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BAKHU HOLDINGS, CORP.

 

AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER

 

September 22, 2020

 

PURPOSE

 

The Audit Committee (the “Committee”) of Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Bakhu Holdings, Corp., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), is appointed by the Board. This Audit Committee Charter (the “Charter”) specifies the scope of authority and responsibility of the Committee and amends and restates any previous charter of the Committee.

 

The purpose of the Committee is to assist the Board in fulfilling its responsibility for oversight of the quality and integrity of the accounting, auditing, and financial reporting practices of the Company, and to perform such other duties as may be directed to the Committee by the Board. The Committee’s role includes monitoring and overseeing the Company’s financial reporting, the Company’s management of business and financial risk, and compliance with significant legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements. The Committee is also directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, and oversight of the public accounting firm engaged to prepare or issue an audit report on the financial statements of the Company. Notwithstanding these duties of the Committee, it is understood that the Committee’s responsibilities do not include planning or conducting audits or determining that the Company’s financial statements are accurate, complete, and prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Such matters are the responsibility of management and the Company’s independent auditor. It is not the duty of the Committee to resolve disagreements between management and the independent auditor or to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or rules promulgated by the Trading Market (as defined below) (the “Trading Market Rules”).

 

For the purpose of this Charter, “Trading Market” means whichever of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE-AMEX, the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Global Market, the NASDAQ Capital Market, or the OTC Markets on which the common stock of the Company is listed or quoted for trading, on the date in question.

 

Notwithstanding anything in this Charter to the contrary, until such time as the Company has appointed the requisite minimum number of independent directors, according to the rules of the applicable Trading Market, the entire Board shall serve as the Audit Committee. 

 

MEMBERSHIP AND PROCEDURES

 

Membership and Appointment. The Committee will be comprised of not fewer than two members of the Board who, to the extent required by the Trading market on which the Company’s is listed or quoted, are independent directors who can read and understand fundamental financial statements, with the exact number determined by the Board. Members of the Committee will be appointed from time to time by the Board based on recommendations from a Nominating Committee that is comprised solely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors. No member of the Committee may serve on more than three audit committees of publicly traded companies (including this Committee) at the same time, except as may otherwise be approved in advance by the Board. For this purpose, service on the audit committees of a parent and its substantially owned subsidiaries counts as service on a single audit committee. 

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Removal and Resignation. The entire Committee or any individual Committee member may be removed from the Committee with or without cause by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board. Any Committee member may resign from the Committee effective upon giving notice in writing or by electronic transmission to the Chairman of the Board, the Corporate Secretary, or the entire Board (unless the notice specifies a later time for the effectiveness of the resignation, in which case the resignation will be effective as of the specified time). The Board may appoint a qualified successor to take office when the resignation becomes effective.

 

Qualifications. Each member of the Committee will be independent as defined under the applicable Trading Market Rules and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). No member of the Committee will have participated in the preparation of the financial statements of the Company or any current subsidiary of the Company at any time during the three years immediately preceding the date of such member’s appointment. Each member of the Committee will be generally knowledgeable in financial and auditing matters and be able to read and understand fundamental financial statements, including a company’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. 

 

Chairperson. A chairperson of the Committee (the “Chairperson”) may be designated by the Board upon the recommendation of the Nominating Committee that comprised solely of independent directors, or by a majority of the independent directors. In the absence of such designation, the members of the Committee may designate the Chairperson by majority vote of the Committee. The Chairperson will determine the agenda, frequency, and length of the meetings and will have unlimited access to management and information. The Chairperson will establish such other rules as he or she may from time to time deem necessary and proper for the conduct of the business of the Committee.

 

Secretary. The Committee may appoint a secretary whose duties and responsibilities will be to keep full and complete records of the proceedings of the Committee for the purposes of reporting Committee activities to the Board and to perform all other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him or her by the Committee or otherwise at the direction of a Committee member. If no secretary is appointed, any member of the Committee may serve as secretary of a meeting. The secretary need not be a member of the Committee or the Board. The Committee may assign the secretary’s duties to the Company’s legal counsel or to a member of the Company’s management team.

 

Meetings. The Committee will meet as frequently as circumstances dictate but not less frequently than quarterly. Meetings may be held in conjunction with regularly scheduled meetings of the Board or otherwise. Except as otherwise specified herein, the Committee is generally governed by the same rules regarding meetings (including meetings by telephone or similar communications equipment), written action without meetings, notice, waiver of notice, quorum, and voting requirements as are applicable to the Board. The Committee is authorized and empowered to adopt its own rules of procedure not inconsistent with any provision of the Charter, any provision of the Bylaws of the Company, the laws of the state of Nevada or any applicable law, rule, regulation, or Trading Market Rules. Minutes will be kept of each Committee meeting.

 

Delegation. The Committee may, by resolution passed by a majority of the Committee, designate one or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one or more members of the Committee. Any subcommittee, to the extent provided in the resolutions of the Committee, and to the extent not limited by law or the Trading Market Rules, will have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Committee, including authority to approve of audit and non-audit services by the independent auditor. Each subcommittee will have such name as may be determined by resolution adopted by the Committee. Each subcommittee will keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Committee or the 

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Board at its scheduled meetings. A subcommittee may have a published charter, as determined by the Committee.

 

Authority to Retain and Terminate Advisers. The Committee will have the resources and authority necessary to discharge its duties and responsibilities. The Committee has authority to retain, at the Company’s expense, outside counsel or other experts or consultants as it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities, including authority to approve fees, other retention terms, and ordinary administrative expenses of the Committee that are necessary or appropriate in carrying out its duties. The Committee is empowered to investigate any matter brought to its attention that is within the Charter, with full power to retain outside counsel or other experts for this purpose. The Committee will be provided with appropriate funding by the Company, as the Committee determines, for the payment of compensation to outside counsel and other experts and consultants as it deems appropriate and ordinary administrative expenses of the Committee that are necessary or appropriate in carrying out its duties. Any communications between the Committee and legal counsel in the course of obtaining legal advice will be considered privileged communications of the Company, and the Committee will take all necessary steps to preserve the privileged nature of those communications. All independent auditors shall report directly to the Committee.

 

Annual Performance Evaluation. The Committee will evaluate its performance on an annual basis, either separately or in conjunction with an annual evaluation of the full Board. The Committee shall also review and reassess the adequacy of this Charter on an annual basis.

 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

The Committee will perform the duties and responsibilities set forth below. This is to be used as a guide, with the understanding that the Committee may alter or supplement its tasks as appropriate and as permitted by applicable law, regulation, or listing requirements.

 

1.The Committee will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work of the Company’s independent auditor. The Committee will have the authority to appoint, dismiss, oversee, and determine the engagement terms of the Company’s independent auditor. Annually, the Committee will retain the Company’s independent auditor, which may be subject to stockholder ratification as may be required or as the Committee may seek. 

 

2.The Committee will preapprove the provision of all audit services and non-audit services by the independent auditor to the Company and its subsidiaries and will also approve all audit and non-audit engagement fees and terms with the independent auditor. The Committee may delegate authority to grant preapprovals to one or more Committee members, provided that the preapprovals are reported to the full Committee at its regularly scheduled meetings. The Chairperson, or other member of the Committee, will sign an engagement letter with the independent auditor. 

 

3.In connection with the Committee’s approval of non-audit services, the Committee will consider, among other things, whether the independent auditor’s performance of any non-audit services is compatible with the independence of the independent auditor. 

 

4.The Committee will obtain and review a formal written statement from the independent auditor delineating all relationships between the independent auditor and the Company, in order to assess the auditor’s independence, consistent with Independence Standards Board Standard 1, as amended from time to time, and other applicable standards, and any other documents or disclosures required by such standards. The report shall include a description of all services provided by the independent auditors and  

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related fees. The Committee shall discuss and will actively engage in dialogue with the independent auditor with respect to any disclosed relationships or services that may impact the auditor’s objectivity and independence and will take, or recommend to the Board to take, appropriate action to oversee the independence of the independent auditor.

 

5.The Committee will review and discuss with the independent auditor the report by the independent auditor, which is required by Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, concerning: 

 

(a)all critical accounting policies and practices to be used; 

 

(b)alternative treatments of financial information within generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that have been discussed with management, ramifications of the use of alternative disclosures and treatments, and the treatment preferred by the independent auditor; and 

 

(c)any other material written communications between the independent auditor and the Company’s management. 

 

6.The Committee will discuss the annual audited financial statements and quarterly financial statements with management, the Company’s internal finance department and the independent auditor, including the Company’s disclosures under the section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and in the Company’s reports filed with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the independent auditor’s opinion with respect to the financial statements in the Form 10-K. 

 

7.In connection with its review of the Company’s financial statements, the Committee will review and discuss with management, the internal finance staff, and the independent auditor the matters relating to the conduct of the audit required to be discussed by Statement on Auditing Standards No. 114 (AICPA, Professional Standards, Vol. 1, AU Section 380), as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in Rule 3200T, as they may be modified or supplemented, including the auditor’s judgment about the quality of the Company’s accounting principles as applied in its financial reporting. 

 

8.Based on its review and discussions with management, the internal finance staff, and the independent auditor, the Committee will recommend to the Board whether the Company’s financial statements should be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and any other annual report to stockholders. 

 

9.If applicable, the Committee will produce the Audit Committee Report required by Item 407(d) of Regulation S-K for inclusion in the Company’s proxy statement on Schedule 14A or information statement on Schedule 14C. 

 

10.The Committee will ensure that a current copy of this Charter is available to security holders on the Company’s website. If a current copy of the Charter is not so available, the Committee will ensure that management includes a current copy of the Charter in an appendix to the Company’s proxy or information statement that is provided to security holders at least once every three fiscal years or if the Charter has been materially amended since the beginning of the Company’s latest fiscal year, unless otherwise required by the SEC or Trading Market Rules. 

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11.The Committee will generally discuss earnings press releases as well as financial information and earnings guidance, if any, provided to financial analysts, investors, and rating agencies before such information is communicated publicly. 

 

12.The Committee is expected to maintain free and open communication with the independent auditor, the internal finance staff, and management. Periodically, the Committee will meet separately with each of management, the finance staff, internal auditors, and the independent auditor. 

 

13.The Committee will review with the independent auditor any audit problems or difficulties and management’s handling of such matters. 

 

14.The Committee will review any situation where the Company wishes to hire an employee or former employee of the Company’s independent auditor. 

 

15.The Committee will periodically monitor the Company’s policies with respect to financial risk assessment and risk management, particularly with respect to the Company’s potential exposure to significant liability claims or catastrophic losses (and the levels of insurance related thereto). 

 

16.Periodically, the Committee will review with management, the finance staff, and the independent auditor the adequacy and effectiveness of, and any significant changes in, the Company’s systems and controls for monitoring and managing legal and regulatory compliance, including the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures and the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Additionally, the Committee will review with the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer how they are meeting their obligations under the certification requirements of Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”), and review the principal executive officer’s and principal financial officer’s evaluations of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures. The Committee will also review with the independent auditor and management steps that the Company is taking to review and assess its internal control over financial reporting in anticipation of filing the first “internal control report of management” required under Section 404 of SOX. 

 

17.The Committee will establish procedures for: (a) the receipt, retention, and treatment of complaints received by the Company regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters; and (b) the confidential, anonymous submission by the Company’s employees of concerns regarding accounting or auditing matters. 

 

18.The Committee will communicate to the Board any issues and recommendations for action with respect to the quality or integrity of the Company’s financial statements, the Company’s compliance with legal or regulatory requirements, the performance and independence of the Company’s independent auditor, or the performance of the independent audit function. 

 

19.The Committee will review with the Chief Financial Officer of the Company the scope and plan of the work to be done by the internal audit function and the results of such work. 

 

20.The Committee will conduct an appropriate review and oversight of all related-party transactions (as that term is defined in Item 404 of Regulation S-K) on an ongoing basis and all such transactions shall be approved by the Committee or another independent body of the Board. 

 

21.The Committee will oversee the rotation of the audit partners of the Company’s independent auditor as required by the SOX and the rules of the SEC. 

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RELIANCE ON INFORMATION PROVIDED

 

In adopting this Charter, the Board acknowledges that the Committee members are not necessarily legal experts, are not themselves compiling the Company’s financial data or performing the audit function, and are not providing any expert or special assurance as to the Company’s legal, financial, or regulatory compliance. Each member of the Committee will be entitled to rely on the integrity of those persons and organizations within and outside the Company that provide information to the Committee and the accuracy and completeness of the information provided to the Committee by such persons or organizations absent actual knowledge to the contrary.

 

AMENDMENT

 

The Charter, and any provision contained herein, may be amended or repealed by the Board.

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 Exhibit 4.1 

ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION 

Officers’ Certificate Pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture 

October 1, 2020 
 Each of
the undersigned, Daniel M. Meziere, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer, and Karen E. Hartsfield, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Atmos Energy Corporation (the “Company”) certifies, pursuant
to the authority delegated to each of them, as an officer of the Company, pursuant to the resolutions adopted by the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) on August 4, 2020 (copies of which resolutions are attached hereto as
Exhibit I), that pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture dated as of March 26, 2009 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), a series of debt
securities of the Company is hereby established with the following terms and provisions (unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used herein have the meaning given thereto in the Indenture): 

1. The title of the series of the securities to be issued is the 1.500% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “Notes”). 

2. The Notes are unsubordinated and will rank equally with all of the Company’s other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.
Subordinated debt will rank junior to the Notes and the Company’s other senior debt. 
 3. The aggregate principal
amount of the Notes that initially may be issued under the Indenture, in connection with the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of September 23, 2020, among the Company and certain underwriters named therein, is $600,000,000, and the Stated
Maturity of the Notes is January 15, 2031. The Notes shall be offered to the public at a price representing 99.565% of their principal amount. 

4. The Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 1.500% per annum. Interest on the Notes will be payable in arrears on
January 15 and July 15 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning January 15, 2021. Interest payable on each Interest Payment Date will include interest accrued from and including October 1, 2020, or
from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, to but excluding such Interest Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be
paid to the Holder in whose name the Notes are registered at the close of business on the January 1 or July 1 (whether or not a Business Day) preceding the respective Interest Payment Date. The payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Notes shall be payable to the Holders of the Notes on a Special Record Date established therefor pursuant to the Indenture, or shall be paid at any time in any other lawful manner, all as more fully provided in the Indenture. 

5. Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes will be made at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, or at such other office or agency of the 

 
Company as may be maintained for such purpose, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. So long
as the Notes remain in book-entry form, all payments of principal and interest will be made by the Company in immediately available funds. 

6. The Company may redeem the Notes prior to maturity at the Company’s option, at any time in whole or from time to time
in part. Prior to October 15, 2030, the Redemption Price will be equal to the greater of: 
 (a) 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and 
 (b) as determined by the Quotation Agent (as defined below), the sum of the
present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined below) of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed that would be due if the Notes matured on the Par Call Date (as defined below), discounted to the Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 15 basis points; plus, in each case,
accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed to the Redemption Date. 
 At any time on or after
October 15, 2030, the Redemption Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date. 

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, for any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield
to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price of the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date; 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a
maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed (assuming the Notes matured on the Par Call Date) that would be used, at the time of a selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of
corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed; 
 “Comparable
Treasury Price” means, for any Redemption Date, the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for that Redemption Date; 

“Par Call Date” means October 15, 2030; 

“Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company to act as a quotation agent; 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of BofA Securities, Inc. and any Primary Treasury Dealer (as defined below)
selected by Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. and CIBC World Markets Corp. or any of such parties’ successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer (each, a
“Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a Primary Treasury Dealer; 

  
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 “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation” means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed, in each case, as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the
Trustee at 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, by such Reference Treasury Dealer on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date; and 

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to each Note to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of
the principal and interest on such Note that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for such redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled
interest payment on such Note will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Note to such Redemption Date. 
 7.
In the case of a partial redemption of the Notes, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee in accordance with the procedures of the Depository from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption. Notice of any redemption
will be mailed by first class mail at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed at its registered address. If any Notes are to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption
will state the portion of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed. A new Note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the Holder of the Note upon surrender for the cancellation of the
original Note. A partial redemption will not reduce the portion of any Note not being redeemed to a principal amount of less than $2,000. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the Redemption Date, interest will
cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of the Notes called for redemption. 
 8. Section 703 of the Indenture is
replaced with the following in its entirety for purposes of the Notes only: 
 The Company shall: 

(1) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company has filed the same with the Commission, unless such reports are
available on the Commission’s EDGAR filing system (or any successor thereto), copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time
to time by rules and regulations prescribe), which the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company is not required to file information, documents or
reports pursuant to either of such Sections, then the Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and
regulations; 

  
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 (2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such
rules and regulations; and 
 (3) transmit to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register,
within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Subsections
(1) and (2) of this Section 703 as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. 

9. The Company has no obligation to redeem, purchase or repay the Notes pursuant to any mandatory redemption or sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof. 
 10. The entire principal amount of the Notes shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity of the Notes pursuant to the Indenture. 
 11. The defeasance and covenant
defeasance provisions of Article Fourteen of the Indenture shall apply to the Notes. 
 12. The Trustee, the initial Paying
Agent and the initial Security Registrar for the Notes shall be U.S. Bank National Association. The Security Register for the Notes shall be initially maintained at, and the place where such Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be, the Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office located at 1349 West Peachtree Street, Suite 1050, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. 

13. The Notes will be issued in registered permanent global form and each evidenced by a global security (together, the
“Global Securities”) in substantially the forms attached hereto as Exhibit II-A and Exhibit II-B, with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture, and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends or endorsements, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture, as may be
required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined by the officers executing each such Global Security, as
evidenced by their execution of such Global Security. The beneficial owners of interests in each of the Global Securities may exchange such interests for Notes in certificated form (the “Definitive Notes”) only in limited circumstances as
provided in the Indenture. In the event that Definitive Notes are issued in exchange for a Global Security, the form of certificate evidencing each Definitive Note shall be in substantially the form of the attached Global Securities, with such
changes as are necessary to evidence the Notes in definitive form rather than as a Global Security. The Company initially appoints DTC to act as Depository with respect to the Notes. 

  
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 14. The Notes are issuable in denominations of $2,000 and any integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 
 15. The Events of Default set forth in the Indenture shall apply to the Notes. 

16. The Company will not pay Additional Amounts on the Notes held by any Holder who is not a United States person in respect of
any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted. 
 17. The Company may, at any time, without the consent of
the Holders of the Notes, create and issue additional securities having the same ranking, interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Notes. Any such additional securities shall be consolidated and form the same series of the Notes having the
same terms as to status, redemption and otherwise as the Notes under the Indenture. 
 Each of us further certifies that the form and terms
of the Notes as established in this certificate have been established pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture and comply with the Indenture. 

[Signature page follows] 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this certificate as of the date first written above.

  

					
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Daniel M. Meziere

		 	 Name:
	 	 Daniel M. Meziere

		 	 Title:
	 	 Vice President of Investor Relations

		 		 	 and Treasurer

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this certificate as of the date first written above. 

 

					
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Karen E. Hartsfield

		 	 Name:
	 	 Karen E. Hartsfield

		 	 Title:
	 	 Senior Vice President, General Counsel

		 		 	 and Corporate Secretary

 Officers’ Certificate Pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture

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