
            Any documents required by the receiving party to evidence the authority of the delivering party or its Credit Support Provider, if any, for it to execute and deliver this Agreement, any Confirmation , and any Credit Support Documents to which it is a party, and to evidence the authority of the delivering party or its Credit Support Provider to perform its obligations under this Agreement, such Confirmation and/or Credit Support Document, as the case may be
 	
            Upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement and such Confirmation
 	
            Yes
 
	
            BSFP and

the Counterparty
 	
            A certificate of an authorized officer of the party, as to the incumbency and authority of the respective officers of the party signing this Agreement, any relevant Credit Support Document, or any  Confirmation, as the case may be
 	
            Upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement and such Confirmation
 	
            Yes
 



 


6)  Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous


 



	
            (a)
 	
            Address for Notices:  For the purposes of Section 12(a) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement:
 



 


Address for notices or communications to BSFP:


 


 









 


 



	
             
 	
            Address:
 	
            383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179
 
	
             
 	
            Attention:
 	
            DPC Manager 
 
	
             
 	
            Facsimile:
 	
            (212) 272-5823
 



 


with a copy to:


 



	
             
 	
            Address:
 	
            One Metrotech Center North, Brooklyn, New York 11201
 
	
             
 	
            Attention:
 	
            Derivative Operations - 7th Floor
 
	
             
 	
            Facsimile:
 	
            (212) 272-1634
 



 


(For all purposes)


 


Address for notices or communications to the Counterparty:


 



	
             
 	
            Address:
 	
            U.S. Bank National Association
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
            US Bank Corporate Trust Services
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
            One Federal Street, 3rd Floor
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
            Mailcode:  E-MA-FED
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
            Boston, MA 02110-2004
 
	
             
 	
            Attention:
 	
            Maryellen Hunter
 
	
             
 	
            Facsimile:
 	
            617-603-6638
 
	
             
 	
            Phone:
 	
            617-603-6401
 



 


With a copy to:


 



	
             
 	
            Address:
 	
            Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
 9062 Old Annapolis Rd.
 Columbia, Maryland 21045
 
	
             
 	
            Attention:
 	
            Client Manager/ Dawn Hammond
 
	
             
 	
            Facsimile:
 	
            617-603-6401
 
	
             
 	
            Phone:
 	
            617-603-6401
 
	
             
 	
            Phone:
 	
            617-603-6401
 



 


(For all purposes)


 


 









 



	
            (b)
 	
            Process Agent.  For the purpose of Section 13(c):
 



 



	
             
 	
            BSFP appoints as its 
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
            Process Agent: 
 	
            Not Applicable
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
            The Counterparty appoints as its 
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
            Process Agent:
 	
            Not Applicable
 



 



	
            (c)
 	
            Offices. The provisions of Section 10(a) will not apply to this Agreement; neither BSFP nor the Counterparty have any Offices other than as set forth in the Notices Section and BSFP agrees that, for purposes of Section 6(b) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement, it shall not in future have any Office other than one in the United States.
 



 



	
            (d)
 	
            Multibranch Party.  For the purpose of Section 10(c) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement:
 



 


BSFP is not a Multibranch Party.


 


The Counterparty is not a Multibranch Party.


 



	
            (e)
 	
            Calculation Agent.  The Calculation Agent is BSFP.
 



 



	
            (f)
 	
            Credit Support Document.  Not applicable for either BSFP or the Counterparty.
 
	 	 
	
            (g)
 	
            Credit Support Provider.
 	
             




 



	
            BSFP:
 	
            Not Applicable
 



 



	
            The Counterparty:
 	
            Not Applicable
 



 


(h)        Governing Law.  The parties to this Agreement hereby agree that the law of the State of New York shall govern their rights and duties in whole, without regard to conflict of law provisions thereof other than New York General Obligations Law Sections 5-1401 and 5-1402. 


 


(i)         Severability.  If any term, provision, covenant, or condition of this Agreement, or the application thereof to any party or circumstance, shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable (in whole or in part) for any reason, the remaining terms, provisions, covenants, and conditions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been executed with the invalid or unenforceable portion eliminated, so long as this Agreement as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter of this Agreement and the deletion of such portion of this Agreement will not substantially impair the respective benefits or expectations of the parties. 


 


The parties shall endeavor to engage in good faith negotiations to replace any invalid or unenforceable term, provision, covenant or condition with a valid or enforceable term, provision, covenant or condition, the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid or unenforceable term, provision, covenant or condition. 


 









 


(j)         Consent to Recording.  Each party hereto consents to the monitoring or recording, at any time and from time to time, by the other party of any and all communications between officers or employees of the parties, waives any further notice of such monitoring or recording, and agrees to notify its officers and employees of such monitoring or recording. 


 


(k)        Waiver of Jury Trial.  Each party waives any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any Proceedings relating to this Agreement or any Credit Support Document. 


 


7)         "Affiliate":  BSFP and Counterparty shall be deemed to not have any Affiliates for purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of Section 6(b)(ii).


 


8)         Section 3 of the ISDA Form Master Agreement is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection (g): 


 



	
            “(g)
 	
            Relationship Between Parties.
 



 


Each party represents to the other party on each date when it enters into a Transaction that:--


 


(1)        Nonreliance.  It is not relying on any statement or representation of the other party regarding the Transaction (whether written or oral), other than the representations expressly made in this Agreement or the Confirmation in respect of that Transaction. 


 



	
            (2)
 	
            Evaluation and Understanding.
 



 


(i)         It has the capacity to evaluate (internally or through independent professional advice) the Transaction and has made its own decision to enter into the Transaction; and


 


(ii)         It understands the terms, conditions and risks of the Transaction and is willing and able to accept those terms and conditions and to assume those risks, financially and otherwise. 


 


(3)        Purpose.  It is an “eligible swap participant” as such term is defined in Section 35.1(b)(2) of the regulations (17 C.F.R 35) promulgated under, and an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1(a)(12) of, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, and it is entering into the Transaction for the purposes of managing its borrowings or investments, hedging its underlying assets or liabilities or in connection with a line of business. 


 


(4)        Status of Parties.  The other party is not acting as agent, fiduciary or advisor for it in respect of the Transaction.” 


 


9)         Trustee Capacity.  It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Agreement is executed and delivered by U.S. Bank National Association (U.S. Bank), not individually or personally but solely as Trustee, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the 


 









part of the Counterparty is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by U.S. Bank but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Counterparty, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on U.S. Bank, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no circumstances shall U.S. Bank be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Counterparty or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Counterparty under this Agreement or any other related documents.


 


10)       Proceedings.  BSFP shall not institute against or cause any other person to institute against, or join any other person in instituting against,  Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005-AC8, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 or U.S. Bank National Association, not individually, but solely as Trustee any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law for a period of one year and one day (or, if longer, the applicable preference period) following payment in full of the Certificates.


 


11)  Set-off.  Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any other existing or future agreement, each party irrevocably waives any and all rights it may have to set off, net, recoup or otherwise withhold or suspend or condition payment or performance of any obligation between it and the other party hereunder against any obligation between it and the other party under any other agreements. The provisions for Set-off set forth in Section 6(e) of the Agreement shall not apply for purposes of this Transaction.


 


12)       Additional Termination Events.  Additional Termination Events will apply.  If a Rating Agency Downgrade has occurred and BSFP has not, complied with Section 13 below, then an Additional Termination Event shall have occurred with respect to BSFP and BSFP shall be the sole Affected Party with respect to such an Additional Termination Event.


 


13)       Rating Agency Downgrade.  In the event that BSFP’s long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating is withdrawn or reduced below “AA-” by Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services, Inc. (“S&P”) or its long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating is withdrawn or reduced below “Aa3” by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) (and together with S&P, the “Swap Rating Agencies”, and such rating thresholds as defined above, “Approved Rating Thresholds”), then within 30 days after such rating withdrawal or downgrade, BSFP shall, at its own expense, either (i) cause another entity to replace BSFP as party to this Agreement that meets or exceeds the Approved Rating Thresholds on terms substantially similar to this Agreement or (ii)
obtain a guaranty of, or a contingent agreement of another person with the Approved Rating Thresholds, to honor, BSFP’s obligations under this Agreement.


 


14)       Additional Provisions.  Notwithstanding the terms of Sections 5 and 6 of the ISDA Form Master Agreement, if Counterparty has satisfied its payment obligations under Section 2(a)(i) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement, then unless BSFP is required pursuant to appropriate proceedings to return to Counterparty or otherwise returns to Counterparty upon demand of Counterparty any portion of such payment, (a) the occurrence of an event described in Section 5(a) of the ISDA Form 


 









Master Agreement with respect to Counterparty shall not constitute an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default with respect to Counterparty as the Defaulting Party and (b) BSFP shall be entitled to designate an Early Termination Event pursuant to Section 6 of the Agreement only as a result of a Termination Event set forth in either Section 5(b)(i) or Section 5(b)(ii) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement with respect to BSFP as the Affected Party or Section 5(b)(iii) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement with respect to BSFP as the Burdened Party.  For purposes of the Transaction to which this Agreement relates, Counterparty’s only obligation under Section 2(a)(i) of the ISDA Form Master Agreement is to pay the Fixed Amount on the Fixed Rate Payer Payment Date.


 


NEITHER THE BEAR STEARNS COMPANIES INC. NOR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE OF THE BEAR STEARNS COMPANIES INC. OTHER THAN BSFP IS AN OBLIGOR OR A CREDIT SUPPORT PROVIDER ON THIS AGREEMENT.


 



	
            5.
 	
            Account Details and
 Settlement Information:
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
            Payments to BSFP:
 	
            Citibank, N.A., New York
 ABA Number: 021-0000-89, for the account of
 Bear, Stearns Securities Corp.
 Account Number: 0925-3186, for further credit to
 Bear Stearns Financial Products Inc.
 Sub-account  Number: 102-04654-1-3
 Attention: Derivatives Department
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
             
 
	
             
 	
             
 	
            Payments to Counterparty:
 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
 San Francisco, CA
 Bank Number ABA:    121000248
 Beneficiary Account #: 3970771416
 Beneficiary Account Name: SAS Clearing
 Reference:  FFC: BSABS 2005-AC8 
 Net WAC Reserve Fund
 SEI Account 17203902
 



 


This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.


 


Counterparty hereby agrees to check this Confirmation and to confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of the Transaction by signing in the space provided below and returning to BSFP a facsimile of the fully-executed Confirmation to 212-272-9857. For inquiries regarding U.S. Transactions, please contact Susan Donlon by telephone at 212-272-2364.  For all other inquiries please contact Derivatives Documentation by telephone at 353-1-402-6233. Originals will be provided for your execution upon your request.


 









 


We are very pleased to have executed this Transaction with you and we look forward to completing other transactions with you in the near future.


Very truly yours,


 



	
            BEAR STEARNS FINANCIAL PRODUCTS INC.
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:
 
	
             
 	
            Title:
 



 


Counterparty, acting through its duly authorized signatory, hereby agrees to, accepts and confirms the terms of the foregoing as of the Trade Date.


 


U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT INDIVIDUALLY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF THE BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I TRUST 2005-AC8, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AC8


 


 



	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:
 
	
             
 	
            Title:
 



 


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SCHEDULE I


(all such dates subject to No Adjustment )


 


 



	
            From and including
  	
            To but excluding
  	
            Notional Amount (USD)
  
	
            Effective Date
 	
            12/25/05
 	
            24,680,492.56
 
	
            12/25/05
 	
            01/25/06
 	
            24,312,999.61
 
	
            01/25/06
 	
            02/25/06
 	
            23,898,409.50
 
	
            02/25/06
 	
            03/25/06
 	
            23,437,749.90
 
	
            03/25/06
 	
            04/25/06
 	
            22,932,185.71
 
	
            04/25/06
 	
            05/25/06
 	
            22,383,016.26
 
	
            05/25/06
 	
            06/25/06
 	
            21,791,671.89
 
	
            06/25/06
 	
            07/25/06
 	
            21,159,709.79
 
	
            07/25/06
 	
            08/25/06
 	
            20,488,809.24
 
	
            08/25/06
 	
            09/25/06
 	
            19,780,766.19
 
	
            09/25/06
 	
            10/25/06
 	
            19,066,188.59
 
	
            10/25/06
 	
            11/25/06
 	
            18,367,723.69
 
	
            11/25/06
 	
            12/25/06
 	
            17,685,068.67
 
	
            12/25/06
 	
            01/25/07
 	
            17,017,926.40
 
	
            01/25/07
 	
            02/25/07
 	
            16,366,005.20
 
	
            02/25/07
 	
            03/25/07
 	
            15,729,018.85
 
	
            03/25/07
 	
            04/25/07
 	
            15,106,686.43
 
	
            04/25/07
 	
            05/25/07
 	
            14,498,732.22
 
	
            05/25/07
 	
            06/25/07
 	
            13,904,885.63
 
	
            06/25/07
 	
            07/25/07
 	
            13,324,881.11
 
	
            07/25/07
 	
            08/25/07
 	
            12,758,458.00
 
	
            08/25/07
 	
            09/25/07
 	
            12,205,360.52
 
	
            09/25/07
 	
            10/25/07
 	
            11,665,337.61
 
	
            10/25/07
 	
            11/25/07
 	
            11,138,142.87
 
	
            11/25/07
 	
            12/25/07
 	
            10,623,534.51
 
	
            12/25/07
 	
            01/25/08
 	
            10,121,275.18
 
	
            01/25/08
 	
            02/25/08
 	
            9,631,131.96
 
	
            02/25/08
 	
            03/25/08
 	
            9,152,876.27
 
	
            03/25/08
 	
            04/25/08
 	
            8,686,283.74
 
	
            04/25/08
 	
            05/25/08
 	
            8,231,134.18
 
	
            05/25/08
 	
            06/25/08
 	
            7,787,211.50
 
	
            06/25/08
 	
            07/25/08
 	
            7,354,303.61
 
	
            07/25/08
 	
            08/25/08
 	
            6,932,202.36
 
	
            08/25/08
 	
            09/25/08
 	
            6,520,703.45
 
	
            09/25/08
 	
            10/25/08
 	
            6,119,606.40
 
	
            10/25/08
 	
            11/25/08
 	
            5,728,714.42
 
	
            11/25/08
 	
            12/25/08
 	
            5,347,834.41
 
	
            12/25/08
 	
            01/25/09
 	
            4,976,776.82
 
	
            01/25/09
 	
            02/25/09
 	
            4,615,355.64
 
	
            02/25/09
 	
            03/25/09
 	
            4,263,388.30
 
	
            03/25/09
 	
            04/25/09
 	
            3,920,695.64
 
	
            04/25/09
 	
            05/25/09
 	
            3,587,101.81
 
	
            05/25/09
 	
            06/25/09
 	
            3,262,434.21
 
	
            06/25/09
 	
            07/25/09
 	
            2,946,523.48
 
	
            07/25/09
 	
            08/25/09
 	
            2,639,203.38
 
	
            08/25/09
 	
            09/25/09
 	
            2,340,310.75
 
	
            09/25/09
 	
            10/25/09
 	
            2,049,685.48
 
	
            10/25/09
 	
            11/25/09
 	
            1,767,170.42
 



 


 









 


 



	
            11/25/09
 	
            12/25/09
 	
            1,492,611.34
 
	
            12/25/09
 	
            01/25/10
 	
            1,225,856.87
 
	
            01/25/10
 	
            02/25/10
 	
            966,758.44
 
	
            02/25/10
 	
            03/25/10
 	
            715,170.26
 
	
            03/25/10
 	
            04/25/10
 	
            470,949.24
 
	
            04/25/10
 	
            05/25/10
 	
            233,954.92
 
	
            05/25/10
 	
            Termination Date
 	
            4,049.49
 



 



 









 


EXHIBIT N


 


FORM OF SUBSEQUENT MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT


SUBSEQUENT MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of [___________], 2005, as amended and supplemented by any and all amendments hereto (collectively, “this Agreement”), by and among EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Mortgage Loan Seller” or “EMC”) and BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Purchaser”).


Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, certain conventional, closed-end, fixed rate, junior-lien mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family residences (collectively, the “Subsequent Mortgage Loans”) as described herein.  The Purchaser intends to deposit the Subsequent Mortgage Loans into a trust fund (the “Trust Fund”) and create BSABS 2005-AC8, which will issue the BSABS 2005-AC8, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8 (the “Certificates”), under a pooling and servicing agreement, to be dated as of October 1, 2005 (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”) among the Purchaser, as depositor, EMC as a seller and company, Wells Fargo Bank National Association, as master servicer (in that capacity,
the “Master Servicer”) and securities administrator and U.S. Bank National Association., as trustee (the “Trustee” or “U.S. Bank”).


The Purchaser has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (Number 333-125422) relating to its Asset-Backed Certificates and the offering of certain series thereof (including certain classes of the Certificates) from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (the “Securities Act”). Such registration statement, when it became effective under the Securities Act, and the prospectus relating to the public offering of certain classes of the Certificates by the Purchaser (the “Public Offering”), as each may be amended or supplemented from time to
time pursuant to the Securities Act or otherwise, are referred to herein as the “Registration Statement” and the “Prospectus,” respectively. The “Prospectus Supplement” shall mean that supplement, dated October 28, 2005, to the Prospectus, dated June 24, 2005, relating to certain classes of the Certificates. With respect to the Public Offering of certain classes of the Certificates, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (“Bear Stearns”) and the Purchaser have entered into a terms agreement, dated as of October 28, 2005, to an underwriting agreement, dated January 25, 2005 (together, the “Underwriting Agreement”) between Bear Stearns and the Purchaser.


Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:


SECTION 1.    Definitions.  Certain terms are defined herein.  Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.  The following other terms are defined as follows:


Acquisition Price:  cash in an amount equal to $        *         (plus $        *         in accrued interest) and the retained certificates.  


 









 


Bear Stearns: Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.


Custodial Agreement: An agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005 among the Depositor, the Seller, the Trustee and the Custodian.


Deleted Subsequent Mortgage Loan:  A Subsequent Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced by a Replacement Mortgage Loan.


Due Date:  As to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the date in each month on which the related Scheduled Payment is due, as set forth in the related Mortgage Note.


Moody’s:  Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or its successors in interest.


Standard and Poor’s:  Standard and Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.


Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo Bank National Association, or its successors in interest.


Wells Fargo Custodial Agreement:  The custodial agreement, dated as of October 31, 2005, among the Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and Wells Fargo as Custodian relating to the Mortgage Loans identified in such custodial agreement.


MERS:  Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor thereto.


MERS® System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages electronically maintained by MERS.


Moody’s:  Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or its successors in interest.


Mortgage:  The mortgage or deed of trust or other instrument creating a first or junior lien on an interest in an estate in fee simple in real property securing a Mortgage Note.


Mortgage File:  The items referred to in Exhibit 1 pertaining to a particular Subsequent Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required to be added to such documents pursuant to this Agreement.


Mortgage Rate:  The annual rate of interest borne by a Mortgage Note as stated herein.


Mortgagor:  The obligor(s) on a Mortgage Note.


Net Mortgage Rate:  As to each Mortgage Loan, and at any time, the per annum rate equal to the Mortgage Rate less the sum of (i) the Servicing Fee Rate, (ii) the Trustee Fee Rate and (iii) the rate at which the LPMI Fee is calculated, if any.


Opinion of Counsel:  A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Purchaser, reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.


 









 


Person:  Any legal person, including any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.


Purchase Price:  With respect to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan required to be purchased by EMC  pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the principal remaining unpaid on such Subsequent Mortgage Loan as of the date of purchase (including if a foreclosure has already occurred, the principal balance of the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan at the time the Mortgaged Property was acquired), (ii) accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Mortgage Interest Rate through and including the last day of the month of purchase, reduced by (iii) any costs and damages (if any) incurred by the Trust in connection with any violation of such Subsequent Mortgage Loan of any anti-predatory lending laws.


Rating Agency:  Each of Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s. 


Replacement Mortgage Loan:  A mortgage loan substituted for a Deleted Mortgage Loan which must meet on the date of such substitution the requirements stated herein and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; upon such substitution, such mortgage loan shall be a “Mortgage Loan” hereunder.


Securities Act:  The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


Subsequent Cut-off Date:  [_________], 2005.


Subsequent Cut-off Date Balance:  $[____________].


Subsequent Transfer Date: [________], 2005


Value:  The value of the Mortgaged Property at the time of origination of the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan, such value being the lesser of (i) the value of such property set forth in an appraisal accepted by the applicable originator of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan or (ii) the sales price of such property at the time of origination.


SECTION 2.    Purchase and Sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans and Related Rights.


(a)        Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 11 hereof, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase the Subsequent Mortgage Loans sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller having an aggregate Subsequent Cut-off Date Balance of $[____________].


(b)        The closing for the purchase and sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans will take place on the Subsequent Transfer Date at the office of the Purchaser’s counsel in New York, New York, or such other place as the parties shall agree.


(c)        Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 10 hereof, on the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Purchaser shall pay to the Mortgage Loan Seller the Acquisition Price for the Subsequent Mortgage Loans sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller in immediately available 


 









funds by wire transfer to such account or accounts as shall be designated by the Mortgage Loan Seller.


SECTION 3.    Mortgage Loan Schedules.  EMC agrees to provide to the Purchaser as of the date hereof a preliminary listing of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans (the “Preliminary Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule”) setting forth the information listed on Exhibit 2 to this Agreement with respect to each of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans being sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller. If there are changes to the Preliminary Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule, EMC shall provide to the Purchaser as of the Subsequent Transfer Date a final schedule (the “Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule” and together with the Preliminary Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule, the “Mortgage Loan Schedule”) setting forth the information listed on Exhibit 2 to this Agreement with respect to each of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans
being sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser.  The Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule shall be delivered to the Purchaser on the Subsequent Transfer Date, shall be attached to an amendment to this Agreement to be executed on the Subsequent Transfer Date by the parties hereto and shall be in form and substance mutually agreed to by EMC and the Purchaser (the “Amendment”). If there are no changes to the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule, the Preliminary Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule shall be the Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule for all purposes hereof.


SECTION 4.    Mortgage Loan Transfer.  (a)  The Purchaser will be entitled to all scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Subsequent Mortgage Loans due after the Subsequent Cut-off Date (regardless of when actually collected) and all payments thereof.  The Mortgage Loan Seller will be entitled to all scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Subsequent Mortgage Loans sold by it to the Purchaser due on or before the Subsequent Cut-off Date (including payments collected after the Subsequent Cut-off Date) and all payments thereof.  Such principal amounts and any interest thereon belonging to the Mortgage Loan Seller as described above will not be included in the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans as of the Subsequent Cut-off Date as set forth on the Final Subsequent
Mortgage Loan Schedule.


(b)        Pursuant to various conveyancing documents to be executed on the Subsequent Transfer Date and pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Purchaser will assign on the Subsequent Transfer Date all of its right, title and interest in and to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders.  In connection with the transfer and assignment of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, the Mortgage Loan Seller has delivered or will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee, or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, no later than three Business Days prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date or such later date as is agreed to by the Purchaser and the Mortgage Loan Seller (each of the Subsequent Transfer Date and such later date is referred to as a “Mortgage File Delivery Date”), the items of the
respective Custodian’s Mortgage File, provided, however, that in lieu of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver the following documents, under the circumstances set forth below: (x) in lieu of the original Mortgage, assignments to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof which have been delivered, are being delivered or will upon receipt of recording information relating to the Mortgage required to be included thereon, be delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned in time to permit their delivery as specified above, the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver a true copy thereof with a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master Servicer, on the face of such 


 









copy, substantially as follows: “Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has been transmitted for recording;” (y) in lieu of the Mortgage, assignments to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof, if the applicable jurisdiction retains the originals of such documents or if the originals are lost (in each case, as evidenced by a certification from the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master Servicer to such effect), the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver photocopies of such documents containing an original certification by the judicial or other governmental authority of the jurisdiction where such documents were recorded; and (z) in lieu of the Mortgage Notes relating to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, each identified in the list delivered by the Purchaser to the Trustee on the Subsequent Transfer Date and attached hereto as Exhibit 3 the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver lost
note affidavits and indemnities of the Mortgage Loan Seller; and provided further, however, that in the case of Subsequent Mortgage Loans which have been prepaid in full after the Subsequent Transfer Date and prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Mortgage Loan Seller, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to the Trustee a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the Master Servicer to such effect. The Mortgage Loan Seller shall deliver such original documents (including any original documents as to which certified copies had previously been delivered) or such certified copies to the Trustee, or the related Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, promptly after they are received.  EMC shall cause the Mortgage and intervening assignments, if any, and the assignment of the Mortgage to be recorded not later than 180 days after the Subsequent Transfer Date unless such assignment is not required to be recorded under the terms set forth in  Section 6(a)
hereof.


(c)        The Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser acknowledge hereunder that all of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans will ultimately be assigned to U.S. Bank National Association., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, on the date hereof. 


SECTION 5.    Examination of Mortgage Files.  (a)  On or before the Mortgage File Delivery Date, the Mortgage Loan Seller will have made the Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser or its agent for examination which may be at the offices of the Trustee or the Mortgage Loan Seller and/or the Mortgage Loan Seller’s custodian.  The fact that the Purchaser or its agent has conducted or has failed to conduct any partial or complete examination of the Mortgage Files shall not affect the Purchaser’s rights to demand cure, repurchase, substitution or other relief as provided in this Agreement.  In furtherance of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall make the Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser or its agent from time to time so as to permit the Purchaser to confirm the Mortgage Loan Seller’s compliance
with the delivery and recordation requirements of this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.  In addition, upon request of the Purchaser, the Mortgage Loan Seller agrees to provide to the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and to any investors or prospective investors in the Certificates information regarding the Subsequent Mortgage Loans and their servicing, to make the related Mortgage Files available to the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and to such investors or prospective investors (which may be at the offices of the Mortgage Loan Seller and/or the Mortgage Loan Seller’s custodian) and to make available personnel knowledgeable about the Subsequent Mortgage Loans for discussions with the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and such investors or prospective investors, upon reasonable request during regular business hours, sufficient to permit the Purchaser, Bear Stearns and such investors or potential investors to conduct such due diligence as any such party reasonably believes is
appropriate.


 









 


(b)        Pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, on the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Trustee (or the Custodian as obligated under the applicable Custodial Agreement), for the benefit of the Certificateholders, will review items of the Mortgage Files as set forth on Exhibit 1 and will deliver to EMC an initial certification in the form attached as Exhibit One to the applicable Custodial Agreement.


(c)        Within 90 days of the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Trustee or the related Custodian on its behalf shall, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, deliver to EMC and the Trustee an Interim Certification in the form attached as Exhibit Two to the applicable Custodial Agreement to the effect that all such documents have been executed and received and that such documents relate to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified on the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule, except for any exceptions listed on Schedule A attached to such Interim Certification. The related Custodian shall be under no duty or obligation to inspect, review or examine said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to determine that the same are genuine, enforceable, or appropriate for the represented purpose or that
they have actually been recorded or that they are other than what they purport to be on their face.


(d)        The Trustee or the related Custodian on its behalf will review the Mortgage Files within 180 days of the Subsequent Transfer Date and will deliver to the EMC and the Master Servicer, and if reviewed by the related Custodian, the Trustee, a final certification substantially in the form of Exhibit 3 to the applicable Custodial Agreement.  If the Trustee or the related Custodian on its behalf is unable to deliver a final certification with respect to the items listed in Exhibit 1 due to any document that is missing, has not been executed, is unrelated, determined on the basis of the Mortgagor name, original principal balance and loan number, to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified in the Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule (a “Material Defect”), the Trustee or the related Custodian on its behalf shall notify EMC of such
Material Defect.  EMC shall correct or cure any such Material Defect within 90 days from the date of notice from the Trustee, the Depositor or the Master Servicer of the Material Defect and if EMC does not correct or cure such Material Defect within such period and such defect materially and adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders in the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan, EMC will, in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, within 90 days of the date of notice, provide the Trustee with a Replacement Mortgage Loan (if within two years of the Closing Date) or purchase the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan at the applicable Purchase Price; provided, however, that if such defect relates solely to the inability of EMC to deliver the original security instrument or intervening assignments thereof, or a certified copy because the originals of such documents,
or a certified copy, have not been returned by the applicable jurisdiction, EMC shall not be required to purchase such Subsequent Mortgage Loan if EMC delivers such original documents or certified copy promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after the Closing Date. The foregoing repurchase obligation shall not apply in the event that EMC cannot deliver such original or copy of any document submitted for recording to the appropriate recording office in the applicable jurisdiction because such document has not been returned by such office; provided that EMC shall instead deliver a recording receipt of such recording office or, if such receipt is not available, a certificate of EMC or a Servicing Officer confirming that such documents have been accepted for recording, and delivery to the Trustee shall be effected by EMC within thirty days of its receipt of the original recorded document.


 









 


(e)        At the time of any substitution, EMC shall deliver or cause to be delivered the Replacement Mortgage Loan, the related Mortgage File and any other documents and payments required to be delivered in connection with a substitution pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.  At the time of any purchase or substitution, the Trustee shall (i) assign the selected Subsequent Mortgage Loan to EMC and shall release or cause the related Custodian to release the documents (including, but not limited to, the Mortgage, Mortgage Note and other contents of the Mortgage File) in the possession of the Trustee or the related Custodian, as applicable relating to the Deleted Subsequent Mortgage Loan and (ii) execute and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in EMC title to such
Deleted Subsequent Mortgage Loan.


SECTION 6.    Recordation of Assignments of Mortgage.  (a)  EMC will, promptly after the Subsequent Transfer Date, cause each Mortgage and each assignment of Mortgage from the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee, and all unrecorded intervening assignments, if any, delivered on or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, to be recorded in all recording offices in the jurisdictions where the related Mortgaged Properties are located; provided, however, EMC need not cause to be recorded any assignment which relates to a Subsequent Mortgage Loan that is a MOM Loan or for which the related Mortgaged Property is located in any jurisdiction under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered by EMC to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, the recordation of such assignment is not necessary to protect the
Trustee’s interest in the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan;  provided, however, notwithstanding the delivery of any Opinion of Counsel, each assignment of Mortgage shall be submitted for recording by EMC in the manner described above, at no expense to the Trust Fund or Trustee, upon the earliest to occur of (i) reasonable direction by the Holders of Certificates evidencing Percentage Interests aggregating not less than 25% of the Trust, (ii) the occurrence of an Event of Default, (iii) the occurrence of a bankruptcy, insolvency or foreclosure relating to EMC under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, (iv) the occurrence of a servicing transfer or an assignment of the servicing as described in Section 8.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or (iv) with respect to any one assignment of Mortgage, the occurrence of a bankruptcy, insolvency or foreclosure relating to the Mortgagor under the related Mortgage.


While each such Mortgage or assignment is being recorded, if necessary, EMC shall leave or cause to be left with the Trustee or the related Custodian on its behalf a certified copy of such Mortgage or assignment. In the event that, within 180 days of the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Trustee has not been provided with an Opinion of Counsel as described above or received evidence of recording with respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms hereof or as set forth above and the related Mortgage Loan is not a MOM Loan, the failure to provide evidence of recording or such Opinion of Counsel shall be considered a Material Defect, and the provisions of Section 5(c) and (d) shall apply. All customary recording fees and reasonable expenses relating to the recordation of the assignments of mortgage to the Trustee or the Opinion of Counsel, as the case
may be, shall be borne by EMC.


(b)        It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the conveyance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser, as contemplated by this Agreement be, and be treated as, a sale.  It is, further, not the intention of the parties that such conveyance be deemed a pledge of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to 


 









the Purchaser to secure a debt or other obligation of the Mortgage Loan Seller.  However, in the event that, notwithstanding the intent of the parties, the Subsequent Mortgage Loans are held by a court to continue to be property of the Mortgage Loan Seller, then (a) this Agreement shall also be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the applicable Uniform Commercial Code; (b) the transfer of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans provided for herein shall be deemed to be a grant by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser of a security interest in all of the Mortgage Loan Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans and all amounts payable to the holders of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms thereof and all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of the foregoing into cash, instruments, securities or other
property, to the extent the Purchaser would otherwise be entitled to own such Subsequent Mortgage Loans and proceeds pursuant to Section 4 hereof, including all amounts, other than investment earnings, from time to time held or invested in any accounts created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, whether in the form of cash, instruments, securities or other property; (c) the possession by the Purchaser or the Trustee  (or the related Custodian on its behalf) of Mortgage Notes and such other items of property as constitute instruments, money, negotiable documents or chattel paper shall be deemed to be “possession by the secured party” for purposes of perfecting the security interest pursuant to Section 9-305 (or comparable provision) of the applicable Uniform Commercial Code; and (d) notifications to persons holding such property, and acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from persons holding such property, shall be deemed notifications to, or
acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from, financial intermediaries, bailees or agents (as applicable) of the Purchaser for the purpose of perfecting such security interest under applicable law.  Any assignment of the interest of the Purchaser pursuant to any provision hereof or pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall also be deemed to be an assignment of any security interest created hereby. EMC and the Purchaser shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take such actions as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create a security interest in the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, such security interest would be deemed to be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable law and will be maintained as such throughout the term of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.


SECTION 7.    Representations and Warranties of EMC Concerning the Subsequent Mortgage Loans.  EMC hereby represents and warrants to the Purchaser as of the Subsequent Transfer Date or such other date as may be specified below with respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan:


(a)        The information set forth in the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule on the Subsequent Transfer Date is complete, true and correct.


(b)        All payments required to be made prior to the Subsequent Cut-off Date with respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan have been made and no Subsequent Mortgage Loan is delinquent thirty one or more days; and the Mortgage Loan Seller has not advanced funds, or induced, solicited or knowingly received any advance of funds from a party other than the owner of the Mortgaged Property subject to the Mortgage, directly or indirectly, for the payment of any amount required under any Subsequent Mortgage Loan. 


 









 


(c)        If any of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans are secured by a leasehold interest, with respect to each leasehold interest: the use of leasehold estates for residential properties is an accepted practice in the area where the related Mortgaged Property is located; residential property in such area consisting of leasehold estates is readily marketable; the lease is recorded and no party is in any way in breach of any provision of such lease; the leasehold is in full force and effect and is not subject to any prior lien or encumbrance by which the leasehold could be terminated or subject to any charge or penalty; and the remaining term of the lease does not terminate less than ten years after the maturity date of such Subsequent Mortgage Loan.


(d)        Except with respect to taxes, insurance and other amounts previously advanced by a prior servicer with respect to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan, there are no delinquent taxes, water charges, sewer rents, assessments, insurance premiums, leasehold payments, including assessments payable in future installments, or other outstanding charges affecting the related Mortgaged Property.


(e)        The terms of the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage have not been impaired, waived, altered or modified in any respect, except by written instruments which in the case of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans are in the Mortgage File and have been or will be recorded, if necessary to protect the interests of the Trustee, and which have been or will be delivered to the Trustee, all in accordance with this Agreement. The substance of any such waiver, alteration or modification has been approved by the title insurer, to the extent required by the related policy. No Mortgagor has been released, in whole or in part, except in connection with an assumption agreement approved by the title insurer, to the extent required by the policy, and which assumption agreement in the case of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans is part of the Mortgage File.


(f)         The Mortgage Note and the Mortgage are not subject to any right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or defense, including the defense of usury, nor will the operation of any of the terms of the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage, or the exercise of any right thereunder, render the Mortgage unenforceable, in whole or in part, or subject to any right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or defense, including the defense of usury and no such right of rescission, set-off, recoupment, counterclaim or defense has been asserted with respect thereto.


(g)        All buildings upon, or comprising part of, the Mortgaged Property are insured by an insurer acceptable to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac against loss by fire, hazards of extended coverage and such other hazards as are customary in the area where the Mortgaged Property is located, and such insurer is licensed to do business in the state where the Mortgaged Property is located. All such insurance policies contain a standard mortgagee clause naming the originator, its successors and assigns as mortgagee and the Mortgage Loan Seller has received no notice that all premiums thereon have not been paid. If upon origination of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the Mortgaged Property was, or was subsequently deemed to be, in an area identified in the Federal Register by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood hazards (and such flood
insurance has been made available), which require under applicable law that a flood insurance policy meeting the requirements of the current guidelines of the Federal Insurance Administration (or any successor thereto) be obtained, such flood insurance policy is in effect which policy is with a generally acceptable carrier in an amount representing coverage not less than the least of (A) the Stated Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loan, (B) the minimum amount required to 


 









compensate for damage or loss on a replacement cost basis, or (C) the maximum amount of insurance that is available under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. The Mortgage obligates the Mortgagor thereunder to maintain all such insurance at Mortgagor’s cost and expense and, on the Mortgagor’s failure to do so, authorizes the holder of the Mortgage to maintain such insurance at Mortgagor’s cost and expense and to obtain reimbursement therefore from the Mortgagor.


(h)        Each loan at the time it was made complied in all material respects with applicable local, state, and federal laws, including, but not limited to, all applicable anti-predatory lending laws.


(i)         The Mortgage has not been satisfied, canceled, subordinated, or rescinded, in whole or in part, and the Mortgaged Property has not been released from the lien of the Mortgage, in whole or in part, nor has any instrument been executed that would effect any such release, cancellation, subordination or rescission.


(j)         The Mortgage is a valid, existing and enforceable junior lien on the Mortgaged Property, including all improvements on the Mortgaged Property, if any, subject only to (1) the lien of current real property taxes and assessments not yet due and payable, (2) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way, easements and other matters of the public record as of the date of recording being acceptable to mortgage lending institutions generally and specifically referred to in the lender’s title insurance policy delivered to the originator of the Mortgage Loan and which do not adversely affect the Appraised Value of the Mortgaged Property and (3) other matters to which like properties are commonly subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided by the Mortgage. The Mortgage Loan
Seller has full right to sell and assign the Mortgage to the Purchaser.


(k)        The Mortgage Note and the related Mortgage are genuine and each is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the maker thereof, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or general principles of equity.


(l)         All parties to the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage had the legal capacity to enter into the Subsequent Mortgage Loan transaction and to execute and deliver the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage, and the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage have been duly and properly executed by such parties.


(m)       The proceeds of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan have been fully disbursed and there is no requirement for future advances thereunder and any and all requirements as to completion of any on-site or off-site improvement and as to disbursements of any escrow funds therefore have been complied with. All costs, fees and expenses incurred in making or closing the Subsequent Mortgage Loan and the recording of the Mortgage were paid, and the Mortgagor is not entitled to any refund of any amounts paid or due under the Mortgage Note or Mortgage.


(n)        Immediately prior to the conveyance of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Purchaser hereunder, the Mortgage Loan Seller was the sole owner and holder of the Mortgage Loan; the related Originator or the Mortgage Loan Seller was the custodian of the related escrow account, if applicable; the Subsequent Mortgage Loan had neither 


 









been assigned nor pledged, and the Mortgage Loan Seller had good and marketable title thereto, and had full right to transfer and sell the Subsequent Mortgage Loan and the related servicing rights to the Purchaser free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, lien, pledge, charge, claim or security interest subject to the applicable servicing agreement and had full right and authority subject to no interest or participation of, or agreement with, any other party, to sell and assign the Subsequent Mortgage Loan and the related servicing rights, subject to the applicable servicing agreement, to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.


(o)        All parties which have had any interest in the Mortgage, whether as mortgagee, assignee, pledgee or otherwise, are (or, during the period in which they held and disposed of such interest, were) (1) in compliance with any and all applicable licensing requirements of the laws of the state wherein the Mortgaged Property is located, and (2) organized under the laws of such state, qualified to do business in such state, a federal savings and loan association or national bank having principal offices in such state or not deemed to be doing business in such state under applicable law.


(p)        The Subsequent Mortgage Loan is covered by an ALT-A lender’s title insurance policy or equivalent form acceptable to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or any successor thereto, and qualified to do business in the jurisdiction where the Mortgaged Property is located, insuring (subject to the exceptions contained in clause (i) above) the Mortgage Loan Seller (as assignee), its successors and assigns as to the first priority lien of the Mortgage in the original principal amount of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan. Additionally, such lender’s title insurance policy affirmatively insures ingress and egress, and against encroachments by or upon the Mortgaged Property or any interest therein. With respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage Loan Seller (as assignee) is the sole insured of such lender’s title
insurance policy, and such lender’s title insurance policy is in full force and effect. No claims have been made under such lender’s title insurance policy, and no prior holder of the related Mortgage, including the Mortgage Loan Seller, has done, by act or omission, anything which would impair the coverage of such lender’s title insurance policy.


(q)        Except as provided in clause (b), immediately prior to the Subsequent Cut-off Date, there was no default, breach, violation or event of acceleration existing under the Mortgage or the Mortgage Note and there was no event which, with the passage of time or with notice and the expiration of any grace or cure period, would constitute a default, breach, violation or event of acceleration, and the Mortgage Loan Seller has not waived any default, breach, violation or event of acceleration.


(r)         There are no mechanics’ or similar liens or claims which have been filed for work, labor or material (and no rights are outstanding that under law could give rise to such lien) affecting the related Mortgaged Property which are or may be liens prior to or equal with, the lien of the related Mortgage.


(s)         At the time of origination, each Mortgaged Property was the subject of an appraisal which conformed to the underwriting requirements of the originator of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan and, the appraisal is in a form acceptable to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.


 









 


(t)         The origination, servicing and collection practices with respect to each Mortgage Note and Mortgage including, the establishment, maintenance and servicing of the escrow accounts and escrow payments, if any, since origination, have been conducted in all respects in accordance with the terms of Mortgage Note and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and, unless otherwise required by law or Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac standards, in accordance with the proper, prudent and customary practices in the mortgage origination and servicing business. With respect to the escrow accounts and escrow payments, if any, and a Subsequent Mortgage Loan all such payments are in the possession or under the control of the Mortgage Loan Seller (including pursuant to a Subservicing Agreement) and there exists no deficiencies in connection
therewith for which customary arrangements for repayment thereof have not been made.  Any interest required to be paid pursuant to state and local law has been properly paid and credited.


(u)        The Mortgaged Property is free of material damage and waste and there is no proceeding pending for the total or partial condemnation thereof.


(v)        The Mortgage contains customary and enforceable provisions to render the rights and remedies of the holder thereof adequate for the realization against the Mortgaged Property of the benefits of the security intended to be provided thereby, including, (1) in the case of a Mortgage designated as a deed of trust, by trustee’s sale, and (2) otherwise by judicial foreclosure. There is no other exemption available to the Mortgagor which would interfere with the right to sell the Mortgaged Property at a trustee’s sale or the right to foreclose the Mortgage.  The Mortgagor has not notified the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Mortgage Loan Seller has no knowledge of any relief requested or allowed to the Mortgagor under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.


(w)       The Mortgage Note is not and has not been secured by any collateral except the lien of the applicable Mortgage.


(x)        In the event the Mortgage constitutes a deed of trust, a trustee, duly qualified under applicable law to serve as such, has been properly designated and currently so serves and is named in the Mortgage, and no fees or expenses are or will become payable by the Certificateholders to the trustee under the deed of trust, except in connection with a trustee’s sale after default by the Mortgagor.


(y)        The Mortgagor has received all disclosure materials required by applicable law with respect to the making of the Subsequent Mortgage Loan.


(z)         No Subsequent Mortgage Loan was made in connection with the construction or rehabilitation of a Mortgaged Property.


(aa)       To the best of EMC’s knowledge, the Mortgaged Property is lawfully occupied under applicable law and all inspections, licenses and certificates required to be made or issued with respect to all occupied portions of the Mortgaged Property and, with respect to the use and occupancy of the same, including but not limited to certificates of occupancy, have been made or obtained from the appropriate authorities.


 









 


(bb)      The assignment of Mortgage with respect to a Subsequent Mortgage Loan is in recordable form and is acceptable for recording under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located.


(cc)       The Mortgaged Property consists of a single parcel of real property with or without a detached single family residence erected thereon, or an individual condominium unit, a 2-4 family dwelling or an individual unit in a planned unit development as defined by Fannie Mae, or a townhouse, each structure of which is permanently affixed to the Mortgaged Property, and is legally classified as real estate.


(dd)      Each Subsequent Mortgage Loan at the time of origination was underwritten in general in accordance with guidelines not inconsistent with the guidelines set forth in the Prospectus Supplement and generally accepted credit underwriting guidelines.


(ee)       No error, omission, misrepresentation, fraud or similar occurrence with respect to a Subsequent Mortgage Loan has taken place on the part of the Mortgage Loan Seller or the related Originator.


(ff)        None of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans are (a) loans subject to 12 CFR Part 226.31, 12 CFR Part 226.32 or 12 CFR Part 226.34 of Regulation Z, the regulation implementing TILA, which implements the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994 (“HOEPA”) or (b) classified and/or defined as a “high cost home loan” (or a similarly classified loan using different terminology under a law imposing heightened regulatory scrutiny or additional legal liability for residential mortgage loans having high interest rates, points and/or fees) under any federal, state, or local law, including, but not limited to, the States of Georgia or North Carolina.


(gg)       None of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans originated on or after October 1, 2002 and before March 7, 2003 was secured by property located in the State of Georgia.


(hh)       None of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans contains provisions pursuant to which monthly payments are (a) paid or partially paid with funds deposited in any separate account established by the Mortgage Loan Seller, the mortgagor, or anyone on behalf of the mortgagor, (b) paid by any source other than the mortgagor or (c) contains any other similar provisions which may constitute a “buydown” provision.  None of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans is a graduated payment mortgage loan and no Subsequent Mortgage Loan has a shared appreciation or other contingent interest feature.


(ii)         Each Subsequent Mortgage Loan that contains a provision for the assumption substitution of liability, pursuant to which the original mortgagor is released from liability and another person is substituted as the mortgagor and becomes liable under the Mortgage Note, shall be effective only if such person satisfies the then current underwriting practices and procedures of prudent mortgage lenders in a state in which the mortgaged property is located.


(jj)        The Mortgaged Property and all improvements thereon comply with all requirements of any applicable zoning and subdivision laws and ordinances.


 









 


(kk)      Each Mortgage is a valid and enforceable junior lien on the property securing the related Mortgage Note and each Mortgaged Property is owned by the Mortgagor in fee simple (except with respect to common areas in the case of condominiums, PUDs and de minimis PUDs) or by leasehold for a term longer than the term of the related Mortgage, subject only to (i) the lien of current real property taxes and assessments, (ii) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way, easements and other matters of public record as of the date of recording of such Mortgage, such exceptions being acceptable to mortgage lending institutions generally or specifically reflected in the appraisal obtained in connection with the origination of the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan or referred to in the lender’s title insurance policy delivered to the originator of the
related Subsequent Mortgage Loan and (iii) other matters to which like properties are commonly subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided by such Mortgage Appraisal Form 1004 or Form 2055 with an interior inspection for first lien Subsequent Mortgage Loans has been obtained.  Form 704, 2065 or 2055 with an exterior only inspection for junior lien Subsequent Mortgage Loans has been obtained.


(ll)         None of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans that are secured by property located in the State of Illinois are in violation of the provisions of the Illinois Interest Act.


(mm)     Each Prepayment Charge is enforceable and was originated in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.


(nn)       With respect to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan that contains a provision permitting imposition of a premium upon a prepayment prior to maturity, the prepayment premium is disclosed to the borrower in the loan documents pursuant to applicable state and federal law.


(oo)      No Subsequent Mortgage Loan is a High Cost Loan or Covered Loan, as applicable (as such terms are defined in the then current Standard & Poor’s LEVELS® Glossary which is now Version 5.6c Revised, Appendix E attached hereto as Exhibit 4).


It is understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 7 will inure to the benefit of the Purchaser, its successors and assigns, notwithstanding any restrictive or qualified endorsement on any Mortgage Note or assignment of Mortgage or the examination of any Mortgage File.  Upon any substitution for a Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the representations and warranties set forth above shall be deemed to be made by the Mortgage Loan Seller as to any Replacement Mortgage Loan as of the date of substitution.


Upon discovery or receipt of notice by EMC, the Purchaser or the Trustee of a breach of any representation or warranty of EMC set forth in this Section 7 which materially and adversely affects the value of the interests of the Purchaser, the Certificateholders or the Trustee in any of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the party discovering or receiving notice of such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others.  In the case of any such breach of a representation or warranty set forth in this Section 7, within 90 days from the date of discovery by EMC, or the date EMC is notified by the party discovering or receiving notice of such breach (whichever occurs earlier), EMC will (i) cure such breach in all material respects, (ii) purchase the affected Mortgage Loan at the applicable Purchase Price, or (iii) if within two years of the
Subsequent Transfer Date, substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan in exchange for such Mortgage Loan; provided that, (A) in the case of a breach of the 


 









representation and warranty concerning the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule contained in clause (a) of this Section 7, if such breach is material and relates to any field on the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule which identifies any Prepayment Charge or (B) in the case of a breach of the representation contained in clause (kk) of this Section 7, then, in each case, in lieu of purchasing such Subsequent Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at the Purchase Price, EMC shall pay the amount of the Prepayment Charge (net of any amount previously collected by or paid to the Trust Fund in respect of such Prepayment Charge) from its own funds and without reimbursement therefor, and EMC shall have no obligation to repurchase or substitute for such Subsequent Mortgage Loan. The obligations of EMC to cure, purchase or substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan shall constitute the Purchaser’s, the
Trustee’s and the Certificateholder’s sole and exclusive remedy under this Agreement or otherwise respecting a breach of representations or warranties hereunder with respect to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, except for the obligation of EMC to indemnify the Purchaser for such breach as set forth in and limited by Section 13 hereof.


Any cause of action against EMC or relating to or arising out of a breach by EMC of any representations and warranties made in this Section 7 shall accrue as to any Subsequent Mortgage Loan upon (i) discovery of such breach by EMC or notice thereof by the party discovering such breach and (ii) failure by EMC to cure such breach, purchase such Subsequent Mortgage Loan, or substitute a qualifying Replacement Mortgage Loan pursuant to the terms hereof.


SECTION 8.    Representations and Warranties Concerning EMC.  (a)  As of the date hereof and as of the Subsequent Transfer Date, EMC represents and warrants to the Purchaser as to itself in the capacity indicated as follows:


(b)        EMC (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (ii) is qualified and in good standing to do business in each jurisdiction where such qualification is necessary, except where the failure so to qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on EMC’s business as presently conducted or on EMC’s ability to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby;


(c)        EMC has full power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement;


(d)        the execution and delivery by EMC of this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of EMC; and neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof or thereof, will conflict with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, any of the provisions of any law, governmental rule, regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on EMC or its properties or the charter or by-laws of EMC, except those conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on EMC’s ability to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby;


(e)        the execution, delivery and performance by EMC of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any state, federal or other governmental authority or agency, except those consents, approvals, notices, 


 









registrations or other actions as have already been obtained, given or made and, in connection with the recordation of the Mortgages, powers of attorney or assignments of Mortgages not yet completed;


(f)         this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by EMC and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Purchaser or the parties thereto, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of EMC enforceable against it in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally); and


(g)        there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of EMC, threatened against EMC, before or by any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body (i) with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (ii) with respect to any other matter which in the judgment of EMC could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to EMC and if determined adversely to EMC materially and adversely affect EMC’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and EMC is not in default with respect to any order of any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body so as to materially and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.


SECTION 9.    Representations and Warranties Concerning the Purchaser.  As of the date hereof and as of the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Purchaser represents and warrants to the Mortgage Loan Seller as follows:


(a)        the Purchaser (i) is a limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (ii) is qualified and in good standing to do business in each jurisdiction where such qualification is necessary, except where the failure so to qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser’s business as presently conducted or on the Purchaser’s ability to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby;


(b)        the Purchaser has full power to own its property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement;


(c)        the execution and delivery by the Purchaser of this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Purchaser; and neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof, will conflict with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, any of the provisions of any law, governmental rule, regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on the Purchaser or its properties or the certificate of formation or limited liability agreement of the Purchaser, except those conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser’s ability to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;


(d)        the execution, delivery and performance by the Purchaser of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action in 


 









respect of, any state, federal or other governmental authority or agency, except those consents, approvals, notices, registrations or other actions as have already been obtained, given or made;


(e)        this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Purchaser and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Mortgage Loan Seller, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser enforceable against it in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally); and


(f)         there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Purchaser, threatened against the Purchaser, before or by any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body (i) with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (ii) with respect to any other matter which in the judgment of the Purchaser could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to the Purchaser and if determined adversely to the Purchaser materially and adversely affect the Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Purchaser is not in default with respect to any order of any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body so as to materially and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.


SECTION 10.  Conditions to Closing.  (a)  The obligations of the Purchaser under this Agreement will be subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, of the following conditions:


(b)        Each of the obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller required to be performed at or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement shall have been duly performed and complied with in all material respects; all of the representations and warranties of the Mortgage Loan Seller under this Agreement shall be true and correct as of the date or dates specified in all material respects; and no event shall have occurred which, with notice or the passage of time, would constitute a default under this Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; and the Purchaser shall have received certificates to that effect signed by authorized officers of the of the Mortgage Loan Seller.


(c)        The Purchaser shall have received all of the following closing documents, in such forms as are agreed upon and reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser, duly executed by all signatories other than the Purchaser as required pursuant to the respective terms thereof:


(i)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Amendment dated as of the Subsequent Transfer Date and any documents referred to therein;


(ii)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Final Mortgage Loan Schedule containing the information set forth on Exhibit 2 hereto, one copy to be attached to each counterpart of the Amendment;


(iii)        The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Purchaser, and all documents required thereby duly executed by all signatories;


 









 


(iv)        The Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser, and all documents required thereby duly executed by all signatories;


(v)        An initial Certification of the Custodian substantially in the form of Exhibit One to the Custodial Agreement; and


(vi)        Such other documents, certificates (including additional representations and warranties) and opinions as may be reasonably necessary to secure the intended ratings from each Rating Agency for the Certificates.


(d)        Each of the conditions set forth in Section 2.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement have been satisfied on or prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date. 


(e)        The Mortgage Loan Seller shall have furnished to the Purchaser such other certificates of its officers or others and such other documents and opinions of counsel to evidence fulfillment of the conditions set forth in this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby as the Purchaser and its counsel may reasonably request.


(f)         The obligations of the Mortgage Loan Seller under this Agreement shall be subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, of the following conditions:


(1)        The obligations of the Purchaser required to be performed by it on or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall have been duly performed and complied with in all material respects, and all of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser under this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof and as of the Subsequent Transfer Date, and no event shall have occurred which would constitute a breach by it of the terms of this Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and the Mortgage Loan Seller shall have received a certificate to that effect signed by an authorized officer of the Purchaser.


(2)        The Mortgage Loan Seller shall have received copies of all of the following closing documents, in such forms as are agreed upon and reasonably acceptable to the Mortgage Loan Seller, duly executed by all signatories other than the Mortgage Loan Seller as required pursuant to the respective terms thereof:


(i)         If required pursuant to Section 3 hereof, the Amendment dated as of the Subsequent Transfer Date and any documents referred to therein;


(ii)         The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to EMC and the Trustee, and all documents required thereby duly executed by all signatories;


(iii)        An Initial Certification of the Custodian substantially in the form of Exhibit One to the Custodial Agreement; and


 









 


(iv)        Such other documents, certificates (including additional representations and warranties) and opinions as may be reasonably necessary to secure the intended rating from each Rating Agency for the Certificates.


SECTION 11.  Fees and Expenses.  Subject to Section 16 hereof, EMC shall pay on the Subsequent Transfer Date or such later date as may be agreed to by the Purchaser (i) the fees and expenses of the Mortgage Loan Seller’s attorneys and the reasonable fees and expenses of the Purchaser’s attorneys, (ii) the fees and expenses of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (iii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee which shall include without limitation the fees and expenses of the Trustee (and the fees and disbursements of its counsel) with respect to (A) legal and document review of this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Certificates and related agreements, (B) attendance at the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby and (C) review of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans to be
performed by the Trustee (iv) the fees and expenses of each Rating Agency (both initial and ongoing), (v) the fees and expenses relating to the preparation and recordation of mortgage assignments (including intervening assignments, if any and if available, to evidence a complete chain of title from the originator to the Trustee) from the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Trustee or the expenses relating to the Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section 6(a) hereof, as the case may be, and (vi) Mortgage File due diligence expenses and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Purchaser in connection with the purchase of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans.  EMC additionally agrees to pay directly to any third party on a timely basis the fees provided for above which are charged by such third party and which are billed periodically.


SECTION 12.  Accountants’ Letters.  Deloitte & Touche LLP will review the characteristics of a sample of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans described in the Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule and will compare those characteristics to the description of the Mortgage Loans contained in the Prospectus Supplement under the heading “The Mortgage Pool – Conveyance of Subsequent Mortgage Loans and the Pre-Funding Account”.  EMC will cooperate with the Purchaser in making available all information and taking all steps reasonably necessary to permit such accountants to complete the review and to deliver the letters required of them under the Underwriting Agreement.  



	
            Section 13.
 	
            Indemnification.  
 



(a)        EMC shall indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser and its directors, officers and controlling persons (as defined in Section 15 of the Securities Act) from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability or action in respect thereof, to which they or any of them may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon (i) any representation or warranty assigned or made by EMC in Section 7 or Section 8 being, or alleged to be, untrue or incorrect, or (ii) any failure by EMC to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and EMC shall reimburse the Purchaser and each other indemnified party for any legal and other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim,
damage, liability or action.


The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which EMC otherwise may have to the Purchaser or any other such indemnified party.


 









 


(b)        The Purchaser shall indemnify and hold harmless the Mortgage Loan Seller and its directors, officers and controlling persons (as defined in Section 15 of the Securities Act) from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability or action in respect thereof, to which they or any of them may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon (i) any representation or warranty made by the Purchaser in Section 9 hereof being, or alleged to be, untrue or incorrect, or (ii) any failure by the Purchaser to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Purchaser shall reimburse the Mortgage Loan Seller, and each other indemnified party for any legal and other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending or
preparing to defend any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action. The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which the Purchaser otherwise may have to the Mortgage Loan Seller, or any other such indemnified party.


(c)        Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify each party against whom indemnification is to be sought in writing of the commencement thereof (but the failure so to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 13 except to the extent that it has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure or from any liability which it may have otherwise).  In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies an indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent it may
elect by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly (but, in any event, within 30 days) after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party or parties unless (i) the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by one of the indemnifying parties in connection with the defense of such action, (ii) the indemnifying parties shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such action within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action, or (iii) such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there is a conflict of interest between itself or themselves and the
indemnifying party in the conduct of the defense of any claim or that the interests of the indemnified party or parties are not substantially co-extensive with those of the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying parties shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by the indemnifying parties (provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall be liable only for the fees and expenses of one counsel in addition to one local counsel in the jurisdiction involved.  Anything in this subsection to the contrary notwithstanding, an indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement or any claim or action effected without its written consent; provided, however, that such consent was not unreasonably withheld.


(d)        If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 13 shall for any reason be unavailable to an indemnified party in respect of any loss, claim, damage or liability, or any action in respect thereof, referred to in Section 13, then the indemnifying party shall in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party contribute to the amount paid or payable by such 


 









indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Mortgage Loan Seller on the one hand and the Purchaser on the other from the purchase and sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, the offering of the Certificates and the other transactions contemplated hereunder.  No person found liable for a fraudulent misrepresentation shall be entitled to contribution from any person who is not also found liable for such fraudulent misrepresentation.


(e)        The parties hereto agree that reliance by an indemnified party on any publicly available information or any information or directions furnished by an indemnifying party shall not constitute negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct by such indemnified party.


SECTION 14. Notices.  All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing but may be delivered by facsimile transmission subsequently confirmed in writing.  Notices to EMC shall be directed to EMC Mortgage Corporation, 909 Hidden Ridge Drive, Suite 200 Irving, Texas 75038, (Telecopy: (972 -444-2880)); and notices to the Purchaser shall be directed to Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York  10179, (Telecopy # (212) 272-2619), Attention: Chief Counsel; or to any other address as may hereafter be furnished by one party to the other party by like notice.  Any such demand, notice or communication hereunder shall be deemed to have been received on the date received at the premises of the addressee (as evidenced, in the case of registered or certified mail, by the date noted on the
return receipt) provided that it is received on a business day during normal business hours and, if received after normal business hours, then it shall be deemed to be received on the next business day.


SECTION 15.  Transfer of Subsequent Mortgage Loans.  The Purchaser retains the right to assign the Subsequent Mortgage Loans and any or all of its interest under this Agreement to the Trustee without the consent of the Mortgage Loan Seller, and, upon such assignment, the Trustee shall succeed to the applicable rights and obligations of the Purchaser hereunder; provided, however, the Purchaser shall remain entitled to the benefits set forth in Sections 11, 13 and 17 hereto and as provided in Section 2(a).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the sole and exclusive right and remedy of the Trustee with respect to a breach of representation or warranty of the Mortgage Loan Seller shall be the cure, purchase or substitution obligations of EMC contained in Sections 5 and 7 hereof.


SECTION 16.  Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated (a) by the mutual consent of the parties hereto prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, (b) by the Purchaser, if the conditions to the Purchaser’s obligation to close set forth under Section 10(a) hereof are not fulfilled as and when required to be fulfilled or (c) by the Mortgage Loan Seller, if the conditions to the Mortgage Loan Seller’s obligation to close set forth under Section 10(b) hereof are not fulfilled as and when required to be fulfilled.  In the event of termination pursuant to clause (b), EMC shall pay, and in the event of termination pursuant to clause (c), the Purchaser shall pay, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the other in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.  In the event of a termination pursuant to
clause (a), each party shall be responsible for its own expenses. 


SECTION 17.  Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery.  All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement, or contained in certificates of officers of the Mortgage Loan Seller submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect and shall survive delivery of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans to the Purchaser (and 


 









by the Purchaser to the Trustee).  Subsequent to the delivery of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans to the Purchaser, each of EMC’s, representations and warranties contained herein with respect to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans shall be deemed to relate to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans actually delivered to the Purchaser and included in the Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule and any Replacement Mortgage Loan and not to those Subsequent Mortgage Loans deleted from the Preliminary Mortgage Loan Schedule pursuant to Section 3 hereof prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby or any Deleted Subsequent Mortgage Loan.


SECTION 18.  Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement shall be prohibited or invalid under applicable law, this Agreement shall be ineffective only to such extent, without invalidating the remainder of this Agreement.


SECTION 19.  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which will be an original, but which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.


SECTION 20.  Amendment.  This Agreement cannot be amended or modified in any manner without the prior written consent of each party.


SECTION 21.  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW.


SECTION 22.  Further Assurances.  Each of the parties agrees to execute and deliver such instruments and take such actions as another party may, from time to time, reasonably request in order to effectuate the purpose and to carry out the terms of this Agreement including any amendments hereto which may be required by either Rating Agency.


SECTION 23.  Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Mortgage Loan Seller and the Purchaser and their permitted successors and assigns and, to the extent specified in Section 13 hereof, Bear Stearns, and their directors, officers and controlling persons (within the meaning of federal securities laws). The Mortgage Loan Seller acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser may assign its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, with respect to EMC’s representations and warranties respecting the Subsequent Mortgage Loans) to the Trustee.  Any person into which the Mortgage Loan Seller may be merged or consolidated (or any person resulting from any merger or consolidation involving the Mortgage Loan Seller), any person resulting from a change in form of
the Mortgage Loan Seller or any person succeeding to the business of the Mortgage Loan Seller, shall be considered the “successor” of the Mortgage Loan Seller hereunder and shall be considered a party hereto without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act or consent on the part of any party hereto.  Except as provided in the two preceding sentences, this Agreement cannot be assigned, pledged or hypothecated by either party hereto without the written consent of the other parties to this Agreement and any such assignment or purported assignment shall be deemed null and void.


SECTION 24.  The Mortgage Loan Seller.  The Mortgage Loan Seller will keep in full force and effect its existence, all rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of the 


 









State of its incorporation and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement.


SECTION 25.  Entire Agreement.  This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements and conditions, express or implied, oral or written, of any nature whatsoever with respect to the subject matter hereof.


SECTION 26.  No Partnership.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to create a partnership or joint venture between the parties hereto.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.



	
             
 	
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            BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES LLC
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
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EXHIBIT 1


 


CONTENTS OF MORTGAGE FILE


With respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage File shall include each of the following items, which shall be available for inspection by the Purchaser or its designee, and which shall be delivered to the Purchaser or its designee pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.


(i)         The original Mortgage Note, including any riders thereto, endorsed without recourse to the order of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee for certificateholders of BSABS 2005-AC8, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” showing to the extent available to the Mortgage Loan Seller an unbroken chain of endorsements from the original payee thereof to the Person endorsing it to the Trustee.


(ii)         The original Mortgage and if the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, noting the presence of the MIN and language indicating that such Subsequent Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, which shall have been recorded (or if the original is not available, a copy), with evidence of such recording indicated thereon (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form);


(iii)        unless the Subsequent Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan, the assignment (either an original or a copy, which may be in the form of a blanket assignment if permitted in the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located) to the Trustee of the Mortgage with respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan in the name of “Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for certificateholders of BSABS 2005-AC8, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-AC8,” which shall have been recorded (or if clause (x) in the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form);


(iv)        an original or a copy of all intervening assignments of the Mortgage, if any, to the extent available to the Mortgage Loan Seller, with evidence of recording thereon;


(v)        the original policy of title insurance or mortgagee’s certificate of title insurance or commitment or binder for title insurance, if available, or a copy thereof, or, in the event that such original title insurance policy is unavailable, a photocopy thereof, or in lieu thereof, a current lien search on the related Mortgaged Property and


(vi)        originals or copies of all available assumption, modification or substitution agreements, if any.


Provided, however, that in lieu of the foregoing, the Mortgage Loan Seller may deliver the following documents, under the circumstances set forth below:  (x) if any Mortgage, assignment thereof to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof have been delivered or are being delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned in time to permit their delivery as 


 









specified above, the Purchaser may deliver a true copy thereof with a certification by the Mortgage Loan Seller or the title company issuing the commitment for title insurance, on the face of such copy, substantially as follows: “Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has been transmitted for recording” and (y) in lieu of the Mortgage Notes relating to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified in the list set forth herein, the Purchaser may deliver a lost note affidavit and indemnity and a copy of the original note, if available; and provided, further, however, that in the case of Subsequent Mortgage Loans which have been prepaid in full after the Subsequent Cut-Off Date and prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date, the Purchaser, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to the Trustee and its Custodian a certification of a Servicing Officer to such effect and in
such case shall deposit all amounts paid in respect of such Subsequent Mortgage Loans, in the Protected Account or in the Distribution Account on the Subsequent Transfer Date. In the case of the documents referred to in clause (x) above, the Purchaser shall deliver such documents to the Trustee or its related Custodian promptly after they are received. EMC shall cause, at its expense, the Mortgage and intervening assignments, if any, and to the extent required in accordance with the foregoing, the assignment of the Mortgage to the Trustee to be submitted for recording promptly after the Subsequent Transfer Date; provided that EMC need not cause to be recorded any assignment (a) in any jurisdiction under the laws of which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee delivered by EMC to the Trustee, and the Rating Agencies, the recordation of such assignment is not necessary to protect the Trustee’s interest in the related Subsequent Mortgage Loan or (b) if MERS
is identified on the Mortgage or on a properly recorded assignment of the Mortgage as mortgagee of record solely as nominee for EMC and its successors and assigns.  In the event that EMC, the Purchaser or the Master Servicer gives written notice to the Trustee that a court has recharacterized the sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans as a financing, EMC shall submit or cause to be submitted for recording as specified above or, should EMC fail to perform such obligations, the Master Servicer shall cause each such previously unrecorded assignment to be submitted for recording as specified above at the expense of the Trust.  In the event a Mortgage File is released to EMC or the Master Servicer as a result of such Person having completed a Request for Release, the related Custodian shall, if not so completed, complete the assignment of the related Mortgage in the manner specified in clause (iii) above.



 









 


EXHIBIT 2


 


SUBSEQUENT MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE INFORMATION


The Preliminary and Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedules shall set forth the following information with respect to each Subsequent Mortgage Loan:



	
            1.
 	
            the Subsequent Mortgage Loan identifying number;
 	
             

	
            2.
 	
            the current mortgage rate;
 	
             

	
            3.
 	
            the Master Servicing Fee;
 	
             

	
            4.
 	
            the Trustee Fee
 	
             

	
            5.
 	
            the lender paid primary mortgage insurance fee, if any;
 
	
            6.
 	
            the current net mortgage rate;
 	
             

	
            7.
 	
            the stated maturity date;
 	
             

	
            8.
 	
            the original principal balance;
 	
             

	
            9.
 	
            the current principal balance;
 	
             

	
            10.
 	
            the stated original term to maturity;
 	
             

	
            11.
 	
            the stated remaining term to maturity;
 	
             

	
            12.
 	
            the property type;
 	
             

	
            13.
 	
            the MIN with respect to each MOM Loan; and
 	
             

	
            14.
 	
            the Custodian.
 	
             

															



 



 









 


EXHIBIT 3


SCHEDULE OF LOST NOTES


Available Upon Request



 









 


EXHIBIT 4



	
            Appendix E
 	
            REVISED August 1, 2005
 



Standard & Poor’s Anti-Predatory Lending Categorization


 


Standard & Poor’s has categorized loans governed by anti-predatory lending laws in the Jurisdictions listed below into three categories based upon a combination of factors that include (a) the risk exposure associated with the assignee liability and (b) the tests and thresholds set forth in those laws. Note that certain loans classified by the relevant statute as Covered are included in Standard & Poor’s High Cost Loan Category because they included thresholds and tests that are typical of what is generally considered High Cost by the industry. 


 


STANDARD & POOR’S HOME LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
  	
            Name of Anti-Predatory  Lending Law/Effective Date
  	
            Category under  Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
  
	
            Arkansas 
 	
            Arkansas Home Loan Protection Act, Ark. Code Ann. §§ 23-53-101 et seq. 

Effective July 16, 2003 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            Cleveland Heights, OH 
 	
            Ordinance No. 72-2003 (PSH), Mun. Code §§ 757.01 et seq. 

Effective June 2, 2003 
 	
            Covered Loan 
 
	
            Colorado 
 	
            Consumer Equity Protection, Colo. Stat. Ann. §§ 5-3.5-101 et seq. 

Effective for covered loans offered or entered into on or after January 1, 2003. Other provisions of the Act took effect on June 7, 2002 
 	
            Covered Loan 
 
	
            Connecticut 
 	
            Connecticut Abusive Home Loan Lending Practices Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 36a-746 et seq. 

Effective October 1, 2001 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            District of Columbia 
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, D.C. Code §§ 26-1151.01 et seq. 

Effective for loans closed on or after January 28, 2003 
 	
            Covered Loan 
 



 


 









 


 



	
            Florida 
 	
            Fair Lending Act, Fla. Stat. Ann. §§ 494.0078 et seq. 

Effective October 2, 2002 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003) 
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq. 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 




 









 


STANDARD & POOR’S HIGH COST LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
             
 	
            Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003 
 	
             
 
	
            Georgia as amended (Mar. 7, 2003 – current) 
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq. 

Effective for loans closed on or after March 7, 2003 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            HOEPA Section 32 
 	
            Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994, 15 U.S.C. § 1639, 12 C.F.R. §§ 226.32 and 226.34 

Effective October 1, 1995, amendments October 1, 2002 
 	
            High Cost Loan 
 
	
            Illinois 
 	
            High Risk Home Loan Act, Ill. Comp. Stat. tit. 815, §§ 137/5 et seq. 

Effective January 1, 2004 (prior to this date, regulations under Residential Mortgage License Act effective from May 14, 2001) 
 	
            High Risk Home Loan 
 
	
            Kansas 
 	
            Consumer Credit Code, Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 16a-1-101 et seq. 

Sections 16a-1-301 and 16a-3-207 became effective April 14, 1999; Section 16a-3-308a became effective July 1, 1999 
 	
            High Loan to Value Consumer Loan (id. § 16a-3-207) and; 
 
	
            High APR Consumer Loan (id. § 16a-3-308a) 
 
	
            Kentucky 
 	
            2003 KY H.B. 287 – High Cost Home Loan Act, Ky. Rev. Stat. §§ 360.100 et seq. 

Effective June 24, 2003 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            Maine 
 	
            Truth in Lending, Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 9-A, §§ 8-101 et seq. 

Effective September 29, 1995 and as amended from time to time 
 	
            High Rate High Fee Mortgage 
 
	
            Massachusetts 
 	
            Part 40 and Part 32, 209 C.M.R. §§ 32.00 et seq. and 209 C.M.R. §§ 40.01 et seq. 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 




 









 


STANDARD & POOR’S HIGH COST LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
             
 	
            Effective March 22, 2001 and amended from time to time 
 	
             
 
	
            Nevada 
 	
            Assembly Bill No. 284, Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 598D.010 et seq. 

Effective October 1, 2003 
 	
            Home Loan 
 
	
            New Jersey 
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq. 

Effective for loans closed on or after November 27, 2003 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            New Mexico 
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, N.M. Rev. Stat. §§ 58-21A-1 et seq. 

Effective as of January 1, 2004; Revised as of February 26, 2004 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            New York 
 	
            N.Y. Banking Law Article 6-l 

Effective for applications made on or after April 1, 2003 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            North Carolina 
 	
            Restrictions and Limitations on High Cost Home Loans, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 24-1.1E et seq. 

Effective July 1, 2000; amended October 1, 2003 (adding open-end lines of credit) 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 
	
            Ohio 
 	
            H.B. 386 (codified in various sections of the Ohio Code), Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §§ 1349.25 et seq. 

Effective May 24, 2002 
 	
            Covered Loan 
 
	
            Oklahoma 
 	
            Consumer Credit Code (codified in various sections of Title 14A) 

Effective July 1, 2000; amended effective January 1, 2004 
 	
            Subsection 10 Mortgage 
 
	
            South Carolina 
 	
            South Carolina High Cost and Consumer Home Loans Act, S.C. Code 
 	
            High Cost Home Loan 
 




 









 


STANDARD & POOR’S HIGH COST LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
             
 	
            Ann. §§ 37-23-10 et seq. 

Effective for loans taken on or after January 1, 2004 
 	
             
 
	
            West Virginia 
 	
            West Virginia Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act, W. Va. Code Ann. §§ 31-17-1 et seq. 

Effective June 5, 2002 
 	
            West Virginia Mortgage Loan Act Loan 
 



 


STANDARD & POOR’S COVERED LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003) 
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq. 

Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003 
 	
            Covered Loan 
 
	
            New Jersey 
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq. 

Effective November 27, 2003 – July 5, 2004 
 	
            Covered Home Loan 
 



 


STANDARD & POOR’S HOME LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
            Georgia (Oct. 1, 2002 – Mar. 6, 2003) 
 	
            Georgia Fair Lending Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 7-6A-1 et seq. 

Effective October 1, 2002 – March 6, 2003 
 	
            Home Loan 
 
	
            New Jersey 
 	
            New Jersey Home Ownership Security 
 	
            Home Loan 
 




 









 


STANDARD & POOR’S HOME LOAN CATEGORIZATION 



	
            State/Jurisdiction
 	
            Name of Anti-Predatory Lending Law/Effective Date
 	
            Category under Applicable Anti-Predatory Lending Law
 
	
             
 	
            Act of 2002, N.J. Rev. Stat. §§ 46:10B-22 et seq. 

Effective for loans closed on or after November 27, 2003 
 	
             
 
	
            New Mexico 
 	
            Home Loan Protection Act, N.M. Rev. Stat. §§ 58-21A-1 et seq. 

Effective as of January 1, 2004; Revised as of February 26, 2004 
 	
            Home Loan 
 
	
            North Carolina 
 	
            Restrictions and Limitations on High Cost Home Loans, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 24-1.1E et seq. 

Effective July 1, 2000; amended October 1, 2003 (adding open-end lines of credit) 
 	
            Consumer Home Loan 
 
	
            South Carolina 
 	
            South Carolina High Cost and Consumer Home Loans Act, S.C. Code Ann. §§ 37-23-10 et seq. 

Effective for loans taken on or after January 1, 2004 
 	
            Consumer Home Loan 
 



 



 









 


SCHEDULE A


 


SUBSEQUENT MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE


 


(Provided Upon Request)



 









 


EXHIBIT O


FORM OF SUBSEQUENT TRANSFER INSTRUMENT


Pursuant to this Subsequent Transfer Instrument, dated [_______], 2005 (the “Instrument ”), between Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC (the “Seller”), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, not individually but solely as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”) under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2005 (the “Agreement”), among the Seller as depositor, EMC Mortgage Corporation as a seller and as company, Wells Fargo Bank National Association as master servicer and securities administrator and the Trustee as trustee, the Seller and the Trustee, pursuant to the Agreement, agree to the sale by the Seller and the purchase by the Trustee of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans listed on the attached Exhibit 1 (the “Subsequent Mortgage Loans”).


Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.



	
            Section 1.
 	
            Conveyance of Subsequent Mortgage Loans.
 



(a)        The Seller does hereby sell, transfer, assign, set over and convey to the Trustee in trust, on behalf of the Trust, without recourse, all of its right, title and interest in and to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans, including all amounts due or accruing on the Subsequent Mortgage Loans on and after the related Subsequent Cut-off Date, and all items with respect to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.07 of the Agreement; provided, however, that the Seller reserves and retains all right, title and interest in and to amounts due on the Subsequent Mortgage Loans prior to the related Subsequent Cut-off Date. The Seller, contemporaneously with the delivery of this Agreement, has delivered or caused to be delivered to the Trustee each item with respect to the Subsequent Mortgage Loans set forth in Section 2.01 of the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the other items in the related Mortgage Files.  The transfer to the Trustee by the Seller of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans identified on the Final Subsequent Mortgage Loan Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit 1 shall be absolute and is intended by the Seller, the Mortgage Loan Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Certificateholders to constitute and to be treated as a sale of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans by the Seller to the Trust Fund.


(b)        The Seller, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey to the Trustee without recourse for the benefit of the Certificateholders all the right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the Subsequent Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of [________], 2005, between EMC Mortgage Corporation, as seller, and the Seller, as purchaser (the “Purchase Agreement”).  



	
            Section 2.
 	
            Representations and Warranties; Conditions Precedent.
 



(a)        The Seller hereby confirms that each of the conditions precedent and the representations and warranties set forth in Section 2.07 of the Agreement are satisfied as of the date hereof.


 









 


(b)        All terms and conditions of the Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed; provided, however, that in the event of any conflict, the provisions of this Instrument shall control over the conflicting provisions of the Agreement.



	
            Section 3.
 	
            Recordation of Instrument.
 



To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Instrument, or a memorandum thereof if permitted under applicable law, is subject to recordation in all appropriate public offices for real property records in all of the counties or other comparable jurisdictions in which any or all of the properties subject to the Mortgages are situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Master Servicer at the Certificateholders’ expense on direction of the related Certificateholders, but only when accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such recordation materially and beneficially affects the interests of the Certificateholders or is necessary for the administration or servicing of the Subsequent Mortgage Loans.



	
            Section 4.
 	
            Governing Law.
 



This Instrument shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.



	
            Section 5.
 	
            Counterparts.
 



This Instrument may be executed in one or more counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts, together, shall constitute one and the same instrument.



	
            Section 6.
 	
            Successors and Assigns.
 



This Instrument shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Seller and the Trustee and their respective successors and assigns.



 









 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the date first above written.



	
             
 	
            BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, as Seller
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:        
 
	
             
 	
            Title:                   
 



 



	
             
 	
            WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not individually but solely as Trustee, as aforesaid
 
	
             
 
	
             
 
	
            By:
 	
            
 
 
 
	
             
 	
            Name:        
 
	
             
 	
            Title:                   
 



 



 









 


EXHIBIT 1


 


FINAL SUBSEQUENT MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE


 


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