Document:

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AETNA INC.,

 

ISSUER

 

and

 

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

 

TRUSTEE

 

 

SENIOR INDENTURE

 

Dated as of March 2, 2001

 

  

Senior Debt Securities

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

Reconciliation and tie between certain Sections of

this Senior Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2001, and

Sections 310 through 318, inclusive, of

the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

	
Trust Indenture

Act Section

	
Indenture Section

	 	 
	
§ 310

	
(a)

	
(1)

	  	
609

	  	
(a)

	
(2)

	  	
609

	  	
(a)

	
(3)

	  	
Not Applicable

	  	
(a)

	
(4)

	  	
Not Applicable

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
608

	 	 	 	 	610
	
§ 311

	
(a)

	  	  	
613

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
613

	
§ 312

	
(a)

	  	  	
701

	  	  	  	  	
702(a)

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
702(b)

	  	
(c)

	  	  	
702(c)

	
§ 313

	
(a)

	  	  	
703(a)

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
703(a)

	  	
(c)

	  	  	
703(a)

	  	
(d)

	  	  	
703(b)

	
§ 314

	
(a)

	  	  	
704

	  	
(a)

	
(4)

	  	
101

	  	  	  	  	
1004

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
Not Applicable

	  	
(c)

	
(1)

	  	
102

	  	
(c)

	
(2)

	  	
102

	  	
(c)

	
(3)

	  	
Not Applicable

	  	
(d)

	  	  	
Not Applicable

	  	
(e)

	  	  	
102

	
§ 315

	
(a)

	  	  	
601

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
602

	  	
(c)

	  	  	
601

	  	
(d)

	  	  	
601

	  	
(e)

	  	  	
514

	
§ 316

	
(a)

	  	  	
101

	  	
(a)

	
(1)

	
(A)

	
502

	  	  	  	  	
512

	  	
(a)

	
(1)

	
(B)

	
513

	  	
(a)

	
(2)

	  	
Not Applicable

 

 

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(b)

	  	  	
508

	  	
(c)

	  	  	
104(c)

	
§ 317

	
(a)

	
(1)

	  	
503

	  	
(a)

	
(2)

	  	
504

	  	
(b)

	  	  	
1003

	
§ 318

	
(a)

	  	  	
107

 

 

	
NOTE:

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

 

  

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Page

	
PARTIES

	
 

	1
	
RECITALS

	
 

	1
	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE ONE

	  	  
	
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

	1
	
Section 101.

	
Definitions

	
1

	
Section 102.

	
Compliance Certificates and Opinions

	
9

	
Section 103.

	
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

	
9

	
Section 104.

	
Acts of Holders; Record Dates

	
10

	
Section 105.

	
Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

	
12

	
Section 106.

	
Notice to Holders; Waiver

	
12

	
Section 107.

	
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

	
13

	
Section 108.

	
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

	
13

	
Section 109.

	
Successors and Assigns

	
13

	
Section 110.

	
Separability Clause

	
13

	
Section 111.

	
Benefits of Indenture

	
13

	
Section 112.

	
Governing Law

	
13

	
Section 113.

	
Legal Holidays

	
14

	
Section 114.

	
Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators, Stockholders, Etc.

	
14

	
ARTICLE TWO

	  	  
	
Security Forms

	
 

	
14

	
Section 201.

	
Forms Generally

	
14

	
Section 202.

	
Form of Face of Security

	
15

	
Section 203.

	
Form of Reverse of Security

	
17

	
Section 204.

	
Form of Legend for Global Securities

	
22

	
Section 205.

	
Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

	
22

	
ARTICLE THREE

	  	  
	
The Securities

	  	
23

	
Section 301.

	
Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

	
23

	
Section 302.

	
Denominations

	
26

	
Section 303.

	
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

	
26

	
Section 304.

	
Temporary Securities

	
28

	
Section 305.

	
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

	
29

	
Section 306.

	
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

	
30

	
Section 307.

	
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

	
31

	
Section 308.

	
Persons Deemed Owners

	
33

 

  

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Section 309.

	
Cancellation

	
33

	
Section 310.

	
Computation of Interest

	
34

	
ARTICLE FOUR

	  	  
	
Satisfaction and Discharge

	
34

	
Section 401.

	
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

	
34

	
Section 402.

	
Application of Trust Fund

	
36

	
ARTICLE FIVE

	  	  
	
Remedies

	  	
36

	
Section 501.

	
Events of Default

	
36

	
Section 502.

	
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

	
39

	
Section 503.

	
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits

	  
	 	    for Enforcement by Trustee	
41

	
Section 504.

	
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

	
42

	
Section 505.

	
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without

	  
	 	Possession of Securities	
43

	
Section 506.

	
Application of Money Collected

	
43

	
Section 507.

	
Limitation on Suits

	
43

	
Section 508.

	
Unconditional Right of Holders to

	  
	 	    Receive Principal, Premium and Interest	
44

	
Section 509.

	
Restoration of Rights and Remedies

	
45

	
Section 510.

	
Rights and Remedies Cumulative

	
45

	
Section 511.

	
Delay or Omission Not Waiver

	
45

	
Section 512.

	
Control by Holders

	
45

	
Section 513.

	
Waiver of Past Defaults

	
46

	
Section 514.

	
Undertaking for Costs

	
47

	
ARTICLE SIX

	  	  
	
The Trustee

	  	
47

	
Section 601.

	
Certain Duties and Responsibilities

	
47

	
Section 602.

	
Notice of Defaults

	
47

	
Section 603.

	
Certain Rights of Trustee

	
48

	
Section 604.

	
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

	
49

	
Section 605.

	
May Hold Securities

	
49

	
Section 606.

	
Money Held in Trust

	
49

	
Section 607.

	
Compensation and Reimbursement

	
50

	
Section 608.

	
Disqualification; Conflicting Interests

	
50

	
Section 609.

	
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

	
50

	
Section 610.

	
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

	
51

	
Section 611.

	
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

	
52

	
Section 612.

	
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to

	  
	 	    Business	
54

	
Section 613.

	
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

	
54

	
Section 614.

	
Appointment of Authenticating Agent

	
54

 

  

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ARTICLE SEVEN

	  	  
	
Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

	
56

	
Section 701.

	
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses

	  
	 	    of Holders	
56

	
Section 702.

	
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

	
57

	
Section 703.

	
Reports by the Trustee

	
57

	
Section 704.

	
Reports by the Company

	
57

	
ARTICLE EIGHT

	  	  
	
Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets

	
58

	
Section 801.

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

	
58

	
Section 802.

	
Successor Substituted

	
58

	
ARTICLE NINE

	  	  
	
Supplemental Indentures

	
59

	
Section 901.

	
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

	
59

	
Section 902.

	
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

	
60

	
Section 903.

	
Execution of Supplemental Indentures

	
62

	
Section 904.

	
Effect of Supplemental Indentures

	
62

	
Section 905.

	
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

	
62

	
Section 906.

	
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

	
62

	
Section 907.

	
Waiver of Compliance by Holders

	
62

	
ARTICLE TEN

	  	  
	
Covenants

	  	
63

	
Section 1001.

	
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

	
63

	
Section 1002.

	
Maintenance of Office or Agency by the Company

	
63

	
Section 1003.

	
Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust

	
64

	
Section 1004.

	
Statement by Officers as to Default

	
65

	
Section 1005.

	
Limitations on Liens on Common Stock of

	  
	 	    Principal Subsidiaries	
65

	
ARTICLE ELEVEN

	  	  
	
Redemption of Securities

	
66

	
Section 1101.

	
Applicability of Article

	
66

	
Section 1102.

	
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

	
66

	
Section 1103.

	
Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

	
66

	
Section 1104.

	
Notice of Redemption

	
67

	
Section 1105.

	
Deposit of Redemption Price

	
67

	
Section 1106.

	
Securities Payable on Redemption Date

	
68

	
Section 1107.

	
Securities Redeemed in Part

	
68

	
ARTICLE TWELVE

	  	  
	
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

	
68

	
Section 1201.

	
Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

	
68

	
Section 1202.

	
Defeasance and Discharge

	
69

	
Section 1203.

	
Covenant Defeasance

	
69

	
Section 1204.

	
Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

	
70

 

  

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Section 1205.

	
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other  Miscellaneous Provisions

	
72

	
Section 1206.

	
Reinstatement

	
73

	
ARTICLE THIRTEEN

	  	  
	
Sinking Funds

	
74

	
Section 1301.

	
Applicability of Article

	
74

	
Section 1302.

	
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

	
74

	
Section 1303.

	
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

	
74

 

 

TESTIMONIUM

SIGNATURES AND SEALS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

  

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SENIOR INDENTURE, dated as of March 2, 2001, between AETNA INC., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 151 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06156, and STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a state-chartered trust company duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS

 

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

 

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

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

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

 

 

ARTICLE ONE

 

Definitions and Other Provisions

of General Application

 

Section 101.  Definitions.

 

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

 

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

 

(2)  all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

 

  

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

 

(4)  the words “Article” and “Section” refer to an Article and Section, respectively, of this Indenture; and

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Board of Directors” means either (i) the Board of Directors of the Company, the Executive Committee of such Board of Directors or any other duly authorized committee of directors and/or officers appointed by such Board of Directors or Executive Committee, or (ii) one or more duly authorized officers of the Company to whom the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof has delegated the authority to act with respect to the matters contemplated by this Indenture.

 

“Board Resolution” means (i) a copy of a resolution certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification or (ii) a certificate signed by the authorized officer or officers of the Company to whom the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof has delegated its authority (as described in the definition of Board of Directors), and in each case, delivered to the Trustee.

 

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

 

  

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

 

“Common Stock” means with respect to any Principal Subsidiary, stock of any class, however designated, except stock which is non-participating beyond fixed dividend and liquidation preferences and the holders of which have either no voting rights or limited voting rights entitling them, only in the case of certain contingencies, to elect less than a majority of the directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Principal Subsidiary, and shall include securities of any class, however designated, which are convertible into such Common Stock.

 

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

 

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by (i) any two of the following individuals:  the Chairman, the President, a Vice Chairman, or a Vice President of the Company, or (ii) one of the foregoing individuals and by any other Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company or any other individual authorized by the Board of Directors for such purpose, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee located at 2 Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111 or such other office at which at any particular time the Trustee’s corporate trust business shall be administered.

 

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

 

“Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1203.

 

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

 

“Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1202.

 

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

 

  

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

 

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

 

“Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision” means a formula or provision, specified in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an indenture supplemental hereto, providing for the determination, whether pursuant to objective factors or pursuant to the sole discretion of any Person (including the Company), and periodic adjustment of the interest rate borne by a Floating or Adjustable Rate Security.

 

“Floating or Adjustable Rate Security” means any Security which provides for interest thereon at a periodic rate that may vary from time to time over the term thereof in accordance with a Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision.

 

“Foreign Government Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 1204.

 

“Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and is authenticated and delivered to, and registered in the name of, the Depositary for such Securities or a nominee thereof.

 

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

 

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

 

“interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

 

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

 

“Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an instalment of principal becomes due

 

  

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and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

 

“Non-Recourse Debt” means any indebtedness for money borrowed as to which the liability of the Company or the Principal Subsidiaries is limited solely to specific assets.

 

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

 

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by (i) any two of the following individuals:  the Chairman, the President, a Vice Chairman or a Vice President of the Company, or (ii) one of the foregoing individuals and by any other Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company or any other individual authorized by the Board of Directors for such purpose, and delivered to the Trustee.  Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in Section 102.  One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or who may be other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.  Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in Section 102.

 

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

 

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

 

(i)         Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

(ii)         Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such

 

  

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redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

 

(iii)         Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1202; and

 

(iv)         Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (B) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined in the manner contemplated by Section 301 on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (A) above) of such Security, and (C) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Subsidiary of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Subsidiary of the Company or of such other obligor.

 

“Paying Agent” means any Person (including without limitation the Company) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

 

  

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Principal Subsidiary” means a consolidated subsidiary of the Company that, as of the time of the determination of whether such consolidated subsidiary is a “Principal Subsidiary,” accounted for 10% or more of the total assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, in each case as set forth in the most recent balance sheet filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means the chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or any vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such

 

  

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matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Subsidiary” of any Person means a corporation more than 50% of the voting power of which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “voting power” means the power to vote for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

 

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

 

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

 

“U.S. Government Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 1204.

 

  

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

 

Section 102.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

 

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

 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (excluding certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Section 103.  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

 

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

 

  

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

 

Any certificate, statement or opinion of or representation by an officer of the Company or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the accountant’s or accountants’ certificate, opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which such officer’s or counsel’s certificate, statement or opinion is based are erroneous.

 

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

 

Section 104.   Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

 

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company if made in the manner provided in this Section 104.

 

  

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

 

(c) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, fix any calendar day as the record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series.  If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder of Securities of such series made by any Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th calendar day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be.  With regard to any record date for any action to be taken by the Holders of one or more series of Securities, only the Holders of Securities of such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.

 

(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register or by a certificate of the Security Registrar.

 

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

 

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

 

  

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Section 106.  Notice to Holders; Waiver.

 

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

 

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Holder by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

Section 107.  Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

 

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

 

Section 108.  Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

 

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

 

Section 109.  Successors and Assigns.

 

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

 

Section 110.  Separability Clause.

 

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

 

Section 111.  Benefits of Indenture.

 

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

 

Section 112.  Governing Law.

 

This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

 

  

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Section 113.  Legal Holidays.

 

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of the Securities of any series which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section 113)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

 

Section 114.  Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators, Stockholders, Etc.

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Security, or for any claim based thereon, or otherwise in respect of any Security, or based on or in respect of this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, director, officer, employee or agent, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Securities.

 

 

ARTICLE TWO

 

Security Forms

 

Section 201.  Forms Generally.

 

The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article Two, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and

 

  

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other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.  If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

 

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

 

Section 202.  Form of Face of Security.

 

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

 

AETNA INC.

 

[...%] [ZERO COUPON] SENIOR [NOTE] [DEBENTURE] DUE...

 

 

	
No. .........

	
[$] ........

 

AETNA INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to .............................................., or registered assigns, the principal sum of ................ ................... [Dollars] [if other than Dollars, substitute other currency or currency units] upon presentation and surrender of this note on ............................................., [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert --  and to pay interest thereon from ............. or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [semi-annually on ............ and ............ in each year] [If other than semi-annual payments, insert frequency of payments and payment dates], commencing ........., at [If the Security is to bear interest at a fixed rate, insert -- the rate of ....% per annum [If the Security is a Floating or Adjustable Rate Security, insert  -- a rate per annum [computed-determined] in accordance with the [insert defined name of Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision] set forth below] [If the security is to bear interest at a rate determined with reference to an index, refer to description of index below] until the principal hereof is paid or

 

  

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

 

[If the Securities are Floating or Adjustable Rate Securities with respect to which the principal of or any premium or interest may be determined with reference to an index, insert the text of the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision.]

 

[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert -- The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear interest at the rate of ....% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for.  Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on demand.  Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ......% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert -- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in ............, in such coin or currency [of the United States of America] [if the Security is denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars, specify other currency or currency unit in which payment of the principal of and any premium or interest may be made] as at the time of payment

 

  

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is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert -- ; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Dated:

 

	
AETNA INC.

	 
	 	 
	 	 
	
By

	  	 

[Seal]

 

Attest:

 

...........................................

 

 

Section 203.  Form of Reverse of Security.

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”),  issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Senior Indenture, dated as of January __, 2001 (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company, as Issuer, and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of

 

  

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the series designated on the face hereof[, [initially] limited in aggregate principal amount to [$]...........] [, subject to future issuances of additional Securities pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture].

 

[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 calendar days’ nor more than 60 calendar days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert -- (1) on ........... in any year commencing with the year ...... and ending with the year ...... through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after ................], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount):  If redeemed [on or before ..............., ...%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ............. of the years indicated,

 

	
Year

	
Redemption

Price

	
Year

	
Redemption

Price

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  

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

 

[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 calendar days’ nor more than 60 calendar days’ notice by mail, (1) on ............ in any year commencing with the year .... and ending with the year .... through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after ............], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below.  If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning ............ of the years indicated,

 

  

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Redemption Price

For Redemption

	
Redemption Price For

	
Year

	
Through Operation

of the

Sinking Fund

	
Redemption Otherwise

Than Through Operation

of the Sinking Fund

	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  Such amount shall be equal to -- insert formula for determining the amount.  Upon payment

 

  

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(i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]

 

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

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and [rate-rates], and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

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

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of [$]....... and any integral multiple thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of

 

  

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Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

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

 

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

 

The Indenture provides that the Company, at the Company’s option, (a) will be discharged from any and all obligations in respect of the Securities (except for certain obligations to register the transfer or exchange of Securities, replace stolen, lost or mutilated Securities, maintain paying agencies and hold moneys for payment in trust) or (b) need not comply with certain restrictive covenants of the Indenture, in each case if the Company deposits, in trust, with the Trustee money, or U.S. Government Obligations (or Foreign Government Obligations if the Securities are denominated in a foreign currency or currencies) which through the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof in accordance with their terms will provide money, in an amount sufficient to pay all the principal (including any mandatory sinking fund payments) of, and (premium, if any) and interest on, the Securities on the dates such payments are due in accordance with the terms of such Securities, and certain other conditions are satisfied.

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof,  or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, employee, agent or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

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Section 204.  Form of Legend for Global Securities.

 

Every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear legends in substantially the following form or such other legends as may be required:

 

This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof.  This Security may not be transferred to, or registered or exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered except in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture.  Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, this Security shall be a Global Security subject to the foregoing, except in such limited circumstances.

 

[Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Aetna Inc. or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC),  ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

 

Section 205.  Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

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

 

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

 

	 	 	,
	 	 	

As Trustee

	By	
 

	,
	 	 	

Authorized Officer

 

  

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ARTICLE THREE

 

The Securities

 

Section 301.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

 

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

 

The Securities may be issued in one or more series.  There shall be established in or pursuant to Board Resolutions of the Company and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate of the Company or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:

 

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

 

(2)  any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and any limitation on the ability of the Company to increase such aggregate principal amount after the initial issuance of the Securities of that series (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

 

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

 

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

 

(5)  the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision pursuant to which such rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;

 

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

 

(8)  if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which (including premium, if any) and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may or are required to be redeemed or prepaid, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company pursuant to a sinking fund or otherwise;

 

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

 

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

 

(11)  if other than such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time is legal tender for payment of public or private debts, the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, or currency units in which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;

 

(12)  if the amount of payments of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to one or more indices, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

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

 

  

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(14)  if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or provable under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy or similar law pursuant to Section 503;

 

(15)  if applicable, that the Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary or Depositaries for such Global Security or Global Securities and any circumstance other than those set forth in Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be transferred to, and registered and exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and in which any such transfer may be registered;

 

(16)  any other event or events of default applicable with respect to the Securities of the series in addition to those provided in Section 501(1) through (7);

 

(17)  any other covenant or warranty included for the benefit of Securities of the series in addition to (and not inconsistent with) those included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series, or any other covenant or warranty included for the benefit of Securities of the series in lieu of any covenant or warranty included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series, or any provision that any covenant or warranty included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series shall not be for the benefit of Securities of the series, or any combination of such covenants, warranties or provisions;

 

(18)  any restriction or condition on the transferability of the Securities of the series;

 

(19)  any authenticating or paying agents, registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of the series; and

 

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

 

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and number and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolutions referred to above and set forth in the applicable Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.  All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to

 

  

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time (with any subsequent issuance of additional Securities which are part of a prior series to be effected in accordance with the terms of this Indenture) if so provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolutions or in any such indenture supplemental hereto and any forms and terms of Securities to be issued from time to time may be completed and established from time to time prior to the issuance thereof by procedures described by such Board Resolutions or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

 

If any of the terms of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company, a copy of such action shall be delivered to the Trustee.

 

Section 302.  Denominations.

 

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

 

Section 303.  Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

 

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, its President, a Vice Chairman, any Vice President, its Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its Assistant Corporate Secretaries.  The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

 

The seal of the Company may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.  Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company notwithstanding the fact that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.  Minor typographical and other minor errors in the text of any Security or minor defects in the seal or facsimile signature on any Security shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such Security if such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order of the Company for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such

 

  

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Securities.  If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,

 

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

 

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

 

(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally or the rights and remedies of creditors of insurance companies generally and to general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities under this Section 303 if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, executive committee or a trust committee of directors or responsible officers of the Trustee shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders of Securities.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of  Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to  Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to this Section 303 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the time of authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

 

  

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Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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

 

Section 304.  Temporary Securities.

 

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

 

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

 

  

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Section 305.  Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

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

 

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

 

At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at a Place of Payment for the applicable series.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the Holder, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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

 

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

 

  

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Unless otherwise required by the rules of any stock exchange on which the Securities are listed or of any quotation system through which the Securities are traded, neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 calendar days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the calendar day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be transferred to, or registered or exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or any nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered, unless (1) such Depositary (A) notifies the Company and the Trustee that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (B) ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, (2) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Global Security shall be so transferable, registrable and exchangeable, and such transfers shall be registrable, (3) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Securities evidenced by such Global Security or (4) there shall exist such other circumstances, if any, as have been specified for this purpose in accordance with Section 301.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, a Global Security to which the restriction set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall have ceased to apply may be transferred only to, and may be registered and exchanged for Securities registered only in the name or names of, such Person or Persons as the Depositary for such Global Security shall have directed, and no transfer thereof other than such a transfer may be registered.

 

Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security to which the restriction set forth in the first sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph shall apply, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security.

 

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

 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) a mutilated Security, or (ii) evidence to the Company’s and the Trustee’s satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and in either case such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company and/or the Trustee to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide

 

  

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purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like principal amount and tenor.

 

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

 

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 306, the Company or the Trustee 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 without limitation the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section 306 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of the applicable series duly issued hereunder.

 

The provisions of this Section 306 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

 

Section 307.  Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

 

Except as otherwise provided in accordance with Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

 

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

 

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Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which date shall permit compliance with the remainder of this Clause (1)), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause (1) provided.  Promptly after the Trustee’s receipt of the notice of the proposed payment, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 calendar days and not less than 10 calendar days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 15 calendar days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of the applicable series at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 calendar days prior to such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of the applicable series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).

 

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

 

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any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

 

Section 308.  Persons Deemed Owners.

 

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

 

No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on such holder’s behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall impair, as between a Depositary and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary as Holder of any Security.

 

Section 309.  Cancellation.

 

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it.  The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section 309, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.  Acquisition by the Company of any Security shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Security unless and until the same is delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

  

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Section 310.  Computation of Interest.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, for any period shorter than a full monthly period, shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of calendar days elapsed in such period.

 

ARTICLE FOUR

 

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

Section 401.  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

 

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

 

(1)   either

 

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

 

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

 

(i)      have become due and payable, or

 

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

 

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notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,

 

and the Company has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee in trust for the purpose (1) money (either in United States dollars or such other currency or currency unit in which the Securities of any series may be payable) in an amount, or (2) U.S. Government Obligations (or Foreign Government Obligations if the Securities are denominated in a foreign currency or currencies) that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one calendar day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities of such series which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

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

 

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

 

If there are Securities of two or more series outstanding hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to Securities of a particular series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met.  If there are two or more Trustees hereunder, then the effectiveness of any such instrument shall be conditioned upon receipt of such instruments from all Trustees hereunder.

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to a particular series, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section 401, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive until there are no Securities Outstanding with respect to a particular series and the

 

  

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obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to all other series of Securities shall survive.

 

Section 402.  Application of Trust Fund.

 

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

 

ARTICLE FIVE

 

Remedies

 

Section 501.  Events of Default.

 

“Event of Default” whenever used with respect to Securities of a series means any one of the following events and such other events as may be established with respect to the Securities of such series pursuant to Section 301 hereof:

 

(1)   Default in the payment of any instalment of interest on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 calendar days; or

 

(2)   Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise; or

 

(3)   Default in the making of any sinking fund payment, whether mandatory or optional, as and when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities of such series; or

 

(4)   Failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform in any material respect any of the other covenants or agreements on the part of the Company contained in this Indenture (other than those set forth exclusively in the terms of any other particular series of Securities established as contemplated by this

 

  

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Indenture for the benefit of such other series) and written notice of such failure, stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder, and requiring the Company to remedy the same, shall have been given by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, and such failure shall have continued unremedied for a period of 90 calendar days after the date of the Company’s receipt of such Notice of Default; or

 

(5)   An event of default, as defined in any indenture or instrument evidencing or under which the Company or any Principal Subsidiary shall have outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $100,000,000, shall occur and be continuing, and such indebtedness shall have been accelerated so that the same shall be or become due and payable prior to the date on which the same would otherwise have become due and payable (other than acceleration of Non-Recourse Debt which does not exceed in the aggregate 4% of the Company’s total shareholders’ equity as set forth in the most recently published audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company) or the Company or any Principal Subsidiary shall default in the payment at final maturity of outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $100,000,000 (other than default in payment at final maturity of Non-Recourse Debt which does not exceed in the aggregate 4% of the Company’s total shareholders’ equity as set forth in the most recently published audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company), and such acceleration or default at maturity shall not be waived, rescinded or annulled within 30 calendar days after written notice thereof, stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee (if such event be known to it), or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided, however, that if such acceleration under such indenture or instrument or default at maturity shall be remedied or cured by the Company or Principal Subsidiary, or waived, rescinded or annulled by the requisite holders of such indebtedness, then the Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon remedied, cured, waived, rescinded or annulled without further action upon the part of either the Trustee or any of the Holders; and provided further, that, subject to the provisions of Sections 601

 

  

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 and 602, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any such default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company, by the holder of any such indebtedness or an agent of the holder of any such indebtedness, by the trustee then acting under any such indenture or other instrument under which such default shall have occurred, or by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; or

 

(6)  A decree or order by a court of competent jurisdiction shall have been entered adjudging the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Company under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy or similar law, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 calendar days; or a decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, trustee, assignee, sequestrator or similar official in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of all or substantially all of the Company’s property, or for the winding up or liquidation of the Company’s affairs, shall have been entered, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 calendar days; or

 

(7)  The Company shall institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy or similar law, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, trustee, assignee, sequestrator or similar official in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of all or substantially all of the Company’s property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the Company shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudged a bankrupt, or corporate action shall be taken by the Company in furtherance of any of the aforesaid purposes.

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any Notice of Default pursuant to this Section 501 with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall automatically and without any other action by any Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such Notice of Default, which record date shall be the close of business on the day

 

  

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the Trustee receives such Notice of Default.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such Notice of Default, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such Notice of Default shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such Notice of Default automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a Notice of Default contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a Notice of Default that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

Section 502.  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and all accrued interest thereon shall become immediately due and payable.

 

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

 

(1)  the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

 

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

 

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than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,

 

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

 

(D)   all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee;

 

and

 

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

 

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right arising out of any subsequent default.

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any declaration of acceleration, or any rescission and annulment of any such declaration, pursuant to this Section 502 with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall be set, automatically and without any other action by any Person, for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, which record date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least 25%, in the case of any declaration of acceleration, or a majority, in the case of any rescission or annulment, in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall

 

  

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prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a declaration of acceleration, or a rescission and annulment of any such declaration, contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

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

 

The Company covenants that if

 

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

 

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

 

the Company will, upon written demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee.  Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Company may pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities of any series to the Holders thereof, whether or not the Securities of such series are overdue.

 

If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.

 

  

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

 

Section 504.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

 

In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding.  In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized

 

(i)    to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities in accordance with the terms thereof and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

 

(ii)   to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

 

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, if the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to the Trustee for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee.

 

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in

 

  

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bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 506.  Application of Money Collected.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

THIRD:  To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or any other Person lawfully entitled thereto.

 

Section 507.  Limitation on Suits.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  

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Section 509.  Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

 

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

 

Section 510.  Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

 

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

 

Section 511.  Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Subject to Section 507, every right and remedy given by this Article Five or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

Section 512.  Control by Holders.

 

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

 

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

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any such direction with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall be set for determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such direction, which record date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such direction.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such direction shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such direction automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a direction contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a direction that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

Section 513.  Waiver of Past Defaults.

 

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

 

(1)   in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or

 

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

 

With respect to any series of Securities, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, establish a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to waive any past default hereunder.  If a record date is fixed, only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to waive any default hereunder, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding

 

  

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Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall have waived such default on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, any such waiver previously given automatically and without further action by any Holder shall be cancelled and of no effect.

 

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

 

Section 514.  Undertaking for Costs.

 

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section 514 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.

 

 

ARTICLE SIX

 

The Trustee

 

Section 601.  Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

 

The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.  Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 601.

 

Section 602.  Notice of Defaults.

 

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the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 calendar days after the occurrence thereof.  For the purpose of this Section 602, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

 

Section 603.  Certain Rights of Trustee.

 

Subject to the provisions of Section 601:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(d)  the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

 

(e)  the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by the Trustee in compliance with such request or direction;

 

  

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(f)  prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the remedy or waiver of all Events of Default, the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall upon reasonable notice to the Company be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at a time and place acceptable to the Company; and

 

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

 

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

 

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.  The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

Section 605.  May Hold Securities.

 

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

 

Section 606.  Money Held in Trust.

 

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liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

 

Section 607.  Compensation and Reimbursement.

 

The Company agrees

 

(1)  to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

 

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

 

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

 

Section 608.  Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

 

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

 

Section 609.  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

 

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or is a subsidiary of a corporation which shall be a Person that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and which unconditionally guarantees the obligations of the Trustee hereunder.  If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually,

 

  

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pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 609, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 609, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article Six.

 

Section 610.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(d) If at any time:

 

(1)  the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days, or

 

(2)  the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days, or

 

(3)  the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

 

  

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then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

 

(e)  If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611.  If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.  If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least 180 consecutive calendar days may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

(f)  The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

 

Section 611.  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

 

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

 

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

 

(c)  Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers, trusts and duties referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 611, as the case may be.

 

  

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(d)  No successor shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article Six.

 

Section 612.  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

 

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

 

Section 613.  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

 

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

 

Section 614.  Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

 

The Trustee may with the consent of the Company appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and binding for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.  Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as

 

  

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Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority.  If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 614, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 614, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section 614.

 

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 614, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company.  The Trustee or the Company may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 614, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.  No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 614.

 

The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 614, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section 607.

 

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addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

 

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

 

 

	 	 	,
	 	As Trustee	 
	 	 	 
	By	 	,
	 	As Authenticating Agent	 
	 	 	 
	By	 	, 
	 	

 

	 
	 	 

 

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

 

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

 

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

 

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

 

(a) semi-annually, not later than 10 calendar days after each Regular Record Date in each year, a list for each series of Securities, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of the preceding Regular Record Date, and

 

(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 calendar days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 calendar days prior to the time such list is furnished;

 

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Section 702.  Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

 

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

 

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

 

(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

 

Section 703.  Reports by the Trustee.

 

(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.  To the extent that any such report is required by the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any 12 month period, such report shall cover the 12 month period ending July 15 and shall be transmitted by the next succeeding September 15.

 

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

 

Section 704.  Reports by the Company.

 

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

 

  

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ARTICLE EIGHT

 

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets

 

Section 801.  The Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

 

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person (other than in a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the surviving Person) or sell its properties and assets as, or substantially as, an entirety to any Person unless:

 

(1)   the Person formed by such consolidation or with or into which the Company is merged or the Person that purchases the properties and assets of the Company as, or substantially as, an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory in form to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee;

 

(2)   immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

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

 

Section 802.  Successor Substituted.

 

Upon any consolidation of the Company with or merger of the Company with or into any other Person or any sale of the properties and assets of the Company as, or substantially as, an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or with or into which the Company is merged or to which such sale is made shall succeed to, and be

 

  

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substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter the predecessor Person (including the Company) shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

 

ARTICLE NINE

 

Supplemental Indentures

 

Section 901.  Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

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

 

(1)   to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or

 

(2)   to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

 

(3)   to add any additional Events of Default; or

 

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

 

(5)   to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall neither (A) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (B) modify the rights of the Holder of 

 

  

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any such Security with respect to such provision or (ii) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or

 

(6)   to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of Section 1005, or to otherwise secure the Securities of any series; or

 

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

 

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

 

(9)   to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series affected by such supplemental indenture in any material respect; or

 

(10)  to conform to any mandatory provisions of law.

 

Section 902.  Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.

 

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

 

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the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon (including any change in the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision pursuant to which such rate is determined that would reduce such rate for any period) or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or

 

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

 

(3)   modify any of the provisions of this Section 902, Section 513 or Section 907, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, provided, however, that this clause (3) shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section 902 and Section 907, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611(b) and 901(8).

 

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

 

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

 

  

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Section 903.  Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

 

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

 

Section 904.  Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

 

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

 

Section 905.  Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

 

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

 

Section 906.  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

 

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

 

Section 907.  Waiver of Compliance by Holders.

 

Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any of the acts which the Company is required to do, or is prohibited from doing, by any of the provisions of this Indenture may, to the extent that such provisions might be changed or eliminated by a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 902 upon consent of  Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Securities of the series affected, be omitted or done by the

 

  

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ARTICLE TEN

 

Covenants

 

Section 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

 

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.

 

Section 1002.  Maintenance of Office or Agency by the Company.

 

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

 

(b)  The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

 

  

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Section 1003.  Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.

 

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

 

Whenever the Company shall have one or more third party Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 1003, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (ii) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, and upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.

 

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

 

Any money deposited with the Trustee or any third party Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed on the second anniversary of the date on which such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or

 

  

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(if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such third party Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 calendar days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

 

Section 1004.  Statement by Officers as to Default.

 

The Company will deliver to the Trustee within 120 calendar days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, a certificate signed by the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signer thereof the Company is in compliance with all terms, conditions and covenants of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and if the signer has obtained knowledge of any continuing default by the Company in the performance, observation or fulfillment of any such term, condition or covenant, specifying each such default and the nature thereof.

 

Section 1005.  Limitations on Liens on Common Stock of Principal Subsidiaries.

 

As long as any of the Securities remains outstanding, the Company will not, and will not permit any Principal Subsidiary to, issue, assume, incur or guarantee any indebtedness for borrowed money secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance, directly or indirectly, on any of the Common Stock of a Principal Subsidiary, which Common Stock is owned by the Company or by any Principal Subsidiary, unless the obligations of the Company under the Securities and, if the Company so elects, any other indebtedness of the Company ranking on a parity with or prior to the Securities, shall be secured equally and ratably with, or prior to, such secured indebtedness for borrowed money so long as such secured indebtedness is outstanding and is so secured.

 

  

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ARTICLE ELEVEN

 

Redemption of Securities

 

Section 1101.  Applicability of Article.

 

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

 

Section 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

 

In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.  In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

 

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

 

If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.

 

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

 

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

 

  

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Section 1104.  Notice of Redemption.

 

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the Security Register.

 

All notices of redemption shall state:

 

(1)  the Redemption Date,

 

(2)  the Redemption Price,

 

(3)  if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,

 

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

 

(5)  the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and

 

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

 

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

 

Section 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

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

 

  

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Section 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part.

 

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

 

ARTICLE TWELVE

 

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

Section 1201.  Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The Company may elect, at any time, to have either Section 1202 or Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series upon compliance with the conditions set forth in this Article Twelve.

 

  

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Section 1202.  Defeasance and Discharge.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 1201 to have this Section 1202 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series as provided in this Section 1202 on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all of the Company’s other obligations under the Securities of such series and this Indenture insofar as the Securities of such series are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:  (1) the rights of Holders of Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1204 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities of such series when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, including, without limitation, its rights under Section 607 and (4) this Article Twelve.  Subject to compliance with this Article Twelve, the Company may exercise its option provided in Section 1201 to have this Section 1202 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option provided in Section 1201 to have Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

Section 1203.  Covenant Defeasance.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 1201 to have this Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 801 and 1005 and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 501(4) (with respect to Sections 801 and 1005) or 501(5) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series as provided in this Section 1203 on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that the Company may omit to comply with (and no Event of Default shall arise out of such non-compliance) and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in Section 801 and/or 1005, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and the Securities of such series shall be unaffected thereby.

 

  

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Section 1204.  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1202 or Section 1203 to the Outstanding Securities of any series:

 

(1)  The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee that satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article Twelve applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series, (A) in the case of Securities of such series denominated in U.S. dollars, (i) money in an amount, (ii) U.S. Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one Business Day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (iii) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series or (B) in the case of Securities of such series denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar, (i) money in such currency in an amount, or (ii) Foreign Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one Business Day before the due date of any payment, money in such currency in an amount, or (iii) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series.  As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality for the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the 

  

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issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian (I) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation specified in Clause (x) of this definition of U.S. Government Obligation and held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or (II) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt. The bank acting as Trustee, or its affiliates, may act as custodian as contemplated by this Section 1204(1). As used herein, “Foreign Government Obligation” means (x) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the government that issued such currency for the payment of which the full faith and credit of such government is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality for such government the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian (I) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Foreign Government Obligation specified in Clause (x) of this definition of Foreign Government Obligation and held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or (II) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Foreign Government Obligation, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Foreign Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

(2)  In the case of an election under Section 1202, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to the Securities of such series and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.

 

  

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(3)  In the case of an election under Section 1203, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to the Securities of such series and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

 

(4)  The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an officers’ Certificate to the effect that the Securities of such series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will not be delisted as a result of such deposit.

 

(5)  No Event of Default or event that (after notice or lapse of time or both) would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any Event of Default or any such event specified in Sections 501(6) and 501(7), at any time on or prior to the 90th calendar day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th calendar day).

 

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

 

(7)  Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, unless such trust shall be qualified under such Act or exempt from regulation thereunder.

 

Section 1205.  Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section 1205 and Section 1206, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1204 in respect of the Securities of any series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities of such series and this

 

  

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Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of Securities of such series, of all sums due and to become due on such Securities in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1204 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.

 

Anything in this Article Twelve to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held by the Trustee as provided in Section 1204 with respect to Securities of any series that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

Section 1206.  Reinstatement.

 

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article Twelve with respect to the Securities of any series by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article Twelve with respect to Securities of such series until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1205 with respect to Securities of such series in accordance with this Article Twelve; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.

 

  

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ARTICLE THIRTEEN

 

Sinking Funds

 

Section 1301.  Applicability of Article.

 

The provisions of this Article Thirteen shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified in accordance with Section 301 for Securities of such series.

 

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”.  If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1302.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such series.

 

Section 1302.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

 

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

 

Section 1303.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

 

Not less than 45 calendar days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to

 

  

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Section 1302 and also will deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered.  Not less than 15 nor more than 45 calendar days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

 

* * * *

 

This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

	
AETNA INC.

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
/s/ Alfred P. Quirk, Jr.

	 
	 	Name: 	Alfred P. Quirk, Jr.	 
	 	Title: 	Vice President, Finance and Treasurer	 

 

	
[Seal]

 

Attest:

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	
/s/ William J. Casazza

	 

	
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
 

	 
	 	Name: 	Earl W. Dennison, Jr.	 
	 	Title: 	Vice President	 

 

 

	
[Seal]

 

Attest:

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
  

	 
	 	Name: 	Gerald R. Wheeler	 
	 	Title: 	Vice President	 

 

  

  

  

 

	

STATE OF CONNECTICUT

	
)

	  
	  	
)

	
ss.:     Hartford

	

COUNTY OF HARTFORD

	
)

	  

 

 

On the 1st day of March, 2001, before me personally came ALFRED P. QUIRK, JR., to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that (s)he is VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE AND TREASURER of AETNA INC., one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that (s)he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that (s)he signed her/his name thereto by like authority.

 

	 	 	 	 
	
/s/ William C. Baskin III

	 
	 Notary Public 

William C. Baskin III

My commission expires 7/31/2003

	 

  

  

  

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

	
AETNA INC.

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
 

	 
	 	Name: 	 	 
	 	Title: 	 	 

 

 

	
[Seal]

  

 

Attest:

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	
 

	 

 

	
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
/s/ Earl W. Dennison, Jr.

	 
	 	Name: 	Earl W. Dennison, Jr.	 
	 	Title: 	Vice President	 

 

 

	
[Seal]

 

Attest:

	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:	
/s/ Gerald R. Wheeler

	 
	 	Name: 	Gerald R. Wheeler	 
	 	Title: 	Vice President	 

 

  

  

  

 

	
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

	
)

	 
	 	
)

	

ss.:

	
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

	
)

	 

 

On the 2nd day of March, 2001, before me personally came EARL W. DENNISON, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that (s)he is VICE PRESIDENT of STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that (s)he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that (s)he signed her/his name thereto by like authority.

 

	  	  	  
	
Aristides Juarbe

Notary Public

My Commission Expires January 10, 2008

	  	
/s/ Aristides Juarbe

	
Notary PublicExhibit 4.3 

 

 

AETNA INC.,

 

ISSUER

 

and

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

TRUSTEE

 

______________

 

FORM OF 

SUBORDINATED INDENTURE

 

 

Dated as of [________________], 20[__]

 

 

______________  

 

Subordinated Debt Securities

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

Reconciliation and tie between certain Sections of

this Subordinated Indenture, dated as of _______________________, 20__, and

Sections 310 through 318, inclusive, of

the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

	
Trust Indenture

	
Indenture Section

	
Act Section

	
§ 310(a)(1)

	
‎609

	
(a)(2)

	
‎609

	
(a)(3)

	
Not Applicable

	
(a)(4)

	
Not Applicable

	
(b)

	
‎608

	  	
‎610

	
§ 311(a)

	
‎613

	
(b)

	
‎613

	
§ 312(a)

	
‎701

	  	
‎702(1)

	
(b)

	
‎702(2)

	
(c)

	
‎702(3)

	
§ 313(a)

	
‎703(1)

	
(b)

	
‎703(1)

	
(c)

	
‎703(1)

	
(d)

	
‎703(2)

	
§ 314(a)

	
‎704

	
(a)(4)

	
‎101

	  	
‎1004

	
(b)

	
Not Applicable

	
(c)(1)

	
‎102

	
(c)(2)

	
‎102

	
(c)(3)

	
Not Applicable

	
(d)

	
Not Applicable

	
(e)

	
‎102

	
§ 315(a)

	
‎601

	
(b)

	
‎602

	
(c)

	
‎601

	
(d)

	
‎601

	
(e)

	
‎514

	
§ 316(a)

	
‎101

	
(a)(1)(A)

	
‎502

	  	
‎512

	
(a)(1)(B)

	
‎513

	
(a)(2)

	
Not Applicable

	
(b)

	
‎508

	
(c)

	
‎104(3)

 

  

  

  

 

	
§ 317(a)(1)

	
‎503

	
(a)(2)

	
‎504

	
(b)

	
‎1003

	
§ 318(a)

	
‎107

	  	  

___________________

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

 

 

  

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
ARTICLE ONE

	
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

	
Section 101.

	
Definitions

	
1

	
Section 102.

	
Compliance Certificates and Opinions

	
9

	
Section 103.

	
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

	
10

	
Section 104.

	
Acts of Holders; Record Dates

	
10

	
Section 105.

	
Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

	
12

	
Section 106.

	
Notice to Holders; Waiver

	
12

	
Section 107.

	
Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

	
13

	
Section 108.

	
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

	
13

	
Section 109.

	
Successors and Assigns

	
13

	
Section 110.

	
Separability Clause

	
13

	
Section 111.

	
Benefits of Indenture

	
13

	
Section 112.

	
Governing Law

	
14

	
Section 113.

	
Legal Holidays

	
14

	
Section 114.

	
Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators, Stockholders, Etc.

	
14

	
 

ARTICLE TWO

	
SECURITY FORMS

 

	
Section 201.

	
Forms Generally

	
14

	
Section 202.

	
Form of Face of Security

	
15

	
Section 203.

	
Form of Reverse of Security

	
17

	
Section 204.

	
Form of Legend for Global Securities

	
21

	
Section 205.

	
Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication

	
22

	 
	
ARTICLE THREE

	
THE SECURITIES

 

	
Section 301.

	
Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

	
22

	
Section 302.

	
Denominations

	
25

	
Section 303.

	
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

	
25

	
Section 304.

	
Temporary Securities

	
27

	
Section 305.

	
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

	
28

	
Section 306.

	
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

	
29

	
Section 307.

	
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

	
30

	
Section 308.

	
Persons Deemed Owners

	
31

	
Section 309.

	
Cancellation

	
32

	
Section 310.

	
Computation of Interest

	
32

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

	
ARTICLE FOUR

	
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

	
Section 401.

	
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

	
33

	
Section 402.

	
Application of Trust Fund

	
34

	
 

ARTICLE FIVE

	
REMEDIES

 

	
Section 501.

	
Events of Default

	
35

	
Section 502.

	
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

	
37

	
Section 503.

	

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

	
39

	
Section 504.

	
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

	
40

	
Section 505.

	
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

	
41

	
Section 506.

	
Application of Money Collected

	
41

	
Section 507.

	
Limitation on Suits

	
41

	
Section 508.

	
Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

	
42

	
Section 509.

	
Restoration of Rights and Remedies

	
42

	
Section 510.

	
Rights and Remedies Cumulative

	
43

	
Section 511.

	
Delay or Omission Not Waiver

	
43

	
Section 512.

	
Control by Holders

	
43

	
Section 513.

	
Waiver of Past Defaults

	
44

	
Section 514.

	
Undertaking for Costs

	
45

	
 

ARTICLE SIX

	
THE TRUSTEE

 

	
Section 601.

	
Certain Duties and Responsibilities

	
45

	
Section 602.

	
Notice of Defaults

	
45

	
Section 603.

	
Certain Rights of Trustee

	
45

	
Section 604.

	
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

	
47

	
Section 605.

	
May Hold Securities

	
47

	
Section 606.

	
Money Held in Trust

	
47

	
Section 607.

	
Compensation and Reimbursement

	
47

	
Section 608.

	
Disqualification; Conflicting Interests

	
48

	
Section 609.

	
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

	
48

	
Section 610.

	
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

	
48

	
Section 611.

	
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

	
50

	
Section 612.

	
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

	
51

	
Section 613.

	
Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

	
51

	
Section 614.

	
Appointment of Authenticating Agent

	
52

 

 

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ARTICLE SEVEN

	
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

 

	
Section 701.

	
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

	
53

	
Section 702.

	
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

	
54

	
Section 703.

	
Reports by the Trustee

	
54

	
Section 704.

	
Reports by the Company

	
54

	
 

ARTICLE EIGHT

	
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, OR SALE OF ASSETS

 

	
Section 801.

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

	
55

	
Section 802.

	
Successor Substituted

	
55

	
 

ARTICLE NINE

	
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

	
Section 901.

	
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

	
56

	
Section 902.

	
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

	
57

	
Section 903.

	
Execution of Supplemental Indentures

	
58

	
Section 904.

	
Effect of Supplemental Indentures

	
58

	
Section 905.

	
Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

	
59

	
Section 906.

	
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

	
59

	
Section 907.

	
Waiver of Compliance by Holders

	
59

	
Section 908.

	
Subordination Unimpaired

	
59

	
 

ARTICLE TEN

	
COVENANTS

 

	
Section 1001.

	
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

	
59

	
Section 1002.

	
Maintenance of Office or Agency by the Company

	
60

	
Section 1003.

	
Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust

	
60

	
Section 1004.

	
Statement by Officers as to Default

	
61

	
Section 1005.

	
Limitations on Liens on Common Stock of Principal Subsidiaries

	
62

	
 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

	
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

 

	
Section 1101.

	
Applicability of Article

	
62

	
Section 1102.

	
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

	
62

	
Section 1103.

	
Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

	
63

	
Section 1104.

	
Notice of Redemption

	
63

	
Section 1105.

	
Deposit of Redemption Price

	
64

 

 

  

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Section 1106.

	
Securities Payable on Redemption Date

	
64

	
Section 1107.

	
Securities Redeemed in Part

	
64

	
 

ARTICLE TWELVE

	
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

	
Section 1201.

	
Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

	
65

	
Section 1202.

	
Defeasance and Discharge

	
65

	
Section 1203.

	
Covenant Defeasance

	
65

	
Section 1204.

	
Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

	
66

	
Section 1205.

	
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

	
69

	
Section 1206.

	
Reinstatement

	
69

	
 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

	
SINKING FUNDS

 

	
Section 1301.

	
Applicability of Article

	
70

	
Section 1302.

	
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

	
70

	
Section 1303.

	
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

	
71

	
 

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

	
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES

 

	
Section 1401.

	
Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt of the Company

	
71

	
Section 1402.

	
Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. of the Company

	
71

	
Section 1403.

	
Prior Payment to Senior Debt of the Company Upon Acceleration of Securities

	
73

	
Section 1404.

	
No Payment When Senior Debt of the Company in Default

	
73

	
Section 1405.

	
Payment Permitted If No Default

	
74

	
Section 1406.

	
Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of the Company

	
74

	
Section 1407.

	
Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights

	
75

	
Section 1408.

	
Trustee to Effectuate Subordination

	
76

	
Section 1409.

	
No Waiver of Subordination Provisions

	
76

	
Section 1410.

	
Notice to Trustee

	
77

	
Section 1411.

	
Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent

	
77

	
Section 1412.

	
Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of the Company

	
78

	
Section 1413.

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

	
78

 

  

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Section 1414.

	
Article Applicable to Paying Agents

	
78

	
Section 1415.

	
Defeasance of This Article Fourteen

	
78

	  	  	  
	
TESTIMONIUM

	  
	
SIGNATURES AND SEALS

	  
	
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

	  

NOTE:  This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Subordinated Indenture.

  

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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of [________________], 20[__], between AETNA INC., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 151 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06156,  and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS

 

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

 

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

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

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

 

ARTICLE ONE

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

 

Section 101. Definitions.  For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 

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

 

(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

 

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

 

  

  

  

 

(4) the words “Article” and “Section” refer to an Article and Section, respectively, of this Indenture; and

 

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

 

“Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in ‎Section 104(1).

 

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

 

“Board of Directors” means either (i) the Board of Directors of the Company, the Executive Committee of such Board of Directors or any other duly authorized committee of directors and/or officers appointed by such Board of Directors or Executive Committee, or (ii) one or more duly authorized officers of the Company to whom the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof has delegated the authority to act with respect to the matters contemplated by this Indenture.

 

“Board Resolution” means (i) a copy of a resolution certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification or (ii) a certificate signed by the authorized officer or officers of the Company to whom the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof has delegated its authority (as described in the definition of Board of Directors), and in each case, delivered to the Trustee.

 

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

 

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

 

“Common Stock” means with respect to any Principal Subsidiary, stock of any class, however designated, except stock which is non-participating beyond fixed dividend and liquidation preferences and the holders of which have either no voting rights or limited voting rights entitling them, only in the case of certain 

 

  

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contingencies, to elect less than a majority of the directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Principal Subsidiary, and shall include securities of any class, however designated, which are convertible into such Common Stock.

 

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

 

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by (i) any two of the following individuals:  the Chairman, the President, a Vice Chairman, or a Vice President of the Company, or (ii) one of the foregoing individuals and by any other Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company or any other individual authorized by the Board of Directors for such purpose, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee located at One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110 or such other office at which at any particular time the Trustee’s corporate trust business shall be administered.

 

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

 

“Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1203.

 

“Debt” with respect to any Person means (without duplication and without regard to any portion of principal amount that has not accrued and to any interest component thereof (whether accrued or imputed) that is not due and payable), whether recourse is to all or a portion of the assets of such Person and whether or not contingent, (i) every obligation of such Person for money borrowed, (ii) every obligation of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of such Person, (iv) every obligation of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business), (v) every capital lease obligation of such Person, and (vi) every obligation of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of another Person and all dividends of another Person the payment of which, in either case, such Person has guaranteed or is responsible or liable for, directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise.

 

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“Defeasance” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1202.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision” means a formula or provision, specified in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an indenture supplemental hereto, providing for the determination, whether pursuant to objective factors or pursuant to the sole discretion of any Person (including the Company), and periodic adjustment of the interest rate borne by a Floating or Adjustable Rate Security.

 

“Floating or Adjustable Rate Security” means any Security which provides for interest thereon at a periodic rate that may vary from time to time over the term thereof in accordance with a Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision.

 

“Foreign Government Obligations” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1204.

 

“Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and is authenticated and delivered to, and registered in the name of, the Depositary for such Securities or a nominee thereof.

 

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

 

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

 

“interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

 

  

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

 

“Junior Subordinated Payment” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1402.

 

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

 

“Non-Recourse Debt” means any indebtedness for money borrowed as to which the liability of the Company or the Principal Subsidiaries is limited solely to specific assets.

 

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

 

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by (i) any two of the following individuals:  the Chairman, the President, a Vice Chairman or a Vice President of the Company, or (ii) one of the foregoing individuals and by any other Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company or any other individual authorized by the Board of Directors for such purpose, and delivered to the Trustee.  Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in ‎Section 102.  One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to ‎Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or who may be other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.  Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and include the statements provided for in ‎Section 102.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)           Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to ‎Section 1202; and

 

(iv)           Securities which have been paid pursuant to ‎Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to ‎Section 502, (B) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined in the manner contemplated by ‎Section 301 on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (A) above) of such Security, and (C) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Subsidiary of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Subsidiary of the Company or of such other obligor.

 

  

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“Paying Agent” means any Person (including without limitation the Company) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Principal Subsidiary” means a consolidated subsidiary of the Company that, as of the time of the determination of whether such consolidated subsidiary is a “Principal Subsidiary,” accounted for 10% or more of the total assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, in each case as set forth in the most recent balance sheet filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Proceeding” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1402.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means the chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or any vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant 

 

  

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cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

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

 

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

 

“Senior Debt” with respect to any Person means the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to such Person to the extent that such claim for post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), on Debt of such Person, whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are not superior in right of payment to the Securities or to other Debt of such Person which is pari passu with, or subordinated to the Securities; provided, however, that Senior Debt shall not be deemed to include (1) the Securities or (2) any other debt securities or guarantees in respect thereof issued to any other trusts, partnerships or other entity affiliated with the company which is a financing vehicle of the Company (“Financing Entity”) in connection with the issuance of preferred securities of such Financing Entity, including, without limitation, indebtedness of the Company.

 

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

 

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

 

“Subsidiary” of any Person means a corporation more than 50% of the voting power of which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “voting power” means the power to vote for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

 

  

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

 

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

 

“U.S. Government Obligations” has the meaning specified in ‎Section 1204.

 

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

 

Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

 

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

 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (excluding certificates provided for in ‎Section 1004) shall include

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  

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

 

Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

 

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

 

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

 

Any certificate, statement or opinion of or representation by an officer of the Company or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the accountant’s or accountants’ certificate, opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which such officer’s or counsel’s certificate, statement or opinion is based are erroneous.

 

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

 

Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

 

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by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to ‎Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company if made in the manner provided in this ‎Section 104.

 

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

 

(3) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, fix any calendar day as the record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series.  If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder of Securities of such series made by any Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th calendar day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to ‎Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be.  With regard to any record date for any action to be taken by the Holders of one or more series of Securities, only the Holders of Securities of such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.

 

(4) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register or by a certificate of the Security Registrar.

 

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of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice; provided, however, that the Company or the Trustee, upon a good faith determination that mailing is in the circumstances impractical, may give such notice by any other method which, in the reasonable belief of the Company or, in the case of the Trustee, of the Company and the Trustee, is likely to be received by the Holders.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to any other Holder.  Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such 

 

  

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notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

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

 

Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

 

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

 

Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

 

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

 

Section 109. Successors and Assigns.

 

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

 

Section 110. Separability Clause.

 

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

 

Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.

 

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and permitted assigns hereunder and the Holders and, to the extent specifically set forth herein, the holders of Senior Debt of the Company any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

  

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Section 112. Governing Law.

 

This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

 

Section 113. Legal Holidays.

 

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of the Securities of any series which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this ‎Section 113)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

 

Section 114. Personal Immunity from Liability for Incorporators, Stockholders, Etc.

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Security, or for any claim based thereon, or otherwise in respect of any Security, or based on or in respect of this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, director, officer, employee or agent, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Securities.

 

ARTICLE TWO

Security Forms

 

Section 201. Forms Generally.

 

The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this ‎Article Two or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company or in one or more indentures supplemental 

 

  

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hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.  If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by ‎Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

 

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

 

Section 202. Form of Face of Security.

 

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

 

AETNA INC.

 

[...%] SUBORDINATED [ZERO COUPON] [NOTE] [DEBENTURE] DUE...

 

	No. .........	
[$] ........

 

AETNA INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to .............................................., or registered assigns, the principal sum of ................ ................... [Dollars] upon presentation and surrender of this note on ............................................., [if other than Dollars, substitute other currency or currency units] [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert—, and to pay interest thereon from ............. or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [semi-annually on ............ and ............ in each year] [If other than semi-annual payments, insert frequency of payments and payment dates], commencing ........., at [If the Security is to bear interest at a fixed rate, insert— the rate of ....% per annum [If the Security is a Floating or Adjustable Rate Security, insert— a rate per annum [computed-determined] in accordance with the [insert defined name of Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision] set forth below] [If the security is to bear interest at a rate determined with reference to an index, refer to description of index below] until the principal hereof is paid or made available 

 

  

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for payment [if applicable, insert—, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of ....% per annum on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue instalment of interest].  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ....... or ....... (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 calendar days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].

 

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

 

[If the Securities are Floating or Adjustable Rate Securities with respect to which the principal of or any premium or interest may be determined with reference to an index, insert the text of the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision.]

 

[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear interest at the rate of ....% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for.  Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on demand.  Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ......% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for 

 

  

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payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Dated:

	 	
AETNA INC.

 

	 
	 	 	 	 
	
 

	
By: 

	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 

[Seal]

Attest:

 

...........................

 

Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Subordinated Indenture, dated as of [________________], 20[__] (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company, as Issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the 

 

  

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respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof[, [initially] limited in aggregate principal amount to [$]...........] [, subject to future issuances of additional Securities pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture].

 

[If applicable, insert— The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 calendar days’ nor more than 60 calendar days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert— (1) on ........... in any year commencing with the year ...... and ending with the year ...... through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after ............], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount):  If redeemed [on or before ..............., ....%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ............. of the years indicated,

 

	

Year

	

Redemption

Price

	

Year

	

Redemption

Price

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  

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

[If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 calendar days’ nor more than 60 calendar days’ notice by mail, (1) on ............ in any year commencing with the year .... and ending with the year .... through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after ............], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below.  If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning ............ of the years indicated,

 

	

Year

	

Redemption Price For 

Redemption Through 

Operation of the Sinking Fund

	

Redemption Price For Redemption 

Otherwise Than Through 

Operation of the Sinking Fund

	  	  	  
	  	  	  

 

  

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of 

 

  

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

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and [rate-rates], and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  

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The Indenture provides that the Company, at the Company’s option, (a) will be discharged from any and all obligations in respect of the Securities (except for certain obligations to register the transfer or exchange of Securities, replace stolen, lost or mutilated Securities, maintain paying agencies and hold moneys for payment in trust) or (b) need not comply with certain restrictive covenants of the Indenture, in each case if the Company deposits, in trust, with the Trustee money, or U.S. Government Obligations (or Foreign Government Obligations if the Securities are denominated in a foreign currency or currencies) which through the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof in accordance with their terms will provide money, in an amount sufficient to pay all the principal (including any mandatory sinking fund payments) of, and (premium, if any) and interest on, the Securities on the dates such payments are due in accordance with the terms of such Securities, and certain other conditions are satisfied.

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, employee, agent or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

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

 

Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.

 

Every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear legends in substantially the following form or such other legends as may be required:

 

This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof.  This Security may not be transferred to, or registered or exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered except in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture.  Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, this Security shall be a Global Security subject to the foregoing, except in such limited circumstances.

 

  

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[Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Aetna Inc. or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC),  ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

 

Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

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

 

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

 

.............................,

As Trustee

 

By.............................,

Authorized Officer

 

 

ARTICLE THREE

The Securities

 

Section 301.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

 

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

 

The Securities may be issued in one or more series.  There shall be established in or pursuant to Board Resolutions of the Company and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate of the Company or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:

 

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

 

(2)  any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and any limitation on the ability of the Company to increase such aggregate principal 

 

  

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amount after the initial issuance of the Securities of that series (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Sections ‎304, ‎305, ‎306, ‎906 or ‎1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to ‎Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

 

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

 

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

 

(5)  the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision pursuant to which such rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;

 

(6)  whether the Securities of the series would be secured pursuant to ‎Section 901(6);

 

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

 

(8)  if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which (including premium, if any) and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may or are required to be redeemed or prepaid, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company pursuant to a sinking fund or otherwise;

 

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

 

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

 

(11)  if other than such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time is legal tender for payment of public or private debts, the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, or currency units in which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series 

 

  

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shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in ‎Section 101;

 

(12)  if the amount of payments of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to one or more indices, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

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

 

(14)  if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to ‎Section 502 or provable under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy or similar law pursuant to ‎Section 503;

 

(15)  if applicable, that the Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary or Depositaries for such Global Security or Global Securities and any circumstance other than those set forth in ‎Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be transferred to, and registered and exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and in which any such transfer may be registered;

 

(16)  any other event or events of default applicable with respect to the Securities of the series in addition to those provided in Sections ‎501(1) through ‎(7);

 

(17)  any other covenant or warranty included for the benefit of Securities of the series in addition to (and not inconsistent with) those included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series, or any other covenant or warranty included for the benefit of Securities of the series in lieu of any covenant or warranty included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series, or any provision that any covenant or warranty included in this Indenture for the benefit of Securities of all series shall not be for the benefit of Securities of the series, or any combination of such covenants, warranties or provisions;

 

  

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(18)  any restriction or condition on the transferability of the Securities of the series;

 

(19)  any authenticating or paying agents, registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of the series; and

 

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

 

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and number and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolutions referred to above and set forth in the applicable Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.  All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time (with any subsequent issuance of additional Securities which are part of a prior series to be effected in accordance with the terms of this Indenture) if so provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolutions or in any such indenture supplemental hereto, and any forms and terms of Securities to be issued from time to time may be completed and established from time to time prior to the issuance thereof by procedures described by such Board Resolutions or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

 

If any of the terms of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Company, a copy of such action shall be delivered to the Trustee.

 

Section 302. Denominations.

 

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

 

Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

 

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, its President, a Vice Chairman, any Vice President, its Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its Assistant Corporate Secretaries.  The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

 

The seal of the Company may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.  Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company 

 

  

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notwithstanding the fact that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.  Minor typographical and other minor errors in the text of any Security or minor defects in the seal or facsimile signature on any Security shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such Security if such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(3)  that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally or the rights and remedies of creditors of insurance companies generally and to general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities under this ‎Section 303 if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, executive committee or a trust committee of directors or responsible officers of the Trustee shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders of Securities.

 

  

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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section ‎301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section ‎301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to this ‎Section 303 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the time of authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

 

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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

 

Section 304. Temporary Securities.

 

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

 

If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of 

 

  

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the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor.  Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.

 

Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

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

 

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

 

At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at a Place of Payment for the applicable series.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the Holder, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed 

 

  

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in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section ‎304, ‎906 or ‎1107 not involving any transfer.

 

Unless otherwise required by the rules of any stock exchange on which the Securities are listed or of any quotation system through which the Securities are traded, neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 calendar days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that series selected for redemption under ‎Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the calendar day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be transferred to, or registered or exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or any nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered, unless (1) such Depositary (A) notifies the Company and the Trustee that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (B) ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, (2) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Global Security shall be so transferable, registrable and exchangeable, and such transfers shall be registrable, (3) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Securities evidenced by such Global Security or (4) there shall exist such other circumstances, if any, as have been specified for this purpose in accordance with ‎Section 301.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, a Global Security to which the restriction set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall have ceased to apply may be transferred only to, and may be registered and exchanged for Securities registered only in the name or names of, such Person or Persons as the Depositary for such Global Security shall have directed, and no transfer thereof other than such a transfer may be registered.

 

Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security to which the restriction set forth in the first sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph shall apply, whether pursuant to this Section, Section ‎304, ‎306, ‎906 or ‎1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security.

 

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

 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) a mutilated Security, or (ii) evidence to the Company’s and the Trustee’s satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and in either case such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company and/or the Trustee to save each of 

 

  

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them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like principal amount and tenor.

 

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

 

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section ‎306, the Company or the Trustee 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 without limitation the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section ‎306 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of the applicable series duly issued hereunder.

 

The provisions of this Section ‎306 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

 

Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

 

Except as otherwise provided in accordance with ‎Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

 

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

 

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Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which date shall permit compliance with the remainder of this Clause ‎(1)), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause ‎(1) provided.  Promptly after the Trustee’s receipt of the notice of the proposed payment, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 calendar days and not less than 10 calendar days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 15 calendar days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of the applicable series at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 calendar days prior to such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of the applicable series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause ‎(2).

 

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

 

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

 

Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.

 

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(subject to ‎Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on such holder’s behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall impair, as between a Depositary and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary as Holder of any Security.

 

Section 309. Cancellation.

 

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it.  The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this ‎Section 309, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.  Acquisition by the Company of any Security shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Security unless and until the same is delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

Section 310. Computation of Interest.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by ‎Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, for any period shorter than a full monthly period, shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of calendar days elapsed in such period.

 

  

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ARTICLE FOUR

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

 

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

 

(1)  either

 

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

 

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

 

(i) have become due and payable, or

 

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

 

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

 

and the Company has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee in trust for the purpose (A) money (either in United States dollars or such other currency or currency unit in which the Securities of any series may be payable) in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations (or Foreign Government Obligations if the Securities are denominated in a foreign currency or currencies) that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one calendar day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all Securities of such series not theretofore 

 

  

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delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities of such series which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

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

 

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

 

If there are Securities of two or more series outstanding hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to Securities of a particular series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met.  If there are two or more Trustees hereunder, then the effectiveness of any such instrument shall be conditioned upon receipt of such instruments from all Trustees hereunder.

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to a particular series, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under ‎Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under ‎Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause ‎(b) of Clause ‎(1) of this ‎Section 401, the obligations of the Trustee under ‎Section 402 and the last paragraph of ‎Section 1003 shall survive until there are no Securities Outstanding with respect to a particular series and the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to all other series of Securities shall survive.

 

Section 402. Application of Trust Fund.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of ‎Section 1003, all amounts deposited with the Trustee pursuant to ‎Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such funds have been deposited with the Trustee.  Money deposited pursuant to this ‎Section 402 not in violation of this Indenture shall not be subject to claims of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company under ‎Article Fourteen.

 

  

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ARTICLE FIVE

Remedies

 

Section 501. Events of Default.

 

“Event of Default” whenever used with respect to Securities of a series means any one of the following events and such other events as may be established with respect to the Securities of such series pursuant to ‎Section 301 hereof (whether or not it shall be occasioned by the provisions of ‎Article Fourteen):

 

(1)  Default in the payment of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 calendar days; or

 

(2)  Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise; or

 

(3)  Default in the making of any sinking fund payment, whether mandatory or optional, as and when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities of such series; or

 

(4)  Failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform in any material respect any of the other covenants or agreements on the part of the Company contained in this Indenture (other than those set forth exclusively in the terms of any other particular series of Securities established as contemplated by this Indenture for the benefit of such other series) and written notice of such failure, stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder, and requiring the Company to remedy the same, shall have been given by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, and such failure shall have continued unremedied for a period of 90 calendar days after the date of the Company’s receipt of such Notice of Default; or

 

(5)  An event of default, as defined in any indenture or instrument evidencing or under which the Company or any Principal Subsidiary shall have outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $100,000,000, shall occur and be continuing, and such indebtedness shall have been accelerated so that the same shall be or become due and payable prior to the date on which the same would otherwise have become due and payable (other than acceleration of Non-Recourse Debt which does not exceed in the aggregate 4% of the Company’s total shareholders’ equity as set forth in the most recently published audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company) or the Company or 

 

  

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any Principal Subsidiary shall default in the payment at final maturity of outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $100,000,000 (other than default in payment at final maturity of Non-Recourse Debt which does not exceed in the aggregate 4% of the Company’s total shareholders’ equity as set forth in the most recently published audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company), and such acceleration or default at maturity shall not be waived, rescinded or annulled within 30 calendar days after written notice thereof, stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee (if such event be known to it), or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided, however, that if such acceleration under such indenture or instrument or default at maturity shall be remedied or cured by the Company or Principal Subsidiary, or waived, rescinded or annulled by the requisite holders of such indebtedness, then the Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon remedied, cured, waived, rescinded or annulled without further action upon the part of either the Trustee or any of the Holders; and provided further, that, subject to the provisions of Sections ‎601 and ‎602, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any such default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company, by the holder of any such indebtedness or an agent of the holder of any such indebtedness, by the trustee then acting under any such indenture or other instrument under which such default shall have occurred, or by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; or

 

(6)  A decree or order by a court of competent jurisdiction shall have been entered adjudging the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Company under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy or similar law, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 calendar days; or a decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, trustee, assignee, sequestrator or similar official in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of all or substantially all of the Company’s property, or for the winding up or liquidation of the Company’s affairs, shall have been entered, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 calendar days; or

 

(7)  The Company shall institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy or similar law, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, trustee, assignee, sequestrator or similar official in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of 

 

  

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all or substantially all of the Company’s property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the Company shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudged a bankrupt, or corporate action shall be taken by the Company in furtherance of any of the aforesaid purposes.

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any Notice of Default pursuant to this ‎Section 501 with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall automatically and without any other action by any Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such Notice of Default, which record date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such Notice of Default.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such Notice of Default, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such Notice of Default shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such Notice of Default automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a Notice of Default contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a Notice of Default that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and all accrued interest thereon shall become immediately due and payable.

 

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Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

 

(1)  the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(d) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee;

 

and

 

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

 

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right arising out of any subsequent default.

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any declaration of acceleration, or any rescission and annulment of any such declaration, pursuant to this ‎Section 502 with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall be set, automatically and without any other action by any Person, for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, which record date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least 25%, in the case of any declaration of acceleration, or a majority, in the case of any rescission 

 

  

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or annulment, in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a declaration of acceleration, or a rescission and annulment of any such declaration, contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

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

 

The Company covenants that if

 

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

 

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

 

the Company will, upon written demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee.  Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Company may pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities of any series to the Holders thereof, whether or not the Securities of such series are overdue.

 

If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of 

 

  

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the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.

 

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

 

Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

 

In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding.  In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized

 

(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities in accordance with the terms thereof and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

 

(2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

 

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, if the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to the Trustee for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under ‎Section 607, except such costs and expenses as are a result of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee.

 

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the 

 

  

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Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 506. Application of Money Collected.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

THIRD:  To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or any other Person lawfully entitled thereto.

 

Section 507. Limitation on Suits.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

 

If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and 

 

  

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remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

 

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

 

Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Subject to ‎Section 507, every right and remedy given by this ‎Article Five or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

Section 512. Control by Holders.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any such direction with respect to Securities of any series, a record date shall be set for determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such direction, which record date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such direction.  Only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to join in such direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; 

 

  

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provided that, unless such direction shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, such direction automatically and without any action by any Person shall be cancelled and of no further effect.  Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90 calendar day period, a direction contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, a direction that has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.

 

Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.

 

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

 

(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or

 

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

 

With respect to any series of Securities, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, establish a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to waive any past default hereunder.  If a record date is fixed, only the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall be entitled to waive any default hereunder, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date (or their duly appointed agents) shall have waived such default on or prior to the 90th calendar day after such record date, any such waiver previously given automatically and without further action by any Holder shall be cancelled and of no effect.

 

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

 

  

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Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.

 

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this ‎Section 514 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.

 

ARTICLE SIX

The Trustee

 

Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

 

The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.  Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this ‎Section 601.

 

Section 602. Notice of Defaults.

 

If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in ‎Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 calendar days after the occurrence thereof.  For the purpose of this ‎Section 602, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

 

Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.

 

Subject to the provisions of ‎Section 601:

 

(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of 

 

  

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indebtedness or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

 

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

 

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

 

(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

 

(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by the Trustee in compliance with such request or direction;

 

(6) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the remedy or waiver of all Events of Default, the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall upon reasonable notice to the Company be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at a time and place acceptable to the Company; and

 

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

 

  

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

 

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.  The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

Section 605. May Hold Securities.

 

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

 

Section 606. Money Held in Trust.

 

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

 

Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.

 

The Company agrees

 

(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

 

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

 

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

 

  

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against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

 

Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

 

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

 

Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

 

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or is a subsidiary of a corporation which shall be a Person that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and which unconditionally guarantees the obligations of the Trustee hereunder.  If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this ‎Section 609, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this ‎Section 609, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this ‎Article Six.

 

Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  

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(4)  If at any time:

 

(a) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section ‎608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days, or

 

(b) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under ‎Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days, or

 

(c) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

 

then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to ‎Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least 180 consecutive calendar days may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

 

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

 

  

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Security of such series for at least 180 consecutive calendar days may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

(6)  The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in ‎Section 106.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

 

Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

 

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

 

(2)  If a successor Trustee is appointed hereunder with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (iii) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts 

 

  

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hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein, and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

 

(3)  Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers, trusts and duties referred to in paragraphs ‎(1) and ‎(2) of this ‎Section 611, as the case may be.

 

(4)  No successor shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this ‎Article Six.

 

Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

 

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

 

Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

 

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

 

  

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Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

 

The Trustee may with the consent of the Company appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to ‎Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and binding for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.  Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority.  If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this ‎Section 614, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this ‎Section 614, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this ‎Section 614.

 

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this ‎Section 614, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company.  The Trustee or the Company may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this ‎Section 614, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the 

 

  

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Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.  No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this ‎Section 614.

 

The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this ‎Section 614, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of ‎Section 607.

 

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this ‎Section 614, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

 

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

 

..........................................,

 

As Trustee

 

By.........................................,

 

As Authenticating Agent

 

By.........................................,

 

Authorized Officer

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

 

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

 

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

 

(1)  semi-annually, not later than 10 calendar days after each Regular Record Date in each year, a list for each series of Securities, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of the preceding Regular Record Date, and

 

  

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(2)  at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 calendar days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 calendar days prior to the time such list is furnished;

 

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

 

Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

 

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

 

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

 

(3) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

 

Section 703. Reports by the Trustee.

 

(1) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.  To the extent that any such report is required by the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any 12 month period, such report shall cover the 12 month period ending July 15 and shall be transmitted by the next succeeding September 15.

 

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

 

Section 704. Reports by the Company.

 

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summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 calendar days after the same are so required to be filed with the Commission.

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets

 

Section 801. The Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

 

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person (other than in a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the surviving Person) or sell its properties and assets as, or substantially as, an entirety to any Person unless:

 

(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or with or into which the Company is merged or the Person that purchases the properties and assets of the Company as, or substantially as, an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory in form to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee;

 

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

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

 

Section 802. Successor Substituted.

 

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Company is merged or to which such sale is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter the predecessor Person (including the Company) shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

 

ARTICLE NINE

Supplemental Indentures

 

Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

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

 

(1)  to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or

 

(2)  to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

 

(3)  to add any additional Events of Default; or

 

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

 

(5)  to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, including, without limitation, with respect to any of the provisions set forth in ‎Article Fourteen, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall neither (A) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (B) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (ii) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or

 

  

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(6)  to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of ‎Section 1005, or to otherwise secure the Securities of any series; or

 

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

 

(8)  to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of ‎Section 611(2); or

 

(9)  to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this clause ‎(9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series affected by such supplemental indenture in any material respect; or

 

(10)  to conform to any mandatory provisions of law.

 

Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.

 

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

 

(1)  change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon (including any change in the Floating or Adjustable Rate Provision pursuant to which such rate is determined that would reduce such rate for any period) or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to ‎Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on

 

  

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or after the Redemption Date), or modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the subordination of the Securities of any series in a manner adverse to the Holders, or

 

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

 

(3)  modify any of the provisions of this ‎Section 902, ‎Section 513 or ‎Section 907, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, provided, however, that this clause ‎(3) shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this ‎Section 902 and ‎Section 907, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections ‎611(2) and ‎901(8).

 

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

 

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this ‎Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

 

Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

 

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

 

Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

 

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indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

 

Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

 

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

 

Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

 

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

 

Section 907. Waiver of Compliance by Holders.

 

Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any of the acts which the Company is required to do, or is prohibited from doing, by any of the provisions of this Indenture may, to the extent that such provisions might be changed or eliminated by a supplemental indenture pursuant to ‎Section 902 upon consent of Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Securities of the series affected, be omitted or done by the Company if there is obtained the prior consent or waiver of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

Section 908. Subordination Unimpaired.

 

No provision in any supplemental indenture that affects the superior position of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be effective against any holder of such Senior Debt without the consent of such affected holder.

 

 

ARTICLE TEN

Covenants

 

Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

 

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and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.

 

Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency by the Company.

 

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

 

(2)  The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

 

Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.

 

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

 

Whenever the Company shall have one or more third party Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such 

 

  

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Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this ‎Section 1003, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, and upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.

 

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certificate signed by the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signer thereof the Company is in compliance with all terms, conditions and covenants of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and if the signer has obtained knowledge of any continuing default by the Company in the performance, observation or fulfillment of any such term, condition or covenant, specifying each such default and the nature thereof.

 

Section 1005. Limitations on Liens on Common Stock of Principal Subsidiaries.

 

As long as any of the Securities remains outstanding, the Company will not, and will not permit any Principal Subsidiary to, issue, assume, incur or guarantee any indebtedness for borrowed money secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance, directly or indirectly, on any of the Common Stock of a Principal Subsidiary, which Common Stock is owned by the Company or by any Principal Subsidiary, unless the obligations of the Company under the Securities and, if the Company so elects, any other indebtedness of the Company ranking on a parity with or prior to the Securities, shall be secured equally and ratably with, or prior to, such secured indebtedness for borrowed money so long as such secured indebtedness is outstanding and is so secured.

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

Redemption of Securities

 

Section 1101. Applicability of Article.

 

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

 

Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

 

In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.  In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

 

  

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

 

If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.

 

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

 

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

 

Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.

 

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 calendar days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the Security Register.

 

All notices of redemption shall state:

 

(1)  the  Redemption Date,

 

(2)  the  Redemption Price,

 

(3)  if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,

 

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

 

(5)  the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and

 

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

 

Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

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

 

Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.

 

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

  

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ARTICLE TWELVE

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

Section 1201. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The Company may elect, at any time, to have either ‎Section 1202 or ‎Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series upon compliance with the conditions set forth in this ‎Article Twelve.

 

Section 1202. Defeasance and Discharge.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in ‎Section 1201 to have this ‎Section 1202 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations, and the provisions of ‎Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series as provided in this ‎Section 1202 on and after the date the conditions set forth in ‎Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all of the Company’s other obligations under the Securities of such series and this Indenture insofar as the Securities of such series are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:  (1) the rights of Holders of Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in ‎Section 1204 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities of such series when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under Sections ‎304, ‎305, ‎306, ‎1002 and ‎1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, including, without limitation, its rights under ‎Section 607 and (4) this ‎Article Twelve.  Subject to compliance with this ‎Article Twelve, the Company may exercise its option provided in ‎Section 1201 to have this ‎Section 1202 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option provided in ‎Section 1201 to have ‎Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

Section 1203. Covenant Defeasance.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in ‎Section 1201 to have this ‎Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections ‎801 and ‎1005, (2) the occurrence of any event specified in ‎Section 501(4) (with respect to Sections ‎801 and ‎1005) or ‎501(5) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event 

 

  

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of Default and (3) the provisions of ‎Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective, in each case with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series as provided in this ‎Section 1203 on and after the date the conditions set forth in ‎Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that the Company may omit to comply with (and no Event of Default shall arise out of such non-compliance) and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in Sections ‎801 and/or ‎1005, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and the Securities of such series shall be unaffected thereby.

 

Section 1204. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The following shall be the conditions to application of either ‎Section 1202 or ‎Section 1203 to the Outstanding Securities of any series:

 

(1)  The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee that satisfies the requirements contemplated by ‎Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this ‎Article Twelve applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series, (a) in the case of Securities of such series denominated in U.S. dollars, (1) money in an amount, (2) U.S. Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one Business Day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series or (b) in the case of Securities of such series denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar, (1) money in such currency in an amount, or (2) Foreign Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one Business Day before the due date of any payment, money in such currency in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this 

 

  

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Indenture and the Securities of such series.  As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security that is (a) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (b) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality for the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case ‎(a) or ‎(b), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian (i) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation specified in Clause (x) of this definition of U.S. Government Obligation and held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or (ii) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.  The bank acting as Trustee, or its affiliates, may act as custodian as contemplated by this ‎Section 1204(1).  As used herein,  “Foreign Government Obligation” means (x) any security that is (a) a direct obligation of the government that issued such currency for the payment of which the full faith and credit of such government is pledged or (b) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality for such government the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government, which, in either case ‎(a) or ‎(b), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian (i) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Foreign Government Obligation specified in Clause (x) of this definition of Foreign Government Obligation and held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or (ii) with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Foreign Government Obligation, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Foreign Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

(2)  In the case of an election under ‎Section 1202, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to the Securities of such series and will be subject to 

 

  

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Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.

 

(3)  In the case of an election under ‎Section 1203, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to the Securities of such series and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

 

(4)  The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that the Securities of such series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will not be delisted as a result of such deposit.

 

(5)  No Event of Default or event that (after notice or lapse of time or both) would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any Event of Default or any such event specified in Sections ‎501(6) and ‎501(7), at any time on or prior to the 90th calendar day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th calendar day).

 

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

 

(7)  Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, unless such trust shall be qualified under such Act or exempt from regulation thereunder.

 

(8)  At the time of such deposit:  (a) no default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt of the Company shall have occurred and be continuing and (b) no other event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior Debt of the Company becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, or, in the case of either Clause ‎(a) or Clause ‎(b) above, each such default or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist.

 

  

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Section 1205. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of ‎Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this ‎Section 1205 and ‎Section 1206, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to ‎Section 1204 in respect of the Securities of any series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities of such series and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of Securities of such series, of all sums due and to become due on such Securities in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  Money so held in trust shall not be subject to the provisions of ‎Article Fourteen.

 

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to ‎Section 1204 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.

 

Anything in this ‎Article Twelve to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held by the Trustee as provided in ‎Section 1204 with respect to Securities of any series that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

Section 1206. Reinstatement.

 

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this ‎Article Twelve with respect to the Securities of any series by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this ‎Article Twelve with respect to Securities of such series until such time as the Trustee or Paying 

 

  

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Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to ‎Section 1205 with respect to Securities of such series in accordance with this ‎Article Twelve; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.

 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

Sinking Funds

 

Section 1301. Applicability of Article.

 

The provisions of this ‎Article Thirteen shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified in accordance with ‎Section 301 for Securities of such series.

 

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”.  If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in ‎Section 1302.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such series.

 

Section 1302. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

 

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

 

  

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Section 1303. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

 

Not less than 45 calendar days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to ‎Section 1302 and also will deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered.  Not less than 15 nor more than 45 calendar days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in ‎Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in ‎Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections ‎1106 and ‎1107.

 

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

Subordination of Securities

 

Section 1401. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt of the Company.

 

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

 

Section 1402. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. of the Company.

 

In the event of (1) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, arrangement, reorganization, debt restructuring or other similar case or proceeding in connection with any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding, relative to the Company or to its assets, or (2) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (3) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any such event specified in clause ‎(1), ‎(2) or ‎(3) above (each such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding”) the holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be entitled to receive payment in full 

 

  

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of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt of the Company, or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of any other Debt of the Company subordinated to the payment of the Securities, such payment or distribution being hereinafter referred to as “Junior Subordinated Payment”), on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, and to that end the holders of Senior Debt of the Company shall be entitled to receive, for application to the payment thereof, any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated Payment, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities in any such Proceeding.

 

If, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this ‎Section 1402, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated Payment, before all Senior Debt of the Company is paid in full or payment thereof is provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment or distribution, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment or distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application to the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt of the Company in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt of the Company.  Any taxes that have been withheld or deducted from any payment or distribution in respect of the Securities, or any taxes that ought to have been withheld or deducted from any such payment or distribution that have been remitted to the relevant taxing authority, shall not be considered to be an amount that the Trustee or the Holder of any Security receives for purposes of this ‎Section 1402.

 

For purposes of this ‎Article Fourteen only, the words “any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment which securities are subordinated in right of payment to all then outstanding Senior Debt of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this ‎Article 

 

  

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Fourteen.  The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to another Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in ‎Article Eight shall not be deemed a Proceeding for the purposes of this ‎Section 1402 if the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by sale such properties and assets as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, or sale comply with the conditions set forth in ‎Article Eight.

 

Section 1403. Prior Payment to Senior Debt of the Company Upon Acceleration of Securities.

 

If any Securities are declared due and payable before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and payable shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due on or in respect of such Senior Debt of the Company, or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment (including any Junior Subordinated Payment) by the Company on account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that nothing in this ‎Section 1403 shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with ‎Article Thirteen by delivering and crediting pursuant to ‎Section 1302 Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such declaration of acceleration.

 

If, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this ‎Section 1403, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.

 

The provisions of this ‎Section 1403 shall not apply to any payment with respect to which ‎Section 1402 would be applicable.

 

Section 1404. No Payment When Senior Debt of the Company in Default.

 

(1)  Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Debt of the Company, or if any event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior Debt of the Company becoming or being declared due and payable prior to 

 

  

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the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, unless and until such event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist and such acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, or (2) if any judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default in payment or such event of default, then no payment (including any Junior Subordinated Payment) shall be made by the Company on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that nothing in this ‎Section 1404 shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with ‎Article Thirteen by delivering and crediting pursuant to ‎Section 1302 Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such default in payment or event of default.

 

If, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this ‎Section 1404, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.

 

The provisions of this ‎Section 1404 shall not apply to any payment with respect to which ‎Section 1402 would be applicable.

 

Section 1405. Payment Permitted If No Default.

 

Nothing contained in this ‎Article Fourteen or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent (1) the Company, at any time except during the pendency of any Proceeding referred to in ‎Section 1402 or under the conditions described in Sections ‎1403 and ‎1404, from making payments at any time of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities, or (2) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with the Trustee hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, the Trustee did not have knowledge that such payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen.

 

Section 1406. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.

 

Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Debt of the Company, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Debt of the Company pursuant to the provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen (equally and ratably with the holders of all other 

 

  

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indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated to the Senior Debt of the Company and is entitled to like rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders of such Senior Debt of the Company) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt of the Company to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and securities of the Company applicable to the Senior Debt of the Company until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full.  If the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities for any reason are not entitled to be subrogated to the rights of holders of Senior Debt of the Company in respect of such payment or distribution, then the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities may require each holder of Senior Debt of the Company to whom any such payment or distribution is made as a condition to such payment or distribution to assign its Senior Debt of the Company to the extent of such payment or distribution and all rights with respect thereto to the Trustee on behalf of the Holders.  Such assignment shall not be effective until such time as all Senior Debt of the Company has been paid in full or payment thereof provided for.  For purposes of such subrogation or assignment, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt of the Company, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Debt of the Company.

 

Section 1407. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.

 

The provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt of the Company on the other hand.  Nothing contained in this ‎Article Fourteen or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall (1) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt of the Company, and the Holders of the Securities, the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this ‎Article Fourteen of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, are intended to rank equally with all other general unsecured obligations of the Company), to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms; (2) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of Senior Debt of the Company; or (3) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture including, 

 

  

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without limitation, filing and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this ‎Article Fourteen of the holders of Senior Debt of the Company to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.

 

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, nothing contained in this ‎Article Fourteen will restrict the right of the Trustee or the Holders of Securities of any series to take any action to declare the Securities of such series to be due and payable prior to their stated maturity pursuant to ‎Section 502 or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder.

 

Section 1408. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.

 

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

 

Section 1409. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.

 

No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt of the Company to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.

 

Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt of the Company may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities, and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this ‎Article Fourteen or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company, do any one or more of the following:  (1) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter or increase, Senior Debt of the Company, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt of the Company or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt of the Company is outstanding; (2) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt of the Company; (3) release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior Debt of the Company; and/or (4) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.

 

  

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Section 1410. Notice to Trustee.

 

The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this ‎Article Fourteen or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Debt of the Company or from any trustee, agent or representative therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of ‎Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this ‎Section 1410 at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.

 

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

 

Section 1411. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.

 

Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this ‎Article Fourteen, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of ‎Section 601, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is pending, or a 

 

  

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certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt of the Company and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this ‎Article Fourteen.

 

Section 1412. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt of the Company.

 

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

 

Section 1413. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt of the Company; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights.

 

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

 

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

 

Section 1414. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.

 

If at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this ‎Article Fourteen shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this ‎Article Fourteen in addition to or in place of the Trustee.

 

Section 1415. Defeasance of This Article Fourteen.

 

The subordination of the Securities provided by this ‎Article Fourteen is expressly made subject to the provisions for Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance in ‎Article Twelve and, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of any such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, the Securities then 

 

  

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outstanding shall thereupon cease to be subordinated pursuant to this ‎Article Fourteen.

 

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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

 

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

	 	
AETNA INC.

 

	 
	 	 	 	 
	
 

	
By: 

	 	 
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	 	 	Title 	 
	 	 	 	 

 

[Seal]

 

Attest:

 

____________________

 

 

	 	
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

	 
	 	 	 	 
	
 

	
By: 

	 	 
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 [Seal]

 

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STATE OF CONNECTICUT

	
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ss.:           Hartford

	
COUNTY OF HARTFORD

	
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On the      day of                          , 20    , before me personally came                                              , to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that (s)he is                                               of AETNA INC., one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that (s)he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that (s)he signed her/his name thereto by like authority.

 

	  	  
	  	
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

	
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ss.:

	
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

	
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On the      day of                                  , 20   , before me personally came                                              , to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that (s)he is                                               of U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, one of the corporations described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that (s)he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that (s)he signed her/his name thereto by like authority.

 

	  	  
	  	
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